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The Hardcore Hifalutin La-Dee-Dah Literature Checklist (Abridged)

This is a highly biased, Western-centric version. There are of course glaring omissions that are not (always) snubs, but are often attributable to scatterbrainedness and human error. #sorrynotsorry
Also... not much poetry here... but some.
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The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
1
Plato
Aristotle--Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle--Nicomachean Ethics
2
The Bible (Anonymous)
The Bible
3
Anonymous
Pensees (Blaise Pascal)
Pensees
4
Blaise Pascal
Meditations on First Philosophy (Descartes)
Meditations on First Philosophy
5
Descartes
Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant)
Critique of Pure Reason
6
Immanuel Kant
The Phenomenology of Spirit (Georg Hegel)
The Phenomenology of Spirit
7
Georg Hegel
Being and Time
Being and Time
8
Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Beyond Good and Evil
9
Friedrich Nietzsche
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
10
Edward Gibbon
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
11
William Shakespeare
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
12
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet
13
William Shakespeare
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
14
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
15
William Shakespeare
Richard III (William Shakespeare)
Richard III
16
William Shakespeare
The Misanthrope (Molière)
The Misanthrope
17
Molière
Phaedra by Jean Racine
Phaedra by Jean Racine
18
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
A Doll's House
19
Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler (Norway)
Hedda Gabler (Norway)
20
Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov)
Uncle Vanya
21
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov)
The Cherry Orchard
22
Anton Chekhov
A Dream Play
A Dream Play
23
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
24
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Eugene O'Neill)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
25
Eugene O'Neill
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Death of a Salesman
26
Arthur Miller
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
27
Edward Albee
The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)
The Glass Menagerie
28
Tennessee Williams
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
29
Samuel Beckett
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
The Importance of Being Earnest
30
Oscar Wilde
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
31
Sophocles
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
32
Sophocles
Medea (Euripides)
Medea
33
Euripides
A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)
A Raisin in the Sun
34
Lorraine Hansberry
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Pygmalion
35
George Bernard Shaw
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre)
No Exit
36
Jean-Paul Sartre
Mother Courage and Her Children (Bertolt Brecht)
Mother Courage and Her Children
37
Bertolt Brecht
Major Barbara (George Bernard Shaw)
Major Barbara
38
George Bernard Shaw
A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
A Man for All Seasons
39
Robert Bolt
Glengarry Glen Ross (David Mamet)
Glengarry Glen Ross
40
David Mamet
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