Great Books of the Western World
1.The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas Angel to
Love
2.The Syntopicon (continued) Man to World
3.Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
4.Aeschylus
The Suppliant
Maidens
The Persians
Seven Against
Thebes
Prometheus Bound
The
Oresteia
Agamemnon
Choephoroe
The
Emumenides
Sophocles
The
Oedipus Cycle
Oedipus the
King
Oedipus at
Colonus
The
Eumenides
Ajex
Electria
The
Trachiniae
Philoctetes
Euripides
Rhesus
Medea
Hippolytus
Alcestis
Heracleidae
The
Suppliants
Trojan
Women
Ion
Helen
Andromache
Electra
Bacchantes
Hecuba
Heracles
Mad
Phoenician
Women
Orestes
Iphigeneia in
Tauris
Iphigeneia at
Aulis
Cyclops
Aristophanes
The
Acharnians
The Knights
The
Clouds
The Wasps
Peace
The
Birds
The
Frogs
Lysistrata
Thesmophoriazusae
Ecclesiazousae
Plutus
5.Herodotus
The
History
Thucydides
The
History of the Peloponnesian
War
6.Plato
Charmides
Lysis
Laches
Protagoras
Euthydemus
Cratylus
Phaedrus
Ion
Symposium
Meno
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Gorgias
The
Republic
Timaeus
Critias
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Sophist
Statesman
Philebus
Laws
The
Seven Letter
7.Aristotle (I)
Works
Categories
On
Interpretation
Prior Analytics
Posterior
Analyics
Topics
Sophistical
Refutations
Physics
On Generation and
Corruption
Meteorology
Metaphysics
On
the Soul
Minor biological
works
8.Aristotle (II) Works
(continued)
History of
Animals
Parts of Animals
On the Motion of
Animals
On the Gait of Animals
On the Generation
of Animals
Nicomachean
Ethics
Politics
The Athenian
Constitution
Rhetoric
Poetics
9.Hippocrates
Works
Galen
On the
Natural Faculties
10.Euclid
The
Thirteen Books of Euclid's
Elements
Archimedes
On the
Sphere and Cylinder
Measures of a Circle
On
Conoids and Spheroids
On Spirals
On the
Equilbrium of Planes
The Sand Reckoner
The
Quadrature of the Parabola
On Floating
Bodies
Book of Lemmas
The Method Treating of
Mechanical Problems
Apollonius of
Perga
On Conic Sections
Nicomachus of
Gerasa
Introduction to
Arithmetic
11.Lucretius
On
the Nature of
Things
Epictetus
The
Discourses
Marcus
Aurelius
The
Meditations
12.Virgil
Eclogues
Georgics
Aeneid
13.Plutarch
Lives of the
Noble Grecians and Romans
14.Tacitus
The
Annals
The
Histories
15.Ptolemy
Almagest
Copernicus
On the
Revolutions of the Heavenly
Spheres
Kepler
Epitome of
Copernican Astronomy
The Harmonies of the
World
16.Augustine
The
Confessions
The City of God
On Christian
Doctrine
17.Thomas Aquinas (I)
Summa
Theologica
18.Thomas Aquinas (II)
Summa
Theologica (continued)
19.Dante
Divine
ComedyChaucer
Chaucer
Troilus
and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales
20.Calvin
Institutes
of the Christian
Religion
21.Machiavelli
✔ The
Prince
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
22. Frabcois
Rabelais
Gargantua and
Pantagruel
23.Erasmus
Praise of
Folly
Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne
Essays
24.Shakespeare (I) The
Plays and Sonnets
The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
The
Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Third Part of King Henry
the Sixth
The Tragedy of Richard the Third
The Comedy
of Errors
Titus Andronicus
The Taming of the Shrew
The
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love's Labour's Lost
Romeo
and Juliet
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
A Midsummer
Night's Dream
The Life and Death of King John
The Merchant of
Venice
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
The Second Part of
King Henry the Fourth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Life of King Henry
the Fifth
Julius Caesar
As You Like
It
25.Shakespeare (II) The Plays and
Sonnets (continued)
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
The Tragedy of
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Troilus and
Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Othello, the
Moor of Venice
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and
Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles, Prince of
Tyre
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
The Famous History of
the Life of King Henry
the Eighth
Sonnets
26.William
Gilbert
On the Loadstone and Magnetic
Bodies
Galileo Galilei
Concerning the Two New
Sciences
William Harvey
On
the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of the
Blood
On the Generation of Animals
27. Miguel de
Cervantes
The History of Don Quixote de
la Mancha
28. Sir Francis
Bacon
Advancement of Learning
Novum
Organum
New
Atlantis
Rene
Descartes
Rules for the Direction of the
Mind
Discourse on the Method
Meditations of
First Philosophy
Objections Against the Meditations and
Replies
Benedict de
Spinoza
THe
Geometry
Ethics
29.John
Milton
English minor poems
Paradise Lost
Samson
Agonistes
Areopagitica
30. Blaise
Pascal
The Provincial Letters
Pensees
Scientific Treatises
31. Moliere
The School for Wives
The Critique of the
School for Wives
Tartuffe
Don Juan
The Miser
The Would-Be
Gentleman
The Imaginary Invalid
Jean
Racine
Berenice
Phedre
32.Sir Isaac
Newton
Mathematical Principles of
Natural Philosophy
Optics
Christian
Huygens
Treatise on Light
33.John Locke
A
Letter Concerning Toleration
Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
An
Essay Concerning
Human Understanding
George
Berkeley
The Principles of Human
Knowledge
David Hume
An
Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding
34.Johathan
Swift
Gulliver's
Travels
Laurence
Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Gentleman
Voltaire
Candide
Denia
Diderot
Rameau's
Nephew
Henry Fielding
The
History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling
35.Charles de Secondat,
Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of
Laws
Jean Jacques
Rousseau
A Discourse On the Origin of Inequality
On Political
EconomyRousseau
The Social Contract
36.Adam
Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations
37. Edward Gibbon
(I)
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire
38.Edward Gibbon (II)
History of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire (continued)
39.Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure
Reason
The Critique of Practical Reason,
Fundamental
Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Other Ethical
Treatises
The Critique of Judgment
40.American State
Papers
The Federalist
Declaration
of Independence
Articles of
Confederation
The
Constitution
John Stuart
Mill
On Liberty
Considerations Representative
Government
Utilitarianism
41.James Boswell
Life of
Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
42. Antoine Laurent
Lavoisier
Elements of
Chemistry
Jean Baptist Josepj
Fourier
Analytical Theory of
Heat
Michael Faraday
Experimental Researches in Electricity
43. Georg William
Friedrich Hegel
The Philosophy of Right
The
Philosophy of History
Soren
Kierkegaard
Fear and
Trembling
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond
Good and Evil
44.Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in
America
45.Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
Faust
Honore
de Balzac
Cousin Bette
46.Jane
Austen
Emma
George
Eliot
Middlemarch
47. Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit
48.Herman
Melville
Moby
Dick
Mark Twain
✔ Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
49.Charles Darwin
The Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection
The Descent of Man
and Selection in Relation to Sex
50.Karl
Marx
Capital
Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels
Manifesto of the Communist
Party
51.Count LeoTolstoy
War and
Peace
52.Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoyevsky
The Brothers
Karamazov
Henrik Ibsen
✔
A Doll's House
The Wild Duck
Hedda Gabler
✔ The Master Builder
53.William
James
The Principles of Psychology
54.Sigmund
Freud
The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
Selected
Papers on Hysteria
The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
The Future
Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
Observations on "Wild"
Psycho-Analysis
The Interpretation of Dreams
On
Narcissism
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
Repression
The
Unconscious
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
Beyond the
Pleasure Principle
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
The Ego
and the Id
Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
Thoughts for the Times
on War and Death
Civilization and Its Discontents
New Introductory
Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
55.20th Century Philosophy and
Religion
William
James
Pragmatism
Henri
Bergson
An Introduction to
Metaphysics
John
Dewey
Experience and
Education
Alfred North
Whitehead
Science and the Modern
World
Bertrand Russell
The
Problems of Philosophy
Martin
Heidegger
What is
Metaphysics?
Ludwig
Wittgenstein
Philosophical
Investigations
Karl
Barth
The Word of God and the Word of
Man
56. Henri Poincaré
Science and
Hypothesis
Max Planck
Scientific
Autobiography and Other Papers
Alfred North
Whitehead
An Introduction to Mathematics
Albert
Einstein
Relativity: The Special and the
General Theory
Arthur Eddington
The Expanding
Universe
Niels Bohr
Atomic Theory and the Description
of Nature (selections)
Discussion with Einstein
on Epistemology
G. H. Hardy
A
Mathematician's Apology
Werner
Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy
Erwin
Schrödinger
What Is Life?
Theodosius
Dobzhansky
Genetics and the Origin
of Species
C. H. Waddington
The
Nature of Life
57. Thorstein
Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class
R. H.
Tawney
The Acquisitive Society
John Maynard
Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest
and Money
58. Sir James George
Frazer
The Golden Bough (selections)
Max
Weber
Essays in
Sociology (selections)
Johan
Huizinga
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Claude
Lévi-Strauss
Structural
Anthropology (selections)
59. Henry
James
The Beast in the Jungle
George
Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan
Joseph
Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Anton
Chekhov
Uncle Vanya
Luigi
Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of
an Author
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things
Past: "Swann in Love"
Willa
Cather
A Lost Lady
Thomas
Mann
Death in Venice
James
Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man
60. Virginia
Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Franz Kafka
The
Metamorphosis
D. H. Lawrence
The
Prussian Officer
T. S. Eliot
The Waste
Land
Eugene O'Neill
Mourning Becomes
Electra
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great
Gatsby
William Faulkner
A Rose for
Emily
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and
Her Children
Ernest Hemingway
The Short Happy
Life of Francis Macomber
George Orwell
✔ Animal Farm
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Love
2.The Syntopicon (continued) Man to World
3.Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
4.Aeschylus
The Suppliant
Maidens
The Persians
Seven Against
Thebes
Prometheus Bound
The
Oresteia
Agamemnon
Choephoroe
The
Emumenides
Sophocles
The
Oedipus Cycle
Oedipus the
King
Oedipus at
Colonus
The
Eumenides
Ajex
Electria
The
Trachiniae
Philoctetes
Euripides
Rhesus
Medea
Hippolytus
Alcestis
Heracleidae
The
Suppliants
Trojan
Women
Ion
Helen
Andromache
Electra
Bacchantes
Hecuba
Heracles
Mad
Phoenician
Women
Orestes
Iphigeneia in
Tauris
Iphigeneia at
Aulis
Cyclops
Aristophanes
The
Acharnians
The Knights
The
Clouds
The Wasps
Peace
The
Birds
The
Frogs
Lysistrata
Thesmophoriazusae
Ecclesiazousae
Plutus
5.Herodotus
The
History
Thucydides
The
History of the Peloponnesian
War
6.Plato
Charmides
Lysis
Laches
Protagoras
Euthydemus
Cratylus
Phaedrus
Ion
Symposium
Meno
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Gorgias
The
Republic
Timaeus
Critias
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Sophist
Statesman
Philebus
Laws
The
Seven Letter
7.Aristotle (I)
Works
Categories
On
Interpretation
Prior Analytics
Posterior
Analyics
Topics
Sophistical
Refutations
Physics
On Generation and
Corruption
Meteorology
Metaphysics
On
the Soul
Minor biological
works
8.Aristotle (II) Works
(continued)
History of
Animals
Parts of Animals
On the Motion of
Animals
On the Gait of Animals
On the Generation
of Animals
Nicomachean
Ethics
Politics
The Athenian
Constitution
Rhetoric
Poetics
9.Hippocrates
Works
Galen
On the
Natural Faculties
10.Euclid
The
Thirteen Books of Euclid's
Elements
Archimedes
On the
Sphere and Cylinder
Measures of a Circle
On
Conoids and Spheroids
On Spirals
On the
Equilbrium of Planes
The Sand Reckoner
The
Quadrature of the Parabola
On Floating
Bodies
Book of Lemmas
The Method Treating of
Mechanical Problems
Apollonius of
Perga
On Conic Sections
Nicomachus of
Gerasa
Introduction to
Arithmetic
11.Lucretius
On
the Nature of
Things
Epictetus
The
Discourses
Marcus
Aurelius
The
Meditations
12.Virgil
Eclogues
Georgics
Aeneid
13.Plutarch
Lives of the
Noble Grecians and Romans
14.Tacitus
The
Annals
The
Histories
15.Ptolemy
Almagest
Copernicus
On the
Revolutions of the Heavenly
