General Lists

List of 100 Books
Works by Living Authors are omitted. 

The Bible 
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 
Epictetus 
Aristotle
  Ethics 
Analects of Confucius 
St. Hilaire
  [dq]Le Bouddha et sa religion[dq] 
Wake
  Apostolic Fathers 
Thos. a Kempis
  Imitation of Christ 
Confessions of St. Augustine (Dr. Pusey) 
The Koran (portions of) 
Spinoza
  Tractatus Theologico-Politicus 
Comte
  Catechism of Positive Philosophy 
Pascal
  Pensees 
Butler
  Analogy of Religion 
Taylor
  Holy Living and Dying 
Bunyan
  Pilgrim's Progress 
Keble
  Christian Year 
Plato
  Dialogues
    the Apology
    Phaedo
    Republic 
Xenophon
  Memorabilia 
Aristotle
  Politics 
Demosthenes
  De Corona 
Cicero
  De Officiis
  De Amicitia
  De Senectute 
Plutarch
  Lives 
Berkeley
  Human Knowledge 
Descartes
  Discours sur la Methode 
Locke
  On the Conduct of the Understanding
Homer 
Hesiod 
Virgil 
Maha Bharata
  [Epitomized in Talboys 
   Wheeler's History of 
   India, vols. i. and ii. 
Ramayana
The Shahnameh 
The Nibelungenlied 
Malory
  Morte d'Arthur 
The Sheking 
AEschylus
  Prometheus 
  Trilogy of Orestes 
Sophocles
  [OE]dipus 
Euripides
  Medea 
Aristophane
  The Knights
  Clouds 
Horace 
Lucretius 
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  (Perhaps in Morris's edition;\
   or, if expurgated, in C. Clarke's
   or Mrs. Haweis's) 
Shakespeare 
Milton
  Paradise Lost
  Lycidas
  the shorter poems 
Dante
  Divina Commedia 
Spenser
  Fairie Queen 
Dryden
  Poems 
Scott
  Poems
Wordsworth
  (Mr. Arnold's selection) 
Southey
  Thalaba the Destroyer 
The Curse of Kehama 
Pope
  Essay on Criticism 
Essay on Man 
Rape of the Lock 
Burns 
Byron
  Childe Harold 
Gray 
Herodotus 
Xenophon
  Anabasis 
Thucydides 
Tacitus
  Germania 
Livy 
Gibbon
  Decline and Fall 
Hume
  History of England 
Grote
  History of Greece 
Carlyle
  French Revolution 
Green
  Short History of England 
Lewes
  History of England 
Arabian Nights 
Swift
  Gulliver's Travels 
Defoe
  Robinson Crusoe 
Goldsmith
  Vicar of Wakefield 
Cervantes
  Don Quixote 
Boswell
  Life of Johnson 
Moliere 
Sheridan
  The Critic
  School for Scandal
  The Rivals 
Carlyle
  Past and Present 
Smiles
  Self-Help 
Bacon
  Novum Organum 
Smiths
  Wealth of Nations (part of) 
Mill
  Political Economy 
Cook
  Voyages 
Humboldt
  Travels 
White
  Natural History of Selborne 
Darwin
  Origin of Species 
  Naturalist's Voyage 
Mill
  Logic
Bacon
  Essays 
Montaigne
  Essays 
Hume
  Essays 
Macaulay
  Essays 
Addison
  Essays 
Emerson
  Essays 
Burke
  Select works 
Voltaire
  Zadig 
Goethe
  Faust
  Autobiography
Miss Austen
  Emma
  Pride and Prejudice 
Thackeray
  Vanity Fair
  Pendennis 
Dickens
  Pickwick 
  David Copperfield 
Lytton
  Last days of Pompeii 
George Eliot
  Adam Bede 
Kingsley
  Westward Ho! 
Scott
  Novels

Literature

History

Science