Non-Fiction Works (British Literature)
Francis Bacon- New Atlantis & Great Instauration
Robert Burton- Anatomy of Melancholy
Samuel Pepys- Diary of Samuel Pepys
John Locke- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke- Two Treatises of Government
Edmund Burke- Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Thomas Hobbes- Leviathan
Jonathan Swift- A Modest Proposal
Bertrand Russell- A History of Western Philosophy
E. M. Forster- Aspects of the Novel
George Orwell- Collection of Essays
T. S. Eliot- Selected Essays
Non-Fiction Works (American & European)
Henry David Thoreau- Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau- Walden
Ralph Waldo Emerson- The American Scholar
Ralph Waldo Emerson- Self Reliance
Jean Jacques Rousseau- The Social Contract
Jean Paul Sartre- Existentialism Is a Humanism
Albert Camus- The Myth of Sisyphus
Niccolo Machiavelli- The Prince
Maya Angelou- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Plato- The Republic