The Susan Wise Bauer Classics List

Novels

• Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
• The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
• Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
• The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
• Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
• The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
• The Trial, Franz Kafka
• Native Son, Richard Wright
• The Stranger, Albert Camus
• 1984, George Orwell
• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
• Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• If on a winter’s night a traveler, Italo Calvino
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• White Noise, Don Delillo
• Possession, A.S. Byatt

Autobiographies

• The Confessions, St. Augustine of Hippo
• The Book of Margery Kempe, Margery Kempe
• Essays, Michel de Montaigne
• The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself, Teresa of Avila
• Meditations, Rene Descartes
• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, John Bunyan
• The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration, Mary Rowlandson
• Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
• Walden, Henry David Thoreau
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself, Harriet Jacobs
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
• Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington
• Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche
• Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
• An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas Gandhi
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
• The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, C.S. Lewis
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcom X
• Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton
• The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
• Born Again, Charles W. Colson
• Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez
• The Road from Coorain, Jill Ker Conway
• All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Elie Wiesel

Histories

• The Histories, Herodotus
• The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
• The Republic, Plato
• Lives, Plutarch
• The City of God, St. Augustine of Hippo
• The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede
• The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
• Utopia, Sir Thomas More
• The True End of Civil Government, John Locke
• The History of England, Volume V, David Hume
• The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Common Sense, Thomas Paine
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt
• The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B Du Bois
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber
• Queen Victoria, Lytton Strachey
• The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
• The New England Mind, Perry Miller
• The Great Crash, John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan
• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
• Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, Eugene D. Genovese
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman
• All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James M. McPherson
• A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Marta Ballard, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama

Drama

• Agamemnon, Aeschylus
• Oedipus the King, Sophocles
• Medea, Euripides
• The Birds, Aristophanes
• Poetics, Aristotle
• Everyman
• Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
• Richard III, William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
• Hamlet, William Shakespeare
• Tartuffe, Moliere
• The Way of the World, William Congreve
• She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
• The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
• The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
• The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
• Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw
• Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
• Our Town, Thornton Wilder
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
• No Exit, Jean Paul Sartre
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
• Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
• Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
• A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
• Equus, Peter Shaffer

Poetry

• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Iliad and the Odyssey, Homer
• Greek Lyricists
• Odes, Horace
• Beowulf
• Inferno, Dante Alighieri
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
• Sonnets, William Shakespeare
• John Donne
• Psalms, King James Bible
• Paradise Lost, John Milton
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake
• The Poetry of
  • William Wordsworth
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • John Keats
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Walt Whitman
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Christina Rossetti
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • William Butler Yeats
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Robert Frost
  • Carl Sandburg
  • William Carlos Williams
  • Ezra Pound
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Langston Hughes
  • W.H. Auden
  • Philip Larkin
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Mark Strand
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Seamus Heaney