User:Girolamo Savonarola/books

This is my reference list of books I think would be good reads. Books read are in bold. If any of the books has a translation or edition that you prefer, please feel free to recommend it.

The list proceeds in rough chronological order, with exceptions for companion subject books.

Introductory

 * Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
 * [any other layman-type book on the sciences] (please feel free to offer suggestions)
 * [unchosen layman-type book on the human body] (please feel free to offer suggestions)
 * Patrick Holford, The Optimum Nutrition Bible
 * [any other layman-type book on health] (please feel free to offer suggestions)
 * William James, Principles of Psychology (link)
 * H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World (link)
 * William Graham Sumner, Folkways
 * James Frazer, The Golden Bough, abridged version (link)

Companion Books

 * J.M. Roberts, History of the World
 * Norman Davies, Europe: A History
 * Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence
 * Will Durant, The Story of Civilization
 * John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman, China: A New History
 * Phillippe Aries and Georges Duby, A History of Private Life
 * The Bible (versions still being debated)
 * Marilyn Stokstad, Art History
 * James E. McClellan and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History
 * Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo, Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry

Classical World

 * Henri Frankfort, Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
 * The Epic of Gilgamesh (tr. Gardner and Maier, Jackson, or Ferry)
 * C.W. Ceran, Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
 * A. Leo Oppenheim, Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
 * Jeffrey H. Tigay, The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic
 * Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
 * Ray Huang, China: A Macro History
 * A. Zee, Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
 * E.N. Anderson, The Food of China
 * Kit Chow and Ione Kramer, All the Tea in China
 * Michael Grant, The History of Ancient Israel
 * J.B. Bury, History of Greece
 * H.D.F. Kitto, The Greeks
 * Edith Hamilton, Mythology
 * Suzanne Said and Monique Trede, A Short History of Greek Literature
 * Homer, Iliad (tr. Fagles, Fitzgerald, or Lattimore)
 * Jasper Griffin, Homer
 * Mark W. Edwards, Homer: Poet of the Iliad
 * Homer, Odyssey (tr. Fagles, Fitzgerald, or Lattimore)
 * M.I. Finley, The World of Odysseus
 * G.S. Kirk, Homer and the Epic
 * Burton Watson, Early Chinese Literature
 * Shi Jing (The Book of Songs) (tr. Waley)
 * Jaeger Werner, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Archaic Greece and Mind of Athens
 * Sappho, Poems and Fragments
 * Aesop, Complete Fables
 * Christmas Humphreys, Buddhism
 * Dhammapada (tr. Mascaro or Easwaran)
 * Twenty Jakata Tales (tr. Khan and Le Mair)
 * Rafe Martin, The Hungry Tigress: Buddhist Myths, Legends, and Jakata Tales
 * Jakata (tr. Rhys Davids)
 * Confucius, Analects (tr. Lau, Brooks, or Waley)
 * Yu-lan Fung, A History of Chinese Philosophy
 * Benjamin Isadore Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China
 * Herbert Fingarette, Confucius: The Secular As Sacred
 * David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Thinking Through Confucius
 * Plutarch, Lives of Illustrious Men (Greeks - Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Pericles, Alcibiades, Demosthenes, Alexander)
 * Aeschylus, Complete Plays (esp. Prometheus Bound, Oresteia [Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides]) (tr. Grene and Lattimore, Lattimore, Grene and Benardete, or Lowell)
 * H.D.F. Kitto, Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study
 * Christian Meier, The Political Art of Greek Tragedy
 * Albin Lesky, History of Greek Literature
 * Sophocles, Complete Plays (esp. Oedipus Trilogy [Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone]) (tr. Spender or Fitts and Fitzgerald)
 * Lowell Edmunds, Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
 * Euripides, Complete Plays (esp. Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, and Bacchae) (tr. Hadas and McLean or anything more recent)
 * Chu Tzu: Songs of the South (tr. Hawkes)
 * Herodotus, Histories (tr. Grene)
 * J.B. Bury, The Ancient Greek Historians
 * Mo Zi, Mozi (tr. Watson)
 * Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (tr. Strassler, The Landmark Thucydides)
 * Xenophon, Anabasis
 * Sun Tzu, The Art of War (tr. Ames, Sawyer, or Griffith)
 * Ralph D. Sawyer, The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
 * Sun Pin, Art of War (tr. Ames or Sawyer)
 * Aristophanes, Complete Plays (esp. Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds) (tr. Arrowsmith)
 * Douglas M. MacDowell, Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays
 * Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers
 * Plato, Complete Works (esp. Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Euthyphro, Meno, The Republic, Protagoras, Gorgias, Ion, Parmenides, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Laws)
 * A.E. Taylor, Plato: The Man and His Work
 * I.F. Stone, The Trial of Socrates
 * Burton Watson, The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century
 * Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
 * Aristotle, Politics
 * Aristotle, Poetics
 * Mortimer J. Adler, Aristotle for Everybody
 * Abraham Edel, Aristotle and His Philosophy
 * Mencius, The Book of Mencius (tr. Lau)
 * Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (tr. Feng and English, Mitchell, or Lau)
 * Lao Tzu, Wen-Tzu (tr. Cleary)
 * Theophrastus, Characters
 * Chuang Tzu, Chuang Tzu (tr. Watson or Feng and English)
 * Alan Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way
 * John Blofeld, Taoism
 * Raymond M. Smullyan, The Tao Is Silent
 * Epicurus, Fragments
 * Theocritus, Idylls
 * Han Feizi, Han Feizi (tr. Watson)
 * Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
 * Arthur Waley, Chinese Poems
 * Valmiki, Ramayana (tr. Goldman complete ; Buck abridged)
 * A.L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India
 * I Ching, (tr. Blofeld or Wilhelm-Baynes)
 * Vyasa, Mahabharata (tr. Van Buitenen et al complete ; Carriere and Brook or Narayan abridged)
 * Anonymous, Bhagavad-Gita (tr. Miller or Van Buitenen)
 * R.W.L. Guisso, Catherine Pagani, and David Miller, First Emperor of China
 * Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Ch'ien), Records of the Grand Historian (tr. Watson 1993 edition, maybe Nienhauser's)
 * Plutarch, [see above] (Romans - Cato Censor, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Antony)
 * Oxford History of the Classical World
 * Irene M. Franck and David M. Brownstone, The Silk Road: A History
 * Plautus, Complete Plays
 * Terence, Complete Plays
 * Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year
 * Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (tr. Humphries)
 * Catullus, Poems
 * Livy, History
 * Sallust, Jugurthine War
 * Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline
 * Cicero, Selected Orations (esp. Against Verres, Against Catiline, For Murena, For Archias, For Caelius, Against Piso, For Milo, For Marcellus, Philippics [selected], On Old Age, On Friendship, On Duties, selected letters)
 * Virgil, Aeneid
 * Horace, Poems (Odes, Epodes, Epistles, and Satires)
 * Ovid, Poems (Art of Love, Amores, Metamorphoses, and Cure for Love)
 * Longinus, On the Sublime
 * Petronius, Satyricon
 * Josephus, The Jewish War
 * Lotus Sutra (tr. Hurwitz or Watson)
 * Tacitus, Histories and Annals
 * Pliny the Younger, Letters
 * Juvenal, Satires
 * Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (note that there is a "sequel" of sorts)
 * Apuleius, The Golden Ass
 * Vimalakirti, Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (tr. Luk or Watson)
 * Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
 * Diamond Sutra (tr. Price and Wong)
 * Nhat Hanh, The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra
 * Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (esp. ch. 1-4, 9-10, 14, 15-24, 26-28, 30-31, 35-36, 44, 71)

Middle Ages

 * Gibbon, (ch. 37-38, 47-53, 55-59, 64-65, 68-70)
 * Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages
 * Greg Whincup, The Heart of Chinese Poetry
 * George Holmes, The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe
 * Sherman Lee, History of Far Eastern Art
 * Sze Mai-Mai, The Way of Chinese Painting: Its Ideas and Technique
 * Frances and Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval Village
 * Frances and Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval City
 * Frances and Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval Castle
 * Frances and Joseph Gies, Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages
 * Frances and Joseph Gies, Women in the Middle Ages
 * Frances and Joseph Gies, A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England
 * David Macaulay, Castle
 * Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
 * Barry W. Holtz, Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts
 * Abraham J. Heschel, The Prophets
 * Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative
 * Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Poetry
 * Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
 * Plotinus, Enneads
 * Tzu Yeh, Gold Orchid (tr. Mayhew and McNaughton)
 * Tzu Yeh, Lotus Lovers (tr. Hamill)
 * Edward Conze, Buddhist Scriptures
 * Augustine, Confessions
 * Midrash, The Classic Midrash (Reuven Hammer, [Paulist Press])
 * Heart Sutra (tr. Conze, Suzuki, or Hanh)
 * Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
 * Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Manual of Zen Buddhism
 * Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Introduction to Zen Buddhism
 * Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
 * Alan Watts, The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work, and Art in the Far East
 * Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
 * Kalidasa, The Cloud Messenger
 * Kalidasa, Sakuntala
 * Red Pine, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
 * New Songs from a Jade Terrace (tr. Birrell)
 * The Koran
 * Karen Armstrong, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
 * Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History
 * Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples
 * Jacob Neusner, Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
 * Adin Steinsaltz, Essential Talmud
 * Pirke Avot (tr. Kravitz and Olitzky)
 * Han Shan, Cold Mountain Poems (tr. Watson or Snyder)
 * Mishnah (tr. Neusner)
 * Hui-neng, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (tr. Price and Wong)
 * Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
 * Wang Wei, Poems
 * Weinberger, Eliot and Octavio Paz, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated
 * Li Po, Poetry
 * Tu Fu, Poems (tr. Cooper or Hinton)
 * Beowulf (tr. Chickering, Liuzza, or Heaney)
 * Bai Juyi/Bo Juyi/Po Chu-i/Pai Chu-i, Poems (tr. Waley or Watson)
 * Rinzai, The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi (tr. Watson)
 * Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
 * Three Hundred Tang Poems
 * Firdausi, Shah Nameh
 * Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book
 * Lady Murasaki, Tale of Genji
 * The Blue Cliff Record (Biyan Lu/Hekiganroku) (tr. Sekida [Two Zen Classics])
 * Abu Muhammad Ali Ibn Hazm, The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love
 * Danny Danziger and Robert Lacey, The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
 * Su Tung-p'o, Poems (tr. Watson)
 * Peter Abelard and Heloise, Letters
 * Li Ching-chao, Poems (tr. Rexroth)
 * Yehuda (Judah) Halevi, Poetry
 * Abraham ben Ezra, Commentaries
 * The Song of Roland
 * Farid al-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds
 * Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat
 * Zhu Xi, Learning to Be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically (tr. Gardner)
 * Moses Maimonides, Selected Works
 * Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
 * Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Essential Rumi (tr. Coleman Barks)
 * Nibelungenlied
 * Hafez, Selected Works
 * Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
 * Njal's Saga
 * The Gateless Gate (Wumenguan/Mumonkan) (tr. Sekida [Two Zen Classics])
 * Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose)
 * Thomas Aquinas, Complete Works, (esp. Summa Theologica)
 * Jonathan Chaves, The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry
 * Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
 * Wang Shifu, Romance of the Western Chamber/The Story of the Western Wing (tr. Hsiung or West and Idema)
 * Dante Alighieri, Complete Works (esp. The Divine Comedy)
 * Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah
 * Gershom Scholem, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism
 * Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
 * Daniel C. Matt, Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
 * Joseph Dan and Ronald C. Kiener, The Early Kabbalah
 * Aryen Kaplan and Samuel Weiser, Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation
 * Zohar (tr. Scholem, Matt [Pritzker], or Berg)
 * Herbert Weiner, Nine and a Half Mystics
 * Neil Asher Silberman, Heavenly Powers
 * Luo Kuan-chung, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (tr. Roberts)
 * Petrarch, Works
 * Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron
 * Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
 * Hippolyte Taine, History of English Literature, book 1
 * "Pearl poet", Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
 * William Langland, Piers Plowman
 * Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
 * Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
 * Sheikh Nefzaoui, The Perfumed Garden
 * The Thousand and One Nights
 * Henry Adams, Mont St. Michel and Chartres
 * Lawrence Fine, Safed Spirituality
 * David Macaulay, Cathedral
 * Cecil Gray, The History of Music, ch. 1-3, 5
 * Johan Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages

Renaissance, Reformation, and the Baroque

 * John Julius Norwich, Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
 * John Addington Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy
 * Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
 * Thomas More, Utopia
 * Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography
 * Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Painters and Sculptors, (esp. Giotto, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michaelangelo)
 * Harald Hoffding, History of Modern Philosophy, (sections on Bruno and Machiavelli)
 * Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
 * Gray, ch. 6, 8
 * Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 13-14
 * Preserved Smith, The Age of the Reformation
 * Emile Faguet, The Literature of France, (sections on the sixteenth century)
 * Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
 * Wu Cheng-en, Journey to the West (tr. Yu, Waley's abridgement [Monkey], or Kherdian's abridgement [Monkey: A Retelling])
 * Michel de Montaigne, Essays, (esp. Of Coaches, Of the Incommodity of Greatness, Of Vanity, and Of Experience)
 * Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China
 * Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
 * Tang Xianzu, Peony Pavilion (tr. Birch)
 * William Shakespeare, Complete Works, (esp. Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Timon of Athens and The Tempest)
 * Taine, vol. 2 ch. 1-4
 * Gray, ch. 4, 7
 * Williams, vol. 2 ch. 4-8
 * Faure, vol. 3 ch. 4-6
 * Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 15
 * Faguet, (sections on the seventeenth century)
 * Francis Bacon, Essays
 * Jonathan D. Spence, The Death of Woman Wang
 * Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun
 * John Donne, Selected Works
 * Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, Chin P'ing Mei (The Golden Lotus, or The Plum in the Golden Vase) (tr. Roy or Egerton)
 * Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
 * Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
 * Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
 * Francois La Rochefoucauld, Reflections
 * John Milton, Selected Works (esp. Paradise Lost, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Sonnets, and Areopagitica)
 * Li Yu, The Carnal Prayer Mat (tr. Hanan)
 * Moliere, Plays, (esp. Tartuffe, The Miser, The Misanthrope, The Bourgeois Gentleman, and The Feast of the Statue/Don Juan)
 * Blaise Pascal, Pensees
 * John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
 * Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics
 * Benedictus de Spinoza, On the Improvement of the Understanding
 * John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
 * Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
 * Williams, vol. 2 ch. 9-13
 * Hoffding, (sections on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza and Leibnitz)
 * Faure, vol. 4 ch. 1-4
 * Gray, ch. 9-10

The Eighteenth Century

 * [Jewish Folktales]
 * [Yiddish Folktales]
 * Ellen Frankel, The Classic Tales
 * Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 16-21
 * Wells, ch. 26-27
 * Faguet, sections on the eighteenth century
 * Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Portraits of the 18th Century
 * Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
 * Jonathan D. Spence, Question of Hu
 * Francois Marie de Voltaire, Works (esp. Candide, Zadig, and essays on "Toleration" and "History")
 * David Hume, Treatise on Human Nature (esp. bks 2-3)
 * David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
 * Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
 * Cao Xuequin, The Story of the Stone (tr. Hawkes)
 * John-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
 * Morelly, Code de la Nature
 * Laurence Sterne, Tristam Shandy
 * James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
 * Taine, Origins of Contemporary France (6 vol.), vol. 1-4
 * Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution
 * Taine, History of English Literature, vol. 3 ch. 4-7
 * Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman
 * Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
 * Richard Morris, Basic Documents in American History
 * Publius, The Federalist Papers (edited by Clinton Rossiter)
 * Williams, vol. 2 ch. 14-15
 * Hoffding, sections on the eighteenth century
 * Faure, vol. 4 ch. 5-6
 * Gray, ch. 11-12

The Nineteenth Century

 * Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 22-28
 * Wells, ch. 38-39
 * Taine, Origins of Contemporary France, vol. 5; The Modern Regime, pg 1-90
 * Emil Ludwig, Napoleon
 * George Brandes, Main Currents of 19th Century Literature (6 vol.)
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
 * Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe
 * Taine, History of English Literature, books 4-5
 * William Blake, Selected Works
 * William Wordsworth, Selected Works (esp. The Prelude, Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1800 ed.], selected shorter poems)
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Selected Works (esp. Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, and Writings on Shakespeare)
 * Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
 * Jane Austen, Emma
 * George Gordon Byron, Poems
 * John Keats, Poems
 * Percy Bysse Shelley, Poems
 * Faguet, sections on the nineteenth century
 * Stendhal, The Red and the Black
 * Arthur Schopenhauer, Works
 * Heinrich Heine, Poems (trans. Louis Untermeyer)
 * Honore de Balzac, Pere Goriot
 * Honore de Balzac, Eugenie Grandet
 * Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter and selected tales
 * Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
 * John Stuart Mill, Selected Works (esp. On Liberty and The Subjection of Women)
 * Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
 * Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
 * Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
 * Edgar Allen Poe, Selected Poems and Stories
 * Alfred Tennyson, Poems
 * Abraham Lincoln, Letters and Speeches
 * William Thackeray, Vanity Fair
 * Charles Dickens, Selected Novels (esp. Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, and Little Dorrit)
 * Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
 * Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
 * Henry David Thoreau, Walden
 * Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
 * Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
 * Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
 * Herman Melville, Moby Dick
 * Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
 * George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
 * George Eliot, Middlemarch
 * Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
 * Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
 * Gustave Flaubert, Salambo
 * Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamozov
 * Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
 * Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
 * Henrik Ibsen, Selected Plays (esp Peer Gynt)
 * Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems
 * Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
 * Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 * Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
 * Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
 * William James, Selected Works (esp. Pragmatism, Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth, and The Varieties of Religious Experience)
 * Henry James, The Ambassadors
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Works (esp. Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil)
 * Williams, books 3-4
 * Hoffding, sections on the nineteenth century
 * William Buckle, Introduction to the History of Civilization in England esp. pt 1 ch. 1-5, 15
 * Faure, vol. 4 ch. 7-8
 * Gray, ch. 13-17
 * Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization (2 vol.)

The Twentieth Century

 * Sefer Ha-Aggadah (The Book of Legends)
 * Breasted and Robinson, vol. 2 ch. 29-30
 * Wells, ch. 40-41
 * Anatole France, Penguin Isle
 * Sigmund Freud, Selected Works (esp. The Interpretation of Dreams, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, and Civilization and Its Discontents)
 * George Bernard Shaw, Selected Plays and Prefaces
 * Ronald Takaki, Stranger from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
 * Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
 * Thomas W. Chinn, Bridging the Pacific: San Francisco Chinatown and Its People
 * Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol. 1-3, 6
 * Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
 * Anton Chekhov, Selected Works (esp. Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Selected Short Stories
 * Edith Wharton, Selected Works (esp. The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and The House of Mirth)
 * William Butler Yeats, Selected Works (esp. Collected Poems, Collected Plays, and The Autobiography)
 * Romain Rolland, Jean Cristophe (2 vol.)
 * Natsume Soseki, Kokoro
 * Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
 * Robert Frost, Collected Poems
 * Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
 * E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
 * Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West
 * Lu Hsun (Lu Xun), Collected Short Stories (esp. "Diary of a Madman" and "True Story of Ah Q"
 * James Joyce, Ulysses
 * Virginia Woolf, Selected Works (esp. Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves)
 * Franz Kafka, Selected Works (esp. The Trial, The Castle, and Selected Short Stories)
 * D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
 * D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
 * Tanizaki Junichiro, The Makioka Sisters
 * Eugene O'Neill, Selected Plays (esp. Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day's Journey into Night)
 * T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems and Plays
 * Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
 * William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
 * William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
 * Ernest Hemingway, Short Stories
 * Kawabata Yasunari, Beauty and Sadness
 * Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
 * Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers
 * Lao She, Teahouse
 * Lao She, Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw) (tr. James)
 * Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Works (esp. Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory)
 * Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Golem
 * George Orwell, Selected Works (esp. Animal Farm, 1984, and Burmese Days)
 * Ba Jin, Cold Nights
 * Ding Ling, I Myself Am a Woman
 * R.K. Narayan, The English Teacher
 * R.K. Narayan, The Vendor of Sweets
 * Samuel Beckett, Selected Works (esp. Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Krapp's Last Tape)
 * W.H. Auden, Collected Poems
 * Albert Camus, The Plague
 * Albert Camus, The Stranger
 * Rius, Mao for Beginners
 * Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China
 * Harrison E. Salisbury, The Long March: The Untold Story
 * Saul Bellow, Selected Works (esp. The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Humboldt's Gift)
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward
 * Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
 * Mishima Yukio, Confessions of a Mask
 * Mishima Yukio, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
 * Harrison E. Salisbury, The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng
 * Bette Bao Lord, Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
 * Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
 * William Hinton, Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
 * William Hinton, Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village
 * Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
 * Zhang Xian-ling, Half of Man Is Woman
 * Frank Chin, Donald Duk
 * Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior
 * Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men
 * Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
 * Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Thousand Pieces of Gold
 * Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
 * Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
 * Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
 * Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
 * Li Ang, The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories
 * Mo Yan, Red Sorghum: A Novel of China
 * David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
 * Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
 * Mark Salzman, Iron and Silk
 * Mark Salzman, The Laughing Sutra

Year 1

 * Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)


 * Complete Works


 * Plato (c. 429-347 BC)


 * Apology
 * Crito
 * Phaedo


 * The Old Testament
 * Vaclav Havel (b. 1936)


 * The Garden Party
 * The Memorandum


 * The Epic of Gilgamesh
 * Tacitus (c. 55-c. 120 AD)


 * Annals
 * Histories


 * Ondra Lysohorsky (b. 1905)


 * Selected Poems


 * Ernst Hans Gombrich (b. 1909)


 * The Story of Art


 * Poem Into Poem: World Poetry in Modern Verse Translation
 * Pierre Abélard (1079-1143) and Héloïse (1101-1164)


 * Letters
 * Historia Calamitatum of Abélard

Year 2

 * The New Testament
 * Suetonius (c. 69-after 121 AD)


 * The Twelve Caesars


 * Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978-1030)


 * Tale of Genji


 * William Shakespeare (1564-1616)


 * Tragedies (Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline)


 * Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)


 * Complete Letters


 * Maxim Gorki (1868-1936)


 * The Lower Depths and Other Plays


 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)


 * The Portable Coleridge


 * Lin Yutang (b. 1895)


 * The Importance of Living


 * Aeschylus (525-456 BC)


 * Oresteia

Year 3

 * Mark Twain (1835-1910)


 * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 * The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


 * Buddhist Scriptures
 * Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyvesky (1821-1881)


 * The Brothers Karamazov


 * Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963)


 * Greguerías: Selección


 * William Trevor (1928- )


 * The Love Department
 * The Children of Dynmouth


 * Teresa de Jesús, St. (1515-1582)


 * The Life of Saint Teresa


 * Apuleius, ca. 125-ca. 180 AD


 * Metamorphoses


 * Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886


 * Complete Poems


 * Arrian, ca. 100-180 AD


 * Anabasis


 * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930


 * Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes

Year 4

 * The Penguin Book of French Verse
 * Talmud
 * Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)


 * Sentimental Education


 * Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)


 * Poems
 * The Bell Jar


 * Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)


 * Barber of Seville
 * Marriage of Figaro


 * Ovid (43 BC-17 AD)


 * Metamorphoses


 * Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)


 * Selected Fables Set in Verse


 * Plutarch (c. 46-c. 127)


 * Parallel Lives


 * Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra


 * Primitive Song


 * Charles Dickens (1812-1870)


 * Pickwick Papers

Year 5

 * Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)


 * Madame Bovary


 * Aristophanes (c. 448-c. 388 BC)


 * Plays


 * Albert Camus (1913-1960)


 * The Stranger
 * The Plague
 * The Fall


 * Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)


 * The Secret Agent
 * Under Western Eyes


 * Villon (1431-after 1462)


 * Poems


 * Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-c. 86 BC)


 * Records of the Grand Historian of China


 * Reiner Kunze (b. 1933)


 * Poems
 * Stories
 * The Lovely Years


 * Moliere (1622-1673)


 * Selected Plays


 * Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)


 * Doctor Zhivago


 * Voltaire (1694-1778)


 * Candide
 * Zadig
 * L'Ingénu


 * Pliny the Younger (c. 62-c. 113 AD)


 * Letters

Year 6

 * The Poem Itself
 * Max Frisch (b. 1911)


 * Andorra
 * I'm Not Stiller


 * La Chanson de Roland
 * Friedrich Dürrenmatt (b. 1921)


 * The Visit
 * The Physicists


 * Émile Zola (1840-1902)


 * Thèrése Raquin
 * L'Assommoir
 * Germinal


 * Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)


 * Complete Stories and Poems


 * Honoré Balzac (1799-1850)


 * La Comédie Humaine


 * Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886)


 * The Thunderstorm


 * Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)


 * The Father Brown Stories

Year 7

 * The Penguin Book of Latin Verse
 * Nagai Kafu (1879-1959)


 * Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings


 * Plautus (c. 254-184 BC)


 * Comedies


 * Juan Ruiz (c. 1283-c. 1350)


 * The Book of Good Love


 * Cicero (106-43 BC)


 * Selected Works


 * Charles Singer


 * A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900


 * Emily Brontë (1818-1848)


 * Wuthering Heights


 * Virgil (70-19 BC)


 * Aeneid


 * Five German Tragedies
 * Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)


 * The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Year 8

 * Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)


 * Philosophy, Poetry, History: An Anthology


 * Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793)


 * Three Comedies: Mine Hostess, The Boors, and The Fan


 * Modern Arab Poets, 1950-1975
 * Dino Buzzati (1906-1972)


 * The Tartar Steppe


 * Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)


 * Lives of the Most Eminent Painters and Sculptors


 * Catullus (c. 84-c. 54 BC)


 * Poems


 * Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)


 * The Late Mattia Pascal
 * Six Characters in Search of an Author


 * Charles Darwin (1809-1882)


 * On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection


 * Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


 * The New Life


 * Stendhal (1783-1842)


 * The Red and the Black

Year 9

 * Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


 * Divine Comedy


 * Wu Ch'eng-en (c. 1510-1582)


 * Journey to the West


 * Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)


 * Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini


 * William Shakespeare (1564-1616)


 * Poems


 * Italo Calvino (b. 1923)


 * The Non-Existent Knight and the Cloven Viscount
 * The Baron in the Trees


 * Stendhal (1783-1842)


 * The Charterhouse of Parma


 * Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)


 * Poems


 * Post-War Russian Poetry

Year 10

 * Medieval Literature in Translation
 * Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)


 * The Adventures of Don Quixote


 * William Shakespeare (1564-1616)


 * Historical Plays


 * Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)


 * Canto General


 * Thomas Mann (1875-1955)


 * The Buddenbrooks


 * Tirso de Molina (1583-1648)


 * The Rogue of Seville


 * Songs of the Provencal Troubadors
 * Camilo José Cela (b. 1916)


 * Journey to the Alcarria


 * P'u Sung-Ling (1640-1715)


 * Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio


 * Antonio Machado (1875-1939)


 * Juan de Mairena: Epigrams, Maxims, Memoranda, and Memoirs of an Apocryphal Professor, with an Appendix of Poems from "The Apocryphal Songbooks"

Year 11

 * Lope Félix de Vega Carpio


 * Five Plays


 * Wang Ch'ung (27-c. 97 AD)


 * Philosophical and Miscellaneous Essays (Lun-Heng)


 * Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross) (1542-1591)


 * Complete Poetry


 * William Shakespeare (1564-1616)


 * Comedies


 * Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)


 * One Hundred Years of Solitude


 * Herodotus (c. 484-c. 424 BC)


 * Histories


 * The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse
 * Panchatantra
 * Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)


 * Fictions
 * Labyrinths
 * The Aleph and Other Stories


 * Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD)


 * Letters from a Stoic

Year 12

 * Gil Vicente (c. 1465-c. 1536)


 * Four Plays


 * Tanizaki Junichiro (1886-1965)


 * The Makioka Sisters


 * Luís Vaz de Camões


 * Lusiads


 * Konstantin Paustovsky (1892-1968)


 * The Story of a Life


 * José María Eça de Queiróz (1843-1900)


 * The Sin of Father Amaro
 * Dragon's Teeth
 * The Maias


 * Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1898-1961)


 * A Season on the Earth: Selected Poems


 * Alves Redol (b. 1911)


 * The Man with Seven Names


 * Classical Literary Criticism (Aristotle's On the Art of Poetry, Horace's On the Art of Poetry, Longinus' On the Sublime)
 * Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)


 * Selected Poems


 * François Rabelais (c. 1494-1553)


 * The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel

Year 13

 * The Penguin Book of German Verse
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)


 * Faust


 * Harold Pinter (b. 1930)


 * The Caretaker
 * The Room
 * The Dumb Waiter


 * Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (c. 1625-1676)


 * Simplicius Simplicissimus


 * Wang Wei (c. 699-c. 761)


 * Poems


 * Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)


 * The Good Woman of Setzuan
 * Caucasian Chalk Circle


 * Lucretius (c. 99-c. 55 BC)


 * On the Nature of Things


 * Victor Hugo (1802-1885)


 * Hunchback of Notre Dame
 * Hernani


 * East German Poetry: An Anthology
 * Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)


 * Out of My Life and Thought
 * On the Edge of the Primeval Forest
 * More From the Primeval Forest

Year 14

 * Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)


 * Anna Karenina


 * Paul Celan (1920-1970)


 * Poems


 * The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts
 * Friedrich von Schilleer (1759-1805)


 * Don Carlos


 * Shih Nai-an (1296-1370)


 * The Water Margin


 * Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)


 * Selected Works


 * Karl Marx (1818-1883)


 * Capital


 * Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)


 * Autobiography: Poetry and Truth From My Own Life


 * Paul Klee (1879-1940)


 * The Thinking Eye
 * The Nature of Nature

Year 15

 * Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


 * Collected Works


 * Su Tung-p'o (1036-1101)


 * Selections from a Sung Dynasty Poet


 * Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)


 * The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)


 * Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)


 * The Interpretation of Dreams


 * Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465-1541)


 * La Celestina


 * Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)


 * Poems


 * Herman Melville (1819-1891)


 * Moby Dick, or the White Whale


 * Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946)


 * Five Plays


 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)


 * Poems


 * Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)


 * Confessions

Year 16

 * The Penguin Book of Greek Verse
 * Great Sanskrit Plays in New English Transcreations
 * Pausanias (c. 120-180)


 * Description of Greece


 * Homer


 * Odyssey


 * D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)


 * Sons and Lovers


 * Aristotle (384-322 BC)


 * Politics


 * Plato (c. 429-347 BC)


 * The Republic


 * Shih Ching (The Book of Songs)
 * Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938)


 * Selected Poems

Year 17

 * Xenophon (c. 429-c. 354 BC)


 * Cyropaedia


 * Robert Burns (1759-1796)


 * Poems and Songs


 * Euripides (c. 480-406 BC)


 * Tragedies


 * Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)


 * Notebooks


 * Epicurus (341-270 BC)


 * Writings


 * Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)


 * Writings


 * Homer


 * Iliad


 * Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)


 * Major Plays


 * Sophocles (c. 496-406 BC)


 * Tragedies

Year 18

 * Somadeva Bhatta (11th C)


 * Kathasaritsagara


 * Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963)


 * Selected Poems


 * Musharrif ad-Din bin Muslih Sa'di (c. 1208-c. 1292)


 * Gulistan


 * Mehmet bin Süleyman Fuzuli (c. 1490-c. 1556)


 * Leyla and Mejnun


 * Evliya Celebi (c. 1611-c. 1684)


 * Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa


 * Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)


 * Mathnawi
 * It Contains What It Contains


 * Oliver Goldsmith (1729-1774)


 * Vicar of Wakefield
 * She Stoops to Conquer
 * The Deserted Village


 * Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951)


 * The Blind Owl


 * Yahya Kemal Bayatli (1884-1958)


 * Selected Poems


 * Mohammed Shamsuddin Hafiz (1327-1390)


 * Divan

Year 19

 * Anthology of Islamic Literature, From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times
 * Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)


 * Nausea


 * Al-Qur'an
 * Terence (c. 195-159 BC)


 * Comedies


 * The Seven Odes
 * Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)


 * Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah


 * Procopius (c. 498-c.560)


 * Works


 * 'Ali Ahmad Ibn Hazm (994-1064)


 * The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love


 * Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863)


 * The Roman Sonnets


 * Muhammad bin 'Abdullah Ibn Battuta (1304-1369)


 * Travels in Asia and Africa

Year 20

 * Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)


 * Poems


 * A Thousand and One Nights
 * Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681)


 * Life is a Dream


 * Hadith (Traditions of Islam)
 * Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731)


 * The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner


 * 'Abd Ar-Rahman bin Muhammad Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)


 * Prolegomena (Muqaddimah)


 * Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)


 * Thus Spoke Zarathustra


 * Abu Muhammad al-Qasim Al-Hariri (1054-1122)


 * The Assemblies


 * Takeda Izumo (c. 1690-c. 1749)


 * Chushingara


 * Lucan (39-65 AD)


 * Pharsalia

Year 21

 * Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857)


 * Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing


 * Al-Jahiz (c. 780-c. 868)


 * The Life and Works of Jahiz


 * Po Chü-i (772-846)


 * Poems


 * Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali (1059-1111)


 * The Deliverer from Error


 * Sinuhe (c. 2000 BC)


 * The Story of Sinuhe


 * Yevgeni Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937)


 * We


 * Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)


 * Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
 * The Education of Henry Adams


 * Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934)


 * Selected Poems


 * Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)


 * Jude the Obscure


 * Al-Mutanabbi (915-965)


 * Poems


 * Henry Elmer Barnes (b. 1889)


 * A History of Historical Writing

Year 22

 * The Penguin Book of Russian Verse
 * The Aztecs
 * Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)


 * War and Peace


 * William Blake (1757-1827)


 * The Complete Writings


 * Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)


 * Plays


 * Patañjali (c. 300 AD)


 * Yogasutra


 * Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324)


 * Travels


 * Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891)


 * Oblomov


 * Kamo no Chomei (1153-1216)


 * An Account of My Hut

Year 23

 * Aristotle (384-322 BC)


 * Nichomachean Ethics


 * Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)


 * Crime and Punishment


 * Charles Lamb (1775-1834)


 * Essays of Elia
 * Last Essays of Elia


 * Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel (1894-c. 1940)


 * Collected Stories


 * Norbert Lynton


 * The Story of Modern Art


 * Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)


 * Fathers and Children


 * Ghalib (1797/8-1869)


 * Ghazals


 * Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)


 * One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich


 * Kukai (774-835)


 * Kukai and His Major Works


 * Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)


 * Eugene Onegin

Year 24

 * Sources of Chinese Tradition
 * Queste del Saint Graal
 * Anthology of Chinese Literature
 * Jane Austen (1775-1817)


 * Pride and Prejudice


 * Li Po (701-762)


 * Poems


 * Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in (c. 1715-c. 1763)


 * The Dream of the Red Chamber


 * Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)


 * Three Tragedies


 * Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC)


 * Analects


 * Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938)


 * The Garnet Bracelet


 * Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976)


 * Selected Works

Year 25

 * Mencius (372-289 BC)


 * Works


 * Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)


 * Selected Poems and the essay "Teoría y juego del duende"


 * The Texts of Taoism
 * John Keats (1795-1821)


 * Poetical Works


 * Chin P'ing Mei
 * Molière (1622-1673)


 * Selected Plays


 * Tu Fu (712-770)


 * Poems


 * Wu Ch'ing-tzu (1701-1754)


 * The Scholars


 * Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)


 * Essays and Aphorisms


 * Lu Hsün (1881-1936)


 * Selected Works

Year 26

 * Sources of Indian Tradition
 * Cantar de Mio Cid
 * Bhagavad Gita
 * Saint Augustine (354-430)


 * Confessions


 * Poems from the Sanskrit
 * Premchand (1880-1936)


 * The Gift of a Cow
 * World of Premchand: A Selection of Short Stories


 * Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)


 * Poems
 * Triumphs
 * Latin Poetry
 * Prose
 * Letters from Petrarch


 * Saddharma-Pundarika Sutra (Sutra of the Lotus of the True Law)
 * William Faulkner (1897-1962)


 * The Sound and the Fury


 * Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)


 * An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Year 27

 * Thucydides (c. 471-c. 400 BC)


 * History of the Peloponnesian War


 * Khushhal, Khan Khatak (1613-1689)


 * Divan


 * Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970)


 * A Passage to India


 * Dhammapada
 * Modern Spanish Theatre: An Anthology of Plays
 * Abe Kobo (b. 1925)


 * The Woman in the Dunes


 * Faiz Ahmad Faiz (b. 1911)


 * Poems


 * Günter Grass (b. 1927)


 * The Tin Drum


 * Mallanga Vatsyayana (c. 3rd Century AD)


 * Kama Sutra


 * Robert Lowell (1917-1977)


 * Poems

Year 28

 * Valmiki (c. 3rd C BC)


 * Ramayana


 * Upanishads (1,000-500 BC)
 * Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)


 * An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation


 * Contemporary Indonesian Poetry
 * Pio Baroja (1872-1956)


 * The Restlessness of Shanti Andía and Other Writings


 * Chairil Anwar (1922-1949)


 * Complete Poetry and Prose


 * Mediaeval Latin Lyrics
 * Kautilya (c. late 4th C)


 * Artha Shastra


 * Lady Sarashina (1008-c. 1065)


 * As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams


 * Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)


 * The Book of the Courtier

Year 29

 * Sacred Writings of the Sikhs
 * Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)


 * Complete Short Stories


 * A Celtic Miscellany
 * James Boswell (1740-1795)


 * The Life of Samuel Johnson


 * Hung Sheng (1646-1704)


 * The Palace of Eternal Youth


 * François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)


 * The Maxims


 * Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)


 * Complete Works


 * Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)


 * The Golovlyov Family


 * Kabir (c. 1430-c. 1518)


 * Kabir


 * Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD)


 * Moral Essays

Year 30

 * An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature up to 1815
 * Giusseppe Tomasi, prince of Lampedusa


 * The Leopard


 * Chandidas (15th C)


 * Love Songs of Chandidas


 * Lucian (c. 115-c. 180)


 * Works


 * Milindapantildeha
 * Sandor Petöfi (1823-1849)


 * Petöfi


 * Bibhutibhusan Banerji (1894-1950)


 * Pather Panchali (Song of the Road)


 * Francis Bacon (1561-1626)


 * The Advancement of Learning
 * New Atlantis
 * Essays


 * Bilhana (c. 1040-1095)


 * Caurapañcasika (Phantasies of a Love-Thief)


 * Okagami

Year 31

 * Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)


 * Colloquies
 * In Praise of Folly


 * Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)


 * Poems and Fragments


 * Jakob Rosenberg


 * Rembrandt: Life and Work


 * Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)


 * The Provincial Letters
 * Les Pensées


 * A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry
 * Baruch Spinoza (1634-1677)


 * Ethics


 * Emil M. Cioran (b. 1911)


 * A Short History of Decay
 * The Temptation to Exist
 * The Fall Into Time
 * The New Gods


 * Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645)


 * Sueños (Dreams)


 * Historia de la Vida del Buscón (Life and Adventures of Don Pablos the Sharper)
 * Poetry of the Netherlands in its European Context, 1170-1930
 * Kenko (1283-1350)


 * Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)

Year 32

 * Robert, Edler von Musil (1880-1942)


 * The Man Without Qualities


 * Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)


 * Complete Poems, 1909-1962


 * Denis Diderot (1713-1784)


 * Memoirs of a Nun
 * Dialogues
 * Rameau's Nephew
 * Jacques the Fatalist and his Master


 * David Farrant Bland


 * A History of Book Illustration: The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book


 * Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
 * The Zend-Avesta
 * Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


 * Complete Poems


 * Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956)


 * European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages


 * Juvenal (c. 60-c. 140 AD)


 * Satires


 * Mo Tzu (c. 470-c. 391 BC)


 * Basic Writings

Year 33

 * Kalevala
 * John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)


 * Utilitarianism
 * On Liberty
 * Representative Government
 * Autobiography


 * Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)


 * Brand
 * Peer Gynt


 * Gunnar Ekelöf (1907-1968)


 * Poetry


 * Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)


 * Essays


 * Hjalmar Söderberg (1869-1941)


 * Doctor Glas
 * Selected Short Stories


 * Propertius (c. 50-c. 16 BC)


 * Works


 * Knut Hamsun (1859-1952)


 * Hunger
 * Mysteries


 * John Donne (1572-1631)


 * Poems


 * Njal's Saga

Year 34

 * Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)


 * The Pillars of Society
 * A Doll's House


 * Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)


 * Les Enfants Terribles


 * Eino Leino (1878-1926)


 * Helkavirsiä (Whitsongs)


 * Henry Fielding (1707-1754)


 * Tom Jones: The History of a Foundling


 * August Strindberg (1849-1912)


 * Plays


 * Han Fei Tzu (c. 280-233 BC)


 * Complete Works


 * Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970)


 * The Ice Palace
 * The Boat in the Evening


 * Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)


 * Either/Or
 * Stages on Life's Way


 * Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)


 * Things Fall Apart


 * Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241)


 * Heimskringla

Year 35

 * Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Nineteenth Century
 * George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


 * Man and Superman
 * Saint Joan


 * Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693)


 * The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings


 * Ch'an and Zen Teaching
 * St.-John Perse (1887-1975)


 * Poems


 * Basho (1644-1694)


 * The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches


 * Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)


 * The Canterbury Tales


 * Ueda Akinari (1734-1809)


 * Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain)


 * Manyoshu
 * Epictetus (c. 55-135)


 * Discourses

Year 36

 * The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
 * Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)


 * Confessions of an English Opium-Eater


 * Twenty Plays of the No Theatre
 * Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1980)


 * The Family Moskat


 * Hekigan Roku
 * Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974)


 * Evening Land


 * Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972)


 * The Snow Country
 * The Thousand Cranes


 * Mabinogion
 * Sei Shonagon (c. 966-after 1008)


 * The Pillow Book


 * Marcus Aurelius (121-180)


 * Meditations

Year 37

 * The New Oxford Book of American Verse
 * Antoine-Francois, l'Abbé Prévost (1697-1763)


 * Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut


 * John Ruskin (1819-1900)


 * Praeterita


 * Horace (65-8 BC)


 * Odes


 * Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


 * Works


 * James Joyce (1882-1941)


 * Ulysses


 * Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831-1895)


 * Selected Tales


 * Abolqasim Mansur bin Hasan Firdausi (c. 940-1020)


 * Shahnameh (Epic of Kings)


 * Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920)


 * Nazarín
 * Halma
 * Misericordia


 * Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)


 * Collected Poems

Year 38

 * Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920)


 * Fortunata y Jacinta


 * Jayadeva (12th C)


 * Gitagovinda


 * Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)


 * Diary


 * Petronius (d. c. 65 or 66 AD)


 * Satyricon


 * Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)


 * Long Day's Journey Into Night


 * Pre-Columbian Peru
 * Josef Skvorecky (b. 1924)


 * The Cowards
 * The Bass Saxophone


 * Demosthenes (384?-322 BC)


 * Philippics, Olynthiacs, and Minor Public Orations


 * Marina Ivanova Tsvetayeva (1894-1941)


 * Selected Poems


 * George Eliot (1819-1880)


 * Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Year 39

 * The Penguin Book of Latin American Verse
 * Li Yu (1125-1210)


 * Poems


 * Modern Czech Poetry
 * Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)


 * Walden, or Life in the Woods


 * William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)


 * Collected Poems


 * Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923)


 * The Good Soldier Schweik


 * Portuguese Voyages (1498-1663)
 * Like Water, Like Fire: An Anthology of Byelorussian Poetry from 1828 to the Present
 * Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)


 * The Idiot


 * New Writing in Yugoslavia

Year 40

 * Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)


 * Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver


 * Polish Post-War Poetry
 * Natsume Soseki (1867-1916)


 * Kokoro


 * Poems of Black Africa
 * James Cook (1728-1779)


 * Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery


 * Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (1798-1855)'


 * Pan Tadeusz


 * Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)


 * Plays


 * Sasuntsi Davith (Saga of Sassoun)
 * Slawomir Mrozek (b. 1930)


 * Tango
 * The Ugupu Bird


 * Romanian Poems: A Bilingual Anthology

Year 41

 * Anna Comnena (1083-c. 1153)


 * Alexiad


 * Moses ben Jacob ben Ezra (c. 1055-c.1138)


 * Selected Poems


 * Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1744)


 * The New Science of Giambattista Vico


 * Samuel Beckett (b. 1906)


 * Molloy
 * Malone Dies
 * The Unnamable
 * Waiting for Godot


 * Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) (1870-1917 [sic])


 * Selected Works
 * What is to be Done?


 * Shota Rustaveli (fl. 1200)


 * The Man in the Panther's Skin


 * Miguel de Unamuno (1846-1936)


 * The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations


 * Robert Graves (b. 1895)


 * Collected Poems


 * Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)


 * Effi Briest


 * Modern Hungarian Poetry

Year 42

 * Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)


 * The House by the Medlar Tree
 * Little Novels of Sicily
 * Mastro Don Gesualdo


 * Jacobus de Varagine (c. 1227-1298)


 * The Golden Legend


 * Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1212-c. 1237) and Jean de Meun (c. 1237-c. 1305)


 * Le Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose)


 * Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)


 * The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.


 * Hungarian Short Stories and Folktales of Hungary
 * Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)


 * Instructions for Practical Living, and Other Neo-Confucian Writings


 * Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927)


 * Rasomon and Other Stories


 * Judah Ha-Levi (c. 1075-after 1140)


 * Selected Poems


 * James Joyce (1882-1941)


 * Finnegans Wake


 * Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)


 * Orlando Furioso

Year 43

 * Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)


 * Jane Eyre


 * Pindar (c. 518-438 BC)


 * The Odes, Including Principle Fragments


 * René Descartes (1596-1650)


 * Discourse on Method


 * Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873)


 * I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed: A Tale of XVII Century Milan)


 * Bhartrhari (7th C AD)


 * Poems


 * Sean O'Casey (1884-1964)


 * Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars


 * Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)


 * Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle


 * T'ao Ch'ien (365-427)


 * The Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien


 * Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892-1969)


 * A God and His Gifts


 * Gottfried von Strassburg (fl. 1210)


 * Tristan

Year 44

 * The Maya
 * Ezra Pound (1885-1972)


 * The Cantos


 * Mariano Azuela (1873-1952)


 * The Underdogs


 * Octavio Paz (b. 1914)


 * The Labyrinth of Solitude
 * Configurations


 * Chu Hsi (1130-1200)


 * Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology


 * Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)


 * The Chief Plays


 * Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)


 * The Lost Steps


 * Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938)


 * Poetry


 * Hasan ibn Ali Tusi, Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092)


 * The Book of Government, or Rules for Kings


 * Juan Jose Arreola (b. 1918)


 * Confabulario and Other Inventions

Year 45

 * Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892)


 * The Naturalist on the River Amazons


 * João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967)


 * Sagarana
 * The Devil to Pay in the Backlands


 * Thomas Paine (1737-1809)


 * The Rights of Man


 * Orlando and Claudio Villas Boas (b. 1914 and 1916)


 * Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths


 * Walt Whitman (1819-1892)


 * Leaves of Grass


 * Gilberto Freyre (b. 1900)


 * The Masters and the Slaves
 * The Mansions and the Shanties
 * Order and Progress


 * Tokutomi Kenjiro (1868-1927)


 * Footsteps in the Snow


 * Theophrastus (c. 372-c. 287 BC)


 * Characters


 * Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)


 * The Spirit of the Laws


 * Ovid (14 BC-17 AD)


 * Ars Amatoria

Year 46

 * Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)


 * The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories


 * Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)


 * Gerusalemme Liberata


 * Herbert Read (1893-1968)


 * The Contrary Experience: Autobiographies
 * The Green Child


 * Vidyapati Thakur (1352-1448?)


 * Love Songs


 * Pierre Carlet de Chamblin de Marivaux (1688-1763)


 * Up From the Country


 * Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579-1644)


 * El Diablo Cojuelo


 * Maimonides (1135-1204)


 * Guide for the Perplexed


 * Hermann Broch (1886-1951)


 * The Death of Virgil


 * Milarepa (1052-1135)


 * The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa


 * Apollonius Rhodius (fl. 220 BC)


 * Argonautica

Year 47

 * Anthology of Korean Poetry, From the Earliest Era to the Present
 * Italo Svevo (1861-1928)


 * Confessions of Zeno


 * Ch'u Tz'u: The Songs of the South
 * St. Thomas More (1477-1535)


 * Libellus ... de Optimo Reipublicae Statu, deque Nova Insula Utopia


 * Farid ad-Din Attar (c. 1136-c. 1230)


 * Ilahinama (Book of Divine Wisdom)
 * The Conference of the Birds


 * Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)


 * Complete Plays


 * Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)


 * Memoires d'Outre-Tombe


 * Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)


 * Terra Nostra


 * Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)


 * Portable Emerson


 * David Jones (1895-1974)


 * In Parenthesis
 * The Anathemata

Year 48

 * Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)


 * Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since


 * Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540)


 * The History of Italy


 * Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)


 * Poems


 * Henry James (1843-1916)


 * The American Novels and Stories
 * The Portrait of a Lady


 * Li Ho (791-817)


 * The Poems of Li Ho


 * Amos Tutuola (b. 1920)


 * The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town


 * Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930)


 * Poems


 * Ilango Adigal (2nd C AD)


 * Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet)


 * Bertrand, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970)


 * History of Western Philosophy


 * Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943)


 * The Broken Commandment

Year 49

 * St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)


 * Selected Writings


 * George Borrow (1803-1881)


 * Lavengro
 * Romany Rye


 * Kuruntokai (The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology)
 * William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)


 * Vanity Fair


 * Sirat 'Antar (Adventures of Antar)
 * Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637)


 * Plays


 * Salvador Dalí (b. 1904)


 * The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí


 * Marcel Proust (1871-1922)


 * À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past)


 * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)


 * Selections


 * Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)


 * Sea of Fertility tetralogy (Spring Snow, The Runaway Horses, The Temple of the Dawn, Decay of the Angel)

Year 50

 * Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)


 * Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus


 * Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1374)


 * Decameron


 * Nur ad-Din 'Abd Ar-Rahman Jami (1414-1492)


 * Baharistan


 * Plotinus (c. 205-c. 262 AD)


 * Enneads


 * Abu Bakr Muhammad bin 'Abdulmalik Ibn Tufail (c. 1105-1185)


 * Awakening of the Soul (Hayy ibn Yaqzan)


 * José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)


 * Invertebrate Spain
 * Revolt of the Masses


 * Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)


 * Collected Poems and Plays


 * Yüan Mei (1716-1798)


 * Poems


 * John Milton (1608-1674)


 * Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicens'd Printing
 * Poetical Works


 * Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)


 * Critique of Pure Reason