List of 100 Works:



List of 100 Works(

On each notecard:

• Author (FRONT)

• Title (FRONT)

• Year written (FRONT)

• Two sentences of plot outline (BACK)

1. Alighieri, Dante. The Inferno

2. Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica

3. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice

4. Bacon, Francis. Novum Organum

5. Balzac, Honore. Old Goriot

6. Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot

7. Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex

8. Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron

9. Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre

10. Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights

11. Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

12. Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the French Revolution

13. Calvin, John. The Institutes of the Christian Religion

14. Camus, Albert. The Stranger

15. Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass

16. Castiglione, Baldassare. The Book of the Courtier

17. Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote

18. Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace

19. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness

20. Copernicus, Nicolas. On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

21. Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species

22. Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe

23. Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method

24. Descartes, Rene. The Passions of the Soul

25. Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield

26. Diderot, Denis. Encyclopedia

27. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment

28. Dumas, Alexandre. Count of Monte Cristo

29. Eliot, T.S. Four Quartets

30. Eliot, George. The Mill in the Floss

31. Erasmus, Desiderius. In Praise of Folly

32. Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones

33. Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary

34. Forster, E.M. A Passage to India

35. Galileo. Discoveries and Opinions

36. Golding, William. Lord of the Flies

37. Grass, Gunter. The Tin Drum

38. Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and its Discontents

39. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure

40. Hegel, George. Lectures on the Philosophy of History

41. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls

42. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan

43. Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables

44. Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House

45. Joyce, James. Ulysses

46. Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis

47. Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

48. Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling

49. Kipling, Rudyard. The Man Who Would Be King

50. Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon

51. Lenin, V.I. The State and Revolution

52. Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook

53. Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz

54. Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

55. Loyola, Ignatius. Spiritual Exercises

56. Luther, Martin. Christian Liberty

57. Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince

58. Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population

59. Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus

60. Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto

61. Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty

62. Milton, John. Paradise Lost

63. Moliere. The Bourgeois Gentleman

64. Montesquieu, Baron de. The Spirit of Laws

65. More, Thomas. Utopia

66. Naipaul, V.S. A Bend in the River

67. Newton, Sir Isaac. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

68. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Genealogy of Morals

69. Orwell, George. 1984

70. Orwell, George. Animal Farm

71. Pascal, Blaise. Pensees

72. Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago

73. Pisan, Christine. The City of Ladies

74. Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past

75. Reed, John. Ten Days that Shook the World

76. Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front

77. Rousseau, Jean Jacques. The Social Contract

78. Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses

79. Said, Edward. Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

80. Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness

81. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet

82. Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, parts 1&2

83. Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion

84. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein

85. Smith, Adam. Wealth of Nations

86. Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

87. Spinoza, Baruch de. A Theological-Political Treatise

88. Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

89. Stoker, Bram. Dracula

90. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels

91. Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management

92. Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair

93. Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace

94. Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons

95. Voltaire. Candide

96. Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five

97. Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest

98. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Women

99. Woof, Virginia. To the Lighthouse

100. Zola, Emile. Germinal

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