| Writer | Books Listed in Book | Additional Major / Corrected Works Added |
| Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | The Theory of Moral Sentiments |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf (Mein Kamph) | — |
| Albert Einstein | The World as I See It | Relativity: The Special and General Theory |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | August 1914 | The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| A. L. Basham | The Wonder That Was India | — |
| Anton Chekhov | The Cherry Orchard | Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, Three Sisters |
| Arthur Hailey (Arther Hele) | Airport | Hotel, Wheels, Overload |
| Aristotle | Politics | Poetics, Nicomachean Ethics |
| Boris Pasternak | Dr. Zhivago | — |
| David Baldacci | Absolute Power | Memory Man, The Camel Club |
| Dante Alighieri | Divine Comedy | La Vita Nuova |
| E. M. Forster | A Passage to India, Maurice | Howards End, A Room with a View |
| Homer | Odyssey, Iliad | — |
| H. G. Wells | The Shape of Things to Come | The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man |
| Harold Evans | Good Times, Bad Times | — |
| Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer | Tropic of Capricorn |
| Isaac Newton | Principia | Opticks |
| Katherine Mayo | Mother India | — |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince | Discourses on Livy |
| Maxim Gorky | Mother | The Lower Depths |
| Plato | The Republic | The Apology, Symposium |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The Social Contract | Emile, Confessions |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost, Lycidas | Paradise Regained, Areopagitica |
| Winston Churchill | The Gathering Storm | The Second World War, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm (Farm House, Animal Farm) | 1984, Homage to Catalonia, Down and Out in Paris and London |
| Charles Darwin | The Descent of Man, On the Origin of Species | — |
| William Shakespeare | Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello | Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Twelfth Night |
| George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara, Man and Superman, The Apple Cart, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra, Candida | Saint Joan, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Heartbreak House |
| Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield | Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House |
| J. K. Galbraith | The Affluent Society, Ambassador’s Journal, The Triumph | The Great Crash, 1929; The New Industrial State |
| Harold Laski (Herold Joseph Laski) | A Grammar of Politics, The Dilemma of Our Time | Liberty in the Modern State |
| J. M. Barrie | Peter Pan | The Admirable Crichton (Note: “Hindu Civilization” attributed to Barrie in the original text is an error; it was written by Radhakumud Mookerji) |
| Gunnar Myrdal | Against the Stream, Asian Drama | An American Dilemma |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Resurrection |
| Z. A. Bhutto | The Great Tragedy | If I Am Assassinated |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | Pale Fire, Ada or Ardor |
| Mao Zedong | On Contradiction | On Guerrilla Warfare, Quotations from Chairman Mao (Little Red Book) |
| Karl Marx | Das Kapital | The Communist Manifesto |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter Series | The Casual Vacancy, The Cormoran Strike Series |
| Gabriel García Márquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | , Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis | The Trial, The Castle |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
