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Great Books Course

A list of great books based on the suggestion of a professor from a course called Great Books. There were 100 books on the original list, but the greek tragedies have been combines into one for this list. Originall, Aeschylus, Sophocles ad Euripides were listed separately.
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The Bible (N/A)
The Bible
1
N/A
The Illiad (Homer)
The Illiad
2
Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
3
Homer
Tao Te Ching (Lao-Tzu)
Tao Te Ching
4
Lao-Tzu
Greek Tragedies, Vol. 3 (David Grene, Ed.)
Greek Tragedies, Vol. 3
5
David Grene, Ed.
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
6
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
7
Plato
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nicomachean Ethics
8
Aristotle
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
9
Virgil
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
10
Ovid
Confessions (Saint Augustine)
Confessions
11
Saint Augustine
The Arabian Nights (Anonymous)
The Arabian Nights
12
Anonymous
The Lais of Marie De France
The Lais of Marie De France
13
Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
14
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
15
Dante Alighieri
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
16
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
17
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Prince (Nicolo Machiavelli)
The Prince
18
Nicolo Machiavelli
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
19
François Rabelais
The Essays of Michel De Montaigne
The Essays of Michel De Montaigne
20
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
21
Miguel De Cervantes
Complete Works of Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
Complete Works of Shakespeare
22
William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
23
John Milton
Pensees (Blaise Pascal)
Pensees
24
Blaise Pascal
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
25
Jonathan Swift
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
26
Voltaire
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
27
Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Confessions
28
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
29
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
30
Jane Austen
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
31
Jane Austen
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
32
Stendhal
The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay)
The Federalist Papers
33
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
34
Mary Shelley
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
35
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens)
Our Mutual Friend
36
Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
37
Charlotte Bronte
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
Walden & Civil Disobedience
38
Henry David Thoreau
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
39
Emily Brontë
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
40
Ivan Turgenev
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