Year 1
- The Annals by Tacitus (c55-c120 AD)
- Apology ; Crito ; Euthyphro ; Phaedo by Plato (c429-347 BC)
- The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
- The Garden Party by Václav Havel (1936-)
- The Memorandum by Václav Havel
- The Histories by Tacitus (1936-)
- The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
- The Old Testament (Everyman's Library) by Everyman's Library
- Poem into Poem: World Poetry in Modern Verse Translation by George Steiner
- Selected Poems (Cape Editions) by Ondra Lysohorsky
Year 2
- The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
- Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
- History of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius (c69 - after 121 AD)
- The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
- The Lower Depths and Other Plays by Maxim Gorky
- The New English Bible; New Testament by Oxford University Press
- The New Testament in Modern English by J. B. Phillips
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides by Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
- The Portable Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (c978-1030)
- The Tragedies by William Shakespeare
Year 3
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Aphorisms by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963)
- The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila by St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- Buddhist Scriptures by Edward Conze
- The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
- The Golden Ass by Apuleius (c125 - c180)
- The Love Department by William Trevor
- Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Year 4
- The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
- The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
- Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages by Abraham Cohen
- Fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)
- Metamorphoses by Ovid (14 BC-17 AD)
- The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (c46-c127)
- Primitive Song by Maurice Bowra
- Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Year 5
- Bourgeois Gentleman / Doctor in Spite of Himself / Learned Ladies / Misanthrope / Pretentious Young Ladies / Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Moliere
- Candide by Voltaire (1694-1778)
- The Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes (c448- c388)
- Correspondance choisie by Voltaire (1694-1778)
- Doctor in Spite of Himself / Imaginary Invalid / Misanthrope / Sicilian / Tartuffe by Molière (1622-1673)
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
- Five Plays: The Miser and other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere
- The Letters by Pliny the Younger
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
- Records of the historian : chapters from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien by Qian Sima
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- Shih Chi by Sima Qian
- The Stranger by Albert Camus (1913-1960)
- Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
- The Wonderful Years by Reiner Kunze (1933-)
- Zadig & L'Ingenu by Francois Voltaire
- Zimmerlautstärke : Gedichte by Reiner Kunze (1933-)
- Œuvres complètes by François Villon (1431-1463)
Year 6
- Andorra by Max Frisch
- The Complete Father Brown Mysteries by G. K. Chesterton
- Germinal by Émile Zola
- I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
- L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
- The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Poe: Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Poem Itself by Stanley Burnshaw
- The Song of Roland by Anonymous
- The Storm by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky
- Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
- The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Year 7
- The Aeneid by Virgil (70-19 BC)
- The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz (c1283 - c1350)
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
- Five German Tragedies by F. J. Lamport
- Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1879-1959 (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) by Edward G. Seidensticker
- The Penguin Book of Latin Verse by Frederick Brittain
- The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus (c254-184 BC)
- The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus (c254-184 BC)
- Short history of scientific ideas to 1900 by Charles Singer
Year 8
- The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
- The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- Philosophy, Poetry, History; an Anthology of Essays by Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)
- The Poems of Catullus by Catullus (c84-c54 BC)
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1783-1842)
- The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati (1906-1972)
- Vita Nuova, La (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Year 9
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
- The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
- Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
- The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (1783-1842)
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
- Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en (c 1510-1582)
- The Nonexistent Knight / The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
- Post-War Russian Poetry (The Penguin poets) by Daniel Weissbort
Year 10
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
- Canto General by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
- Don Juan: The Beguiler from Seville and the Stone Guest by Tirso de Molina
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantess (1547-1616)
- Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside by Camilo José Cela
- Juan de Mairena by Antonio Machado
- Medieval Literature in Translation by Charles W. Jones
- Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Songling Pu
Year 11
- Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
- The Histories by Herodotus (c484 - c424 BC)
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
- Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c4 BC - 65 AD)
- Lun-hêng by Wang Chung
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014)
- Pancatantra: The Book of India's Folk Wisdom by Vishnu Sharma
- The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse: Third Edition (Parallel Text, Penguin) by J. M. Cohen
- The Poems of St. John of the Cross by Saint John of the Cross
Year 12
- Classical Literary Criticism by T.S. Dorsch
- Cousin Bazilio by Eça de Queirós (1845-1900)
- The Crime of Father Amaro by José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845-1900)
- Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais (c1494-1553)
- The Lusiads by Luis Vaz de Camoes
- The Maias by Eca de Queiros (1845-1900)
- The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
- The Man with Seven Names by Alves Redol (1911-1969)
- A Season on the Earth: Selected Poems of Nirala by Nirala (1898-1961)
- Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
- The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovski
- Teatro de Gil Vicente by Gil Vicente
Year 13
- The Adventures of a Simpleton by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
- The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
- East German Poetry: An Anthology by Michael Hamburger
- Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
- The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
- Hernani / The King's Diversion / Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
- More from the Primeval Forest by Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)
- The Nature of Things by Lucretius (c99-c55 BC)
- On the Edge of the Primeval Forest by Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)
- Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography by Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)
- The Penguin Book of German Verse by Leonard Forster
- Poems of Wang Wei by Wei Wang
Year 14
- Paul Celan: Poems, a Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan
- The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts by G. S. Kirk
- Water Margin by Shi Nai'An
Year 15
- The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
- The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Year 16
- The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry by Arthur Waley
- The Odyssey by Homer (lived between the 12th and 8th centuries BC)
- The Penguin Book of Greek Verse by Constantine A. Trypanis
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Year 17
- The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (HPC Classics) by Epicurus
- The Iliad by Homer (lived between the 12th and 8th centuries BC)
- Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
- Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
Year 18
- The Blind Owl by Ṣādiq Hidāyat
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
- The Masnavi by Maulana Jalalu-'D-Din Muhammad I Rumi
- Poems of Nazim Hikmet by Nâzım Hikmet
- The Rose Garden (Gulistan) of Saadi by Saadi
- Selected Poems of Yahya Kemal [Bayatli ]. by Yahya Kemal (1884-1958)
- She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (1728 – 4 April 1774
- Tales from the Kathasaritasagara by Somadeva
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1728 – 4 April 1774
Year 19
- Anthology of Islamic Literature by James Kritzeck
- The Koran by al-Qur'an
- Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al-Madinah and Meccah by Sir Richard Francis Burton
- The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love by Ibn Hazm
- The Roman Sonnets of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
- The Secret History by Procopius
- The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
Year 20
- The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard Burton
- Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play by Takeda Izumo
- Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
- Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (c1660-1731)
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam by Ram Swarup
Year 21
- Deliverance from Error: Five Key Texts Including His Spiritual Autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali
- The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (1838-1918)
- A History of Historical Writing by Harry Elmer Barnes
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- The life and works of Jāḥiẓ by Charles Pellat
- Life of a Good-for-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams (1838-1918)
- Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) by Hayyim Nahman Bialik
- Story of Sinuhe: Complete Hieroglyphic Text with Transliteration and Translation Plus Grammatical Commentary by Ronald Bullock
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Year 22
- Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind by Miguel Leon-Portilla
- The Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov
- The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, New and Revised Edition by William Blake
- Daily Life of the Aztecs by Jacques Soustelle
- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
- The Penguin Book of Russian Verse by Dimitri Obolensky
- Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike by Kamo no Chōmei
- The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Patanjali
Year 23
- Collected Stories by Isaac Babel
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
- Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- Ghazals of Ghalib: Versions from the Urdu by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
- Kukai and His Major Works by Yoshito S. Hakeda
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (384-322 BC)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- The Story of Modern Art by Norbert Lynton
Year 24
- The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
- Anthology of Chinese literature by Cyril Birch
- Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin (c1715-c1763)
- The Garnet Bracelet and Other Stories by Alexander Kuprin (1870-1938)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1775-1817)
- The Quest of the Holy Grail by Anonymous
- The Selected Poems of Li Po by Bai Li
- Selected readings from the works of Mao Tsetung by Mao Zedong
- Sources of Chinese tradition, Vol. 1 by William Theodore De Barry
- Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol. 2 by William Theodore De Barry
- Three Tragedies by Federico García Lorcav
Year 25
- Bourgeois Gentleman / Dom Juan / Doctor in Spite of Himself / George Dandin / Miser / Pretentious Young Ladies / Scapin by Molière
- Chin Ping Mei the Adventurous History of Hsi Men and His Six Wives
- Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer (1778-1860)
- Mencius by Mencius
- The Poetical Works of John Keats by John Keats (1795-1821)
- The Scholars by Jingzi Wu
- The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico García Lorca
- The Selected Poems of Tu Fu by Du Fu
- Texts of Taoism (Volume 1) by James Legge
- Texts of Taoism (Volume 2) by James Legge
Year 26
- An Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous
- Confessions by Augustine (354-430)
- Godan: A Novel of Peasant India by Premchand
- The Poem of the Cid by Anonymous
- Poems from the Sanskrit by John Brough
- Poems from the Sanskrit by John Brough
- The Poetry of Petrarch by Petrarch
- Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law by H. Kern
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1897-1962)
- Sources of Indian tradition by William Theodore De Bary
- The World of Premchand: Selected Short Stories by Premchand
Year 27
- Collected Poems by Robert Lowell
- The Dhammapada by Anonymous
- The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- The Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana
- Modern Spanish Theatre: An anthology of plays by Michael Benedikt
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- Poems from the Divan of Khushâl Khân Khattak by Khwushḥāl Khān
- The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
- The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
Year 28
- The Arthashastra by Kautilya
- As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina
- The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione — not in English Common Knowledge
- Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar by Chairil Anwar
- Contemporary Indonesian Poetry (Asian & Pacific Writing) by Harry Aveling
- An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham
- Mediaeval Latin Lyrics by Helen Waddell
- The Principal Upanishads: Edited with Introduction, Text, Translation and Notes by S. Radhakrishnan
- The Restlessness of Shanti Andia by Pío Baroja
Year 29
- A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literatures by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
- The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
- The Golovlyov Family by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
- Maxims by François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
- The Palace of Eternal Youth by Hong Sheng
- The Sacred Writings of the Sikhs by Trilochan Singh
- Tratados morales by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Year 30
- The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature up to 1815 by C. H. B. Reynolds
- The Essays by Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Love Songs of Chandidas the Rebel Poet-Priest of Bengal by Chandidas
- New Atlantis by Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- The Okagami: A Japanese Historical Tale by J.K. Yamagiwa
- Pather Panchali, song of the road by Bibhutibhushan Banerji
- Phantasies of a Love-Thief: The Caurapañcāśikā by Bilhana
- Works by Lucian
Year 31
- Dreams by Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645)
- El Buscón by Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645)
- Erasmus: Ten Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus (c1469-1536)
- Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenkō
- The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza (1632–1677)
- The Fall Into Time by E. M. Cioran (1911-1995)
- In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (c1469-1536)
- The New Gods by E. M. Cioran (1911-1995)
- Pensées by Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin
- Poetry of the Netherlands in its European context, 1170-1930 by Theodoor Weevers
- The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- Rembrandt, Life and Work by Jakob Rosenberg
- A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran (1911-1995)
- The Temptation to Exist by Emil Cioran (1911-1995)
- A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry by Nguyen Ngoc Bich
Year 32
- Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets by G. B. H. Wightman
- Collected Poems, 1909—1962 by T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Complete Poetry of Michelangelo by Michelangelo
- Dialogues by Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
- European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius
- A history of book illustration; the illuminated manuscript and the printed book by David Bland
- Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
- The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (1880-1942)
- The Man Without Qualities, Volume 1: A Sort of Introduction, and Pseudo Reality Prevails by Robert Musil (1880-1942)
- The Man Without Qualities, Volume 2: Into the Millennium; From the Posthumous Papers by Robert Musil (1880-1942)
- Mo Tzu: Basic Writings by Mo tzu (c470-c391 BC)
- The Nun by Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
- Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
- The Satires of Juvenal by Juvenal (c60-c140)
- Zend-Aveszta by Avesta
Year 33
- Autobiography of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
- Brand by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
- The Complete English Poems by John Donne
- Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
- Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg (1869-1941)
- Elegies by Sextus Propertius
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1859–1952)
- Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
- Mysteries by Knut Hamsun (1859–1952)
- Njal's Saga by Anonymous
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
- Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
- Selected Poems (Modern European Poets) by Gunnar Ekelof
- Short Stories by Hjalmar Soderberg (1869-1941)
- Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Year 34
- The Boat in the Evening (Peter Owen Modern Classic) by Tarjei Vesaas
- The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu by Han Fei Tzu (c280-233 BC)
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
- Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
- Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
- Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings by Snorri Sturluson
- Helkavirsiä by Eino Leino
- The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
- Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
- The Plays of Strindberg: Volume 1 by August Strindberg (1849-1912)
- The Plays of Strindberg: Volume 2 by August Strindberg (1849-1912)
- Stages on Life's Way : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 11 by Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Year 35
- Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Donald Keene
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Ch'an and Zen Teaching, First Series by Kuanyu Lu
- Ch'an and Zen Teaching, Second Series by Lu K'uan Yu
- Ch'an and Zen Teaching, Third Series by Charles Luk
- Collected Poems by Saint-John Perse
- Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus (c55-135)
- The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings by Ihara Saikaku
- Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
- Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Akinari Ueda
- Ten Thousand Leaves by Anonymous
Year 36
- 20 Plays of the No Theatre by Donald Keene
- The Blue Cliff Records: The Hekigan Roku by R. D. M. Shaw
- Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas de Quincey
- Evening Land by Pär Lagerkvist
- The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Mabinogion by Anonymous
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas
- The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon
- Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
- Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Year 37
- Collected poems by Wallace Stevens
- The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskow — not in English Common Knowledge
- The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales by Nikolai Leskow
- Halma by Benito Pérez-Galdós
- Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
- Misericordia by Benito Pérez-Galdós
- Nazarin by Benito Pérez Galdós
- The New Oxford Book of American Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) by Richard Ellmann
- The Odes of Horace by Horace
- Praeterita : and, Dilecta by John Ruskin
- Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
- Ulysses by James Joyce (1882-1941)
Year 38
- The Bass Saxophone by Josef Škvorecký
- The Cowards by Josef Škvorecký
- Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez-Galdós
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- The Satyricon by Petronius
Year 39
- Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
- The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- Like Water, Like Fire: an anthology of Byelorussian poetry from 1828 to the present day (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works) by Vera Rich
- Modern Czech Poetry: An Anthology by Ewald Osers and J. K. Montgomery, editors
- New writing in Yugoslavia (Writing today) by Bernard Johnson
- The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases by Lu Yu
- The Penguin book of Latin American verse, (The Penguin poets) by E Caracciolo-Trejo
- Portuguese voyages, 1498-1663 by Charles David Ley
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Year 40
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- Instructions for practical living, and other Neo-Confucian writing by Yangming Wang (1472-1529)
- The Journals of Captain Cook by James R. Cook (1728-1779)
- Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (1867-1916)
- Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
- The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
- Poems of Black Africa by Wole Soyinka
- Postwar Polish Poetry by Czesław Miłosz
- Saga of Sassoun by Mischa Kudian
- Tango by Sławomir Mrożek (1930-2013)
- The Ugupu Bird by Sławomir Mrożek (1930-2013)
Year 41
- The Alexiad of Anna Comnena by Anna Comnena
- Antología poética by Moses ibn Ezra
- Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
- The Knight in Panther Skin by Shota Rustaveli
- Modern Hungarian Poetry by Miklos Vajda
- Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
- New Science by Giambattista Vico
- Selected Works in Three Volumes by V. I. Lenin
- Tragic sense of life by Miguel de Unamuno
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Year 42
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1882-1941)
- Folktales of Hungary by Linda Dégh
- The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints by Jacobus de Voragine
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
- Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
- Mastro don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
- Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
- Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (c1212-c1237)
- Selected Poems of Jehudah Halevi by ha-Levi Judah (c1075-after 1140)
- Twenty-Two Hungarian Short Stories by A. Alvarez
Year 43
- Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
- Bhartrihari: Poems by Bhartrhari (7th century AD)
- Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes (1596–1650)
- A God and His Gifts by Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1818-1848)
- Odes of Pindar Including the Principal Fragments by Pindar (c518-c438)
- Poetry of Tao Chien by Tao Chien (365-427)
- Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, the Shadow of a Gunman, the Plow and the Stars by Seán O'Casey (1884-1964)
- Tristan: With the surviving fragments of the 'Tristran' of Thomas by Gottfried von Strassburg
Year 44
- The Book of Government or Rules for Kings: The Siyar al Muluk or Siyasat-nama of Nizam al-Mulk by Niẓām al-Mulk (1018-1092)
- The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- The Chief Plays of Corneille by Pierre Corneille
- The Complete Poetry by César Vallejo
- Confabulario and Other Inventions by Juan José Arreola
- The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
- The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
- The Maya by Michael D. Coe
- Poems and translations by Ezra Pound
- A Study of Maya Art by Herbert J. Spinden
- The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
Year 45
- The Art of Love by Ovid (14 BC-17 AD)
- The Characters by Theophrastus (c372-c287 BC)
- Footprints in the Snow by Roka Tokutomi (1868-1927)
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- Mansions and the Shanties by Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987)
- The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization by Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987)
- The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
- Ordem e progresso by Gilberto Freyre
- Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
- Sagarana by João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967)
- The Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
- Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths by Orlando Villas Boas (1916-, 1918-)
Year 46
- The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
- The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
- The Contrary Experience by Herbert Read (1893-1968)
- The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
- El diablo cojuelo by Luis Vélez de Guevara
- The Green Child by Herbert Read (1893-1968)
- The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)
- The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: The Life-Story and Teaching of the Greatest Poet-Saint Ever to Appear in the History of Buddhism by Garma C. C. Chang
- Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
- Love Songs of Vidyapati by Vidyapati
- Le paysan parvenu by Marivaux
Year 47
- The Anathemata by David Jones
- Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter H. Lee
- The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry by Peter H. Lee
- The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
- Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar
- The Ilahi-Nama or Book of God of Farid Al-Din Attar (Persian Heritage Series, No. 29) by Attar Farid Al-Din
- In Parenthesis by David Jones
- Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by François-René de Chateaubriand
- The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
Year 48
- The American Novels and Stories of Henry James by Henry James (1843-1916)
- Broken Commandment by Toson Shimazaki
- The History of Italy by Francesco Guicciardini
- A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
- Novels: 1881-1886 by Henry James (1843-1916)
- The Palm-wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
- Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Poesie by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1843-1916)
- Silappatikaram by Ilango Adigal
- Waverley by Walter Scott
Year 49
- The Adventures of Antar The Adventures of Antar (Approaches to Arabic Literature) by Harry T. Norris
- The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson, Volume 1 by Ben Jonson
- The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson, Volume 2 by Ben Jonson
- The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima
- Hegel: Selections by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
- Kuruntokai : an anthology of classical Tamil love poetry by Ira Netuñceliyan
- Lavengro by George Borrow
- The Philosophy of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
- The Romany Rye by George Borrow
- Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
- The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
- The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dalí
- Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
- Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
- The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Year 50
- Areopagitica by John Milton (1608-1674)
- The Behâristân (Abode of Spring): A Literal Translation from the Persian by Jami
- Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
- I Don't Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei by Yuan Mei
- Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale by Ibn Tufayl
- Invertebrate Spain by José Ortega y Gasset
- The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset
- The Six Enneads by Plotinus
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
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