CSB/SJU Great Books List 2007-8*

2. Homer

3. Homer

8th cent BCE

The Iliad (Lattimore trans.)

The Odyssey (Fitzgerald trans.)

5. Aeschylus

6. Sophocles

7. Euripides

c.525-456 BCE

c.496-406 BCE

c.485-406 BCE

Greek Tragedies (3 vols., U. of Chicago ed.)

8. Aristophanes

c.446-388 BCE

Four Plays by Aristophanes (Penguin/Plume)

9. Plato

c.429-347 BCE

The Republic (Larson trans., ISBN: 0882951181)

10. Aristotle

384-322 BCE

Nicomachean Ethics

11. Virgil

70-19 BCE

The Aeneid (Bantam: Mandelbaum trans.)

12. Ovid

43 BCE-17 AD

Metamorphoses (Harcourt: Mandelbaum trans.)

13. Augustine

354-430

Confessions

14. Boethius

c.480-c.524

The Consolation of Philosophy

15. 

c.800-900

The Arabian Nights (Haddawy trans.)

16. Abelard and Heloise

11-12th century

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

17. Marie de France   

12th century   

Lais

18. 

13th century

Njal’s Saga

1265-1321

The Divine Comedy
(3 vols., Everyman’s Lib. 3-in-1)

20. Giovanni Boccaccio

1313-1375

The Decameron

21. Geoffrey Chaucer

c.1342-1400

The Canterbury Tales (Penguin, Coghill trans.)

22. Niccolò Machiavelli

1469-1527

The Prince

23. François Rabelais

c.1495-1553

Gargantua and Pantagruel

24. Michel de Montaigne

1533-1592

Essays (selected—Penguin ed. ISBN: 0140446028)

25. Miguel de Cervantes

1547-1616

Don Quixote (Harper, Grossman trans.)

26. William Shakespeare

1564-1616

The Pelican Shakespeare

27. John Milton

1608-1674

Paradise Lost

28. Blaise Pascal

1623-1662

Pensées

29. Jonathan Swift

1667-1745

Gulliver’s Travels

30. Voltaire

1694-1778

Candide

31. Henry Fielding

1707-1754

Tom Jones

32. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712-1778

Basic Political Writings (Hackett Publishing)

33. Johann von Goethe

1749-1832

Faust (Part I)

34. Mary Wollstonecraft

1759-1797

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

35. Jane Austen

36.    

1775-1817

Pride and Prejudice

Emma

37. Stendhal

1783-1842

The Red and the Black

38. Hamilton, et al.

1787-1791

The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers

39. Mary Shelley

1797-1851

Frankenstein

40. Charles Dickens

41.

1812-1870

Bleak House

David Copperfield

42. Charlotte Brontë

1816-1855

Jane Eyre

43. Henry David Thoreau

1817-1862

Walden

44. Emily Brontë

1818-1848

Wuthering Heights

45. Ivan Turgenev

1818-1883

Fathers and Sons

46. George Eliot

1819-1880

Middlemarch

47. Herman Melville

1819-1891

Moby Dick

48. Gustave Flaubert

1821-1880

Madame Bovary

49. Fyodor Dostoevsky

50.  

1821-1881

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

51. Henrik Ibsen

1828-1906

Four Major Plays (Vol. 1, Signet)

52. Leo Tolstoy

53.    

1828-1910

War and Peace

Anna Karenina

54. Mark Twain

1835-1910

Huckleberry Finn

55. Thomas Hardy

1840-1928

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

56. William James

1842-1910

Varieties of Religious Experience

57. Henry James

1843-1916

The Portrait of a Lady

58. Friedrich Nietzsche

1844-1900

Basic Writings of Nietzsche (RH: Modern Library)

59. Sigmund Freud

1856-1939

Civilization and Its Discontents

60. Joseph Conrad

1857-1924

Heart of Darkness

61. Anton Chekhov

1860-1904

The Major Plays (Signet edition)

62. Miguel de Unamuno

1864-1936

Abel Sanchez and Other Stories

63. Luigi Pirandello

1867-1936

Six Characters in Search of an Author

64. Marcel Proust

1871-1922

Swann’s Way

65. Thomas Mann

1875-1955

The Magic Mountain

66. James Joyce

1882-1941

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

67. Virginia Woolf

1882-1941

To the Lighthouse

68. Franz Kafka

1883-1924

The Trial

69. Isak Dinesen

1885-1962

Seven Gothic Tales

70. Mikhail Bulgakov

1891-1940

The Master and Margarita

71. Pär Lagerkvist

1891-1974

Barabbas

72. F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896-1940

The Great Gatsby

73. William Faulkner

74.   

1897-1962

Light in August

Absalom, Absalom!

75. Harold Clurman, ed.

1898-

Nine Plays of the Modern Theater  

76. Ernest Hemingway

1899-1967

Short Stories (ISBN:0684803348 or Finca Vigia ed.)

77. Vladimir Nabokov

1899-1977

Lolita

78. Jorge Luis Borges

1899-1986

Collected Fictions

79. John Steinbeck

1902-1968

Grapes of Wrath

80. Marguerite Yourcenar

1903-1987

Memoirs of Hadrian

81. Claude Levi-Strauss

1908-

Tristes Tropiques

82. Albert Camus

1913-1960

The Plague

83. Robertson Davies

1913-1995

Fifth Business

84. Ralph Ellison

1914-1994

Invisible Man

85. Iris Murdoch

1919-1999

The Sea, the Sea

86. José Saramago

1922-

Blindness

87. Nadine Gordimer

1923-

Burger’s Daughter

88. Flannery O’Connor

1925-1964

The Complete Stories

89. John Fowles

1926-2005       

The Magus

90. Günter Grass

1927-

The Tin Drum

91. Gabriel García Márquez

1928-       

One Hundred Years of Solitude

92. Milan Kundera

1929-       

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

93. Chinua Achebe

1930-       

Anthills of the Savannah

94. Toni Morrison

1931-       

Beloved

95. Alice Munro

1931-

Runaway

96. A.S. Byatt

1936-       

Possession

97. Tim O’Brien

1946-

The Things They Carried

98. Salman Rushdie

1947-       

Midnight’s Children

99. Louise Erdrich   

1954-       

Love Medicine

100. Hunter, et al, eds.

Norton Introduction to Poetry (9th Edition)