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
- Arabian Nights, 1001
- Archipelago, The Gulag
- Areopagitica
- Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, An
- Aristotle for Everybody
- Arithmetic, Introduction to
- Arithmetical Triangle, Treatise on the
- Arms, A Farewell to
- Arms and the Man
- Arnauld, Correspondence with
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Ars Amatoria
- Ars Poetica
- Art, On Poesy or
- Art?; What is
- Art of Beauty, The
- Art as Experience
- Art of Horsemanship, On the
- Art of Love, The
- Art of Poetry, The
- Art and Scholasticism
- Art of War, The
- Arthur, Le Morte d'
- Articles of Confederation
- Articulations, On the
- Artist, A Hunger
- Artist as a Young Man, A Portrait of the
- Arts, Especially Medicine; Exhortation to the Study of the
- As You Like It
- Ascent of Mt. Carmel, The
- Ascent of Mt. Ventoux
- Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of
- Astronomy, Epitome of Copernican
- Athenians, On the Constitution of the (Xenophon))
- Athenian Constitution, The (Aristotle)
- Athens, Timon of
- Atlantis, New
- Atlas Shrugged
- Attack Upon Christendom, The
- Aulis, Iphigenia at
- Autobiography (Darwin)
- Autobiography (Franklin)
- Autobiography (Gibbon)
- Autobiography (Josephus)
- Autobiography (Mill)
- Autobiography, Scientific (Planck)
- Babylonian Captivity of the Church, The
- Bacchae, The
- Badge of Courage, The Red
- Ball, After the
- Ballad of Reading Gaol, The
- Ballads (Stevenson)
- Ballads (Thackeray)
- Ballads, Lyrical
- Barbara, Major
- Barn Burning
- Battle of the Books
- Bead Game, The Glass
- Beagle, The Voyage of the
- Beast in the Jungle, The
- Beautiful, On the Sublime and
- Beauty, The Art of
- Beauty, Black
- Bede, Adam
- Being Earnest, The Importance of
- Being and Nothingness
- Bell Tolls, For Whom the
- Beloved
- Benedict, The Rule of St.
- Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of
- Beowulf
- Bérénice
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle
- Bhagavad-Gita
- Bible, The Holy
- Billy Budd
- Biographia Literaria
- Birds, The
- Birmingham Jail, Letter from
- Birth of Tragedy, The
- Black, The Red and the
- Black Beauty
- Black Monk, The
- Black Sea, Letters from the
- Bleak House
- Blood, On the Circulation of the
- Blood in Animals, On the Motion of the Heart and
- Bodies, On Floating
- Bodies, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly
- Bondage of the Will, Concerning the
- Book; How to Read a
- Book of Common Prayer, The
- Book of Five Rings, The
- Book of Prognostics, The
- Books, Battle of the
- Bourgeois Gentleman, The
- Bostonians, The
- Bovary, Madame
- Brave New World
- Breathing; On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On
- Breeding, Treatise on Good Manners and Good
- Brigade, The Charge of the Light
- Brinker or the Silver Skates, Hans
- Britannicus
- Brothers, Joseph and his
- Brothers Karamazov, The
- Budd, Billy
- Builder, The Master
- Build a Fire, To
- Burnt Njal, The Saga of
- Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin
- Emily, A Rose for
- Rose for Emily, A
- Shrugged, Atlas