Nonfiction

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

John Maynard Keynes

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf

Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown

Virginia Woolf

Fifty Essays

George Orwell

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

As a man thinketh

James Allen

Apology

Plato

Politics: A Treatise on Government

Aristotle

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists

Anonymous

The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

René Descartes

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ethics

Benedictus de Spinoza

In Praise of Folly: Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts

Desiderius Erasmus

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

Phaedo

Plato

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Gorgias

Plato

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself

Olaudah Equiano

On War

Carl von Clausewitz

Pascal's Pensées

Blaise Pascal

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

William James

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume