Top Great Books
6 min readMar 17
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- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Candide by Voltaire
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Republic by Plato
- The Symposium by Plato
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Politics by Aristotle
- The Confessions by Saint Augustine
- The City of God by Saint Augustine
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
- The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- The Divine Office by Saint Benedict of Nursia
- The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- The Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca
- Candide by Voltaire
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Oresteia by Aeschylus
- The Misanthrope by Moliere
- The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Book of Common Prayer by Thomas Cranmer
- Confessions by Saint Augustine
- The I Ching
- The Analects of Confucius
- The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- The Bhagavad Gita
- The Upanishads
- The Mahabharata
- The Ramayana
- The Rigveda
- The Quran
- The Book of Job from the Bible
- The Gospel of John from the Bible
- The Gospel of Matthew from the Bible
- The Gospel of Luke from the Bible
- The Gospel of Mark from the Bible
- The Psalms from the Bible
- The Acts of the Apostles from the Bible
- The Epistles of Paul from the Bible
- The Revelation to John from the Bible
- The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
- The Histories by Herodotus
- The Republic by Plato
- The Symposium by Plato
- The Phaedo by Plato
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- The Politics by Aristotle
- The Metaphysics by Aristotle
- The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
- The Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
- The Social Contract by John Rawls
- The Republic of Plato translated by Allan Bloom
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- Candide by Voltaire
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Republic by Plato
- The Symposium by Plato
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- The Politics by Aristotle
- The Confessions by Saint Augustine
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
- The Divine Institutes by Lactantius
- The City of God by Saint Augustine
- The Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Don Juan by Lord Byron
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato
- The Golden Ass by Apuleius
- The Satyricon by Petronius
- The Analects of Confucius
- “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka
- “The Red and the Black” by Stendhal
- “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
- “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift
- “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame
- “The House of Mirth” by Edith Wharton
- “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
- “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “Beloved” by Toni Morrison
- “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”
- “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde
- “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells
- “The Stranger” by Albert Camus
- “The Iliad” by Homer
- “The Odyssey” by Homer
- “The Aeneid” by Virgil
- “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri
- “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer
- “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes
- “Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo
- “Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert
- “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy
- “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
- “The Brothers K” by David James Duncan
- “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
- “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien
- “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien
- “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
- “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
- “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
- “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens
- “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
- “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen
- “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen
- “Emma” by Jane Austen
- “Northanger Abbey” by Jane Austen
- “Persuasion” by Jane Austen
- “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman” by Laurence Sterne
- “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
- “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer
- “The Faerie Queene” by Edmund Spenser
- “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan
- “The Golden Ass” by Apuleius
- “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu
