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
- Table-Talk
- Taboo, Totem and
- Tale of a Tub, A
- Tale of Genji, The
- Tale of Two Cities, A
- Tales, Canterbury
- Tales, Children's and Household
- Tales, Three (Flaubert)
- Tales, Twenty-Three (Tolstoy)
- Tamburlaine the Great
- Taming of the Shrew, The
- Tao Te Ching
- Tartuffe
- Taste, On (Burke)
- Taste, Of the Standard of (Hume)
- Taurians, Iphigenia Among the
- Teacher, On the
- Tell-Tale Heart, The
- Temperance
- Tempest, The
- Ten Philosophical Mistakes
- Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Tetrabiblos
- Theaetetus
- Thebes, Seven Against
- Theogony
- Theoretical Physics, On the Method of
- Theory of Fictions
- Theory of Inquiry; Logic, the
- Theory of the Moral Sentiments, The
- Theory of Probabilities, Correspondence with Fermat on the
- Therapy, The Future Prospects of Psychoanalytic
- Theses, Ninety-Five
- Thesmophoriazusae, The
- Things, On the Nature of
- Things Past, Remembrance of
- Think, How We
- Thirukkural
- Thoughts Concerning Education
- Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
- Thousand and One Arabian Nights, One
- Three Dialogues
- Three Musketeers, The
- Three Sisters, The
- Three Stories (Flaubert)
- Three Treatises (Luther)
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Thus Spake Zarathustra
- Timaeus
- Time, In Search of Lost
- Time and Free Will
- Time Machine, The
- Times, Hard
- Timon of Athens
- Tirukkural
- Titus Andronicus
- To Have and Have Not
- Toleration, Letter Concerning
- Tolls, For Whom the Bell
- Tom Jones
- Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of
- Topics
- Tortilla Flat
- Totem and Taboo
- Tour to the Hebrides, Journal of a