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
- Men, Of Mice and
- Mice and Men, Of
- Middlemarch
- Midsummer Night's Dream, A
- Mill on the Floss, The
- Miller, Daisy
- Mind, The Analysis of
- Mind, Phenomenology of
- Mind, Rules for the Direction of the
- Mind Over Matter; Intellect:
- Misanthrope, The
- Miser, The
- Misérables, Les
- Missing (or, Amerika)
- Mistakes; Ten Philosophical
- Mister Hyde, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
- Moby Dick
- Mochlicon
- Modern World, Science and the
- Modest Proposal, A
- Mohicans, The Last of the
- Moll Flanders
- Monadology
- Monarchy, On
- Money, Philosophy of
- Monk, The Black
- Monologium
- Monte Cristo, The Count of
- Moon is Down, The
- Moral and Political, Essays
- Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals, The
- Moral Sentiments, The Theory of the
- Moralia
- Morality and Religion, The Two Sources of
- Morals, First Principles of
- Morals, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of
- Morals, The Genealogy of
- Morals, An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of
- Morals, Introduction to the Metaphysics of
- Morals and Legislation, Introduction to the Principles of
- Moreau, The Island of Doctor
- Morgue, The Murders in the Rue
- Morte d'Arthur, Le
- Mother Courage and her Children
- Motion of Animals, On the
- Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, On the
- Mount Carmel, The Ascent of
- Mount Ventoux, Ascent of
- Mountian, The Magic
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Murders in the Rue Morgue, The
- Music, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of
- Musketeers, The Three
- My Confession
- Mysterious Stranger, The
- Mystery of Edwin Drood, The
- Myth of Sisyphus, The
- Narcissism, On
- Narnia, The Chronicles of (1950-56)
- Nations, The Wealth of
- Native, The Return of the
- Natural Faculties, On the
- Natural Law, The Rights of Man and
- Natural Philosophy, Mathematical Principles of
- Natural Religion, Dialogues Concerning
- Nature, Experience and
- Nature, The Indestructibility of Our Inner
- Nature, On the Principles of
- Nature, A Treatise of Human
- Nature of Things, On the
- Nausea
- Nemean Odes
- Nephew, Rameau's
- New Atlantis
- New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
- New Experiments Concerning the Vacuum
- New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
- New Life, The
- Nibelungenlied, The
- Niblungs, The Story of the Volsungs and
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Nickleby, Nicholas
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Night of January 16th
- Night of the Soul, The Dark
- Nights, 1001 Arabian
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
- Ninety-Five Theses
- Njal, The Saga of Burnt
- No Exit
- No Importance, A Woman of
- Nobility, To the Christian
- Noble, The Would-Be
- Noble Grecians and Romans, Lives of the
- Noble Lord, A Letter to a
- Nose, The
- Notebooks (da Vinci)
- Notes from Underground
- Notes of Music, Sonnets to Sundry
- Notes on Summer Impressions, Winter
- Nothing, Much Ado About
- Nothingness, Being and
- Notre Dame, The Hunchback of
- Notre-Dame de Paris
- Novum Organum
- Nuncius, Siderius