Guardian Essential Library
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Annals by Tacitus
The Armada by Garrett Mattingly
Aubrey’s brief lives by John Aubrey
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Beethoven’s Letters by Ludwig van Beethoven
Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too… by John Diamond
Candide by Voltaire
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
Collected Poems by Edward Thomas
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Complete Poems by Christina Rossetti
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
The complete poems, 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Danube by Claudio Magris
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Diaries by Alan Clark
Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote’s Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain by Miranda France
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage by Richard Holmes
E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter
Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake
Essays on Music by Theodor Adorno
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
Experience by Martin Amis
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
The Glenn Gould Reader by Glenn Gould
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
If This Is a Man and The Truce by Primo Levi
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
In Siberia by Colin Thubron
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel
Memories and Commentaries: New One-Volume Edition by Igor Stravinsky
Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements by Paul Strathern
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi by Jonathan Raban
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Orwell and Politics (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
Politics by Aristotle
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy by John Updike
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selected Writings [Oxford World’s Classics] by William Hazlitt
The Social Contract and Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
Sun Dancing by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond
Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey
Troilus and Cressida; A Love Poem in Five Books by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
