1. Lycurgus of Athens - Against Leocrates (330 BCE)
2. Demosthenes - First Philippic (351 BCE)
3. Cicero - First Oration against Catiline (63 BCE)
4. Cicero - Pro Milone (52 BCE)
5. Julius Caesar - Pro Ligario (46 BCE)
6. Mark Antony - Funeral Oration for Julius Ceasar (44 BCE)
7. Thucydides - Funeral Oration of Pericles (430 BCE)
8. Plato - Apology of Socrates (399 BCE)
9. Plato - Crito (399 BCE)
10. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics (350 BCE)
11. Aristotle - Politics (350 BCE)
12. Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus (306 BCE)
13. Epictetus - Discourses (100 CE)
14. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (161 CE)
15. Lucius Annaeus Seneca - On the Shortness of Life (49 CE)
16. Lucan - Pharsalia (65 CE)
17. Virgil - Aeneid (19 BCE)
18. Ovid - Metamorphoses (8 CE)
19. Horace - Odes (23 BCE)
20. Catullus - Carmina (50 BCE)
21. Lucretius - De Rerum Natura (55 BCE)
22. Plautus - Aulularia (194 BCE)
23. Terence - Adelphoe (160 BCE)
24. Seneca the Younger - Tragedies (10 CE)
25. Petronius - Satyricon (60 CE)
26. Tacitus - Germania (98 CE)
27. Tacitus - Agricola (98 CE)
28. Pliny the Younger - Panegyricus Traiani (100 CE)
29. Quintilian - Institutio Oratoria (95 CE)
30. Saint Augustine - Confessions (397 CE)
31. Saint Augustine - City of God (426 CE)
32. Saint Francis of Assisi - Canticle of the Sun (1224)
33. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica (1265-1274)
34. Dante Alighieri - Divine Comedy (1308-1321)
35. Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)
36. Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron (1353)
37. Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)
38. Saint Joan of Arc - Trial speeches (1431)
39. Martin Luther - Ninety-Five Theses (1517)
40. John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
41. William Shakespeare - Hamlet (1603)
42. William Shakespeare - Macbeth (1606)
43. William Shakespeare - King Lear (1606)
44. John Milton - Paradise Lost (1667)
45. Thomas Paine - Common Sense (1776)