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1. 

   Oedipus Rex

   Sophocles

2. 

   Leviathan

   Thomas Hobbes

3. 

   History of the Peloponnesian War

   Thucydides

4. 

   Agamemnon

   Aeschylus

5. 

   The Social Contract

   Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6. 

   The Eumenides

   Aeschylus

7. 

   The Libation Bearers

   Aeschylus

8. 

   An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

   David Hume

9. 

   Histories

   Herodotus

10. 

    The Georgics

    Virgil

11. 

    The Eclogues

    Virgil

12. 

    Pragmatism

    William James

13. 

    The Winter’s Tale

    William Shakespeare

14. 

    In Search of Lost Time

    Marcel Proust

15. 

    The Canterbury Tales

    Geoffrey Chaucer

16. 

    To the Lighthouse

    Virginia Woolf

17. 

    Love’s Labour’s Lost

    William Shakespeare

18. 

    Cymbeline

    William Shakespeare

19. 

    Measure for Measure

    William Shakespeare

20. 

    Troilus and Cressida

    William Shakespeare

21. 

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

22. 

    Titus Andronicus

    William Shakespeare

23. 

    Dialogues

    Plato

24. 

    The Acquisitive Society

    R. H. Tawney

25. 

    Coriolanus

    William Shakespeare

26. 

    Pericles

    William Shakespeare

27. 

    Timon of Athens

    William Shakespeare

28. 

    The Merchant of Venice

    William Shakespeare

29. 

    Antony and Cleopatra

    William Shakespeare

30. 

    The Taming of the Shrew

    William Shakespeare

31. 

    The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    William Shakespeare

32. 

    All’s Well That Ends Well

    William Shakespeare

33. 

    The Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith

34. 

    Henry VIII

    William Shakespeare

35. 

    Little Dorrit

    Charles Dickens

36. 

    Tartuffe

    Molière

37. 

    Richard III

    William Shakespeare

38. 

    Henry IV, Part II

    William Shakespeare

39. 

    Henry IV, Part I

    William Shakespeare

40. 

    Richard II

    William Shakespeare

41. 

    King John

    William Shakespeare

42. 

    The Theory of the Leisure Class

    Thorstein Veblen

43. 

    Twelfth Night

    William Shakespeare

44. 

    As You Like It

    William Shakespeare

45. 

    The Divine Comedy

    Dante Alighieri

46. 

    Macbeth

    William Shakespeare

47. 

    Hedda Gabler

    Henrik Ibsen

48. 

    The Federalist Papers

    Alexander Hamilton

    John Jay

    James Madison

49. 

    A Doll’s House

    Henrik Ibsen

50. 

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    James Joyce

51. 

    Hamlet

    William Shakespeare

52. 

    The Aeneid

    Virgil

53. 

    Henry VI, Part III

    William Shakespeare

54. 

    Othello

    William Shakespeare

55. 

    Henry VI, Part II

    William Shakespeare

56. 

    Henry VI, Part I

    William Shakespeare

57. 

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

58. 

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

    Henry Fielding

59. 

    King Lear

    William Shakespeare

60. 

    Julius Caesar

    William Shakespeare

61. 

    The Tempest

    William Shakespeare

62. 

    Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare

63. 

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy

64. 

    The Comedy of Errors

    William Shakespeare

65. 

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    William Shakespeare

66. 

    Poetry

    William Shakespeare

67. 

    Discourses

    Epictetus

68. 

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    Laurence Sterne

69. 

    Much Ado About Nothing

    William Shakespeare

70. 

    The Odyssey

    Homer

71. 

    The Iliad

    Homer

72. 

    Middlemarch

    George Eliot

73. 

    Gulliver’s Travels

    Jonathan Swift

74. 

    Paradise Lost

    John Milton

75. 

    Henry V

    William Shakespeare

76. 

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    William Shakespeare

77. 

    The Problems of Philosophy

    Bertrand Russell

78. 

    Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Luigi Pirandello

79. 

    The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

80. 

    The Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin

81. 

    Nicomachean Ethics

    Aristotle

82. 

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

83. 

    Emma

    Jane Austen

84. 

    The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx

    Friedrich Engels

85. 

    Poetry

    T. S. Eliot

86. 

    On Liberty

    John Stuart Mill

87. 

    Don Quixote

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

88. 

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

89. 

    Beyond Good and Evil

    Friedrich Nietzsche

90. 

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

91. 

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

92. 

    The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli

93. 

    Candide

    Voltaire

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