Other Great Books Lists

The Western Canon: The Aristocratic Age. Harold Bloom

Italy

• Dante
  The Divine Comedy
  The New Life
• Petrarch
  Lyric Poems
  Selections
• Giovanni Boccaccio
  The Decameron
• Matteo Maria Boiardo
  Orlando Innamorato
• Ludovico Ariosto
  Orlando Furioso
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
  Sonnets and Madrigals
• Niccolò Machiavelli
  The Prince
  The Mandrake, a Comedy
• Leonardo da Vinci
  Notebooks
• Baldassare Castiglione
  The Book of the Courtier
• Gaspara Stampa
  Sonnets and Madrigals
• Giorgio Vasari
  Lives of the Painters
• Benvenuto Cellini
  Autobiography
• Torquato Tasso
  Jerusalem Delivered
• Giordano Bruno
  The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
• Tommaso Campanella
  Poems
  The City of the Sun
• Giambattista Vico
  Principles of a New Science
• Carlo Goldoni
  The Servant of Two Masters
• Vittorio Alfieri
  Saul

  Portugal

• Luis de Camoëns
  The Lusiads
• Antònio Ferreira
  Poetry

  Spain

• Jorge Manrique
  Coplas
• Fernando de Rojas
  La Celestina
• Lazarillo de Tormes
• Francisco de Quevedo
  Visions
  Satirical Letter of Censure
• Fray Luis de León
  Poems
• St. John of the Cross
  Poems
• Luis de Góngora
  Sonnets
  Soledades
• Miguel de Cervantes
  Don Quixote
  Exemplary Stories
• Lope de Vega
  La Dorotea
  Fuente Ovejuna
  Lost in a Mirror
  The Knight of Olmedo
• Tirso de Molina
  The Trickster of Seville
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  Life is a Dream
  The Mayor of Zalamea
  The Mighty Magician
  The Doctor of His Own Honor
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
  Poems

  England and Scotland

• Geoffrey Chaucer
  The Canterbury Tales
  Troilus and Criseyde
• Sir Thomas Malory
  Le Morte D'Arthur
• William Dunbar
  Poems
• John Skelton
  Poems
• Sir Thomas More
  Utopia
• Sir Thomas Wyatt
  Poems
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
  Poems
• Sir Philip Sidney
  The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
  Astrophel and Stella
  An Apology for Poetry
• Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
  Poems
• Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queene
  The Minor Poems
• Sir Walter Ralegh
  Poems
• Christopher Marlowe
  Poems and Plays
• Michael Drayton
  Poems
• Samuel Daniel
  Poems
  A Defence of Ryme
• Thomas Nashe
  The Unfortunate Traveller
• Thomas Kyd
  The Spanish Tragedy
• William Shakespeare
  Plays and Poems
• Thomas Campion
  Songs
• John Donne
  Poems
  Sermons
• Ben Jonson
  Poems, Plays, and Masques
• Francis Bacon
  Essays
• Robert Burton
  The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Sir Thomas Browne
  Religio Medici
  Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall
  The Garden of Cyrus
• Thomas Hobbes
  Leviathan
• Robert Herrick
  Poems
• Thomas Carew
  Poems
• Richard Lovelace
  Poems
• Andrew Marvell
  Poems
• George Herbert
  The Temple
• Thomas Traherne
  Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings
• Henry Vaughan
  Poetry
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
  Poems
• Richard Crashaw
  Poems
• Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
  Plays
• George Chapman
  Comedies, Tragedies, Poems
• John Ford
  'Tis Pity She's a Whore
• John Marston
  The Malcontent
• John Webster
  The White Devil
  The Duchess of Malfi
• Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
  The Changeling
• Cyril Tourneur
  The Revenger's Tragedy
• Philip Massinger
  A New Way to Pay Old Debts
• John Bunyan
  The Pilgrim's Progress
• Izaak Walton
  The Compleat Angler
• John Milton
  Paradise Lost
  Paradise Regained
  Lycidas, Comus, and the Minor Poems
  Samson Agonistes
  Areopagitica
• John Aubrey
  Brief Lives
• Jeremy Taylor
  Holy Dying
• Samuel Butler
  Hudibras
• John Dryden
  Poetry and Plays
  Critical Essays
• Thomas Otway
  Venice Preserv'd
• William Congreve
  The Way of the World
  Love for Love
• Jonathan Swift
  A Tale of a Tub
  Gulliver's Travels
  Shorter Prose Works
  Poems
• Sir George Etherege
  The Man of Mode
• Alexander Pope
  Poems
• John Gay
  The Beggar's Opera
• James Boswell
  Life of Johnson
  Journals
• Samuel Johnson
  Works
• Edward Gibbon
  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Edmund Burke
  A Philosophical Enquiry into...the Sublime and Beautiful
  Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Maurice Morgann
  An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
• William Collins
  Poems
• George Farquhar
  The Beaux' Strategem
  The Recruiting Officer
• William Wycherley
  The Country Wife
  The Plain Dealer
• Christopher Smart
  Jubilate Agno
  A Song to David
• Oliver Goldsmith
  The Vicar of Wakefield
  She Stoops to Conquer
  The Traveller
  The Deserted Village
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  The School of Scandal
  The Rivals
• William Cowper
  Poetical Works
• George Crabbe
  Poetical Works
• Daniel Defoe
  Moll Flanders
  Robinson Crusoe
  A Journal of the Plague Year
• Samuel Richardson
  Clarissa
  Pamela
  Sir Charles Grandison
• Henry Fielding
  Joseph Andrews
  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Tobias Smollett
  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  The Adventures of Roderick Random
• Laurence Sterne
  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
  A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
• Fanny Burney
  Evelina
• Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
  The Spectator

  France

• Jean Froissart
  Chronicles
• The Song of Roland
• François Villon
  Poems
• Michel de Montaigne
  Essays
• François Rabelais
  Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Marguerite de Navarre
  The Heptameron
• Joachim Du Bellay
  The Regrets
• Maurice Scève
  Délie
• Pierre Ronsard
  Odes, Elegies, Sonnets
• Philippe de Commynes
  Memoirs
• Agrippa d'Aubigné
  Les Tragiques
• Robert Garnier
  Mark Antony
  The Jewesses
• Pierre Corneille
  The Cid
  Polyeucte
  Nicomède
  Horace
  Cinna
  Rodogune
• François de La Rochefoucauld
  Maxims
• Jean de La Fontaine
  Fables
• Molière
  The Misanthrope
  Tartuffe
  The School for Wives
  The Learned Ladies
  Don Juan
  School for Husbands
  Ridiculous Precieuses
  The Would-Be Gentleman
  The Miser
  The Imaginary Invalid
• Blaise Pascal
  Pensées
• Jacques-Bénigne Bosuet
  Funerary Orations
• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
  The Art of Poetry
  Lutrin
• Jean Racine
  Phaedra
  Andromache
  Britannicus
  Athaliah
• Pierre Carlet de Marivaux
  Seven Comedies
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  The Confessions
  Émile
  La Nouvelle Héloïse
• Voltaire
  Zadig
  Candide
  Letters on England
  The Lisbon Earthquake
• Abbé Prévost
  Manon Lescaut
• Madame de La Fayette
  The Princess of Cleves
• Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
  Products of the Perfected Civilization
• Denis Diderot
  Rameau's Nephew
• Choderlos de Laclos
  Dangerous Liaisons

  Germany

• Erasmus
  In Praise of Folly
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Faust, Parts One and Two
  Dichtung und Wahrheit
  Egmont
  Elective Affinities
  The Sorrows of Young Werther
  Poems
  Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
  Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering
  Italian Journey
  Verse Plays
  Hermann and Dorothea
  Roman Elegies
  Venetian Epigrams
  West-Eastern Divan
• Friedrich Schiller
  The Robbers
  Mary Stuart
  Wallenstein
  Don Carlos
  On the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature
• Gotthold Lessing
  Laocoön
  Nathan the Wise
• Freidrich Hölderlin
  Hymns and Fragments
  Selected Poems
• Heinrich von Kleist
  Five Plays
  Stories