THE GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM's GREAT BOOKS AUTHORS LIST Based upon the Encyclopedia Britannica's list of Great Books of the Western World A B C D E F Aeschylus Francis Bacon Cao Xueqin Dante Eddington Michael Faraday Isabel Allende* Balzac John Calvin Charles Darwin Albert Einstein William Faulkner Jorge Amado Barth Joseph Campbell* Richard Dawkins* El Cid The Federalist Papers Maya Angelou* Matsuo Basho Albert Camus* Daniel Defoe George Eliot Henry Fielding St. Anselm* Charles Baudelaire Willa Cather Rene Descartes T.S. Eliot F. Scott Fitzgerald Thomas Aquinas Jeremy Bentham Miguel Cervantes Dewey Ralph Ellison Gustave Flaubert Archimedes Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer Junot Díaz* Ralph Waldo Emerson E. M. Forster Matthew Arnold Samuel Beckett Anton Chekhov Charles Dickens Engles Anatole France Machado de Assisi Thomas Berger Kate Chopin* Emily Dickinson Epic of Son Jara James Frazer Aristophanes Henri Bergson Cicero Denis Diderot Epictetus Sigmund Freud Aristotle Berkeley Sandra Cisneros* Annie Dillard* Desiderius Erasmus Milton Friedman* Margaret Atwood* Bhagavad Gita J.M. Le Clezio* Dobzhansky Euclid St. Augustine Bible Samuel Coleridge John Donne Euripides W. H. Auden William Blake Confucius Fyodor Dostoyevsky Marcus Aurelius Giovanni Boccaccio Joseph Conrad Frederick Douglass Jane Austen Boethius Nicolas Copernicus Theodore Dreiser Niels Bohr Pierre Corneille John Dryden Jorge Borges W.E.B. Dubois James Boswell Emile Durkheim* TC Boyle* Simone de Beauvoir* Berthold Brecht Edmund Burke Robert Browning
* Denotes an author added by a vote of the ACC Great Books Faculty THE GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM's GREAT BOOKS AUTHORS LIST Based upon the Encyclopedia Britannica's list of Great Books of the Western World G H, I J K L M Galen Henrik Ibsen Henry James Franz Kafka Antoine Lavoisier Thomas Macauley Galileo Galilei William James Immanuel Kant D.H. Lawrence Niccolo Machiavelli Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Thomas Hardy Thomas Jefferson John Keats CS Lewis* Naguib Mahfouz Edward Gibbon William Harvey Samuel Johnson Johannes Kepler Steven Levitt* Thomas Malory William Gilbert Jaroslav Hasek Ben Jonson John Maynard Keynes Abraham Lincoln Thomas Mann Epic of Gilgamesh* Stephen Hawking* James Joyce Soren Kierkegaard Titus Livy Christopher Marlowe George Gissing Nathaniel Hawthorne Carl Jung Martin Luther King, Jr. John Locke Gabriel Garcia Marquez Johann Goethe Friedrich Hayek* Juvenal Koran Lucretius Karl Marx Nikolai Gogol G.W.F. Hegel Paul Krugman* Martin Luther Cormac McCarthy* Stephen Jay Gould* Martin Heidegger Kung Shang Jen Herman Melville Greek Anthology Werner Heisenberg Mencius Ernest Hemingway John Stuart Mill Herodotus John Milton Hesiod Jean Moliere Hippocrates Michel Montaigne Thomas Hobbes Baron Montesquieu Homer Thomas More Horace Toni Morrison* Victor Hugo* Lady Shikibu Murasaki Johan Huizinga Gilbert Murray David Hume Nora Zeale Hurston Aldous Huxley T. H. Huxley Christian Huygens
* Denotes an author added by a vote of the ACC Great Books Faculty THE GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM's GREAT BOOKS AUTHORS LIST Based upon the Encyclopedia Britannica's list of Great Books of the Western World N O P R S T Vladimir Nabokov Flannery O’Connor Thomas Paine Rabelais Carl Sagan* Tacitus Pablo Neruda* Eugene O’Neill Blaise Pascal Jean Racine Sappho Rabindrarath Tagore Isaac Newton George Orwell Francesco Petrarch Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre* Talmud Nicomachus Ovid Petronius Bertrand Russell Arthur Schopenhauer R.H.Tawney Niebelungenlied Pindar Schrodinger Alfred Tennyson Friedrich Nietzsche Luigi Pirandello William Shakespeare Terrence Max Planck Bernard Shaw Henry David Thoreau Plato Mary Shelley Thucydides Plautus Percy Shelley Alexis de Tocqueville Plotinus Richard Sheridan Leo Tolstoy Plutarch Tobias Smollett Lazarillo de Tormes Li Po Adam Smith Anthony Trollope Edgar Allen Poe* Alexander Solzynitsyn Mark Twain Henri Poincare Ignazio Silone Lao Tze Alexander Pope Song of Roland Katherine Anne Porter* Sophocles William Prescott Edmund Spenser Marcel Proust Benedict Spinoza Ptolemy Lawrence Sterne Aleksandr Pushkin Wallace Stevens Barbara Pym Claude Levi Strauss Italo Svevo Jonathan Swift
* Denotes an author added by a vote of the ACC Great Books Faculty THE GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM's GREAT BOOKS AUTHORS LIST Based upon the Encyclopedia Britannica's list of Great Books of the Western World U, V W, X, Y, Z Upanishads Waddington Alice Walker* Thorsten Veblen Evelyn Waugh Virgil Max Weber Vitruvius* Eudora Welty* Vladimir Voinovich Alfred North Whitehead Voltaire [Francois Arouet] Walt Whitman Popul Vuh Tennessee Williams Wittgenstein Edmund Wilson Ludwig Wittgenstein Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth Richard Wright Wu Ch'eng-en
W.B.Yeats
Mikhail Zoschenko
* Denotes an author added by a vote of the ACC Great Books Faculty