Classical

This section includes works from 539 BC to 476 AD.

Authors who contributed more than one work include: Plato, Virgil, Philo, Julius Caesar, Luke, Paul, Josephus, Tacitus and Augustine. 

A general timeline of the time period has been included here. 

Biblical

Ezra-Nehemiah (Circa 450 BC)
Esther (Circa 472-330 BC)

Haggai (Circa 520 BC)
Zachariah (Circa 520 BC)
Malachi (Circa 530 BC)

The Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Mark
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of John
The Book of Acts by Luke (Between 63 to 70 AD)

Paul's Letter to the Romans (Circa 57 AD)
Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians (Circa 55 AD)
Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians (Circa 55 to 57 AD)
Paul's Letter to the Galatians (49 AD)
Paul's Letter to Ephesian Christians (Circa 60 AD)
Paul's Letter to Philippian Christians (Circa 61 AD)
Paul's Letter to Colossian Christians (Circa 60 AD)
Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians (Circa 51 AD)
Paul's Second Letter to Thessalonian Christians (Circa 52 AD)
Paul's First Letter to Timothy (Circa 64 AD)
Paul's Second Letter to Timothy (Circa 66 AD)
Paul's Letter to Titus (Circa 64 AD)
Paul's Letter to Philemon (Circa 60 AD)
Hebrews (Circa 50 to 70 AD)
The Letter of James (Circa 49 AD)
The First Letter of Peter (Circa 62 to 64 AD)
The Second Letter of Peter (Circa 64 to 69 AD)
The First Letter of John (Circa 85 to 90 AD)
The Second Letter of John (Circa 90 AD)
The Third Letter of John (Circa 90 AD)
The Letter of Jude (Circa 65 AD)
Revelation (Circa 95 AD)

Chinese

Analects by Confucius (Circa 500 BC)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Between 544-496 BC)

Christian (or related to)

Letter to Gentile-Christians (50 AD)
Letter of Ignatius to the Ephesians
Letter of Ignatius to the Magnesians
Letter of Ignatius to the Trallians
Letter of Ignatius to the Romans
Letter of Ignatius to the Philadelphians
Letter of Ignatius to the Symraeans
Letter of Ignatius to Polycarp and the Ephesians
Second Letter of Ignatius to the Ephesians
Third Letter of Ignatius to the Ephesians
Letter of Ignatius to the Tarsians
Letter of Ignatius to the Antiochians
Letter of Barnabas (Circa 80-120 AD)
The Shepard of Hermas (Circa 100-160 AD)
The Apology of Aristides (Circa 125 AD)
Letter of Mattetes to Diognetus (Circa 130-200 AD)
Discourse to the Greeks by Justin Martyr (Circa 150 AD)
On the Resurrection by Justin Martyr (Circa 150 AD)
On the Sole Government of GOD by Justin Martyr (Circa 150 AD)
Hortatory Address to the Greeks by Justin Martyr (Circa 150 AD)
Dialogue with Trypho by Justin Martyr (Circa 150 AD)
The First Apology of Justin Martyr (Circa 150 AD)
The Second Apology of Justin Martyr (Circa 150 AD)
Fragments of the Writings of Justin Martyr (Circa 150 AD)

The Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ (?)

Acts of Paul (Circa 160 AD)
Acts of Pilate (Circa 350 AD)
Pearl: Hymns by Ephraim of Syria (Circa 323-373 AD)
Collected works of Jerome (Circa 370 AD)
The Faith by Ambrose (379/380 AD)
Confessions by Augustine (397-401 AD)
The Seven Book Against the Pagans by Paulus Orosius (Circa 415 AD)
City of God by Augustine (426 AD)

Gnostic

The Secret Book of James (100-150 AD)
The Gospel of Thomas (100-140 AD)
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas the Israelite (?)
The Gospel of Mary (120-180 AD)
Dialogue of the Savior (120-180 AD)
Apocryphon of John (120-180 AD)
'Gospel of Truth' (140-180 AD)
Coptic Apocalypse of Paul (150-255 AD)
Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth (150-255 AD)
Melchizedek (150-255)
1st Apocalypse of James (180-250 AD)
2nd Apocalypse of James (120-180 AD)
'The Gospel of Judas (130-170 AD)
Acts of Peter and the Twelve (150-225 AD)
The Book of Thomas the Contender (150-225 AD)
Letter of Peter to Phillip (170-220 AD)
Coptic Apocalypse of Peter (200-255 AD)
The Gospel of Philip (150-350 AD)

Greek

Works and Days (Circa 700 BC)
Poems by Sappho (612 BC)
Odes by Pindar (498 BC)
The Histories by Herodotus (Circa 450 BC)
The Republican by Plato (360 BC)
Apology by Plato
Charmides, or Temperance by Plato (380 BC)
Cratylus by Plato
Critias by Plato
Crito by Plato
Euthydemus by Plato
Euthyphro by Plato
Gorgias by Plato
Ion by Plato
Laches, or Courage by Plato
Laws by Plato
Lysis, or Friendship by Plato
Meno by Plato
Parmenides by Plato
Phaedo by Plato
Phaedrus by Plato
Philebus by Plato
Protagoras by Plato
Letter from Plato to Dion and his friends and family
Sophist by Plato
Statesman by Plato
Symposium by Plato
Theaetetus by Plato
Timaeus by Plato
Anabasis by Xenophon (Circa 340 BC)
Cyropedia / The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon (Circa 340 BC)
Hellenica by Xenophon (340 BC)
The Symposium by Xenophon (Circa 360 BC)
Poetics by Aristotle
Ethics by Aristotle
Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle
The Categories by Aristotle
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
Phaenomena by Aratus (277 BC)
Seikilos Epitaph--the oldest surviving song with lyrics and melody (200 BC-100 AD)
The Histories by Polybius (Circa 140 BC)
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius (Circa 50 BC)
The Georgics by Virgil (29 BC)
The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BC)
Metamorphoses by Ovid (Circa 8 AD)
Geography by Strabo (Circa 23 AD)
Parallel Lives / Makers of Rome by Plutarch (Between 60-120 AD)

Egyptian

Fragments from Manetho  (Circa 323-246 BC)
The Autobiography of Thaiemhetep (71 BC)
Periplus of the Erythraean (Circa 50 AD)

Indian

The Buddhist Sutras (1st century BC)
The Laws of Manu (200 BC to 200 AD)
Tattvartha Sutra (2nd century AD)

Israelite

See Biblical section for books included in Bible.

Letter of Jeremiah (Between 540 and 100 BC)
Copper Scroll (Between 520 BC and 70 AD)

1 Maccabees (Circa 134-1 BC)
Letter from Lysias to the Jews
Letter from King Antiochus to Lysias
Letter from King Antiochus to the Jews
Letter from the Romans to the Jews
Letter from the Jews to the Spartans
Letter from the King of Sparta to the High Priest
The Book of Enoch
1 Esdras
2 Esdras (2nd century BC)
Prayer of Manasseh
The Book of Judith (2nd Century BC)
The Book of Tobit (2nd Century BC)
The Book of Wisdom (2nd Century BC)
The Book of Sirach (2nd Century BC)
The Book of Baruch (2nd Century BC)
Prayer of Azariah (2nd century BC)
Susanna (2nd century BC)
Bel and the Dragon(2nd century BC)
On Monarchy by Philo
On the Unchangeableness of God by Philo
On Curses by Philo
Regarding the Ten Commandments by Philo
On Special Laws by Philo
Regarding Rewards and Punishments by Philo
Regarding Abraham by Philo
Regarding Joseph by Philo
Biography of Moses by Philo
On The Contemplative Life by Philo (25 BC to 45 AD)
Philo's Address to Caligula

Regarding Cherubim by Philo
The Sacrifice of Abel and of Cain
The Worse is Accustomed to Plot Against the Good by Philo
On the Prosperity of Cain is Exile by Philo
On the Giants by Philo
On the Tiling of the Earth by Noah by Philo
On the Planting by Noah by Philo
On Drunkenness by Philo
On the Words of Noah after he became sober by Philo
On the Confusion of the Tongues by Philo
On the Migration of Abraham by Philo
Who the Heir to Divine Things? By Philo
Meeting for the Sake of Seeking Instruction by Philo
On the Fugitives by Philo
On the Change of Names by Philo
On Dreams by Philo

1: Questions and Answers on Genesis by Philo
2: Questions and Answers on Genesis by Philo
3: Questions and Answers on Genesis by Philo

The Man who is Virtuous is the one who is Free by Philo
On Three Virtuous (Courage, Humanity and Repentance) by Philo
On the Contemplative Life by Philo
On the Eternity of the World by Philo
Regarding Flaccus by Philo
In Defense of Judaism and the Jewish People (Hypothetica) by Philo

Paul's Letter to the Galatians (49 AD)
The Gospel of Mark 
Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians (Circa 55 AD)
Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians (Circa 55 to 57 AD)
Paul's Letter to the Romans (Circa 57 AD)
The Gospel of Matthew
War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus (78 AD)
The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus (93 AD)
Concerning Hades by Flavius Josephus (78-100 AD)
The Gospel of John 
Against Apion by Flavius Josephus (Circa 96-100 AD)
Autobiography of Flavius Josephus (Circa 100 AD)
Joseph and Aseneth (first to the fourth century AD.)

Persian

King Cyrus's Degree to the Jews ( 538/537 BC)
Letter from Trans-Euphrates Governor to King Darius
King Darius's Letter to the Officials of Trans-Euphrates (Regarding the Jerusalem Temple)
King Artaxerxes's Letter to Ezra the Jew

Roman

The Twelve Tablets (449 BC)
The Comedies by Plautus (2nd-3rd centuries BC)
Letter from the Romans to the Jews (164 BC)
The African Wars by Emperor Julius Caesar
The Alexandrian Wars by Emperor Julius Caesar
The Civil Wars by Emperor Julius Caesar 
Gallic Wars by Emperor Julius Caesar
The Spanish War by Emperor Julius Caesar
On Behalf of Caelius by Cicero (56 BC)
The Conspiracy of Catiline by Sallust (Circa 40 BC)
The War With Jugurtha by Sallust (Circa 35 BC)
The Poems by Propertius (Circa 30-15 BC)
Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica (20-14 BC)
The Odes and Epodes of Horace (Circa 29-13 BC)
The Satires by Juvenal (circa 5 BC)
Loves of Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (2 AD)
A History of Rome by Livy (Circa 17 AD)
The War With Hannibal by Livy (?)
The Civil War by Lucan (Circa 39 to 60 AD)
The Natural History by Pliny (Circa 77 or 79 AD)
Letters Between Pliny and Emperor Trajan--Regarding Christians-- (111 to 113 AD)
Annals by Tacitus (Circa 115 AD)
The Histories by Tacitus (Circa 115 AD)
Germania by Tacitus (Circa 115 AD)
Agricola by Tacitus (Circa 115 AD)
A Dialogue on Oratory by Tacitus (Circa 115 AD) 
Church History by Eusebius Pamphili (Circa 324 AD)
Letter from Emperor Constantine (335 AD)