Great Books of the Western World
Considered part of the collection, though not printed:
- Holy Bible (it was assumed that nearly all households already have one)
Volumes in the collection (1st edition):
- Vol. 1 - The Great Conversation
- Vol. 2 - Syntopicon I
- Vol. 3 - Syntopicon II
- Vol. 4 - Homer
- Vol. 5 - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- Vol. 6 - Herodotus, Thucydides
- Vol. 7 - Plato
- Vols. 8-9 - Aristotle
- Vol. 10 - Hippocrates, Galen
- Vol. 11 - Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Vol. 12 - Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
- Vol. 13 - Virgil
- Vol. 14 - Plutarch
- Vol. 15 - P. Cornelius Tacitus
- Vol. 16 - Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler
- Vol. 17 - Plotinus
- Vol. 18 - Augustine of Hippo
- Vols. 19-20 - Thomas Aquinas
- Vol. 21 - Dante Alighieri
- Vol. 22 - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Vol. 23 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes
- Vol. 24 - François Rabelais
- Vol. 25 - Michel de Montaigne
- Vols. 26-27 - William Shakespeare
- Vol. 28 - William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey
- Vol. 29 - Miguel de Cervantes
- Vol. 30 - Sir Francis Bacon
- Vol. 31 - René Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza
- Vol. 32 - John Milton
- Vol. 33 - Blaise Pascal
- Vol. 34 - Sir Isaac Newton, Christian Huygens
- Vol. 35 - John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume
- Vol. 36 - Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne
- Vol. 37 - Henry Fielding
- Vol. 38 - Baron de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Vol. 39 - Adam Smith
Volumes in the collection (1st edition, cont.):
Added in the second edition:
- Vol. 20 - John Calvin
- Vol. 23 - Desiderius Erasmus
- Vol. 31 - Molière, Jean-Baptiste Racine
- Vol. 34 - Voltaire, Denis Diderot
- Vol. 43 - Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Vol. 44 - Alexis de Tocqueville
- Vol. 45 - Honoré de Balzac
- Vol. 46 - Jane Austen, George Eliot
- Vol. 47 - Charles Dickens
- Vol. 48 - Mark Twain
- Vol. 52 - Henrik Ibsen
- Vol. 55 - William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth
- Vol. 56 - Henri Poincaré, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G. H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C. H. Waddington
- Vol. 57 - Thorstein Veblen, R. H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes
- Vol. 58 - Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Vol. 59 - Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce
- Vol. 60 - Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett
- Wahrheit, Dichtung und
- Waiting for Godot
- Wake, Finnegans
- Walden
- Walking
- War, The African
- War, The Alexandrian
- War, The Art of
- War, The Gallic
- War, History of the Peloponnesian
- War, History of the Persian
- War, The Jewish
- War, On
- War, Principles of
- War, The Spanish
- War?; Why
- War and Death, Thoughts for the Times on
- War and Peace
- War of the Worlds, The
- Ward, Cancer
- Wars, The Civil
- Washington Square
- Wasps, The
- Waste Land, The
- Waters, and Places; On Airs,
- Way, Stages on Life's
- Way of Perfection, The
- Way of the World, The
- Way to Write History, The
- Ways and Means
- Wealth (Aristophanes)
- Wealth of Nations, The
- Weight of the Mass of the Air, Treatises on the Equilibrium of Liquids and on the
- Werther, Sorrows of the Young
- What is Art?
- What Men Live By
- What You Will (or, Twelfth Night)
- Where is Science Going?
- White Fang
- Why War?
- Wild, Call of the
- Wild Duck, The
- "Wild" Psychoanalysis, Observations on
- Wildfell Hall, The Tenant of
- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
- Will, Concerning the Bondage of the
- Will, Habits and
- Will to Power, The
- William Shakespeare, The Plays of (Johnson)
- Windsor, The Merry Wives of
- Wings of the Dove, The
- Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
- Winter of our Discontent
- Winter's Tale, The
- Wishes, The Vanity of Human
- Wives, The School for
- Wives of Windsor, The Merry
- Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful
- Woman of No Importance, A
- Women, The Education of
- Women, Little
- Women, The Phoenician
- Women, The Subjection of
- Women, The Suppliant
- Women, The Trojan
- Women of Trachis, The
- Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The
- Wonderland, Alice's Adventures in
- Works and Days, The
- World, Brave New
- World, Concerning the Harmonies of the
- World, Our Knowledge of the External
- World, The Way of the
- World Systems, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief
- Worlds, The War of the
- Would-Be Noble, The
- Write History, The Way to
- Writings (Irenaeus)
- Writings (Justin Martyr)
- Writings (Tertullian)
- Wuthering Heights
- Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A Connecticut
- Years of Solitude, One Hundred
- Yoga Sutras, The
- Young Ladies, The Pretentious
- Young Man, A Portrait of the Artist as a
- Young Poet, A Letter of Advice to a
- Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing; On
- Zadig
- Zarathustra, Thus Spake