Great Books
List 2004-2005
Great Books
List 2004-2005
"Read the best
books first, or you may not
have a
chance to read them at all" -- Thoreau
You are encouraged to go to the Great Books
section of the SJU bookstore to ponder your desire to participate
in this seminar. The books are all together on the left wall as you walk
into the main part of the bookstore.
| Biblical Authors | (c.900 b.c.– c.100 a.d.) | The Bible |
| Homer | (8th century b.c.) |
The Iliad (Lattimore trans., U. of Chicago) |
| Homer | (8th century b.c.) |
The Odyssey (Fitzgerald trans., Vintage) |
| Lao Tzu | (6th century b.c.) |
Tao Te Ching |
| Aeschylus | (c.525-456 b.c.) |
Greek Tragedies (3 vols, U. of Chicago ed.) |
| Sophocles | (c.496-406 b.c.) |
(see Aeschulus) |
| Euripides | (c.485-406 b.c.) |
(see Aeschulus) |
| Thucydides | (c.460-c.400) |
The Peloponnesian War |
| Plato | (c.429-347 b.c.) |
The Republic (Larson trans., Harlan Davidson) |
| Aristotle | (384-322 b.c.) |
Nicomachean Ethics |
| Virgil | (70-19 b.c.) |
The Aeneid (Mandelbaum trans., Bantam) |
| Ovid | (43 b.c.-17 a.d.) |
Metamorphoses (Mandelbaum tr., Harcourt Brace) |
| Augustine | (354-430) |
Confessions |
| (anonymous) | (13th cent.) |
Njal’s Saga |
| Jelaluddin Rumi | (1207- 1273) |
The Essential Rumi |
| Dante | (1265-1321) |
The Divine Comedy (3 vols., Bantam) |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | (1313-1375) |
The Decameron |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | (c.1343-1400) |
The Canterbury Tales (Wash. Square Press ed.) |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | (1469-1527) |
The Prince |
| Thomas More | (1478-1535) |
Utopia |
| François Rabelais | (c.1495-1553) |
Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| Michel de Montaigne | (1533-1592) |
Essays |
| Miguel de Cervantes | (1547-1616) |
Don Quixote |
| William Shakespeare | (1564-1616) |
The Riverside Shakespeare |
| René Descartes | (1596-1650) |
Meditations on First Philosophy |
| John Milton | (1608-1674) |
Paradise Lost |
| Jonathan Swift | (1667-1745) |
Gulliver’s Travels |
| Voltaire | (1694-1778) |
Candide |
| Henry Fielding | (1707-1754) |
Tom Jones |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | (1712-1778) |
The Social Contract |
| Laurence Sterne | (1713-1768) |
Tristram Shandy |
| Johann von Goethe | (1749-1832) |
Faust (Part I) (Oxford World's Classic) |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | (1759-1797) |
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| Stendhal | (1783-1842) |
The Red and the Black |
| Mary Shelley | (1797-1851) |
Frankenstein |
| John Stuart Mill | (1806-1873) |
On Liberty |
| Charles Dickens | (1812-1870) |
David Copperfield |
| Charles Dickens | (1812-1870) |
Bleak House |
| Charlotte Brontë | (1816-1855) |
Jane Eyre |
| Henry David Thoreau | (1817-1862) |
Walden |
| Emily Brontë | (1818-1848) |
Wuthering Heights |
| Ivan Turgenev | (1818-1883) |
Fathers and Sons |
| Karl Marx | (1818-1883) |
The Communist Manifesto |
| Friedrich Engels | (1820-1895) |
(see Marx) |
| George Eliot | (1819-1880) |
Middlemarch |
| Herman Melville | (1819-1891) |
Moby Dick |
| Walt Whitman | (1819-1892) |
Leaves of Grass |
| Gustave Flaubert | (1821-1880) |
Madame Bovary |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | (1821-1881) |
Crime and Punishment |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | (1821-1881) |
The Brothers Karamazov (Norton ed.) |
| Henrik Ibsen | (1828-1906) |
Four Major Plays (Vol. 1, Signet) |
| Leo Tolstoy | (1828-1910) |
War and Peace |
| Leo Tolstoy | (1828-1910) |
Anna Karenina (Norton ed.) |
| Mark Twain | (1835-1910) |
Huckleberry Finn |
| Thomas Hardy | (1840-1928) |
Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
| Henry James | (1843-1916) |
The Portrait of a Lady |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | (1844-1900) |
Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
| Sigmund Freud | (1856-1939) |
Civilization and Its Discontents |
| Joseph Conrad | (1857-1924) |
Lord Jim |
| Knut Hamsun | (1859-1952) |
Hunger |
| Anton Chekhov | (1860-1904) |
Plays |
| André Gide | (1869-1951) |
The Immoralist |
| Marcel Proust | (1871-1922) |
Swann’s Way |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | (1875-1926) |
Letters to a Young Poet |
| Thomas Mann | (1875-1955) |
Death in Venice |
| Thomas Mann | (1875-1955) |
The Magic Mountain |
| E.M. Forster | (1879-1970) |
A Passage to India |
| James Joyce | (1882-1941) |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| James Joyce | (1882-1941) |
Ulysses |
| Virginia Woolf | (1882-1941) |
To the Lighthouse |
| Franz Kafka | (1883-1924) |
The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics ed.) |
| Isak Dinesen | (1885-1962) |
Seven Gothic Tales |
| D.H. Lawrence | (1885-1930) |
Women in Love |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | (1891-1940) |
The Master and Margarita |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | (1896-1940) |
The Great Gatsby |
| William Faulkner | (1897-1962) |
The Sound and the Fury |
| Ernest Hemingway | (1899-1961) |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Vladimir Nabokov | (1899-1977) |
Lolita |
| Jorge Luis Borges | (1899-1986) |
Labyrinths |
| Samuel Beckett | (1906-1989) |
Endgame |
| Albert Camus | (1913-1960) |
The Plague |
| Robertson Davies | (1913-1995) |
What’s Bred in the Bone |
| Ralph Ellison | (1914-1994) |
Invisible Man |
| Roland Barthes |
(1915-1980 |
S/Z |
| Iris Murdoch | (1919-1999) |
The Sea, the Sea |
| Italo Calvino | (1923-1985) |
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler |
| Nadine Gordimer | (1923- ) |
Jump (Short Stories) |
| Flannery O’Connor | (1925-1964) |
The Complete Stories |
| John Fowles | (1926- ) |
The French Lieutenant’s Woman |
| Gabriel García Márquez | (1928- ) |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Milan Kundera | (1929- ) |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Chinua Achebe | (1930- ) |
Anthills of the Savannah |
| Toni Morrison | (1931- ) |
The Bluest Eye |
| Tom Stoppard | (1937- ) |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
| Salman Rushdie | (1947- ) |
Midnight’s Children |
| Louise Erdrich | (1954- ) |
Love Medicine |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | (1954- ) |
The Remains of the Day |
| Jeffery Paine, ed. | (1944- ) |
The Poetry of Our World (100+ World Poets) |
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