Easton Press “100 Greatest Books”

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The official “100 Greatest Books Ever Written“ collection by Easton Press features 125 volumes. Here is a comprehensive alphabetical list of prominent masterpieces included in this famous leather-bound series:

The 125 Volumes

Expansion titles in bold.

1. Aeschylus – The Oresteia
2. Aesop – Aesop’s Fables
3. Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
4. Aristophanes – The Birds, The Frogs
5. Aristotle – Politics & The Poetics
6. Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
7. Bacon, Sir Francis – Essays/ Effayes
8. Baudelaire, Charles – The Flowers of Evil
9. Beowulf
10. Boccaccio, Giovanni – The Decameron
11. Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
12. Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
13. Browning, Robert – Collected Poems
14. Bunyan, John – The Pilgrim’s Progress
15. Burton, Richard – The Arabian Nights
16. Butler, Samuel – The Way of All Flesh
17. Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
18. Cervantes – Don Quixote
19. Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales
20. Chekhov, Anton – Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard/ Three Sisters
21. Confucius – The Analects of Confucius
22. Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
23. Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim
24. Cooper, James Fennimore – The Last of the Mohicans
25. Crane, Stephen – Red Badge of Courage (add 8/14/2026)
26. Dante – The Divine Comedy
27. Darwin, Charles – The Descent of Man
28. Darwin, Charles – The Origin of Species
29. Defoe, Daniel – Journal of the Plague Year
30. Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
31. Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
32. Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield
33. Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
34. Dickens, Charles – Short Stories
35. Dickinson, Emily – Collected Poems
36. Donne, John – Collected Poems
37. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
38. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov
39. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
40. Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte Cristo
41. Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
42. Eliot, George – Middlemarch
43. Eliot, George – Silas Marner
44. Eliot, George – The Mill on the Floss
45. Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Essays
46. Euripides: Medea – Hippolytus – The Bacchae
47. Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
48. Federalist – Hamilton, Madison, Jay – The Federalist Papers
49. Fielding, Henry – Tom Jones
50. Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
51. Franklin, Benjamin – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
52. Frost, Robert – Collected Poems
53. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust
54. Goldsmith, Oliver – She Stoops to Conquer
55. Grimm – Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales
56. Hardy, Thomas – Jude the Obscure
57. Hardy, Thomas – Return of the Native
58. Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
59. Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
60. Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
61. Holy Bible
62. Homer – Iliad
63. Homer – Odyssey
64. Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables
65. Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre-Dame De Paris)
66. Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
67. Ibsen, Henrik – Three Plays
68. Irving, Washington – The Alhambra
69. Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories
70. James, Henry – Portrait of a Lady
71. Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
72. Keats, John – Collected Poems
73. Khayyam, Omar – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
74. Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Books
75. Lawrence, DH – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
76. Livy – History of Early Rome
77. London, Jack – The Sea Wolf
78. Machiavelli, Niccolo – The Prince
79. Maupassant, Guy de – The Tales of Guy de Maupassant
80. Melville, Herman – Billy Budd/ Benito Cereno
81. Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick
82. Milton, John – Paradise Lost
83. Moliere – Two Plays
84. Orwell, George – Animal Farm
85. Paine, Thomas – Rights of Man
86. Plato – Dialogues on Love and Friendship
87. Plato – The Republic
88. Poe, Edgar Allan – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
89. Rostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac
90. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques– The Confessions
91. Scott, Walter – Ivanhoe
92. Scott, Walter – The Talisman
93. Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
94. Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
95. Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
96. Shakespeare, William – The Comedies
97. Shakespeare, William – The Histories
98. Shakespeare, William – The Tragedies
99. Shaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion and Candida
100. Shaw, George Bernard – Two Plays for Puritans
101. Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
102. Sophocles – Oedipus the King
103. St. Augustine – The Confessions of St. Augustine
104. Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
105. Stendhal – The Red and the Black
106. Sterne, Lawrence – Tristram Shandy
107. Stevenson, Robert Louis – Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
108. Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
109. Stoker, Bram – Dracula
110. Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
111. Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
112. Thackeray, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair
113. Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
114. Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
115. Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
116. Turgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
117. Twain, Mark – Huckleberry Finn
118. Verne, Jules – Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
119. Virgil – The Aeneid
120. Voltaire – Candide (add 8/14/2026)
121. Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine
122. Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
123. Wilde, Oscar – Short Stories
124. Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
125. Yeats, W.B. – Collected Poems

Total Volumes in Personal Library (14/125 = 11.2%)

The Original 100 Books

1. Aeschylus – The Oresteia
2. Aesop – Aesop’s Fables
3. Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
4. Aristophanes – The Birds, The Frogs
5. Aristotle – Politics & The Poetics
6. Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
7. Bacon, Sir Francis – Essays/ Effayes
8. Baudelaire, Charles – The Flowers of Evil
9. Beowulf
10. Boccaccio, Giovanni – The Decameron
11. Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
12. Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
13. Browning, Robert – Collected Poems
14. Bunyan, John – The Pilgrim’s Progress
15. Burton, Richard – The Arabian Nights
16. Butler, Samuel – The Way of All Flesh
17. Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
18. Cervantes – Don Quixote
19. Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales
20. Chekhov, Anton – Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard/ Three Sisters
21. Confucius – The Analects of Confucius
22. Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
23. Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim
24. Cooper, James Fennimore – The Last of the Mohicans
25. Crane, Stephen – Red Badge of Courage
26. Dante – The Divine Comedy
27. Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
28. Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield
29. Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
30. Dickens, Charles – Short Stories
31. Dickinson, Emily – Collected Poems
32. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
33. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov
34. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
35. Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte Cristo
36. Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
37. Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Essays
38. Euripides: Medea – Hippolytus – The Bacchae
39. Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
40. Federalist – Hamilton, Madison, Jay – The Federalist Papers
41. Fielding, Henry – Tom Jones
42. Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
43. Franklin, Benjamin – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
44. Frost, Robert – Collected Poems
45. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust
46. Goldsmith, Oliver – She Stoops to Conquer
47. Grimm – Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales
48. Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
49. Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
50. Homer – Iliad
51. Homer – Odyssey
52. Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables
53. Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre-Dame De Paris)
54. Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
55. Irving, Washington – The Alhambra
56. Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories
57. James, Henry – Portrait of a Lady
58. Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
59. Keats, John – Collected Poems
60. Khayyam, Omar – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
61. Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Books
62. Lawrence, DH – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
63. Livy – History of Early Rome
64. London, Jack – The Sea Wolf
65. Machiavelli, Niccolo – The Prince
66. Maupassant, Guy de – The Tales of Guy de Maupassant
67. Melville, Herman – Billy Budd/ Benito Cereno
68. Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick
69. Milton, John – Paradise Lost
70. Orwell, George – Animal Farm
71. Paine, Thomas – Rights of Man
72. Poe, Edgar Allan – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
73. Rostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac
74. Scott, Walter – Ivanhoe
75. Scott, Walter – The Talisman
76. Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
77. Sophocles – Oedipus the King
78. St. Augustine – The Confessions of St. Augustine
79. Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
80. Stendhal – The Red and the Black
81. Sterne, Lawrence – Tristram Shandy
82. Stevenson, Robert Louis – Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
83. Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
84. Stoker, Bram – Dracula
85. Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
86. Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
87. Thackeray, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair
88. Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
89. Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
90. Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
91. Turgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
92. Twain, Mark – Huckleberry Finn
93. Verne, Jules – Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
94. Virgil – The Aeneid
95. Voltaire – Candide
96. Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine
97. Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
98. Wilde, Oscar – Short Stories
99. Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
100. Yeats, W.B. – Collected Poems

25 Expansion Titles

The expanded list, detailing 25 additional titles, features a range of genres including plays, novels, philosophy, and poetry. Key additions include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Molière, and Shaw for theater; novels by Hardy, Eliot, and Defoe; and foundational texts from authors like Darwin, Plato, and Donne.

1. Darwin, Charles – The Descent of Man
2. Darwin, Charles – The Origin of Species
3. Defoe, Daniel – Journal of the Plague Year
4. Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
5. Donne, John – Collected Poems
6. Eliot, George – Middlemarch
7. Eliot, George – Silas Marner
8. Eliot, George – The Mill on the Floss
9. Hardy, Thomas – Jude the Obscure
10. Hardy, Thomas – Return of the Native
11. Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
12. Holy Bible
13. Ibsen, Henrik – Three Plays
14. Moliere – Two Plays
15. Plato – Dialogues on Love and Friendship
16. Plato – The Republic
17. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques– The Confessions
18. Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
19. Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
20. Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
21. Shakespeare, William – The Comedies
22. Shakespeare, William – The Histories
23. Shakespeare, William – The Tragedies
24. Shaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion and Candida
25. Shaw, George Bernard – Two Plays for Puritans