Master Reading List

This is the List I have compiled of recommended Great Works reading from reputable sources.  If anyone has any more suggestions to round out my curriculum, please comment

I have made my Master Reading List using all works in the following compilations:

• BYU Honors Program Great Works of Literature and the Arts List
• Harvard Classics (Dr. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf)
• Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
  
• Great Books of the Western World
• The Bible
• Encyclopedia Brittanica ( I made my way through this monster at Age 10)
• The National Book Awards
• Top Classics in Children’s Literature, including: Newberry, Caldecott, Batchelder, Belpré, and Wilder medals
• Nobel Laureates in Literature (Biographies/Works)
• Pulitzer Prize Winners in Fiction
• The Oxford World Classics
• Booker Prize for Fiction Winners
  
• The Oxford English Dictionary
• Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica

In all, there are 1350 Selections by 728 Authors that I will study my way through.  Join me on a book or two along the way, if you like.  It’s always fun to discuss things with others.  I love learning from other people! You can see what I’m currently reading by looking at the top right column on my page.

The books in blue are the ones I already own. If anyone knows somewhere where I can get the rest–online, library, or store–let me know? I’ll -cross out- the ones I finish reading as I go. Check back to see my progress!  Wish me luck!

See My Master Reading List Here!

Master Reading List

Works by Unknown/ Many Aeschylus Aesop Ainu Epic Anselm of Canterbury Anthology of Korean Lit Apollonius of Perga Archimedes Aristophanes Aristotle Augustine, St. Bede, St. The Bible, KJV Boccaccio, G Boethius Chandogoya Cicero Confucius Copernicus DK Eyewitness Travel Encyclopedia Brittanica Epictetus Erasmus Euclid Euripides Eusebius Galen Galileo Gandhi Ghazzali Hariri Herodotus Hesiod Hippocrates Homer Josephus Khalidasa Lao Tzu Li Po Livy Lu Xun Lucretius Marcus Aurelius Moliere Mother Goose Nicolas of Cusa Nicomachus of Gerasa Ovid The Oxford English Dictionary Petrarch Petronius Plato Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Plotinus Plutarch Ptolemy Sappho Sophocles Suetonius Theophrastus Thomas a Kempis Thomas Aquinas Thucydides Tu Fu Valmiki Vergil Voltaire Xenophon Achebe, Chinua Adams, Douglas Adams, Henry Adamson, Joy Agee, James Agnon, Schmuel Yosef Alcott, Louisa May Aleixandre, Vicente Alighieri, Dante Allende, Isabel Andersen, Hans Christian Andric, Ivo Angelou, Maya Ariosto, Lodovico Arnis, Kingsley Arnold, Matthew Asturias, Miguel Angel Atwater, Richard/Florence Atwood, Margaret Austen, Jane Babbitt, Natalie Bach, J.S. Bacon, Francis Bacon, Roger Bagnold, Enid Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin de Balzac, Honore Banville, John Barkdull, Larry Barker, Pat Barnes, Margaret Ayers Barrie, J.M. Barth, Karl Baum, Frank L. Beaumont & Fletcher Beccari, Orlando Beckett, Samuel Becquer, Gustavo Adolfo Bellow, Saul Bemelmans, Ludwig Benavente, Jacinto Bentham, Jeremy Berger, John Bergson, Henri Berkeley, George Beti, Mongo Bjornson, Bjornstierne Blackmore, Richard D. Blake, William Blume, Judy Bohr, Niels Boll, Heinrich Bond, Michael Borges, Jorge Luis Boswell, James Boulle, Pierre Bradbury, Ray Brashares, Ann Brecht, Bertolt Brett, Jan Bridwell, Norman Brink, Carol Ryrie Brittain, Vera Brodsky, Joseph Bromfield, Louis Bronowski, Jacob Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brookner, Anita Brooks, Geraldine Brown, Marcia Brown, Margaret Wise Browne, Sir Thomas Browning, Eliza. Barrett Browning, Robert de Brunhoff, Jean Buber, Martin Buck, Pearl S. Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich Bunyan, John Burckhardt, Jakob Burke, Edmund Burnett, Frances Hodgson Burney, Fanny Burns, Robert Butler, Robert Olen Butler, Samuel Byatt, A.S. Byron, Lord Cabot, Meg Calderpn de la Barca, P Calvin, John Calvino, Italo Camus, Albert Canetti, Elias Cannon, Janell Capote, Truman Carducci, Giosue Carey, Peter Carle, Eric Carlyle, Thomas Carroll, Lewis Castiglione, Baldassare Cather, Willa Caudill, Rebecca Cela, Camilo Jose Cellini, Benvenuto de Cervantes, Miguel Chabon, Michael Chaucer, Geoffrey Cheever, John Chekhov, Anton Chesnut, Mary Ch’ien, Ssu-ma Chopin, Kate Churchill, Winston Cisneros, Sandra Clark, Walter Cleary, Beverly Coerr, Eleanor Coetzee, J.M. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Comnena, Anna Conrad, Joseph Cooper, James Fenimore Corneille, Pierre Corner, John Cozzens, James Gould Crane, Stephen Cunningham, Michael Curie, Eve Dahl, Roald Dana, Richard Henry Jr. Darwin, Charles Daudet, Alphonse Davis, Harold L. Defoe, Daniel Dekker, Thomas Deledda, Grazia Della Mirandola, Pico DePaola, Tomie Descartes, René Dewey, John Diaz, Junot DiCamillo, Kate Dickens, Charles Dickinson, Emily Diderot, Denis Dillard, Annie Dinesen, Isak Dobzhansky, Theodosius Doctorow, E.L. Donne, John Dostoevskym Fyodor Douglass, Frederick Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roddy Dreiser, Theodor Drury, Allen Dryden, John Du Gard, Roger Martin Fu Maurier, Daphne Dumas, Alexander Dunham, William Durkheim, Emile Dyson, Freeman Echegaray y Eizaguirre, J. Eddington, Arthur Edwards, Jonathan Einstein, Albert Eliot, George Eliot, T.S. Ellison, Ralph Elytis, Odysseus Emecheta, Buchi Emerson, Ralph Waldo Erdos, Paul von Eschenbach, Wolfram Eucken, Rudolf Kristof Eugenides, Jeffrey Euler, Leonard

Faraday, Michael Farley, Walter Farrell, J.G. Faulkner, William Ferber, Edna Feynman, Richard Fielding, Henry Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Penelope Flaubert, Gustave Flavin, Martin Fo, Dario Fontane, Theodor Forbes, Esther Ford, Richard Forester, C.S. Forster, E.M. Fourier, Jean Baptiste J. France, Anatole de France, Marie Frank, Anne Franklin, Benjamin Frazer, Sir James G. Freeman, Dan Freud, Sigmund Froissart, Jean Frost, Robert Galsworthy, John García Marquez, Gabriel Gibbon, Edward Gide, Andrew P.G. Gilbert, William Gipson, Fred Gjellerup, Karl Adolph Glasgow, Ellen von Goethe, Johann W. Golding, Sir William Goldsmith, Oliver Gordimer, Nadine Grahame, Kenneth Grass, Gunter Grau, Shirley Ann Graves, Robert Greed, Rayna Greene, Bette Grimm, Jacob/Wilhelm Guiccardini, Francesco Gunther, John Guthrie, A.B. Haggard, H. Rider Hale, Edward Everett Hamsun, Knut Pedersen Hansberry, Lorraine Hardy, G.H. Hardy, Thomas Harrison, William Harte, Francis Bret Harvey, William Hauptman, Gerhart J.R. Hawking, Stephen Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hayek, F.A. Heaney, Seamus Hegel, G.F.W. Heidegger, Martin von Heidenstam, Carl GV Heisenberg, Werner Hemingway, Ernest Henry, O. Hersey, John Hesse, Hermann Heyerdahl, Thor Heyse, Paul Johann L. Hiaasen, Carl Hicks, J.R. Hilbert, David Hilton, James Hinton, S.E. Hobbes, Thomas Hoffman, Mary Holderlin, Friedrich Hollinghurst, Allan Holmes, Oliver Wendell Hsueh-Chin, Ts’ao Hughes, Langston Hugo, Victor Huizinga, Johan Hulme, Keri Hume, David Hurston, Zora Neale Huxley, Aldous Huygens, Christian Ibsen, Henrik Irving, Washington Ishiguro, Kazuo James, Henry James, William Jefferson, Thomas Jelinek, Elfriede Jenner, Edward Jensen, Johannes V. Jewett, Sarah Orne Jimenez, Juan Ramon Johnson, Crockett Johnson, Eyvind Johnson, Josephine Winslow Jones, Edward P. Jonson, Ben Joyce, James Juster, Norton Kafka, Franz Kane, Chiekh Hamidou Kant, Immanuel Kantor, MacKinlay Karlfeldt, Erik Axel Kawabata, Yasunari Keats, John Keller, Gottfried Keller, Helen Kelman, James Keneally, Thomas Kenko, Yoshida Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, William Kepler, Johannes Kertesz, Imre Kesey, Ken Keyes, Daniel Keynes, John Maynard Khaldun, Ibn Khayyam, Omar Kidd, Sue Monk Kidder, Tracy Kielland, Alexander L. Kierkegaard, Soren Kim, Richard King, Martin Luther Jr. Kipling, Rudyard Klein, Jacob Knight, Eric Knowles, Jim Koopmans, T.C. Kuhn, Thomas Lafarge, Oliver de La Fayette, Mme. Lagerkvist, Par Fabian Lagerlof, Selma O. L. Lahiri, Jhumpa Lavoisier, Antoine L. Lawrence, D.H. Laxness, Halldor Kilian Le Clezio, Jean-Marie G. Lee, Harper L’Engle, Madeleine LeRoux, Gaston Lessing, Doris Lessing, Gotthold E. Levine, Gail Carson Levi-Strauss, Claude Lewis, C.S. Lewis, Sinclair Lewontin, Richard Lincoln, Abraham Lindgren, Astrid Lister, Joseph Lively, Penelope Lobel, Arnold Locke, John Lofting, Hugh London, Jack Longfellow, Henry W. Lord, Walter de Lorris/de Meun, G/J Lowry, Lois Lurie, Alison Luther, Martin Lyell, Charles Macaulay, Thomas B. MacDonald, Betty Machiavelli, Niccolo MacLachlan, Patricia Madison, James Maeterlinck, Maurice PMB Mahfouz, Naguib Mailer, Norman Maimonides, Moses Malamud, Bernard Malory, Sir Thomas Malthus, T.R. Mandelbrot, Benoit Mann, Thomas Manzoni, Alessandro Marlowe, Christopher Marquand, John Phillips Marshall, Alfred Marshall, James Martel, Yann Martinson, Harry Marx, Karl Massinger, Phillip Masuji, Ibuse Maugham, Somerset de Mauppassant, Guy Mauriac, François McBratney, Sam McCarthy, Cormac McCloskey, Robert McCullers, Carson McEwan, Ian McKinley, Robin McMurtry, Larry McPhee, John McPherson, James Alan Melville, Herman Mencken, H.L. Michener, James A. Middleton, Stanley Mill, John Stuart Miller, Arthur Millhauser, Steven Milne, A.A. Milosz, Czeslaw Milton, John Minarik, Else Holmelund Mistral, Frederic Mistral, Gabriela Mitchell, Margaret de Molina, Tirso Momaday, N. Scott Mommsen, Christian MT Monod, Jacques de Montaigne, Michel Montale, Eugenio Montesquieu, Charles Montgomery, L.M. More, Thomas Morrison, Toni Muller, Herta Munsch, Robert Murdoch, Iris de Musset, Alfred Naipul, V.S. de Navarre, Marguerite Neruda, Pablo von Neumann, J. & etc. Newby, P.H. Newton, Sir Isaac Niebuhr, Reinold Nietzsche, Friedrich Nin, Anais

Njornson, Bjornstierne M Nordhoff, Charles Norton, Mary Numeroff, Laura Joffe of Ockham, William O’Connor, Edwin O’Conner, Flannery O’Dell, Scott Oe, Kenzaburo O’Hara, Mary Okri, Ben Olsen, Tillie Ondaatje, Michael O’Neill, Eugene Orczy, Baroness Emma Orwell, George Owen, Wilfred Pamuk, Orhan Paré, Ambroise Parish, Peggy Parker, Dorothy Pascal, Blaise Pasternak, Boris Pasteur, Louis Paton, Alan Patterson, Katherine Paz, Octavio Peirce, Charles Saunders Penn, William Perse, Saint John Peterkin, Julia Pierre, D.B.C. Pinter, Harold Piper, Watty Pirandello, Luigi de Pisan, Christine Planck, Max Plath, Sylvia Poe, Edgar Allan Poincare, Henri Pontoppidan, Henrik Poole, Ernest Pope, Alexander Porter, Katherine Anne Potok, Chaim Potter, Beatrix Ruth, Prawer Jhabvala Proulx, E. Annie Proust, Marcel Prudhomme, Sully Pushkin, Alexander S. Pyle, Howard Quasimodo, Salvatore Rabelais, François Racine, Jean Rand, Ayn Rawlings, Marjorie K. Rawls, Wilson Remarque, Erich Rey, H.A. Reymont, Wladyslaw S. Reynolds, Joshua Ricardo, David Richardson, Samuel Richter, Conrad Rilke, Rainer Maria Roberts, Kenneth Robinson, Marilynne Rolland, Romain Roper, William Rostand, Edmond Roth, Philip Rousseau, J.J. Rowling, J.K. Roy, Arundhati Royce, Josiah Rubens, Bernice Rushdie, Salman Russell, Bertrand Russo, Richard Sachar, Louis Sachs, Nelly de St. Exupery, Antoine Salinger, J.D. Samuelson, Paul A. Sand, George Sandburg, Carl Saramago, Jose Sartre, Jean-Paul Scarry, Richard von Schiller, Friedrich Schopenhauer, Arthur Schrodinger, Erwin Scienszka, Jon Scott, Paul Scott, Sir Walter Sebold, Alice Seferis, Giorgios Seifert, Jaroslav Sendak, Maurice Senkiewicz, Henryk Seuss, Dr. Sewell, Anna Shaara, Michael Shakespeare, William Shaw, George Bernard Shelley, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Sheridan, Richard B. Shields, Carol Shikibu, Murasaki Sholokov, Michail A. Shonagon, Sei Shusaku, Endo Sidney, Phillip Sillanpaa, Frans Eemil Silverstein, Shel Simon, Claude Simpson, George G. Sinclair, Upton Singer, Isaac Bashevis Slobodkina, Esphyr Smiley, Jane Smith, Adam Sok-Kyong, Kang Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Soseki, Natsume Soyinka, Wole Speare, Elizabeth G. Spenser, Edmund de Spinoza, Benedict Spitteler, Carl F.G. Spyri, Johanna Stafford, Jean Stegner, Wallace Stein, Joseph Steinbeck, John Sterne, Laurence Stevenson, Robert L. Stigler, Stephen M. Stoker, Bram Storey, David Storm, Theodor Stowe, Harriet Beecher Strachey, Lytton von Strassburg, Gotfried Streatfeild, Noel Stribling, T.S. Strout, Elizabeth Sturlson, Snorri Styron, William Swift, Graham Swift, Jonathan Szymborska, Wislawa Tacitus, Cornelius Tagore, Rabindranath Tarkington, Booth Tasso, Torquato Tawney, R.H. Taylor, Mildred Taylor, Peter Taylor, Robert Lewis Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Thackeray, William M. Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa Thomas, Lewis Thompson, Kay Thoreau, Henry David de Tocqueville, A.C. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolstoy, Leo Toole, John Kennedy Travers, Pamela L. de Troyes, Chrétien Turgenev, Ivan Twain, Mark Tyler, Anne Tyndale, William Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher Undset, Sigrid Unsworth, Barry Updike, John Valera, Juan Van Allsburg, Chris Veblen, Thorstein Verne, Jules Viorst, Judith Waddington, C.H. Walcott, Derek Walker, Alice Walton, Izaak Warren, Robert Penn Watson, James D. Waugh, Evelyn Weber, Max Webster, John Weinberg, Steven Wells, H.G. Welty, Eudora Werner, Heisenberg Wharton, Edith White, E.B. White, Patrick White, T.H. Whitehead, Alfred N. Whitman, Walt Wiesel, Elie Wilde, Oscar Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Thornton Williams, Margery Williams, Tennessee Wilson, E.O. Wilson, Margaret Wise, Margaret Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wolfe, Thomas Wollstonecraft, Mary Wood, Audrey Woolf, Virginia Woolman, John Wordsworth, William Wouk, Herman Wright, Richard Wyss, Johann Xingjian, Gao Yeats, William Butler Yolen, Jane