Reading List

The Harvard Classics

1. His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin; Journal, by John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
2. The Apology, Phædo and Crito of Plato; The Golden Sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
3. Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon; Areopagitica & Tractate on Education, by John Milton; Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne
4. Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton
5. Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns
7. The Confessions of Saint Augustine; The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis
8. Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus; Oedipus the King & Antigone of Sophocles; Hippolytus & The Bacchæ of Euripides; The Frogs of Aristophanes
9. On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero; Letters, by Pliny the Younger
10. Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
11. The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
12. Lives, by Plutarch
13. Æneid, by Virgil
14. Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes
15. The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan; The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton
16. Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
17. Fables, by Æsop; Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen
18. All for Love, by John Dryden; The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith; The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon, by Robert Browning; Manfred, by Lord Byron
19. Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe; Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
20. The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
21. I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni
22. The Odyssey of Homer
23. Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr..
24. On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke
25. Autobiography & On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
26. Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca; Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille; Phèdre, by Jean Racine; Tartuffe, by Molière; Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephr aim Lessing; Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller
27. English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
28. Essays: English and American
29. The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
30. Scientific Papers
31. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
32. Literary and Philosophical Essays
33. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern
34. Discourse on Method, by René Descartes; Letters on the English, by Voltaire; On the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau; Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
35. The Chronicles of Jean Froissart; The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory; A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison
36. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli; The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper; Utopia, by Sir Thomas More; The Ninety-Five Theses, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther
37. Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke; Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
38. The Oath of Hippocrates; Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré; On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey; The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner; The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes; On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister; Scientific Papers, by Louis Pasteur; Scientific Papers, by Charles Lyell
39. Prefaces and Prologues
40. English Poetry I: Chaucer to Gray
41. English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald
42. English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman
43. American Historical Documents: 1000–1904
44. Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius; Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes; Christian I: Luke & Acts
45. Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns; Buddhist: Writings; Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita; Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran
46. Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe; Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
47. The Shoemaker’s Holiday, by Thomas Dekker; The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson; Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher; The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster; A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger
48. Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal
49. Epic & Saga: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel & The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
50. The Editor’s Introduction, The Reader’s Guide, and Index
51. Lectures on the Harvard Classic

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

1. The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding (Part 1)
2. The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding (Part 2)
3. A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne; Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
4. Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott
5. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray (Part 1)
6. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray (Part 2)
7. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens (Part 1)
8. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens (Part 2)
9. The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
10. The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving; Three Short Stories, by Edgar Allan Poe; Three Short Stories, by Francis Bret Harte; Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens; The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale
11. The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
12. Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo
13. Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac; The Devil’s Pool, by George Sand; The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset; Five Short Stories, by Alphonse Daudet; Two Short Stories, by Guy de Maupassant
14. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship & The Sorrows of Werther, by J. W. von Goethe;The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller;
15. The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm; Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane
16. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
17. Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy
18. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19. A House of Gentlefolk & Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev
20. Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera; A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland

Barnes and Noble Classics Library

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
3. The Aeneid by Vergil
4. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
5. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
6. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
7. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
8. The Ambassadors by Henry James
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
10. The Arabian Nights by Anonymous
11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
12. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Other Writings by James Weldon Johnson
13. The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction by Kate Chopin
14. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
15. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
16. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. Beowulf Translated by John McNamara
18. Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
19. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
20. The Bostonians by Henry James
21. The Brothers Karamazov byFyodorDostoevsky
22. Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
23. The Call of the Wild and WhiteFang by Jack London
24. Candide by Voltaire
25. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
26. A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, & The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
27. The Collected Oscar Wilde
28. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
29. The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
30. Common Sense and Other Writings by Thomas Paine
31. The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings by Karl Marx
32. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I by Arthur Conan Doyle
33. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II by Arthur Conan Doyle
34. The Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo
35. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
36. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
37. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
38. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
39. Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James
40. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
41. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
42. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
43. The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
44. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
45. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
46. Dracula by Bram Stoker
47. Emma by Jane Austen
48. The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
49. Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. Essential Dialogues of Plato by Plato
51. Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
52. Ethan Frome & Selected Stories by Edith Wharton
53. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
54. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
55. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
56. The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay
57. Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights Edited by Jack N. Rakove
58. The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason
59. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
60. Germinal by Emile Zola
61. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
62. Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway Edited by Corinne Demas
63. Great Escapes: Four Slave NarrativesIntroduction and notes by Daphne A. Brooks
64. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
65. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
66. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
67. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
68. Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad
69. The Histories by Herodotus
70. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
71. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
72. The House of the Dead and Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
73. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
74. Howards End by E. M. Forster
75. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
76. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
77. The Iliad by Homer
78. The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
79. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
80. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
81. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
82. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
83. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
84. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
85. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
86. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
87. The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
88. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
89. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
90. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
91. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
92. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
93. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings by Washington Irving
94. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
95. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
96. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
97. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
98. Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
99. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
100. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York by Stephen Crane
101. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
102. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
103. Man and Superman and Three Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw
104. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
105. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
106. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
107. Metamorphoses by Ovid
108. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
109. Middlemarch by George Eliot
110. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
111. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
112. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
113. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
114. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
115. Narrative of Sojourner Truth
116. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
117. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
118. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
119. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
120. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
121. Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
122. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
123. The Odyssey by Homer
124. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
125. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
126. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
127. Paradise Lost by John Milton
128. Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
129. Persuasion by Jane Austen
130. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
131. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
132. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
133. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
134. Poetics and Rhetoric by Aristotle
135. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
136. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners by James Joyce
137. Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
138. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
139. The Prince and Other Writings by Niccolò Machiavelli
140. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
141. Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain
142. Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
143. Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw
144. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
145. The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction by Stephen Crane
146. Republic by Plato
147. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
148. The Rise of Silas Lapham by William D. Howells
149. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
150. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
151. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
152. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
153. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
154. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
155. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
156. Selected Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
157. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
158. A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
159. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
160. Silas Marner and Two Short Stories by George Eliot
161. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
162. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
163. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
164. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
165. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
166. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
167. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
168. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
169. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
170. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
171. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
172. Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
173. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
174. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
175. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
176. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
177. The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers, and Two Stories by Henry James
178. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
179. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
180. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
181. Utopia by Thomas More
182. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
183. The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
184. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
185. The Virginian by Owen Wister
186. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
187. Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
188. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
189. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
190. Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
191. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
192. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
193. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
194. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
195. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
196. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
197. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
198. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
199. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë