Great Books of the Western World

Works this list names. ReadingRate holds 118 of the 205 it names. Recorded by the Canons dataset (Andrew Piper, CC BY 4.0).

• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
• A Doll's House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen
• Divine Comedy (1320) by Dante Alighieri
• War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
• Emma (1815) by Jane Austen
• Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
• King Lear (1606) by William Shakespeare
• Othello (1603) by William Shakespeare
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
• Antigone (-441) by Sophocles
• Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
• Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton
• The Tempest (1611) by William Shakespeare
• Twelfth Night (1602) by William Shakespeare
• Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
• Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes
• Faust (1832) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532) by François Rabelais
• Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
• Romeo and Juliet (1597) by William Shakespeare
• The Canterbury Tales (1400) by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Merchant of Venice (1600) by William Shakespeare
• The Miser (1668) by Molière
• Republic (-375) by Plato
• Hamlet (1601) by William Shakespeare
• Medea (-431) by Euripides
• Aeneid (-19) by Virgil
• Iliad (-750) by Homer
• In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
• Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello
• Waiting for Godot (1953) by Samuel Beckett
• Measure for Measure (1604) by William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) by William Shakespeare
• As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare
• Candide (1759) by Voltaire
• Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) by William Shakespeare
• Mother Courage and Her Children (1941) by Bertolt Brecht
• Much Ado About Nothing (1600) by William Shakespeare
• Richard II (1597) by William Shakespeare
• Richard III (1597) by William Shakespeare
• Tartuffe (1669) by Molière
• The Clouds (-423) by Aristophanes
• The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
• The Taming of the Shrew (1594) by William Shakespeare
• Pensées (1670) by Blaise Pascal
• The Bacchae (-405) by Euripides
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
• On the Nature of Things (-55) by Lucretius
• Death in Venice (1912) by Thomas Mann
• Georgics (-29) by Virgil
• Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) by Eugene O'Neill
• Oedipus Rex (-429) by Sophocles
• Saint Joan (1923) by George Bernard Shaw
• The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
• The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Eliot
• To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
• Troilus and Criseyde (1385) by Geoffrey Chaucer
• A Lost Lady (1923) by Willa Cather
• Ajax (-450) by Sophocles
• Alcestis by Euripides
• All's Well That Ends Well (1605) by William Shakespeare
• Antony and Cleopatra (1607) by William Shakespeare
• Areopagitica (1644) by John Milton
• Bérénice (1670) by Jean Racine
• Comus (1634) by John Milton
• Coriolanus (1608) by William Shakespeare
• Cousin Bette (1846) by Honoré de Balzac
• Cymbeline (1611) by William Shakespeare
• Eclogues (-37) by Virgil
• Electra (-410) by Sophocles
• Hedda Gabler (1891) by Henrik Ibsen
• Henry IV Part 2 (1600) by William Shakespeare
• Henry V (1600) by William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part 1 (1594) by William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part 2 (1594) by William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part 3 (1595) by William Shakespeare
• Henry VIII (1613) by William Shakespeare
• Hippolytus (-428) by Euripides
• Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides
• Julius Caesar (1599) by William Shakespeare
• King John (1596) by William Shakespeare
• The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670) by Molière
• Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes
• Little Dorrit (1857) by Charles Dickens
• Love's Labour's Lost (1598) by William Shakespeare
• Lycidas (1638) by John Milton
• Lysistrata (-411) by Aristophanes
• Macbeth (1606) by William Shakespeare
• Meditations (180) by Marcus Aurelius
• Oedipus at Colonus (-401) by Sophocles
• Oresteia (-458) by Aeschylus
• Philoctetes (-409) by Sophocles
• Phèdre (1677) by Jean Racine
• Prometheus Bound (-430) by Aeschylus
• Rameau's Nephew (1805) by Denis Diderot
• Samson Agonistes (1671) by John Milton
• The Beast In The Jungle (1903) by Henry James
• The Birds (-414) by Aristophanes
• City of God (426) by Augustine of Hippo
• The Comedy of Errors (1594) by William Shakespeare
• The Frogs (-405) by Aristophanes
• Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
• The Imaginary Invalid (1673) by Molière
• The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) by Sigmund Freud
• The Master Builder (2016) by Henrik Ibsen
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602) by William Shakespeare
• The School for Wives (1662) by Molière
• The Trojan Women (-415) by Euripides
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594) by William Shakespeare
• The Wild Duck (1884) by Henrik Ibsen
• The Winter's Tale (1611) by William Shakespeare
• Timon of Athens (1623) by William Shakespeare
• Titus Andronicus (1594) by William Shakespeare
• The Women of Trachis (-450) by Sophocles
• Troilus and Cressida (1609) by William Shakespeare
• Uncle Vanya (1899) by Anton Chekhov