Year 1
*Lewis Carroll(1832-1898)Complete
Works
*Plato(c. 429-347 BC) Apology/Crito/Phaedo
*The Old Testament
*Vaclav Havel(b. 1936)
The Garden
Party
The Memorandum
*The Epic of Gilgamesh
*Tacitus(c. 55-c. 120 AD) Annals /Histories
*Ondra Lysohorsky(b. 1905)Selected Poems
*Ernst Hans Gombrich(b. 1909)The
Story of Art
*Poem
Into Poem: World Poetry in Modern Verse Translation
*Pierre Abelard(1079-1143) and Heloise(1101-1164)
Letters
/ Historia Calamitatum of Abelard
Year 4
*The Penguin Book of French Verse
*Talmud
*Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Sentimental
Education
*Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Poems / The Bell Jar
*Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
Barber of Seville / Marriage of Figaro
*Ovid (43 BC-17 AD) Metamorphoses
*Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
Selected Fables Set in Verse
*Plutarch (c. 46-c. 127)
Parallel Lives
*Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra Primitive Song
*Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Pickwick Papers
Year 7
The Penguin Book of Latin Verse
Nagai Kafu (1879-1959)
Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings
Plautus (c. 254-184 BC)
Comedies
Juan Ruiz (c. 1283-c.
1350)
The Book of Good Love
Cicero (106-43 BC)
Selected
Works
Charles Singer
A Short History of Scientific Ideas
to 1900
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
Wuthering Heights
Virgil (70-19 BC)
Aeneid
Five German Tragedies
Edward
Gibbon (1737-1794)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire
Year 10
Medieval Literature in Translation
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
The Adventures of Don
Quixote
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Historical Plays
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Canto General
Thomas Mann
(1875-1955)
The Buddenbrooks
Tirso de Molina (1583-1648)
The Rogue of Seville
Songs of the Provencal Troubadors
Camilo Jose Cela (b. 1916)
Journey to the Alcarria
P'u Sung-Ling (1640-1715)
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Antonio Machado (1875-1939)
Juan de Mairena: Epigrams,
Maxims, Memoranda, and Memoirs of an Apocryphal Professor, with
an Appendix of Poems from 'The Apocryphal Songbooks'
Year 13
The Penguin Book of German Verse
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Faust
Harold Pinter
(b. 1930)
The Caretaker
The Room
The Dumb Waiter
Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (c. 1625-1676)
Simplicius Simplicissimus
Wang Wei (c. 699-c. 761)
Poems
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Caucasian Chalk Circle
Lucretius (c. 99-c. 55 BC)
On the Nature of Things
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Hunchback
of Notre Dame
Hernani
East German Poetry: An Anthology
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Out of My Life and Thought
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest
More From the Primeval
Forest
Year 16
The Penguin Book of Greek Verse
Great Sanskrit Plays in New English Transcreations
Pausanias
(c. 120-180)
Description of Greece
Homer
Odyssey
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Sons and Lovers
Aristotle
(384-322 BC)
Politics
Plato (c. 429-347 BC)
The Republic
Shih Ching (The Book of Songs)
Osip Emilievich Mandelstam
(1891-1938)
Selected Poems
Year 19
Anthology
of Islamic Literature, From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Nausea
Al-Qur'an
Terence
(c. 195-159 BC)
Comedies
The Seven Odes
Sir Richard
Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage
to El-Medinah and Meccah
Procopius (c. 498-c.560)
Works
'Ali Ahmad Ibn Hazm (994-1064)
The Ring of the Dove: A
Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love
Giuseppe Gioachino
Belli (1791-1863)
The Roman Sonnets
Muhammad bin 'Abdullah
Ibn Battuta (1304-1369)
Travels in Asia and Africa
Year 22
The Penguin Book of Russian Verse
The Aztecs
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
War
and Peace
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Complete Writings
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)
Plays
Patanjali
(c. 300 AD)
Yogasutra
Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324)
Travels
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891)
Oblomov
Kamo no Chomei (1153-1216)
An Account of My Hut
Year 25
Mencius (372-289 BC)
Works
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
Selected Poems and the essay
"Teoria y juego del duende"
The Texts of Taoism
John Keats (1795-1821)
Poetical Works
Chin P'ing Mei
Moliere (1622-1673)
Selected Plays
Tu Fu (712-770)
Poems
Wu Ch'ing-tzu (1701-1754)
The Scholars
Arthur
Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Essays and Aphorisms
Lu Hsun
(1881-1936)
Selected Works
Year 28
Valmiki (c. 3rd C BC)
Ramayana
Upanishads (1,000-500 BC)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Contemporary Indonesian Poetry
Pio Baroja (1872-1956)
The Restlessness of Shanti Andia and Other Writings
Chairil
Anwar (1922-1949)
Complete Poetry and Prose
Mediaeval
Latin Lyrics
Kautilya (c. late 4th C)
Artha Shastra
Lady Sarashina (1008-c. 1065)
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)
The Book of the Courtier
Year 31
Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)
Colloquies
In Praise of Folly
Friedrich Holderlin
(1770-1843)
Poems and Fragments
Jakob Rosenberg
Rembrandt:
Life and Work
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
The Provincial
Letters
Les Pensees
A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry
Baruch Spinoza (1634-1677)
Ethics
Emil M. Cioran
(b. 1911)
A Short History of Decay
The Temptation to Exist
The Fall Into Time
The New Gods
Francisco Gomez de
Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645)
Suenos (Dreams)
Historia
de la Vida del Buscon (Life and Adventures of Don Pablos the Sharper)
Poetry of the Netherlands in its European Context, 1170-1930
Kenko (1283-1350)
Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)
Year 34
*Henrik
Ibsen (1828-1906)
The Pillars of Society
/ A Doll's House
*Jean Cocteau(1889-1963)
Les Enfants Terribles
*Eino Leino(1878-1926) Helkavirsia
(Whitsongs)
*Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Tom Jones: The History of a Foundling
*August Strindberg(1849-1912) Plays
*Han-Fei Tzu(c. 280-233 BC) Complete
Works
*Tarjei Vesaas(1897-1970)
The Ice Palace / The Boat in the Evening
*Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Either, Or / Stages on Life's Way
*Chinua Achebe(b.1930) Things Fall Apart
*Snorri Sturluson(1178-1241) Heimskringla
Year 37
The New Oxford Book of American Verse
Antoine-Francois, l'Abbe Prevost (1697-1763)
Histoire
du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Praeterita
Horace (65-8 BC)
Odes
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
Works
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Ulysses
Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831-1895)
Selected Tales
Abolqasim Mansur bin Hasan Firdausi (c. 940-1020)
Shahnameh
(Epic of Kings)
Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920)
Nazarin
Halma
Misericordia
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Collected Poems
Year 40
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Travels
Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver
Polish Post-War Poetry
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916)
Kokoro
Poems of Black Africa
James Cook (1728-1779)
Journals
of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery
Adam Bernard
Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
Pan Tadeusz
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(1751-1816)
Plays
Sasuntsi Davith (Saga of Sassoun)
Slawomir Mrozek (b. 1930)
Tango
The Ugupu Bird
Romanian
Poems: A Bilingual Anthology
Year 43
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Jane Eyre
Pindar (c. 518-438 BC)
The Odes, Including Principle
Fragments
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Discourse on Method
Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873)
I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed:
A Tale of XVII Century Milan)
Bhartrhari (7th C AD)
Poems
Sean O'Casey (1884-1964)
Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock,
The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars
Vladimir Nabokov
(1899-1977)
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
T'ao Ch'ien
(365-427)
The Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien
Ivy Compton-Burnett
(1892-1969)
A God and His Gifts
Gottfried von Strassburg
(fl. 1210)
Tristan
Year 46
*Alexander
Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
The
Captain's Daughter and Other Stories
*Torquato Tasso(1544-1595)
Gerusalemme
Liberata
*Herbert Read (1893-1968)
The Contrary Experience: Autobiographies
The Green Child
*Vidyapati Thakur(1352-1448?) Love Songs
*Pierre
Carlet de Chamblin de Marivaux (1688-1763) Up
From the Country
*Luis Velez de Guevara
(1579-1644)
El Diablo Cojuelo
*Maimonides (1135-1204) Guide
for the Perplexed
*Hermann Broch(1886-1951)
The Death of Virgil
*Milarepa (1052-1135)
The Hundred
Thousand Songs of Milarepa
*Apollonius
Rhodius(fl. 220 BC) Argonautica
Year 49
*St.
Thomas Aquinas(1225-1274) Selected Writings
*George Borrow (1803-1881)
Lavengro / Romany
Rye
*Kuruntokai (The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a
Classical Tamil Anthology)
*William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Vanity Fair
Sirat 'Antar (Adventures of Antar)
*Benjamin
Jonson (1572-1637)
Plays
*Salvador Dali (b. 1904)
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali
*Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past)
*Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Selections
*Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
Sea of Fertility tetralogy
(Spring Snow, The Runaway Horses, The Temple of the Dawn, Decay
of the Angel) |
Year 2
*The
New Testament
*Suetonius (c. 69-after
121 AD)
The Twelve Caesars
*Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978-1030)
Tale of Genji
*William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Tragedies
*Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Complete
Letters
*Maxim Gorki (1868-1936)
The Lower Depths and Other Plays
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Portable Coleridge
*Lin Yutang (b. 1895) The Importance of
Living
*Aeschylus(525-456 BC) Oresteia
Year 5
*Gustave
Flaubert(1821-1880) Madame Bovary
*Aristophanes(c.448-c.388 BC) Plays
*Albert Camus(1913-1960)
The
Stranger / The Plague / The Fall
*Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)
The Secret
Agent / Under Western Eyes
*Villon
(1431-after 1462) Poems
*Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-c. 86 BC)
Records
of the Grand Historian of China
*Reiner
Kunze (b. 1933)
Poems / Stories /
The Lovely Years
*Moliere (1622-1673)
Selected Plays
*Boris Pasternak(1890-1960) Doctor Zhivago
*Voltaire (1694-1778)
Candide / Zadig / L'Ingenu
*Pliny the Younger(c.62-c.113 AD) Letters
Year 8
Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)
Philosophy,
Poetry, History: An Anthology
Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793)
Three Comedies: Mine Hostess, The Boors, and The Fan
Modern
Arab Poets, 1950-1975
Dino Buzzati (1906-1972)
The Tartar
Steppe
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
Lives of the Most Eminent
Painters and Sculptors
Catullus (c. 84-c. 54 BC)
Poems
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
The Late Mattia Pascal
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
The New Life
Stendhal (1783-1842)
The Red and the Black
Year 11
Lope Felix de Vega Carpio
Five
Plays
Wang Ch'ung (27-c. 97 AD)
Philosophical and Miscellaneous
Essays (Lun-Heng)
Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross) (1542-1591)
Complete Poetry
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Comedies
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928)
One Hundred Years of
Solitude
Herodotus (c. 484-c. 424 BC)
Histories
The
Penguin Book of Spanish Verse
Panchatantra
Jorge Luis
Borges (1899-1986)
Fictions
Labyrinths
The Aleph
and Other Stories
Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD)
Letters from
a Stoic
Year 14
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Anna Karenina
Paul Celan (1920-1970)
Poems
The
Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of
Texts
Friedrich von Schilleer (1759-1805)
Don Carlos
Shih Nai-an (1296-1370)
The Water Margin
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
(1874-1929)
Selected Works
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Capital
Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian
North Americas
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Autobiography: Poetry and Truth From My Own Life
Paul Klee
(1879-1940)
The Thinking Eye
The Nature of Nature
Year 17
Xenophon (c. 429-c. 354 BC)
Cyropaedia
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Poems and Songs
Euripides
(c. 480-406 BC)
Tragedies
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Notebooks
Epicurus (341-270 BC)
Writings
Heinrich
von Kleist (1777-1811)
Writings
Homer
Iliad
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)
Major Plays
Sophocles
(c. 496-406 BC)
Tragedies
Year 20
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
Poems
A Thousand and One Nights
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)
Life is a Dream
Hadith (Traditions of Islam)
Daniel
Defoe (c. 1660-1731)
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures
of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
'Abd Ar-Rahman bin Muhammad
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)
Prolegomena (Muqaddimah)
Friedrich
Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Abu
Muhammad al-Qasim Al-Hariri (1054-1122)
The Assemblies
Takeda Izumo (c. 1690-c. 1749) Chushingara
Lucan (39-65 AD)
Pharsalia
Year 23
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Nichomachean
Ethics
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Crime
and Punishment
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Essays of Elia
Last Essays of Elia
Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel (1894-c.
1940)
Collected Stories
Norbert Lynton
The Story
of Modern Art
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)
Fathers
and Children
Ghalib (1797/8-1869)
Ghazals
Alexander
Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
Kukai (774-835)
Kukai and His Major Works
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
Eugene Onegin
Year 26
Sources of Indian Tradition
Cantar
de Mio Cid
Bhagavad Gita
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Confessions
Poems from the Sanskrit
Premchand (1880-1936)
The Gift of a Cow
World of Premchand: A Selection of Short
Stories
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
Poems
Triumphs
Latin Poetry
Prose
Letters from Petrarch
Saddharma-Pundarika
Sutra (Sutra of the Lotus of the True Law)
William Faulkner
(1897-1962)
The Sound and the Fury
Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi (1869-1948)
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments
with Truth
Year 29
Sacred Writings of the Sikhs
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
Complete Short Stories
A
Celtic Miscellany
James Boswell (1740-1795)
The Life of
Samuel Johnson
Hung Sheng (1646-1704)
The Palace of Eternal
Youth
Franc:ois, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
The
Maxims
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
Complete Works
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)
The Golovlyov
Family
Kabir (c. 1430-c. 1518)
Kabir
Seneca (c. 4
BC-65 AD)
Moral Essays
Year 32
Robert, Edler von Musil (1880-1942)
The Man Without Qualities
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
Complete Poems, 1909-1962
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Memoirs of a Nun
Dialogues
Rameau's Nephew
Jacques
the Fatalist and his Master
David Farrant Bland
A History
of Book Illustration: The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed
Book
Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
The Zend-Avesta
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
Complete Poems
Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956)
European
Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
Juvenal (c. 60-c. 140
AD)
Satires
Mo Tzu (c. 470-c. 391 BC)
Basic Writings
Year 35
Anthology of Japanese Literature to
the Nineteenth Century
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Man and Superman
Saint Joan
Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693)
The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
Ch'an
and Zen Teaching
St.-John Perse (1887-1975)
Poems
Basho (1644-1694)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other
Travel Sketches
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
The Canterbury
Tales
Ueda Akinari (1734-1809)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales
of Moonlight and Rain)
Manyoshu
Epictetus (c. 55-135)
Discourses
Year 38
Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920)
Fortunata y Jacinta
Jayadeva (12th C)
Gitagovinda
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
Diary
Petronius (d. c. 65 or
66 AD)
Satyricon
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
Long
Day's Journey Into Night
Pre-Columbian Peru
Josef Skvorecky
(b. 1924)
The Cowards
The Bass Saxophone
Demosthenes
(384?-322 BC)
Philippics, Olynthiacs, and Minor Public Orations
Marina Ivanova Tsvetayeva (1894-1941)
Selected Poems
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial
Life
Year 41
Anna Comnena (1083-c. 1153)
Alexiad
Moses ben Jacob ben Ezra (c. 1055-c.1138)
Selected Poems
Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1744)
The New Science of
Giambattista Vico
Samuel Beckett (b. 1906)
Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Waiting for Godot
Nikolai
Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) (1870-1917 [sic])
Selected
Works
What is to be Done?
Shota Rustaveli (fl. 1200)
The Man in the Panther's Skin
Miguel de Unamuno (1846-1936)
The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
Robert Graves
(b. 1895)
Collected Poems
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)
Effi Briest
Modern Hungarian Poetry
Year 44
The Maya
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
The Cantos
Mariano Azuela (1873-1952)
The Underdogs
Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Configurations
Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
Reflections on Things at Hand: The
Neo-Confucian Anthology
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
The
Chief Plays
Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
The Lost Steps
Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938)
Poetry
Hasan ibn Ali Tusi,
Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092)
The Book of Government, or Rules
for Kings
Juan Jose Arreola (b. 1918)
Confabulario and
Other Inventions
Year 47
*Anthology of Korean Poetry, From
the Earliest Era to the Present
*Italo Svevo (1861-1928)
Confessions of Zeno
*Ch'uang Tz'u: The Songs of the South
*St. Thomas More(1477-1535)
Libellus ... de Optimo Reipublicae
Statu, deque Nova Insula Utopia
*Farid ad-Din Attar (c. 1136-c.
1230)
Ilahinama (Book of Divine Wisdom)
The Conference
of the Birds
*Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Complete
Plays
*Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
Memoires
d'Outre-Tombe
*Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)
Terra Nostra
*Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Portable Emerson
*David
Jones (1895-1974)
In Parenthesis
The Anathemata
Year 50
*Ludwig
Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus
*Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1374)
Decameron
*Nur ad-Din 'Abd Ar-Rahman Jami (1414-1492) Baharistan
*Plotinus (c. 205-c. 262 AD) Enneads
*Abu Bakr Muhammad
bin 'Abdulmalik Ibn Tufail (c.1105-1185) Awakening
of the Soul (Hayy ibn Yaqzan)
*Jose
Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
Invertebrate
Spain / Revolt of the Masses
*Sir
Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941) Collected
Poems and Plays
*Yuan Mei (1716-1798)
Poems
*John
Milton (1608-1674)
Areopagitica: A
Speech for the Liberty of Unlicens'd Printing / Poetical
Works
*Immanuel Kant(1724-1804) Critique of Pure Reason |
Year 3
*Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
*Buddhist Scriptures
*Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyvesky (1821-1881)
The Brothers Karamazov
*Ramon Gomez de la Serna (1888-1963)
Greguerias: Seleccion
*William Trevor (1928- )
The
Love Department / The Children of Dynmouth
*Teresa de Jesus, St. (1515-1582)
The
Life of Saint Teresa
*Apuleius, ca.125-ca.180
AD Metamorphoses
*Emily Dickinson,1830-1886 Complete
Poems
*Arrian, ca. 100-180 AD Anabasis
*Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
Penguin Complete
Sherlock Holmes
Year 6
*The Poem Itself
*Max
Frisch (b. 1911) Andorra / I'm Not Stiller
*La Chanson
de Roland
*Friedrich Durrenmatt(b.1921)The Visit / The Physicists
*Emile Zola (1840-1902)
Therese Raquin
L'Assommoir
Germinal
*Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Complete Stories and Poems
*Honore Balzac(1799-1850) La Comedie Humaine
*Alexander
Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886) The
Thunderstorm
*Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936)
The Father Brown Stories
Year 9
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Divine
Comedy
Wu Ch'eng-en (c. 1510-1582)
Journey to the West
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
Autobiography of Benvenuto
Cellini
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Poems
Italo
Calvino (b. 1923)
The Non-Existent Knight and the Cloven Viscount
The Baron in the Trees
Stendhal (1783-1842)
The Charterhouse
of Parma
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Poems
Post-War
Russian Poetry
Year 12
Gil Vicente (c. 1465-c. 1536)
Four Plays
Tanizaki Junichiro (1886-1965)
The Makioka
Sisters
Luis Vaz de Camoes
Lusiads
Konstantin Paustovsky
(1892-1968)
The Story of a Life
Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz
(1843-1900)
The Sin of Father Amaro
Dragon's Teeth
The Maias
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1898-1961)
A Season
on the Earth: Selected Poems
Alves Redol (b. 1911)
The
Man with Seven Names
Classical Literary Criticism (Aristotle's
On the Art of Poetry,
Horace's On the Art of Poetry, Longinus'
On the Sublime)
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Selected Poems
Francois Rabelais (c. 1494-1553)
The Histories of Gargantua
and Pantagruel
Year 15
Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
Collected
Works
Su Tung-p'o (1036-1101)
Selections from a Sung Dynasty
Poet
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
The Glass Bead Game (Magister
Ludi)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
The Interpretation of
Dreams
Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465-1541)
La Celestina
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)
Poems
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
Moby Dick, or the White Whale
Gerhart Hauptmann
(1862-1946)
Five Plays
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Poems
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Confessions
Year 18
Somadeva Bhatta (11th C)
Kathasaritsagara
Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963)
Selected Poems
Musharrif
ad-Din bin Muslih Sa'di (c. 1208-c. 1292)
Gulistan
Mehmet
bin Suleyman Fuzuli (c. 1490-c. 1556)
Leyla and Mejnun
Evliya Celebi (c. 1611-c. 1684)
Narrative of Travels in Europe,
Asia and Africa
Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
Mathnawi
It Contains What It Contains
Oliver Goldsmith (1729-1774)
Vicar of Wakefield
She Stoops to Conquer
The Deserted
Village
Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951)
The Blind Owl
Yahya
Kemal Bayatli (1884-1958)
Selected Poems
Mohammed Shamsuddin
Hafiz (1327-1390)
Divan
Year 21
Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing
Al-Jahiz (c. 780-c. 868)
The Life and Works of Jahiz
Po Chu-i (772-846)
Poems
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali (1059-1111)
The Deliverer
from Error
Sinuhe (c. 2000 BC)
The Story of Sinuhe
Yevgeni Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937)
We
Henry Brooks
Adams (1838-1918)
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
The Education
of Henry Adams
Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934)
Selected
Poems
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Jude the Obscure
Al-Mutanabbi
(915-965)
Poems
Henry Elmer Barnes (b. 1889)
A History
of Historical Writing
Year 24
Sources of Chinese Tradition
Queste del Saint Graal
Anthology of Chinese Literature
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Li Po (701-762)
Poems
Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in (c. 1715-c. 1763)
The Dream
of the Red Chamber
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
Three
Tragedies
Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC)
Analects
Alexander
Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938)
The Garnet Bracelet
Mao Tse-tung
(1893-1976)
Selected Works
Year 27
Thucydides (c. 471-c. 400 BC)
History of the Peloponnesian War
Khushhal, Khan Khatak (1613-1689)
Divan
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970)
A Passage
to India
Dhammapada
Modern Spanish Theatre: An Anthology
of Plays
Abe Kobo (b. 1925)
The Woman in the Dunes
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (b. 1911)
Poems
Gunter Grass (b. 1927)
The Tin Drum
Mallanga Vatsyayana (c. 3rd Century AD)
Kama Sutra
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Poems
Year 30
An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature
up to 1815
Giusseppe Tomasi, prince of Lampedusa
The Leopard
Chandidas (15th C)
Love Songs of Chandidas
Lucian
(c. 115-c. 180)
Works
Milindapanha
Sandor Petofi
(1823-1849)
Petofi
Bibhutibhusan Banerji (1894-1950)
Pather Panchali (Song of the Road)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The Advancement of Learning
New Atlantis
Essays
Bilhana (c. 1040-1095)
Caurapancasika (Phantasies of a Love-Thief)
Okagami
Year 33
Kalevala
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Utilitarianism
On Liberty
Representative Government
Autobiography
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Brand
Peer Gynt
Gunnar Ekelof (1907-1968)
Poetry
Michel
de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Essays
Hjalmar Soderberg (1869-1941)
Doctor Glas
Selected Short Stories
Propertius (c.
50-c. 16 BC)
Works
Knut Hamsun (1859-1952)
Hunger
Mysteries
John Donne (1572-1631)
Poems
Njal's
Saga
Year 36
*The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
*Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
Confessions of an English
Opium-Eater
Twenty Plays of the No Theatre
*Isaac Bashevis
Singer (1904-1980)
The Family Moskat
Hekigan Roku
*Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974)
Evening Land
*Kawabata Yasunari
(1899-1972)
The Snow Country
The Thousand Cranes
Mabinogion
*Sei Shonagon (c. 966-after 1008)
The Pillow
Book
*Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Meditations
Year 39
The Penguin Book of Latin American
Verse
Li Yu (1125-1210)
Poems
Modern Czech Poetry
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walden, or Life in the
Woods
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Collected Poems
Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923)
The Good Soldier Schweik
Portuguese Voyages (1498-1663)
Like Water, Like Fire: An Anthology
of Byelorussian Poetry from 1828 to the Present
Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
The Idiot
New Writing in Yugoslavia
Year 42
Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
The
House by the Medlar Tree
Little Novels of Sicily
Mastro
Don Gesualdo
Jacobus de Varagine (c. 1227-1298)
The Golden
Legend
Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1212-c. 1237) and Jean de Meun
(c. 1237-c. 1305)
Le Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose)
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram
Shandy, Gent.
Hungarian Short Stories and Folktales of Hungary
Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)
Instructions for Practical
Living, and Other Neo-Confucian Writings
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
(1892-1927)
Rasomon and Other Stories
Judah Ha-Levi (c.
1075-after 1140)
Selected Poems
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Finnegans Wake
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Orlando
Furioso
Year 45
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892)
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
Joao Guimaraes Rosa (1908-1967)
Sagarana
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Thomas
Paine (1737-1809)
The Rights of Man
Orlando and Claudio
Villas Boas (b. 1914 and 1916)
Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Leaves of Grass
Gilberto
Freyre (b. 1900)
The Masters and the Slaves
The Mansions
and the Shanties
Order and Progress
Tokutomi Kenjiro (1868-1927)
Footsteps in the Snow
Theophrastus (c. 372-c. 287 BC)
Characters
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
(1689-1755)
The Spirit of the Laws
Ovid (14 BC-17 AD)
Ars Amatoria
Year 48
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
Francesco Guicciardini
(1483-1540)
The History of Italy
Gerald Manley Hopkins
(1844-1889)
Poems
Henry James (1843-1916)
The American
Novels and Stories
The Portrait of a Lady
Li Ho (791-817)
The Poems of Li Ho
Amos Tutuola (b. 1920)
The Palm-Wine
Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930)
Poems
Ilango
Adigal (2nd C AD)
Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet)
Bertrand, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970)
History of Western Philosophy
Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943)
The Broken Commandment |
