From the Book - Founders' ed.
1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.
4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.
5. The plays of Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.
6. The history of H erodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides.
8-9. The works of Aristotle.
10. Hippocratic writings on the natural faculties , by Galen.
11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.
12. Lucretius: on the nature of things; The discourses of Epictetus; The meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
13. The poems of Plutarch.
14. Lives of the noble Grecians & Romans, by Plutarch.
15. Annal & The histories by Tacitus.
16. Almagest, by Ptolemy. On the revolutions..., by Copernicus. Epitome of Copernican astronomy, by Kepler.
17. Six enneads, by Plotinus.
18. Confessions, by Augustine.
19-20. Summa theologica, by Aquinas.
21. Divine comedy of Dante.
22. Troilus and cressida and The Canterbury tales, by Chaucer.
23. The prince, by Machiavelli. Leviathan, by Hobbes.
24. Gargantua & pantagruel, by Rabelais.
26-27. Plays & Sonnets of Shakespeare.
28. On the loadstone..., by Gilbert. Concerning the two new sciences, by Galileo. On the motion of the heart & blood..., by Harvey.
29. History of Don Quixote de la Mancha, by Cervantes.
30 Advancement of Learning, by Bacon.
31. Rules for the direction..., by Descartes; Ethics, by Spinoza.
32. English minor poems, by Milton.
33. Provincial letters, by Pascal.
34. Mathematical principles of natural philosophy, by Newton. Treatise on light, by Huygens.
35. Letter concerning toleration..., by Locke. Principles of human knowledge, by Berkeley. Enquiry concerning human understanding, by Hume.
36. Gulliver's travels, by Swift. Tristram shandy by Sterne.
37. History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding.
38. Spirit of laws, by Montesquieu. On the origin of inequality, by Rousseau.
39. Inquiry into the nature..., by Adam Smith.
40-41. Decline & fall of the Roman Empire.
42. Critique of pure reason, by Kant.
43. American state papers, by Alexander Hamilton, [et al.]; On liberty..., by John Stuart Mill.
44. Life of Samuel Johnson, by Boswell.
45. Elements of Chemistry, by Lavoisier; Analytical theory of heat, by Fourier; Experimental researches in electricity, by Faraday.
46. Philosophy of right, by Hegel.
48. Moby Dick, by Melville.
49. Origin of species, by Darwin.
50. Capital, by Karl Marx; Manifesto of the Communist, by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels.
51. War and peace, by Leo Tolstoy.
52. Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky.
53. Principles of psychology, by William James.
54. major works of Sigmund Freud.
