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247 entries: 207 monographical, 40 otherwise

Unranked—arranged chronologically except for nos. 177-208, arranged chronologically in a separate section, The Great Books of Science

This list is one of four "born-digital" lists documented at Greater Books (alongside the Harvard Book Store's 'Top 100 Books', World Canonical Texts, and the Book Depository's 'Best Books Ever'). Unfortunately, it shows the perils of online, digital publishing in that a misguided re-design of the site has resulted in the Great Books of Science section, originally presented as a separate list and included here beginning at no. 177, disappearing, and the full list hidden amid a list of sub-sections of that list and blog posts about individual entries on that list. As of August 2020, the site appears to be gone entirely. Internet Archive captures are available.

  1. Sha Naqba Imuru

    2. The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
    Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B C—Sumerian; Akkadian

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  2. The Book of the Dead

    3. The Book of Coming Forth by Day
    varying versions; written ca. Sixteenth-First centuries B C—Egyptian

    Homer
  3. Iliad

    4. ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

  4. Odýsseia

    5. The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

  5. Hesiod
    Theogonía
    ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B C—Greek

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    • The Book of Genesis

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • The Book of Exodus

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • The Book of Isaiah

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • The Book of Job

    6. part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

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  6. Rigveda
    Sanskrit

    --
    • Upanishads

    7. Seventh-Fourth centuries B C—Sanskrit

  7. Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)

    8. Analects
    Lún Yǔ
    written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second Century—Chinese

  8. Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
    Dàodéjǐng
    Tao te Ching
    ca. Sixth Century B C—Chinese

    • Sappho

    9. 'Hymn to Aphrodite'
    lone complete poem among the fragments of the author's work; late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B C—Greek

  9. Aeschylus

    10. Oresteia
    The House of Atreus
    458 B C—Greek

    Sophocles
  10. Antigone

    11. ca. 441 B C—Greek

  11. Oidipous epi Kolōnō

    12. Oedipus at Colonus
    401 B C—Greek

  12. Oidipous Tyrannos

    13. Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
    ca. 429 B C—Greek

  13. Herodotus

    14. Historiē
    History
    Fifth Century B C—Greek

    Euripides
  14. Mēdeia

    15. Medea
    431 B C—Greek

  15. Ēlektra

    16. Electra
    written ca. 413 B C—Greek

  16. Thucydides

    17. History of the Peloponnesian War
    early Fifth Century B C—Greek

    Aristophanes
  17. Ornithes

    18. The Birds
    414 B C—Greek

  18. Lysistrate

    19. Lysistrata
    411 B C—Greek

    Plato
  19. Apologia Socratis

    20. The Apology
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  20. Politeia

    21. The Republic
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  21. Aristotle

    22. Ethika Nikomacheia
    Nicomachean Ethics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek

  22. Sūnzǐ (Sun-tzu)

    23. Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
    The Art of War
    written ca. Fifth-Third centuries B C—Chinese

  23. Mèng Zǐ (Mencius) (Meng Tzu)
    Mèng Zǐ
    Fourth Century B C—Chinese

    • Buddha

    24. "Teachings"
    ca. Sixth-Fifth centuries B C; Sanskrit translations—north Indian language

  24. Zhuāngzī (Zhuāng Zhōu) (Chuang-tzu)

    25. Zhuāngzī
    Nánhuá Zhēnjīng
    ca. Third Century B C—Chinese

  25. Valmiki

    26. Ramayana
    ca. Fifth-Second centuries B C—Sanskrit

  26. Vyasa
    Mahabharata
    includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth Century—Sanskrit

    • Bhagavad Gita

    27. part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth Century—Sanskrit

  27. Titus Lucretius Carus

    28. De Rerum Natura
    On the Nature of Things
    First Century B C—Latin

  28. Caius Julius Caesar

    29. Commentarii de Bello Gallico
    ca. 40 B C—Latin

  29. Marcus Tullius Cicero

    30. De Natura Decorum
    written 45 B C—Latin

  30. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

    31. Aeneid
    First Century B C—Latin

  31. Ovid

    32. Metamorphoseon
    Metamorphoses
    8—Latin

  32. Petronius

    33. Satyricon
    late First Century—Latin

  33. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    De Brevitate Vitae
    First Century—Latin

    --
    • The Gospel According to Luke

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • The Gospel According to John

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Acts of the Apostles

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Romans

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • First Epistle to the Corinthians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Second Epistle to the Corinthians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Galatians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Ephesians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Philippians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to the Colossians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • First Epistle to the Thessalonians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Second Epistle to the Thessalonians

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • First Epistle to Timothy

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Second Epistle to Timothy

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to Titus

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Epistle to Philemon

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • First Epistle of John

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Second Epistle of John

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    --
    • Third Epistle of John

    part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

    • Plutarch

    34. Bìoi Paràllēloi [excerpted]
    Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
    'Alexander' and 'Marcus Cato'; First Century—Greek

  34. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

    35. De Vita Caesarum
    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
    written 121—Latin

  35. Marcus Aurelius

    36. Ta Eis Heauton
    Meditations
    written 161-80—Greek

  36. Apuleius

    37. Metamorphoseon
    Asinus Aureus; The Golden Ass
    Second Century—Latin

  37. Augustine of Hippo

    38. De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos
    City of God
    426—Latin

  38. Kalidasa

    39. Meghaduta
    The Cloud Messenger
    ca. Fifth Century—Sanskrit

  39. O no Yasumaro

    40. Kojiki
    early Eighth Century—Japanese

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  40. Quran

    41. Koran
    Seventh Century—Arabic

  41. Huìnéng

    42. Liùzǔ Tánjīng
    The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
    ca. Eighth-Thirteenth centuries—Chinese

  42. Sei Shonagon

    43. Makura no Soshi
    The Pillow Book
    written 1002—Japanese

  43. Murasaki Shikibu

    44. Genji Monogatari
    The Tale of Genji
    ca. early Eleventh Century—Japanese

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  44. Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah

    45. The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
    Ninth-Fifteenth centuries—Arabic

  45. Ferdowsi

    46. Shahnameh
    The Book of Kings
    written ca. 977-1010—Persian

  46. Omar Khayyam

    47. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
    ca. Eleventh-Twelfth centuries; compiled by Edward FitzGerald in five editions, 1859, 1868, 1872, 1879, and 1889—Persian

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  47. Beowulf

    48. ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English

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  48. Mabinogion

    49. ca. Eleventh-Thirteenth centuries—Welsh

  49. Snorri Sturluson

    50. The Prose Edda
    written ca. 1220—Norse

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  50. Nibelungenlied

    51. ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries—German

  51. Thomas Aquinas

    52. Summa Theologiae
    Summa Theologica
    written 1265-74—Latin

  52. Dante

    53. La Divina Commedia
    The Divine Comedy
    originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian

  53. Giovanni Boccaccio

    54. Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto
    ca. 1351-53—Italian

  54. Ibn Khaldun

    55. Muqaddimah
    Fourteenth Century; originally written as the preface to Kitab al-Ibar—Arabic

  55. Luó Guànzhōng

    56. Sān Guó Yǎn Yì
    Romance of the Three Kingdoms
    1522; written Fourteenth Century—Chinese

  56. Shī Nài'ān

    57. Shuǐ Hŭ Zhuàn
    The Water Margin
    written Fourteenth Century—Chinese

  57. Geoffrey Chaucer

    58. Canterbury Tales
    1478—English

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  58. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    59. probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English


  59. Thomas Malory

    60. Le Morte d'Arthur
    1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English

  60. Thomas á Kempis

    61. De Imitatione Christi
    The Imitation of Christ
    written ca. 1418-27—Latin

  61. Niccolò Machiavelli

    62. Il Principe
    The Prince
    1532—Italian

  62. Thomas More

    63. Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
    Utopia
    1516—Latin

  63. François Rabelais

    64. La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
    originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564—French

  64. Michel de Montaigne

    65. Les Essais
    Essays
    originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French

  65. Christopher Marlowe

    66. Tamburlaine the Great
    1590—English

  66. Wú Chéng-ēn (Ruzhong)

    67. Xi Yóu Jì
    Journey to the West; Monkey
    late Sixteenth Century—Chinese

  67. Francis Bacon

    68. Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed
    1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625—English

  68. Miguel de Cervantes

    69. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish

    William Shakespeare
  69. Richard III

    70. ca. 1592-7—English

  70. Hamlet

    71. 1602—English

  71. The Tempest

    72. 1611—English

  72. John Donne

    73. Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death
    1633—English

  73. René Descartes

    74. Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
    Discourse on the Method
    1637—French

  74. Pedro Calderón de la Barca

    75. La Vida es Sueño
    Life Is a Dream
    1635—Spanish

  75. Thomas Hobbes

    76. Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
    1651—English

  76. John Milton

    77. Paradise Lost
    1667; revised 1674—English

    Molière
  77. Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur

    78. 1664—French

  78. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux

    79. The Misanthrope
    1666—French

  79. Jean Racine

    80. Andromaque
    1667—French

  80. John Bunyan

    81. The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
    1678—English

  81. Basho Matsuo

    82. Oku no Hosomichi
    The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    late Seventeenth Century—Japanese

  82. Blaise Pascal
    Pensées
    Thoughts
    1669—French

    • John Locke

    83. Second Treatise [second part of Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government]
    complete work originally anonymously published 1689—English

  83. Samuel Pepys

    84. Diary
    written 1660-69; published in part, 1825; expanded and revised 1875-79; further revised versions, 1893-99 and 1926; final work, in nine volumes, 1970-83

  84. Daniel Defoe

    85. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
    originally anonymously published 1719—English

  85. George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)

    86. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
    1710; revised 1734—English

  86. Alexander Pope

    87. The Rape of the Lock
    originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717—English

  87. Jonathan Swift

    88. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
    Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English

  88. Voltaire

    89. Candide, ou L'Optimisme
    1759—French

  89. David Hume

    90. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    1748—English

  90. Henry Fielding

    91. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    1749—English

  91. Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)

    92. Hóng Lóu Mèng
    The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
    1791—Chinese

  92. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    93. Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique
    The Social Contract
    1762—French

  93. Adam Smith

    94. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
    1776; revised through third edition, 1784—English

  94. Immanuel Kant
    Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
    Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
    1785; revised 1786—German

    • Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison

    95. The Federalist Papers
    originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily Advertiser—English

  95. Edmund Burke

    96. Reflections on the Revolution in France
    1790—English

  96. Thomas Paine

    97. The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
    originally published in two volumes, 1791 and 1792—English

  97. Mary Wollstonecraft

    98. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    1792—English

  98. James Boswell

    99. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
    1791—English

  99. William Blake

    100. Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
    published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794—English

  100. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    101. Faust
    originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832—German

  101. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    Die Phänomenologie des Geistes
    Phenomenology of Spirit
    1807—German

    • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Poems
    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • Lord Byron

    Poems
    early Nineteenth Century—English

    • William Wordsworth

    Poems
    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Poems
    late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuries—English

    • John Keats

    102. Poems
    early Nineteenth Century—English

  102. Mary Shelley

    103. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    originally anonymously published 1818—English

  103. Stendhal

    104. Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle
    The Red and the Black
    1830—French

  104. Alexis de Tocqueville

    105. De la Démocratie en Amérique
    Democracy in America
    originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840—French

  105. Alexander Pushkin

    106. Evgénij Onegin
    Eugene Onegin
    published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837—Russian

  106. Jane Austen
    Pride and Prejudice
    originally anonymously published 1813—English

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    107. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
    stories previously published; originally published in two volumes, 1850—English

  107. Nikolai Gogol

    108. Mërtvyâ Duši
    Dead Souls
    1842—Russian

  108. Sǿren Kierkegaard

    109. Frygt og Baeven
    Fear and Trembling
    originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843—Danish

  109. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    110. Poems
    1847—English

  110. Charlotte Brontë

    111. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
    originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English

  111. William Makepeace Thackeray

    112. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
    originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848—English

  112. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

    113. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
    The Communist Manifesto
    1848—German

  113. Herman Melville

    114. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
    1851—English

  114. Walt Whitman

    115. Leaves of Grass
    1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892—English

  115. Henry David Thoreau

    116. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    1854—English

  116. Charles Baudelaire

    117. Les Fleurs du Mal
    The Flowers of Evil
    1857—French

  117. Gustave Flaubert

    118. Madame Bovary
    originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French

  118. John Stuart Mill

    119. On Liberty
    1859—English

  119. Charles Dickens

    120. Great Expectations
    originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English

  120. Ivan Turgenev

    121. Otcy i Deti
    Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
    originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  121. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    122. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
    Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  122. George Eliot

    123. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
    originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English

  123. Arthur Rimbaud

    124. Une Saison en Enfer
    A Season in Hell
    1873—French

  124. Leo Tolstoy

    125. Anna Karenina
    published in part serially 1873-77 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877—Russian

  125. Friedrich Nietzsche

    126. Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
    Thus Spake Zarathustra
    originally published in four volumes, 1883-85—German

  126. Mark Twain

    127. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    1884—English

  127. Émile Zola

    128. Germinal
    originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil Blas—French

  128. Henrik Ibsen

    129. Hedda Gabler
    1890—Norwegian

  129. Emily Dickinson

    130. The Poems of Emily Dickinson
    1890—English

  130. Thomas Hardy

    131. Jude the Obscure
    originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English

  131. Anton Chekhov

    132. Dâdâ Vanâ
    Uncle Vanya
    1897—Russian

  132. Joseph Conrad

    133. Heart of Darkness
    originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English

  133. William James

    134. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902
    1902; edited lectures—English

  134. Max Weber
    Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
    1905—German

    • Marcel Proust

    135. Du Côté de Chez Swann
    Swann's Way
    1913; first of seven volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu; complete work originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27—French

  135. D H Lawrence

    136. Sons and Lovers
    1913—English

  136. Natsume Soseki

    137. Kokoro
    originally entitled Kokoro: Sensei no Isho, published serially Apr.-Aug. 1914 in Asahi Shinbun—Japanese

  137. William Butler Yeats

    138. The Wild Swans at Coole
    originally entitled The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, published 1917; includes the play, At the Hawk's Well; retitled and expanded 1919 to include Nine Poems [1918] and additional poems; At the Hawk's Well later included in Four Plays for Dancers, 1921—English

  138. Siegfried Sassoon
    War Poems
    English

    • T S Eliot

    139. 'The Waste Land'
    originally published Oct. 1922 in the Criterion—English

  139. James Joyce

    140. Ulysses
    published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English

  140. Thomas Mann

    141. Der Zauberberg
    The Magic Mountain
    1924—German

  141. F Scott Fitzgerald

    142. The Great Gatsby
    1925—English

  142. Franz Kafka

    143. Der Prozess
    The Trial
    1925—German

  143. Martin Heidegger

    144. Sein und Zeit
    1927—German

  144. Virginia Woolf

    145. Mrs. Dalloway
    published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925—English

  145. Bertolt Brecht

    146. Die Dreigroschenoper
    The Threepenny Opera
    1928—German

  146. William Faulkner

    147. The Sound and the Fury
    1929—English

  147. Mohandas K Gandhi

    148. The Story of My Experiments With the Truth
    originally published serially 1925-9 in Navijan—Gujarati

  148. Aldous Huxley

    149. Brave New World
    1932—English

  149. Kawabata Yasunari

    150. Yukiguni
    Snow Country
    published in part serially 1935-47; in its entirety, 1948—Japanese

  150. R K Narayan

    151. The English Teacher
    1945—English

  151. Graham Greene

    152. The Power and the Glory
    1940—English

  152. Arthur Koestler

    153. Sonnenfinsternis
    Darkness at Noon
    1941—German

  153. Eugene O'Neill

    154. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    1956—English

  154. Tanizaki Junichiro

    155. Sasameyuki
    The Makioka Sisters
    published in part serially Jan.-Mar. 1943 in Chuo Koron; in its entirety in three volumes: 1946, 1947, and 1948—Japanese

  155. Albert Camus

    156. L'Étranger
    The Stranger
    1942—French

  156. Jean-Paul Sartre

    157. L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique
    Being and Nothingness
    1943—French

  157. Karl Popper

    158. The Open Society and Its Enemies
    1945—English

  158. Simone Beauvoir

    159. Le Deuxième Sexe
    The Second Sex
    published in part serially in Les Temps Modernes; in its entirety in two volumes, 1949—French

  159. Ernest Hemingway

    160. The Old Man and the Sea
    1952—English

  160. George Orwell

    161. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    1949—English

  161. Ralph Ellison

    162. Invisible Man
    1952—English

  162. Samuel Beckett

    163. En Attendant Godot
    Waiting for Godot
    1953—French

  163. Vladimir Nabokov

    164. Lolita
    1955—English

  164. Allen Ginsberg

    165. Howl and Other Poems
    1956—English

  165. Jack Kerouac

    166. On the Road
    1957; alternate version, 2007—English

  166. Chinua Achebe

    167. Things Fall Apart
    1958—English

  167. Pablo Neruda

    168. Cien Sonetos de Amor
    1959—Spanish

  168. Gabriel García Márquez

    169. Cien Anõs de Soledad
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    1967—Spanish

  169. Ayn Rand
    Atlas Shrugged
    1957—English

    • Jorge Luis Borges

    170. Labyrinths
    English translations of stories mostly originally published in Ficciones and El Aleph—Spanish

  170. Michel Foucault

    171. Les Mots et les Choses: Une Archéologie des Sciences Humaines
    The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
    1966—French

  171. Maya Angelou

    172. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    1969—English

  172. V S Naipul

    173. A Bend in the River
    1979—English

  173. Salman Rushdie

    174. Midnight's Children
    1981—English

  174. Margaret Atwood

    175. The Handmaid's Tale
    1985—English

  175. Toni Morrison

    176. Beloved
    1987—English

  176. Aristotle

    177. Physics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek

  177. Euclid

    178. Elements
    written ca. 300 B C—Greek

  178. Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

    179. Almagest
    Second Century—Greek

  179. Roger Bacon

    180. Opus Majus
    1267—Latin

  180. Nicolas Copernicus

    181. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
    On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    1543—Latin

  181. Andreas Vesalius

    182. De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem
    1543—Latin

  182. Johannes Kepler

    183. Astronomia Nova
    1609—Latin

  183. Francis Bacon

    184. Novum Organum Scientiarium
    1620—English

  184. William Harvey

    185. Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
    1628—Latin

  185. Galileo

    186. Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo
    Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
    1632—Italian

  186. Robert Hooke

    187. Micrographica: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
    1665—English

  187. Isaac Newton

    188. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
    The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
    1687; revised 1713 and 1726—Latin

  188. Giambattista Vico

    189. Principi di Scienza Nuova d'Intorno Alla Comune Natura Delle Nazioni
    The New Science
    1725; revised 1730 and 1744—Italian

  189. Carlos Linneaus

    190. Systema Naturae
    1735; revised through twelfth edition, 1766-68—Latin

  190. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

    191. Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes
    1789—French

  191. Charles Darwin

    192. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
    1859—English

  192. Sigmund Freud

    193. Die Traumdeutung
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    1899—German

  193. Albert Einstein

    194. Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Gemeinverständlich
    Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition
    1917; revised through fourteenth edition, 1922—German

  194. Max Planck

    195. Acht Vorlesungen Über Theoretische Physik, Gehalten an der Columbia University in the City of New York im Frühjahr 1909, von Dr. Max Planck
    Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909
    1910; edited 1909 lectures—German

  195. Jane Jacobs
    The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    1961—English

    • Carl Jung; Joseph L Henderson; Marie-Louise von Franz; Aniela Jaffé; Jolande Jacobi

    196. Man and His Symbols
    1964—English

  196. Thomas S Kuhn

    197. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    1962; expanded 1970—English

  197. Rachel Carson

    198. Silent Spring
    originally published Jun. 1962 in the New Yorker—English

  198. George Gamov

    199. Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory
    1966—English

  199. James D Watson

    200. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of D N A
    1968—English

  200. Carl Sagan

    201. The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
    1973—English

  201. Robert Dawkins

    202. The Selfish Gene
    1976—English

  202. Douglas Hofstadter

    203. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    1979—English

  203. Stephen Jay Gould

    204. The Mismeasure of Man
    1981—English

  204. Richard Feynman

    205. Q E D: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
    1985; edited 1983 lectures—English

  205. Oliver Sacks

    206. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
    1985—English

  206. Stephen Hawking

    207. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
    1988; expanded 1996; abridged and edited version co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow entitled A Briefer History of Time published 2005—English

  207. Jared Diamond

    208. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    1997—English