| Book | Author |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| The Republic | Plato |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| Principia Mathematica | Isaac Newton |
| The Prince | Niccoló Machiavelli |
| The Social Contract | Rousseau |
| An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| J'accuse | Zola |
| The Elements | Euclid |
| Coming of Age in Samoa | Mead |
| The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Jonathan Edwards |
| The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money | Keynes |
| Pragmatism | William James |
| Book of Mormon | Smith |
| Qur'an | Muhammad |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius |
| On The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Ethics | Benedict de Spinoza |
| Rig Veda | Unknown |
| The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Weber |
| Apology | Plato |
| Utilitarianism | John Stuart Mill |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant |
| Summa theologica | Thomas Aquinas |
| Cross of Gold speech | William Jennings Bryan |
| The Gospel According to Matthew | Saint Matthew |
| Vedas | Anonymous |
| The American Crisis | Thomas Paine |
| The Federalist Papers | Hamilton, Jay, Madison |
| Novum Organum | Francis Bacon |
| Principia Mathematica | Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell |
| Essay on Population | Malthus |
| Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Philippics | Demosthenes |
| The Book of Psalms | David |
| Upanishads | Anonymous |
| The Affluent Society | Galbraith |
| Almagest | Ptolemy |
| The Chrysanthemum and the Sword | Benedict |
| Crito | Plato |
| Phaedo | Plato |
| The Gulag Archipelago | Solzhenitsyn |
| The Myth of Sisyphus | Camus |
| Patterns of Culture | Benedict |
| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France | Burke |
| Poetics | Aristotle |
| A Dictionary of the English Language | Samuel Johnson |
