Benjamin Franklin, Patron Spirit of this Blog
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, 1762, The Social Contract
- Adam Smith, Scotland, 1776, Concerning the Wealth of Nations
- Immanuel Kant, Germany, 1785, Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals
- Hamilton, Madison, Jay, USA, 1786, The Federalist Papers
- Edmund Burke, Ireland, 1790, Reflections on the French Revolution
- Thomas Paine, England, 1791, The Rights of Man
- Mary Wollstonecraft, England, 1792, Vindication on the Rights of Women
- James Boswell, England, 1791, The Life of Samuel Johnson
- William Blake, England, 1794, Songs of Innocence
- William Blake, England, 1794, Songs of Experience
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, 1808, Faust
- George Fredrick Hegel, Germany, 1807, Phenomenology of Mind
- Shelly, England, 1812-1818, Poems
- Byron, England, 1812-1818, Poems
- Wordsworth, England, 1812-1818, Poems
- Coleridge , England, 1812-1818, Poems
- Keats, England, 1812-1818, Poems
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, England, 1818, Frankenstein
- Stendhal, France, 1830, The Red and the Black
- Alexis de Tocqueville, France, 1835, Democracy in America
- Alexandre Pushkin, Russia, 1837, Eugene Onegin
- Jane Austen, England, 1837, Pride and Prejudice
- Edgar Allen Poe, US, 1839, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
- Nikolai Gogol, Russia, 1842, Dead Souls
- Soren Kierkegaard, Denmark, 1843, Fear and Trembling
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US, 1847, Poems
- Charlotte Bronte, England, 1847, Jane Eyre
- William Makepeace Thackeray, England, 1848, Vanity Fair
- Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, 1848, The Communist Manifesto
- Herman Melville, US, 1851, Moby Dick
- Walt Whitman, US, 1855, Leaves of Grass
- Henry David Thoreau, US, 1854, Walden
- Henry David Thoreau, US, 1849, Civil Disobedience
- Charles Baudelaire, France, 1857, Le Fleurs de Mal
- Gustave Flaubert, France , 1856, Madame Bovary
- John Stuart Mill, England, 1859, On Liberty
