Reading
Without reading, one cannot write or understand the human condition. To that end, I've collected a list of the more than 600 books I want to read before I shed my moral coil. These titles, which I've developed over several years from more than a dozen different sources, represent the "great" books – books that are important for what they represent to the Judaeo-Christian Western worldview (even if some of the books hail from non-Western sources). So what's represented, below, is only a fraction of what I have/will read over a lifetime.
The following list is more digestible if you download a version (in Markdown) that sorts and groups differently based on your interests:
My Great Books
This static but comprehensive list is sorted by era, then category, then culture, then author, then title.
| Title | Author | Read | Era | Culture | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parallel Lives | Plutarch | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Biography and Memoir | |
| Lives of the Caesars | Suetonius | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Biography and Memoir |
| Agricola | Tacitus | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Biography and Memoir | |
| City of God | Augustine of Hippo | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Catholic | |
| Confessions | Augustine of Hippo | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Catholic | |
| On Christian Doctrine | Augustine of Hippo | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Catholic | |
| Vulgate | Jerome | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Catholic | |
| Enneads, The | Plotinus | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Essay | |
| Institutes of Oratory | Quintilian | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Essay | |
| Doctrine of the Mean | Antiquity | China | Essay | ||
| Great Learning | Antiquity | China | Essay | ||
| Thirty-Six Strategems | Antiquity | China | Essay | ||
| Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers | Diogenes Laertius | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | History | |
| Histories, The | Herodotus | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | History | |
| Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans | Plutarch | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | History | |
| History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | History |
| Commentaries on the French Wars | Caesar | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | History |
| History of Rome | Livy | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | History | |
| Annals | Tacitus | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | History | |
| Germania | Tacitus | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | History | |
| Histories | Tacitus | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | History | |
| Histories, The | Shiji | Antiquity | China | History | |
| Book of Songs, The | Shijing | Antiquity | China | History | |
| Book of Documents, The | Shuijing | Antiquity | China | History | |
| Aesop's Fables | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Myth/Legend/Fable | |
| Adapa and the Food of Life | Antiquity | Ancient Near East | Myth/Legend/Fable | ||
| Descent of the Goddess Ishtar | Antiquity | Ancient Near East | Myth/Legend/Fable | ||
| Enuma Elish | Antiquity | Ancient Near East | Myth/Legend/Fable | ||
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Antiquity | Ancient Near East | Myth/Legend/Fable | ||
| Golden Ass | Apuleius | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Novel |
| Metamorphosis | Ovid | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Novel | |
| Records of the Great Historian | Sima Qian | Antiquity | China | Novel | |
| Metaphysics | Aristotle | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Philosophy | |
| Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Philosophy |
| Poetics | Aristotle | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Philosophy | |
| Timaeus | Plato | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Philosophy | |
| Meditations | Aurelius | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Philosophy |
| Discourses | Epictetus | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Philosophy | |
| On the Nature of Things | Lucretius | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Philosophy |
| Letters from a Stoic | Seneca | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Philosophy |
| Analects of Confucius | Confucius | Antiquity | China | Philosophy | |
| Tao Te Ching | Laozi | Antiquity | China | Philosophy | |
| Mencius | Mencius | Antiquity | China | Philosophy | |
| Zhuangzi | Zhuangzi | Antiquity | China | Philosophy | |
| I Ching | ✓ | Antiquity | China | Philosophy | |
| Agamemnon | Aeschylus | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Eumenides | Aeschylus | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Libation Bearers | Aeschylus | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Oresteia | Aeschylus | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Seven Against Thebes | Aeschylus | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Clouds, The | Aristophanes | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Frogs, The | Aristophanes | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Categories | Aristotle | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| De Anima | Aristotle | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Letter to Herodotus | Epicurus | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Bacchae | Euripides | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Hippolytus | Euripides | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Imphigeneia at Aulis | Euripides | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Medea | Euripides | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Trojan Women | Euripides | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue |
| Dialogues of the Courtesans | Lucian of Samosata | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Dialogues of the Dead | Lucian of Samosata | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Dialogues of the Gods | Lucian of Samosata | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Dialogues of the Sea-Gods | Lucian of Samosata | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Apology | Plato | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue |
| Crito | Plato | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue |
| Gorgias | Plato | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue |
| Meno | Plato | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue |
| Parmenides | Plato | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Phaedo | Plato | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue |
| Phaedrus | Plato | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Republic | Plato | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue |
| Sophist | Plato | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Symposium | Plato | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Theatetus | Plato | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Antigone | Sophocles | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue |
| Oedipus at Colonus | Sophocles | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Oedipus the King | Sophocles | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue |
| Philoctetes | Sophocles | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Play or Dialogue | |
| Corpus Hermetica | Hermes | Antiquity | Ancient Near East | Play or Dialogue | |
| Cataline Orations | Cicero | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Play or Dialogue |
| Orations and Letters | Cicero | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Play or Dialogue | |
| Dialogues | Seneca | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Play or Dialogue | |
| Dialogue on Oratory | Tacitus | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Play or Dialogue | |
| Iliad | Homer | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Poetry |
| Odyssey | Homer | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Poetry |
| Poetic Works | Horace | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Poetry | |
| Aeneid | Virgil | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Rome | Poetry |
| Politics | Aristotle | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Political Theory |
| Code of Hammurabi | Hammurabi | Antiquity | Ancient Near East | Political Theory | |
| Art of War | Sun Tzu | ✓ | Antiquity | China | Political Theory |
| Book of the Dead | Antiquity | Ancient Near East | Religious Text | ||
| Pentateuch, The | ✓ | Antiquity | Ancient Near East | Religious Text | |
| Bhagavad Gita | Antiquity | India | Religious Text | ||
| Rigveda | Antiquity | India | Religious Text | ||
| Upanishads | Antiquity | India | Religious Text | ||
| Conic Sections | Apollonius of Perga | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Science | |
| Works | Archimedes | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Science | |
| Elements | Euclid | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Science | |
| On the Natural Faculties | Galen | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Science | |
| Medical Writings | Hippocrates | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Science | |
| Introduction to Arithmetic | Nicomachus of Gerasa | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Science | |
| Almagest | Ptolemy | Antiquity | Ancient Greece | Science | |
| Travels of Marco Polo, The | Polo | Early Modern | Italy | Biography and Memoir | |
| Way of Perfection | Teresa of Avila | Early Modern | Spain | Catholic | |
| Interior Castle | Teresa of Avila | Early Modern | Spain | Catholic | |
| Thoughts Concerning Education | Locke | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Areopagitica | Milton | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Essays | Bacon | Early Modern | France | Essay | |
| Maximes | de La Rochefoucauld | Early Modern | France | Essay | |
| Rules for the Direction of the Mind | Descartes | Early Modern | France | Essay | |
| Essays | Emerson | Early Modern | France | Essay | |
| Essays | Montaigne | Early Modern | France | Essay | |
| Provincial Letters, The | Pascal | Early Modern | France | Essay | |
| Scientific Treatises | Pascal | Early Modern | France | Essay | |
| Table Talk | Luther | Early Modern | Germany | Essay | |
| Three Treatises | Luther | Early Modern | Germany | Essay | |
| Notebooks | da Vinci | Early Modern | Italy | Essay | |
| Praise of Folly, The | Erasmus | Early Modern | Netherlands | Essay | |
| Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies | De Las Casas | Early Modern | Spain | History | |
| Fables | de La Fontaine | Early Modern | France | Myth/Legend/Fable | |
| Pilgrim's Progress | Bunyan | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Journey to the West | Wu | Early Modern | China | Novel | |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel | Rabelais | Early Modern | France | Novel | |
| Life of an Amorous Man, The | Saikaku | Early Modern | Japan | Novel | |
| Don Quixote | Cervantes | Early Modern | Spain | Novel | |
| Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Locke | ✓ | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Philosophy |
| Discourse on the Method | Descartes | Early Modern | France | Philosophy | |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | Descartes | ✓ | Early Modern | France | Philosophy |
| Treatise on Ethics | Malebranche | Early Modern | France | Philosophy | |
| Pensees | Pascal | Early Modern | France | Philosophy | |
| Book of the City of the Ladies, The | de Pizan | Early Modern | Italy | Philosophy | |
| Ethics | Spinoza | Early Modern | Netherlands | Philosophy | |
| Anthony and Cleopatra | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| As You Like It | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| Hamlet | Shakespeare | ✓ | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue |
| Henry IV | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| Henry V | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| King Lear | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| Macbeth | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| Othello | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| Richard II | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| Tempest, The | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| Imaginary Invalid, The | Moliere | Early Modern | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Misanthrope, The | Moliere | Early Modern | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Miser, The | Moliere | Early Modern | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Tartuffe | Moliere | Early Modern | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Andromaque | Racine | Early Modern | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Iphigenie | Racine | Early Modern | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Phedre | Racine | Early Modern | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Paradise Lost | Milton | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Sonnets | Shakespeare | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Faerie Queene, The | Spenser | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Prothalamion | Spenser | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Dark Night of the Soul | John of the Cross | Early Modern | Spain | Poetry | |
