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
- Dá Derga's Hostel, The Destruction of
- Daisy Miller
- Dance, After the
- Daniel Deronda
- Dao De Jing
- Dark Night of the Soul, The
- Darkness, Heart of
- d'Arthur, Le Morte
- Daughter, A Prayer For My
- Daughter, Rappaccini's
- David Copperfield
- Days, The Works and
- Dead Souls
- Death, On Breathing; On Youth and Old Age, On Life and
- Death, The Masque of the Red
- Death, Sickness Unto
- Death, Thoughts for the Times on War and
- Death of Dr. Robert Levet, On the
- Death of Esther Johnson (Stella), On the
- Death of Ivan Ilych, The
- Death in Venice
- Decameron, The
- Declaration of Independence
- Declaration of Sentiments, The
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, A
- Defence of Poetry, A
- Degrees of Knowledge, The
- Democracy in America
- Democracy and Education
- Demons
- Demonstration, On Geometrical
- Denisovich, One Day in the Life of Ivan
- Deronda, Daniel
- Descent of Man, The
- Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel, The
- Development of Psychoanalysis, The Origin and
- Development of the Quantum Theory, Origin and
- On Diagnosis in Dreams
- Dialogue, The Spiritual (St. Catherine of Genoa)
- Dialogue, The Spiritual (St. Catherine of Siena)
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Dialogue on Oratory
- Dialogues, Three
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
- Dichtung und Wahrheit
- Dictionary, Philosophical
- Dictionary of the English Language, A
- Didache, The)
- Dignity of Man, The
- Direction of the Mind, Rules for the
- Discontent, Winter of our
- Discontents, Civilization and its
- Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades
- Discourse on Metaphysics
- Discourse on Method
- Discourses (Epictetus)
- Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
- Disease, On the Sacred
- Diseases, On Regimen in Acute
- Disobedience, Civil
- Dissenters, The Shortest-Way with the
- Divine Comedy, The
- Doctor Faustus
- Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Strange Case of
- Doctor Moreau, The Island of
- Doctor Robert Levet, On the Death of
- Doctor in Spite of Himself, The
- Doctrine, Christian
- Doll's House, A
- Don Juan (Byron)
- Don Juan (Molière)
- Donne, The Life of Dr. John
- Doone, Lorna
- Dorian Gray, The Picture of
- Dorrit, Little
- Dove, The Wings of the
- Down Below, Fire
- Dream", "I Have a
- Dream, A Midsummer Night's
- Dreams, On (Aristotle)
- Dreams, On (Freud)
- Dreams, On Diagnosis in (Galen)
- Dreams, The Interpretation of (Freud)
- Dreams, On Prophesying by (Aristotle)
- Dreary Story, A
- Drood, The Mystery of Edwin
- Dubliners
- Duck, The Wild
- Dull Story, A
- Dunciad, The
- D'Urbervilles, Tess of the
- Venice, Death in