| Volume 1 | Homer |
| Homer | Iliad |
| Odyssey | |
| Volume 2 | Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes |
| Aeschylus | Plays |
| Sophocles | Plays |
| Euripides | Plays |
| Aristophanes | Plays |
| Volume 3 | Herodotus and Thucydides |
| Herodotus | History |
| Thucydides | The History of the Peloponnesian War |
| Volume 4 | Plato |
| Plato | Dialogues |
| Seventh Letter | |
| Volumes 5 and 6 | Aristotle |
| Aristotle | Organon Physics On Generation and Corruption On the Heavens Meteorology On the Soul Little Physical Treatises On Breath History of Animals; Natural History of Animals On the Parts of Animals On the Motion of Animals On the Generation of Animals On the Beginnings of Animals, Progression of Animals Metaphysics Nicomachean Ethics Eudemian Ethics Magna Moralia Politics Rhetoric; Art of Rhetoric Poetics |
| Volume 7 | Hippocrates and Galen |
| Hippocrates | Hippocratic Writings |
| Galen | On the Natural Faculties |
| Volume 8 | Euclid, Archimedes, and Nicomachus |
| Euclid | Elements |
| Archimedes | Works (including The Method) |
| Nicomachus | Introduction to Arithmetic |
| Volume 9 | Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Plotinus |
| Lucretius | The Way Things Are |
| Epictetus | Discourses |
| Marcus Aurelius | The Meditations |
| Plotinus | The Six Enneads |
| Volume 10 | Virgil |
| Virgil | Ecologues |
| Georgics | |
| Aeneid | |
| Volume 11 | Plutarch |
| Plutarch | Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans |
| Volume 12 | Tacitus |
| Tacitus | Annals |
| Histories | |
| Volume 13 | Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Johannes Kepler |
| Ptolemy | Almagest |
| Copernicus | On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres |
| Kepler | Epitome of Copernican Astronomy |
| The Harmonies of the World | |
| Volume 14 | Saint Augustine of Hippo |
| Augustine | The Confessions |
| City of God | |
| On Christian Doctrine | |
| Volumes 15 and 16 | Saint Thomas Aquinas |
| Aquinas | Summa Theologica |
| Volume 17 | Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Dante | Divine Comedy |
| Chaucer | Troilus and Criseyde |
| Canterbury Tales | |
| Volume 18 | John Calvin |
| Calvin | Institutes of the Christian Religion |
| Volume 19 | Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes |
| Machiavelli | The Prince |
| Hobbes | Leviathan |
| Volume 20 | François Rabelais |
| Rabelais | Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| Volume 21 | Desiderius Erasmus and Michel de Montaigne |
| Erasmus | Praise of Folly |
| Montaigne | Essays |
| Volumes 22 and 23 | William Shakespeare |
| Shakespeare | The Plays and Sonnets |
| Volume 24 | William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, and William Harvey |
| Gilbert | On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies |
| Galileo | Concerning the Two New Sciences |
| Harvey | On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals |
| On the Circulation of the Blood | |
| On the Generation of Animals | |
| Volume 25 | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Cervantes | The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha |
| Volume 26 | Sir Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and Baruch Spinoza |
| Bacon | Advancement of Learning |
| Novum Organum | |
| New Atlantis | |
| Descartes | Rules for the Direction of the Mind |
| Discourse on the Method | |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| Objections Against the Meditations and Replies | |
| The Geometry | |
| Spinoza | Ethics |
| Volume 27 | John Milton |
| Milton | English Minor poems |
| Paradise Lost | |
| Areopagitica | |
| Volume 28 | Blaise Pascal |
| Pascal | The Provincial Letters |
| Penseés | |
| Scientific Treatises | |
| Volume 29 | Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), and Jean Racine |
| Moliere | The School for Wives |
| The Critique for the School for Wives | |
| Tartuffe | |
| Don Juan | |
| The Miser | |
| The Would-Be Gentleman | |
| The Would-Be Invalid | |
| Racine | Bérénice |
| Volume 30 | Sir Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens |
| Newton | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy |
| Optics | |
| Huygens | Treatise on Light |
| Volume 31 | John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume |
| Locke | A Letter Concerning Toleration |
| Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay | |
| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
| Berkeley | The Principles of Human Knowledge |
| Hume | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
| Volume 32 | Johathan Swift, Voltaire, and Denis Diderot |
| Swift | Gulliver’s Travels |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Diderot | Rameau’s Nephew |
| Volume 33 | Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) and Jean Jaques Rousseau |
| Montesquieu | The Spirit of Laws |
| Rousseau | On the Origin of Inequality |
| On Political Economy | |
| The Social Contract | |
| Volume 34 | Adam Smith |
| Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |
| Volumes 35 and 36 | Edward Gibbon |
| Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Volume 37 | Immanuel Kant |
| Kant | The Critique of Pure Reason |
| The Critique of Practical Reason, and Other Ethical Treatises | |
| Volume 38 | American State Papers, The Federalist, John Stuart Mill |
| American State Papers | Declaration of Independence |
| Articles of Confederation | |
| The Constitution | |
| Hamilton, Madison, Jay | The Federalist |
| Mill | On Liberty |
| Representative Government | |
| Utilitarianism | |
| Volume 39 | James Boswell |
| Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson |
| Volume 40 | Antoine Lavoisier and Michael Faraday |
| Lavoisier | Elements of Chemistry |
| Faraday | Experimental Researches in Electricity |
| Volume 41 | Georg Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Hegel | The Philosophy of Right |
| The Philosophy of History | |
| Kierkegaard | Fear and Trembling |
| Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil |
| Volume 42 | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| Tocqueville | Democracy in America |
| Volume 43 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Honoré de Balzac |
| Goethe | Faust: Parts One and Two |
| Balzac | Cousin Bette |
| Volume 44 | Jane Austen and George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) |
| Austen | Emma |
| Eliot | Middlemarch |
| Volume 45 | Charles Dickens |
| Dickens | Little Dorrit |
| Volume 46 | Herman Melville and Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| Melville | Moby Dick |
| Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Volume 47 | Charles Darwin |
| Darwin | The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
| The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex | |
| Volume 48 | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| Marx | Das Capital |
| Marx and Engels | Manifesto of the Communist Party |
| Volume 49 | Count Leo Tolstoy |
| Tolstoy | War and Peace |
| Volume 50 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Henrik Ibsen |
| Dostoyevsky | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Ibsen | A Doll’s House |
| The Wild Duck | |
| Hedda Gabler | |
| The Master Builder | |
| Volume 51 | William James |
| James | The Principles of Psychology |
| Volume 52 | Sigmund Freud |
| Freud | The Major Works of Sigmund Freud |
| Volume 53 | 20th Century Philosophy and Religion |
| James | Pragmatism |
| Bergson | An Introduction to Metaphysics |
| Dewey | Experience and Education |
| Whitehead | Science and the Modern World |
| Russell | The Problems of Philosophy |
| Heidegger | What is Metaphysics? |
| Wittgenstein | Philosophical Investigations |
| Barth | The Word of God and the Word of Man |
| Volume 54 | 20th Century Natural Science |
| Poincare | Science and Hypothesis |
| Planck | Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers |
| Whitehead | An Introduction to Mathematics |
| Einstein | Relativity: The Special and the General Theory |
| Eddington | The Expanding Universe |
| Bohr | Bohr. Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections) |
| Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics | |
| Hardy | A Mathematician’s Apology |
| Heisenberg | Physics and Philosophy |
| Schrodinger | What is Life? |
| Dobzhansky | Genetics and the Origin of Species |
| Waddington | The Nature of Life |
| Volume 55 | 20th Century Social Science I |
| Veblen | The Theory of the Leisure Class |
| Tawney | The Acquisitive Society |
| Keynes | Keynes. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money |
| Volume 56 | 20th Century Social Science II |
| Frazer | The Golden Bough |
| Weber | Essays in Sociology (selections) |
| Huizinga | The Waning of the Middle Ages |
| Volume 57 | 20th Century Imatinative Literature I |
| Levi-Strauss | Structural Anthropology |
| James | The Beast in the Jungle |
| Shaw | Saint Joan |
| Conrad | Heart of Darkness |
| Chekhov | Uncle Vanya |
| Pirandello | Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| Proust | Remembrance of Things Past. “Swann in Love” |
| Cather | A Lost Lady |
| Mann | Death in Venice |
| Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Volume 58 | 20th Century Imaginative Literature II |
| Woolf | To the Lighthouse |
| Kafka | Metamorphosis |
| Lawrence | The Prussian Officer |
| Eliot | The Waste Land |
| O’Neill | Mourning Becomes Electra |
| Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| Faulkner | A Rose for Emily |
| Brecht | Mother Courage and Her Children |
| Hemingway | The Short Happy Life of Macomber |
| Orwell | Animal Farm |
| Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
The Thousand Good Books 