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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

  • The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll Year 1
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous Year 1
  • The Garden Party: and Other Plays by Václav Havel Year 1
  • The Histories by Tacitus Year 1
  • Holy Bible: King James Version by American Bible Society Year 1
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard Year 1
  • The Memorandum by Václav Havel Year 1
  • Poem into poem: World poetry in modern verse translation by George Steiner Year 1
  • Selected poems (Cape editions) by Ondra Lysohorsky Year 1
  • The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich Year 1

T* anakh : a new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the traditional Hebrew text by The Jewish Publication Society Year 1

  • The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato Year 1

Year 2

  • Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh Year 2
  • History of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius Year 2
  • The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang Year 2
  • The Lower Depths and Other Plays by Maxim Gorky Year 2
  • The New English Bible; New Testament by Oxford University Press Year 2
  • The New Testament in Modern English by J. B. Phillips Year 2
  • Orestia by Aeschylus Year 2
  • The Portable Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Year 2
  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Year 2
  • Tragedies, Volume 1 (Everyman’s Library) by William Shakespeare Year 2

Year 3

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Year 3
  • Aphorisms by Ramon Gomez de la Serna Year 3
  • The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila by Saint Teresa, of Avila Year 3
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Year 3
  • Buddhist Scriptures by Edward Conze Year 3
  • The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian Year 3
  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Year 3
  • The Golden Ass by Apuleius Year 3
  • The Love Department by William Trevor Year 3
  • Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Year 3

Year 4

  • Aesop’s Fables by Jean de La Fontaine Year 4
  • The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais Year 4
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Year 4
  • The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Year 4
  • Everyman’s Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages by Abraham Cohen Year 4
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid Year 4
  • The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Year 4
  • Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch Year 4
  • Primitive Song by Maurice Bowra Year 4
  • Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert Year 4

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel Year 23
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Year 23
The Essays of Elia and the Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb Year 23
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin Year 23
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev Year 23
Ghazals of Ghalib: Versions from the Urdu by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Year 23
Kukai and His Major Works by Yoshito S. Hakeda Year 23
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Year 23
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Year 23
The Story of Modern Art by Norbert Lynton Year 23
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats Year 39
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek Year 39
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky Year 39
Like water, like fire: an anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day by Vera Rich Year 39
Modern Czech poetry; an anthology by Ewald Osers Year 39
New writing in Yugoslavia (Writing today) by Bernard Johnson Year 39
The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases by Lu Yu Year 39
The Penguin book of Latin American verse, (The Penguin poets) by E Caracciolo-Trejo Year 39
Portuguese voyages, 1498-1663 by Charles David Ley Year 39
Walden by Henry David Thoreau Year 39
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Adventures of Antar The Adventures of Antar (Approaches to Arabic Literature) by Harry T. Norris Year 49
Complete Plays – Volume one (Everyman’s Library No. 489) by Ben Jonson Year 49
The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson, Volume 2. Everyman’s Library No. 490 by Ben Jonson Year 49
The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima Year 49
Hegel: Selections by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Year 49
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Year 49
Kuruntokai : an anthology of classical Tamil love poetry by Ira Netuñceliyan Year 49
Lavengro by George Borrow Year 49
The Philosophy of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Year 49
The Romany Rye by George Borrow Year 49
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima Year 49
The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima Year 49
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dalí Year 49
Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas Year 49
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima Year 49
The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima Year 49
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Year 49
Areopagitica by John Milton Year 50
The Beharistan (Abode of Spring): A Literal Translation from the Persian by Jami Year 50
Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore Year 50
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant Year 50
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Year 50
I Don’t Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei by Yuan Mei Year 50
Espana Invertebrada by José Ortega y Gasset Year 50
Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale Translated with Introduction and Notes by Ibn Tufayl Year 50
The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset Year 50
The Six Enneads by Plotinus Year 50
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein Year 50

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Title: Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Philip Ward’s Lifetime Reading Plan
Author: MJ. Smith
Date: 2016 Jun 12 at 21:00

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

  • The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll Year 1
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous Year 1
  • The Garden Party: and Other Plays by Václav Havel Year 1
  • The Histories by Tacitus Year 1
  • Holy Bible: King James Version by American Bible Society Year 1
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard Year 1
  • The Memorandum by Václav Havel Year 1
  • Poem into poem: World poetry in modern verse translation by George Steiner Year 1
  • Selected poems (Cape editions) by Ondra Lysohorsky Year 1
  • The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich Year 1
  • Tanakh : a new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the traditional Hebrew text by The Jewish Publication Society Year 1
  • The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato Year 1

Year 2

  • Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh Year 2
  • History of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius Year 2
  • The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang Year 2
  • The Lower Depths and Other Plays by Maxim Gorky Year 2
  • The New English Bible; New Testament by Oxford University Press Year 2
  • The New Testament in Modern English by J. B. Phillips Year 2
  • Orestia by Aeschylus Year 2
  • The Portable Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Year 2
  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Year 2
  • Tragedies, Volume 1 (Everyman’s Library) by William Shakespeare Year 2

Year 3

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Year 3
  • Aphorisms by Ramon Gomez de la Serna Year 3
  • The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila by Saint Teresa, of Avila Year 3
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Year 3
  • Buddhist Scriptures by Edward Conze Year 3
  • The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian Year 3
  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Year 3
  • The Golden Ass by Apuleius Year 3
  • The Love Department by William Trevor Year 3
  • Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Year 3

Year 4

  • Aesop’s Fables by Jean de La Fontaine Year 4
  • The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais Year 4
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Year 4
  • The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Year 4
  • Everyman’s Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages by Abraham Cohen Year 4
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid Year 4
  • The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Year 4
  • Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch Year 4
  • Primitive Song by Maurice Bowra Year 4
  • Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert Year 4

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 Year 23
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Year 23
  • The Essays of Elia and the Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb Year 23
  • Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin Year 23
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev Year 23
  • Ghazals of Ghalib: Versions from the Urdu by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Year 23
  • Kukai and His Major Works by Yoshito S. Hakeda Year 23
  • Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Year 23
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Year 23
  • The Story of Modern Art by Norbert Lynton Year 23

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 Year 39
  • The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek Year 39
  • The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky Year 39
  • Like water, like fire: an anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day by Vera Rich Year 39
  • Modern Czech poetry; an anthology by Ewald Osers Year 39
  • New writing in Yugoslavia (Writing today) by Bernard Johnson Year 39
  • The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases by Lu Yu Year 39
  • The Penguin book of Latin American verse, (The Penguin poets) by E Caracciolo-Trejo Year 39
  • Portuguese voyages, 1498-1663 by Charles David Ley Year 39
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau Year 39

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 Year 49
  • Complete Plays – Volume one (Everyman’s Library No. 489) by Ben Jonson Year 49
  • The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson, Volume 2. Everyman’s Library No. 490 by Ben Jonson Year 49
  • The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima Year 49
  • Hegel: Selections by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Year 49
  • In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Year 49
  • Kuruntokai : an anthology of classical Tamil love poetry by Ira Netuñceliyan Year 49
  • Lavengro by George Borrow Year 49
  • The Philosophy of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Year 49
  • The Romany Rye by George Borrow Year 49
  • Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima Year 49
  • The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima Year 49
  • The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dalí Year 49
  • Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas Year 49
  • Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima Year 49
  • The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima Year 49
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Year 49

Year 50

  • Areopagitica by John Milton Year 50
  • The Beharistan (Abode of Spring): A Literal Translation from the Persian by Jami Year 50
  • Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore Year 50
  • Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant Year 50
  • The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Year 50
  • I Don’t Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei by Yuan Mei Year 50
  • Espana Invertebrada by José Ortega y Gasset Year 50
  • Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale Translated with Introduction and Notes by Ibn Tufayl Year 50
  • The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset Year 50
  • The Six Enneads by Plotinus Year 50
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein Year 50


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