Spheres
Kepler
Epitome of
Copernican Astronomy
The Harmonies of the
World
16.Augustine
The
Confessions
The City of God
On Christian
Doctrine
17.Thomas Aquinas (I)
Summa
Theologica
18.Thomas Aquinas (II)
Summa
Theologica (continued)
19.Dante
Divine
ComedyChaucer
Chaucer
Troilus
and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales
20.Calvin
Institutes
of the Christian
Religion
21.Machiavelli
✔ The
Prince
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
22. Frabcois
Rabelais
Gargantua and
Pantagruel
23.Erasmus
Praise of
Folly
Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne
Essays
24.Shakespeare (I) The
Plays and Sonnets
The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
The
Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Third Part of King Henry
the Sixth
The Tragedy of Richard the Third
The Comedy
of Errors
Titus Andronicus
The Taming of the Shrew
The
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love's Labour's Lost
Romeo
and Juliet
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
A Midsummer
Night's Dream
The Life and Death of King John
The Merchant of
Venice
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
The Second Part of
King Henry the Fourth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Life of King Henry
the Fifth
Julius Caesar
As You Like
It
25.Shakespeare (II) The Plays and
Sonnets (continued)
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
The Tragedy of
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Troilus and
Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Othello, the
Moor of Venice
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and
Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles, Prince of
Tyre
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
The Famous History of
the Life of King Henry
the Eighth
Sonnets
26.William
Gilbert
On the Loadstone and Magnetic
Bodies
Galileo Galilei
Concerning the Two New
Sciences
William Harvey
On
the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of the
Blood
On the Generation of Animals
27. Miguel de
Cervantes
The History of Don Quixote de
la Mancha
28. Sir Francis
Bacon
Advancement of Learning
Novum
Organum
New
Atlantis
Rene
Descartes
Rules for the Direction of the
Mind
Discourse on the Method
Meditations of
First Philosophy
Objections Against the Meditations and
Replies
Benedict de
Spinoza
THe
Geometry
Ethics
29.John
Milton
English minor poems
Paradise Lost
Samson
Agonistes
Areopagitica
30. Blaise
Pascal
The Provincial Letters
Pensees
Scientific Treatises
31. Moliere
The School for Wives
The Critique of the
School for Wives
Tartuffe
Don Juan
The Miser
The Would-Be
Gentleman
The Imaginary Invalid
Jean
Racine
Berenice
Phedre
32.Sir Isaac
Newton
Mathematical Principles of
Natural Philosophy
Optics
Christian
Huygens
Treatise on Light
33.John Locke
A
Letter Concerning Toleration
Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
An
Essay Concerning
Human Understanding
George
Berkeley
The Principles of Human
Knowledge
David Hume
An
Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding
34.Johathan
Swift
Gulliver's
Travels
Laurence
Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Gentleman
Voltaire
Candide
Denia
Diderot
Rameau's
Nephew
Henry Fielding
The
History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling
35.Charles de Secondat,
Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of
Laws
Jean Jacques
Rousseau
A Discourse On the Origin of Inequality
On Political
EconomyRousseau
The Social Contract
36.Adam
Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations
37. Edward Gibbon
(I)
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire
38.Edward Gibbon (II)
History of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire (continued)
39.Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure
Reason
The Critique of Practical Reason,
Fundamental
Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Other Ethical
Treatises
The Critique of Judgment
40.American State
Papers
The Federalist
Declaration
of Independence
Articles of
Confederation
The
Constitution
John Stuart
Mill
On Liberty
Considerations Representative
Government
Utilitarianism
41.James Boswell
Life of
Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
42. Antoine Laurent
