8th century BC | Iliad | Homer | Done |
8th - 7th century BC | Odyssey | Homer | Done |
4th century BC | Meno | Plato | Done |
4th century BC | Apology | Plato | Done |
4th century BC | Crito | Plato | Done |
4th century BC | Phaedo | Plato | Done |
4th century BC | Symposium | Plato | Done |
4th century BC | Republic | Plato | Done |
4th century BC | Laws | Plato | Reading |
4th century BC | Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle | |
4th century BC | Politics | Aristotle | |
4th century BC | Poetics | Aristotle | |
4th century BC | Rhetoric | Aristotle | |
4th century BC | Metaphysics | Aristotle | |
1st century BC | On the Laws | Cicero | |
19 BC | Aeneid | Virgil | |
8 | Metamorphoses | Ovid | |
1st century | The Bible | God | |
180 | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | |
400 | Confessions | Augustine | |
426 | On Christian Doctrine | Augustine | |
426 | The City of God | Augustine | |
524 | The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | |
700-1000 | Beowulf | Unknown | |
1115 | The Song of Roland | Unknown | |
1274 | Summa Theologica | Thomas Aquinas | |
14th century | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Unknown | |
1321 | Divine Comedy | Dante | |
1400 | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
1525 | Bondage of the Will | Martin Luther | |
1532 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
1560 | Institutes of the Christian Religion | John Calvin | |
1579 | Vindicae Contra Tyrannos | Stephen Junius Brutus | |
1597 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | |
1609 | The Freedom of the Seas | Hugo Grotius | |
1625 | On the Law of War and Peace | Hugo Grotius | |
1644 | Lex, Rex | Samuel Rutherford | |
1644 | Areopagitica | John Milton | |
1668 | Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes | |
1670 | Pensées | Blaise Pascal | |
1674 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | |
1689 | Two Treatises on Government | John Locke | |
1726 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | |
1748 | The Spirit of Law | Montesquieu | |
1788 | The Federalist Papers | Various | |
1790 | Reflections on the Revolution in France | Edmund Burke | |
1840 | Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville | |
1843 | Fear and Trembling | Søren Kierkegaard | |
1843 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | |
1851 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | |
1859 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | |
1865 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
1867 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne | |
1870 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas | Jules Verne | |
1873 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | |
1886 | Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
1955 | The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | |