C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
The Reader’s Digest of Books
Plato to Shakespeare
| Plato. 429–347 B.C. | The Banquet |
| The Laws | |
| Dialogues | |
| The Republic | |
| Plautus. c. 254–184 B.C. | Aulularia |
| Menæchmi | |
| Pliny the Elder. 23–79 A.D. | Natural History |
| Pliny the Younger. 61/2–c. 113 A.D. | Letters of Pliny |
| Plutarch. c. 45–120 A.D. | Lives |
| Edgar Allan Poe. 1809–1849. | The Gold-Bug |
| Marco Polo. 1254–1324. | Travels of Marco Polo |
| Ernest Poole. 1880–1950. | The Harbor |
| His Family | |
| Alexander Pope. 1688–1744. | The Dunciad |
| Eleanor Hodgman Porter. 1868–1920. | Just David |
| Jane Porter. 1776–1850. | The Scottish Chiefs |
| Thaddeus of Warsaw | |
| Henry Codman Potter. 1834–1908. | The Scholar and the State |
| Eleanor Frances Poynter. | Ersilia |
| Waldo Selden Pratt. 1857–1939. | The History of Music |
| William Hickling Prescott. 1796–1859. | History of the Conquest of Peru |
| History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella | |
| Harriet Waters Preston. 1836–1911. | Troubadours and Trouvères |
| Antoine-François, Abbé Prévost d’Exiles. 1697–1763. | Manon Lescaut |
| Marcel Prévost. 1862–1941. | Lettres de Femmes |
| Richard Pryce. 1864–1942. | Christopher |
| David Penstephen | |
| George Psalmanazar. 1679?–1763. | Formosa |
| Ptolemy. c. 90–c. 168. | The Almagest |
| Raphael Pumpelly. 1837–1923. | Across America and Asia |
| Samuel Purchas. 1577?–1626. | Purchas his Pilgrimes |
| Alexander Pushkin. 1799–1837. | Boris Godounoff |
| The Captain’s Daughter | |
| George Haven Putnam. 1844–1930. | Books and their Makers, A.D. 476–1709 |
| The Question of Copyright | |
| Francis Quarles. 1592–1644. | Emblems |
| Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire. 1838–1923. | The Woodman |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. 1863–1944. | The Delectable Duchy |
| The Splendid Spur | |
| Adventures in Criticism | |
| Quintilian. c. 35–c. 95 A.D. | Institutes |
| François Rabelais. c. 1490–1553. | Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| Jean Racine. 1639–1699. | Andromache |
| Athalie | |
| Mithridate | |
| Ann (Ward) Radcliffe. 1764–1823. | The Mysteries of Udolpho |
| Sir Walter Raleigh. 1554?–1618. | A History of the World |
| Rudolf Erich Raspe. 1736–1794. | The Travels and Adventures of Baron Münchausen |
| Walter Raymond. 1852–1931. | Love and Quiet Life |
| Charles Reade. 1814–1884. | Christie Johnstone |
| The Cloister and the Hearth | |
| Griffith Gaunt | |
| Hard Cash | |
| Love Me Little, Love Me Long | |
| Peg Woffington | |
| Put Yourself in His Place | |
| Percy Redfern. 1875–1958. | The Story of the C. W. S. |
| Salomon Reinach. 1858–1932. | Apollo |
| Ernest Renan. 1823–1892. | History of the People of Israel |
| Agnes Repplier. 1855–1950. | Americans and Others |
| Fritz Reuter. 1810–1874. | In the Year ’13 |
| Old Story of My Farming Days | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds. 1723–1792. | Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy |
| James Ford Rhodes. 1848–1927. | History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 |
| Théodule Ribot. 1839–1916. | Heredity |
| Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice. 1870–1942. | Lovey Mary |
| Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch | |
| Sandy | |
| Samuel Richardson. 1689–1761. | Clarissa Harlowe |
| Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | |
| Sir Charles Grandison | |
| Jacob August Riis. 1849–1914. | The Making of an American |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart. 1876–1958. | K |
| Alexander Roberts. 1826–1901. James Donaldson. 1831–1915. | Ante-Nicene Christian Library |
| Frederick Sleigh, Lord Roberts. 1832–1914. | Forty-one Years in India |
| Margaret Roberts. 1833–1919. | Mademoiselle Mori |
| John Robinson. 1575?–1625. | New Essays: Observations, Divine and Moral |
| Regina Maria Roche. 1764?–1845. | The Children of the Abbey |
| Édouard Rod. 1857–1910. | The White Rocks |
| Michael Levi Rodkinson, ed. 1845–1904. | Babylonian Talmud |
| Edward Payson Roe. 1838–1888. | Barriers Burned Away |
| James Edwin Thorold Rogers. 1823–1890. | A History of Agriculture and Prices |
| The Economic Interpretation of History | |
| Romain Rolland. 1866–1944. | Jean Christophe |
| Theodore Roosevelt. 1858–1919. | The Strenuous Life |
| The Winning of the West | |
| William Roscoe. 1753–1831. | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth |
| John Holland Rose. 1855–1942. | The Life of Napoleon I. |
| Pierre-Fulcrand de Rosset. 1708–1788. | Agriculture |
| Maria Francesca Rossetti. 1827–1876. | A Shadow of Dante |
| Edmond Rostand. 1868–1918. | Chantecler |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| L’Aiglon | |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau. 1712–1778. | Confessions |
| Émile | |
| The Social Contract | |
| Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree. 1871–1954. | Land and Labor |
| Poverty, A Study in Town Life | |
| Susanna Haswell Rowson. 1762–1824. | Charlotte Temple |
| Crotus Rubianus. c. 1480–1539. | Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum |
| Giovanni Ruffini. 1807–1881. | Doctor Antonio |
| Bertha Runkle. 1879–1958. | The Helmet of Navarre |
| John Ruskin. 1819–1900. | Modern Painters |
| Seven Lamps of Architecture | |
| Stones of Venice | |
| William Clark Russell. 1844–1911. | The Wreck of the Grosvenor |
| Viktor Rydberg. 1828–1895. | The Last Athenian |
| Paul Sabatier. 1858–1928. | Life of Saint Francis of Assisi |
| Leopold Sacher-Masoch. 1835–1895. | Seraph |
| Julius Sachs. 1832–1897. | A History of Botany, 1530–1860 |
| Sa’dī. c. 1213–1291. | Gulistan, or Rose Garden |
| Mary Amelia St. Clair (May Sinclair). 1863–1946. | The Divine Fire |
| The Helpmate | |
| Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. 1804–1869. | Causeries du Lundi |
| Gallery of Celebrated Women | |
| Nouveaux Lundis | |
| Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. 1737–1814. | Paul and Virginia |
| George Saintsbury. 1845–1933. | A Short History of French Literature |
| Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon. 1675–1755. | The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon |
| Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau. 1811–1883. | Catharine |
| The House of Penarvan | |
| George Sand. 1804–1876. | Consuelo |
| Elle et Lui | |
| The Haunted Pool | |
| Indiana | |
| Little Fadette | |
| L’Histoire de Ma Vie | |
| John Saunders. 1810–1895. | Israel Mort, Overman |
| Marmion Wilard Savage. 1803–1872. | The Bachelor of the Albany |
| Minot Judson Savage. 1841–1918. | Bluffton |
| Richard Henry Savage. 1846–1903. | My Official Wife |
| Joseph Viktor von Scheffel. 1826–1886. | Ekkehard |
| Friedrich von Schiller. 1759–1805. | Wallenstein |
| Wilhelm Tell | |
| Heinrich Schliemann. 1822–1890. | Troy and Its Remains |
| Arthur Schnitzler. 1862–1931. | Anatol |
| The Lonely Way | |
| Professor Bernhardi | |
| Prince Emil Rudolf Osman Schönaich-Carolath. 1852–1908. | Melting Snows |
| Arthur Schopenhauer. 1788–1860. | The World as Will and Idea |
| Olive Schreiner. 1855–1920. | The Story of an African Farm |
| Ossip Schubin. 1854–1934. | Boris Lensky |
| Michael Scott. 1789–1835. | The Cruise of the Midge |
| Tom Cringle’s Log | |
| Robert Falcon Scott. 1868–1912. | Scott’s Last Expedition |
| Sir Walter Scott. 1771–1832. | The Abbot |
| Anne of Geierstein | |
| The Antiquary | |
| The Bride of Lammermoor | |
| Count Robert of Paris | |
| The Fair Maid of Perth | |
| Guy Mannering | |
| The Heart of Midlothian | |
| Ivanhoe | |
| Kenilworth | |
| Quentin Durward | |
| Redgauntlet | |
| Waverley | |
| Woodstock | |
| Augustin Eugène Scribe. 1791–1861. Ernest Legouvé. 1807–1903. | Adrienne Lecouvreur |
| Horace Elisha Scudder. 1838–1902. | Dream Children |
| Men and Letters | |
| Madeleine de Scudéry. 1607–1701. | Clélie |
| Anne Douglas Sedgwick. 1873–1935. | Tante |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick. 1789–1867. | Hope Leslie |
| Frederic Seebohm. 1833–1912. | The English Village Community |
| The Oxford Reformers of 1498 | |
| Sir John Robert Seeley. 1834–1895. | Ecce Homo |
| The Expansion of England | |
| Life and Times of Stein | |
| William Young Sellar. 1825–1890. | The Roman Poets |
| Seneca. c. 4 B.C.–65 A.D. | The Morals |
| Matilde Serao. 1856–1927. | After the Pardon |
| The Land of Cockayne | |
| Ernest Thompson Seton. 1860–1946. | Lives of the Hunted |
| Madame de Sévigné. 1626–1696. | Letters |
| Anna Sewell. 1820–1878. | Black Beauty |
| Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. 1874–1922. | The Heart of the Antarctic |
| Arthur Shadwell. 1854–1936. | Industrial Efficiency |
| Lord Shaftesbury. 1671–1713. | Characteristics |
| William Shakespeare. 1564–1616. | All’s Well That Ends Well |
| Antony and Cleopatra | |
| As You Like It | |
| The Comedy of Errors | |
| Coriolanus | |
| Cymbeline | |
| Hamlet | |
| King Henry IV., Part i. | |
| King Henry IV., Part ii. | |
| King Henry V. | |
| Henry VI. | |
| Henry VIII. | |
| Julius Cæsar | |
| King John | |
| King Lear | |
| Love’s Labour’s Lost | |
| Macbeth | |
| Measure for Measure | |
| The Merchant of Venice | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | |
| Othello | |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre | |
| Richard II. | |
| Richard III. | |
| Romeo and Juliet | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | |
| The Tempest | |
| Timon of Athens | |
| Titus Andronicus | |
| Troilus and Cressida | |
| Twelfth Night, or What You Will | |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | |
| Two Noble Kinsmen | |
| A Winter’s Tale |