The following are selections from the curriculum of St. John's Colleges (Annapolis and Santa Fe)

HOMER: Iliad, Odyssey

AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound

APOLLONIUS: Conics

SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes

THUCYDIDES: Peloponnesian War

EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, Bacchae

HERODOTUS: Histories

ARISTOPHANES: Clouds

PLATO: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus

ARISTOTLE: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, The Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals

VIRGIL: Aeneid

PLUTARCH: "Ceaser," "Cato the Younger"

EPICTETUS: Discourses, Manual

TACITUS: Annals

PTOLEMY: Almagest

PLOTINUS: The Enneads

AUGUSTINE: Confessions

ANSELM: Proslogium

AQUINAS: Summa Theologiae, Summa Contra, Gentiles

DANTE: Divine Comedy

CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales

DES PREZ: Mass

MACHIAVELLI: The Prince, Discourses

COPERNICUS: On the Revolutions of the Spheres

LUTHER: The Freedom of a Christian

RABELAIS: Gargantua and Pantagruel

PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli

MONTAIGNE: Essays

VIETE: "Introduction to the Analytical Art"

BACON: Novum Organum

SHAKESPEARE: Richard II, Henry IV, The Tempest, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Coliolanus, Sonnets

DESCARTES: Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind

PASCAL: Generation of Conic Sections

BACH: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions

HAYDN: Quartets

MOZART: Operas

BEETHOVEN: Sonatas

SCHUBERT: Songs

STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms

CERVANTES: Don Quixote

GALILEO: Two New Sciences

HOBBES: Leviathan

MILTON: Paradise Lost

LA FONTAINE: Fables

PASCAL: Pensees

HUYGENS: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact ELIOT: Middlemarch

SPINOZA: Theologico-Political Treatise

LOCKE: Second Treatise of Government

RACINE: Phedre

NEWTON: Principia Mathematica

KEPLER: Epitome IV

LEIBNIZ: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay On Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace

SWIFT: Gulliver's Travels

HUME: Treatise of Human Nature

ROUSSEAU: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality

MOLIERE: The Misanthrope

ADAM SMITH: Wealth of Nations

KANT: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals

MOZART: Don Giovanni

JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice

DEDEKIND: Essay on the Theory of Numbers

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SUPREME COURT OPINIONS

HAMILTON, JAY, AND MADISON: The Federalist

DARWIN: Origin of Species

HEGEL: Phenomenology of Mind, "Logic" (from the Encyclopedia)

LOBACHEVSKY: Theory of Parallels

TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America

LINCOLN: Selected Speeches

KIERKEGAARD: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling

WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde

MARX: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology

DOSTOEVSKI: Brothers Karamazov

TOLSTOY: War and Peace

MELVILLE: Benito Cereno

MARK TWAIN: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

WILLIAM JAMES: Psychology, Briefer Course

NIETZSCHE: Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil

FREUD: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

VALERY: Poems

WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.: Selected Writings

DUBOIS: The Souls of Black Folk

HEIDEGGER: What is Philosophy?

HEISENBERG: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

EINSTEIN: Selected Papers

MILLIKAN: The Electron

CONRAD: Heart of Darkness

FAULKNER: The Bear

Essays by: Archimedes, Fahrenheit, Avogadro, Dalton, Cannizzaro, Virchow, Mariotte, Driesch, Gay-Lussac, Spemann, Stears, Thompson, Mendeleyev, Berthollet, J.L. Proust, Young, Maxwell, Taylor, D. Bernoulli, Faraday, J.J. Thomson, Mendel, Minkowski, Rutherford, Davisson, Bohr, Schrodinger, Maxwell, de Broglie, Driesch, Boveri, Orsted, Ampere, Sutton, Morgan, Beadle & Tatum, Watson & Crick, Jacob & Monod, Hardy