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Homer

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The Iliad

The Odyssey

2
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Aeschylus

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The Suppliant Maidens
The Persians
Seven Against Thebes
Prometheus Bound
The Oresteia
(Agamemnon
Choephoroe
The Eumenides)
3
Q

Sophocles

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The Oedipus Cycle
(Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone)
Ajax
Electra
The Trachiniae
Philoctetes
4
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Euripides

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Rhesus
Medea
Hippolytus
Alcestis
Heracleidae
The Suppliants
Trojan Women
Ion
Helen
Andromache
Electra
Bacchantes
Hecuba
Heracles Mad
Phoenician Women
Orestes
Iphigeneia in Tauris
Iphigeneia at Aulis
Cyclops
5
Q

Aristophanes

A
The Acharnians
The Knights
The Clouds
The Wasps
Peace
The Birds
The Frogs
Lysistrata
Thesmophoriazusae
Ecclesiazousae
Plutus
6
Q

Herodotus

A

The History

7
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Thucydides

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History of the Peloponnesian War

8
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Plato

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The Dialogues
(Charmides
Lysis
Laches
Protagoras
Euthydemus
Cratylus
Phaedrus
Ion
Symposium
Meno
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Gorgias
The Republic
Timaeus
Critias
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Sophist
Statesman
Philebus
Laws)
The Seventh Letter
9
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Aristotle

A
Categories
On Interpretation
Prior Analytics
Posterior Analytics
Topics
Sophistical Refutations
Physics
On the Heavens
On Generation and Corruption
Meteorology
Metaphysics
On the Soul
History of Animals
Parts of Animals
On the Motion of Animals
On the Gait of Animals
On the Generation of Animals
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
The Athenian Constitution
Rhetoric
Poetics
10
Q

Galen

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On the Natural Faculties

11
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Euclid

A

Euclid’s Elements

12
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Archimedes

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On the Sphere and Cylinder
Measurement of a Circle
On Conoids and Spheroids
On Spirals
On the Equilibrium of Planes
The Sand Reckoner
The Quadrature of the Parabola
On Floating Bodies
Book of Lemmas
The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
13
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Apollonius of Perga

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On Conic Sections

14
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Nicomachus of Gerasa

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Introduction to Arithmetic

15
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Lucretius

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On the Nature of Things

16
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Epictetus

A

The Discourses

17
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Marcus Aurelius

A

The Meditations

18
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Virgil

A

Eclogues
Georgics
Aeneid

19
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Plutarch

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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

20
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P. Cornelius Tacitus

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The Annals

The Histories

21
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Ptolemy

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Almagest

22
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Nicolaus Copernicus

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On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

23
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Johannes Kepler

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Epitome of Copernican Astronomy

The Harmonies of the World

24
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Plotinus

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The Six Enneads

25
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Augustine of Hippo

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The Confessions
The City of God
On Christian Doctrine

26
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Thomas Aquinas

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Summa Theologica

27
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Dante Alighieri

A

The Divine Comedy

28
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Geoffrey Chaucer

A

Troilus and Criseyde

The Canterbury Tales

29
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Niccolò Machiavelli

A

The Prince

30
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Thomas Hobbes

A

Leviathan

31
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François Rabelais

A

Gargantua and Pantagruel

32
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

A

Essays

33
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William Shakespeare (Histories)

A
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1 †
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII †
34
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William Shakespeare (Comedies)

A
All's Well That Ends Well ‡
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure ‡
The Merchant of Venice *
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre *†
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest *
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen *†
The Winter's Tale *
35
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William Shakespeare (Tragedies)

A
Romeo and Juliet
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus †
Timon of Athens †
Julius Caesar
Macbeth †
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida ‡
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline *
36
Q

William Gilbert

A

On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

37
Q

Galileo Galilei

A

Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences

38
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William Harvey

A

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of Blood
On the Generation of Animals

39
Q

Miguel de Cervantes

A

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha

40
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Sir Francis Bacon

A

The Advancement of Learning
Novum Organum
New Atlantis

41
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René Descartes

A
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Discourse on the Method
Meditations on First Philosophy
Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
The Geometry
42
Q

Benedict de Spinoza

A

Ethics

43
Q

John Milton

A

English Minor Poems
Paradise Lost
Samson Agonistes
Areopagitica

44
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Blaise Pascal

A

The Provincial Letters
Pensées
Scientific and mathematical essays

45
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Sir Isaac Newton

A

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Optics

46
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Christian Huygens

A

Treatise on Light

47
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John Locke

A

A Letter Concerning Toleration
Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

48
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George Berkeley

A

The Principles of Human Knowledge

49
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David Hume

A

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

50
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Jonathan Swift

A

Gulliver’s Travels

51
Q

Laurence Sterne

A

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

52
Q

Henry Fielding

A

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

53
Q

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

A

The Spirit of the Laws

54
Q

Jean Jacques Rousseau

A

A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
A Discourse on Political Economy
The Social Contract

55
Q

Adam Smith

A

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

56
Q

Edward Gibbon

A

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

57
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Immanuel Kant

A
Critique of Pure Reason
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Critique of Practical Reason
The Metaphysics of Morals
The Critique of Judgement
58
Q

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

A

The Federalist Papers

59
Q

John Stuart Mill

A

On Liberty
Considerations on Representative Government
Utilitarianism

60
Q

James Boswell

A

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

61
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

A

Elements of Chemistry

62
Q

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

A

Analytical Theory of Heat

63
Q

Michael Faraday

A

Experimental Researches in Electricity

64
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A

The Philosophy of Right

The Philosophy of History

65
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A

Faust

66
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Herman Melville

A

Moby Dick; or, The Whale

67
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Charles Darwin

A

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

68
Q

Karl Marx

A

Capital

Manifesto of the Communist Party (with Friedrich Engels)

69
Q

Count Leo Tolstoy

A

War and Peace

70
Q

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

A

The Brothers Karamazov

71
Q

William James

A

The Principles of Psychology

72
Q

Sigmund Freud

A

The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
Selected Papers on Hysteria
The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
Observations on “Wild” Psycho-Analysis
The Interpretation of Dreams
On Narcissism
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
Repression
The Unconscious
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
The Ego and the Id
Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
Civilization and Its Discontents
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

73
Q

John Calvin

A

Institutes of the Christian Religion

74
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Erasmus

A

The Praise of Folly

75
Q

Molière

A
The School for Wives
The Critique of the School for Wives
Tartuffe
Don Juan
The Miser
The Would-Be Gentleman
The Imaginary Invalid
76
Q

Jean Racine

A

Bérénice

Phèdre

77
Q

Voltaire

A

Candide

78
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Denis Diderot

A

Rameau’s Nephew

79
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Søren Kierkegaard

A

Fear and Trembling

80
Q

Friedrich Nietzsche

A

Beyond Good and Evil

81
Q

Alexis de Tocqueville

A

Democracy in America

82
Q

Honoré de Balzac

A

Cousin Bette

83
Q

Jane Austen

A

Emma

84
Q

George Eliot

A

Middlemarch

85
Q

Charles Dickens

A
The Pickwick Papers
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Hard Times
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Little Dorrit
86
Q

Mark Twain

A

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

87
Q

Henrik Ibsen

A

A Doll’s House
The Wild Duck
Hedda Gabler
The Master Builder

88
Q

William James

A

Pragmatism

89
Q

Henri Bergson

A

An Introduction to Metaphysics

90
Q

John Dewey

A

Experience and Education

91
Q

Alfred North Whitehead

A

Science and the Modern World

92
Q

Bertrand Russell

A

The Problems of Philosophy

93
Q

Martin Heidegger

A

What Is Metaphysics?

94
Q

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A

Philosophical Investigations

95
Q

Karl Barth

A

The Word of God and the Word of Man

96
Q

Henri Poincaré

A

Science and Hypothesis

97
Q

Max Planck

A

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

98
Q

Alfred North Whitehead

A

An Introduction to Mathematics

99
Q

Albert Einstein

A

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

100
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Arthur Eddington

A

The Expanding Universe

101
Q

Niels Bohr

A

Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections)

Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology

102
Q

G. H. Hardy

A

A Mathematician’s Apology

103
Q

Werner Heisenberg

A

Physics and Philosophy

104
Q

Erwin Schrödinger

A

What Is Life?

105
Q

Theodosius Dobzhansky

A

Genetics and the Origin of Species

106
Q

C. H. Waddington

A

The Nature of Life

107
Q

Thorstein Veblen

A

The Theory of the Leisure Class

108
Q

R. H. Tawney

A

The Acquisitive Society

109
Q

John Maynard Keynes

A

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

110
Q

Sir James George Frazer

A

The Golden Bough

111
Q

Max Weber

A

Essays in Sociology

112
Q

Johan Huizinga

A

The Autumn of the Middle Ages

113
Q

Claude Lévi-Strauss

A

Structural Anthropology

114
Q

Henry James

A

The Beast in the Jungle

115
Q

George Bernard Shaw

A

Saint Joan

116
Q

Joseph Conrad

A

Heart of Darkness

117
Q

Anton Chekhov

A

Uncle Vanya

118
Q

Luigi Pirandello

A

Six Characters in Search of an Author

119
Q

Marcel Proust

A

Remembrance of Things Past: “Swann in Love”

120
Q

Willa Cather

A

A Lost Lady

121
Q

Thomas Mann

A

Death in Venice

122
Q

James Joyce

A

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

123
Q

Virginia Woolf

A

To the Lighthouse

124
Q

Franz Kafka

A

The Metamorphosis

125
Q

D. H. Lawrence

A

The Prussian Officer

126
Q

T. S. Eliot

A

The Waste Land

127
Q

Eugene O’Neill

A

Mourning Becomes Electra

128
Q

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A

The Great Gatsby

129
Q

William Faulkner

A

A Rose for Emily

130
Q

Bertolt Brecht

A

Mother Courage and Her Children

131
Q

Ernest Hemingway

A

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

132
Q

George Orwell

A

Animal Farm

133
Q

Samuel Beckett

A

Waiting for Godot