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"Great Books of the Western World" by Mortimer Adler

The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas
Angel to Love
Man to World

Homer. Iliad; Odyssey
Aeschylus. Plays
Sophocles. Plays
Euripides. Plays
Aristophanes. Plays

Herodotus. History
Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War

Plato: Dialogues; Seventh Letter
Aristotle: Works

Hippocrates. Hippocratic Writings
Galen. On the Natural Faculties
Euclid. Elements
Archimedes. Works (including The Method)
Nicomachus. Introduction to Arithmetic

Lucretius. The Way Things Are
Epictetus. Discourses
Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations
Plotinus. The Six Enneads

Virgil: Eclogues. Georgics; Aeneid

Plutarch. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Tacitus. Annals; Histories

Ptolemy. Almagest
Copernicus. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Kepler. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; The Harmonies of the World

Augustine. The Confessions; The City of God; On Christian Doctrine
Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica

Dante. Divine Comedy
Chaucer. Troilus and Criseyde; Canterbury Tales

Calvin. Institutes of the Christian Religion

Machiavelli. The Prince
Hobbes. Leviathan

Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel

Erasmus. Praise of Folly
Montaigne. Essays

Shakespeare. The Plays and Sonnets

Gilbert. On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
Galileo. Concerning the Two New Sciences
Harvey. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals

Cervantes: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Bacon. Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum; New Atlantis
Descartes. Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Meditations on First Philosophy; Objections Against the Meditations and Replies; The Geometry
Spinoza. Ethics

Milton. English minor poems; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes; Areopagitica

Pascal. The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises

Moliere. The School for Wives; The Critique of the School for Wives; Tartuffe; Don Juan; The Miser; The Would-Be Gentleman; The Would-Be Invalid
Racine. Berenice

Newton. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
Huygens. Treatise on Light

Locke. A Letter Concerning Toleration; Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Berkeley. The Principles of Human Knowledge
Hume. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Swift. Gulliver's Travels
Voltaire. Candide
Diderot. Rameau's Nephew

Montesquieu. The Spirit of Laws
Rousseau. On the Origin of Inequality; On Political Economy; The Social Contract
Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Gibbon. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Kant. The Critique of Pure Reason; The Critique of Practical Reason, and Other Ethical Treatises; The Critique of Judgment

American State Papers. Declaration of Independence; Articles of Confederation; The Constitution
Hamilton, Madison, Jay. The Federalist
Mill. On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism

Boswell. Life of Samuel Johnson

Lavoisier. Elements of Chemistry
Faraday. Experimental Researches in Electricity

Hegel. The Philosophy of Right;The Philosophy of History
Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling
Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil

Tocqueville. Democracy in America

Goethe. Faust: Parts One and Two
Balzac. Cousin Bette

Austen. Emma
Eliot. Middlemarch
Dickens. Little Dorrit

Melville. Moby Dick
Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Darwin. The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man and

Marx and Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party; Capital

Tolstoy. War and Peace
Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov

Ibsen. A Doll's House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder

James. The Principles of Psychology
Freud. The Major Works of Sigmund Freud

20th Century Philosophy and Religion
James. Pragmatism
Bergson. An Introduction to Metaphysics
Dewey. Experience and Education
Whitehead. Science and the Modern World
Russell. The Problems of Philosophy
Heidegger. What is Metaphysics?
Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations
Barth. The Word of God and the Word of Man

20th Century Natural Science
Poincare. Science and Hypothesis
Planck. Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
Whitehead. An Introduction to Mathematics
Einstein. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Eddington. The Expanding Universe
Bohr. Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature; Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics
Hardy. A Mathematician's Apology
Heisenberg. Physics and Philosophy
Schrodinger. What is Life?
Dobzhansky. Genetics and the Origin of Species
Waddington. The Nature of Life

20th Century Social Science
Veblen. The Theory of the Leisure Class
Tawney. The Acquisitive Society
Keynes. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Frazer. The Golden Bough (selections)
Weber. Essays in Sociology (selections)
Huizinga. The Waning of the Middle Ages
Levi-Strauss. Structural Anthropology (selections)

20th Century Imaginative Literature  
James. The Beast in the Jungle
Shaw. Saint Joan
Conrad. Heart of Darkness
Chekhov. Uncle Vanya
Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author
Proust. Remembrance of Things Past. "Swann in Love"
Cather. A Lost Lady
Mann. Death in Venice
Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Woolf. To the Lighthouse
Kafka. Metamorphosis
Lawrence. The Prussian Officer
Eliot. The Waste Land
O'Neill. Mourning Becomes Electra
Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
Faulkner. A Rose for Emily
Brecht. Mother Courage and Her Children
Hemingway. The Short Happy Life of Macomber
Orwell. Animal Farm
Beckett. Waiting for Godot

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Source: Great Books of the Western World. Ed. by Mortimer J. Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Philip W. Goetz. 2nd ed. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1990. © 1990