The Great Books

 

List of great books (not found in Mortimer Adler's list).

• José Ortega y Gasset
• The Revolt of the Masses (1930)

Mortimer Adler's list of Great Books of the Western World

(Best read in chronological order, because you'd have read what the authors were accquented with in their time. Arranged chronological within categories.)

Imaginative Literature

• HOMER,
• The Iliad, The Odyssey
• AESCHYLUS,
• Complete Plays
• SOPHOCLES,
• Complete Plays
• EURIPIDES,
• Complete Plays
• ARISTOPHANES,
• Complete Plays: The Clouds,
• VIRGIL ,
• The Eclogues,
• The Georgics,
• The Aeneid
• DANTE ,
• The Divine Comedy
• CHAUCER ,
• Troilus and Criseyde,
• The Canterbury Tales
• RABELAIS ,
• Gargantua and Pantagruel
• SHAKESPEARE,
• Complete Plays,
• Sonnets
• CERVANTES ,
• Don Quixote
• MILTON,
• English Minor Poems,
• Paradise Lost,
• Samson Agonistes,
• Areopagitica
• SWIFT ,
• Gulliver's Travels
• FIELDING ,
• Tom Jones
• STERNE ,
• Tristram Shandy
• GOETHE,
• Faust
• MELVILLE,
• Moby Dick
• TOLSTOY,
• War and Peace
• DOSTOEVSKY,
• The Brothers Karamazov

HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

• HERODOTUS,
• The History
• THUCYDIDES,
• The History of the Peloponnesian War
• PLUTARCH,
• Complete Lives
• TACITUS,
• The Annals,
• The Histories
• MACHIAVELLI,
• The Prince
• MONTAIGNE,
• Complete Essays
• HOBBES,
• Leviathan
• MONTESQUIEU,
• The Spirit of Laws
• ROUSSEAU ,
• A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,
• A Discourse on Political Economy,
• The Social Contract
• SMITH ,
• The Wealth of Nations
• GIBBON,
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The Declaration of Independence,
• Articles of Confederation,
• The Constitution of the United States of America
• BOSWELL,
• The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
• HAMILTON, MADISON, and JAY,
• The Federalist
• MILL ,
• On Liberty,
• Representative Government,
• Utilitarianism
• MARX,
• Capital
• MARX and ENGELS,
• Manifesto of the Communist Party

NATURAL SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

• HIPPOCRATES,
• Complete Works
• EUCLID,
• Elements
• ARCHIMEDES,
• Complete Writings
• APOLLONIUS OF PERGA,
• On Conic Sections
• NICOMACHUS,
• Introduction to Arithmetic
• GALEN,
• On the Natural Faculties
• PTOLEMY,
• The Almagest
• COPERNICUS,
• On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
• GILBERT,
• On the Loadstone
• GALILEO,
• Two New Sciences
• KEPLER ,
• Epitome of Copernican Astronomy,
• The Harmonies of the World
• HARVEY,
• Medical Writings
• HUYGENS,
• Treatise on Light
• NEWTON,
• Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Optics
• LAVOISIER,
• Elements of Chemistry
• FOURIER,
• Analytical Theory of Heat
• FARADAY,
• Experimental Researches in Electricity
• DARWIN,
• The Origin of Species,
• The Descent of Man
• JAMES,
• The Principles of Psychology
• FREUD
• Major Works

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY

• PLATO,
• Complete Dialogues: Apology, Euthyphro, 
• The Seventh Letter
• ARISTOTLE,
• Complete Works
• LUCRETIUS,
• On the Nature of Things
• EPICTETUS,
• The Discourses
• MARCUS AURELIUS,
• The Meditations
• PLOTINUS,
• The Six Enneads
• ST . AUGUSTINE ,
• The Confessions,
• The City of God,
• On Christian Doctrine
• AQUINAS ,
• Summa Theologica
• BACON,
• Advancement of Learning,
• Novum Organum,
• New Atlantis
• DESCARTES,
• Philosophical Works,
• The Geometry
• PASCAL,
• The Provincial Letters, Pensees,
• Scientific Works
• SPINOZA,
• Ethics
• LOCK . E,
• A Letter Concerning Toleration,
• Concerning Civil Government,
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• BERKELEY ,
• The Principles of Human Knowledge
• HUME ,
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• KANT,
• Major Philosophical Works
• HEGEL ,
• The Philosophy of Right,
• The Philosophy of History