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GOOD READING'S 100 SIGNIFICANT BOOKS HONORE BALZAC ANTON CHEKHOV
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GOOD READING'S 100 SIGNIFICANT BOOKS HONORE BALZAC ANTON CHEKHOV
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The 22nd edition of Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers (1985) provides "a representative selection of 100 books that many people have found rewarding to know; they are not necessarily the best or greatest works of imagination and thought." Revisions were made for this edition after "consultation with many distinguished teachers, writers, and editors."
| Aeschylus | The Oresteia |
| Aesop | Fables |
| Arabian Nights | |
| Aristophanies | Comedies |
| Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics |
| Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Bacon | Essays |
| Balzac | Eugenie Grandet |
| The Bible | |
| Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson |
| Boccaccio | Decameron |
| Browning, Robert | Poems |
| Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress |
| Burns | Poems |
| Byron | Poems |
| Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Chaucer | Canterbury Tales |
| Chekhov | Plays |
| Confucius | The Analects |
| Dante | Divine Comedy |
| Darwin | The Origin of Species |
| Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| Descartes | Discourse on Method |
| Dickens | David Copperfield |
| Dickinson | Poems |
| Donne | Poems |
| Dostoevski | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Dreiser | An American Tragedy |
| Einstein | The Meaning of Relativity |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch |
| Eliot, T.S. | Poems and Plays |
| Emerson | Essays |
| Euripedes | Dramas |
| Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury |
| Fielding | Tom Jones |
| Flaubert | Madame Bovary |
| Frazer | The Golden Bough |
| Freud | Introduction to Psychoanalysis |
| Frost | Poems |
| Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Goethe | Faust |
| Hamilton, et al. | Federalist Papers |
| Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
| Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
| Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises |
| Homer | Iliad and Odyssey |
| Hugo | Les Miserables |
| Ibsen | Dramas |
| James | The Ambassadors |
| Joyce | Ulysses |
| Kant | Critique of Pure Reason |
| Keats | Poems |
| Lao-Tzu | The Way of Life |
| Lawrence | Sons and Lovers |
| Locke | Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| Lucretius | The Nature of Things |
| Machiavelli | The Prince |
| Malory | Le Morte D'Arthur |
| Malthus | Principles of Population |
| Mann | The Magic Mountain |
| Marx | Capital |
| Melville | Moby Dick |
| Milton | Paradise Lost |
| Mohammed | Koran |
| Moliere | Comedies |
| Montaigne | Essays |
| More | Utopia |
| Nietzsche | Thus Spake Zarathustra |
| Omar Khayyam | The Rubaiyat |
| O'Neill | Plays |
| Paine | The Rights of Man |
| Plato | Republic and Symposium |
| Plutarch | Lives |
| Poe | Short Stories |
| Proust | Remembrance of Things Past |
| Rabelais | Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| Rousseau | The Social Contract |
| Shakespeare | Complete Tragedies, Comedies, Histories |
| Shaw | Plays |
| Shelley | Poems |
| Smith | The Wealth of Nations |
| Sophocles | The Theban Plays |
| Spinoza | Ethics |
| Stendahl | The Red and the Black |
| Sterne | Tristam Shandy |
| Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| Thackeray | Vanity Fair |
| Thoreau | Walden |
| Thucydides | The Peloponnesian Wars |
| Tolstoi | War and Peace |
| Twain | Huckelberry Finn |
| Vergil | Aeneid |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Whitman | Leaves of Grass |
| Yeats | Poems |
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