The Well-Educated Mind
Year Title Author
800 The Odyssey Homer
600 Greek Lyrics Various
458 Agamemnon Aeschylus
450 Oedipus the King Sophocles
441 The Histories Herodotus
400 The Peloponnesian War Thucydides
400 The Birds Aristophanes
400 The Birds Aristophanes
375 The Republic Plato
330 Poetics Aristotle
65 Odes Horace
100AD Lives Plutarch
400 The Confessions Augustine
426 The City of God Augustine
731 The Ecclesiastical History Bede
of the English People
1300 Everyman Unknown
1343 The Canterbury Tales Chaucer
1430 The Book of Margery Kempe Kempe
1513 The Prince Machiavelli
1516 Utopia More
1572 The Complete English Donne
Poems
1580 Essays Montaigne
1588 Doctor Faustus Marlowe
1588 The Life of Saint Teresa of Saint Teresa
Avila By Herself
1592 Richard the III Shakespeare
1605 Don Quixote Cervantes
1641 Meditations Descartes
1666 Grace Abounding to the Bunyan
Chief of Sinners
Chief of Sinners
1669 Tartuffe Moliere
1682 The Narrative of the Captivity Rowlandson
and Restoration
1690 The True End Of Civil Locke
Goverment
1700 The Way of the World Congreve
1726 Gulliver's Travels Swift
1754 The History of England Hume
Vol. 5
1762 The Social Contract Rousseau
1773 She Stoops To Conquer Goldsmith
1776 The Sorrows Of Young Goethe
Werther
1776 Common Sense Paine
1776 The Rise and Fall of the Gibbons
Roman Empire
1777 The School For Scandal Sheridan
1781 Confessions Rousseau
1791 The Autobiography of Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
1792 A Vindication of the Rights Wollstencraft
of Women
1807 Selected Poems Longfellow
1830 Poems and Prose Rossetti
1835 Democracy in America De Tocqueville
1838 Oliver Twist Dickens
1848 The Communist Manifesto Marks and Engels
1851 Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe
1857 Madame Bovary Flaubert
1860 The Civilization of the Burkhardt
Renaissance in Italy
1861 Incidents in the Life of a Jacobs
Slave Girl, Written by Herself
1866 Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
1874 The Collected Poetry of... Dunbar
1874 The Poetry of... Frost
1877 Anna Karenina Tolstoy
1878 Selected Poems Sandburg
1881 Life and Times Of Frederick Douglas
Douglas
1881 The Portrait of a Lady James
1901 Up From Slavery Washington
1903 The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois
1904 The Protestant Ethic and the Weber
Spirit of Capitalism
1907 Selected Poems Auden
1908 Ecce Homo Nietzche
1921 Queen Victoria Strachey
1922 Collected Poems Larkin
1924 Saint Joan Shaw
1925 Mein Kampf Hitler
1926 Howl and Other Poems Ginsberg
1929 Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose Rich
1929 An Autobiography: The Story of Ghandi
1929 An Autobiography: The Story of Ghandi
My Experiments With Truth
1933 The Autobiography of Mrs Stein
Alice B. Toklas
1933 Mark Strand: Collected Poems Strand
1937 The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell
1939 Open Ground: Selected Poems Heaney
1939 The New England Mind Miller
1940 The Figured Wheel: New and Pinsky
Collected Poems
1940 Native Son Wright
1944 No Exit Sartre
1947 Otherwise Kenyon
1948 The Seven Story Mountain Merton
1952 Selected Poems Dove
1952 Invisible Man Ellison
1955 The Great Crash of 1929 Galbraith
1955 Surprised By Joy: The Shape Lewis
Of My Early Life
1956 Seize The Day Bellow
1959 The Longest Day Ryan
1960 A Man For All Seasons Bolt
1963 The Feminine Mystique Friedan
1965 The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X
1967 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Stoppard
Are Dead
1967 One Hundred Years Of Marquez
Solitude
1972 If On a Winter's Night a Traveler Calvino
1973 The Gulag Archipeligo Soltzhenitzyn
1974 Equus Schaffer
1974 Roll, Jordan, Roll Genovese
1977 Born Again Colson
1978 A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Tuchman
Fourteenth Century
1982 The Hunger of Memory Rodriguez
1985 White Noise Delillo
1987 All the President's Men Woodward and
Bernstein
1988 Battle Cry of Freedom McPherson
1989 The Road from Coorain Conway
1990 A Midwife's Tale Ulrich
1992 The End of History and the Fukuyama
Last Man
1995 All Rivers Run to the Sea Wiesel