1. The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas
2. The Syntopicon (cont.)
3. Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey
4. Aeschylus, Plays
Sophocles, Plays
Euripides, Plays
Aristophanes, Plays
5. Herodotus, The History of the Persian Wars
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
6. Plato, Dialogues, The Seventh Letter
7. Aristotle, Works
8. Aristotle, Works (cont.)
9. Hippocrates, Works
Galen, On the Natural Faculties
10. Euclid, Elements
Archimedes, Works
Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic
11. Lucretius, The Way Things Are
Epictetus, Discourses
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Plotinus, The Six Enneads
12. Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics, The Aeneid
13. Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
14. Tacitus, The Annals, The Histories
15. Ptolemy, The Almagest
Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Johannes Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV-V), The Harmonies of the World (Book V)
16. Saint Augustine, The Confessions, The City of God, On Christian Doctrine
17. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
18. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (cont.)
19. Dante, The Divine Comedy
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales
20. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
21. Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
22. François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
23. Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly
Michel de Montaigne, Essays
24. William Shakespeare, Plays
25. William Shakespeare, Plays (cont.), Sonnets
26. William Gilbert, On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Galileo, Dialogues 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, Don Quixote
28. Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, New Atlantis
René Descartes, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy,
Objections Against the Meditations and Replies, The Geometry
Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics
29. John Milton, English Minor Poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Areopagitica
30. Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters, Pensées, Scientific Treatises
31. Molière, The School for Wives, The Critique of the School for Wives, Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Miser,
The Would-Be Gentleman, The Would-Be Invalid
32. Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Optics
Christiaan Huygens, Treatise on Light
33. John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, Second Essay on Civil Government, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
George Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
34. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Voltaire, Candide
Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew
35. Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, The Social Contract
36. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
37. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
38. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (cont.)
39. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical
Reason, Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals,
The Science of Right, The Critique of Judgment
40. American State Papers (Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the United States of America)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, The Federalist Papers
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Representative Government, Utilitarianism
41. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
42. Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry
Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity
43. Georg Wilhelm 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
Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette
46. Jane Austen, Emma
George Eliot, Middlemarch
47. Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
48. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
49. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man
50. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
Karl Marx, Capital (Vol. 1)
51. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
52. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 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, Major Works (including Selected Papers on Hysteria, The Interpretation of Dreams, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Civilization and Its Discontents, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis)