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Old Testament Age (Creation - 3 BC)

• Old Testament
• Anonymous (ca. 2000 BC), The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Homer (ca. 800 BC), The Iliad, The Odyssey
• Confucius (ca. 551-479 BC), The Analects
• Aeschylus (525-456/5 BC), The Oresteia
• Sophocles (496-406 BC), Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
• Euripides (484-406 BC), Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, The Bacchae
• Herodotus (ca. 484-425 BC), The Histories
• Thucydides (ca. 470/460-ca. 400 BC), The History of the Peloponnesian War
• Sun-Tzu (ca. 450-380 BC), The Art of War
• Aristophanes (448-388 BC), Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds
• Plato (428-348 BC), Selected Works, especially Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Lysis, Symposium, Gorgias, Meno, Protagoras, Timeaus, Critias, Republic
• Aristotle (384-322 BC), Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Physics, Metaphysics, On the Soul, Poetics
• Mencius (ca. 400-320 BC), The Book of Mencius
• Anonymous (attributed to Valmiki, ca. 300 BC), The Ramayana
• Anonymous (attributed to Vyasa, ca. 200 BC), The Mahabharata
• Anonymous (ca. 200 BC), The Bhagavad Gita
• Ssu-ma Ch’ien (145-86 BC), Records of the Grand Historian
• Lucretius (ca. 100-ca. 50 BC), The Nature of Things
• Virgil (70-19 BC), The Aeneid

New Testament Age (3 BC - AD 100)

• New Testament

Early Church Age (AD 100 - AD 800)

• Apostolic Fathers (ca. 100-120), First Epistle of Clement, Epistles of Ignatius, Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Epistle to Diognetus, Epistle of Barnabas, Didache - my review
• Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Meditations
• Origen (184/5 - 253/4), On First Principles
• Desert Fathers (ca. 270-356), Sayings
• Athanasius (c.296-373), On the Incarnation - my review
• Augustine (354-430), Confessions - my review, On the Trinity, City of God, On the Free Choice of the Will
• Kālidāsa (ca. 400), The Cloud Messenger, Sakuntala
• Muhammad (ca. 650), The Quran
• Hui-neng (638-713), The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

Middle Ages (AD 800 - AD 1500)

• Firdausi (ca. 940-1020), Shah Nameh
• Sei Shōnagon (ca. 965-1035), The Pillow Book
• Lady Murasaki (ca. 976-1015), The Tale of Genji
• Omar Khayyam (1048-?), The Rubaiyat
• Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Summa theologiae - my review
• Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
• Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400), The Canterbury Tales
• Anonymous (ca. 1400), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Anonymous (ca. 1500), The Thousand and One Nights

Reformation Age (AD 1500 - AD 1650)

• Martin Luther (1483 - 1546), Ninety-Five Theses, Large Catechism, Small Catechism, On the Freedom of a Christian
• John Calvin (1509 - 1564), Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543), On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres
• François Rabelais (1483 - 1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Andreas Vesalius (1514 - 1564), On the Fabric of the Human Body
• Anonymous (attributed to Wu Ch’eng-en, 1500 - 1582), Journey to the West
• Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), Selected Essays, especially "Apology for Raymond Sebond"
• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616), Don Quixote
• William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Complete Works, especially Hamlet, Othello, King Lear
• John Donne (1573 - 1631), Selected Works, especially Holy Sonnets
• Anonymous (1618), The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chin P’ing Mei)

Modern Age (AD 1650 - AD 1960)

• Galileo Galilei (1574 - 1642), Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
• Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), Leviathan
• René Descartes (1596 - 1650), Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy
• John Milton (1608 - 1674), Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica
• Molière (1622 - 1673), Selected Plays especially Misanthrope and Tartuffe
• Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), Penseés
• John Bunyan (1628 - 1688), Pilgrim’s Progress
• John Locke (1632 - 1704), Second Treatise of Government
• Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694), The Narrow Road to the Deep North
• Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731), Robinson Crusoe
• Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Gulliver’s Travels
• Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide
• David Hume (1711 - 1776), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754), Tom Jones
• Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in (1715 - 1763), The Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Confessions
• Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768), Tristram Shandy
• James Boswell (1740 - 1795), The Life of Samuel Johnson
• Thomas Jefferson and others, Writings
• Hamilton, Madison, and Jay (1787), The Federalist Papers
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Faust
• William Blake (1757 - 1827), Complete Poems
• William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), Major Works, especially The Prelude
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), Complete Poems
• Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion
• Johann David Wyss (1743 - 1818), The Swiss Family Robinson
• Stendhal (1783 - 1842), The Red and the Black
• Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850), Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, Cousin Bette
• Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851), Frankenstein
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851), The Last of the Mohicans
• Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855), Fear and Trembling
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America
• Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1864), Collected Works
• Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Speeches and Writings, vol. 1, Speeches and Writings, vol. 2
• Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations
• Alexander Dumas (1802 - 1870), The Count of Monte Cristo
• John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, The Subjection of Women
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov
• Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby-Dick
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Henry Dunant (1828 - 1910), A Memory of Solferino
• Jack London (1876 - 1916), The Call of the Wild
• Mark Twain (1871 - 1910), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Max Weber (1864 - 1920), Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Heart of Darkness
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), The Great Gatbsy
• James Joyce (1882 - 1941), Ulysses
• George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1984
• Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea
• Herman Hesse (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Demian
• Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963), Brave New World
• John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath

Postmodern Age (AD 1960 - present) - to be updated

• Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall
• John Kennedy Toole (1937 - 1969), A Confederacy of Dunces
• Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), Gaudium et Spes, Lumen Gentium, Dei Verbum, Sacrosanctum Concilium
• Erich Maria Remarque (1898 - 1970), All Quiet on the Western Front
• J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
• Ralph Ellison (1913 - 1994), Invisible Man
• William Golding (1911 - 1993), Lord of the Flies
• Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996), Silence
• Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997), Man's Search for Meaning
• Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch-22
• Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012), Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Harper Lee (1926 - 2016), To Kill a Mockingbird
• Eliezer Wiesel (1928 - 2016), Night