Posted here for your convenience is the fullest free eBook list of Mortimer Adler’s Great Books of the Western World.

What makes this list more useful than the eBooks @ Adelaide list, from which the bulk of this version comes, is that several of the holes have been filled in by Project Gutenberg, and others by the Internet Archive. Links not provided by eBooks @ Adelaide are italicized. Notably, some links do not lead to eBooks, some of these even to simple Web pages. If an eBook or PDF of the appropriate work becomes available, leave a comment so this list can be updated. However, due to copyright concerns, please do not link to free eBook versions of books still under copyright in the United States.

Homer, ca.800 BC

Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC)

Sophocles (c. 496-c. 405 BC)

Euripides (480 or 484-406 BC)

Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC – 385 Bc)

Herodotus, 485–420 BC

Thucydides, ca.460 BC

Plato, c.427–c.347 BC

Aristotle, 384–322 BC

Hippocrates, 460–377 BC

Works (approximation)

Galen, 131–201

Euclid ca.300 BC

Archimedes, c. 287–212 BC

All works listed between On the Sphere and Cylinder and the Book of Lemmas may be found in The Works of Archimedes.

On the Sphere and Cylinder

Measurement of a Circle

On Conoids and Spheroids

On Spirals

On the Equilibrium of Planes

The Sand-Reckoner

The Quadrature of the Parabola

On Floating Bodies

Book of Lemmas

The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems

Apollonius of Perga, 262 BC–ca. 190 BC

Nicomachus of Gerasa

Lucretius, 98?–55 BC

Epictetus, ca. 55–135

Marcus Aurelius, 121–180

Virgil, 70–19 BCE

Plutarch, 46–120

Cornelius Tacitus, ca.56–ca.120 AD

Ptolemy

The Almagest (approximation)

Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473–1543

On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (approximation, and not in ePub)

Johannes Kepler, 1571–1630

Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV – V)

The Harmonies of the World (Book V)

Plotinus, 205–270

Augustine of Hippo, 354–430

Thomas Aquinas, 1224–1274

Dante, 1265–1321

Geoffrey Chaucer, ca.1343–1400

Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469–1527

Thomas Hobbes, 1588–1679

François Rabelais, 1494?–1553?

Michel de Montaigne, 1533–1592

William Shakespeare, 1564–1616

William Gilbert, 1540-1603

On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

Galileo Galilei, 1564–1642

William Harvey, 1578–1657

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals / William Harvey

On the Circulation of Blood

On the Generation of Animals

Miguel de Cervantes, 1547–1616

Francis Bacon, 1561–1626

René Descartes, 1596–1650

Benedict de Spinoza, 1632–1677

John Milton, 1608–1674

Blaise Pascal, 1623–1662

Isaac Newton, 1642–1727

Christiaan Huygens, 1629–1693

John Locke, 1632–1704

George Berkeley, 1685–1753

David Hume, 1711–1776

Jonathan Swift, 1667–1745

Laurence Sterne, 1713–1768

Henry Fielding, 1707–1754

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

The Spirit of the Laws Volume I and Volume II

Jean–Jacques Rousseau, 1712–1778

Adam Smith, 1723–1790

Edward Gibbon, 1737–1794

Immanuel Kant, 1724–1804

American State Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

John Stuart Mill, 1806–1873

James Boswell, 1740–1795

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743–1794

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Michael Faraday

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770–1831

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749–1832

Herman Melville, 1819–1891

Charles Darwin, 1809–1882

Karl Marx, 1818–1883

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821–1881

William James, 1842–1910

Sigmund Freud (Consider downloading from here)

The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis

Selected Papers on Hysteria

The Sexual Enlightenment of Children

The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy

Observations on “Wild” Psycho-Analysis

The Interpretation of Dreams

On Narcissism

Instincts and Their Vicissitudes

Repression

The Unconscious

A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

The Ego and the Id

Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety

Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

Civilization and Its Discontents

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Second edition

To the pre-20th century books the second edition added the following:

The six volumes of 20th century material consisted of the following: