Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Philip Ward’s Lifetime Reading Plan

Reading List

Philip Ward’s Lifetime Reading Plan

  • A Lifetime’s Reading: The World’s 500 Greatest Books by Philip Ward (available from Amazon)

Year 1

Year 2

  • Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh
  • History of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
  • The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
  • The Lower Depths and Other Plays by Maxim Gorky
  • The New English Bible; New Testament by Oxford University Press
  • The New Testament in Modern English by J. B. Phillips
  • Orestia by Aeschylus
  • The Portable Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
  • Tragedies, Volume 1 (Everyman’s Library) by William Shakespeare

Year 3

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Aphorisms by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
  • The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila by Saint Teresa, of Avila
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Buddhist Scriptures by Edward Conze
  • The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Golden Ass by Apuleius
  • The Love Department by William Trevor
  • Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Year 4

  • Aesop’s Fables by Jean de La Fontaine
  • The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
  • Everyman’s Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages by Abraham Cohen
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid
  • The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  • Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch
  • Primitive Song by Maurice Bowra
  • Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert

Year 5

  • Bourgeois Gentleman / Doctor in Spite of Himself / Learned Ladies / Misanthrope / Pretentious Young Ladies / Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Moliere Year 5
  • Candide by Voltaire Year 5
  • The Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes Year 5
  • Correspondance choisie by Voltaire Year 5
  • Doctor in Spite of Himself / Imaginary Invalid / Misanthrope / Sicilian / Tartuffe by Molière Year 5
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Year 5
  • Five Plays: The Miser and other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere Year 5
  • The Letters by Pliny the Younger Year 5
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Year 5
  • The Poems of Francois Villon by François Villon Year 5
  • Records of the historian : chapters from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch’ien by Qian Sima Year 5
  • The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad Year 5
  • Shih Chi by Sima Qian Year 5
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus Year 5
  • Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad Year 5
  • Die wunderbaren Jahre by Reiner Kunze Year 5
  • Zadig & L’Ingenu by Francois Voltaire Year 5
  • Zimmerlautstärke : Gedichte by Reiner Kunze Year 5

Year 6

  • Andorra by Max Frisch Year 6
  • The Complete Father Brown Mysteries by G. K. Chesterton Year 6
  • Germinal by Émile Zola Year 6
  • I’m Not Stiller by Max Frisch Year 6
  • L’Assommoir by Émile Zola Year 6
  • The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt Year 6
  • Poe: Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Year 6
  • The Poem Itself by Stanley Burnshaw Year 6
  • The Song of Roland by Anonymous Year 6
  • The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky Year 6
  • Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola Year 6
  • The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt Year 6

Year 7

  • The Aeneid by Virgil Year 7
  • The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz Year 7
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Year 7
  • Five German Tragedies by F. J. Lamport Year 7
  • Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1879-1959 (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) by Edward Seidensticker Year 7
  • The Penguin Book of Latin Verse by Frederick Brittain Year 7
  • The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plauto Year 7
  • The Rope and Other Plays by Plauto Year 7
  • Short history of scientific ideas to 1900 by Charles Singer Year 7

Year 8

  • The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello Year 8
  • The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari Year 8
  • On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Year 8
  • Philosophy, Poetry, History; an Anthology of Essays by Benedetto Croce Year 8
  • The Poems of Catullus by Catullus Year 8
  • The Red and the Black by Stendhal Year 8
  • The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati Year 8
  • La Vita nuova by Dante Alighieri Year 8

Year 9

  • The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini Year 9
  • The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Year 9
  • Canti by Giacomo Leopardi Year 9
  • The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal Year 9
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Year 9
  • Monkey by Wu Ch’eng-en Year 9
  • The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino Year 9
  • Post-War Russian Poetry (The Penguin Poets) by Daniel Weissbort Year 9

Year 10

  • Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann Year 10
  • Canto General by Pablo Neruda Year 10
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Year 10
  • El burlador de Sevilla by Tirso de Molina Year 10
  • Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (Traveler) by Camilo José Cela Year 10
  • Juan de Mairena by Antonio Machado Year 10
  • Medieval Literature in Translation by Charles W. Jones Year 10
  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Songling Pu Year 10

Year 11

  • Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Year 11
  • The Histories by Herodotus Year 11
  • Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Year 11
  • Letters from a Stoic by Seneca Year 11
  • Lun-hêng by Wang Chung Year 11
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Year 11
  • Pancatantra: The Book of India’s Folk Wisdom by Vishnu Sharma Year 11
  • The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse: Third Edition (Parallel Text, Penguin) by Various Year 11
  • The Poems of St. John of the Cross by Saint John of the Cross Year 11

Year 12

  • A BARCA DOS SETE LEMES: OBRAS COMPLETAS. by Alves Redol Year 12
  • Classical Literary Criticism by T.S. Dorsch Year 12
  • Cousin Bazilio by Eça de Queirós Year 12
  • The Crime of Father Amaro by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros Year 12
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais Year 12
  • The Lusiads by Luis Vaz de Camoes Year 12
  • The Maias by Eca de Queiros Year 12
  • The Makioka Sisters by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki Year 12
  • A Season on the Earth: Selected Poems of Nirala by Nirala Year 12
  • Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa Year 12
  • The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky Year 12
  • Teatro de Gil Vicente by Gil Vicente Year 12

Year 13

  • The Adventures of a Simpleton by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen Year 13
  • The Caretaker by Harold Pinter Year 13
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht Year 13
  • East German Poetry: An Anthology by Michael Hamburger Year 13
  • Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Year 13
  • The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht Year 13
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht Year 13
  • Hernani / The King’s Diversion / Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo Year 13
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Year 13
  • More from the Primeval Forest by Albert Schweitzer Year 13
  • The Nature of Things by Lucretius Year 13
  • On the Edge of the Primeval Forest by Albert Schweitzer Year 13
  • Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography by Albert Schweitzer Year 13
  • The Penguin Book of German Verse by Leonard Forster Year 13
  • Wang Wei – Poems (Classics S.) by Wei Wang Year 13

Year 14

  • Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai’An Year 14
  • Paul Celan: Poems, a Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan Year 14
  • The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts by G. S. Kirk Year 14

Year 15

  • The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Year 15
  • The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse Year 15
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville Year 15

Year 16

  • The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry by Arthur Waley Year 16
  • The Odyssey by Homer Year 16
  • The Penguin Book of Greek Verse by Constantine A. Trypanis Year 16
  • Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence Year 16

Year 17

  • The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (HPC Classics) by Epicurus Year 17
  • The Iliad by Homer Year 17
  • Leonardo’s Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci Year 17
  • Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns Year 17

Year 18

  • The Blind Owl by Ṣādiq Hidāyat Year 18
  • The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith Year 18
  • The Masnavi by Maulana Jalalu-’D-Din Muhammad I Rumi Year 18
  • Poems of Nazim Hikmet by Nazim Hikmet Year 18
  • The Rose Garden (Gulistan) of Saadi by Saadi Year 18
  • Selected Poems of Yahya Kemal [Bayatli ]. by Suleyman Behlul (translator). Yahya; Toygar Kemal Year 18
  • She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith Year 18
  • Tales from the Kathasaritsagara (Penguin Classics) by Somadeva Year 18
  • The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith Year 18

Year 19

  • Anthology of Islamic Literature: From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times (Meridian) by James Kritzeck Year 19
  • The Koran by al-Qur’an Year 19
  • Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre Year 19
  • Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al-Madinah and Meccah by Sir Richard Francis Burton Year 19
  • The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love by Ibn Hazm Year 19
  • The Roman Sonnets of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli Year 19
  • The Secret History by Procopius Year 19
  • The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah Year 19

Year 20

  • The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard Burton Year 20
  • Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play by Takeda Izumo Year 20
  • Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud Year 20
  • Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca Year 20
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Year 20
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche Year 20
  • Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam by Ram Swarup Year 20

Year 21

  • Deliverance from Error: Five Key Texts Including His Spiritual Autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali Year 21
  • The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams Year 21
  • A History of Historical Writing by Harry Elmer Barnes Year 21
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Year 21
  • The life and works of Jāḥiẓ by Charles Pellat Year 21
  • Life of a Good-for-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff Year 21
  • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams Year 21
  • Poems from the Diwan: Of Abu Tayyib Ahmad ibn Husain al Mutanabbi; by Abu al-Tayyib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn Mutanabbi Year 21
  • Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) by Hayyim Nahman Bialik Year 21
  • Story of Sinuhe: Complete Hieroglyphic Text with Transliteration and Translation Plus Grammatical Commentary by Ronald Bullock Year 21
  • We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Year 21

Year 22

  • Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind by Miguel Leon-Portilla Year 22
  • The Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov Year 22
  • The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, New and Revised Edition by William Blake Year 22
  • The daily life of the Aztecs on the eve of the Spanish conquest by Jacques Soustelle Year 22
  • Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov Year 22
  • The Penguin Book of Russian Verse by Dimitri Obolensky Year 22
  • Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike by Kamo no Chōmei Year 22
  • The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Year 22
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Year 22
  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Patanjali Year 22

Year 23

  • The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Essays of Elia and the Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
  • Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  • Ghazals of Ghalib: Versions from the Urdu by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
  • Kukai and His Major Works by Yoshito S. Hakeda
  • Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • The Story of Modern Art by Norbert Lynton

Year 24

  • The Analects of Confucius by Confucius Year 24
  • Anthology of Chinese literature by Cyril Birch Year 24
  • Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin Year 24
  • The Garnet Bracelet and Other Stories by Alexander Kuprin Year 24
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Year 24
  • The Quest of the Holy Grail by Anonymous Year 24
  • The Selected Poems of Li Po by Bai Li Year 24
  • Selected readings from the works of Mao Tsetung by Mao Zedong Year 24
  • Sources of Chinese tradition, Vol. 1 by William Theodore De Barry Year 24
  • Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol. 2 by William Theodore De Barry Year 24
  • Three Tragedies by Federico García Lorca Year 24

Year 25

  • Bourgeois Gentleman / Dom Juan / Doctor in Spite of Himself / George Dandin / Miser / Pretentious Young Ladies / Scapin by Molière Year 25
  • Chin P’ing Mei: The Adventurous History of Hsi Men and His Six Wives (1 Vol. Ed.) by Arthur Waley Year 25
  • Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer Year 25
  • Mencius by Mencius Year 25
  • The Poetical Works of John Keats by John Keats Year 25
  • The Scholars by Jingzi Wu Year 25
  • The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico García Lorca Year 25
  • The Selected Poems of Tu Fu by Du Fu Year 25
  • Texts of Taoism (Volume 1) by James Legge Year 25
  • Texts of Taoism (Volume 2) by James Legge Year 25

Year 26

  • An Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi Year 26
  • The Bhagavad Gita by Barbara Stoler Miller Year 26
  • The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine Year 26
  • Godan: A Novel of Peasant India by Munshi Premchand Year 26
  • The Poem of the Cid by Anonymous Year 26
  • Poems from the Sanskrit by John Brough Year 26
  • The Poetry of Petrarch by Petrarch Year 26
  • Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law by H. Kern Year 26
  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Year 26
  • Sources of Indian tradition by William Theodore De Bary Year 26
  • The World of Premchand: Selected Short Stories by Munshi Premchand Year 26

Year 27

  • Collected Poems by Robert Lowell Year 27
  • The Dhammapada by Anonymous Year 27
  • The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Year 27
  • The Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana Year 27
  • Modern Spanish Theatre: An anthology of plays by Michael Benedikt Year 27
  • A Passage to India by E. M. Forster Year 27
  • Poems from the Divan of Khushâl Khân Khattak by Khwushḥāl Khān Year 27
  • The Rebel’s Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz Year 27
  • The Tin Drum by Günter Grass Year 27
  • The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe Year 27

Year 28

  • The Arthashastra by Kautalya Year 28
  • As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Sarashina Year 28
  • The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione Year 28
  • Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar by Chairil Anwar Year 28
  • Contemporary Indonesian Poetry (Asian & Pacific Writing) by Harry Aveling Year 28
  • An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation by Jeremy Bentham Year 28
  • Mediæval Latin lyrics by Helen Waddell Year 28
  • The Principal Upanishads by S. Radhakrishnan Year 28
  • Ramayana by Valmiki Year 28
  • The Restlessness of Shanti Andia by Pío Baroja Year 28

Year 29

  • A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literatures by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson Year 29
  • The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant Year 29
  • The Golovlyov Family by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Year 29
  • The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell Year 29
  • Maxims by François, duc de La Rochefoucauld Year 29
  • Moral essays by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Year 29
  • The Palace of Eternal Youth (Classical Chinese Love Stories) by Hong Sheng Year 29
  • Selections from the Sacred Writings of the Sikhs by Trilochan Singh Year 29

Year 30

  • The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon Year 30
  • An Anthology of Sinhalese literature of the twentieth century by Christopher Reynolds Year 30
  • The Essays, or counsils, civil and moral, of sir Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon Year 30
  • The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa Year 30
  • Love Songs of Chandidas the Rebel Poet-Priest of Bengal by Chandidas Year 30
  • New Atlantis by Francis Bacon Year 30
  • Okagami: A Japanese Historical Tale by Joseph K. Yamagiwa Year 30
  • Pather Panchali, song of the road by Bibhutibhushan Banerji Year 30
  • Phantasies of a Love-Thief: The Caurapañcāśikā by Bilhana Year 30
  • Works by Lucian Year 30

Year 31

  • Dreams by Francisco de Quevedo Year 31
  • El Buscón by Francisco de Quevedo Year 31
  • Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenko Year 31
  • The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza Year 31
  • The fall into time by E. M. Cioran Year 31
  • In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus Year 31
  • The New Gods by E. M. Cioran Year 31
  • Pensées by Blaise Pascal Year 31
  • Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin Year 31
  • Poetry of the Netherlands in its European context 1170-1930 by Theodoor Weevers Year 31
  • The provincial letters by Blaise Pascal Year 31
  • Rembrandt, Life and Work by Jakob Rosenberg Year 31
  • A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran Year 31
  • The Temptation to Exist by Emil Cioran Year 31
  • Ten Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus Year 31
  • A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry by Nguyễn Ngọc Bích Year 31

Year 32

  • Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets by G. B. H. Wightman Year 32
  • Collected Poems, 1909—1962 by T. S. Eliot Year 32
  • The Complete Poetry of Michelangelo by Michelangelo Year 32
  • Dialogues by Denis Diderot Year 32
  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius Year 32
  • A history of book illustration; the illuminated manuscript and the printed book by David Bland Year 32
  • Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot Year 32
  • The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil Year 32
  • The Man Without Qualities, Volume 1: A Sort of Introduction, and Pseudo Reality Prevails by Robert Musil Year 32
  • The Man Without Qualities, Volume 2: Into the Millennium; From the Posthumous Papers by Robert Musil Year 32
  • Mo Tzu: Basic Writings by Mo tzu Year 32
  • The Nun by Denis Diderot Year 32
  • Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot Year 32
  • The Satires of Juvenal by Juvenal Year 32
  • Zend-Aveszta by Avesta Year 32

Year 33

  • Autobiography of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill Year 33
  • Brand by Henrik Ibsen Year 33
  • The Complete English Poems by John Donne Year 33
  • Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill Year 33
  • Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg Year 33
  • Elegies by Sextus Propertius Year 33
  • Hunger by Knut Hamsun Year 33
  • Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot Year 33
  • Mysteries by Knut Hamsun Year 33
  • Njal’s Saga by Anonymous Year 33
  • On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Year 33
  • Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen Year 33
  • Selected Poems by Gunnar Ekelof Year 33
  • Short Stories by Hjalmar Soderberg Year 33
  • Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill Year 33

Year 34

  • The Boat in the Evening (Peter Owen Modern Classics) by Tarjei Vesaas Year 34
  • The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu by Tzu Han Fei Year 34
  • A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Year 34
  • Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Søren Kierkegaard Year 34
  • Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson Year 34
  • Helkavirsiä by Eino Leino Year 34
  • The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau Year 34
  • The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas Year 34
  • Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen Year 34
  • The Plays of Strindberg: Volume 1 by August Strindberg Year 34
  • The Plays of Strindberg: Volume 2 by August Strindberg Year 34
  • Stages on Life’s Way : Kierkegaard’s Writings, Vol 11 by Søren Kierkegaard Year 34
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Year 34
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Year 34

Year 35

  • Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Donald Keene Year 35
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Year 35
  • Ch’an and Zen Teaching, First Series by Kuanyu Lu Year 35
  • Ch’an and Zen Teaching, Second Series by Lu K’uan Yu Year 35
  • Ch’an and Zen Teaching, Series Three by Kuanyu Lu Year 35
  • Collected Poems by Saint-John Perse Year 35
  • Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus Year 35
  • The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings by Ihara Saikaku Year 35
  • Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw Year 35
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō Year 35
  • Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw Year 35
  • Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Akinari Ueda Year 35
  • Ten Thousand Leaves by Anonymous Year 35

Year 36

  • 20 Plays of the No Theatre by Donald Keene Year 36
  • The Blue Cliff Records: The Hekigan Roku by R. D. M. Shaw Year 36
  • Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas de Quincey Year 36
  • Evening Land by Pär Lagerkvist Year 36
  • The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer Year 36
  • The Mabinogion by Anonymous Year 36
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Year 36
  • The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas Year 36
  • The pillow book by Sei Shonagon Year 36
  • Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata Year 36
  • Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata Year 36

Year 37

  • Collected poems by Wallace Stevens Year 37
  • The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Year 37
  • The enchanted wanderer by Nikolai Leskov Year 37
  • The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales by Nikolai Leskov Year 37
  • Halma by Benito Pérez Galdós Year 37
  • Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost Year 37
  • Misericordia by Benito Pérez Galdós Year 37
  • Nazarin by Benito Pérez Galdós Year 37
  • The New Oxford Book of American Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) by Richard Ellmann Year 37
  • The Odes of Horace by Horatius Year 37
  • Praeterita : and, Dilecta by John Ruskin Year 37
  • Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi Year 37
  • Ulysses by James Joyce Year 37

Year 38

  • The Bass Saxophone by Josef Skvorecky Year 38
  • The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky Year 38
  • Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Perez Galdoz Year 38
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot Year 38
  • The Satyricon by Petronius Year 38

Year 39

  • Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
  • The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
  • The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Like water, like fire: an anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day by Vera Rich
  • Modern Czech poetry; an anthology by Ewald Osers
  • New writing in Yugoslavia (Writing today) by Bernard Johnson
  • The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases by Lu Yu
  • The Penguin book of Latin American verse, (The Penguin poets) by E Caracciolo-Trejo
  • Portuguese voyages, 1498-1663 by Charles David Ley
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Year 40

  • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Year 40
  • Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Yangming Wang Year 40
  • The Journals of Captain Cook by James R. Cook Year 40
  • Kokoro by Natsume Soseki Year 40
  • Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz Year 40
  • The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Year 40
  • Poems of Black Africa by Wole Soyinka Year 40
  • Post War Polish Poetry, An Anthology by Czeslaw Milosz, selected and translated Year 40
  • Saga of Sassoun by Mischa Kudian Year 40
  • Tango by Sławomir Mrożek Year 40
  • The Ugupu Bird by Sławomir Mrożek Year 40

Year 41

  • The Alexiad of Anna Comnena by Anna Comnena Year 41
  • Antología poética by Moses ibn Ezra Year 41
  • Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane Year 41
  • The Knight in Panther Skin by Shota Rustaveli Year 41
  • Modern Hungarian Poetry by Miklos Vajda Year 41
  • Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett Year 41
  • New Science by Giambattista Vico Year 41
  • Selected works by V. I. Lenin Year 41
  • Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno Year 41
  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Year 41
  • What Is to Be Done? by V. I. Lenin Year 41

Year 42

  • Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Year 42
  • Folktales of Hungary by Linda Dégh Year 42
  • The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine Year 42
  • The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga Year 42
  • Hungarian Short Stories (The World’s Classics; 609) by A. Alvarez Year 42
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne Year 42
  • Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga Year 42
  • Mastro don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga Year 42
  • Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto Year 42
  • Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Year 42
  • The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris Year 42
  • Selected poems of Jehudah Halevi by Jehudah Halevi Year 42

Year 43

  • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov Year 43
  • The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni Year 43
  • Bhartrihari: Poems by Bhartrihari Year 43
  • Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes Year 43
  • A God and His Gifts by Ivy Compton-Burnett Year 43
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Year 43
  • Odes of Pindar Including the Principal Fragments (Loeb Classical Library, No 56) by Pindaros Year 43
  • Poetry (Oxford Library of East Asian Literature) by Tao Chien Year 43
  • Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, the Shadow of a Gunman, the Plow and the Stars by Seán O’Casey Year 43
  • Tristan: With the Surviving Fragments of the ‘Tristan of Thomas’ by Gottfried von Strassburg Year 43

Year 44

  • The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound Year 44
  • The Chief Plays of Corneille by Pierre Corneille Year 44
  • The Complete Poetry by César Vallejo Year 44
  • Confabulario and Other Inventions by Juan José Arreola Year 44
  • The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz Year 44
  • The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier Year 44
  • The Maya by Michael D. Coe Year 44
  • Poems and translations by Ezra Pound Year 44
  • A Study of Maya Art by Herbert J. Spinden Year 44
  • Traité de gouvernement Siyaset-Name : composé pour le sultan Malik Chah by Niẓām al-Mulk Year 44
  • The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela Year 44

Year 45

  • The Art of Love by Ovid Year 45
  • The Characters by Theophrastus Year 45
  • Footprints in the Snow by Roka Tokutomi Year 45
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Year 45
  • Mansions and the Shanties by Gilberto Freyre Year 45
  • The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization by Gilberto Freyre Year 45
  • The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates Year 45
  • Order and progress; Brazil from monarchy to republic by Gilberto Freyre Year 45
  • The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine Year 45
  • Sagarana by Joao Guimaraes Rosa 45
  • The Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu Year 45
  • Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths by Orlando Villas Boas Year 45

Year 46

  • The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes Year 46
  • The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin Year 46
  • The Contrary Experience by Herbert Read Year 46
  • The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch Year 46
  • El diablo cojuelo by Luis Vélez de Guevara Year 46
  • The Green Child by Herbert Read Year 46
  • The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides Year 46
  • The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa by Garma C.C. Chang Year 46
  • Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso Year 46
  • Love songs of Vidyāpati by Vidyapati Year 46
  • Le paysan parvenu by Pierre Marivaux Year 46

Year 47

  • The Anathemata by David Jones Year 47
  • Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter H. Lee Year 47
  • Ch’u Tz’u, The Songs of the South, An Ancient Chinese Anthology by David Hawkes Year 47
  • The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry by Peter H. Lee Year 47
  • The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe Year 47
  • Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar Year 47
  • The Ilahi-Nama or Book of God of Farid Al-Din Attar (Persian Heritage Series, No. 29) by Attar Farid Al-Din Year 47
  • In Parenthesis by David Jones Year 47
  • Memorias de ultratumba by François-René de Chateaubriand Year 47
  • The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Year 47
  • Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets by Qu Yuan Year 47
  • Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes Year 47
  • Utopia by Thomas More Year 47
  • Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo Year 47

Year 48

  • The American Novels and Stories of Henry James by Henry James Year 48
  • Broken Commandment by Toson Shimazaki Year 48
  • The History of Italy by Francesco Guicciardini Year 48
  • A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Year 48
  • Novels: 1881-1886 by Henry James Year 48
  • The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola Year 48
  • Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky Year 48
  • Poems and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins Year 48
  • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Year 48
  • Shilappadikaram: (The Ankle Bracelet) by Ilango Adigal Year 48
  • Waverley by Walter Scott Year 48

Year 49

  • The Adventures of Antar The Adventures of Antar (Approaches to Arabic Literature) by Harry T. Norris
  • Complete Plays – Volume one (Everyman’s Library No. 489) by Ben Jonson
  • The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson, Volume 2. Everyman’s Library No. 490 by Ben Jonson
  • The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima
  • Hegel: Selections by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  • Kuruntokai : an anthology of classical Tamil love poetry by Ira Netuñceliyan
  • Lavengro by George Borrow
  • The Philosophy of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • The Romany Rye by George Borrow
  • Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
  • The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima
  • The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dalí
  • Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas
  • Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
  • The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Year 50

  • Areopagitica by John Milton
  • The Beharistan (Abode of Spring): A Literal Translation from the Persian by Jami
  • Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
  • Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  • The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
  • I Don’t Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei by Yuan Mei
  • Espana Invertebrada by José Ortega y Gasset
  • Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale Translated with Introduction and Notes by Ibn Tufayl
  • The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
  • The Six Enneads by Plotinus
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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