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Edwin S Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions_1
1884; originally published under the pseudonym, A Square—English
*Kanigel*

Abe Kobo
Suna no Onna_3
The Woman in the Dunes
1962—Japanese
*Ward* *Zane* *Recommended*

Pierre Abélard
Historia Calamitatum_5
written ca. 1132; includes the letters of Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil—Latin
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Newman* *Graphic*

Abhinavagupta
Tantraloka_1
late Tenth-early Eleventh centuries—Sanskrit
*World*

Walter Abish
Alphabetical Africa_1
1974—English
*Bloom*

How German Is It (Wie Deutsch Ist Es)_1
1980—English
*Bloom*

Eclipse Fever_1
1993—English
*Bloom*

David Abram
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World_1
1996—English
*Utne*

Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart_10
1958—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Recommended*

No Longer at Ease_1
1960—English
*Bloom*

Arrow of God_2
1964—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Kathy Acker
Blood and Guts in High School_1
1984—English
*Graphic*

José de Acosta
Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias_1
1590—Spanish
*World*

Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_4
1979 novel based on 1978 radio play—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Recommended*

Henry Adams
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres_5
1913—English
*Durant* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

The Education of Henry Adams_11
1918—English
*Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Richard Adams
Watership Down_4
1972—English
*Fadiman* *Guardian* *Harvard* *Recommended*

The Girl in a Swing_1
1980—English
*Fadiman*

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun _1
2006—English
*Harvard*

Mortimer J Adler
The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World_1
1952: volumes 2 and 3 of The Great Books of the Western World; revised 1990 as volume 1 of the revised Great Books of the Western World, retitled Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas; Van Doren refers to the 1952 version—English
*Van Doren*

Aeschines
Against Ctesiphon_1
330 B C—Greek
*Classics*

Aeschylus
Promētheus Desmōtēs_12
Prometheus Bound
Fifth Century B C; disputed authorship—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman* *Recommended*

Persai_3
The Persians
472 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom*

Hiketides_3
The Suppliants; The Suppliant Women
ca. 470 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom*

Hepta epi Thēbas_4
Seven Against Thebes
467 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane* *Newman* *Recommended*

Louis Agassiz
Études sur les Glaciers_1
1840—French
*Downs*

James Agee
Permit Me Voyage_1
1934—English
*Bloom*

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men_6
1941; photography by Walker Evans—English
*Bloom* *Utne* *Dirda* *Smart* *Deposit* *Recommended*

A Death in the Family_3
1957—English
*Zane* *Smart* *Recommended*

Letters of James Agee to Father Flye_1
1962—English
*Smart*

Shai Agnon (S F Agnon)
In the Heart of the Seas_1
1933—Hebrew
*Bloom*

Conrad Aiken
Punch: The Immortal Liar: Documents in His History_1
1921—English
*Bloom*

Priapus and the Pool_1
1922; revised, 1925, for Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems, which includes 21 additional poems; those poems and a newly-revised version of Priapus are included in Collected Poems [1953; expanded 1970]—English
*Bloom*

John Deth: A Metaphysical Legend and Other Poems_1
1930—English
*Bloom*

The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones_1
1931—English
*Bloom*

Preludes for Memnon_1
1931—English
*Bloom*

Landscape West of Eden_1
1934—English
*Bloom*

Time in the Rock: Preludes to Definition_1
1936—English
*Bloom*

And in the Human Heart_1
1940—English
*Bloom*

Brownstone Eclogues and Other Poems_1
1942—English
*Bloom*

The Soldier_1
1944—English
*Bloom*

The Kid_1
1947—English
*Bloom*

The Divine Pilgrim_1
1949; published in part as The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony, 1916; The Charnel Rose; Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems, 1918; The House of Dust: A Symphony, 1920; The Pilgrimage of Festus, 1923; both The Charnel Rose and The House of Dust revised for inclusion in this book; Senlin: A Biography revised for publication on its own, 1925, and again for this book—English
*Bloom*

Skylight One: Fifteen Poems_1
1949—English
*Bloom*

A Letter From Li Po and Other Poems_1
1955—English
*Bloom*

Sheepfold Hill: Fifteen Poems_1
1958—English
*Bloom*

The Morning Song of Lord Zero: Poems Old and New_1
1958—English
*Bloom*

Thee_1
1967—English
*Bloom*

Walter Alvarez
T Rex and the Crater of Doom_1
1997—English
*Educated*

Anna Akhmatova
Requiem_1
written 1935-40; published 1963—Russian
*Dirda*

Poem Without a Hero_1
written 1940-60; published in part serially; in its entirety, in Tale Without a Hero and Twenty-Two Poems, 1973—Russian
*Dirda*

Sergey Aksakov
Semejnaâ Hronika_1
Family Chronicle
1856—Russian
*Bloom*

Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Kappa_1
1927—Japanese
*Ward*

Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes_1
1913—French
*Bloom*

Edward Albee
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?_2
1962—English
*List* *Recommended*

Miller O Albert
Rosemary and the Taxi-Driver_1
1960—English
*Ward*

Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven_1
2003—English
*Guardian*

Louisa May Alcott
Little Women_6
originally published in two volumes: Little Women, 1868; and Good Wives, 1869—English
*Bloom* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Sholem Aleichem
Tevye the Dairyman_1
stories published 1894-1916; collected in varied editions from 1903—Yiddish
*Bloom*

Yosele Solovey_1
The Nightingale, or, The Saga of Yosele Solovey the Cantor
1889—Yiddish
*Bloom*

Christopher Alexander; Sara Ishikama; Murray Silverstein; Max Jacobson; Ingrid Fiksdahl-King; Shlomo Angel
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction_1
1977—English
*Utne*

Horatio Alger
Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York With the Boot Blacks_1
1867—English
*Downs*

Vittorio Alfieri
Saul_1
1782—Italian
*Bloom*

Nelson Algren
The Man With the Golden Arm_1
1949—English
*Graphic*

Frederick Lewis Allen
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s_1
1931—English
*Kanigel*

Isabel Allende
La Casa de los Espíritus_2
The House of the Spirits
1982—Spanish
*Recommended* *Trinity*

Jane Alison
The Love-Artist_1
2001—English
*Smart*

Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina_1
1992—English
*Utne*

Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim_2
1954—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*

Martin Amis
Money_1
1984—English
*Deposit*

A R Ammons
Ommateum, With Doxology_1
1955—English
*Bloom*

Expressions of Sea Level_1
1964—English
*Bloom*

Corsons Inlet_1
1965—English
*Bloom*

Northfield Poems_1
1966—English
*Bloom*

Uplands_1
1970—English
*Bloom*

Briefings: Poems Small and Easy _1
1971—English
*Bloom*

Sphere: The Form of a Nation_1
1974—English
*Bloom*

Margot Anand
The Art of Sexual Ecstasy_1
1989—English
*Utne*

Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life_5
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 Review—English
*Hundred* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Recommended*

Ivo Andrić
Na Drini Ćuprija_1
The Bridge on the Drina
1945—Serbo-Croatian
*Bloom*

Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings_5
1969—English
*Campbell* *Great* *Deposit* *Recommended* *Educated*

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes_1
1986—English
*Recommended*

Jean Anouilh
Eurydice_1
1942—French
*Bloom*

Antigone_1
1944—French
*Bloom*

La Répétition_1
1950—French
*Bloom*

Becket ou l'Honneur de Dieu_1
1959—French
*Bloom*

Anselm of Canterbury
Proslogion_1
written 1077-78—Latin
*Trinity*

Cur Deus Homo_1
Eleventh Century—Latin
*Trinity*

S Ansky
Mež Dvuh Mirov_1
The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds
1920; originally presented 1920 in Yiddish, translated by the author—Russian
*Bloom*

Chairil Anwar
Deru Campur Debu_1
1949—Malay
*Ward*

Kerikil-Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus_1
1949—Malay
*Ward*

Tiga Menguak Takdir_1
1950—Malay
*Ward*

Gloria Anzaldua
Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza_1
1987—English; Spanish
*Utne*

Guillaume Apollinaire
Alcools_2
1913—French
*France* *Bloom*

Le Poete Assassine_1
1916—French
*Newman*

Calligrammes: Poèmes de la Paix et de la Guerre 1913-1916_2
1918—French
*France* *Bloom*

Apollonius of Perga
On Conic Sections_1
late Third-early Second centuries B C—Greek
*Read*

Apollonius of Rhodes
Argonautica_2
Third Century B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward*

Aharon Appelfeld
Badenheim 1939_1
1978—Hebrew
*Bloom*

The Immortal Bartfuss_1
1988—Hebrew
*Bloom*

James Applewhite
River Writing: An Eno Journal_1
1988—English
*Bloom*

Apuleius
Metamorphoseon_6
Asinus Aureus; The Golden Ass
Second Century—Latin
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Utne* *Great* *Newman*

Ibn Arabi
Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya_1
The Meccan Illuminations
ca. 636—Arabic
*World*

Archimedes
The Book of Lemmas_1
apocyrphal; attributed to Archimedes by Thabit Ibn Qurra—Greek
*Adler*

On Conoids and Spheroids_1
Third Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

On the Equilibrium of Planes_2
Third Century B C—Greek
*Read* *Adler*

On Floating Bodies_2
Third Century B C—Greek
*Read* *Adler*

On the Measurement of a Circle_2
Third Century B C—Greek
*Adler* *Van Doren*

The Method of Mechanical Theorems_1
Third Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

The Sand Reckoner_3
Third Century B C—Greek
*Read* *Adler* *Van Doren*

The Quadrature of the Parabola_1
Third Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

On the Sphere and Cylinder_2
circa 225 B C—Greek
*Downs* *Adler*

On Spirals_1
Third Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

John Arden
The Waters of Babylon_1
1957—English
*Bloom*

When Is a Door Not a Door? An Industrial Episode_1
1958—English
*Bloom*

Live Like Pigs: Seventeen Scenes_1
1958—English
*Bloom*

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance: An Un-historical Parable_1
1959—English
*Bloom*

A Workhouse Donkey: A Vulgar Melo-Drama_1
1963—English
*Bloom*

Armstrong's Last Goodnight: An Exercise in Diplomacy_1
1964—English
*Bloom*

Left-Handed Liberty: A Play About Magna Carta_1
1965—English
*Bloom*

The True History of Squire Jonathan and His Unfortunate Treasure_1
1968—English
*Bloom*

The Bagman or The Impromptu of Muswell Hill_1
1970; radio play—English
*Bloom*

John Arden; Margaretta D'Arcy
The Happy Haven_1
1960—English
*Bloom*

Reinaldo Arenas
El Mundo Alucinante_1
Hallucinations: or, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
1966—Spanish
*Bloom*

Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil_1
originally published 1963 in the New Yorker; expanded 1965—English
*Deposit*

Ludovico Ariosto
Orlando Furioso_5
published in part, 1516; revised 1521; published in its entirety, 1532—Italian
*Baldwin* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Aristophanes
Akharneîs_5
The Acharnians
425 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity* *Van Doren*

Hippeîs_5
The Knights
424 B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Nephelai_11
The Clouds
423 B C; revised 417 B C; only revised version remains—Greek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Sphēkes_4
The Wasps
422 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Eirēnē_5
Peace
421 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity* *Van Doren*

Ornithes_13
The Birds
414 B C—Greek
*Downs* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Educated*

Lysistrate_13
411 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Thesmophoriazousai_5
411 B C—Greek
*Classics* *List* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity*

Ploutos_3
Wealth
408 B C; revised 388 B C; only revised version is extant—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Trinity*

Bátrachoi_10
The Frogs
405 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Ekklesiazousai_4
The Assemblywomen; A Parliament of Women
391 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Aristotle
Ethika Nikomacheia_16
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *Recommended*

Politik_10
Politics
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation*

Athenaion Politeia_1
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Peri Poiêtikês_15
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Educated*

Metaphysics_3
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Read* *Adler* *World*

Organon_3
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler*

Physics_5
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Educated*

Perì Psūchês_2
De Anima; On the Soul
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Read* *Adler*

Parva Naturalia_1
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

On Generation and Corruption_1
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

On the Heavens_2
written 350 B C—Greek
*Downs* *Adler*

Meteorology_2
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Downs* *Adler*

Mechanics_1
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Downs*

Rhetoric_3
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler*

History of Animals_2
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Downs* *Adler*

On the Parts of Animals_1
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

On the Motion of Animals_1
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

On the Gait of Animals_1
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

On the Generation of Animals_1
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Ayi Kwei Armah
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born_1
1968—English
*Bloom*

Matthew Arnold
On Translating Homer_1
1861; edited lectures, 3 Nov.-18 Dec. 1860—English
*Classics*

Culture and Anarchy_2
1869; essays published in Cornhill Magazine, 1867-8; preface added in 1875—English
*Classics* *Van Doren*

Literature and Dogma_1
1873—English
*Classics*

Harriette Arnow
The Dollmaker_1
1954—English
*Smart*

Juan José Arreola
Confabulario_1
1952—Spanish
*Ward*

La Feria_1
1963—Spanish
*Ward*

Arrian
Anabasis Alexandri_1
Second Century—Greek
*Ward*

Antonin Artaud
L'Ombilic des Limbes_1
The Umbilicus of Limbo
originally published as part of Une Oeuvre, Un Portrait, 1925—French
*Bloom*

Van Gogh le Suicidé de la Société_1
1947—French
*Bloom*

Ci-gît, Précédé de la Culture Indienne_1
1947—French
*Bloom*

Pour en Finir Avec la Jugement de Dieu_1
1948; radio play—French
*Bloom*

Mikhail Artzybashev
Sanin_1
1907—Russian
*Powys*

Sholem Asch
East River: A Novel of New York_1
1946—Yiddish
*Bloom*

John Ashbery
The Double Dream of Spring_1
1970—English
*Bloom*

Houseboat Days_1
1977—English
*Bloom*

Flow Chart_1
1991—English
*Bloom*

Hotel Lautréaumont_1
1992—English
*Bloom*

And the Stars Were Shining_1
1994—English
*Bloom*

Isaac Asimov
Foundation_1
1951; four of five chapters previously published in Astounding Science-Fiction: 'Foundation', May 1942; 'Bridle and Saddle', Jun. 1942; 'The Wedge', Oct. 1944; 'The Big and the Little', Aug. 1944—English
*Telegraph*

Miguel Angel Asturias
Hombres de Maiz_1
1949—Spanish
*Bloom*

Asvaghosa
Buddhacarita_1
Acts of the Buddha
early Second Century—Sanskrit
*World*

Athanasius of Alexandria
De Incarnatione_1
On the Incarnation of the Word
written ca. 318—Latin
*Trinity*

Farid ud-Din Attar (Attar of Nishapur)
Mantiq-ut-Tayr_2
The Conference of the Birds
1177—Persian
*Ward* *Oriental*

Ilahi-Nama_1
The Book of God
Twelfth Century—Persian
*Ward*

David Attenborough
Life on Earth_1
1975; book accompanying television series of the same name—English
*List*

Margaret Atwood
Surfacing_1
1972—English
*Bloom*

The Handmaid's Tale_6
1985—English
*Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard* *Recommended*

The Penelopiad_1
2005—English
*Smart*

Agrippa d'Aubigné
Les Tragiques_2
1616—French
*France* *Bloom*

John Aubrey
Brief Lives_2
written 1680-93; published 1813 as Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; expanded 1898 as Brief Lives, Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 and 1696—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Louis Auchincloss
The Rector of Justin_1
1964—English
*Fadiman*

W H Auden
Another Time_2
1940—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Double Man_2
1941—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

For the Time Being_2
1944—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Age of Anxiety_2
1947—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Enchafèd Flood: or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea_1
1950; edited 1949 lectures—English
*Dirda*

Nones_2
1951—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Shield of Achilles_3
1955—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

The Old Man's Road_2
1956—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays_2
1962; includes Making, Knowing and Judging, 1956; other portions published in varied periodicals and anthologies, 1946-62; many of the essays, previously published or not, derive from 1956-60 lectures at the University of Oxford—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

About the House_2
1965—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

City Without Walls_2
1969—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Academic Graffiti_2
1971—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Epistle to a Godson_2
1972—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Thank You, Fog_2
1974—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

W H Auden; Louis MacNeice
Letters From Iceland_2
1937—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

W H Auden; Christopher Isherwood
Journey to a War_2
1939—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Hartmann von Aue
Erec_1
written ca. 1190—German
*Trinity*

Der Arme Heinrich_1
written ca. 1190—German
*Trinity*

Erich Auerbach
Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der Abendländischen Literatur_1
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
1946; expanded 1959—German
*Ward*

Literatursprache und Publikum in der Lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalte_1
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
1958—German
*Ward*

Augustine of Hippo
De Doctrina Christiana_3
On Christian Doctrine
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 397; fourth, 426—Latin
*Classics* *Read* *Adler*

De Magistro_1
Concerning the Teacher
389—Latin
*Read*

De Libero Arbitrio_1
On Free Choice of the Will
written 387-89, 391-95—Latin
*Classics*

De Trinitate_2
On the Trinity
early Fourth Century—Latin
*Classics* *World*

De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos_9
City of God
426—Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*

Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98—Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility_4
originally published 1811 under the pseudonym, A Lady—English
*Fadiman* *Guardian* *Newman* *Recommended*

Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813—English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Mansfield Park_4
originally anonymously published 1814—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman* *Recommended*

Emma_11
originally anonymously published 1815—English
*Read* *List* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Persuasion_7
originally anonymously published 1817—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Guardian* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Northanger Abbey_2
originally anonymously published 1817—English
*Newman* *Recommended*

Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Tahafut al-Tahafut_1
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
Twelfth Century—Arabic
*Ward*

Fasl al-Maqal_1
On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy
Twelfth Century—Arabic
*Oriental*

Avicenna
Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb_2
The Canon of Medicine
1025—Arabic
*Downs* *Taylor*

Kitab al-Shifa_1
The Book of Healing
1027—Arabic
*World*

Mariano Azuela
Los de Abajo_1
The Underdogs
1915—Spanish
*Ward*

Los Caciques_1
The Bosses
1917—Spanish
*Ward*

Las Moscas_1
The Flies
1918—Spanish
*Ward*

Isaak Babel
Konarmiâ_1
Red Cavalry
published in part serially 1923-24 in LEF—Russian
*Ward*

Odesskie Rasskazy_1
The Odessa Tales
originally published serially 1923-24 in Krasnaâ Nov' and LEF—Russian
*Ward*

Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull_1
1970—English
*Telegraph*

Francis Bacon
Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed_13
1597; expanded 1612; expanded 1625, retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Good* *Bloom* *Great* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human_6
1605—English
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Van Doren*

Novum Organum Scientiarium_10
1620—English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Educated*

Nova Atlantis_6
1624—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended*

Roger Bacon
Opus Majus_2
1267—Latin
*Downs* *Great*

Badarayana
Brahma Sutra_1
Vedanta Sutra
ca. Fifth Century B C—Sanskrit
*Oriental*

Beryl Bainbridge
According to Queeney_1
2001—English
*Smart*

Ronald H Bainton
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther_1
1950—English
*Trinity*

James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain_2
1953—English
*Smart* *Recommended*

Giovanni's Room_1
1956—English
*Fadiman*

Another Country_1
1962—English
*Deposit*

The Fire Next Time_4
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 Yorker—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Recommended*

No Name in the Street_2
1972—English
*Bloom* *Utne*

The Devil Finds Work_2
1976—English
*Bloom* *Utne*

J G Ballard
Crash_1
1973—English
*Graphic*

Honoré de Balzac
Le Peau de Chagrin_2
The Wild Ass's Skin; The Magic Skin
1831—French
*Classics* *Bloom*

Louise Lambert_1
1832—French
*Bloom*

Eugénie Grandet_7
1833—French
*Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman*

Le Père Goriot_14
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de Paris—French
*Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

La Fille aux Yeux d'Or_2
The Girl With the Golden Eyes
1835—French
*Classics* *Bloom*

Histoire de la Grandeur et de la Décadence de César Birotteau_1
The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau
1837—French
*Classics*

Illusions Perdues_4
Lost Illusions
1837-43—French
*Powys* *Classics* *Deposit* *Newman*

Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes_2
The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans; A Harlot High and Low
originally published in four volumes, 1838-47—French
*Bloom* *Newman*

Ursule Mirouët_1
1841—French
*Bloom*

La Cousine Bette_7
originally published serially Oct.-Dec. 1846 in Le Constitutionnel—French
*Powys* *Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman*

Le Cousin Pons_1
1848—French
*Ward*

Banabhatta
Kadambari_1
early Seventh Century; completed by the author's son, Bhusanabhatta—Sanskrit
*World*

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Pother Pachali_1
Pather Pancali
1929—Bengali
*Ward*

Iain Banks
The Wasp Factory_1
1984—English
*Guardian*

Russell Banks
Continental Drift_1
1985—English
*Smart*

John Banville
The Untouchable_1
1997—English
*Zane*

Pat Barker
Union Street_1
1982—English
*Smart*

Regeneration_1
1991—English
*Smart*

The Eye in the Door_1
1993—English
*Smart*

The Ghost Road_1
1995—English
*Smart*

Harry Elmer Barnes
A History of Historical Writing_1
1938—English
*Ward*

Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot_1
1984—English
*Smart*

England, England_1
1998—English
*Smart*

Pio Baroja
Las Inquietudes de Shanti Andía_1
1911—Spanish
*Ward*

El Laberinto de las Sirenas_1
1923—Spanish
*Ward*

La Estrella del Capitán Chimista_1
1930—Spanish
*Ward*

Los Pilotos de Altura_1
1931—Spanish
*Ward*

Desde la Última Vuelta del Camino_1
1944—Spanish
*Ward*

J M Barrie
Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up_1
1904—English
*Recommended*

João de Barros
Décadas da Ásia_1
Decades of Asia
originally published in four volumes: 1552, 1553, 1563, and 1615—Portuguese
*Ward*

John Barth
The Floating Opera_1
1956—English
*Bloom*

The End of the Road_1
1958—English
*Bloom*

The Sot-Weed Factor_3
1960—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Tidewater Tales_1
1987—English
*Fadiman*

Karl Barth
Das Word Gottes und die Theologie_1
The Word of God and the Word of Man; 1928—German
*Adler*

Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire
Le Bouddha et Sa Religion_1
1860—French
*Lubbock*

Donald Barthelme
The Dead Father_1
1975—English
*Bloom*

Basho Matsuo
Oku no Hosomichi_5
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
late Seventeenth Century—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great* *World*

Giorgio Bassani
L'Airone_1
The Heron
1968—Italian
*Bloom*

Georges Bataille
L'Histoire d'Oeil_1
Story of the Eye
originally published 1928 under the pseudonym, Lord Auch; revised 1940—French
*Deposit*

