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
- Gabler, Hedda
- Gables, The House of the Seven
- Gait of Animals, On the
- Galatians, Commentary on
- Gallic War, The
- Gambler, The
- Game, The Glass Bead
- Garden, The Secret
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Gatsby, The Great
- Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir
- Genealogy of Morals, The
- General, On the Cavalry
- General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, A
- Generation of Animals, On the (Aristotle)
- Generation of Animals, On the (Harvey)
- Generation and Corruption, On
- Genji, The Tale of
- Gentiles, Summa Contra
- Gentleman, The Bourgeois
- Gentlemen of Verona, The Two
- Geology, Principles of
- Geometrical Demonstration, On
- Geometry (Descartes)
- Geometry, Elements of (Euclid)
- Georgics
- German Nation, To the Christian Nobility of the
- Germania
- Gettysburg Address
- Gilgamesh, The Epic of
- Glass Bead Game, The
- Go Rin No Sho
- God, The City of
- God, On Loving
- God, The Practice of the Presence of
- Godot, Waiting for
- Golden Sayings, The
- Good and Evil, Beyond
- Good Manners and Good Breeding, Treatise on
- Gorgias
- Goriot, Père
- Government, Concerning Civil
- Government, Principles of
- Government, Representative
- Government, Second Treatise on
- Government, Two Treatises on
- Grandet, Eugénie
- Grapes of Wrath, The
- Grass, Leaves of
- Gray, The Picture of Dorian
- Great, Tamburlaine the
- Great Expectations
- Great Gatsby, The
- Great Ideas; Six
- Grecians and Romans, Lives of the Noble
- Greeks Concerning Hades, Discourse to the
- Green Knight, Sir Gawain and the
- Grey, Agnes
- Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
- Guide of the Perplexed
- Guilt, and Power; On Evil,
- Gulag Archipelago, The
- Gulliver's Travels
- Guy Mannering
- Gynt, Peer
- Wrath, The Grapes of