1 |
Gilgamesh and Enkidu |
Anonymous |
2 |
Krishna’s Dialogue on the Soul |
Anonymous |
3 |
Two Viking Romances |
Anonymous |
4 |
Jason and the Argonauts |
Apollonius of Rhodes |
5 |
Lysistraia |
Aristophanes |
6 |
The Atheist’s Mass |
Balzac |
7 |
The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue |
Ben Franklin |
8 |
Anonymous |
Beowulf and Grendel |
9 |
The Betrayal of Montezuma |
Bernal Díaz del Castillo |
10 |
Ten Tales from the Decameron |
Boccaccio |
11 |
Anonymous |
Buddha’s Teachings |
12 |
Dream of the Red Chamber |
Cao Xueqin |
13 |
Etiquette for Renaissance Gentleman |
Castiglione |
14 |
The Jealous Extremaduran |
Cervantes |
15 |
The Galapagos Islands |
Charles Darwin |
16 |
Mina Laury |
Charlotte Bronte |
17 |
The Yellow Wallpaper |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
18 |
Tales of Cú Chulainn |
Cú Chulainn |
19 |
A Visitation of the Plague |
Daniel Defoe |
20 |
The First Three Circles of Hell |
Dante |
21 |
The Pleasures and Pains of Opium |
De Quincey |
22 |
The Gentle Spirit |
Dostoyevsky |
23 |
The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
Edgar Allan Poe |
24 |
Souls Belated |
Edith Wharton |
25 |
A Simple Heart |
Flaubert |
26 |
The Judgement and In the Penal Colony |
Franz Kafka |
27 |
The Education of Frederick Douglass |
Frederick Douglass |
28 |
The Lifted Veil |
George Eliot |
29 |
Reflections of the Fall of Rome |
Gibbon |
30 |
Letters from Italy |
Goethe |
31 |
The Marquise of O |
Heinrich von Kleist |
32 |
Civil Disobedience |
Henry David Thoreau |
33 |
The Lessons of the Master |
Henry James |
34 |
The Rage of Achilles |
Homer |
35 |
The Voyages of Odysseus |
Homer |
36 |
Meeting Dr. Johnson |
James Boswell |
37 |
The History of England |
Jane Austen |
38 |
Meditations of a Solitary Walker |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
39 |
The Secret Sharer |
Joseph Conrad |
40 |
The Kiss |
Kate Chopin |
41 |
Hannibal’s Crossing of the Alps |
Livy |
42 |
The Art of War |
Machiavelli |
43 |
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg |
Mark Twain |
44 |
Haiku |
Matsuo Bashō |
45 |
Boule de Suif |
Maupassant |
46 |
Zarathustra’s Discourses |
Nietzsche |
47 |
The Portrait of Mr. W |
Oscar Wilde |
48 |
Orpheus in the Underworld |
Ovid |
49 |
Phaedrus |
Plato |
50 |
A Season in Hell |
Rimbaud |
51 |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
52 |
Confessions of a Sinner |
Saint Augustine |
53 |
Nero and the Burning of Rome |
Tacitus |
54 |
Counsels on the Spiritual Life |
Thomas à Kempis |
55 |
On Great Men |
Thomas Carlyle |
56 |
The death of King Arthur |
Thomas Malory |
57 |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
Tolstoy |
58 |
Three Sketches from a Hunter’s Diary |
Turgenev |
59 |
Lives of Three Renaissance Artists |
Vasari |
60 |
Song of Myself |
Walt Whitman |