| Titles | Order |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous | 1 |
| The Iliad by Homer | 2 |
| The Odyssey by Homer | 3 |
| The Analects of Confucius by Confucius | 4 |
| The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter | 5 |
| The Oresteia by Aeschylus | 6 |
| Oedipus Rex by Sophocles | 7 |
| Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles | 8 |
| Antigone by Sophocles | 9 |
| Alcestis by Euripides | 10 |
| Medea [in Translation] by Euripides | 11 |
| Hippolytus by Euripides | 12 |
| The Trojan Women by Euripides | 13 |
| Electra by Euripides | 14 |
| Bacchae [Greek text] by Euripides | 15 |
| The Histories by Herodotus | 16 |
| The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides | 17 |
| The Art of War by Sun Tzu | 18 |
| Lysistrata [in translation] by Aristophanes | 19 |
| The Clouds [in translation] by Aristophanes | 20 |
| The Birds by Aristophanes | 21 |
| Selected Dialogues of Plato by Plato | 22 |
| Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle | 23 |
| Politics by Aristotle | 24 |
| Poetics by Aristotle | 25 |
| Mencius by Mencius | 26 |
| The Ramayana: As Told by Aubrey Menen by Valmiki | 27-33 |
| The battle of Kurukshetva (A Writers Workshop greenbird book) by Maggi Lidchi-Grassi | 34 |
| The Legs of the Tortoise by Maggi Lidchi-Grassi | 35 |
| The Great Golden Sacrifice Of The Mahabharata by Maggi Lidchi-Grassi | 36 |
| The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous | 37 |
| Shih Chi by Sima Qian | 38 |
| The Nature of Things by Lucretius | 39 |
| The Aeneid by Virgil | 40 |
| Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | 41 |
| The New Testament by Bible | 42 |
| Confessions by Augustine | 43 |
| Messenger Poems (Clay Sanskrit Library) by Kalidasa | 44 |
| The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts by Kalidasa | 45 |
| The Koran by al-Qur'an | 46 |
| The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng by Huineng | 47 |
| Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi | 48 |
| The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon | 49 |
| The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu | 50 |
| The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám | 51 |
| The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | 52 |
| Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong | 53 |
| The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | 54 |
| The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous | 55 |
| The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli | 56 |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais | 57 |
| Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en | 58 |
| The Essays: A Selection by Michel de Montaigne | 59 |
| Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | 60 |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare | 61 |
| The Penguin Poets: John Donne by John Donne | 62 |
| The Plum in the Golden Vase by Hsiao-hsiao-sheng | 63 |
| Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised edition by Galileo Galilei | 64 |
| Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes | 65 |
| Discourse on Method by René Descartes | 66 |
| Paradise Lost by John Milton | 67 |
| Areopagitica by John Milton | 71 |
| Five Plays: The Miser and other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere | 72 |
| Pensées by Blaise Pascal | 73 |
| The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan | 74 |
| Second Treatise of Government by John Locke | 75 |
| The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho | 76 |
| Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | 77 |
| Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | 78 |
| The Portable Voltaire by Voltaire | 79 |
| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume | 80 |
| Tom Jones by Henry Fielding | 81 |
| Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin | 82 |
| The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 83 |
| The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne | 84 |
| The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell | 85 |
| The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton | 87 |
| Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 88 |
| The Portable Blake by William Blake | 89 |
| The Prelude by William Wordsworth | 90 |
| Preface to the Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth | 92 |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 93 |
| Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 94 |
| Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 95 |
| Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 96 |
| Writings on Shakespeare; a selection of the essays, notes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 97 |
| Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | 98 |
| Emma by Jane Austen | 99 |
| The Red and the Black by Stendhal | 100 |
| Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac | 101 |
| Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac | 102 |
| Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac | 103 |
| The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 104 |
| The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 105 |
| Selected Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 106 |
| Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville | 107 |
| On Liberty by John Stuart Mill | 108 |
| The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill | 109 |
| The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin | 110 |
| On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | 111 |
| Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol | 112 |
| The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe | 113 |
| Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | 114 |
| The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | 115 |
| David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | 116 |
| Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | 117 |
| Hard Times by Charles Dickens | 118 |
| Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens | 119 |
| The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens | 120 |
| Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens | 121 |
| The Warden by Anthony Trollope | 122 |
| The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope | 123 |
| The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope | 124 |
| The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope | 125 |
| An Autobiography by Anthony Trollope | 126 |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | 127 |
| Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | 128 |
| Walden by Henry David Thoreau | 129 |
| Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau | 130 |
| Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev | 131 |
| The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx | 132 |
| Moby Dick by Herman Melville | 132 |
| Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville | 134 |
| The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot | 135 |
| Middlemarch by George Eliot | 136 |
| Selected Poems [ed. Appelbaum] by Walt Whitman | 137 |
| Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman | 138 |
| A Backward Glance over Traveled Roads by Walt Whitman | 140 |
| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | 141 |
| Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky | 142 |
| The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky | 143 |
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | 144 |
| The Works of Henrik Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen | 145 |
| Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson | 146 |
| Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | 147 |
| Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll | 148 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | 149 |
| The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams | 150 |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy | 151 |
| The Principles of Psychology by William James | 152 |
| Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on Philosophy by William James | 153 |
| The Meaning of Truth by William James | 154 |
| The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James | 155 |
| The Ambassadors by Henry James | 156 |
| Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche | 157 |
| On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche | 158 |
| Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche | 159 |
| The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud | 160 |
| Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud | 161 |
| Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud | 162 |
| Selected plays, with prefaces by Bernard Shaw | 163 |
| Nostromo by Joseph Conrad | 164 |
| Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov | 165 |
| The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov | 166 |
| The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov | 167 |
| Stories by Anton Chekhov | 168 |
| The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton | 169 |
| The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | 170 |
| The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton | 171 |
| Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats | 172 |
| The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats | 173 |
| The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats | 174 |
| Kokoro by Natsume Soseki | 175 |
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | 176 |
| The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost | 177 |
| The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann | 178 |
| A Passage to India by E. M. Forster | 179 |
| Selected Stories by Lu Hsun | 180 |
| Ulysses by James Joyce | 181 |
| Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | 182 |
| To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 183 |
| Orlando by Virginia Woolf | 184 |
| The Waves by Virginia Woolf | 185 |
| The Trial by Franz Kafka | 186 |
| The Castle by Franz Kafka | 187 |
| The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka | 188 |
| Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence | 189 |
| Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence | 190 |
| The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 191 |
| Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill | 192 |
| The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill | 193 |
| Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill | 194 |
| Collected Poems, 1909—1962 by T. S. Eliot | 195 |
| Collected Plays by T. S. Eliot | 196 |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | 197 |
| The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner | 198 |
| As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner | 199 |
| The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway | 200 |
| Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata | 201 |
| Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges | 202 |
| Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges | 203 |
| Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 204 |
| Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov | 205 |
| Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov | 206 |
| Animal Farm by George Orwell | 207 |
| 1984 by George Orwell | 208 |
| Burmese Days by George Orwell | 209 |
| The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan | 210 |
| The Vendor of Sweets by R. K. Narayan | 211 |
| Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett | 212 |
| Endgame a play by Samuel Beckett 2lp Set by Samuel Beckett | 213 |
| The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Volume III: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett | 214 |
| Collected Poems by W. H. Auden | 215 |
| The Plague by Albert Camus | 216 |
| The Stranger by Albert Camus | 217 |
| The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow | 218 |
| Herzog by Saul Bellow | 219 |
| Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow | 220 |
| The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 221 |
| Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 222 |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn | 223 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 226 |
| Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | 227 |
| Watership Down by Richard Adams | 228 |
| Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis | 229 |
| Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson | 230 |
| The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | 231 |
| The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss | 232 |
| The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss by Louis Auchincloss | 233 |
| Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin | 234 |
| The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin | 235 |
| The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth | 236 |
| The Tidewater Tales by John Barth | 237 |
| The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir | 238 |
| The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | 239 |
| The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel | 240 |
| Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht | 241 |
| The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht | 242 |
| The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht | 243 |
| The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht | 244 |
| Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny [libretto] by Bertolt Brecht | 245 |
| So Forth: Poems by Joseph Brodsky | 246 |
| The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck | 247 |
| The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov | 248 |
| A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess | 249 |
| If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino | 250 |
| Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote | 251 |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote | 252 |
| In Cold Blood by Truman Capote | 253 |
| The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson | 254 |
| Silent Spring by Rachel Carson | 255 |
| My Ántonia by Willa Cather | 256 |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather | 257 |
| Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather | 258 |
| The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever | 259 |
| The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies | 260 |
| What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies | 261 |
| The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies | 262 |
| Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow | 263 |
| Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser | 264 |
| An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser | 265 |
| The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein | 266 |
| Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | 267 |
| This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 268 |
| The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 269 |
| Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 270 |
| The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford | 271 |
| The Recognitions by William Gaddis | 272 |
| J R by William Gaddis | 273 |
| The Collected Poems by Federico García Lorca | 274 |
| Lord of the Flies by William Golding | 275 |
| The Spire by William Golding | 276 |
| I, Claudius by Robert Graves | 277 |
| Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves | 278 |
| The Quiet American by Graham Greene | 279 |
| The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene | 280 |
| The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek | 281 |
| Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | 282 |
| The Call by John Hersey | 283 |
| A Bell for Adano by John Hersey | 284 |
| Hiroshima by John Hersey | 285 |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes | 286 |
| The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes | 287 |
| The World According to Garp by John Irving | 288 |
| The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood | 289 |
| Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood | 290 |
| From Here to Eternity by James Jones | 291 |
| Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis | 292 |
| On the Road by Jack Kerouac | 293 |
| Rickshaw Boy by She Lao | 294 |
| The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré | 296 |
| Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss | 297 |
| Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss | 298 |
| The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology: I by Claude Lévi-Strauss | 299 |
| Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis | 300 |
| Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis | 301 |
| Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis | 302 |
| Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis | 303 |
| Changing Places by David Lodge | 304 |
| Small World by David Lodge | 305 |
| The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer | 306 |
| The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer | 307 |
| The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer | 308 |
| Man's Fate by André Malraux | 309 |
| The Group by Mary McCarthy | 310 |
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers | 311 |
| Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead | 312 |
| Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller | 313 |
| The Crucible by Arthur Miller | 314 |
| Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison | 315 |
| Jazz by Toni Morrison | 316 |
| A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch | 317 |
| The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch | 318 |
| The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil | 319 |
| The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor | 320 |
| Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara | 321 |
| The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset | 322 |
| Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak | 323 |
| Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec | 324 |
| The Caretaker by Harold Pinter | 325 |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig | 326 |
| Personæ by Ezra Pound | 327 |
| A Dance to the Music of Time (complete) by Anthony Powell | 328 |
| This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer | 329 |
| Complete Collected Stories by V. S. Pritchett | 330 |
| Excellent Women by Barbara Pym | 331 |
| An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym | 332 |
| Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon | 333 |
| Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke | 335 |
| Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke | 336 |
| Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rølvaag | 337 |
| Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth | 338 |
| Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth | 339 |
| Children of the Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov | 340 |
| The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | 341 |
| Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger | 342 |
| Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger | 343 |
| Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre | 344 |
| No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre | 345 |
| Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama | 346 |
| Selected Poems by Léopold Sédar Senghor | 348 |
| The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | 349 |
| Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer | 350 |
| The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer | 351 |
| Interpreters by Wole Soyinka | 352 |
| Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka | 353 |
| The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner | 354 |
| Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner | 355 |
| Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | 356 |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | 357 |
| Harmonium by Wallace Stevens | 358 |
| Collected poems by Wallace Stevens | 359 |
| Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey | 360 |
| Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey | 361 |
| Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do by James Thurber | 362 |
| My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber | 363 |
| Beowulf by J. R. R. Tolkien | 364 |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet | 365 |
| The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien | 366 |
| The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | 367 |
| Collected Stories by William Trevor | 368 |
| Rabbit, Run by John Updike | 369 |
| Rabbit Redux by John Updike | 370 |
| Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike | 371 |
| Rabbit at Rest by John Updike | 372 |
| Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal | 373 |
| Burr by Gore Vidal | 374 |
| Omeros by Derek Walcott | 375 |
| Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott | 376 |
| Ti Jean and His Brothers (A Play) by Derek Walcott | 377 |
| The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson | 378 |
| Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | 379 |
| The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh | 380 |
| The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty | 381 |
| Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West | 382 |
| Voss by Patrick White | 383 |
| Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White | 384 |
| Our Town by Thornton Wilder | 385 |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder | 386 |
| The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams | 387 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams | 388 |
| The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams | 389 |
| The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 2: 1939-1962 by William Carlos Williams | 390 |
| Native Son by Richard Wright | 391 |
| Black Boy by Richard Wright | 392 |
