Roadmap

Here find a list of the works I intend to read for this project, along with links to my posts on those I have already read. The list is (eternally) incomplete, and is not ordered either chronologically or by importance, except by accident, and is almost certainly not the order in which I will actually read the listed items. The first part of the list is taken from the contents of Great Books of the Western World, which I have taken to represent a good baseline for works in the Western canon.

1. Works of Plato
1. Meno
2. Euthyphro
3. Apology
4. Crito
5. Phaedo
6. Cratylus
7. Theaetetus
8. Sophist
9. Statesman
10. Parmenides
11. Philebus
12. Symposium
13. Phaedrus
14. Alcibiades
15. Second Alcibiades
16. Hipparchus
17. Rival Lovers
18. Teages
19. Charmides
20. Laches
21. Lysis
22. Euthydemus
23. Protagoras
24. Gorgias
25. Greater Hippias
26. Lesser Hippias
27. Ion
28. Menexenus
29. Clitophon
30. Republic
31. Timaeus
32. Critias
33. Minos
34. Laws
35. Epinomis
36. Letters
37. Definitions
38. On Justice
39. On Virtue
40. Demodocus
41. Sisyphus
42. Halcyon
43. Eryxias
44. Axiochus
45. Epigrams
2. The Iliad
1. Book 1
3. The Odyssey
4. Works of Aeschylus
1. The Suppliant Maidens
2. The Persians
3. Seven Against Thebes
4. Prometheus Bound
5. The Oresteia
6. Agamemnon
7. Choephoroe
8. The Eumenides
5. Works of Sophocles
1. Oedipus the King
2. Oedipus at Colonus
3. Antigone
4. Ajax
5. Electra
6. The Trachiniae
7. Philoctetes
6. Works of Euripides
1. Rhesus
2. Medea
3. Hippolytus
4. Alcestis
5. Heracleidae
6. The Suppliants
7. Trojan Women
8. Ion
9. Helen
10. Andromache
11. Electra
12. Bacchantes
13. Hecuba
14. Heracles Mad
15. Phoenician Women
16. Orestes
17. Iphigeneia in Tauris
18. Iphigeneia at Aulis
19. Cyclops
7. Works of Aristophanes
1. The Acharnians
2. The KNights
3. The CLouds
4. The Wasps
5. Peace
6. The Birds
7. The Frogs
8. Lysistrata
9. Thesmophoriazusae
10. Ecclesiazousae
11. Plutus
8. The History by Herodotus
9. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
10. Works of Aristotle
1. Categories
2. On Interpretation
3. Prior Analytics
4. Posterior Analytics
5. Topics
6. On Sophistical Refutations
7. Physics
8. On Generation and Corruption
9. Meteorology
10. Metaphysics
11. On the Soul
12. History of Animals
13. On the Parts of Animals
14. On the Motion of Animals
15. On the Gait of Animals
16. On the Generation of Animals
17. Nicomachean Ethics
18. Politics
19. The Athenian Constitution
20. Rhetoric
21. Poetics
11. On the Natural Faculties by Galen
12. The Elements by Euclid
13. Works of Archimedes
1. On the Sphere and Cylinder
2. Measurement of a Circle
3. On Conoids and Spheroids
4. On Spirals
5. On the Equilibrium of Planes
6. The Sand-Reckoner
7. The Quadrature of the Parabola
8. On Floating Bodies
9. Book of Lemmas
10. The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
14. On Conic Sections by Apollonius of Perga
15. Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus of Gerasa
16. On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
17. The Discourses by Epictetus
18. The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
19. Works of Virgil
1. The Eclogues
2. The Georgics
3. The Aeneid
20. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch
21. Works of P. Cornelius Tacitus
1. The Annals
2. The Histories
22. The Almagest by Ptolemy
23. On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus
24. Works of Johannes Kepler
1. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
2. The Harmonies of the World
25. The Six Enneads by Plotinus
26. Works of Augustine of Hippo
1. The Confessions
2. The City of God
3. On Christian Doctrine
27. Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
28. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
29. Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
1. Troilus and Criseyde
2. The Canterbury Tales
30. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
31. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
32. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
33. Essays by Michel Eyquen de Montaigne
34. Works of William Shakespeare
1. The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
2. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
3. The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
4. The Tragedy of Richard the Third
5. The Comedy of Errors
6. Titus Andronicus
7. The Taming of the Shrew
8. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
9. Love’s Labour’s Lost
10. Romeo and Juliet
11. The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
12. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
13. The Life and Death of King John
14. The Merchant of Venice
15. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
16. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
17. Much Ado About Nothing
18. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
19. Julius Caesar
20. As You Like It
21. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
22. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
23. The Merry Wives of Windsor
24. Troilus and Cressida
25. All’s Well That Ends Well
26. Measure For Measure
27. Othello, the Moor of Venice
28. King Lear
29. Macbeth
30. Antony and Cleopatra
31. Coriolanus
32. Timon of Athens
33. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
34. Cymbeline
35. The Winter’s Tale
36. The Tempest
37. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
38. Sonnets
35. On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies by William Gilbert
36. Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei
37. Works of William Harvey
1. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
2. On the Circulation of Blood
3. On the Generation of Animals
38. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
39. Works of Sir Francis Bacon
1. Advancement of Learning
2. Novum Organum
3. New Atlantis
4. Essays
40. Works of Rene Descartes
1. Rules for the Direction of the Mind
2. Discourse on the Method
3. Meditations on First Philosophy
4. Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
5. The Geometry
41. Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
42. Works of John Milton
1. Paradise Lost
2. Samson Agonistes
3. Areopagitica
43. Works of Blaise Pascal
1. The Provincial Letters
2. Pensees
44. Works of Sir Isaac Newton
1. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
2. Sir Isaac Newton
45. Treatise on Light by Christian Huygens
46. Works of John Locke
1. A Letter Concerning Toleration
2. Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
3. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
47. The Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
48. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
49. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
50. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
51. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
52. The Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
53. Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau
1. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
2. A Discourse on Political Economy
3. The Social Contract
54. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
55. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
56. Works of Immanuel Kant
1. The Critique of Pure Reason
2. The Critique of Practical Reason
3. The Critique of Judgement
4. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
5. The Metaphysics of Morals
57. The Declaration of Independence
58. The Articles of Confederation
59. The Constitution of the United States of America
60. The Federalist Papers
61. Works of John Stuart Mill
1. On Liberty
2. Considerations on Representative Government
3. Utilitarianism
62. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. by James Boswell
63. Elements of Chemistry by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
64. Analytical Theory of Heat by Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
65. Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday
66. Works of Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1. The Philosophy of Right
2. The Philosophy of History
67. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
68. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
69. Works of Charles Darwin
1. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
2. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
70. Capital by Karl Marx
71. Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
72. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
73. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
74. The Principles of Psychology by William James
75. Works of Sigmund Freud
1. The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
2. Selected Papers on Hysteria
3. The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
4. The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
5. Observations on “Wild” Psycho-Analysis
6. The Interpretation of Dreams
7. On Narcissism
8. Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
9. Repression
10. The Unconscious
11. A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
12. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
13. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
14. The Ego and the Id
15. Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
16. Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
17. Civilization and Its Discontents
18. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
76. Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
77. The Praise of Folly by Erasmus
78. Works of Molière
1. The School for Wives
2. The Critique of the School for Wives
3. Tartuffe
4. Don Juan
5. The Miser
6. The Would-Be Gentleman
7. The Would-Be Invalid
79. Works of Jean Racine
1. Bérénice
2. Phèdre
80. Candide by Voltaire
81. Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
82. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
83. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
84. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
85. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
86. Emma by Jane Austen
87. Middlemarch by George Eliot
88. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
89. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
90. Works of Henrik Ibsen
1. A Doll’s House
2. The Wild Duck
3. Hedda Gabler
4. The Master Builder
91. Pragmatism by William James
92. An Introduction to Metaphysics by Henri Bergson
93. Experience in Education by John Dewey
94. Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
95. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
96. What Is Metaphysics? by Martic Heidegger
97. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
98. The Word of God and the Word of Man by Karl Barth
99. Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare
100. Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers by Max Planck
101. An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead
102. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein
103. The Expanding Universe by Arthur Eddington
104. Works of Niels Bohr
1. Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature
2. Discussion with Einsten on Epistemology
105. A Mathematician’s Apology by G. H. Hardy
106. Physics and Philosophy by Werner Heisenberg
107. What Is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger
108. Genetics and the Origin of Species by Theodosius Dobzhansky
109. The Nature of Life by C. H. Waddington
110. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
111. The Acquisitive Society By R. H. Tawney
112. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by Sir James George Frazer
113. The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
114. Essays in Sociology by Max Weber
115. The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
116. Structural Anthropology by Claude Live-Strauss
117. The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
118. Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
119. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
120. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
121. Six Characters in Search of and Author by Luigi Pirandello
122. Remembrance of Things Past: “Swann In Love” by Marcel Proust
123. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
124. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
125. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
126. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
127. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
128. The Prussian Officer by D. H. Lawrence
129. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
130. Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
131. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
132. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
133. Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
134. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
135. Animal Farm by George Orwell
136. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett