A Guide for Serious Readers.
Source: Good Reading:
A Guide for Serious Readers. Ed. by Arthur Waldhorn,
Olga S. Weber, Arthur Zeiger. 23rd ed. New York: Bowker, 1990.
© 1990 by The Committee on College Reading.
Ancient Times
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia
- Aesop, Fables
- Aristophanes, Comedies
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- The Bible
- Confucius, Analects
- Euripides, Dramas
- Homer, Iliad and Odyssey
- Lao-Tzu, The Way and Its Power
- Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
- Plato, Republic and Symposium
- Plutarch, Parallel Lives
- Sophocles, The Theban Plays
- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
- Vergil, Aeneid
Middle Ages and Renaissance
- The Arabian Nights
- Bacon, Essays
- Boccaccio, Decameron
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Dante, Divine Comedy
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur
- Montaigne, Essays
- More, Utopia
- Muhammad, Koran (1)
- Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat
- Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Shakespeare, Complete Tragedies, Comedies, and Histories
17th and 18th Centuries
- Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
- Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
- Burns, Poems
- Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Descartes, Discourse on Method
- Donne, Poems
- Fielding, Tom Jones
- Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Hamilton, et al., Federalist Papers
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
- Locke, Essay Concering Human Understanding
- Malthus, Principle of Population
- Milton, Paradise Lost
- Molière, Comedies
- Paine, The Rights of Man
- Rousseau, The Social Contract
- Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- Spinoza, Ethics
- Sterne, Tristram Shandy
- Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Voltaire, Candide
19th Century
- Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Balzac, Eugènie Grande
- Browning (Robert), Poems
- Byron, Poems
- Chekhov, Plays
- Darwin, The Origin of Species
- Dickens, David Copperfield
- Dickinson, Poems
- Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov
- Eliot, Middlemarch
- Emerson, Essays
- Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Goethe, Faust
- Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- Hugo, Les Misèrables
- Ibsen, Dramas
- Keats, Poems
- Marx, Capital
- Melville, Moby Dick
- Nietzsche, The Will to Power
- Poe, Stories
- Shelley, Poems
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
- Thackeray, Vanity Fair
- Thoreau, Walden
- Tolstoi, War and Peace
- Twain, Huckleberry Finn
- Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- Wordsworth, Poems
- Zola, Germinal
20th Century
- Beauvoir, The Second Sex
- Borges, Labyrinths
- Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity
- Eliot, Poems and Plays
- Ellison, Invisible Man
- Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
- Frazer, The New Golden Bough
- Freud, Introduction to Psychoanalysis
- Frost, Poems
- García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
- James, The Ambassadors
- Joyce, Ulysses
- Lawrence, Women in Love
- Mann, The Magic Mountain
- O'Neill, Plays
- Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
- Shaw, Plays
- Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Yeats, Poems
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