To lay some groundwork, here is the Western Canon.

The Theocratic Age

    "Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. I would think that, of all the books that are in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran...

    "I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translations available to us."
    (Bloom, p. 531)
    The Ancient Near East
    Gilgamesh
    Egyptian Book of the Dead
    Holy Bible (King James Version)
    The Apocrypha
    Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
    Ancient India (Sanskrit)
    Mahabharata
    Bhagavad-Gita
    Ramayana
    The Ancient Greeks
    Homer
        Iliad
        Odyssey
    Hesiod
        Works and Days
        Theogony
    Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman
    Pindar
        Odes
    Aeschylus
        Oresteia
        Seven Against Thebes
        Prometheus Bound
        Persians
        Suppliant Women
    Sophocles
        Oedipus the King
        Oedipus at Colonus
        Antigone
        Electra
        Ajax
        Women of Trachis
        Philoctetes
    Euripides
        Cyclops
        Heracles
        Alcestis
        Hecuba
        Bacchae
        Orestes
        Andromache
        Medea
        Ion
        Hippolytus
        Helen
        Iphigenia at Aulis
    Aristophanes
        The Birds
        The Clouds
        The Frogs
        Lysistrata
        The Knights
        The Wasps
        The Assemblywomen
    Herodotus
        The Histories
    Thucydides
        The Peloponnesian Wars
    The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)
    Plato
        Dialogues
    Aristotle
        Poetics
        Ethics
    Hellenistic Greeks
    Menander
        The Girl from Samos
    "Longinus"
        On the Sublime
    Callimachus
        Hymns and Epigrams
    Theocritus
        Idylls
    Plutarch
        Lives
        Moralia
    "Aesop"
        Fables
    Lucian
        Satires
    The Romans
    Plautus
        Pseudolus
        The Braggart Soldier
        The Rope
        Amphitryon
    Terence
        The Girl from Andros
        The Eunuch
        The Mother-in-Law
    Lucretius
        The Way Things Are
    Cicero
        On the Gods
    Horace
        Odes
        Epistles
        Satires
    Persius
        Satires
    Catullus
        Attis and Other Poems
    Virgil
        Aeneid
        Eclogues
        Georgics
    Lucan
        Pharsalia
    Ovid
        Metamorphoses
        The Art of Love
        Heroides
    Juvenal
        Satires
    Martial
        Epigrams
    Seneca
        Tragedies, particularly Medea and Hercules Furens
    Petronius
        Satyricon
    Apuleius
        The Golden Ass
    The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante
    Saint Augustine
        City of God
        Confessions
    The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
    The Poetic Edda
    Snorri Sturluson
        The Prose Edda
    The Nibelungen Lied
    Wolfram von Eschenbach
        Parzival
    Chrétien de Troyes
        Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
    Beowulf
    The Poem of the Cid
    Christine de Pisan
        The Book of the City of Ladies
    Diego de San Pedro
        Prison of Love