- Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye (1813-1855): Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments
- Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1340-1400): Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales
- Spenser, Edmund (c.1552-1599): Prothalamion, The Faerie Queene
- Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679): Leviathan
- Locke, John (1632-1704): Letter Concerning Toleration, Of Civil Government, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Thoughts Concerning Education
- Milton, John (1608-1674): Paradise Lost
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Sonnets
- Berkeley, George (1685-1753): Principles of Human Knowledge
- Boswell, James (1740-1795): Journal, Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- Congreve, William (1670-1729): The Way of the World
- Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731): Robinson Crusoe
- Fielding, Henry (1707-1754): Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
- Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794): The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Autobiography
- Hume, David (1711-1776): Treatise on Human Nature, Essays Moral and Political, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784): The Vanity of Human Wishes, Dictionary, Rasselas, The Lives of the Poets
- Pope, Alexander (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man
- Smith, Adam (1723-1790): The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Wealth of Nations
- Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768): Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
- Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745): Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal
- Austen, Jane (1775-1817): Pride and Prejudice
- Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832): Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Theory of Fictions
- Burke, Edmund (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824): Don Juan
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834): Poems, Biographia Literaria
- Darwin, Charles (1809-1882): The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, Autobiography
- Dickens, Charles (1812-1870): Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations
- Eliot, George (1819-1880): Adam Bede, Middlemarch
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882): Representative Men, Essays, Journal
- Faraday, Michael (1791-1867): Chemical History of a Candle, Experimental Researches in Electricity
- Hamilton, Jay, Madison: The Federalist Papers
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864): The Scarlet Letter
- Lyell, Charles (1797-1875): Principles of Geology
- Melville, Herman (1819-1891): Moby Dick, Billy Budd
- Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873): A System of Logic, On Liberty, Representative Government, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, Autobiography
- Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862): Civil Disobedience, Walden
- Wordsworth, William (1770-1850): Poems
- Adams, Henry (Brooks) (1838-1918): The Education of Henry Adams
- Dewey, John (1859-1952): How We Think, Democracy and Education, Experience and Nature, Logic, the Theory of Inquiry, Habits and Will, The Virtues
- Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868-1963): The Souls of Black Folk
- James, Henry (1843-1916): The American, The Ambassadors, The Beast in the Jungle
- James, William (1842-1910): The Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragamatism, Essays in Radical Empiricism
- Joyce, James (1882-1941): ``The Dead'' in Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
- Millikan, Robert Andrews (1868-1953): The Electron
- Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970): The Problems of Philosophy, The Analsysis of Mind, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, Human Knowledge; Its Scope and Limits
- Santayana, George (1863-1952): The Life of Reason, Skepticism and Animal Faith, Persons and Places
- Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950): Plays and Prefaces
- Toynbee, Arnold (1889-1975): A Study of History, Civilization on Trial
- Twain, Mark (1835-1910): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Mysterious Stranger
- Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947): An Introduction to Mathematics, Science and the Modern World, The Aims of Education and Other Essays, Adventures of Ideas
- Anonymous: Song of Roland
- Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592): Essays
- Rabelais, François (c.1495-1553): Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Descartes, Rene (1596-1650): Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method, Geometry, Meditations on First Philosophy
- de La Fontaine, Jean (1621-1695): Fables
- de La Rochefoucauld, François, Duc (1613-1690): Maximes
- Moliere (1622-1673): The Misanthrope, The Miser, Tartuffe, The Imaginary Invalid
- Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662): The Provincial Letters, Pensees, Scientific Treatises, Meditations
- Racine, Jean Baptiste (1639-1699): Andromaque, Iphigenie, Phedre
- Diderot, Denis (1713-1784): Rameau’s Nephew
- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794): Elements of Chemistry
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de (1689-1755): Persian Letters, Spirit of Laws
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778): On the Origin of Inequality, On the Political Economy, Emile, The Social Contract
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on the English, Candide, Philosophical Dictionary
- Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850): Pere Goriot, Eugenie Grandet
- Bernard, Claude (1813-1878): Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
- Comte, Auguste (1798-1857): The Positive Philosophy
- Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880): Madame Bovary, Three Stories, A Simple Heart
- Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830): Analytical Theory of Heat
- Stendhal (1783-1842): The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, On Love
- Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805-1859): Democracy in America
- Bergson, Henri (1859-1941): Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
- Maritain, Jacques (1882-1973): Art and Scholasticism, The Degrees of Knowledge, The Rights of Man and Natural Law, True Humanism
- Poincare, Jules Henri (1854-1912): Science and Hypothesis, Science and Method
- Proust, Marcel (1871-1922): Remembrance of Things Past
- Sartre, Jean Paul (1905-1980): Nausea, No Exit, Being and Nothingness
- Anonymous: Nibelungenlied (or Volsunga Saga as Scandinavian version)
- Luther, Martin (1483-1546): Table Talk, Three Treatises
- Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804): Critique of Pure Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason, The Science of Right, Critique of Judgment, Perpetual Peace
- Clausewitz, Karl von (1780-1831): On War
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832): Faust, Poetry and Truth
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831): Phenomenology of Spirit, Philosophy of Right, Lectures on the Philosophy of History
- Marx, Karl (1818-1883): Capital, Communist Manifesto
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900): Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Geneology of Morals, The Will to Power, Birth of Tragedy
- Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860): Parerga and Paralipomena, The World as Will and Representation
- Dedekind, Richard (1831-1916): Essay on the Theory of Numbers
- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955): The Meaning of Relativity, On the Method of Theoretical Physics, The Evolution of Physics (with L. Infeld)
- Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939): The Interpretation of Dreams, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Civilization and Its Discontents, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis,
- Heidegger, Martin (1889-19760: What is Philosophy?
- Heisenberg, Werner (1901-1976): The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
- Kafka, Franz (1883-1924): The Trial, The Castle
- Mann, Thomas (1875-1955): The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers
- Planck, Max (1858-1947): Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory, Where Is Science Going?, Scientific Autobiography
- Homer (9th c. B.C.): Iliad and Odyssey
- Sophocles (c.495-406 B.C.): Oedipus, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes
- Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.): Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound, Oresteia
- Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.): Bacchae, Imphigeneia at Aulis, Medea, Hippolytus
- Herodotus (c.484-425 B.C.): History
- Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.): History of the Peloponnesian War
- Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.): The Frogs, The Clouds
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.): Poetics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, De Anima, Categories
- Hippocrates (c.460-377? B.C.): Medical Writings
- Plato (c.427-347 BC): Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
- Apollonius of Perga (fl.c.240 B.C.): Conic Sections
- Archimedes (c.287-212 B.C.): Works of Archimedes
- Epicurus (c.341-270 B.C.): ``Letter to Herodotus'' ``Letter to Menoecus''
- Euclid (fl.c. 300 B.C.): Elements
- Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl.c. A.D. 100): Introduction to Arithmetic
- Plutarch (c.45-120): Parallel Lives, Moralia
- Bible
- Epictetus (c.60-120): Discourses, Encheiridion, Manual
- Galen (C. 130-200): On the Natural Faculties
- Lucian of Samosata (c.120-c.190): Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of the Gods. Dialogues of the Courtesans
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180): Meditations
- Ptolemy (c.100-170; fl. 127-151): Almagest
- Diogenes Laertius (c. 3rd. C.): Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
- Plotinus (205-270): The Enneads
- Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321): The New Life, On Monarchy, The Divine Comedy
- Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375): Decameron
- Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527): The Prince, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
- Vinci, Leonardo da (1452-1519): Notebooks
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.): Orations and Letters
- Horace (65-8 B.C.): Poetic Works
- Lucretius (c.95-55 B.C.): On the Nature of Things
- Virgil (70-19 B.C.): Aeneid
- Livy (59 B.C.--A.D. 17): History of Rome
- Ovid (43 B.C.--A.D. 17): Metamorphosis
- Seneca (4 B.C. --A.D.65): Dialogues, Letters to Lucilius
- Tacitus (c.55-117): Histories, Annals, Agricola , Germania
- Augustine of Hippo (354-430): Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine
- Anselm of Canterbury (1033-11909): Proslogium
- Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274): Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles
- Calvin, John (1509-1564): Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543): On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- Erasmus, Desiderius (c.1469-1536): The Praise of Folly
- Gilbert, William (1540-1603): On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
- More, Sir Thomas (c.1478-1535): Utopia
- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626): Essays, Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, New Atlantis
- Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642): The Starry Messenger, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
- Harvey, William (1578-1657): On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, On the Circulation of the Blood, On the Generation of Animals
- Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695): Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
- Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630): Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Concerning the Harmonies of the World
- Spinoza, Benedict de (1632-1677): Ethics
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646-1716): Discourse on Metaphysics, New Essays Concerning Human Understanding, Monadology
- Newton, Isaac (1642-1727): Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Optics
- Anonymous: Saga of Burnt Njal
- Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906): The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881): Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground
- Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich (1792-1856): Theory of Parallels
- Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904): Short Stories, The Cherry Orchard
- Lenin, Nikolai (1870-1924): The State and Revolution
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich. (1918-2008): The First Circle, The Cancer Ward
- Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910): War and Peace, Anna Karenina
- De Las Casas, Bartolomé (1484-1566): Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616): Don Quixote
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