| A | B |
| The Prince | Machiavelli |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| Essay Concerning Human Understanding | John Locke |
| The Starry Messenger | Galileo |
| Institutes of the Christian Religion | John Calvin |
| Freedom of a Christian | Martin Luther |
| Utopia | Thomas More |
| Praise of Folly | Erasmus |
| The Courtier | Castiglione |
| Edict of Nantes | Henry of Navarre, or Henry IV |
| On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres | Copernicus |
| Discourse on Method | Descartes |
| The Laws of War and Peace | Grotius |
| Paradise Lost | Milton |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Letters Concerning the English Nation | Voltaire |
| The Persian Letters | Montesquieu |
| The Encyclopedie | Diderot |
| Philosophical Dictionary | Voltaire |
| The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| The Social Contract | Rousseau |
| The Critique of Pure Reason | Kant |
| The Sufferings of Young Werther | Goethe |
| The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | the National Assembly |
| Reflections on the Revolutions in France | Burke |
| The Advancement of Learning | Francis Bacon |
| Principia Mathematica | Isaac Newton |