Le Bleu du Ciel_1
Blue of Noon
1957; written 1935—French
*Bloom*

Walter Jackson Bate
Samuel Johnson_1
1977—English
*Smart*

Henry Walter Bates
The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of the Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel_1
1863—English
*Ward*

Ibn Battuta
Ar-Rihla_1
The Journey
Fourteenth Century—Arabic
*Ward*

Charles Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal_8
The Flowers of Evil
1857—French
*France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Le Spleen de Paris_1
1869—French
*Bloom*

Journaux Intimes_1
1887—French
*Newman*

L Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_3
1900—English
*Learning* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Pierre Bayle
Dictionnaire Historique et Critique_1
1697; expanded 1702—French
*Downs*

Charles Beard; Mary Beard
The Rise of American Civilization_2
1927—English
*Durant* *Hundred*

Pierre Beaumarchais
Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution Inutile_1
1775—French
*Ward*

La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro_1
1784—French
*Ward*

La Mère Coupable_1
1794—French
*Ward*

Simone de Beauvoir
Le Deuxième Sexe_7
The Second Sex
published in part serially in Les Temps Modernes; in its entirety in two volumes, 1949—French
*Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Great* *Taylor*

Cesare Beccaria
Dei Delitti e Delle Pene_1
On Crimes and Punishments
1764—Italian
*Downs*

Charlotte Joko Beck
Everyday Zen: Love and Work_1
1989—English
*Utne*

Samuel Beckett
Murphy_1
1938—English
*Bloom*

Molloy_4
1951—French
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway*

Malone Muert_4
1951—French
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway*

Watt_3
published in part, 1950, in Envoy; in its entirety, 1953—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Deposit*

En Attendant Godot_13
Waiting for Godot
1953—French
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

L'Innommable_4
The Unnameable
1953—French
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway*

Fin de Partie_2
Endgame
1957—French
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Krapp's Last Tape_2
1958—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Comment c'Est_1
1961; earlier version entitled L'Image published in X: A Quarterly Review, 1959—French
*Bloom*

Come and Go_1
German translation performed 1966—English
*Fadiman*

Breath_1
1969—English
*Fadiman*

Mal Vu Mal Dit_1
Ill Seen Ill Said
1981—French
*Zane*

Bede
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum_4
written ca. 731—Latin
*Downs* *Trinity* *World* *Educated*

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Death's Jest-Book_1
1850—English
*Bloom*

Joseph Bédier
Le Roman de Tristan et Iseult_1
1900—French
*Van Doren*

Max Beerbohm
The Happy Hypocrite_1
originally published Oct. 1896 in the Yellow Book—English
*Zane*

Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story_2
1911—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm_1
1912—English
*Dirda*

Seven Men_2
1919; second edition, entitled Seven Men, and Two Others, 1950
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Aphra Behn
The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers_1
1677—English
*Newman*

Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History_1
1688—English
*Newman*

Francis F Beirne
The Amiable Baltimoreans_1
1951—English
*Kanigel*

Quentin Bell
Virginia Woolf_1
1972—English
*Smart*

Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward, 2000-1887_4
1888—English
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Smart*

Joachim du Bellay
Les Regrets_1
1558—French
*Bloom*

Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March_4
1953—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Recommended*

Seize the Day_3
1956—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Educated*

Herzog_3
1964—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart*

Mr. Sammler's Planet_1
1970—English
*Smart*

Humboldt's Gift_3
1975—English
*Fadiman* *Smart* *Recommended*

Andrei Bely
Peterburg'_1
Petersburg
1913—Russian
*Bloom*

Stephen Vincent Benét
The Devil and Daniel Webster_1
originally published 1936 in the Saturday Evening Post—English
*Zane*

Arnold Bennett
Anna of the Five Towns_1
1902—English
*Powys*

The Old Wives' Tale_4
1908—English
*Powys* *Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom*

Clayhanger_1
1910—English
*Powys*

Hilda Lessways_1
1911—English
*Powys*

These Twain_1
1916—English
*Powys*

Jeremy Bentham
Fragment on Government_1
1776—English
*Ward*

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation_4
1789—English
*Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Trinity*

Bernard Berenson
The Italian Painters of the Renaissance_1
1930; published in part as The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (co-written with Mary Berenson), 1894; The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 1896; The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 1897; North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 1907—English
*Ward*

John Berger
Ways of Seeing_1
1972—English
*Van Doren*

Pig Earth_1
1979—English
*Utne*

About Looking_1
1980—English
*Van Doren*

Henri Bergson
Essai sur les Données Immédiates de la Conscience_1
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
1889—French
*Read*

Matière et Mémoire_1
Matter and Memory
1896—French
*Read*

Introduction à la Métaphysique_2
Introduction to Metaphysics
originally published in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 1903—French
*Classics* *Adler*

L'Evolution Créatrice_3
Creative Evolution
1907—French
*Durant* *Classics* *Read*

Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion_2
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
1932—French
*Classics* *Read*

George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_7
1710; revised 1734—English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Van Doren*

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists_2
1713—English
*Eliot* *Classics*

Commonplace Book_1
written 1705-08; originally published as part of The Works of George Berkeley, 1781—English
*Classics*

Hector Berlioz
Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes_1
1844; published in part serially; expanded 1855—French
*Classics*

Les Soirées de l'Orchestre_1
1852; published in part serially—French
*Classics*

Memoires de Hector Berlioz Comprenant ses Voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre_2
published in part in Journal des Débats and Le Monde Illustré; in its entirety, 1865—English
*Classics* *List*

Georges Bernanos
Journal d'un Curé de Campagne_1
Journal of a Country Priest
1936—French
*France*

Bernard of Clairvaux
De Consideratione_1
Twelfth Century—Latin
*Trinity*

Claude Bernard
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale_2
1865—French
*Read* *Van Doren*

Thomas Bernhard
Holzfällen_1
Woodcutters
1984—German
*Bloom*

Louis de Bernières
Captain Corelli's Mandolin_1
1994—English
*Guardian*

Wendell Berry
Jayber Crow_1
2000—English
*Harvard*

John Berryman
The Dispossessed_1
1948—English
*Bloom*

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet_1
1956—English
*Bloom*

Berryman's Sonnets_1
1967—English
*Bloom*

Love and Fame_1
1970—English
*Bloom*

Delusions Etc._1
1972—English
*Bloom*

Henry Beston
The Outermost House_1
1928—English
*Kanigel*

Bhartrihari
Satakatraya_3
The Three Satakas
ca. Fifth Century—Sanskrit
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

Bhasa
Svapnavasavadattam_1
The Dream of Vasavadatta
ca. Second Century B C-Second Century—Sanskrit
*Ward*

Bhavabhuti
Uttararamacharita_1
The Story of Rama's Later Life
Eighth Century—Sanskrit
*Ward*

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary_1
published in part serially in the News Letter, the Argonaut, the Wasp, and the Examiner; published in its entirety in two parts: 1906, entitled The Cynic's Word Book; and 1911, entitled The Devil's Dictionary, as part of volume 7 of The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce; expanded 1967—English
*Kanigel*

Bilhana
Caurapancasika_1
Eleventh Century—Sanskrit
*Ward*

Bion of Smyrna_1
Poetry
17 fragments and 'Epitaph of Adonis' are extant; Second Century B C—Greek
*Classics*

Adolfo Bioy Casares
La Invención de Morel_1
1940—Spanish
*Ward*

Elizabeth Bishop
North and South_1
1946—English
*Bloom*

Questions of Travel_1
1965—English
*Bloom*

Bì Yuán
Xù Zīzhì Tōngjiàn_1
Continuation to Zizhì Tongjiàn
late Eighteenth Century; completed by Féng Jíwú in 1801—Chinese
*World*

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
En Glad Gut_1
A Happy Boy
1860—Norwegian
*Eliot*

R D Blackmore
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor_1
originally anonymously published 1869—English
*Baldwin*

William Blackstone
Commentaries on the Laws of England_1
originally published in four volumes, 1765-69—English
*Downs*

William Blake
Poetical Sketches_4
1783—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman*

All Religions Are One_4
written ca. 1788—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

There Is No Natural Religion_4
written ca. 1788—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Tiriel_4
written ca. 1789; originally published as part of The Poetical Works of William Blake, 1874—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul_11
published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794—English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Great* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Book of Thel_5
written 1789-90—English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_6
written 1790—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Newman*

The French Revolution_2
1791—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Visions of the Daughters of Albion_4
1793—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

For Children: The Gates of Paradise_2
1793; revised 1820 and retitled, For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

America a Prophecy_4
1793—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Europe a Prophecy_4
1794—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

The Book of Urizen_5
1794; originally entitled The First Book of Urizen—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Utne* *Newman*

The Song of Los_4
1795—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

The Book of Los_4
1795—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

The Book of Ahania_4
1795—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Vala, or The Four Zoas_4
written ca. 1797-1807—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Milton, a Poem in 2 Books_5
written ca. 1804-11—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion_6
1820; written ca. 1804-20—English
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic*

The Everlasting Gospel_4
written ca. 1818—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

On Homers Poetry; On Virgil_2
ca. 1822—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

The Ghost of Abel_2
1822—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Maurice Blanchot
Thomas l'Obscur_1
Thomas the Obscure
1941—French
*Bloom*

David Farrant Bland
A History of Book Illustration: The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book_1
1958; revised 1969—English
*Ward*

Enid Blyton
The Enchanted Wood_1
1939—English
*Guardian*

The Magic Faraway Tree_1
1943—English
*Guardian*

The Folk of the Faraway Tree_1
1946—English
*Guardian*

Up the Faraway Tree_1
1951—English
*Guardian*

Franz Boas
Primitive Art_1
1927—English
*Ward*

Johannes Bobrowski
Schattenland Ströme_1
1962—German
*Bloom*

Giovanni Boccaccio
Teseida Delle Nozze d'Emilia_1
ca. 1340-41—Italian
*Ward*

Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto_12
ca. 1351-53—Italian
*Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Newman* *Recommended*

Jean Bodin
Les Six Livres de la République_1
1576; revised and expanded Latin translation published 1586—French
*Downs*

Fred Bodsworth
Last of the Curlews_1
1954—English
*Van Doren*

Boethius
Consolatio Philosophiae_5
The Consolation of Philosophy
written ca. 524—Latin
*Classics* *Trinity* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *Recommended*

Matteo Maria Boiardo
Orlando Innamorato_3
1482—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Le Lutrin: Poème Héroï-comique_1
1672-74, 1683—French
*Bloom*

L'Art Poétique _1
1674—French
*Bloom*

Heinrich Böll
Haus Ohne Hüter_1
House Without Guardians
1954—German
*Trinity*

Billard um Halbzehn_2
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
1959—German
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Robert Bolt
A Man for All Seasons_1
1957: television play; revised for stage performance, 1960—English
*Educated*

Bonaventure
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum_2
The Soul's Journey Into God
Thirteenth Century—Latin
*Classics* *Trinity*

Lignum Vitae_1
The Tree of Life
Thirteenth Century—Latin
*Trinity*

Legenda Maior_2
The Life of St. Francis
Thirteenth Century—Latin
*Classics* *Trinity*

De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam_1
Concerning the Reduction of the Arts to Theology
Thirteenth Century—Latin
*Classics*

Edward Bond
Saved_1
1965—English
*Bloom*

The Fool_1
1975—English
*Bloom*

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Widerstand und Ergebung. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft_1
Letters and Papers From Prison
1951—German
*Trinity*

Yves Bonnefoy
Pierre è Crite_1
Words in Stone
1965—French
*Bloom*

Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones_6
originally published 1941, entitled El Jardín de Senderos que se Bifurcan; expanded 1944 and 1956—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Norway* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Recommended*

El Aleph_2
1949; expanded 1952—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

El Hacedor_2
1960—Spanish
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

George Borrow
The Bible in Spain or The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula_1
1843—English
*Ward*

Lavengro; The Scholar—The Gypsy—The Priest_2
1851—English
*Hundred* *Ward*

The Romany Eye_1
1857—English
*Ward*

Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery_1
1863—English
*Ward*

James Boswell
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763_5
1950—English
*Read* *Ward* *Smart* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, Including the Correspondence With Belle de Zuylen (Zélide)_1
1952—English
*Ward*

Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764_1
1953—English
*Ward*

Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766_1
1955—English
*Ward*

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D._2
1785—English
*Classics* *Ward*

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Paul Bourget
Le Disciple_1
1889—French
*Powys*

Jacques-Bénigne Bousset
Oraisons Funèbre_1
1889—French
*Bloom*

Edgar Bowers
Living Together: New and Selected Poems_1
1973—English
*Bloom*

Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky_2
1949—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Maurice Bowra
Primitive Song_1
1962—English
*Ward*

Kay Boyle
The Crazy Hunter_1
originally published as part of The Crazy Hunter: Three Short Novels, 1940—English
*Bloom*

The Bridgegroom's Body_1
originally published as part of The Crazy Hunter: Three Short Novels, 1940—English
*Bloom*

Decision_1
originally entitled Passport to Doom, published 1948 in the Saturday Evening Post—English
*Bloom*

Robert Boyle
The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes_1
1661—English
*Downs*

C R Boxer
The Portuguese Sea-Borne Empire, 1415-1825_1
1969—English
*Ward*

Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine_1
published in part, Jun. 1953, in Gourmet; in its entirety, 1957—English
*Recommended*

The Martian Chronicles_2
1950; stories originally published in varied periodicals: Planet Stories, Maclean's, the Arkham Sampler, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Imagination, Weird Tales, Other Worlds, Super Science Stories, Charm, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; expanded U K edition, entitled Silver Locusts, published 1951; expanded 1974; revised 1997—English
*Kanigel* *Recommended*

Fahrenheit 451_2
published in part, Feb. 1951, as 'The Fireman' in Galaxy Science Fiction; in its entirety, 1953—English
*Deposit* *Recommended*

Millen Brand
The Outward Room_1
1937—English
*Zane*

Georg Brandes
Hovedstrømninger i det 19de Aarhundredes Litteratur_1
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature
originally published in six volumes, 1872-90—Danish
*Durant*

Fernand Braudel
La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Epoque de Philippe II_2
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
1949—French
*Fadiman* *Van Doren*

Richard Brautigan
In Watermelon Sugar_1
1968—English
*Graphic*

James Henry Breasted
The Conquest of Civilization_1
1926—English
*Durant*

Bertolt Brecht
Die Dreigroschenoper_3
The Threepenny Opera
1928—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Great*

Happy End_1
1929—German
*Ward*

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny_1
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
1930—German
*Ward*

Mutter Courage und Ihre Kinder_3
Mother Courage
1941—German
*Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Leben des Galilei_1
Life of Galileo
1943—German
*Bloom*

Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan_3
The Good Woman of Szechuan
1943—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis_3
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1948—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Clemens Brentano
Des Knaben Wunderhorn_1
The Boy's Miracle Horn
1805-18—German
*Trinity*

André Breton
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme_2
1924—French
*Bloom* *Newman*

L'Union Libre_1
1931—French
*Bloom*

Fata Morgana_1
1941—French
*Bloom*

Hermann Broch
Die Schlafwandler: Eine Romantrilogie_2
originally published in three volumes: Pasenow; Oder, Die Romantik, 1931; Esch; Oder, Die Anarchie, 1931; and Huguenau; Oder, Die Sachlichkeit, 1932—German
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Der Tod des Vergil_3
1945; English version published simultaneously—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Hofmannsthal und Seine Zeit_1
1974—German
*Bloom*

Joseph Brodsky
Chast' Rechi: Stikhotvoreniia 1972-76_2
A Part of Speech
1977—Russian
*Bloom* *Trinity*

So Forth_1
1995—English
*Fadiman*

Louise Brogan
The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems_1
1968; 105 poems, 26 of which originally published in the New Yorker, one published in Art News, and one and part of another originally published in Poetry—English
*Bloom*

Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey_1
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Acton Bell—English
*Newman*

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall_1
originally published 1848 under the pseudonym, Acton Bell—English
*Newman*

Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography_16
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Currer Bell—English
*Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Shirley_2
originally published 1849 under the pseudonym, Currer Bell—English
*Smart* *Newman*

Villette_3
originally published 1853 under the pseudonym, Currer Bell—English
*Bloom* *Smart* *Newman*

Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights_17
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850—English
*Powys* *Hundred* *France* *Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Geraldine Brooks
March_1
2005—English
*Smart*

Van Wyck Brooks
The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865_1
1836—English
*Hundred*

Frederick Brown
Flaubert_1
2006—English
*Smart*

Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code_1
2003—English
*Guardian*

George Douglas Brown
The House With the Green Shutters_1
1901—English
*Bloom*

Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight Moon_1
1947—English
*Van Doren*

Thomas Browne
Religio Medici_5
1643—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Bloom*

Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urns Lately Found in Norfolk_3
1658—English
*Powys* *Classics* *Bloom*

The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered_2
1658—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From the Portuguese_2
1850—English
*Magill* *Recommended*

Casa Guidi Windows_1
1851—English
*Zane*

Robert Browning
Sordello_1
1840—English
*Van Doren*

Bells and Pomegrantes No. IV: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon 1
1843—English
*Eliot*

