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
- Critique of The School for Wives
- Sacred Disease, On the
- Saint Joan
- Saint Julian Hospitaller, The Legend of
- Sale of Creeds, The
- Salome
- Samson Agonistes
- Samuel Pepys
- Sand-Reckoner, The
- Sardanapalus
- Satire, A (Johnson)
- Satires (Horace)
- Savoyard Vicar, Profession of Faith of a
- Sayings, The Golden
- Scarlet Letter, The
- Scarlet Pimpernel, The
- Scene, The American
- Scholasticism, Art and
- School Children, Among
- School for Wives, Critique of The
- School for Wives, The
- Science Going?; Where is
- Science and Hypothesis
- Science and Method
- Science and the Modern World
- Science of Right, The
- Sciences, Dialogues Concerning Two New
- Scientific Autobiography (Planck)
- Scientific Treatises (Pascal)
- Scope and Limits; Human Knowledge, Its
- Screw, The Turn of the
- Screwtape Letters, The (1942)
- Sea, The Old Man and the
- Sea, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
- Sea-Wolf, The
- Seagull, The
- Search of Lost Time, In
- Second Treatise on Government
- Secret Garden, The
- Sections, On Conic
- Secular Hymn, The
- Selected Papers on Hysteria
- Senectute, Cato Maior de
- Sense, Common
- Sense and Sensibility
- Sense and the Sensible, On
- Sensibility, Sense and
- Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, A
- Sentiments, The Declaration of
- Sentiments, The Theory of the Moral
- Serfdom, The Road to
- Sermons (Chrysostom)
- Sermons (Donne)
- Sermons on the Song of Songs
- Seven Against Thebes
- Seven Gables, The House of the
- The Seventh Letter
- Sexual Enlightenment of Children, The
- Shahnameh
- Shakespeare, The Plays of William (Johnson)
- Shallot, The Lady of (1832)
- Shandy, Tristam
- Shepherd of Hermas, The
- Shield of Heracles
- Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The
- Shortest-Way with the Dissenters, The
- Shortness of Life, On Longevity and
- Shrew, The Taming of the
- Sickness Unto Death
- Siddhartha
- Siderius Nuncius
- Silas Marner
- Silmarillion, The
- Silver Skates, Hans Brinker or the
- Simple Heart, A
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Sister Carrie
- Sisters, The Three
- Sisyphus, The Myth of
- Six Great Ideas
- Skates, Hans Brinker or the Silver
- Skepticism and Animal Faith
- Sleep and Sleeplessness, On
- Sleepy Hollow, The Legend of
- Snark, The Hunting of the
- Wives, Critique of The School for
- Wolf, The Sea-