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
- Quadrature of the Parabola, On the
- Quantum Theory, Origin and Development of the
- Quarters, Close
- Queene, The Faerie
- Quixote, Don
- Qur'an, The
- Radical Empiricism, Essays in
- Rainbow, The
- Ramayana, The
- Rameau's Nephew
- Rape of Lucrece, The
- Rape of the Lock
- Rappaccini's Daughter
- Rasselas
- Rat Man, The
- Raven, The
- Read a Book; How to
- Reading Gaol, The Ballad of
- Reason, Critique of Practical
- Reason, Critique of Pure
- Reason, The Life of
- Rebel, The
- Reckoner, The Sand-
- Red Badge of Courage, The
- Red and the Black, The
- Red Death, The Masque of the
- Reduction, Instruments of
- Reflection, Aids to
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Refutations, On Sophistical
- Regained, Paradise
- Regimen in Acute Diseases, On
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
- Relativity, The Meaning of
- Religio Medici
- Religion, Dialogues Concerning Natural
- Religion, Institutes of the Christian
- Religion, The Two Sources of Morality and
- Religious Affections, Treatise Concerning
- Religious Experience, The Varieties of
- Remedia Amoris
- Remedies for Love
- Remembrance of Things Past
- Reminiscence, On Memory and
- Replies, Objections Against the Meditations and
- Representative Government
- Representative Men
- Repression
- Republic, The
- Researches in Electricity, Experimental
- Return of the Native, The
- Revolution, The State and
- Revolution in France, Reflections on the
- Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, On the
- Rex, Oedipus
- Rhesus
- Rhetoric
- Richard the Second, King
- Richard the Third, King
- Right, Philosophy of
- Right, The Science of
- Rights of Man, The
- Rights of Man and Natural Law, The
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Rings, The Book of Five
- Rings, The Lord of the
- Rip Van Winkle
- Rises, The Sun Also
- Rites of Passage
- Road to Serfdom, The
- Robert Levet, On the Death of Dr.
- Robinson Crusoe
- Roland, The Song of
- Roman Empire, Decline and Fall of the
- Romans, Lives of the Noble Grecians and
- Rome, History of
- Romeo and Juliet
- Room of One's Own, A
- Rothschild's Fiddle
- Rubaiyat, The
- Rue Morgue, The Murders in the
- Rule of St. Benedict, The
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind