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