World Canonical Texts
Suggested English Versions
Note: These are only suggestions of books that incorporates at least a portion of the texts in the World Canon List, or related texts by the same author. I generated these suggestions partially through simple Amazon / Google searches, and partially on what I happen to own. For many versions included below I have not read personally. If you have suggestions for better versions, please leave the information in the Guestbook. Thanks!
| No. |
Titles in World Canon List |
Titles of Suggested Versions |
| 1 | Rig Veda | The Rig Veda |
| 2 | Iliad | The Iliad of Homer |
| 3 | Samyutta Nikaya | The Connected Discourses of the Buddha |
| 4 | Histories | The Landmark Herodotus |
| 5 | Republic | Plato Complete Works |
| 6 | Metaphysics | Complete Works of Aristotle (Vol 2) |
| 7 | Mahabharata | The Mahabharata |
| 8 | Records of the Grand Historian |
Records of the Grand Historian |
| 9 | Aeneid | The Aeneid of Virgil |
| 10 | Bible | The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: NRSV |
| 11 | Laws of Manu | The Law Code of Manu |
| 12 | Mulamadhyamakakarika | Ocean of Reasoning |
| 13 | Works | |
| 14 | Church History | Eusebius: The Church History |
| 15 | The Trinity | The Trinity |
| 16 | The Recognition of Shakuntala | The Recognition of Shakuntala |
| 17 |
Commentaries on Vimalakirti Sutra |
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| 18 | Quran | The Quran |
| 19 | Correct Meanings of Mao Odes | The Book of Songs |
| 20 | Records of Western Regions | The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions |
| 21 | Sub-commentary on Zuangzi | Zhuangzi |
| 22 | Brahmasutrabhasya | Brahma Sutra Bhasya |
| 23 | Three Hundred Tang Poems | Three Hundred Tang Poems |
| 24 | History of Prophets and Kings | al-Tabari |
| 25 | Transmission of Lamp | Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism Selected from The Transmission of the Lamp |
| 26 | Shanameh | The Shanameh |
| 27 | al-Shifa | The Metaphysics of The Healing |
| 28 | Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government | |
| 29 | Revival of Religious Sciences |
(site with downloads) |
| 30 | Works | Selected Poems of Su Tung-P'o |
| 31 | Commentary on Four Books | The Four Books |
| 32 | Commedia | The Divine Comedy |
| 33 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare Complete Works |
| 34 | The Story of the Stone | |
| 35 | Critique of Pure Reason | Critique of Pure Reason |
| 36 | Das Kapital |