| Titles | Order |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous | 1 |
| The Iliad by Homer | 2 |
| The Odyssey by Homer | 3 |
| The Analects by Confucius | 4 |
| The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides by Aeschylus | 5 |
| Antigone by Sophocles | 6.1 |
| Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles | 6.2 |
| Oedipus Rex by Sophocles | 6.3 |
| Alcestis by Euripides | 7.1 |
| Bacchae [Greek text] by Euripides | 7.2 |
| Electra by Euripides | 7.3 |
| Hippolytus by Euripides | 7.4 |
| Medea [in Translation] by Euripides | 7.5 |
| The Trojan Women by Euripides | 7.6 |
| The Histories by Herodotus | 8 |
| The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides | 9 |
| The Art of War by Sun Tzu | 10 |
| The Birds by Aristophanes | 11.1 |
| The Clouds by Aristophanes | 11.2 |
| Lysistrata by Aristophanes | 11.3 |
| Dialogues of Plato by JD Kaplan | 12 |
| Nicomachean Ethics by Aristoteles | 13.1 |
| Poetics by Aristoteles | 13.2 |
| Politics by Aristotle | 13.3 |
| Mencius by Mencius | 14 |
| The Ramayana: As Told by Aubrey Menen by Aubrey Menen | 15 |
| The battle of Kurukshetva (A Writers Workshop greenbird book) by Maggi Lidchi-Grassi | 16.1 |
| The Great Golden Sacrifice Of The Mahabharata by Maggi Lidchi-Grassi | 16.2 |
| The Legs of the Tortoise by Maggi Lidchi-Grassi | 16.3 |
| Mahābhārata (R. K. Narayan ed.) by Vyasa | 16.4 |
| The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous | 17 |
| Shih Chi by Sima Qian | 18 |
| On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics) by Titus Lucretius Carus | 19 |
| The Aeneid by Publius Virgilius Maro | 20 |
| Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | 21 |
| The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine | 22 |
| Messenger Poems (Clay Sanskrit Library) by Kalidasa | 23 |
| The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts by Kalidasa | 23 |
| The Koran by al-Qur'an | 24 |
| The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng by Huineng | 25 |
| Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Firdausi, | 26 |
| The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon | 27 |
| The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu | 28 |
| The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám | 29 |
| The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | 30 |
| Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo | 31 |
| The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | 32 |
| The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous | 33 |
| The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli | 34 |
| Gargantua And Pantagruel by François Rabelais | 35 |
| Journey to the West {complete} by Wu Cheng'en | 36 |
| The Essays: A Selection by Michel de Montaigne | 37 |
| Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 38 |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare | 39 |
| The Penguin Poets: John Donne by John Donne | 40 |
| The Plum in the Golden Vase by Hsiao-hsiao-sheng | 41 |
| Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican by Galileo Galilei | 42 |
| Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes | 43 |
| Discourse on Method by René Descartes | 44 |
| Areopagitica by John Milton | 45 |
| Paradise Lost by John Milton | 45 |
| Five Plays: The Miser and other Plays by Molière | 46 |
| Pensées by Blaise Pascal | 47 |
| The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan | 48 |
| The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke | 49 |
| The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō | 50 |
| Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | 51 |
| Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | 52 |
| The Portable Voltaire by Voltaire | 53 |
| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume | 54 |
| Tom Jones by Henry Fielding | 55 |
| Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin | 56 |
| The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 57 |
| The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne | 58 |
| The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell | 59 |
| Basic Documents in American History by Richard Brandon Morris | 60 |
| The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton | 61 |
| Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 62 |
| The Portable Blake by William Blake | 63 |
| Preface to The Lyrical Ballads. by: William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth | 64.1 |
| The Prelude by William Wordsworth | 64.2 |
| Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 65.1 |
| Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 65.2 |
| Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 65.3 |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 65.4 |
| Writings on Shakespeare; a selection of the essays, notes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 65.5 |
| Emma by Jane Austen | 66.1 |
| Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | 66.2 |
| The Red and the Black by Stendhal | 67 |
| Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac | 68.1 |
| Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac | 68.2 |
| Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac | 68.3 |
| The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 69 |
| The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 70.1 |
| Selected Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 70.2 |
| Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville | 71 |
| On Liberty by John Stuart Mill | 72.1 |
| The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill | 72.2 |
| On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | 73.1 |
| The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin | 73.2 |
| Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol | 74 |
| The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe | 75 |
| Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | 76 |
| David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | 77.1 |
| Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | 77.2 |
| Hard Times by Charles Dickens | 77.3 |
| Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens | 77.4 |
| The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens | 77.5 |
| Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens | 77.6 |
| The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | 77.7 |
| An Autobiography by Anthony Trollope | 78.1 |
| The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope | 78.2 |
| The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope | 78.3 |
| The Warden by Anthony Trollope | 78.4 |
| The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope | 78.5 |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | 79.1 |
| Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | 79.2 |
| Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau | 80.1 |
| Walden by Henry David Thoreau | 80.2 |
| Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev | 81 |
| The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx | 82 |
| Moby Dick by Herman Melville | 83.1 |
| Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville | 83.2 |
| Middlemarch by George Eliot | 84.1 |
| The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot | 84.2 |
| A Backward Glance over Traveled Roads by Walt Whitman | 85 |
| Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman | 85.1 |
| Selected Poems [ed. Appelbaum] by Walt Whitman | 85.2 |
| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | 86 |
| The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 87.1 |
| Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 87.2 |
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | 88 |
| The Works of Henrik Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen | 89 |
| Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson | 90 |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | 91.1 |
| Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll | 91.2 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | 92 |
| The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams | 93 |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy | 94 |
| The Principles of Psychology by William James | 95.1 |
| Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on Philosophy by William James | 95.2 |
| The Meaning of Truth by William James | 95.3 |
| The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James | 95.4 |
| The Ambassadors by Henry James | 96 |
| Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche | 97.1 |
| On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche | 97.2 |
| Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche | 97.3 |
| The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud | 98.1 |
| Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Basic Books Classics) by Sigmund Freud | 98.2 |
| Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud | 98.3 |
| Selected plays, with prefaces by Bernard Shaw | 99 |
| Nostromo by Joseph Conrad | 100 |
| Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov | 101.1 |
| The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov | 101.2 |
| The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov | 101.3 |
| Stories by Anton Chekhov | 101.4 |
| The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton | 102.1 |
| The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | 102.2 |
| The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton | 102.3 |
| Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats | 103.1 |
| The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats | 103.2 |
| Autobiography of William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats | 103.3 |
| Kokoro by Natsume Soseki | 104 |
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | 105 |
| The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost | 106 |
| The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann | 107 |
| A Passage to India by E. M. Forster | 108 |
| Selected Stories by Lu Hsun | 109 |
| Ulysses by James Joyce | 110 |
| Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | 111.1 |
| To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 111.2 |
| Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf | 111.3 |
| The Waves by Virginia Woolf | 111.4 |
| The Trial by Franz Kafka | 112.1 |
| The Castle by Franz Kafka | 112.2 |
| The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka | 112.3 |
| Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence | 113.1 |
| Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence | 113.2 |
| The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 114 |
| Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill | 115.1 |
| The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill | 115.2 |
| Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill | 115.3 |
| Collected Poems, 1909—1962 by T. S. Eliot | 116.1 |
| Collected Plays by T. S. Eliot | 116.2 |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | 117 |
| The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner | 118.1 |
| As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner | 118.2 |
| The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway | 119 |
| Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata | 120 |
| Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186) by Jorge Luis Borges | 121.1 |
| Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges | 121.2 |
| Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 122.1 |
| Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov | 122.2 |
| Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov | 122.3 |
| Animal Farm by George Orwell | 123.1 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell | 123.2 |
| Burmese Days by George Orwell | 123.3 |
| The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan | 124.1 |
| The Vendor of Sweets by R. K. Narayan | 124.2 |
| Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett | 125.1 |
| Endgame / Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett | 125.2 |
| The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett | 125.3 |
| Collected Poems by W. H. Auden | 126 |
| The Plague by Albert Camus | 127.1 |
| The Stranger by Albert Camus | 127.2 |
| The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow | 128.1 |
| Herzog by Saul Bellow | 128.2 |
| Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow | 128.3 |
| The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 129.1 |
| Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 129.2 |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn | 130 |
| Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima | 131.1 |
| The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima | 131.2 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 132 |
| Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | 133 |
| Watership Down by Richard Adams | 134 |
| Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis | 135 |
| Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson | 136 |
| The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | 137 |
| The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss | 138.1 |
| The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss by Louis Auchincloss | 138.2 |
| Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin | 139.1 |
| The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin | 139.2 |
| The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth | 140.1 |
| The Tidewater Tales by John Barth | 140.2 |
| The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir | 141 |
| The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | 142 |
| The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (Set 3 Vol) by Fernand Braudel | 143 |
| Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht | 144.1 |
| The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht | 144.2 |
| The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht | 144.3 |
| The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht | 144.4 |
| The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertolt Brecht | 144.5 |
| So Forth: Poems by Joseph Brodsky | 145 |
| The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck | 146 |
| The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | 147 |
| A Clockwork Orange [novel] by Anthony Burgess | 148 |
| If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino | 149 |
| Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote | 150.1 |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote | 150.2 |
| In Cold Blood by Truman Capote | 150.3 |
| The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson | 151.1 |
| Silent Spring by Rachel Carson | 151.2 |
| My Ántonia by Willa Cather | 152.1 |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather | 152.2 |
| Shadows On The Rock by Willa Cather | 152.3 |
| The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever | 153 |
| The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies | 154.1 |
| What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies | 154.2 |
| The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies | 154.3 |
| Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow | 155 |
| Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser | 156.1 |
| An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser | 156.2 |
| The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein | 157 |
| Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | 158 |
| This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 159.1 |
| The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 159.2 |
| Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 159.3 |
| The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford | 160 |
| The Recognitions by William Gaddis | 161.1 |
| J R by William Gaddis | 161.2 |
| The Collected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca | 162 |
| Lord of the Flies by William Golding | 163.1 |
| The Spire by William Golding | 163.2 |
| I, Claudius by Robert Graves | 164.1 |
| Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves | 164.2 |
| The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene | 165.1 |
| The Quiet American by Graham Greene | 165.2 |
| The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek | 166 |
| Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | 167 |
| The Call by John Hersey | 168.1 |
| A Bell for Adano by John Hersey | 168.2 |
| Hiroshima by John Hersey | 168.3 |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes | 169.1 |
| The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes | 169.2 |
| The World According to Garp by John Irving | 170 |
| The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood | 171.1 |
| Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood | 171.2 |
| From Here to Eternity by James Jones | 172 |
| Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis | 173 |
| On the Road by Jack Kerouac | 174 |
| Rickshaw Boy by She Lao | 175 |
| The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré | 176 |
| Collected Poems by Philip Larkin | 177 |
| Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss | 178.1 |
| Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss | 178.2 |
| The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I by Claude Lévi-Strauss | 178.3 |
| Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis | 179.1 |
| Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis | 179.2 |
| Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis | 179.3 |
| Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis | 179.4 |
| Changing Places by David Lodge | 180.1 |
| The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer | 180.1 |
| The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer | 180.2 |
| Small World by David Lodge | 180.2 |
| The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer | 180.3 |
| Man's Fate by André Malraux | 181 |
| The Group by Mary McCarthy | 182 |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers | 183 |
| Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead | 184 |
| Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller | 185.1 |
| The Crucible by Arthur Miller | 185.2 |
| Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison | 186.1 |
| Jazz by Toni Morrison | 186.2 |
| A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch | 187.1 |
| The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch | 187.2 |
| The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil | 188 |
| Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor | 189 |
| Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara | 190 |
| The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset | 191 |
| Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak | 192 |
| Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec | 193 |
| The Caretaker by Harold Pinter | 194 |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig | 195 |
| Personæ by Ezra Pound | 196 |
| A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell | 197 |
| This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer | 198 |
| Complete Collected Stories by V. S. Pritchett | 199 |
| Excellent Women by Barbara Pym | 200.1 |
| An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym | 200.2 |
| Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon | 201 |
| Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke | 202.1 |
| Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke | 202.2 |
| Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics) by O. E. Rølvaag | 205 |
| Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth | 206.1 |
| Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth | 206.2 |
| Children of the Arbat by Anatolij Rybakow | 207 |
| The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | 208.1 |
| Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger | 208.2 |
| Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger | 208.3 |
| Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre | 209.1 |
| No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre | 209.2 |
| Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama | 210 |
| Selected Poems by Léopold Sédar Senghor | 211 |
| The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | 212 |
| Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer | 213.1 |
| The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer | 213.2 |
| Interpreters by Wole Soyinka | 214.1 |
| Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka | 214.2 |
| The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner | 215.1 |
| Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner | 215.2 |
| Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | 216.1 |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | 216.2 |
| Harmonium by Wallace Stevens | 217.1 |
| The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens | 217.2 |
| Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey | 218.1 |
| Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey | 218.2 |
| Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do by James Thurber | 219.1 |
| My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber | 219.2 |
| Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien | 220.1 |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet | 220.2 |
| The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien | 220.3 |
| The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | 220.4 |
| Collected Stories by William Trevor | 221 |
| Rabbit, Run by John Updike | 222.1 |
| Rabbit Redux by John Updike | 222.2 |
| Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike | 222.3 |
| Rabbit at Rest by John Updike | 222.4 |
| Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal | 223.1 |
| Burr by Gore Vidal | 223.2 |
| Omeros by Derek Walcott | 224.1 |
| Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott | 224.2 |
| Ti Jean and His Brothers (A Play) by Derek Walcott | 224.3 |
| The Double Helix by James D. Watson | 225 |
| Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | 226.1 |
| The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh | 226.2 |
| The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty | 227 |
| Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West | 228 |
| Voss by Patrick White | 229.1 |
| Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White | 229.2 |
| Our Town by Thornton Wilder | 230.1 |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder | 230.2 |
| The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams | 231.1 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams | 231.2 |
| The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams | 232.1 |
| The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 2: 1939-1962 by William Carlos Williams | 232.2 |
| Native Son by Richard Wright | 233.1 |
| Black Boy by Richard Wright | 233.2 |