Lavoisier
Elements of
Chemistry
Jean Baptist Josepj
Fourier
Analytical Theory of
Heat
Michael Faraday
Experimental Researches in Electricity
43. Georg William
Friedrich Hegel
The Philosophy of Right
The
Philosophy of History
Soren
Kierkegaard
Fear and
Trembling
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond
Good and Evil
44.Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in
America
45.Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
Faust
Honore
de Balzac
Cousin Bette
46.Jane
Austen
Emma
George
Eliot
Middlemarch
47. Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit
48.Herman
Melville
Moby
Dick
Mark Twain
✔ Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
49.Charles Darwin
The Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection
The Descent of Man
and Selection in Relation to Sex
50.Karl
Marx
Capital
Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels
Manifesto of the Communist
Party
51.Count LeoTolstoy
War and
Peace
52.Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoyevsky
The Brothers
Karamazov
Henrik Ibsen
✔
A Doll's House
The Wild Duck
Hedda Gabler
✔ The Master Builder
53.William
James
The Principles of Psychology
54.Sigmund
Freud
The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
Selected
Papers on Hysteria
The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
The Future
Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
Observations on "Wild"
Psycho-Analysis
The Interpretation of Dreams
On
Narcissism
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
Repression
The
Unconscious
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
Beyond the
Pleasure Principle
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
The Ego
and the Id
Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
Thoughts for the Times
on War and Death
Civilization and Its Discontents
New Introductory
Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
55.20th Century Philosophy and
Religion
William
James
Pragmatism
Henri
Bergson
An Introduction to
Metaphysics
John
Dewey
Experience and
Education
Alfred North
Whitehead
Science and the Modern
World
Bertrand Russell
The
Problems of Philosophy
Martin
Heidegger
What is
Metaphysics?
Ludwig
Wittgenstein
Philosophical
Investigations
Karl
Barth
The Word of God and the Word of
Man
56. Henri Poincaré
Science and
Hypothesis
Max Planck
Scientific
Autobiography and Other Papers
Alfred North
Whitehead
An Introduction to Mathematics
Albert
Einstein
Relativity: The Special and the
General Theory
Arthur Eddington
The Expanding
Universe
Niels Bohr
Atomic Theory and the Description
of Nature (selections)
Discussion with Einstein
on Epistemology
G. H. Hardy
A
Mathematician's Apology
Werner
Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy
Erwin
Schrödinger
What Is Life?
Theodosius
Dobzhansky
Genetics and the Origin
of Species
C. H. Waddington
The
Nature of Life
57. Thorstein
Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class
R. H.
Tawney
The Acquisitive Society
John Maynard
Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest
and Money
58. Sir James George
Frazer
The Golden Bough (selections)
Max
Weber
Essays in
Sociology (selections)
Johan
Huizinga
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Claude
Lévi-Strauss
Structural
Anthropology (selections)
59. Henry
James
The Beast in the Jungle
George
Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan
Joseph
Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Anton
Chekhov
Uncle Vanya
Luigi
Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of
an Author
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things
Past: "Swann in Love"
Willa
Cather
A Lost Lady
Thomas
Mann
Death in Venice
James
Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man
60. Virginia
Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Franz Kafka
The
Metamorphosis
D. H. Lawrence
The
Prussian Officer
T. S. Eliot
The Waste
Land
Eugene O'Neill
Mourning Becomes
Electra
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great
Gatsby
William Faulkner
A Rose for
Emily
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and
Her Children
Ernest Hemingway
The Short Happy
Life of Francis Macomber
George Orwell
✔ Animal Farm
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot