Great Books I haven't read yet A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads by Walt Whitman Alamagest by Ptolemy Alcestis by Euripedies Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by Hume Animal Farm by George Orwell Annals by Tactitus A Passage to India by Forster Areopagitica by John Milton Arithmetic by Nicomachus ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Autobiography by Anthony Trollope Bacchae by Euripides Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville Beauty and Sadness by Kawabata Yasunari Benito Cereno by Melville Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevski Burmese Days by George Orwell Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Candide and Other Works by Voltaire Capital by Marx Categories by Aristotle Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Clouds by Aristophanes Confessions by Rousseau Confessions of a Mask by Mishima Yukio Conics by Apollonius CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Coriolanus by Shakespeare Crime and Punishment by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky Critique of Pure Reason by Kant David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei Discourse on Metaphysics by Leibniz Discourse on Method by Descartes Discourses by Niccolò Macchiavelli Discourses by Epictetus Divine Comedy by Dante (not done yet) Don Giovanni by Mozart Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra Electra by Euripedies Elements by Euclid Elements of Chemistry by Lavoisier Emma by Jane Austen Epitome IV by Kepler Essay On Dynamics by Leibniz Essay on the Theory of Numbers by Dedekind Ethics by Aristotle Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac Eumenides by Aeschylus Fables by La Fontaine Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth by William James Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud Generation of Animals by Aristotle Generation of Conic Sections by Pascal Geometry by Descartes Gorgias by Plato (in process) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Gulliver's Travels by Swift Hard Times by Charles Dickens Heart of Darkness by Conrad Henry IV by Shakespeare Henry V by Shakespeare Herzog by Saul Bellow Hipplolytus by Euripidies Histories by Herodotus Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow "Introduction to the Analytical Art" by Viete Inventions by Bach Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Journey to the West by Wu Cheng-en King Lear by Shakespeare Kokoro by Natsume Soseki Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Labyrinths Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill Lycidas by John Milton "Lycurgus" by Plutarch Lysistrata by Aristophanes Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Manual by Epictetus Mass by Des Prez Maximes by La Rochefoucauld Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Meditations by Descartes Memory by Vladimir Nabokov Meno by Plato Middlemarch by George Eliot Missa Papae Marcelli by Palestrina Moby Dick by Melville Monadology by Leibniz Motion of the Heart and Blood by Harvey Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Nostromo by Conrad Novum Organum by Bacon Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle On Interpretation by Aristotle On Liberty by John Stuart Mill On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton On the Movement of Bodies by Impact by Huygens On the Nature of Things by Lucretius On the Revolutions of the Spheres by Copernicus One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Orlando by Virginia Woolf Othello by Shakespeare Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Paradise Lost by John Milton Parts of Animals by Aristotle Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Pensees by Pascal Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac Phaedo by Plato Phaedre by Racine Phaedrus by Plato Phenomenology of Mind by Hegel Philoctetes by Sophocles Philosophical Essays by Leibniz Philosophical Fragments by Kierkegaard Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Poetics by Aristotle Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844 by Marx Politics by Aristotle Pragmatism by William James Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1800) by Wordsworth Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Principia Mathematica by Newton Principles of Nature and Grace by Leibniz Prior Analytics by Aristotle Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus Proslogium by St. Anselm Psychology, (Briefer Course) by William James Records of the Grand Historian by Ssu-ma Ch'ien Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust Richard II by Shakespeare Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Rules for the Direction of the Mind by Descartes Sakuntala by Kalidasa Second Treatise of Government by Locke Shah Nameh by Firdausi Social Contract by Rousseau "Solon" by Plutarch Sonnets by John Milton Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence Sophist by Plato Speak by Vladimir Nabokov St. Matthew Passion by Bach Summa Contra Gentiles by Aquinas Summa Theologica by Aquinas Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Theatetus by Plato The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Ambassadors by Henry James The Analects by Confucius The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Art of War by Sun-tzu The Bear by Faulkner THE BIBLE The Birds by Aristophanes The Bhagavad Gita The Book of Mencius by Mencius The Book of Ramayana by Valmiki The Brontë Sisters by Anthony Trollope The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Castle by Franz Kafka The Cloud Messenger by Kalidasa The Confessions by Saint Augustine (read part of it) The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton The Dream of the Red Chamber/The Story of the Stone by Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in The Electron by MIllikan The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan The Enneads by Plotinus The Epic of Gilgamesh The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay The First Circle by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The Freedom of a Christian by Luther The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The German Ideology by Marx The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud The Koran by Revealed to Muhammad The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann The Mahabharata by Vyasa The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Junichiro The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot The Misanthrope by Moliere The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho Theological-Political Treatise by Spinoza Theory of Parallels by Lobachevsky The Oresteia by Aeschylus The Origin of Inequality by Rousseau The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory by Heisenberg The Plague by Albert Camus The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch Hui-neng The Plum in the Golden Vase The Prelude by Wordsworth The Prince by Niccolò Macchiavelli The Principles of Psychology by William James The Red and the Black by Stendhal The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Kuan-chung The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam The Souls of Black Folk by Dubois The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Stranger by Albert Camus The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima Yukio The Thousand and One Nights The Trial by Franz Kafka The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James The Vendor of Sweets by R. K. Narayan The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin The Warden by Anthony Trollope The Waves by Virginia Woolf The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Thoughts (Pensées) by Pascal Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Freud Through the Looking-Glass by Carroll Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Timaeus by Plato Tom Jones by Henry Fielding To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Treatise of Human Nature Treatise on Light by Huygens Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Trojan Women by Euripedies Two New Sciences by Galileo Ulysses by Joyce Uncle Vanya by Chekhov Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Walden by Henry David Thoreau War and Peace by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy What is Philosophy? by Heidegger Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence Writings on Shakespeare by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë