26th - 12th century BC

(The Bronze Age)

Sumerian Mythology - Anon (c. 2600 - 2000 BC)

The Epic of Gilgamesh - Anon (c. 2100 BC)

The Vedas - Anon (c. 1500-1000 BC)

Tanakh - Many Authors (c. 13th - 4th century BC)

12 - 9th century BC

(The Iron Age)

8th century BC

The Iliad- Homer (c. 8th century BC)

The Odyssey - Homer (c. 8th century BC)

7th Century BC

Homeric Hymns - Anon (c. 7th - 6th century BC)

The Upanishads - Anon (c. 7th - 5th century BC)

The Theogony - Hesiod (c. 700 BC)

Poems and Fragments - Sappho (c. 630-570 BC)

Fragments - Anaximander (c. 610-546 BC)

6th Century BC

Aesop's Fables - Aesop (c. 6th century BC)

Fragments - Heraclitus (c. 535-475 BC)

Fragments - Anaxagoras (c. 510-428 BC)

5th Century BC

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides - Aeschylus (c. 5th century BC)

The Hippocratic Corpus - Hippocrates and others (c. 5th - 4th century BC)

Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus (c. 5th century BC)

The Derveni Papyrus - Anon (c. 5th century BC)

The Bhagavad Gita - Anon (c. 5th - 2nd century BC)

On Nature - Parmenides (c. 500 BC)

On Nature - Empedocles (c. 494-434 BC)

On Ancient Medicine - Hippocrates and others (c. 450-400 BC)

The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone - Sophocles (c. 441-406 BC)

Ajax - Sophocles (c. 441 BC)

The Histories - Herodotus (440 BC)

The History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides (c. 431 BC)

Medea - Euripides (431 BC)

Hippolytus - Euripides (428 BC)

The Clouds - Aristophanes (423 BC)

Philoctetes - Sophocles (409 BC)

The Bacchae - Euripides (405 BC)

The Frogs - Aristophanes (405 BC)

Electra - Sophocles (c. 400 BC)

4th Century BC

Shakuntala - Kālidāsa (c. 4th century)

Tao Te Ching - Laozi (c. 4th century BC)

The Mahābhārata - Anon (c. 4th century BC - 4th century AD)

Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo - Plato (c. 399-360 BC)

The Symposium - Plato (c. 385-370 BC)

The Republic - Plato (c. 380 BC)

Gorgias - Plato (c. 380 BC)

Timaeus-Critias - Plato (c. 360 BC)

Parmenides - Plato (c. 300s BC)

Cyropaedia - Xenophon (c. 370 BC)

Politics - Aristotle (c. 350 BC)

On the Soul | De Anima - Aristotle (c. 350 BC)

Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle (c. 340 BC)

Poetics - Aristotle (c. 335 BC)

Metaphysics - Aristotle (c. 4th century BC)

Meteorology - Aristotle (c. 4th century BC)

On Generation and Corruption - Aristotle (c. 4th century BC)

3rd Century BC

Argonautica - Apollonius of Rhodes (c. 3rd century BC)

Zhuangzi - Zhuang Zhou (c. 3rd century BC)

Conics - Apollonius (c. 3rd-2nd century BC)

Elements - Euclid (c. 300 BC)

Essays - Archimedes (c.287-212 BC)

2nd Century BC

Tetrabiblos - Ptolemy (c. 2nd century BC)

1st Century BC

The Three Baskets | Tripiṭaka - Anon (c. 1st century BC)

The Dhammapada - Anon (c. 1st century BC)

On the Nature of Things - Lucretius (c. 1st century BC)

History of Rome | Ab Urbe Condita Libri - Livy (27-9 BC)

The Aeneid - Virgil (19 BC)

1st Century AD

Bibliotheca - Pseudo-Apollodorus (c. 1st - 2nd century)

Metamorphosis - Ovid (c. 8 AD)

The New Testament in Greek | Novum Testamentum Graece - Many Authors, ed. Eberhard Nestle et al (c. 50-100)

Introduction to Arithmetic - Nicomachus (c. 60–120 AD)

2nd Century

The Nag Hammadi Library - Anon (c. 2nd - 4th century)

Almagest - Ptolemy (c. 2nd century BC)

Discourses of Epictetus - Epictetus (c. 108)

On the Natural Faculties - Galen (c. 129-199)

Parallel Lives - Plutarch (c. 125)

Outlines of Pyrrhonism - Sextus Empiricus (c. 150-210)

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (c. 161-180)

3rd Century

The Kama Sutra - Vātsyāyana (c. 3rd century)

The Enneads - Plotinus (c. 270)

4th Century

The Bible - Many Authors (canonised c. 300-400)

The Analects - Confucius (c. 4th-5th century)

Confessions - Saint Augustine of Hippo (c. 397-400)

5th century

The City of God - Saint Augustine of Hippo (426)

6th Century

Beowulf - Anon (c. 6th - 9th century)

7th Century

The Quran - compiled by Zayd ibn Thabit (c. 7th century)

8th Century

Tibetan Book of the Dead | Bardo Thodol - Padmasambhava (c. 8th century)

A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life | Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra - Shantideva (c. 8th century)

A Thousand Teachings | Upadeśasāhasri - Adi Shankara (c. 8th century)

9th Century

✔ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Anon (c. 9th century)

I Ching - Anon (c. 9th century)

Crist - Cynewulf (c. 800)

The Division of Nature | De divisione naturae - John Scotus Eriugena (867)

10th Century

Oisín and Niamh - Anon (c. 10th century)

The Fenian Cycle | an Fhiannaíocht - Anon (c. 10th century)

11th Century

The Tale of Genji | Genji monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu (c. 11th century)

The Song of Roland | La Chanson de Roland - Anon (c. 1040-1115)

12th Century

The Lais of Marie de France - Marie de France (c. 12th century)

The Knight of the Cart | Le Chevalier de la Charette - Chrétien de Troyes (c. 12th cent)

Percival of Wales | Perceval le Gallois - Chrétien de Troyes (c. 12th cent)

History of the Kings of England | Historia Regum Britanniae - Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1136)

Scivias - Hildegard of Bingen (1152)

Physica - Hildegard of Bingen (1155)

Brut - Layamon (c. 1190 - 1215)

The Guide for the Perplexed - Maimonides (1190)

13th Century

Parzival - Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 13th cent)

The Zohar - Moses de León (c. 13th century)

The Elder Edda | The Poetic Edda - Anon (c. 13th century)

The Völsunga Saga - Anon (c. 13th century)

The Song of the Nibelungs | Nibelungenlied - Anon (c. 1200)

Poems - Rumi (1207-1273)

The Vulgate Cycle - Anon (c. 1210-1230)

The Younger Edda | The Prose Edda - Snorri Sturluson (c. 1220)

The Romance of the Rose | Le Roman de la Rose - Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1230)

The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart - Meister Eckhart, ed. M. O’C Welsh (1260-1328)

Summa Theologiae - Saint Thomas Aquinas (1265-1274)

Njál’s Saga - Anon (c. 1270-1290)

The Icelandic Sagas - Anon (c. 13th-14th century)

14th Century

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - The Gawaine Poet (c. 14th century)

The Travels of Marco Polo | Livre des Merveilles du Monde - Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa (c. 1300)

Poems - Hafiz (1315-1390)

The Divine Comedy - Dante (1320)

The Mabinogion - Anon (c. 1350–1410)

The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio (1353)

The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (1387)

15th Century

The Death of Arthur | Le Morte d’Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory (1485)

16th Century

The Arabian Nights: Tales from 1000 and 1 Nights - Anon (c. 16th century)

✔ Ninety-five Theses - Martin Luther (1517)

✔ To the Christian Nobility - Martin Luther (1520)

✔ The Babylonian Captivity of the Church - Martin Luther (1520)

✔ A Treatise on Christian Liberty - Martin Luther (1520)

✔ The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres - Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)

Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects - Georgio Vasari (1550)

The Pleasant Nights | Le Piacevoli Notti - Giovanni Francesco Straparola (1551)

Essays - Michel de Montaigne (1580-1595)

The Ash Wednesday Supper | La cena de le ceneri - Giordano Bruno (1584)

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds | De l'infinito, universo e mondi - Giordano Bruno (1584)

The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser (1590)

✔ Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (1597)

Henry V - William Shakespeare (1599)

17th Century

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare (1602)

As You Like It - William Shakespeare (1603)

Othello - William Shakespeare (1604)

Guru Granth Sahib - Many Authors (c. 1604)

✔ A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare (1605)

The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare (1605)

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1605)

King Lear - William Shakespeare (1606)

✔ Macbeth - William Shakespeare (1606)

L’Orfeo {Play} - Claudio Monteverdi (1607)

Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1609)

The Tempest - William Shakespeare (1611)

✔ Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare (1612)

The Harmony of the World | Harmonices Mundi - Johannes Kepler (1619)

Novum Organum - Francis Bacon (1620)

The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare (1623)

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Galileo Galilei (1632)

The Pentamerone - Giambattista Basile (1634)

Discourse on the Method - René Descartes (1637)

Two New Sciences - Galileo Galilei (1638)

Meditations on First Philosophy - René Descartes (1641)

Philosophical and Mathematical Writings - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1663-1690)

Maximes - François de La Rochefoucauld (1665)

Le Misanthrope {Play} - Molière (1666)

Paradise Lost - John Milton (1667)

Fables - Jean de La Fontaine (1668-1694)

Pensées - Blaise Pascal (1670)

Ethics - Baruch Spinoza (1677)

Phèdre {Play} - Jean Racine (1677)

Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton (1687)

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke (1689)

Essay on Dynamics - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1695)

Tales of Mother Goose | Contes de ma mère l'Oye - Charles Perrault (1697)

Fairy Tales | Les Contes des Fées - Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1697)

18th Century

Théodicée - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1710)

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley (1710)

Monadology - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1714)

Principles of Nature and Grace - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1714)

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1719)

Pantheisticon - John Toland (1720)

The New Science - Giambattista Vico (1725)

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (1726)

Beauty and the Beast | La Belle et la Bête - Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (1740)

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume (1748)

Encyclopédie - Denis Diderot (1751)

Candide - Voltaire (1759)

The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)

The Huron | L'Ingénu - Voltaire (1767)

Poems - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith (1776)

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon (1776)

Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant (1781)

Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)

Elements of Chemistry - Antoine Lavoisier (1790)

Metamorphosis of Plants - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1790)

The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine (1791)

Vindication of the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake (1793)

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice - William Godwin (1793)

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1795)

The Eolian Harp - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1796)

Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1797)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)

Poems - Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

19th Century

Poems - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Phenomenology of Spirit - Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1807)

Theory of Colours - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1810)

✔ Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (1811)

✔ Grimm's Fairy Tales | Kinder- und Hausmärchen - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1812)

The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss (1812)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813)

Waverly - Sir Walter Scott (1814)

Emma - Jane Austen (1815)

Persuasion - Jane Austen (1817)

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (1817)

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)

The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer (1819)

Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (1819)

Odes - John Keats (1819)

Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving (1819)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving (1820)

Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1829)

Poems - Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (1831)

Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin (1833)

The Lady of Shalott - Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1833)

The Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot (1835)

Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac (1835)

✔ Fairy Tales | Eventyr - Hans Christian Anderson (1835)

Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1836)

Lost Illusions | Illusions perdues - Honoré de Balzac (1837-1843)

✔ Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (1837)

Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

Self Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

✔ A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843)

The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe (1843)

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1844)

The Three Muskateers - Alexander Dumas (1844)

✔ The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe (1845)

Woman in the Nineteenth Century - Margaret Fuller (1845)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Frederick Douglass (1845)

✔ Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (1847)

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (1847)

Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë (1847)

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (1848)

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850)

The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

✔ Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)

✔ Walden & Civil Disobediance - Henry David Thoreau (1854)

Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens (1855)

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (1855)

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1856)

✔ A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (1859)

Wild Fruits - Henry David Thoreau (c. 1859)

On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (1859)

On Liberty - John Stuart Mill (1859)

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy - Jacob Burckhardt (1860)

✔ Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861)

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti (1862)

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (1862)

The Light Princess - George MacDonald (1864)

Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne (1864)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (1865)

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1867)

Capital | Das Kapital - Karl Marx (1867)

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (1868)

The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain (1869)

Sentimental Education | L'Education sentimentale - Gustave Flaubert (1869)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (1870)

Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (1871)

Middlemarch - George Eliot (1871)

Van Gogh’s Letters - Vincent van Gogh (1872-1890)

The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald (1872)

The Cicerone: or, Art-guide to painting in Italy. For the use of travellers - Jacob Burckhardt (1873)

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne (1873)

Poems - Robert Frost (1874-1963)

The Story of Sigurd - William Morris (1876)

✔ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876)

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (1877)

✔ Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (1877)

Isis Unveiled - Helena Blavatsky (1877)

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)

A Tramp Abroad - Mark Twain (1880)

Heidi - Johanna Spyri (1880)

The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James (1881)

Poems - Virginia Woolfe (1882-941)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche (1883)

Treasure Island - Robert Louise Stevenson (1883)

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle (1883)

✔ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)

A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)

The Blue Fairy Book - Andrew Lang (1889)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain (1889)

The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

The Red Fairy Book - Andrew Lang (1890)

Celtic Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs (1891)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (1891)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)

The Green Fairy Book - Andrew Lang (1892)

The Philosophy of Freedom - Rudolph Steiner (1894)

The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris (1894)

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (1894)

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (1895)

The Well at the World’s End - William Morris (1896)

✔ Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1899)

20th Century

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum (1900)

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1901-1902)

✔ Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling (1902)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter (1902)

The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois (1903)

Poems - Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905)

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emma Orczy (1905)

The Gods of Pegana - Lord Dunsany (1905)

Time and the Gods - Lord Dunsany (1906)

✔ Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (1908)

✔ The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (1908)

A Room with a View - E. M. Forster (1908)

How to Know Higher Worlds - Rudolph Steiner (1908)

East O’ the Sun and West O’ the Moon | Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne - Asbj rnsen and Moe (1910)

My First Summer in the Sierra - John Muir (1911)

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

✔ Peter Pan and Wendy - J. M. Barrie (1911)

The Yosemite - John Muir (1912)

A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Borroughs (1912)

The Book of Wonder - Lord Dunsany (1912)

Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood - Henry Gilbert T. (1912)

In Search of Lost Time | À la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust (1913-1927)

Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter (1913)

✔ Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw (1913)

At the Earth’s Core - Edgar Rice Borroughs (1914)

Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany (1915)

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - Albert Einstein (1916)

Growth of the Soil | Markens Grøde - Knut Hamsun (1917)

Tales of Three Hemispheres - Lord Dunsany (1919)

Chéri - Colette (1920)

The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain (1920)

A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay (1920)

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)

Psychological Types - Carl Jung (1921)

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (1922)

The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot (1922)

The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams (1922)

Ulysses - James Joyce (1922)

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (1922)

The Meaning of Relativity - Albert Einstein (1922)

I and Thou - Martin Buber (1923)

A Passage to India - E. M. Forster (1924)

The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (1924)

The King of Elfland's Daughter - Lord Dunsany (1924)

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (1925)

The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

The Trial - Franz Kafka (1925)

The Castle - Franz Kafka (1926)

Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne (1926)

✔ The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (1926)

Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees (1926)

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927)

Anthropology and Modern Life - Franz Boas (1928)

Orlando - Virginia Woolf (1928)

The Call of Cthulu - H. P. Lovecraft (1928)

Judgements on History and Historians - Jacob Burckhardt (1929)

A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf (1929)

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (1929)

Ash Wednesday - T. S. Eliot (1930)

Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (1930)

The Little House on the Prairie Series - Laura Ingalls Wilder (1931 - 1971)

The Story of Barbar | Histoire de Babar - Jean de Brunhoff (1931)

The Undiscovered Self - Carl Jung (1933)

✔ Mary Poppins - P. L. Travers (1934)

Poems - Mary Oliver (1935-2019)

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1936)

✔ The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkein (1937)

Nausea | La Nausée - Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)

✔ Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans (1939)

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (1940)

Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot (1941)

✔ The Little Prince | Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse (1943)

The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich Hayek (1944)

Psychology and Alchemy - Carl Jung (1944)

The Moomins and the Great Flood - Tove Jansson (1945)

Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren (1945)

✔ Animal Farm - George Orwell (1945)

Comet in Moominland - Tove Jansson (1946)

✔ The Stranger - Albert Camus (1946)

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake (1946)

The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank (1947)

Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson (1948)

The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir (1949)

A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold (1949)

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell (1949)

✔ 1984 - George Orwell (1949)

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller (1949)

Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake (1950)

The Exploits of Moominpappa (1950)

✔ The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis (1950)

✔ Prince Caspian - C. S. Lewis (1951)

The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts (1951)

✔ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis (1952)

The Borrowers - Mary Norton (1952)

✔ Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (1952)

✔ The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952)

The Silver Chair - C. S. Lewis (1953)

The Horse and His Boy - C. S. Lewis (1954)

✔ Moominsummer Madness (1954)

✔ The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkein (1954)

✔ The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)

✔ The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkein (1955)

The Magician’s Nephew - C. S. Lewis (1955)

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Mysterium Coniunctionis - Carl Jung (1955)

The Last Battle - C. S. Lewis (1956)

Moominland Midwinter (1957)

Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury (1957)

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (1957)

✔ On the Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)

The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac (1958)

The Once and Future King - T. H. White (1958)

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (1958)

Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake (1959)

The Wisdom of the Desert - Thomas Merton (1960)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)

The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster (1961)

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (1962)

Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung (1962)

Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (1962)

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov (1962)

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil - J. R. R. Tolkein (1962)

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (1963)

✔ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (1964)

✔ A Movable Feast - Ernest Hemingway (1964)

The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander (1964)

The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander (1965)

Moominpappa at Sea (1965)

Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper (1965)

Dune - Frank Herbert - (1965)

The Character of Physical Law - Richard Feynman (1965)

The Book: on the taboo against knowing who you are - Alan Watts (1966)

The Castle of Llyr - Lloyd Alexander (1966)

Taran Wanderer - Lloyd Alexander (1967)

Smith of Wootton Major - J. R. R. Tolkein (1967)

The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle (1968)

Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey (1968)

The High King - Lloyd Alexander (1968)

A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)

Moominvalley in November (1970)

✔ Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl (1970)

Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey (1970)

The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin (1970)

Be Here Now - Ram Dass (1971)

Farthest Shore - Ursula K. Le Guin (1972)

Watership Down - Richard Adams (1972)

The Princess Bride - William Goldman (1973)

The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux (1975)

Reading the Landscape of America - May Theilgaard Watts (1975)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translated by J. R. R. Tolkein (1975)

✔ When God Was a Woman - Merlin Stone (1976)

✔ The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkein (1977)

✔ The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More - Roald Dahl (1977)

The White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey (1978)

Orientalism - Edward Said (1978)

✔ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979)

✔ The Witches - Roald Dahl (1983)

Historical Atlas of World Mythology - Joseph Campbell (1983)

The History of Middle Earth: Vol. 1 - 12 - J. R. R. Tolkein (1983 - 1996)

Biophilia - Edward O. Wilson (1984)

✔ “Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman!” - Richard Feynman (1985)

✔ The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985)

✔ Being Peace - Thich Nhat Hanh (1987)

✔ Matilda - Roald Dahl (1988)

✔ “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” - Richard Feynman (1988)

✔ The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (1988)

A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawking (1988)

Manufacturing Consent - Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky (1988)

Tree and Leaf - J. R. R. Tolkein (1988)

✔ The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (1989)

Tehanu - Ursula K. Le Guin (1990)

Peace is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh (1990)

Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder (1991)

Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1992)

What Uncle Sam Really Wants - Noam Chomsky (1992)

The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara (1993)

✔ The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1993)

✔ Sabriel - Garth Nix (1995)

The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram (1996)

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (1997)

✔ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J. K. Rowling (1997)

✔ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling (1998)

✔ Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling (1999)

Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson (1999)

21st Century

✔ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling (2000)

Tales from Earthsea - (2001)

The Other Wind - Ursula K. Le Guin (2001)

✔ The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd (2001)

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace - John O’ Donohue (2003)

The Nature of Order - Christopher Alexander (2003)

✔ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling (2003)

Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation - Joseph Campbell (2004)

✔ Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling (2005)

✔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling (2007)

Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss (2007)

The Children of Hurin - J. R. R. Tolkein (2007)

Becoming Animal - David Abram (2010)

Goddesses: Mysteries of the Divine Feminine - Joseph Campbell (2013)

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)

The Radiance Sutras - Lorin Roche - (2014)

The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben (2015)

Beren and Lúthien - J. R. R. Tolkein (2017)