SERIES ONE

• On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Confessions of a Sinner - Augustine
• The Inner Life - Thomas à Kempis
• The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
• On Friendship - Michel de Montaigne
• A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
• The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Christians and the Fall of Rome - Edward Gibbon
• Common Sense - Thomas Paine
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
• On the Pleasure of Hating - William Hazlitt
• ✔ The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• On the Suffering of the World - Arthur Schopenhauer
• On Art and Life - John Ruskin
• On Natural Selection - Charles Darwin
• Why I Am So Wise - Friedrich Nietzsche
• ✔ A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
• Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
• Why I Write - George Orwell

SERIES TWO

• The First Ten Books - Confucius
• ✔ The Art of War - Sun Tzu
• The Symposium - Plato
• Sensation and Sex - Lucretius
• An Attack on the Enemy of Freedom - Cicero
• The Revelation of St John the Divine and The Book of Job
• Travels in the Land of Kubliai Khan - Marco Polo
• The City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan
• How to Achieve True Greatness - Baldesar Castiglione
• Of Empire - Francis Bacon
• Of Man - Thomas Hobbes
• Urne-Burial - Sir Thomas Browne
• Miracles and Idolatry - Voltaire
• On Suicide - David Hume
• On the Nature of War - Carl von Clausewitz
• Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard
• Where I Lived, and What I Lived For - Henry David Thoreau
• Conspicuous Consumption - Thorstein Veblen
• The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
• Eichmann and the Holocaust - Hannah Arendt

SERIES THREE

• In Consolation to his Wife - Plutarch
• Some Anatomies of Melancholy - Robert Burton
• Human Happiness - Blaise Pascal
• The Invisible Hand - Adam Smith
• The Evils of Revolution - Edmund Burke
• Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Sickness Unto Death - Søren Kierkegaard
• The Lamp of Memory - John Ruskin
• Man Alone with Himself - Friedrich Nietzsche
• A Confession - Leo Tolstoy
• Useful Work versus Useless Toil - William Morris
• The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner
• Days of Reading - Marcel Proust
• An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe - Leon Trotsky
• The Future of an Illusion - Sigmund Freud
• ✔ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
• Books v. Cigarettes - George Orwell
• The Fastidious Assassins - Albert Camus
• Concerning Violence - Frantz Fanon
• The Spectacle of the Scaffold - Michel Foucault

SERIES FOUR

• Tao Te Ching - Lao-Tzu
• ✔ Writings from the Zen Masters - Various
• Utopia - Thomas More
• On Solitude - Michel de Montaigne
• On Power - William Shakespeare
• Of the Abuse of Words - John Locke
• Consolation in the Face of Death - Samuel Johnson
• An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant
• The Executioner - Joseph de Maistre
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey
• The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion - Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln
• Revolution and War - Karl Marx
• The Grand Inquisitor - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• On A Certain Blindness in Human Beings - William James
• An Apology for Idlers - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Of the Dawn of Freedom - W. E. B. Du Bois
• Thoughts of Peace in an Air Raid - Virginia Woolf
• Decline of the English Murder - George Orwell
• Why Look at Animals? - John Berger

SERIES FIVE

• The Tao of Nature - Chuang Tzu
• Of Human Freedom - Epictetus
• On Conspiracies - Niccolò Machiavelli
• Meditations - René Descartes
• Dialogue Between Fashion and Death - Giacomo Leopardi
• On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
• Hosts of Living Forms - Charles Darwin
• Night Walks - Charles Dickens
• Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles Mackay
• The State as a Work of Art - Jacob Burckhardt
• Silly Novels by Lady Novelists - George Eliot
• The Painter of Modern Life - Charles Baudelaire
• The 'Wolfman' - Sigmund Freud
• The Jewish State - Theodor Herzl
• Nationalism - Rabindranath Tagore
• Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End - Winston Churchill
• The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise - Jorge Luis Borges
• Some Thoughts on the Common Toad - George Orwell
• An Image of Africa - Chinua Achebe