Novels

1. Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote

2. Bunyan, John: The Pilgrim's Progress
3. Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
4. Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
5. Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist
6. Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
7. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
8. Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick
9. Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin
10. Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
11. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
12. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
13. Hardy, Thomas: The Return of the Native
14. James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
15. Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
16. Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
17. Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
18. Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth
19. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
20. Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
21. Kafka, Franz: The Trial
22. Wright, Richard: Native Son
23. Camus, Albert: The Stranger
24. Orwell, George: 1984
25. Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man
26. Bellow, Saul: Seize the Day
27. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
28. Calvino, Italo: If on a winter's night a traveler
29. Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon (did not finish)
30. DeLillo, Don: White Noise
31. Byatt, A.S.: Possession
Autobiographies and Memoirs
32. Augustine: The Confessions
33. Kempe, Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe
34. De Montaigne, Michel: Essays
35. Teresa of Avila: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
36. Descartes, Rene: Meditations
37. Bunyan, John: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
38. Rowlandson, Mary: The Narrative of the Captivity and
Restoration
39. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Confessions
40. Franklin, Benjamin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
41. Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
42. Jacobs, Harriet: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
43. Douglas, Frederick: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
44. Washington, Booker T.: Up from Slavery
45. Nietzsche, Friedrich: Ecce Homo
46. Hitler, Adolf: Mein Kampf
47. Gandhi, Mohandas: An Autobiography: The Story of My
Experiments with Truth
48. Stein, Gertude: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
49. Merton, Thomas: The Seven Storey Mountain
50. Lewis, C.S.: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
51. Malcolm X: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
52. Sarton, May: Journal of a Solitude
53. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.: The Gulag Archipelago
54. Colson, Charles W.: Born Again
55. Rodriguez, Richard: Hunger of Memory: The Education of
Richard Rodriguez
56. Conway, Jill Ker: The Road from Coorain
57. Wiesel, Elie: All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
Histories
58. Herodotus: The Histories
59. Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War
60. Plato: The Republic (read 100 pages, and took a break)
61. Plutarch: Lives
62. Augustine: The City of God: Part One, Part Two
63. Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
64. Machiavelli, Niccolo: The Prince
65. More, Sir Thomas: Utopia
66. Locke, John: The True End of Civil Government
67. Hume, David: The History of England, Vol. V (did not finish)
68. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Social Contract
69. Paine, Thomas: Common Sense
70. Gibbon, Edward: The History of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire
71. Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
72. De Tocqueville, Alexis: Democracy in America
73. Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich: The Communist Manifesto
74. Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
75. Du Bois, W.E.B.: The Souls of Black Folk
76. Weber, Max: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
77. Strachey, Lytton: Queen Victoria
78. Orwell, George: The Road to Wigan Pier
79. Miller, Perry: The New England Mind
80. Galbraith, John Kenneth: The Great Crash 1929
81. Ryan, Cornelius: The Longest Day
82. Friedan, Betty: The Feminine Mystique
83. Genovese, Eugene D.: Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves
Made
84. Tuchman, Barbara: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth
Century
85. Woodward, Bob & Bernstein, Carl: All the President's Men
86. McPherson, James M.: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
87. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher: A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha
Ballard, Based on Her Diary
88. Fukuyama, Francis: The End of History and the Last Man
Plays
89. Aeschylus: Agamemnon
90. Sophocles: Oedipus the King
91. Euripides: Medea
92. Aristophanes: The Birds
93. Aristotle: Poetics
94. Everyman
95. Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus
96. Shakespeare: Richard III
97. Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
98. Shakespeare: Hamlet
99. Moliere: Tartuffe
100. Congreve, William: The Way of the World
101. Goldsmith, Oliver: She Stoops to Conquer
102. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The School for Scandal
103. Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll's House
104. Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest
105. Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard
106. Shaw, George Bernard: Saint Joan
107. Eliot, T.S.: Murder in the Cathedral
108. Wilder, Thornton: Our Town
109. O'Neill, Eugene: Long Day's Journey Into Night
110. Sartre, Jean Paul: No Exit
111. Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire
112. Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
113. Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
114. Bolt, Robert: A Man For All Seasons
115. Stoppard, Tom: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
116. Shaffer, Peter: Equus
Poetry
117. The Epic of Gilgamesh
118. Homer: Iliad and the Odyssey
119. Greek Lyricists
120. Horace: Odes
121. Beowulf
122. Alighieri, Dante: Inferno
123. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
124. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
125. Shakespeare: Sonnets
126. Donne, John
127. Bible: Psalms (King James Version)
128. Milton, John: Paradise Lost
129. Blake, William: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
130. Wordsworth, William
131. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
132. Keats, John
133. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
134. Lord Tennyson, Alfred
135. Whitman, Walt
136. Dickinson, Emily
137. Rossetti, Christina
138. Hopkins, Gerard Manley
139. Yeates, William Butler
140. Dunbar, Paul Laurence
141. Frost, Robert
142. Sandburg, Carl
143. Williams, William Carlos
144. Pound, Ezra
145. Eliot, T.S.
146. Hughes, Landston
147. Auden, W.H.
Science
148. Hippocrates: On Airs, Waters, and Place
149. Aristotle: Physics
150. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
151. Copernicus: Commentarioulus
152. Bacon: Novum Organum
153. Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
154. Hooke: Micrographia
155. Newton: "Rules" and "General Scholium from Philosophiae
Naturalis Principia Mathematica
156. Cuvier: "Preliminary Discourse in Fossil bones, and Geological
Catasrophes
157. Lyell: Principles of Geology
158. Darwin: On the Origin of Species
159. Mendel: Experiments in Plant Hybridization
160. Wegener: The Origin of Continents and Oceans
161. Einstein: The General Theory of Relativity
162. Planck: The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory
163. Huxley: Evolution: The Modern Synthesis
164. Schrödinger: What is Life?
165. Carson: Silent Spring
166. Morris: The Naked Ape
167. Watson: The Double Helix
168. Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
169. Weinberg: The First Three Minutes
170. Wilson: On Human Nature
171. Lovelock: Gaia
172. Gould: The Mismeasure of Man
173. Gleick: Chaos: Makiing a New Science
174. Hawking: A Brief History of Time
175. Alvarez: T. Rex and the Crater of Doom