World’s Greatest Books – 18th Century

Volume I – Fiction
The Arabian Nights (translation)
William Beckford

Volume II – Fiction
Fanny Burney*
Chateaubriand*

Volume III – Fiction
Thomas Day
Daniel Defoe

Volume IV – Fiction
Maria Edgeworth
Henry Fielding
William Godwin
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oliver Goldsmith

Volume V – Fiction
Elizabeth Inchbald*
Samuel Johnson

Volume VI – Fiction
Alain-René Lesage*
Matthew Gregory Lewis (anti-Catholic)
Henry Mackenzie
Xavier de Maistre*

Volume VII – Fiction
Samuel Richardson
Jean Paul (Friedrich Richter)
Jean Jacques Rousseau* (technically, a convert)
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre* (might be Catholic)

Volume VIII – Fiction
Tobias Smollett
Laurence Sterne
Jonathan Swift
Horace Walpole

Volume IX – Lives and Letters
James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
Alexander Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle, Life of Friedrich Schiller
Chateaubriand
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Cowper
John Forster, Life of Oliver Goldsmith
Benjamin Franklin
Edward Gibbon (briefly converted to Catholicism, but otherwise anti-Catholic)
Goethe
Thomas Gray

Volume X – Lives and Letters
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Madame de Staal
Life of William Pitt
Jonathan Swift
John Wesley
John Woolman

Volume XVIII – Poetry and Drama
Alexander Pope*
Friedrich von Schiller (1804)
Richard Brinsely Sheridan

Volume XIX – Travel and Adventure
James Boswell
James Bruce
James Cook
Carolus Linnaeus
Mungo Park
Bernardin de Saint Pierre
Laurence Sterne
Voltaire
Arthur Young

Volume XX – Miscellaneous Literature
Joseph Addison
Daniel Defoe
Oliver Goldsmith