Classics
57 books
Must-Read1848
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
Must-Read98
Agricola
Tacitus
Must-Read1714
Ajax
Sophocles
Must-Read-441
Antigone
Sophocles
Must-Read2014
Classic of Poetry (Shijing)
Confucius (compiled)
Must-Read1527
Cyropaedia
Xenophon
Must-Read1588
Electra
Euripides
Must-Read1588
Electra
Sophocles
Must-Read2010
Enuma Elish
Anonymous (Babylonian)
Must-Read1844
Eumenides
Aeschylus
Must-Read1628
Georgics
Virgil
Must-Read98
Germania
Tacitus
Must-Read1837
Helen
Euripides
Must-Read1700
Hellenica
Xenophon
Must-Read1876
Heracles
Euripides
Must-Read1756
Hippolytus
Euripides
Must-Read1864
Histories
Tacitus
Must-Read1806
Homeric Hymns
Homer
Must-Read1900
Iphigenia in Aulis
Euripides
Must-Read100
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Plutarch
Must-Read1742
Longinus On the Sublime
Longinus
Must-Read-411
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Must-Read
Natya Shastra
Bharata Muni
Must-Read-401
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
Must-Read-429
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Must-Read1889
On Clemency
Seneca
Must-Read1495
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius
Must-Read1845
Oresteia
Aeschylus
Must-Read2018
Panchatantra
Vishnu Sharma
Must-Read100
Parallel Lives
Plutarch
Must-Read1818
Persians
Aeschylus
Must-Read1553
Philoctetes
Sophocles
Must-Read1901
Posterior Analytics
Aristotle
Must-Read1559
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
Must-Read
Rig Veda
Various (Ancient India)
Must-Read1550
Selected Political Speeches
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Must-Read1812
Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
Must-Read1973
The Acharnians
Aristophanes
Must-Read-423
The Clouds
Aristophanes
Must-Read1790
The Code of Hammurabi
Hammurabi
Must-Read-2100
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous (Sumerian)
Must-Read-405
The Frogs
Aristophanes
Must-Read1990
The Maxims of Ptahhotep
Ptahhotep
Must-Read2009
The Poetic Edda
Various (Old Norse)
Must-Read2019
The Story of Sinuhe
Anonymous (Egyptian)
Must-Read1905
The Trojan Women
Euripides
Must-Read1574
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
Must-Read1868
The Wasps
Aristophanes
Must-Read1966
Women of Trachis
Sophocles
Recommended1536
Ars Poetica
Horace
Recommended2007
Dialogues of the Dead
Lucian
Recommended1816
Epistles
Horace
Recommended1749
Odes
Pindar
Recommended1834
Poems
Catullus
Recommended1575
Satyricon
Petronius
Recommended1500
The Golden Ass
Apuleius
Recommended1894
True History
Lucian