Classics
69 books
Must-Read 1968
Aeneid
Virgil
Must-Read 1848
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
Must-Read 1585
Agricola
Tacitus
Must-Read 1714
Ajax
Sophocles
Must-Read 1818
Alcestis
Euripides
Must-Read 2011
Anabasis
Xenophon
Must-Read 1598
Annals
Tacitus
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Classic of Poetry (Shijing)
Confucius (compiled)
Must-Read 1527
Cyropaedia
Xenophon
Must-Read 1684
Eclogues
Virgil
Must-Read 1588
Electra
Euripides
Must-Read 1588
Electra
Sophocles
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Enuma Elish
Anonymous (Babylonian)
Must-Read 1844
Eumenides
Aeschylus
Must-Read 1482
Fasti
Ovid
Must-Read 2013
Georgics
Virgil
Must-Read 1652
Germania
Tacitus
Must-Read 1837
Helen
Euripides
Must-Read 1700
Hellenica
Xenophon
Must-Read 1876
Heracles
Euripides
Must-Read 1502
Heroides
Ovid
Must-Read 1756
Hippolytus
Euripides
Must-Read 1864
Histories
Tacitus
Must-Read 1526
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Must-Read 1806
Homeric Hymns
Homer
Must-Read 1900
Iphigenia in Aulis
Euripides
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Kojiki
O no Yasumaro
Must-Read 2016
Libation Bearers
Aeschylus
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Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Plutarch
Must-Read 1650
Memorabilia
Xenophon
Must-Read 1500
Moralia
Plutarch
Must-Read
Natya Shastra
Bharata Muni
Must-Read
Panchatantra
Vishnu Sharma
Must-Read 2015
Parallel Lives
Plutarch
Must-Read 2008
Persians
Aeschylus
Must-Read 1553
Philoctetes
Sophocles
Must-Read 1559
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
Must-Read
Rig Veda
Various (Ancient India)
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Selected Political Speeches
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Must-Read 1812
Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
Must-Read 1930
Suppliant Women
Aeschylus
Must-Read 1973
The Acharnians
Aristophanes
Must-Read 1929
The Art of Love
Ovid
Must-Read 1999
The Birds
Aristophanes
Must-Read
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Various (Arabic/Persian)
Must-Read 2006
The Clouds
Aristophanes
Must-Read
The Code of Hammurabi
Hammurabi
Must-Read
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous (Sumerian)
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The I Ching (Book of Changes)
King Wen (attributed)
Must-Read
The Maxims of Ptahhotep
Ptahhotep
Must-Read
The Poetic Edda
Various (Old Norse)
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The Story of Sinuhe
Anonymous (Egyptian)
Must-Read 1905
The Trojan Women
Euripides
Must-Read 1957
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
Must-Read 1868
The Wasps
Aristophanes
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Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod
Must-Read 1966
Women of Trachis
Sophocles
Recommended 2024
Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes
Recommended 1536
Ars Poetica
Horace
Recommended 2007
Dialogues of the Dead
Lucian
Recommended 1816
Epistles
Horace
Recommended 1635
Odes
Horace
Recommended 1749
Odes
Pindar
Recommended 1486
Pharsalia
Marcus Annaeus Lucan
Recommended 1834
Poems
Catullus
Recommended 1915
Poems and Fragments
Sappho
Recommended 2004
Satires
Horace
Recommended 1575
Satyricon
Petronius
Recommended 1894
True History
Lucian