The Republic

Plato

Defense of Justice, and its relation to happiness.

Apology

Plato

An account of the Speech Socrates makes at the Trial.

Symposium

Plato

A series of speeches on Love at a party in ancient Greece

Euthyphro

Plato

Socratic dialogue before the trial of Socrates (399 BC)

Gorgias

Plato

Good versus evil, a detailed study of virtue.

Phaedo

Plato

The immortality of the soul.

Meno

Plato

What is virtue, can it be taught?

Theaetetus

Plato

What is knowledge?

Phaedrus

Plato

Socrates meets Phaedrus outside the city.

Crito

Plato

Crito visits Socrates who is awaiting execution at dawn.

Timaeus

Plato

Formation of the universe, its impressive order and beauty.

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

A narrative of 1757.

The Monk

M. G. Lewis

A Romance

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes, a notable detective, loves solving puzzles.

Ulysses

James Joyce

8:00 AM, Thursday June 16, 1904.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

The theory of “will to truth."—a note for philosophers.

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Near the tombstones of his parents, Pip meets a convict.

We

Eugene Zamyatin

A 1921 blueprint for authoritarian dystopia

The Brothers Karamazov (Part-I)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A story of conflict between faith and doubt—of free will.

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Oliver, an orphan runs away to London for a better life.

Phaedo

Plato

The immortality of the soul.

Emile

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Buck is stolen from his home and sold as a sled dog…