I’ve read the ones in bold.
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Beowulf by Unknown
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Tragedy of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Red and the Black by Stendahl
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Carmen by Prosper Merimee
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Idyls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoyevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Republic by Plato
- The Prince by Machiavelli
- The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- Das Kapital by Karl Marx
- The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
- Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Tartuffe by Moliere
- Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
- A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
- The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- The Nicomachaen Ethics by Aristotle
- Meditations by Rene Descartes
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- How We Think by John Dewey