Book lists

Novels

• TIME's 100 Novels, since 1923 (PDF)

Classics

Chinese

• The Analects (論語, 논어), Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
• Mozi (墨子, 묵자), Mo Tzu
• Tao-te Ching (道德經, 도덕경), Laozi
• Chuang Tzu
• Mencius, Meng Tzu (372-289 B.C.)
• The Great Learning (大學)
• The Mean
• Hsün Tzu, or Hsün Ch’ing
• Han Fei Tzu
• Records of the Historian: The Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch’ien (ca. 145-ca. 90 B.C.)
• Texts of Chinese Buddhism
• The Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Pundarika Sutra, or Miao-fa Lien-hua ching)
• The Vimalakirtinirdesa Sutra (Wei-mo-chieh so-shuo ching)
• The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana (Ta-ch’eng ch’i-hsin lun)
• Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liu-tsu t’an ching)
• The Record of Lin-chi (d. 866)
• Supplementary Readings on Chinese Buddhism
• Works of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
• Works of Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)
• General Readings in Chinese Fiction
• The Water Margin, or All Men Are Brothers (Shui-hu chuan)
• Journey to the West, or Monkey (Hsi-yu Chi), by Wu Ch’eng-en (ca. 1506-1581)
• The Golden Lotus (Chin P’ing Mei)
• Dream of the Red Chamber (Hung-lou meng), by Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in (Ts’ao Chan, d. 1763)
• Chinese Drama
• Chinese Poetry
• The Book of Songs (Shih ching)
• The Songs of the South (Ch’u Tz’u) by Ch’ü Yüan and Other Poets
• Chinese Poets and Poetry

Japanese

• Man’yôshû
• Court Poetry: The Kokinshû and other Imperial Anthologies
• The Pillow Book (Makura no sôshi) of Sei Shônagon
• The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) by Murasaki Shikibu
• Poetic Diaries and Poem Tales
• Texts of Japanese Buddhism
• Writings of Kûkai (Kôbô Daishi, 774-835)
• Writings of Buddhist Masters of the Kamakura Period
• Writings of the Zen Master Hakuin (1686-1769)
• Supplementary Readings in Japanese Buddhism
• An Account of My Hut (Hôjôki) by Kamo no Chômei (1153-1236)
• Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa) by Yoshida Kenkô (1283-1350)
• The Tale of the Heiki (Heiki monogatari)
• The Nô Plays
• The Fiction of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693)
• The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bashô (1644-1694)
• The Plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)
• The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura, ca. 1748), by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shôraku, and Namiki Senryû
• Kokoro, by Natsume Sôseki (1867-1914)

Indian

• The Vedas
• Upanishads (ca. 900-500 B.C.)
• Mahabharata (ca. fifth century B.C.-fourth century C.E.)
• Bhagavadgita (ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 100)
• Ramayana of Valmiki (ca. 200 B.C.)
• Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (ca. A.D. 300)
• The Vedanta Sutra with the Commentary of Shankaracharya (ca. 780-820)
• Theravada Buddhism: The Tipitaka
• Theravada Buddhism: The Dhammapada (ca. 300 B.C.)
• Theravada Buddhism: The Milindapanha (ca. first century C.E.)
• Theravada Buddhism: The Mahasatipatthana Sutta
• Mahayana Buddhism: Prajnaparamita (ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 400)
• Mahayana Buddhism: The Srimaladevisimhanada Sutra
• Mahayana Buddhism: The Lankavatara Sutra
• Mahayana Buddhism: The Sukhavativyuha Sutras
• Mahayana Buddhism: The Bodhicaryavatara of Shantideva (ca. 650)
• Supplementary Readings on Indian Buddhism
• Shakuntala (Abhijnanasakuntala) of Kalidasa (ca. 400)
• The Little Clay Cart (Mrrcchakatika) of Shudraka (ca. 400)
• Pancatantra (ca. 200 B.C.) According to Purnabhadra (ca. 1199)
• Sanskrit Lyric Poetry
• Gitagovinda of Jayadeva (ca. twelfth century)
• Indian Devotional Poetry
• Indo-Islamic Poetry
• Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
• Autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Islamic

• The Seven Odes (Al-Mu’allaqat)
• The Qur’an (Al-Qur’an)
• The Ring of the Dove (Tawq al-Hamama), by Ibn Hazm (994-1064)
• The Maqamat of al-Hamadhani (Maqamat al-Hamadhani) (968-1008)
• The Assemblies of al-Hariri (Maqamat al-Hariri) (1054-1122)
• The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla)
• Deliverance from Error (Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal), by al-Ghazali (1058-1111)
• On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy (Kitab fasl al-maqal), by Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126-1198)
• The Conference of Birds, by Farid al-Din ’Attar (ca. 1142-ca. 1220)
• The Mystical Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
• The Prolegomena (Al-Muqaddima) of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)
• The Shahnama
• The Ruba’iyyat of ’Umar Khayyam (eleventh century)
• The Book of Dede Korkut (Kitab-i Dede Korkut)
• The Mystical Poetry of Yunus Emre (d. ca. 1320)
• Leyla and Mejnun, by Fuzuli (ca. 1495-1556)