| Commentaries on the Laws of England | Blackstone | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Leviathan | Hobbes | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Letter Concerning Toleration | Locke | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Of Civil Government | Locke | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Two Treatises of Government | Locke | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Utopia | More | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Prince, The | Machiavelli | Early Modern | Italy | Political Theory | |
| On the Law of War and Peace | Grotius | Early Modern | Netherlands | Political Theory | |
| Institutes of the Christian Religion | Calvin | Early Modern | Switzerland | Religious Text | |
| Skeptical Chemist, The | Boyle | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Burton | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Science | |
| On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies | Gilbert | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Science | |
| On the Circulation of the Blood | Harvey | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Science | |
| On the Generation of Animals | Harvey | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Science | |
| On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals | Harvey | Early Modern | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Geometry | Descartes | Early Modern | France | Science | |
| Concerning the Harmonies of the World | Kepler | Early Modern | Germany | Science | |
| On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres | Copernicus | Early Modern | Italy | Science | |
| Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences | Galilei | Early Modern | Italy | Science | |
| Starry Messenger, The | Galilei | Early Modern | Italy | Science | |
| On the Movement of Bodies by Impact | Huygens | Early Modern | Netherlands | Science | |
| Treatise on Light | Huygens | Early Modern | Netherlands | Science | |
| Life of Alexander Nevsky, The | Middle Ages | Russia | Biography and Memoir | ||
| Cloud of Unknowing, The | (Anonymous) | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Proslogium | Anselm of Canterbury | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Commentary on Job | Gregory of Tours | Middle Ages | France | Catholic | |
| Imitation of Christ | Kempis | Middle Ages | Germany | Catholic | |
| Of Being and Essence | Aquinas | Middle Ages | Italy | Catholic | |
| Summa Contra Gentiles | Aquinas | Middle Ages | Italy | Catholic | |
| Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles | Aquinas | Middle Ages | Italy | Catholic | |
| Dialog of Catherine of Siena | Catherine of Siena | Middle Ages | Italy | Catholic | |
| Guide for the Perplexed, The | Maimonides | Middle Ages | Ancient Near East | Essay | |
| Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry | De Pizan | Middle Ages | France | Essay | |
| Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The | Middle Ages | France | Essay | ||
| Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The | Bede | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | History | |
| History of the Franks, The | Gregory of Tours | Middle Ages | France | History | |
| Muqaddimah, The | Khaldun | Middle Ages | Islamic World | History | |
| One Thousand and One Nights | Middle Ages | Islamic World | Myth/Legend/Fable | ||
| Le Morte d'Arthur | Malory | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | Novel | ||
| Tristan and Isolde | von Strassburg | Middle Ages | Germany | Novel | |
| Divine Comedy, The | Alighieri | Middle Ages | Italy | Novel | |
| Decameron | Boccaccio | Middle Ages | Italy | Novel | |
| Incoherence of the Philosophers, The | Al-Ghazali | Middle Ages | Islamic World | Philosophy | |
| Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | Middle Ages | Italy | Philosophy | |
| Canterbury Tales, The | Chaucer | ✓ | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | Poetry |
| Troilus and Criseyde | Chaucer | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Piers Plowman | Langland | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Beowulf | ✓ | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Romance of the Rose, The | Middle Ages | France | Poetry | ||
| Song of Roland | Middle Ages | France | Poetry | ||
| Nibelungenlied | Anonymous | Middle Ages | Germany | Poetry | |
| Saga of Burnt Njal | Anonymous | Middle Ages | Iceland | Poetry | |
| Conference of the Birds | Attar | Middle Ages | Islamic World | Poetry | |
| Rubaiyat | Khayyam | Middle Ages | Islamic World | Poetry | |
| Magna Carta | ✓ | Middle Ages | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Koran | Middle Ages | Islamic World | Religious Text | ||
| Optics | al-Haytham | Middle Ages | Islamic World | Science | |
| Canon of Medicine, The | Avicenna | Middle Ages | Islamic World | Science | |
| Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Boswell | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The | Franklin | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Lives of the Poets, The | Johnson | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Travels in the Interior of Africa | Park | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Principles of Human Knowledge | Berkeley | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | Burke | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An | Hume | ✓ | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Essay |
| Essay on Criticism | Pope | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Essay on Man | Pope | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Rape of the Lock | Pope | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Modest Proposal, A | Swift | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Perpetual Peace | Kant | 18th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Science of Right, The | Kant | 18th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| New Science | Vico | 18th Century | Italy | Essay | |
| Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The | Gibbon | 18th Century | Anglosphere | History | |
