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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


 


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