Great Books of the Western World
Considered part of the collection, though not printed:
- Holy Bible (it was assumed that nearly all households already have one)
Volumes in the collection (1st edition):
- Vol. 1 - The Great Conversation
- Vol. 2 - Syntopicon I
- Vol. 3 - Syntopicon II
- Vol. 4 - Homer
- Vol. 5 - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- Vol. 6 - Herodotus, Thucydides
- Vol. 7 - Plato
- Vols. 8-9 - Aristotle
- Vol. 10 - Hippocrates, Galen
- Vol. 11 - Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Vol. 12 - Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
- Vol. 13 - Virgil
- Vol. 14 - Plutarch
- Vol. 15 - P. Cornelius Tacitus
- Vol. 16 - Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler
- Vol. 17 - Plotinus
- Vol. 18 - Augustine of Hippo
- Vols. 19-20 - Thomas Aquinas
- Vol. 21 - Dante Alighieri
- Vol. 22 - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Vol. 23 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes
- Vol. 24 - François Rabelais
- Vol. 25 - Michel de Montaigne
- Vols. 26-27 - William Shakespeare
- Vol. 28 - William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey
- Vol. 29 - Miguel de Cervantes
- Vol. 30 - Sir Francis Bacon
- Vol. 31 - René Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza
- Vol. 32 - John Milton
- Vol. 33 - Blaise Pascal
- Vol. 34 - Sir Isaac Newton, Christian Huygens
- Vol. 35 - John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume
- Vol. 36 - Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne
- Vol. 37 - Henry Fielding
- Vol. 38 - Baron de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Vol. 39 - Adam Smith
Volumes in the collection (1st edition, cont.):
Added in the second edition:
- Vol. 20 - John Calvin
- Vol. 23 - Desiderius Erasmus
- Vol. 31 - Molière, Jean-Baptiste Racine
- Vol. 34 - Voltaire, Denis Diderot
- Vol. 43 - Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Vol. 44 - Alexis de Tocqueville
- Vol. 45 - Honoré de Balzac
- Vol. 46 - Jane Austen, George Eliot
- Vol. 47 - Charles Dickens
- Vol. 48 - Mark Twain
- Vol. 52 - Henrik Ibsen
- Vol. 55 - William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth
- Vol. 56 - Henri Poincaré, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G. H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C. H. Waddington
- Vol. 57 - Thorstein Veblen, R. H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes
- Vol. 58 - Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Vol. 59 - Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce
- Vol. 60 - Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett
- Brassbound's Conversion, Captain
- Cabin, Uncle Tom's
- Caesar, Julius
- Caesar and Cleopatra
- Call of the Wild
- Cancer Ward
- Candide
- Candle, Chemical History of a
- Cannery Row
- Canterbury Tales
- Capital
- Capitalism, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
- Captain Brassbound's Conversion
- Captains Courageous
- Captivity of the Church, The Babylonian
- Carmel, The Ascent of Mt.
- Carmen Saeculare
- Carol, A Christmas
- Carrie, Sister
- Carta, Magna
- Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Strange
- Cask of Amontillado, The
- Casterbridge, The Mayor of
- Castle, The
- Castle, Interior
- Categories
- Cato Maior de Senectute
- Cavalry Commander, On the
- Cenci, The
- Center of the Earth, Journey to the
- Change, The Perception of
- Charge of the Light Brigade, The
- Charmides
- Charterhouse of Parma, The
- Chatterley's Lover, Lady
- Chemical History of a Candle
- Chemistry, Elements of
- Cherry Orchard, The
- Chief World Systems, Dialogue Concerning the Two
- Children, Among School
- Children, The Sexual Enlightenment of
- Children's and Household Tales
- Choephori, The
- Christ, On the Imitation of
- Christendom, The Attack Upon
- Christian, The Freedom of the
- Christian Doctrine
- Christian Liberty, On
- Christian Nobility, To the
- Christian Religion, Institutes of the
- Christianity, An Argument Against Abolishing
- Christianity, Mere (1952)
- Christmas Carol, A
- Chronicles of Narnia, The (1950-56)
- Church, The Babylonian Captivity of the
- Circle, The First
- Circle, On the Measurement of the
- Circulation of the Blood, On the
- Cities, A Tale of Two
- City of God, The
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil Government, Concerning
- Civil Wars, The
- Civilization and its Discontents
- Civilization on Trial
- Cleopatra, Antony and
- Cleopatra, Caesar and
- Cloak, The
- Close Quarters
- Cloud of Unknowing, The
- Clouds, The
- Conversion, Captain Brassbound's