| Robinson Crusoe | Defoe | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Joseph Andrews | Fielding | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Tom Jones | Fielding | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Vanity of Human Wishes, The | Johnson | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Clarissa | Richardson | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The | Sterne | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Gulliver's Travels | Swift | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Persian Letters | Montesquieu | 18th Century | France | Novel | |
| Candide | Voltaire | 18th Century | France | Novel | |
| Sorrows of Young Werther, The | 18th Century | Germany | Novel | ||
| Emile | Rousseau | 18th Century | France | Philosophy | |
| Critique of Judgment | Kant | 18th Century | Germany | Philosophy | |
| Critique of Practical Reason | Kant | 18th Century | Germany | Philosophy | |
| Critique of Pure Reason | Kant | ✓ | 18th Century | Germany | Philosophy |
| Discourse on Metaphysics | Leibniz | 18th Century | Germany | Philosophy | |
| New Essays Concerning Human Understanding | Leibniz | 18th Century | Germany | Philosophy | |
| Way of the World, The | Congreve | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France | Burke | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Federalist Papers, The | Hamilton et al | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Essays Moral and Political | Hume | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Treatise on Human Nature | Hume | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Essay on the Principle of Population | Malthus | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Theory of Moral Sentiments, The | Smith | ✓ | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory |
| Wealth of Nations | Smith | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Spirit of Laws | Montesquieu | 18th Century | France | Political Theory | |
| On the Origin of Inequality | Rousseau | 18th Century | France | Political Theory | |
| On the Political Economy | Rousseau | 18th Century | France | Political Theory | |
| Social Contract, The | Rousseau | 18th Century | France | Political Theory | |
| Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals | Kant | 18th Century | Germany | Political Theory | |
| Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | Newton | 18th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Elements of Chemistry | Lavoisier | 18th Century | France | Science | |
| Sailing Alone Around the World | Slocum | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Apologia Pro Vita Sua | Newman | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Essay on Development of Christian Doctrine | Newman | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Idea of a University | Newman | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Introduction to Devout Life | de Sales | 19th Century | France | Catholic | |
| Story of a Soul | Therese of Lisieux | 19th Century | France | Catholic | |
| Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | Bentham | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Theory of Fictions | Bentham | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Laws of Thought, The | Boole | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Representative Men | Emerson | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Self Reliance | Emerson | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| System of Logic, A | Mill | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Civil Disobedience | Thoreau | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Walden | Thoreau | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Frontier in American History, The | Turner | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| On Suicide | Durkheim | 19th Century | France | Essay | |
| Essence of Christianity | Feuerbach | 19th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Anti-Christ, The | Nietzsche | 19th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Gay Science, The | Nietzsche | 19th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Will to Power, The | Nietzsche | 19th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Parerga and Paralipomena | Schopenhauer | 19th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| World as Will and Representation, The | Schopenhauer | 19th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Physiological Psychology | Wundt | 19th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| History of Civilization in England, A | Buckle | 19th Century | Anglosphere | History | |
| Journals of Lewis and Clark, The | Lewis | 19th Century | Anglosphere | History | |
| History of Civilization in France | Guizot | 19th Century | France | History | |
| History of the Russian State | Karamzin | 19th Century | Russia | History | |
| Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The | Irving | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Myth/Legend/Fable | |
| Collected Romanian Folklore | Alecsandri | 19th Century | Romania | Myth/Legend/Fable | |
| Emma | Austen | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Pride and Prejudice | Austen | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Jane Eyre | Bronte | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Wuthering Heights | Bronte | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Way of All Flesh | Butler | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Carroll | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Heart of Darkness | Conrad | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Last of the Mohicans | Cooper | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Bleak House | Dickens | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| David Copperfield | Dickens | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Great Expectations | Dickens | ✓ | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Oliver Twist | Dickens | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Tale of Two Cities, A | Dickens | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Adam Bede | Eliot | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Middlemarch | Eliot | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Silas Marner | Eliot | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| King Solomon's Mines | Haggard | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Scarlet Letter, The | Hawthorne | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Moby Dick | Melville | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Ivanhoe | Scott | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Frankenstein | Shelly | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Treasure Island | Stevenson | ✓ | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Dracula | Stoker | ✓ | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Vanity Fair | Thackeray | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The | Twain | ✓ | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A | Twain | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Mysterious Stranger, The | Twain | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Island of Dr. Moreau, The | Wells | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Wyss | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Eugenie Grandet | Balzac | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Pere Goriot | Balzac | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Barber of Seville, The | Beaumarchais | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Count of Monte Cristo, The | Dumas | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Man in the Iron Mask, The | Dumas | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Madame Bovary | Flaubert | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame, The | Hugo | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Les Miserables | Hugo | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Complete Short Stories | Maupassant | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Charterhouse of Parma, The | Stendhal | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| On Love | Stendhal | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Red and the Black, The | Stendhal | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Verne | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Verne | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Verne | 19th Century | France | Novel | |
| Collected Short Stories | Checkov | 19th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Brothers Karamazov | Dostoevskey | 19th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostoevskey | ✓ | 19th Century | Russia | Novel |
| Idiot, The | Dostoevskey | 19th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Demons | Dostoevsky | 19th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Notes from Underground | Dostoevsky | 19th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Dead Souls | Gogol | 19th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Boris Godunov | Pushkin | 19th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy | 19th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| War and Peace | Tolstoy | ✓ | 19th Century | Russia | Novel |
| Utilitarianism | Mill | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Philosophy | |
| Either/Or | Kierkegaard | 19th Century | Denmark | Philosophy | |
| Fear and Trembling | Kierkegaard | 19th Century | Denmark | Philosophy | |
| Philosophical Fragments | Kierkegaard | 19th Century | Denmark | Philosophy | |
| Positive Philosophy, The | Comte | 19th Century | France | Philosophy | |
| Phenomenology of Spirit | Hegel | 19th Century | Germany | Philosophy | |
| Philosophy of Right | Hegel | 19th Century | Germany | Philosophy | |
| Beyond Good and Evil | Nietzsche | ✓ | 19th Century | Germany | Philosophy |
| Birth of Tragedy | Nietzsche | 19th Century | Germany | Philosophy | |
| Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nietzsche | 19th Century | Germany | Philosophy | |
| Twilight of the Idols | Nietzsche | 19th Century | Germany | Philosophy | |
| Rameau’s Nephew | Diderot | 19th Century | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Rostand | 19th Century | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Faust | Goethe | 19th Century | Germany | Play or Dialogue | |
| Doll's House, The | Ibsen | 19th Century | Norway | Play or Dialogue | |
| Hedda Gabler | Ibsen | 19th Century | Norway | Play or Dialogue | |
| Don Juan | Byron | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Poems | Coleridge | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Idylls of the King | Tennyson | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Leaves of Grass | Whitman | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Poems | Wordsworth | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Les Fleurs du mal | Baudelaire | 19th Century | France | Poetry | |
| Ruslan and Ludmila | Pushkin | 19th Century | Russia | Poetry | |
| On Liberty | Mill | ✓ | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory |
| Representative Government | Mill | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Subjection of Women, The | Mill | ✓ | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory |
| On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation | Ricardo | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Political Theory | |
| Democracy in America | Tocqueville | 19th Century | France | Political Theory | |
| On War | Clausewitz | 19th Century | Germany | Political Theory | |
| Lectures on the Philosophy of History | Hegel | 19th Century | Germany | Political Theory | |
| Capital | Marx | 19th Century | Germany | Political Theory | |
| Communist Manifesto | Marx | 19th Century | Germany | Political Theory | |
| Geneology of Morals | Nietzsche | 19th Century | Germany | Political Theory | |
| New System of Chemical Philosophy, A | Dalton | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Descent of Man, The | Darwin | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Origin of Species, The | Darwin | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Chemical History of a Candle | Faraday | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Experimental Researches in Electricity | Faraday | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Inquiries into Human Faculties and Its Development | Galton | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Principles of Geology | Lyell | 19th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine | Bernard | 19th Century | France | Science | |
| Analytical Theory of Heat | Fourier | 19th Century | France | Science | |
| Hypotheses of Geometry, The | Riemann | 19th Century | Germany | Science | |
| Transfinite Numbers | Cantor | 19th Century | Russia | Science | |
| Theory of Parallels | Lobachevsky | 19th Century | Russia | Science | |
| Education of Henry Adams, The | Adams | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Long Loneliness, The | Day | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Into the Wild | Krakauer | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Into Thin Air | Krakauer | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Malcolm X: The Autobiography | Malcom X | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Something Beautiful for God | Muggeridge | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Rough Riders, The | Roosevelt | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Great Railway Bazaar, The | Theroux | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Wolfe | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| How The Reformation Happened | Belloc | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Survivals and New Arrivals | Belloc | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Everlasting Man | Chesterton | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Orthodoxy | Chesterton | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Mere Christianity | Lewis | ✓ | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic |
| Seven Storey Mountain | Merton | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Catholic Matters | Neuhaus | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Witness to Hope | Weigel | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Catholic | |
| Diary of a Country Priest, The | Bernanos | 20th Century | France | Catholic | |
| Introduction to Christianity | Ratzinger | 20th Century | Germany | Catholic | |
| Meditations from a Simple Path | Teresa of Calcutta | 20th Century | India | Catholic | |
| Journal of a Soul | John XXIII | 20th Century | Italy | Catholic | |
| Christ is Passing By | Escriva | 20th Century | Spain | Catholic | |
| Way of the Cross | Escriva | 20th Century | Spain | Catholic | |
| Catechism of the Catholic Church | Holy Office | 20th Century | Catholic | ||
| Ordinary Men | Browning | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Carnegie | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Democracy and Education | Dewey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Experience and Nature | Dewey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Habits and Will | Dewey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Theory of Inquiry, The | Dewey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Virtues, The | Dewey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Souls of Black Folk, The | Du Bois | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Common Law, The | Holmes | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Essays in Radical Empiricism | James, W | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Varieties of Religious Experience, The | James, W | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Road to Wigan Pier | Orwell | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Pirsig | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Analsysis of Mind, The | Russell | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Life of Reason, The | Santayana | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Persons and Places | Santayana | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Realms of Being, The | Santayana | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Skepticism and Animal Faith | Santayana | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Thompson | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Civilization on Trial | Toynbee | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Study of History, A | Toynbee | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Adventures of Ideas | Whitehead | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Aims of Education and Other Essays, The | Whitehead | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Creative Evolution | Bergson | 20th Century | France | Essay | |
| Matter and Memory | Bergson | 20th Century | France | Essay | |
| Time and Free Will | Bergson | 20th Century | France | Essay | |
| Two Sources of Morality and Religion, The | Bergson | 20th Century | France | Essay | |
| Art and Scholasticism | Maritain | 20th Century | France | Essay | |
| Degrees of Knowledge, The | Maritain | 20th Century | France | Essay | |
| Freedom and the Modern World | Maritain | 20th Century | France | Essay | |
| Rights of Man and Natural Law, The | Maritain | 20th Century | France | Essay | |
| True Humanism | Maritain | 20th Century | France | Essay | |
| Man's Search for Meaning | Frankl | 20th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Ego and the Id, The | Freud | 20th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego | Freud | 20th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Interpretation of Dreams, The | Freud | 20th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis | Freud | 20th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis | Freud | 20th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis | Freud | 20th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality | Freud | 20th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| What is Philosophy? | Heidegger | 20th Century | Germany | Essay | |
| State and Revolution, The | Lenin | 20th Century | Russia | Essay | |
| Gulag Archipelago, The | Solzhenitsyn | ✓ | 20th Century | Russia | Essay |
| Rape of Nanking, The | Chang | 20th Century | Anglosphere | History | |
| History of Religious Ideas, A [3-vol] | Eliade | 20th Century | Anglosphere | History | |
| Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The | Shirer | ✓ | 20th Century | Anglosphere | History |
| Henderson the Rain King | Bellow | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Clockwork Orange, A | Burgess | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Burroughs | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Postman Always Rings Twice, The | Cain | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Tobacco Road | Caldwell | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Cather | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Long Goodbye, The | Chandler | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Nostromo | Conrad | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Secret Agent, The | Conrad | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Red Badge of Courage, The | Crane | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| White Noise | Delillo | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Deliverance | Dickey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| American Tragedy, An | Dreiser | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Sister Carrie | Dreiser | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Invisible Man | Ellison | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Studs Lonigan Trilogy | Farrell | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| As I Lay Dying | Faulkner | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Light in August | Faulkner | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Sound and the Fury | Faulkner | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Great Gatsby, The | Fitzgerald | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Tender is the Night | Fitzgerald | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Good Soldier, The | Ford | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Howards End | Forster | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Passage to India, A | Forster | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Room with a View, A | Forster | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Lord of the Flies | Golding | ✓ | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| I, Claudius | Graves | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Heart of the Matter | Greene | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Maltese Falcon, The | Hammett | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Catch-22 | Heller | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Farewell to Arms, A | Hemingway | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Hemingway | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Old Man and the Sea, The | Hemingway | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Sun Also Rises, The | Hemingway | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Brave New World | Huxley | ✓ | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Point Counter Point | Huxley | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Ambassadors, The | James, H | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| American, The | James, H | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Beast in the Jungle, The | James, H | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Wings of the Dove | James, H | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| From Here to Eternity | Jones | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Thin Red Line, The | Jones | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Ulysses | Joyce | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Dharma Bums | Kerouac | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| On the Road | Kerouac | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Kesey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Sometimes a Great Notion | Kesey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Separate Peace, A | Knowles | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Darkness at Noon | Koestler | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Stone Angel, The | Laurence | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Sons and Lovers | Lawrence | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee | ✓ | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Main Street | Lewis | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Call of the Wild | London | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Under the Volcano | Lowry | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| River Runs Through It, A | Maclean | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Naked and the Dead, The | Mailer | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Of Human Bondage | Maugham | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West | McCarthy | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The | McCullers | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Lonesome Dove | McMurty | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Billy Budd | Melville | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Tropic of Cancer | Miller | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Beloved | Morrison | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Under the Net | Murdoch | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Pale Fire | Nabokov | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| House for Mr Biswas, A | Naipaul | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Appointment in Samarra | O'Hara | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Animal Farm | Orwell | ✓ | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Nineteen Eight-Four | Orwell | ✓ | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Moviegoer, The | Percy | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Atlas Shrugged | Rand | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Rhys | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Portnoy's Complaint | Roth | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Midnight's Children | Rushdie | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Killer Angels, The | Sahaara | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Catcher in the Rye, The | Salinger | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| House of God, The | Shem | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Jungle, The | Sinclair | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The | Spark | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Cannery Row | Steinbeck | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| East of Eden | Steinbeck | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Grapes of Wrath, The | Steinbeck | ✓ | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Pearl, The | Steinbeck | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Sophie's Choice | Styron | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Hobbit, The | Tolkein | ✓ | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel |
| Confederacy of Dunces | Toole | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Bluebeard | Vonnegut | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegut | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| All the King's Men | Warren | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Handful of Dust, A | Waugh | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Brideshead Revisited | Waugh | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Age of Innocence | Wharton | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Picture of Dorian Gray, The | Wilde | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Bridge of San Luis Rey | Wilder | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| To the Lighthouse | Woolf | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Native Son | Wright | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Labrynths | Borges | 20th Century | Argentina | Novel | |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Márquez | 20th Century | Colombia | Novel | |
| Castle, The | Kafka | 20th Century | Czech Republic | Novel | |
| Unbearable Lightness of Being, The | Kundera | 20th Century | Czech Republic | Novel | |
| Stranger, The | Camus | 20th Century | France | Novel | |
| In Search of Lost Time | Proust | 20th Century | France | Novel | |
| Remembrance of Things Past | Proust | 20th Century | France | Novel | |
| Nausea | Sartre | 20th Century | France | Novel | |
| Tin Drum, The | Grass | 20th Century | Germany | Novel | |
| Steppenwolf | Hesse | 20th Century | Germany | Novel | |
| Metamorphosis, The | Kafka | ✓ | 20th Century | Germany | Novel |
| Trial, The | Kafka | 20th Century | Germany | Novel | |
| Joseph and His Brothers | Mann | 20th Century | Germany | Novel | |
| Magic Mountain, The | Mann | 20th Century | Germany | Novel | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Remarq | 20th Century | Germany | Novel | |
| Fratricides | Kazantzakis | 20th Century | Greece | Novel | |
| Foucault's Pendulum | Eco | 20th Century | Italy | Novel | |
| Snow Country | Kawabata | 20th Century | Japan | Novel | |
| Things Fall Apart | Achebe | 20th Century | Nigeria | Novel | |
| Painted Bird, The | Kosinski | 20th Century | Poland | Novel | |
| Master and Margarita, The | Bulgakov | 20th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Lolita | Nabokov | 20th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Eugene Onegin | Pushkin | 20th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| Cancer Ward, The | Solzhenitsyn | 20th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| First Circle, The | Solzhenitsyn | 20th Century | Russia | Novel | |
| How We Think | Dewey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Philosophy | |
| Logic | Dewey | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Philosophy | |
| Pragamatism | James, W | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Philosophy | |
| Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits | Russell | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Philosophy | |
| Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, An | Russell | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Philosophy | |
| Problems of Philosophy, The | Russell | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Philosophy | |
| Process and Reality | Whitehead | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Philosophy | |
| Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud | 20th Century | Austria | Philosophy | |
| Being and Nothingness | Sartre | 20th Century | France | Philosophy | |
| Death of a Salesman | Miller | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| Plays and Prefaces | Shaw | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Play or Dialogue | |
| No Exit | Sartre | 20th Century | France | Play or Dialogue | |
| Master Builder, The | Ibsen | 20th Century | Norway | Play or Dialogue | |
| Wild Duck, The | Ibsen | 20th Century | Norway | Play or Dialogue | |
| Cherry Orchard, The | Chekhov | 20th Century | Russia | Play or Dialogue | |
| Waste Land, The | Eliot | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Principles of Psychology, The | James, W | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The | Kuhn | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Affective Neuroscience | Panksepp | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Principles of Mathematics | Russell | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Introduction to Mathematics, An | Whitehead | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Science and the Modern World | Whitehead | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Treatise on Universal Algebra, A | Whitehead | 20th Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Beyond the Pleasure Principle | Freud | 20th Century | Austria | Science | |
| Science and Hypothesis | Poincare | 20th Century | France | Science | |
| Science and Method | Poincare | 20th Century | France | Science | |
| Essay on the Theory of Numbers | Dedekind | 20th Century | Germany | Science | |
| Meaning of Relativity, The | Einstein | 20th Century | Germany | Science | |
| On the Method of Theoretical Physics | Einstein | 20th Century | Germany | Science | |
| Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory, The | Heisenberg | 20th Century | Germany | Science | |
| Modern Man in Search of a Soul | Jung | 20th Century | Germany | Science | |
| Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory | Planck | 20th Century | Germany | Science | |
| Where Is Science Going? | Planck | 20th Century | Germany | Science | |
| Bad Blood | Carreyrou | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The | Fadiman | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Argonauts, The | Nelson | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Educated | Westover | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Biography and Memoir | |
| Life at the Bottom | Dalrymple | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science …. | Pinker | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Essay | |
| Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao | Díaz | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Corrections, The | Franzen | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Kite Runner, The | Hosseini | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Never Let Me Go | Ishiguro | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Life of Pi | Martel | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Road, The | McCarthy | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Gilead | Robinson | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| White Teeth | Smith | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| Little Life, A | Yanagihara | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Novel | |
| 2666 | Bolaño | 21st Century | Chile | Novel | |
| Austerlitz | Sebald | 21st Century | Germany | Novel | |
| Zorba the Greek | Kazantzakis | 21st Century | Greece | Novel | |
| Norweigan Wood | Murakami | 21st Century | Japan | Novel | |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Adichie | 21st Century | Nigeria | Novel | |
| Citizen: An American Lyric | Rankine | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Poetry | |
| Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief | Peterson | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Science | |
| Immoral Life of Henrietta Lacks, The | Skloot | 21st Century | Anglosphere | Science |