| 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 | |