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1. 

   Leviathan

   Thomas Hobbes

2. 

   History of the Peloponnesian War

   Thucydides

3. 

   Agamemnon

   Aeschylus

4. 

   The Social Contract

   Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5. 

   The Eumenides

   Aeschylus

6. 

   The Libation Bearers

   Aeschylus

7. 

   An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

   David Hume

8. 

   Histories

   Herodotus

9. 

   The Georgics

   Virgil

10. 

    The Eclogues

    Virgil

11. 

    Pragmatism

    William James

12. 

    The Winter’s Tale

    William Shakespeare

13. 

    In Search of Lost Time

    Marcel Proust

14. 

    The Canterbury Tales

    Geoffrey Chaucer

15. 

    To the Lighthouse

    Virginia Woolf

16. 

    Love’s Labour’s Lost

    William Shakespeare

17. 

    Cymbeline

    William Shakespeare

18. 

    Measure for Measure

    William Shakespeare

19. 

    Troilus and Cressida

    William Shakespeare

20. 

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

21. 

    Titus Andronicus

    William Shakespeare

22. 

    Dialogues

    Plato

23. 

    The Acquisitive Society

    R. H. Tawney

24. 

    Coriolanus

    William Shakespeare

25. 

    Pericles

    William Shakespeare

26. 

    Timon of Athens

    William Shakespeare

27. 

    The Merchant of Venice

    William Shakespeare

28. 

    Antony and Cleopatra

    William Shakespeare

29. 

    The Taming of the Shrew

    William Shakespeare

30. 

    The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    William Shakespeare

31. 

    All’s Well That Ends Well

    William Shakespeare

32. 

    The Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith

33. 

    Henry VIII

    William Shakespeare

34. 

    Little Dorrit

    Charles Dickens

35. 

    Tartuffe

    Molière

36. 

    Richard III

    William Shakespeare

37. 

    Henry IV, Part II

    William Shakespeare

38. 

    Henry IV, Part I

    William Shakespeare

39. 

    Richard II

    William Shakespeare

40. 

    King John

    William Shakespeare

41. 

    The Theory of the Leisure Class

    Thorstein Veblen

42. 

    Twelfth Night

    William Shakespeare

43. 

    As You Like It

    William Shakespeare

44. 

    The Divine Comedy

    Dante Alighieri

45. 

    Macbeth

    William Shakespeare

46. 

    Hedda Gabler

    Henrik Ibsen

47. 

    The Federalist Papers

    Alexander Hamilton

    John Jay

    James Madison

48. 

    A Doll’s House

    Henrik Ibsen

49. 

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    James Joyce

50. 

    Hamlet

    William Shakespeare

51. 

    The Aeneid

    Virgil

52. 

    Henry VI, Part III

    William Shakespeare

53. 

    Othello

    William Shakespeare

54. 

    Henry VI, Part II

    William Shakespeare

55. 

    Henry VI, Part I

    William Shakespeare

56. 

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

57. 

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

    Henry Fielding

58. 

    King Lear

    William Shakespeare

59. 

    Julius Caesar

    William Shakespeare

60. 

    The Tempest

    William Shakespeare

61. 

    Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare

62. 

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy

63. 

    The Comedy of Errors

    William Shakespeare

64. 

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    William Shakespeare

65. 

    Poetry

    William Shakespeare

66. 

    Discourses

    Epictetus

67. 

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    Laurence Sterne

68. 

    Much Ado About Nothing

    William Shakespeare

69. 

    The Odyssey

    Homer

70. 

    The Iliad

    Homer

71. 

    Middlemarch

    George Eliot

72. 

    Gulliver’s Travels

    Jonathan Swift

73. 

    Paradise Lost

    John Milton

74. 

    Henry V

    William Shakespeare

75. 

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    William Shakespeare

76. 

    The Problems of Philosophy

    Bertrand Russell

77. 

    Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Luigi Pirandello

78. 

    The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

79. 

    The Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin

80. 

    Nicomachean Ethics

    Aristotle

81. 

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

82. 

    Emma

    Jane Austen

83. 

    The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx

    Friedrich Engels

84. 

    Poetry

    T. S. Eliot

85. 

    On Liberty

    John Stuart Mill

86. 

    Don Quixote

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

87. 

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

88. 

    Beyond Good and Evil

    Friedrich Nietzsche

89. 

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

90. 

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

91. 

    The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli

92. 

    Candide

    Voltaire

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