- Anonymous, 2000 B.C., The Epic of Gilgamesh.
- Homer, 800 B.C., The Iliad.
- Homer, 800 B.C., The Odessy.
- Confucius, 551-479 B.C., The Analects.
- Aeschylus, 525-456 B.C., The Oresteia.
- Sophocles, 496-406 B.C., Oedupus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone.
- Euripedes, 484-406 B.C., Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, The Bacchae.
- Herodotus, 484-425 B.C., The Histories.
- Thucydides, 470/460-400 B.C., The History of the Peloponnesian War.
- Sun-tzu, 450-380 B.C., The Art of War.
- Aristphanes, 448-388 B.C., Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds.
- Plato, 428-348 B.C. Selected Works.
- Aristotle, 384-322 B.C., Ethics, Politics, Poetics.
- Mencius, 400-320 B.C., The Book of Mencius.
- Attributed to Valmiki, 300 B.C., The Ramayana.
- Attributed to Vyasa, 200 B.C., The Mahabharata.
- Anonymous, 200 B.C., The Bhagavad Gita.
- Ssu-ma Ch'ien, 145-86 B.C., Records of the Grand Historian.
- Lucretius, 100 B.C., Of the Nature of Things.
- Virgil, 70-19 B.C., The Aeneid.
- Marcus Aurelius, 121-180, Meditations.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Part One
Monday, September 4, 2006
Part Two
- Saint Augustine, 354-430, The Confessions.
- Kalidasa, 400, The Cloud Messenger and Sakuntala.
- Revealed to Muhummad, 650, The Koran.
- Hui-neng, 638-713, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch.
- Firdausi, 940-1020, Shah Nameh.
- Sei Shonagon, 965-1035, The Pillow-Book.
- Lady Murasaki, 976-1015, The Tale of Genji.
- Omar Khayyam, 1048-?, The Rubaiyat.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, The Divine Comedy.
- Luo Kuan-chung, 1330-1400, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342-1400, The Canterbury Tales.
- Anonymous, 1500, The Thousand and One Nights.
- Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527, The Prince.
- Francois Rabelais, 1483-1553, Gargantua and Pantagruel.
- Attributed to Wu Ch'eng-en, 1500-1582, Journey to the West.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592, Selected Essays.
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616, Don Quixote.
Sunday, September 3, 2006
Part Three
- William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Complete Works.
- John Donne, 1573-1631, Selected Works.
- Anonymous, published 1618, The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chin P'ing Mei).
- Galileo Galilei, 1574-1642, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
- Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, Levianthan.
- Rene Descartes, 1596-1650, Discourse on Method.
- John Milton, 1608-1674, Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica.
- Moliere, 1622-1673, Selected Plays.
- Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, Thoughts (Pensees).
- John Bunyan, 1628-1688, Pilgrim's Progress.
- John Locke, 1632-1704, Second Treatise of Government.
- Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
- Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731, Robinson Crusoe.
- Jonathon Swift, 1667-1745, Gulliver's Travels.
- Voltaire, 1694-1778, Candide and other works.
- David Hume, 1711-1776, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
- Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, Tom Jones.
- Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in, 1715-1763, The Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone).
- Jean-Jacque Rousseau, 1712-1778, Confessions.
- Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768, Tristram Shandy.
- James Boswell, 1740-1795, The Life of Samuel Johnson.
- Thomas Jefferson and others, Basic Documents in American History.
- Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1787.
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Part Four
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Faust.
- William Blake, 1757-1827, Selected Works.
- William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia LIteraria, Writings on Shakespeare.
- Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Pride and Prejudice, Emma.
- Stenddhal, 1783-1842, The Red and the Black.
- Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, Pere Goriot, Eugenie, Grandet, Cousin Bette.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Selected Works.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864, The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-1859, Democracy in America.
- John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women.
- Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of the Species.
- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852, Dead Souls.
- Edgar Allen Poe, 1809-1849, Short Stories and Other Works.
- William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863, Vanity Fair.
- Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit.
- Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882, The Warden, The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Eustace Diamonds, The Way We Live Now, Autobiography.
- Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855, Jane Eyre.
- Emily Bronte, 1818-1848, Wuthering Heights.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, Walden, Civil Disobedience.
- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883, Fathers and Sons.
- Karl Marx, 1818-1883, and Freidrick Engels, 1820-1895, The Communist Manifesto.
- Herman Melville, 1819-1891, Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener.
- George Eliot, 1819-1880, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch.
- Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas, Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass, A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads.
- Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, Madame Bovary.
- Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov.
- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910, War and Peace.
- Henrick Ibsen, 1828-1886, Selected Plays.
- Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, Collected Poems.
- Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass.
- Mark Twain, 1835-1910, Huckleberry Finn.
- Henry Adams, 1838-1918, The Education of Henry Adams.
- Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928, The Mayor of Casterbridge.
- William James, 1842-1910, The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism, Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience.
- Henry James, 1843-1916, The Ambassadors.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900, Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, and other works.
Friday, September 1, 2006
Part Five
- Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Selected Works, including The Interpretation of Dreams, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, and Civilization and Its Discontents.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1939, Selected Plays and Prefaces.
- Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, Nostromo.
- Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Selected Short Stories.
- Edith Wharton, 1862-1937, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth.
- William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Collected Poems, Collected Plays, Autobiography.
- Natsume Soseki, 1867-1916, Kokoro.
- Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, Remembrance of Things Past.
- Robert Frost, 1874-1963, Collected Poems.
- Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, The Magic Mountain.
- E.M. Forster, 1879-1970, A Passage to India.
- Lu Hsun, 1881-1936, Collected Short Stories.
- James Joyce, 1882-1941, Ulysses.
- Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves.
- Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, The Trial, The Castle, Selected Short Stories.
- D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love.
- Tanizaki Junichiro, 1886-1965, The Makioka Sisters.
- Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night.
- T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965, Collected Poems, Collected Plays.
- Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963, Brave New World.
- William Faulkner, 1897-1962, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying.
- Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, Short Stories.
- Kawabata Yasunari, 1899-1972, Beauty and Sadness.
- Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Labyrinths, Dreamtigers.
- Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory.
- George Orwell, 1903-1950, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Burmese Days.
- R.K. Narayan, 1906- , The English Teacher, The Vendor of Sweets.
- Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape.
- W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, Collected Poems.
- Albert Camus, 1913-1960, The Plague, The Stranger.
- Saul Bellow, 1915- , The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt's Gift.
- Aleksander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 1918- , The First Circle, Cancer Ward.
- Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928- , One Hundred Years of Solitude.
- Chinua Achebe, 1930- , Things Fall Apart.
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