*This list includes the original list from The New Lifetime Reading Plan book, plus the list of titles in the "Going Further" section *
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Iliad - Homer
- The Odyssey - Homer
- The Analects - Confucius
- The Books of Moses, The Old Testament - Anonymous
- The Oresteia - Aeschylus
- Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
- Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles
- Antigone - Sophocles
- Alcestis - Euripides
- Medea - Euripides
- Hippolytus - Euripides
- The Trojan Women - Euripides
- Electra - Euripides
- The Bacchae - Euripides
- The Histories - Herodotus
- The History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
- The Art of War - Sun-tzu
- Lysistrata - Aristophanes
- The Clouds - Aristophanes
- The Birds - Aristophanes
- Selected Works - Plato
- Ethics - Aristotle
- Politics - Aristotle
- Poetics - Aristotle
- The Book of Mencius - Mencius
- Bala Kanda, Book One of The Ramayana - Anonymous
- Ayodhya Kanda, Book Two of The Ramayana - Anonymous
- Aranya Kanda, Book Three of The Ramayana - Anonymous
- Kishkindha Kanda, Book Four of The Ramayana - Anonymous
- Sundara Kanda, Book Five of The Ramayana - Anonymous
- Lanka Kanda, Book Six of The Ramayana - Anonymous
- Uttara Kanda, Book Seven of the Ramayana - Anonymous
- Adi Parva, Book One of The Mahabharata - Anonymous
- Sabha Parva, Book Two of the Mahabharata - Anonymous
- Vana Parva, Book Three of the Mahabharata - Anonymous
- The Bhagavad Gita
- Records of the Grand Historian - Ssu-ma Ch’ien
- On the Nature of Things - Lucretius
- The Aeneid - Virgil
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- The New Testament - Anonymous
- The Confessions - Saint Augustine
- The Cloud Messenger - Kalidasa
- Sakuntala - Kalidasa
- The Koran
- The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch - Hui-neng
- Shah Nameh - Firdausi
- The Pillow Book - Sei Shônagon
- The Tale of Genji - Lady Murasaki
- The Rubaiyat - Omar Khayyam
- The Divine Comedy - Dante
- The Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Kuan-chung
- The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer\
- The Thousand and One Nights
- The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
- Gargantua and Pantagruel - François Rabelais
- Journey to the West - Wu Ch’eng-en
- Selected Essays - Michel de Montaigne
- Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
- Complete Works - William Shakespeare
- Selected Works - John Donne
- The Plum in the Golden Vase - Chin P’ing Mei
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Galileo
- Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
- Discourse on Method - René Descartes
- Paradise Lost - John Milton
- Lycidas - John Milton
- On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity - John Milton
- Sonnets - John Milton
- Areopagitica - John Milton
- Selected Plays - Molière
- Thoughts (Pensées)- Blaise Pascal
- Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
- Second Treatise of Government - John Locke
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Matsuo Bashô
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Candide and other works - Voltaire
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
- Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
- The Dream of the Red Chamber (a.k.a. The Story of the Stone)- Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in
- Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
- The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell
- Basic Documents in American History - Thomas Jefferson and others
- The Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Madison, and Jay
- Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Selected Works - William Blake
- The Prelude - William Wordsworth
- Selected Shorter Poems - William Wordsworth
- Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth
- The Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Christabel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Biographia Literaria - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Writings on Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Emma - Jane Austen
- The Red and the Black - Stendhal
- Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
- Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
- Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac
- Selected Works - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Selected Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
- On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
- The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill
- The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin
- The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
- Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
- Short Stories and Other Works - Edgar Allan Poe
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Hard Times - Charles Dickens
- Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
- The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
- The Warden - Anthony Trollope
- The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
- The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
- The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
- Autobiography - Anthony Trollope
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
- Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
- The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
- The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Selected Poems - Walt Whitman
- Democratic Vistas - Walt Whitman
- Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
- A Backward Glance O’er Travelled Roads - Walt Whitman
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Selected Plays - Henrick Ibsen
- Collected Poems - Emily Dickenson
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
- Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
- The Mayor of Castorbridge - Thomas Hardy
- The Principles of Psychology - William James
- Pragmatism - William James
- Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth - William James
- The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
- The Ambassadors - Henry James
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality - Sigmund Freud
- Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
- Selected Plays and Prefaces - George Bernard Shaw
- Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
- Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov
- Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov
- The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
- Selected Short Stories - Anton Chekhov
- The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- Collected Poems - William Butler Yeats
- Collected Plays - William Butler Yeats
- Autobiography - William Butler Yeats
- Kokoro - Natsume Sôseki
- Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
- Collected Poems - Robert Frost
- The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
- A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
- Collected Short Stories - Lu Hsün
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Orlando - Virginia Woolf
- The Waves - Virginia Woolf
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- The Castle - Franz Kafka
- Selected Short Stories - Franz Kafka
- Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
- Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
- The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
- Mourning Becomes Electra - Eugene O’Neill
- The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O’Neill
- Long Day’s Journey into Night - Eugene O’Neill
- Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot
- Collected Plays - T.S. Eliot
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
- Short Stories - Ernest Hemingway
- Beauty and Sadness - Yasunari Kawabata
- Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
- Dreamtigers - Jorge Luis Borges
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Burmese Days - George Orwell
- The English Teacher - R.K. Narayan
- The Vendor of Sweets - R.K. Narayan
- Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
- Endgame - Samuel Beckett
- Krapp’s Last Tape - Samuel Beckett
- Collected Poems - W.H. Auden
- The Plague - Albert Camus
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
- Herzog - Saul Bellow
- Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow
- The First Circle - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
- Cancer Ward - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
- Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Going Further - Watership Down - Richard Adams
- Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
- Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- The Rector of Justin - Louis Auchincloss
- Collected Stories (1994) - Louis Auchinloss
- Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
- The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
- The Sot-weed Factor - John Barth
- Tidewater Tales - John Barth
- The Second Sex - Simone De Beauvoir
- The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
- The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II - Fernand Braudel
- Mother Courage - Berthold Brecht
- The Good Woman of Szechuan - Berthold Brecht
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Berthold Brecht
- The Threepenny Opera - Berthold Brecht
- The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany - Berthold Brecht
- So Forth - Joseph Brodsky
- The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
- The Master and the Margarita - Mikhail Bulgavko
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
- Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote
- Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- The Sea Around Us - Rachel Carson
- Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
- My Antonia - Willa Cather
- Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
- Shadows on the Rock - Willa Cather
- Collected Stories - John Cheever
- The Rebel Angels - Robertson Davies
- What's Bred in the Bone - Robertson Davies
- The Lyre of Orpheus - Robertson Davies
- Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
- Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
- American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
- The Meaning of Relativity - Albert Einstein
- The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tender is the Night
- The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
- The Recognitions - William Gaddis
- J.R. - William Gaddis
- Collected Poems - Federico Garcia Lorca
- The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- The Spire - William Golding
- I, Claudius - Robert Graves
- Good-Bye to All That - Robert Graves
- The Quiet American - Graham Greene
- The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
- The Good Soldier Schweik - Jaroslav Hasek
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- The Call - John Hersey
- A Bell for Adano - John Hersey
- Hiroshima - John Hersey
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes
- Collected Poems - Langston Hughes
- The World According to Garp - John Irving
- The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood
- Christopher and His Kind - Christopher Isherwood
- From Here to Eternity - James Jones
- Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Rickshaw - Lau Shaw (translation by Jean James)
- Collected Poems (1993) - Philip Larkin
- The Spy Who Came In From the Cold - John LeCarre
- Tristes Tropiques - Claude Levi-Strauss
- Structural Anthropology - Claude Levi-Strauss
- The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology - Claude Levi-Strauss
- Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
- Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
- Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
- Dodsworth - Sinclair Lewis
- Changing Places - David Lodge
- Small World - David Lodge
- The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
- The Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer
- The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
- Man's Fate - Andre Malraux
- The Group - Mary McCarthy
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
- Coming of Age in Samoa - Margeret Mead
- Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
- The Crucible - Arthur Miller
- Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
- Jazz - Toni Morrison
- A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
- Sandcastle - Iris Murdoch
- The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
- Complete Stories (1971) - Flannery O'Connor
- Appointment at Samarra - John O'Hara
- The Revolt of the Masses - Jose Ortega Y Gassett
- Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Life, A User's Manual - Georges Perec
- The Caretaker - Harold Pinter
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
- Personae - Ezra Pound
- A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
- This Earth of Mankind - Pramoedya Ananta Tier
- Complete Collected Stories - V.S. Pritchett
- Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
- An Unsuitable Attachment - Barbara Pym
- Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- Duino Elegies - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sonnets to Orpheus - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Giants in the Earth - Ole Edvart Rolvaag
- Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth
- Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
- Children of the Arbat - Anatoli Rybakov
- Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour - J.D. Salinger
- Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
- No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Citizens - Simon Schama
- Negritude - Leopold Sedar Senghor
- Selected Poems - Leopold Sedar Senghor
- The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Magician of Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Interpreters - Woke Soyinka
- Death and the King's Horsemen - Woke Soyinka
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wallace Stegner
- Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Harmonium - Wallace Stevens
- Collected Poems - Wallace Stevens
- Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey
- Queen Victoria - Lytton Strachey
- Is Sex Necessary - James Thurber
- My Life and Hard Times - James Thurber
- The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Collected Stories - William Trevor
- Rabbit, Run - John Updike
- Rabbit Redux - John Updike
- Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
- Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
- Myra Breckenridge - Gore Vidal
- Burr - Gore Vidal
- Omeros - Derek Walcot
- Collected Stories - Derek Walcot
- Ti-Jean and His Brothers - Derek Walcot
- The Double Helix - James D. Watson
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
- Collected Stories - Eudora Welty
- Black Lamb and Greg Falcon - Rebecca West
- Voss - Patrick White
- Riders in the Chariot - Patrick White
- Our Town - Thornton Wilder
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
- The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
- A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
- Collected Poems, Volume I - William Carlos Williams
- Collected Poems, Volume II - William Carlos Williams
- Native Son - Richard Wright
- Black Boy - Richard Wright
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