Clifton Fadiman and John S Major, The New Lifetime Reading Plan [1997]
672 entries: 565 monographical, 107 otherwise
Unrankedarranged chronologically (nos. 1-360) and alphabetically by author (no. 361-567)
The New Lifetime Reading Plan is the fourth, final edition of The Lifetime Reading Plan, originally published in 1960. In this version, John S. Major contributes, but it is still overall Fadiman's work. Finished just before his death, this list is one the "big five" of "great books" lists, alongside Charles W. Eliot's, Mortimer Adler's, Phillip Ward's, and Harold Bloom's. Adler and Fadiman both attended Columbia University in the early Nineteen-Twenties when John Erskine and others were developing the kind of educational programs that came to be associated with the concept of "great books"; they remained friends and Fadiman supported Adler's Great Books project. Overall, Fadiman's literary career (editor at Simon and Schuster, the New Yorker magazine, and the Book of the Month Club) reflects the intellectual milieu of mid-Twentieth-Century America that produced and supported projects such as Adler's. Fadiman also became known as a radio and television host.
For this list, both the authors' commentaries and the bibliography in the back of the book clarify their choices. For example, though Fadiman lists "selected works" for Plato, he explains in the accompanying text that certain works are especially important. At times, the bibliography's recommended edition of an author's collected poems or stories does not exactly match what was listed in the text, most of all their recommendation of Hemingway's complete stories despite only listing "stories," which in this project we would not assume is a "complete" listing. In this case, I go with the relatively-specific listing in the bibliography.
In some cases, such as the Federalist Papers or The Berlin Stories, the authors especially recommend portions of a work; however, these particular references do not discount the recommendation of the work as a whole.
In other cases, Fadiman and Major recommend books other than those in the chapter heading; these are included as well. However, books that are simply noted in the essays—referring to, say, another critic's opinion or general consensus—are not considered part of the list; only those directly recommended, or given high accolades, are included. For example, despite only listing Stendhal's The Red and the Black, Fadiman then notes that many consider the The Charterhouse of Parma to be "equal" to the former, concluding, "Try it." Merely noting that others rank Charterhouse with Red would not suffice; that extra short sentence puts it in the list. In Thomas Hardy's chapter, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the work listed at the top; the other major novels are noted, but only as being "generally admired"; Fadiman says nothing more about them. But he does note earlier that "many rate his verse above his novels" and "he is one of two dozen or so English poets you may wish to read most closely." Having noted "his gigantic cosmic panorama of the Napoleonic wars, The Dynasts," and given those remarks about the high quality of his poetry, I see fit to include it. At other times, the authors recommend further reading if the participants in their reading plan come to especially appreciate a certain author. For example, Major says, "If you find yourself drawn into Mishima's weirdly brilliant mind, you might also want to try The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea and his four-volume masterpiece and final testament, The Sea of Fertility." And sometimes they do both, as with Kawabata Yasunari, in whose entry Major recommends Snow Country despite not listing it, and later adds that those "becoming a fan" should read The Master of Go.
When you reach the Richard Adams listing, you've entered the second part of this list, entitled 'Going Further'. As the authors explain, these works are Twentieth-Century "temporary classics" ("important in our time, if not forever") by authors "whose works [...] will be of interest to readers of The New Lifetime Reading Plan." These authors "fall into at least three subgroups": "acknowledged modern masters"; "writers whom we believe are of the first rank but who so far have not had the widespread recognition they deserve"; and "writers of the post-war period whose books [...] helped to define the literary and intellectual terrain of our time." These entries are included, especially as Harold Bloom's canon has a similar, massive section of contemporary literature.
- Sha Naqba Imuru
The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B CSumerian; Akkadian
Homer
- Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Confucius (Kŏng Zǐ) (Kŏng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
Analects
Lún Yǔ
written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second CenturyChinese
- Aeschylus
Oresteia
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
Sophocles
- Oidipous Tyrannos
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B CGreek
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
- Antigone
ca. 441 B CGreek
Euripides
- Alkēstis
Alcestis
438 B CGreek
- Mēdeia
Medea
431 B CGreek
- Hippolytos
428 B CGreek
- Trōiades
The Trojan Woman
415 B CGreek
- Ēlektra
Electra
written ca. 413 B CGreek
- Bakchai
The Bacchae
405 B CGreek
- Herodotus
Historiē
History
Fifth Century B CGreek
- Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
early Fifth Century B CGreek
- Sūnzǐ (Sun-tzu)
Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
The Art of War
written ca. Fifth-Third centuries B CChinese
Aristophanes
- Lysistrate
Lysistrata
411 B CGreek
- Nephelai
The Clouds
423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remainsGreek
- Ornithes
The Birds
414 B CGreek
Selected works
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Apologia Socratis
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Crito
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Protagoras
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Meno
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Symposium
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Phaedo
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Politeia
The Republic
early Fourth Century B CGreek
Aristotle
- Ethika Nikomacheia
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Politik
Politics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Peri Poiêtikês
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Mèng Zǐ (Mencius) (Meng Tzu)
Mèng Zǐ
Fourth Century B CChinese
- Valmiki
Ramayana
ca. Fifth-Second centuries B CSanskrit
Vyasa
- Mahabharata
includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
- Simǎ Qiān
Shǐjì
The Records of the Grand Historian
written 109-91 B CChinese
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura
On the Nature of Things
First Century B CLatin
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid
First Century B CLatin
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
Kalidasa
- Meghaduta
The Cloud Messenger
ca. Fifth CenturySanskrit
- Abhijnanasakuntalam
The Recognition of Sakuntala
ca. Fifth CenturySanskrit
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- Quran
Koran
Seventh CenturyArabic
- Huìnéng
Liùzǔ Tánjīng
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
ca. Eighth-Thirteenth centuriesChinese
- Ferdowsi
Shahnameh
The Book of Kings
written ca. 977-1010Persian
- Sei Shonagon
Makura no Soshi
The Pillow Book
written 1002Japanese
- Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh CenturyJapanese
- Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
ca. Eleventh-Twelfth centuries; compiled by Edward FitzGerald in five editions, 1859, 1868, 1872, 1879, and 1889Persian
- Dante
La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
- Luó Guànzhōng
Sān Guó Yǎn Yì
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
L1522; written Fourteenth CenturyChinese
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
1478English
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- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuriesArabic
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe
The Prince
1532Italian
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564French
- Wú Chéng-ēn (Ruzhong)
Xi Yóu Jì
Journey to the West; Monkey
late Sixteenth CenturyChinese
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essais [selections]
'Apology for Raymond Sebond'; 'That Intention Is Judge of Our Actions'; 'Of Idleness'; 'Of Liars'; 'That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them'; 'That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die'; 'Of the Power of the Imagination'; 'Of Custom, and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law'; 'Of the Education of Children'; 'Of Friendship'; 'Of Moderation'; 'Of Cannibals'; 'Of Solitude'; 'Of the Inequality That Is Between Us'; 'Of Ancient Customs'; 'Of Democritus and Heraclitus'; 'Of Vain Subtleties'; 'Of Age'; 'Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions'; 'Of Drunkenness'; 'Of Practice'; 'Of the Affection of Fathers for Their Children'; 'Of Books'; 'Of Presumption'; 'Of a Monstrous Child'; 'Of the Resemblance of Children to Fathers'; 'Of the Useful and the Honorable'; 'Of Three Kinds of Association'; 'On Some Verses of Virgil'; 'Of the Art of Discussion'; 'Of Vanity'; 'Of Experience'; complete work originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595French
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
William Shakespeare
late Sixteenth-early Seventeenth centuriesEnglish
- The Merchant of Venice
ca. 1596-98English
- Romeo and Juliet
ca. 1591-97English
- The First Part of Henry IV
1597English
- The Second Part of Henry IV
1600English
- Hamlet
1602English
- Troilus and Cressida
ca. 1602-09English
- Measure for Measure
1604English
- King Lear
1606English
- Macbeth
ca. 1607English
- Antony and Cleopatra
ca. 1606-08English
- Othello
ca. 1604English
- The Tempest
1611English
nos. 18, 29, 30, 33, 55, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 71, 73, 94, 106, 107, 116, 129, 130, 144, 146; complete work published 1609English
John Donne
early Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
written 1615-31; edition of 154 sermons published in three volumes: LXXX Sermons, 1640; Fifty Sermons, 1649; and XXVI Sermons, 1660; six sermons published separately during the author’s life: A Sermon Upon the XV. Verse of the XX. Chapter of the Booke of Judges, 1622; A Sermon Upon the VIII. Verse of the I. Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, 1622; Encænia. The Feast of Celebration. Celebrated at Lincolnes Inne, in a Sermon Thereupon Ascension Day, 1623, 1623; The First Sermon Preached to King Charles, at Saint Iames: 3°. April. 1625., 1625; A Sermon, Preached to the Kings Mtie. at Whitehall, 24. Febr. 1625, 1626; A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Dāuers, Late Wife of Sr. John Dāuers, 1627; seven others published soon after his death: Death’s Duell, or, A Consolation to the Soule, Against the Dying Life, and Living Death of the Body, 1632; and Six Sermons, 1634English
- The Songs and Sonnets of John Donne
1956; edited by Theodore RedpathEnglish
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
- First and Second Anniversaries
1612; The First Anniversary originally entitled An Anatomy of the World, published 1611; complete work also included in Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death, 1633English
part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]English
- Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes
1624English
- Lánlíng Xiàoxiào Shēng
Jīn Píng Méi
The Plum in the Golden Vase; The Golden Lotus
1610; author's identity unknown, given name is a pseudonymChinese
- Galileo
Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
1632Italian
- Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
1651English
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
Discourse on the Method
1637French
John Milton
- Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674English
originally published in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, 1638; revised for inclusion in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645English
- 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'
originally published in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, 1645 1645English
Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England
1644English
Molière
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
- Le Médecin Malgre Lui
1666French
- Le Malade Imaginaire
The Imaginary Invalid
1673French
- L'École des Femmes
The School for Wives
1662French
- Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux
The Misanthrope
1666French
- Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur
1664French
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1670French
- L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge
The Miser
1668French
- Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre
1660French
- Les Femmes Savantes
The Learned Ladies
1672French
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Thoughts
1669French
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
1678English
John Locke
- Second Treatise [second part of Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government]
complete work originally anonymously published 1689English
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1689English
- Basho Matsuo
Oku no Hosomichi
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
late Seventeenth CenturyJapanese
- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
originally anonymously published 1719English
- Jonathan Swift
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
Voltaire
- Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759French
Eighteenth CenturyFrench
- Zadig
1747French
- Micromégas
1752French
- Le Siècle de Louis XIV
1751French
- Lettres Philosophiques
Letters Concerning the English Nation
English translation, 1733; French original, 1734; revised 1778English
- David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1748English
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749English
- Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)
Hóng Lóu Mèng
The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
1791Chinese
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les Confessions
1782French
- Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67English
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791English
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- Basic Documents in American History
edited by Richard B MorrisEnglish
- Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
The Federalist Papers
originally published 1787-1788 in the Independent Journal, the New-York Packet, and the Daily AdvertiserEnglish
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832German
William Blake
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
- Poetical Sketches
1783English
- Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794English
- The Everlasting Gospel
written ca. 1818English
- Milton: A Poem in Two Books [excerpted]
preface; complete work written 1804-10English
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
ca. 1793English
- All Religions Are One
written 1788English
- There Is No Natural Religion
written 1788English
- Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses
written ca. 1808English
William Wordsworth
- The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805English
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
- 'It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free'
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
- 'Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798'
originally published in Lyrical Ballads, 1798English
- 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood'
originally entitled 'Ode', published in Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807; retitled and revised for inclusion in Poems, 1815; revised for inclusion in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, 1820English
originally published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical BalladsEnglish
- 'Resolution and Independence'
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
part of Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807English
- Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems [excerpted]
preface; complete work published 1798; expanded 1800 and 1802; preface not included in 1798 editionEnglish
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'
originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817English
- Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep
1816English
- Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
originally published in two volumes, 1817English
- "Writings on Shakespeare"
late Eighteenth-early Nineteenth centuriesEnglish
Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice
originally anonymously published 1813English
- Emma
originally anonymously published 1815English
- Mansfield Park
originally anonymously published 1814English
- Persuasion
originally anonymously published 1817English
- Sense and Sensibility
originally published under the pseudonym, A Lady, 1811English
Stendhal
- Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle
The Red and the Black
1830French
- Le Chartreuse de Parme
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839French
Honoré de Balzac
- Le Père Goriot
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de ParisFrench
- Eugénie Grandet
1833French
- La Cousine Bette
originally published in Le Constitutionnel Oct.-Dec. 1846French
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
- Nature
originally anonymously published, 1836English
- English Traits
1856English
part of Essays: First Series, 1841English
edited and expanded version of May 1862 eulogy for Henry David Thoreau; originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1862English
- The American Scholar
originally entitled, An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, published 1837English
part of Essays: First Series, 1841English
- 'Plato; or, The Philosopher'
edited lecture; part of Representative Men, 1850English
- 'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'
edited lecture; part of Representative Men, 1850English
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter
1850English
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
originally anonymously published 1835 in the New-England Magazine; included in Mosses From an Old Manse, 1846English
- 'The Minister's Black Veil'
originally anonymously published 1836 in the Token and Atlantic Souvenir; included in Twice-Told Tales, 1837English
originally published Mar. 1843 in the Pioneer; included in Mosses From an Old Manse, 1846EnglishEnglish
included in Mosses From an Old Manse, 1846EnglishEnglish
Alexis de Tocqueville
- De la Démocratie en Amérique
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840French
- L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution
1866French
John Stuart Mill
- On Liberty
1859English
- The Subjection of Women
1869English
Charles Darwin
- The Voyage of the Beagle
originally published 1838 as Journal and Remarks, 1832-1835, volume three of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Eagle; also published that year as Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H M S Beagle; revised 1845English
- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
1859English
- Nikolai Gogol
Mërtvyâ Duši
Dead Souls
1842Russian
Edgar Allan Poe
- "Short stories and other works"
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
- 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'
originally published Apr. 1841 in Graham's Magazine; revised for inclusion in The Prose Romances of Edgar A Poe, 1843English
originally published 1844 in the The Gift for 1845; included in Tales, 1845English
originally published serially in the Dollar Newspaper, June 1843; included in Tales by Edgar A Poe, 1845English
originally published 1839 in the The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present and Oct. 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's MagazineEnglish
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
Charles Dickens
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
- The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850English
- Great Expectations
originally published serially in All the Year Round, Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861English
- Hard Times - For These Times
originally published serially in Household Words, Apr. 1854-Aug. 1854English
- Our Mutual Friend
originally published serially May 1864-Nov. 1865English
- The Old Curiosity Shop
originally published serially Apr. 1840-Nov. 1841 in Master Humphrey's Clock under the pseudonym, BozEnglish
- Little Dorrit
originally published serially Dec. 1855-Jun. 1857English
Anthony Trollope
- The Warden
1855English
- The Last Chronicle of Barset
originally published serially Dec. 1866-Jul. 1867English
- The Eustace Diamonds
originally published serially Jul. 1871-Feb. 1873 in the Fortnightly ReviewEnglish
- The Way We Live Now
originally published serially 1875English
- An Autobiography
1883English
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850English
Henry David Thoreau
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods
1854English
originally published in Aesthetic Papers, 1849English
- Ivan Turgenev
Otcy i Deti
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
The Communist Manifesto
1848German
Herman Melville
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
1851English
- 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'
originally published serially Nov.-Dec. 1853 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art; included in Piazza Tales, 1856English
- Billy Budd, Foretopman
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
1924English
George Eliot
- The Mill on the Floss
1860English
- Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
Leaves of Grass [selections]
'Song of Myself'; 'I Sing the Body Electric'; 'Song of the Open Road'; 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry'; 'Song of the Answerer'; 'Song of the Broad-Axe'; 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'; 'As I Ebbed With the Ocean of Life'; 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer'; 'By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame'; 'As Toilsome I Wandered Virginia's Woods'; 'The Wound-Dresser'; 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'; 'There Was a Child Went Forth'; 'Proud Music of the Storm'; 'Passage to India'; 'Prayer of Columbus'; 'A Noiseless Patient Spider'; 'Years of the Modern'; and preface to the first edition; complete work originally published 1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892
- Democratic Vistas
1871English
- 'A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads'
preface to November Boughs, 1888
Gustave Flaubert
- Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de ParisFrench
- Trois Contes
1877French
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Brat'â Karamazovy
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
Leo Tolstoy
- Voyna i Mir"
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
- Anna Karenina
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877Russian
Henrik Ibsen
Fadiman recommends several overlapping collections; late Nineteenth CenturyNorwegian
- Peer Gynt
1867Norwegian
- Et Dukkehjem
A Doll's House
1879Norwegian
- Gengangere
Ghosts
1881Norwegian
- Hedda Gabler
1890Norwegian
- Bygmester Solness
The Master Builder
1892Norwegian
- Når vi Døde Vågner
When We Dead Awaken
1899Norwegian
- Vildanden
The Wild Duck
1885Norwegian
- En Folkefiende
An Enemy of the People
1882Norwegian
Emily Dickinson
- The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
1955English
- 'The Grass So Little Has to Do'
part of Poems, 1890English
- 'God Gave a Loaf to Every Bird'
part of Poems: Second Series, 1891English
- 'A Prison Gets to Be a Friend'
part of Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1929English
Lewis Carroll
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1865English
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
1871English
- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884English
Henry Adams
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
1913English
- The Education of Henry Adams
1918English
Thomas Hardy
- The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character
1886English
- The Dynasts
originally published in three volumes: 1904, 1906, and 1908English
William James
- The Principles of Psychology
1890English
- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
1907English
- The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to Pragmatism [excerpts]
1909; Fadiman refers to "four essays" but does not specify furtherEnglish
- The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902
1902; edited lecturesEnglish
Henry James
- The Ambassadors
originally published serially 1903 in the North American ReviewEnglish
- The Portrait of a Lady
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
- The Turn of the Screw
originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898English
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-85German
- Zur Genealogue der Moral: Eine Streitschrift
On the Genealogy of Morals
1887German
- Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft
Beyond Good and Evil
1886German
late Nineteenth CenturyGerman
- Ecce Homo: Wie Man Wird, Was Man Ist
1908German
- Der Antichrist
1895German
Sigmund Freud
early Twentieth CenturyGerman
- Die Traumdeutung
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899German
- Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie
Three Theories on the Theory of Sexuality
1905; revised through sixth edition, 1925German
- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur
Culture and Its Discontents
1930German
- Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
1904German
- Zur Geschichte der Psychoanalytischen Bewegung
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
1914German
- Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
1933German
- Jenseits des Lustprinzips
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
1920German
- Das Ich und das Es
The Ego and the Id
1923German
George Bernard Shaw
- "Selected plays and prefaces"
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesEnglish
- Man and Superman
performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915English
- Arms and the Man
1894English
- Candida
published in 1898 as part of Plays Pleasant; originally performed 1903English
- The Devil's Disciple
1897English
- Caesar and Cleopatra
1901English
- Major Barbara
1905English
- Androcles and the Lion
1912English
- Pygmalion
1913English
- Heartbreak House
1919English
- Back to Methusela
1921English
- Saint Joan
1923English
Joseph Conrad
- Nostromo
originally published serially 1904 in T P's WeeklyEnglish
- Heart of Darkness
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
Anton Chekhov
- Dâdâ Vanâ
Uncle Vanya
1897Russian
- Tri Sestry
Three Sisters
1901Russian
- Višhnëvyj Sad
The Cherry Orchard
1904Russian
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesRussian
Edith Wharton
- The Custom of the Country
1913English
- The Age of Innocence
1920English
- The House of Mirth
1905English
William Butler Yeats
1983; includes The Wind Among the Reeds [1899]; The Shadowy Waters [originally published May 1900 in the North American Review; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905; theatrical version published separately 1906; both versions included here]; Michael Robartes and the Dancer [1921]; The Tower [1928]; The Winding Stair [1929]; Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems [1932]; New Poems [1938]; selections from The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, 1889; The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age, 1904; The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910; Responsibilities, 1914; The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, 1917, expanded 1919; A Full Moon in March, 1935; and Last Poems and Two Plays, 1939English
- The Wind Among the Reeds
1899English
- The Shadowy Waters
1900; originally published May 1900 in the North American Review; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905; theatrical version published separately 1906; both versions included in the author's collected poemsEnglish
- Michael Robartes and the Dancer
1920English
- The Tower
1928; originally published as Seven Poems and a Fragment, 1922; The Cat and the Moon, 1924; and October Blast, 1927English
- The Winding Stair
1929English
- Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems
1932English
- New Poems
1938English
originally entitled 'Romance in Ireland', published Sep. 1913 in the Irish Times; retitled for inclusion in Poems of Discouragement, 1913; that book made part of Responsibilties: Poems and a Play, 1914English
part of October Blast, 1927; that book made part of The Tower, 1928English
originally published Feb. 1939 in the Irish Times and the Irish Independent; published in part in the Irish Press the same month; included in Last Poems and Two Plays, 1939English
1934; expanded 1953; includes The Countess Cathleen [originally entitled The Countess Kathleen, part of The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; retitled and revised 1911]; The Land of Heart’s Desire [1894]; Cathleen Ni Houlihan [originally performed 1902; published in part May 1902 in the United Irishman and Oct. 1902 in Samhain; in its entirety as part of The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, 1904; revised 1906]; The Pot of Broth [originally published as part of The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, 1904; revised 1905]; The King’s Threshold [1903; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905, 1906; revised 1911]; The Shadowy Waters [originally published May 1900 in the North American Review; included in The Shadowy Waters, 1900; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905; theatrical version published separately 1906; both versions included in the author's collected poems]; Deirdre [published as part of 'The Entrance of Deirdre' in Poems, 1899-1905, 1906; published separately 1907; revised 1911]; At the Hawk’s Well [part of The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, 1917; included in Four Plays for Dancers, 1921]; The Green Helmet [1908; included in The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910; revised 1911]; On Baile's Strand [part of In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age, 1903; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905, 1906; revised 1907]; The Only Jealousy of Emer [part of Two Plays for Dancers, 1919, and its expanded version, Four Plays for Dancers, 1921]; The Hour-Glass [part of The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, 1904; revised 1907; revised for inclusion in Responsibilties [1914]; The Unicorn From the Stars [1908]; The Player Queen [1922]; The Dreaming of the Bones [originally published Jan. 1919 in the Little Review; included in Two Plays for Dancers, 1919, and its expanded version, Four Plays for Dancers, 1921]; Calvary [part of Four Plays for Dancers, 1921]; The Cat and the Moon [part of The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 1924]; Sophocles’ King Oedipus; Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus; The Resurrection [originally published 1927 in the Adelphi; originally performed 1934]; The Words Upon the Window-Pane [1930]; A Full Moon in March [1935]; The King of the Great Clock Tower [part of The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems, 1934]; The Herne’s Egg [1938]; Purgatory [part of Last Poems and Two Plays, 1939]; The Death of Cuchulain [part of Last Poems and Two Plays, 1939]English
- The Countess Cathleen
originally entitled The Countess Kathleen, part of The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; retitled and revised 1911English
- The Land of Heart's Desire
1894English
- Cathleen Ni Houlihan
originally performed 1902; published in part May 1902 in the United Irishman and Oct. 1902 in Samhain; in its entirety as part of The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, 1904; revised 1906English
- The Pot of Broth
originally published as part of The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, 1904; revised 1905English
- The King's Threshold
1903; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905, 1906; revised 1911English
- Deirdre
published as part of 'The Entrance of Deirdre' in Poems, 1899-1905, 1906; published separately 1907; revised 1911English
- The Green Helmet
1908; included in The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910; revised 1911English
- On Baile's Strand
part of In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age, 1903; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905, 1906; revised 1907English
- The Only Jealousy of Emer
part of Two Plays for Dancers, 1919, and its expanded version, Four Plays for Dancers, 1921English
- The Hour-Glass: A Morality
part of The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, 1904; revised 1907; revised for inclusion in Responsibilties [1914]English
- The Unicorn From the Stars
1908English
- The Player Queen
1922English
- The Dreaming of the Bones
originally published Jan. 1919 in the Little Review; and as part of Two Plays for Dancers, 1919, and its expanded version, Four Plays for Dancers, 1921English
- Calvary
part of Four Plays for Dancers, 1921English
- The Cat and the Moon
part of The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 1924English
- The Resurrection
originally published 1927 in the Adelphi; originally performed 1934English
- The Words Upon the Window Pane
1930English
- A Full Moon in March
1935English
- The King of the Great Clock Tower
part of The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems, 1934English
- The Herne's Egg
1938English
- Reveries Over Childhood and Youth
1915; included in The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, Consisting of "Reveries Over Childhood and Youth," "The Trembling of the Veil," and "Dramatis Personae", 1938; and Autobiogarphies, 1955English
- The Trembling of the Veil
1922; included in The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, Consisting of "Reveries Over Childhood and Youth," "The Trembling of the Veil," and "Dramatis Personae", 1938; and Autobiogarphies, 1955English
- The Bounty of Sweden: A Meditation, and a Lecture, Delivered Before the Royal Swedish Academy, and Certain Notes
1925; included in Autobiogarphies, 1955English
- Estrangement: Extract From a Diary Kept in 1909
1926; included in Autobiogarphies, 1955English
- The Death of Synge and Other Passages From an Old Diary
1928; included in Autobiogarphies, 1955English
- Dramatis Personae
1935; included in The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, Consisting of "Reveries Over Childhood and Youth," "The Trembling of the Veil," and "Dramatis Personae", 1938; and Autobiogarphies, 1955English
- Natsume Soseki
Kokoro
originally entitled Kokoro: Sensei no Isho, published serially Apr.-Aug. 1914 in Asahi ShinbunJapanese
- Marcel Proust
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27French
Robert Frost
- Complete Poems of Robert Frost
1949; includes A Boy's Will [1913; revised 1930]; North of Boston [1914]; Mountain Interval [1916; expanded 1930]; New Hampshire [1923]; West-Running Brook [1928; expanded 1930]; A Further Range [1936]; A Witness Tree [1942]; A Masque of Reason [1945]; Steeple Bush [1947]; and A Masque of Mercy [1947];English
- A Boy's Will
1913; revised 1930English
- North of Boston
1914; revised 1930English
- Mountain Interval
1916; revised 1930English
- New Hampshire
1923English
- West-Running Brook
1928; expanded 1930English
- A Further Range
1936English
- A Witness Tree
1942English
- A Masque of Reason
1945English
- Steeple Bush
1947English
- A Masque of Mercy
1947English
part of North of Boston, 1914English
part of North of Boston, 1914English
originally published Aug. 1915 in the Atlantic Monthly; part of Mountain Interval, 1916
- 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'
originally published Mar. 1923 in the New Republic; part of New Hampshire, 1923English
Thomas Mann
- Der Zauberberg
The Magic Mountain
1924German
- Der Tod in Venedig
Death in Venice
1911German
- Mario und der Zauberer
Mario and the Magician
1929German
E M Forster
- Howards End
1910English
- A Passage to India
1924English
Lu Xun
early Twentieth CenturyChinese
'A Madman's Diary'
1918Chinese
Chinese
James Joyce
- Ulysses
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
Virginia Woolf
- Mrs. Dalloway
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925English
- To the Lighthouse
1927 English
- Orlando: A Biography
1928English
- The Waves
1931English
Franz Kafka
- Der Prozess
The Trial
1925German
- Das Schloss
The Castle
1926German
1952; includes In der Strafkolonie [1919]; Die Verwandlung [1915]; 'Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer'; 'Ein Landzart'; 'Eine Alltägliche Verwirrung'; 'Der Unterstaatsanwalt'; 'Ein Altes Blatt'; ' Ein Brudermord'; 'Ein Bericht für Eine Akademie'; 'Der Jäger Gracchus'; 'Ein Hungerkünstler'; 'Forschungen Eines Hundes'; 'Der Bau'; 'Josefine, die Sängerin Oder Das Volk der Mäuse'German
- In der Strafkolonie
In the Penal Colony
1919German
- Die Verwandlung
The Metamorphosis
originally published 1915 in Die Weißen BlätterGerman
D H Lawrence
- Sons and Lovers
1913English
- Women in Love
1920English
- Tanizaki Junichiro
Sasameyuki
The Makioka Sisters
published in part serially Jan.-Mar. 1943 in Chuo Koron; in its entirety in three volumes: 1946, 1947, and 1948Japanese
Eugene O'Neill
- Mourning Becomes Electra
1931English
- The Iceman Cometh
1946English
- Long Day's Journey Into Night
1956English
T S Eliot
- Collected Poems, 1909-1962
1936; expanded 1963; includes Prufrock and Other Observations [1917]; Poems: 1920 [1920]; 'The Waste Land'; 'The Hollow Men'; Ash Wednesday [1930]; Journey of the Magi [1927]; A Song for Simeon [1928]; Animula [1929]; Marina [1930]; Triumphal March [1931]; Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama [1932]; Four Quartets; The Cultivation of Christmas Trees [1954]; selections from The Rock; two poems, 'Coriolan' and 'Difficulties of a Statesman', included with Triumphal March and Sweeney Agonistes in a section entitled Unfinished Poems; plus sections entitled Minor Poems, and Occasional Verses; 1936 edition, entitled Collected Poems, 1909-1935, only included 'Burnt Norton' from Four Quartets and did not include The Cultivation of Christmas Trees or the Occasional Verses sectionEnglish
- Prufrock and Other Observations
1917English
- Poems: 1920
1920English
originally published Oct. 1922 in the CriterionEnglish
- Journey of the Magi
1927; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; eighth of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
- A Song for Simeon
1927; with an illustration by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 16th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
- Animula
1929; illustrations by Gertrude Hermes; 23rd of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
- Ash Wednesday
1930English
- Marina
1930; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 29th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel PoemsEnglish
- Triumphal March
1931; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 35th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel Poems; later made part of 'Coriolan' in the Unfinished Poems section of Eliot's Collected PoemsEnglish
- Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama
1932English
- Four Quartets
originally published in four volumes: Burnt Norton, in Collected Poems 1909-1935, 1936; East Coker, in the New English Weekly, 1940; The Dry Salvages, in the New English Weekly, 1941; Little Gidding, in the New English Weekly, 1942English
- The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
1954; illustrations by David Jones; part of a second series of Ariel PoemsEnglish
1962; includes Murder in the Cathedral [1935]; The Family Reunion [1939]; The Cocktail Party [1949]; The Confidential Clerk [1953]; and The Elder Statesman [1958]English
- Murder in the Cathedral
1935English
- The Family Reunion
1939English
- The Cocktail Party
1949English
- The Confidential Clerk
1953English
- The Elder Statesman
1958English
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
1932English
William Faulkner
- The Sound and the Fury
1929English
- As I Lay Dying
1930English
- The Reivers
1962English
Ernest Hemingway
- The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
1987; includes the stories in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938 (that anthology includes In Our Time [1924]); plus sections entitled Short Stories Published in Books or Magazines Subsequent to 'The First Forty-nine'; and Previously Unpublished FictionEnglish
- In Our Time
1924; expanded 1925English
- The Old Man and the Sea
1952English
- 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'
originally published Aug. 1936 in Esquire; included in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938English
included in Men Without Women, 1927English
included in In Our Time, 1925English
originally published Mar. 1927 in Scribner's; included in Men Without Women, 1927English
originally published Jul. 1927 in the Atlantic Monthly; included in Men Without Women, 1927English
Kawabata Yasunari
- Utsukushisa to Kanashimi To
Beauty and Sadness
1964Japanese
- Yukiguni
Snow Country
published in part serially 1935-47; in its entirety, 1948nJapanese
- Meijin
The Master of Go
originally published serially 1951; later revisedJapanese
Jorge Luis Borges
English translations of stories mostly originally published in Ficciones and El AlephSpanish
- El Hacedor
1960Spanish
Vladimir Nabokov
- Lolita
1955English
- Pale Fire
1962English
- Speak, Memory
published in part in periodicals from 1936; in its entirety, 1951; originally titled Conclusive Evidence for U S version; differing revised versionsEnglish
- Pnin
1957English
- Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle
1969English
- Zashchita Luzhina
The Defense
originally published serially 1930 in Sovremennye Zapiski under the pseudonym, V SirinRussian
- Korol, Dama, Valet
King, Queen, Knave
originally published 1928, under the pseudonym, V SirinRussian
George Orwell
- Animal Farm
1945English
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949English
- Burmese Days
1934English
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
R K Narayan
- The English Teacher
1945English
- The Vendor of Sweets
1967English
- Swami and Friends
1935English
Samuel Beckett
- En Attendant Godot
Waiting for Godot
1953French
- Fin de Partie
Endgame
1957French
- Krapp's Last Tape
1958English
- Come and Go
German translation performed 1966English
- Breath
1969English
- Watt
published in part, 1950, in Envoy; in its entirety, 1953English
- Molloy
1951French
- Malone Muert
1951French
- L'Innommable
The Unnameable
1953French
W H Auden
1976; versions from Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957, 1966; and Collected Longer Poems, 1968; includes For the Time Being [1944]; The Age of Anxiety [1947]; Nones [1951]; The Old Man's Road [1956]; Academic Graffiti [1971]; Epistle to a Godson [1972]; nearly all of Letters From Iceland [1937]; Journey to a War [1939]; Another Time [1940]; The Double Man [1941]; The Shield of Achilles [1955]; About the House [1965]; City Without Walls [1969]; and Thank You, Fog [1974]; selections from Poems, 1930; The Orators, 1932; On This Island, 1936; The Magic Flute, 1956; Homage to Clio, 1960; and Auden and Christopher Isherwood's The Dog Beneath the Skin, 1935, and The Ascent of F 6, 1936English
- Another Time
1940English
- The Double Man
1941English
- For the Time Being
1944English
- The Age of Anxiety
1947English
- Nones
1951English
- The Shield of Achilles
1955English
- The Old Man's Road
1956English
- About the House
1965English
- City Without Walls
1969English
- Academic Graffiti
1971English
- Epistle to a Godson
1972English
- Thank You, Fog
1974English
originally published Mar. 1939 in the New Republic; expanded for inclusion in the London Mercury, Apr. 1939, and Another Time, 1940; revised for inclusion in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966, and Collected Poems, 1976English
- 'In Memory of Sigmund Freud'
originally published Winter 1940 in the Kenyon Review and Mar. 1940 in Horizon; included in Another Time, 1940, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966, and Collected Poems, 1976English
- W H Auden and Louis MacNeice
Letters From Iceland
1937English
- W H Auden and Christopher Isherwood
Journey to a War
1939English
Albert Camus
- La Peste
The Plague
1947French
- L'Étranger
The Stranger
1942French
Saul Bellow
- The Adventures of Augie March
1953English
- Herzog
1964English
- Humboldt's Gift
1975English
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- V Kruge Pervom
In the First Circle
1968; expanded 1978Russian
- Rakovyj Korpus
Cancer Ward
1967Russian
Thomas S Kuhn
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
1962; expanded 1970English
Mishima Yukio
- Kamen no Kokuhaku
Confessions of a Mask
1949Japanese
- Kinkaku-ji
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1956Japanese
- Gogo no Eiko
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
1963Japanese
- Haru no Yuki
Spring Snow
1969; first of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of FertilityJapanese
- Honba
Runaway Horses
1969; second of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of FertilityJapanese
- Akatsuki no Tera
The Temple of Dawn
1970; third of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of FertilityJapanese
- Tennin Gosui
The Decay of the Angel
1971; fourth of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of FertilityJapanese
- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967Spanish
- Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
1958English
Richard Adams
- Watership Down
1972English
- The Girl in a Swing
1980English
- Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim
1954English
- Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life
1919; twenty-two stories, ten of which originally published in periodicals: 'The Book of the Grotesque', Feb. 1916 in Masses; 'Hands', Mar. 1916 in Masses; 'Paper Pills' (originally entitled 'The Philosopher'), Jun.-Jul. 1916 in the Little Review, ; 'The Strength of God', Aug. 1916 in Masses; 'Queer', Dec. 1916 in Seven Arts; 'The Untold Lie', Jan. 17 in Seven Arts; 'Mother', Mar. 1917 in Seven Arts; 'The Thinker', Sep. 1917 in Seven Arts; 'The Man of Ideas', Jun. 1918 in the Little Review; 'An Awakening', Dec. 1918 in the Little ReviewEnglish
- Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
1985English
Louis Auchincloss
- The Rector of Justin
1964English
- The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss
1994; selections from The Injustice Collectors, 1949 ('Maud', originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, and 'Greg's Peg'); The Romantic Egoists, 1952 ('Billy and the Gargoyles' and 'The Gemlike Flame', both originally published in New World Writing); Powers of Attorney, 1955 ('The Colonel's Foundation', retitled 'Power of Bequest', originally published in the New Yorker, 'The Mavericks', and 'The Single Reader'); Tales of Manhattan, 1964 ('The Money Juggler' and 'The Wagnerians'); Second Chance, 1970 ('The Prince and the Pauper' and 'The Prison Window'); The Partners, 1973 ('The Novelist of Manners'); The Winthrop Covenant, 1976 ('In the Beauty of the Lilies Christ Was Born Across the Sea'); Narcissa and Other Fables, 1983 ('The Fabbri Tape'); Skinny Island, 1987 ('Portrait of an Artist by Another' and 'The Reckoning'); False Gods, 1992 ('Ares'); Three Lives, 1994 ('The Stoic'); Tales of Yesteryear, 1994 ('They That Have the Power to Hurt')English
James Baldwin
- Giovanni's Room
1956English
- The Fire Next Time
originally published Dec. 1962 as 'Letter From a Region in My Mind', in the Progressive; and Nov. 1963 as 'Down at the Cross', in the New YorkerEnglish
John Barth
- The Sot-Weed Factor
1960English
- Tidewater Tales
1987English
- Simone Beauvoir
Le Deuxième Sexe
The Second Sex
published in part serially in Les Temps Modernes; in its entirety in two volumes, 1949French
- Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky
1949English
- Fernand Braudel
La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Epoque de Philippe II
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
1949French
Bertolt Brecht
- Mutter Courage und Ihre Kinder
Mother Courage
1941German
- Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan
The Good Woman of Szechuan
1943German
- Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1948German
- Joseph Brodsky
So Forth
1995English
- Pearl Buck
The Good Earth
1931English
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Mástyer i Margaríta
The Master and Margarita
published in part, 1966-67, in Moskva; in its entirety, 1973; revised 1989Russian
- Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
1962English
- Italo Calvino
Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
1979Italian
Truman Capote
- Other Voices, Other Rooms
1948English
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
originally published 1958 in EsquireEnglish
- In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
originally published serially Sep.-Oct. 1965 in the New YorkerEnglish
Rachel Carson
- The Sea Around Us
1951English
- Silent Spring
originally published Jun. 1962 in the New YorkerEnglish
Willa Cather
- My Ántonia
1918English
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
1927English
- Shadows on the Rock
1931English
John Cheever
- The Stories of John Cheever
1978; originally published in varied periodicals: the New Yorker, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, and Playboy; includes The Enormous Radio and Other Stories, 1953; The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories, 1959; Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, 1961; The Brigadier and the Golf Window, 1964; The World of Apples, 1973English
Robertson Davies
- The Rebel Angels
1981English
- What's Bred in the Bone
1985English
- The Lyre of Orpheus
1988English
- E L Doctorow
Ragtime
1975English
Theodore Dreiser
- Sister Carrie
1900English
- An American Tragedy
1925English
- Albert Einstein
The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University
1921; expanded, 1945English
- Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
1952English
F Scott Fitzgerald
- This Side of Paradise
1920English
- Tender Is the Night
originally published serially Jan.-Apr. 1934 in Scribner's MagazineEnglish
- The Great Gatsby
1925English
- Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier
1915English
William Gaddis
- The Recognitions
1955English
- J R
1975English
Federico García Lorca
1988; revised 2002; includes Poema del Cante Jondo [published in part, Apr. 1927, in Verso y Prosa and separately in 1930; in its entirety, 1931]; Suites [1983]; Canciones [1927]; Primer Romancero Gitano [1928]; Diván del Tamarit [originally published 1940 in Revista Hispánica Moderna]; Seis Poemas Galegos [1935]; Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías [1935]; selections from Libro de Poemas, 1921; the screenplay Viaje a la Luna, 1980; plus sections entitled Odes; Prose Poems and Narrations; Poems From Earth and Moon; Sonnets of Dark Love; Other Sonnets, 1923-1936; Uncollected Poems; and Juvenilia; and two fragments; 2002 edition includes Poeta en Nueva York [1942], excludes Juvenilia and the two fragments, and expands SuitesEnglish
- Poema del Cante Jondo
published in part, Apr. 1927, in Verso y Prosa, and separately in 1930; in its entirety, 1931Spanish
- Canciones
1927Spanish
- Romancero Gitano
Gypsy Ballads
originally entitled Primero Romancero Gitano, published 1928Spanish
- Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
1935Spanish
- Seis Poemas Galegos
1935Spanish
- Diván del Tamarit
originally published 1940 in Revista Hispánica ModernaSpanish
- Poeta en Nueva York
1942Spanish
William Golding
- Lord of the Flies
1954English
- The Spire
1964English
Robert Graves
- Good-Bye to All That
1929; revised 1957English
- I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B C, Murdered and Deified A D 54
1934English
Graham Greene
- Stamboul Train
1932English
- The Ministry of Fear
1943English
- The Quiet American
1955English
- The Heart of the Matter
1948English
- Jaroslav Hasek
Osudy Dobrého Vojáka Švejka za Svetové Války
The Good Soldier Švejk
1923Czech
- Joseph Heller
Catch-22
1961English
John Hersey
- A Bell for Adano
1944English
- Hiroshima
1946English
- The Call
1985English
Langston Hughes
- 'The Negro Dreams of Rivers'
originally published 1921 in Crisis; included in The Weary Blues, 1926English
- Montage of a Dream Deferred
1951English
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
1994; includes The Weary Blues [1926]; Fine Clothes to a Jew [1927]; 'Dear Lovely Death'; The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations [1931]; The Dream Keeper and Other Poems [1932]; A New Song [1938]; Shakespeare in Harlem [1942]; Freedom's Plow [1943]; Jim Crow's Last Stand [1943]; Fields of Wonder [1947]; One Way Ticket [1949]; Montage of a Dream Deferrred [1951]; Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz [1961]; The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times [1967]; plus the four poems from Scottsboro Limited, 1932, and poems previously uncollected in book form or published in The Langston Hughes Reader, 1958; Selected Poems, 1959; and other booksEnglish
- The Weary Blues
1926English
- Fine Clothes to a Jew
1927English
- The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations
1931English
- The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
1932English
- A New Song
1938English
- Shakespeare in Harlem
1942English
- Freedom's Plow
1943English
- Jim Crow's Last Stand
1943English
- Fields of Wonder
1947English
- One Way Ticket
1949English
- Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz
1961English
- The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times
1967English
- John Irving
The World According to Garp
1978English
Christopher Isherwood
- Mr. Norris Changes Trains
1936English
- Goodbye to Berlin
1939English
- Christopher and His Kind
1976English
- James Jones
From Here to Eternity
1951English
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
1946Greek
- Jack Kerouac
On the Road
published in part as 'The Mexican Girl', the Paris Review; 'Jazz of the Beat Generation', New World Writing; and 'A Billowy Trip in the World', New Dimensions; in its entirety, 1957; alternate version, 2007English
- Lǎo Shě
Luòtuo Xiángzi
Rickshaw Boy; Camel Xiangzi
originally published serially 1937 in YuzhoufengChinese
Philip Larkin
1988; includes The North Ship [1945; expanded 1966]; XX Poems [1951]; The Less Deceived [1955]; The Whitsun Weddings [1964]; High Windows [1974]; plus new poemsEnglish
- The North Ship
1945; expanded 1966English
- XX Poems
1951English
- The Less Deceived
1955English
- The Whitsun Weddings
1964English
- High Windows
1974English
- John le Carré
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
1963English
Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Tristes Tropiques
1955French
- Anthropologie Structurale
1958; essays previously publishedFrench
- Le Cru et la Cuit
The Raw and the Cooked
1964; first of four volumes of MythologiquesFrench
Sinclair Lewis
- Babbitt
1922English
- Arrowsmith
1925English
- Elmer Gantry
1926English
- Dodsworth
1929English
David Lodge
- Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses
1975English
- Small World: An Academic Romance
1984English
Norman Mailer
- The Naked and the Dead
1948English
- The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/ The Novel as History
originally published Mar. 1968 as 'The Steps of the Pentagon', in Harper's MagazineEnglish
- The Executioner's Song
1979English
- André Malraux
La Condition Humaine
Man's Fate
1933French
- Mary McCarthy
The Group
1963English
- Carson McCullers
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1940English
- Margaret Mead
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization
1928English
Arthur Miller
- Death of a Salesman
1949English
- The Crucible
1953English
Toni Morrison
- Song of Solomon
1977English
- Jazz
1992English
Iris Murdoch
- A Severed Head
1961English
- The Sandcastle
1957English
- Robert Musil
Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften
The Man Without Qualities
originally published in three volumes: 1930, 1933, and 1943German
The Complete Stories
1971; includes A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955; Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965; plus 12 stories previously published in periodicals or anthologiesEnglish
John O'Hara
- Appointment in Samarra
1934English
- BUtterfield 8
1935English
1984; selections from The Doctor's Son and Other Stories, 1935; Files on Parade, 1939; Pipe Night, 1945; Hellbox, 1947; Sermons and Soda Water, 1960; Assembly, 1961; The Cape Cod Lighter, 1962; The Hat on the Bed, 1963; The Horse Knows the Way, 1964; Waiting for Winter, 1966; And Other Stories, 1968English
- José Ortega y Gasset
La Rebelión de las Masas
The Revolt of the Masses
originally published serially 1929 in El SolSpanish
- Boris Pasternak
Dóktor Živágo
Doctor Zhivago
Italian translation, 1957; original Russian, 1958Russian
- Georges Perec
La Vie Mode d'Emploi
Life: A User's Manual
1978French
- Harold Pinter
The Caretaker
1960English
- Robert M Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
1974English
- Ezra Pound
Personae of Ezra Pound
1909English
Anthony Powell
- A Question of Upbringing
1951English
- A Buyer's Market
1952English
- The Acceptance World
1955English
- At Lady Molly's
1957English
- Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
1960English
- The Kindly Ones
1962English
- The Valley of Bones
1964English
- The Soldier's Art
1966English
- The Military Philosophers
1968English
- Books Do Furnish a Room
1971English
- Temporary Kings
1973English
- Hearing Secret Harmonies
1975English
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Bumi Manusia
This Earth of Mankind
1980Malay
- Anak Semua Bangsa
Child of All Nations
1980Malay
- Jejak Langkah
Footsteps
1985Malay
- Rumah Kaca
House of Glass
1988Malay
Complete Collected Stories
1990; includes You Make Your Own Life, 1938; It May Never Happen, 1945; When My Girl Comes Home, 1961; The Key to My Heart, 1963; Blind Love, 1969; The Camberwell Beauty, 1974; On the Edge of the Cliff, 1980; A Careless Widow, 1989; six stories from More Collected Stories, 1983; one story from Collected Stories, 1982; two stories from Collected Stories, 1956English
Barbara Pym
- Excellent Women
1952English
- An Unsuitable Attachment
1982English
- Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
1973English
- Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen Nichts Neues
All Quiet on the Western Front
originally published Dec. 1928 in Vossische ZeitungGerman
Rainer Maria Rilke
- Duineser Elegien
The Duino Elegies
1923German
- Die Sonette an Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
1923German
Ole Edvard Rølvåg
- I de Dage
1923; English translation published with Riket Grundlægges as Giants in the EarthNorwegian
- Riket Grundlægges
1924; English translation published with I de Dage as Giants in the EarthNorwegian
Philip Roth
- Goodbye, Columbus
1959English
- Portnoy's Complaint
1969English
Anatoly Rybakov
- Deti Arbata
Children of the Arabat
1987Russian
- Strah
Fear
1990Russian
- Prah i Pepel
Dust and Ashes
1994Russian
J D Salinger
- Catcher in the Rye
1951English
- Franny and Zooey
1961; 'Franny' originally published Jan. 1955 in the New Yorker; 'Zooey' originally published May 1957 in the New YorkerEnglish
- 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters'
originally published Nov. 1955 in the New Yorker; included in Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction [1961]English
Jean-Paul Sartre
- L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique
Being and Nothingness
1943French
- Huis Clos
No Exit
1944French
- Simon Schama
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
1989English
Léopold Senghor
1966; selections from Chants d'Ombre, 1945; Hosties Noires, 1948; Chants Pour Naett, 1949; Éthiopiques, 1956; Nocturnes, 1961 [which includes Chants Pour Naëtt, retitled Chants Pour Signare, and a selection of new poems]English
- Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
originally published serially Feb.-Nov. 1905 in Appeal to ReasonEnglish
Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
1953Yiddish
- Der Kuntsnmakher fun Lublin
The Magician of Lublin
1960Yiddish
Wole Soyinka
- The Interpreters
1964English
- Death and the King's Horsemen
1975English
Wallace Stegner
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain
1943English
- Angle of Repose
1971English
John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men
1937English
- The Grapes of Wrath
1939English
Wallace Stevens
- Harmonium
1923; revised 1931English
- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
1954; includes Harmonium [1923; revised 1931]; Ideas of Order [1936]; The Man With the Blue Guitar [1937]; Parts of a World [1942]; Transport to Summer [1947]; The Auroras of Autumn [1950]; plus a section entitled The RockEnglish
- Ideas of Order
1936English
- The Man With the Blue Guitar
1937English
- Parts of a World
1942English
- Transport to Summer
1947English
- The Auroras of Autumn
1950English
Lytton Strachey
- Eminent Victorians
1918English
- Queen Victoria
1921English
- James Thurber
My Life and Hard Times
1933English
- James Thurber and E B White
Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do
1929English
J R R Tolkien
- The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
1937English
- The Lord of the Rings
published in three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 1954-55English
The Collected Stories
1991; selections from The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories, 1967; The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories, 1972; Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories, 1975; Lovers of Their Time and Other Stories, 1978; Beyond the Pale and Other Stories, 1981; The News From Ireland and Other Stories, 1986; Family Sins and Other Stories, 1990; two stories, 'Going Home' and 'Attracta', originally performed as radio playsEnglish
John Updike
- Rabbit, Run
1960English
- Rabbit Redux
1971English
- Rabbit Is Rich
1981English
- Rabbit at Rest
1990English
Gore Vidal
- Myra Breckinridge
1968English
- Burr
1973English
Derek Walcott
- Omeros
1990English
1986; selections from In a Green Light: Poems 1948-1960, 1962; Selected Poems, 1964; Castaway and Other Poems, 1965; The Gulf and Other Poems, 1969; Another Life, 1973; Sea Graves, 1976; The Star-Apple Kingdom, 1979; The Fortunate Traveller, 1981; Midsummer, 1984English
- Ti-Jean and His Brothers
1958English
- James D Watson
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of D N A
1968English
Evelyn Waugh
- Scoop
1938English
- Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
1945English
- The Loved One
originally published Feb. 1948 in HorizonEnglish
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1980; includes A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, 1941; The Wide Net and Other Stories, 1943; The Golden Apples, 1949; The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, 1955; plus two 'Uncollected Stories': 'Where Is the Voice Coming From?', 1963, and 'The Demonstrators', 1966, both originally published in the New YorkerEnglish
- Rebecca West
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
1941English
Patrick White
- Voss
1957English
- Riders in the Chariot
1961English
Thornton Wilder
- Our Town
1938English
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1927English
Tennessee Williams
- The Glass Menagerie
1944English
- A Streetcar Named Desire
1947English
William Carlos Williams
1986; Volume I 1909-1939 includes The Tempers [1913]; Al Que Quierre! [1917]; Sour Grapes [1921]; Spring and All [1923]; 'The Descent of Winter' [originally published Autumn 1928 in Exile]; An Early Martyr and Other Poems [1935]; Adam and Eve and the City [1936]; selections from Poems, 1909; Volume II 1939-1962 includes The Wedge [1944]; The Clouds [1948]; The Pink Church [1949]; The Desert Music [1954]; Journey to Love [1955]; and Pictures From Brueghel [1962]; both volumes include poems previously published in periodicals or anthologiesEnglish
- The Tempers
1913English
- Al Que Quierre!
1917English
- Sour Grapes
1921English
- Spring and All
1923English
- An Early Martyr and Other Poems
1935English
- Adam and Eve and the City
1936English
- The Wedge
1944English
- The Clouds
1948English
- The Pink Church
1949English
- The Desert Music
1954English
- Journey to Love
1955English
- Pictures From Brueghel
1962English
Richard Wright
- Native Son
1940English
- Black Boy
originally published in two volumes: Black Boy, 1945; American Hunger, published in part serially, in its entirety, 1977English