Obviously this is very much a work in progress!
| Homer | The Iliad | ||
| The Odyssey | |||
| Pānini | Aṣṭādhyāyī | ||
| Dhātupāṭha | |||
| Euclid | Elements | ||
| Apollonius of Perga | Conics | ||
| Archimedes | On the Equilibrium of Planes | ||
| The Sand Reckoner | |||
| Quadrature of the Parabola | |||
| Anonymous | The Bhagavad Gita | ||
| Aeschylus | The Oresteia | ||
| Plato | The Republic | ||
| … | |||
| Aristotle | Categories | ||
| Poetics | |||
| The New Testament – multiple English translations | Tyndale | ||
| King James Version | |||
| Revised Standard Version (RSV) (and NRSV and NRSVue) | |||
| The New English Bible | |||
| Concordant translation | |||
| The Five Gospels (Jesus Seminar) | |||
| David Bentley, The New Testament: A Translation | |||
| Plotinus | Sixth Ennead | ||
| Shankara | Commentary on the Brahma Sutra | ||
| Anonymous | Beowulf | ||
| Shakespeare | Which works should not be included? | ||
| Spinoza | Which works? | ||
| Fourier | The Analytical Theory of Heat | ||
| Kant | Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens | https://web.viu.ca/johnstoi//kant/kant2e.htm | |
| Karl Marx | Das Kapital | ||
| Emily Dickinson | Specific poems? | ||
| M | The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | Raja Yoga | ||
| H.G. Wells | The Time Machine | ||
| The War of the Worlds | |||
| Rudolf Bultmann | New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings | ||
| The Gospel of John: A Commentary | |||
| Schrödinger | The present situation in quantum mechanics | ||
| What Is Life? | |||
| Mind and Matter | |||
| Claude Shannon | A Mathematical Theory of Communication | ||
| Paramahansa Yogananda | Autobiography of a Yogi | ||
| The Science of Religion | |||
| God Talks with Arjuna | |||
| The Second Coming of Christ | |||
| David Bohm | A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of “Hidden” Variables | ||
| The Undivided Universe | |||
| C. H. Dodd | The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel | ||
| Peter Naur (editor) | Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60 | ||
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | ||
| Richard Feynman | The Feynman Lectures on Physics | ||
| Donald Knuth | The Art of Computer Programming | ||
| Phillip K. Dick | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | ||
| The Transmigration of Timothy Archer | |||
| The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | |||
| The Man in the High Castle | |||
| John Brunner | The Shockwave Rider | ||
| The Sheep Look Up | |||
| Stand On Zanzibar | |||
| Roger Zelazny | Lord of Light | ||
| Christopher Alexander | A Pattern Language | ||
| Notes on the Synthesis of Form | |||
| The Nature of Order (four volumes) | |||
| C. A. R. Hoare | Structured Programming | ||
| Communicating Sequential Processes | |||
| Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler | Gravitation | ||
| Hans Küng | ? | ||
| 1971 | John Rawls | A Theory of Justice | |
| Plus many more… | |||