The Ring and the Book_4
originally published in four volumes, 1868-69—English
*Bloom* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Jean de Brunhoff
Historie de Babar_1
1931—French
*Telegraph*

Giordano Bruno
Lo Spaccio de la Bestia Trionfante_1
1584—Italian
*Bloom*

Jean de la Bruyère
Les Caractères_1
1688—French
*France*

Bill Bryson
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States_1
1994—English
*Utne*

Notes From a Small Island_1
1995—English
*Guardian*

Martin Buber
Ich und Du_1
I and Thou
1923—German
*SeymourSmith*

David Buchanan
The Treasures of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers_1
1974—English
*Smart*

Georg Büchner
Dantons Tod_2
1835—German
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Woyzeck_2
1837—German
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Pearl Buck
The Good Earth_4
1931—English
*Magill* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Recommended*

Henry Thomas Buckle
Introduction to the History of Civilization in England_1
1857—English
*Durant*

Buddhaghosa
Visuddhimagga_2
The Path of Purification; The Path of Purity; written ca. 430—Pali
*World*

Muhammad al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari_2
Ninth Century—Arabic
*Ward* *World*

Mikhail Bulgakov
Mástyer i Margaríta_7
The Master and Margarita; published in part, 1966-67, in Moskva; in its entirety, 1973; revised 1989; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's English translation—Russian
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last Days of Pompeii_1
1834—English
*Lubbock*

Basil Bunting
The Spoils_1
1965—English
*Bloom*

First Book of Odes_1
1965—English
*Bloom*

Briggflatts: An Autobiography_1
1966—English
*Bloom*

John Bunyan
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to his Poor Servant John Bunyan_2
1666—English
*Newman* *Educated*

The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come_18
1678—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Michelangelo Buonarotti
Le Rime de Michelangelo_1
1623—Italian
*Ward*

Jacob Burckhardt
Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien_3
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
1860—German
*Dirda* *World* *Educated*

Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange_2
1962—English
*Fadiman* *Recommended*

Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life_1
1964—English
*Bloom*

Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France_9
1790—English
*Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Bloom* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Great*

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful_3
1757—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Bloom*

A Letter From the Right Hon. Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord_1
1796—English
*Eliot*

Kenneth Burke
Counter-Statement_1
1931—English
*Bloom*

A Grammar of Motives_1
1945—English
*List*

A Rhetoric of Motives_1
1950—English
*Bloom*

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Ford Fauntleroy_1
originally published serially Nov. 1885-Oct. 1886 in St. Nicholas Magazine—English
*Dirda*

A Little Princess_2
originally entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, published serially 1888 in St. Nicholas Magazine; revised and retitled 1905—English
*Dirda* *Harvard*

The Secret Garden_3
originally published serially 1910-11 in the American Magazine—English
*Dirda* *Guardian* *Recommended*

Frances Burney
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World_2
originally anonymously published 1778—English
*Bloom* *Newman*

Robert Burns
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect_2
1786—English
*Ward* *Van Doren*

The Merry Muses of Caledonia_1
1799—English
*Ward*

William S Burroughs
Naked Lunch_1
1959—English
*Graphic*

Richard Francis Burton
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah_1
1855—English
*Ward*

Abeokuta and the Cameroon Mountains_1
1863—English
*Ward*

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahomé_1
1864—English
*Ward*

The Gold-Mines of Midian_1
1878—English
*Ward*

The Land of Midian (Revisited)_1
1879—English
*Ward*

Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy_4
1621; revised through fifth edition—English
*Baldwin* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Newman*

Joseph Butler
Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature_1
1736—English
*Lubbock*

Samuel Butler
Hudibras_2
originally published in three volumes: 1663, 1664, and 1678—English
*Bloom* *Newman*

Samuel Butler
Erewhon: or, Over the Range_2
1872—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

Life and Habit_1
1878—English
*Classics*

Evolution, Old and New_1
1879—English
*Classics*

The Way of All Flesh_5
1903; written 1873-74—English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended*

J B Bury
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great_2
1900—English
*Durant* *Hundred*

Dino Buzzati
Il Deserto dei Tartari_1
1940—Italian
*Ward*

A S Byatt
Possession_3
1990—English
*Guardian* *Smart* *Educated*

Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_5
1812-18—English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Giaour_1
1813—English
*Classics*

The Bride of Abydos_1
1813—English
*Classics*

The Corsair_1
1814—English
*Classics*

Manfred_3
1817—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Recommended*

Beppo_1
1818—English
*Classics*

Don Juan_8
originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824—English
*Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Cain_1
1821—English
*Classics*

Robert Byron
The Station_1
1928—English
*Dirda*

The Byzantine Achievement_1
1929—English
*Dirda*

The Road to Oxiana_1
1937—English
*Dirda*

Caius Julius Caesar
Commentarii de Bello Gallico_4
ca. 40 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Great*

Commentarii de Bello Civili_2
ca. 40 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Rexroth*

Abraham Cahan
The Rise of David Levinsky_2
1917—English
*Bloom* *Kanigel*

James M Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice_1
1934—English
*Recommended*

Roberto Calasso
Le Nozze di Cadmo e Armonia_1
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
1988—Italian
*Van Doren*

Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño_8
Life Is a Dream
1635—Spanish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great* *Recommended*

El Médico de su Honra_1
1637—Spanish
*Bloom*

El Magico Prodigioso_2
1637—Spanish
*Classics* *Bloom*

El Pintor de Su Deshonra_1
1650—Spanish
*Classics*

El Alcalde de Zalamea_2
1651—Spanish
*Classics* *Bloom*

Guárdate al Agua Mansa_1
1657—Spanish
*Classics*

Callimachus
Hymns and Epigrams_1
six hymns and 64 epigrams, often published with the extant fragments of the author's other works—Greek
*Bloom*

John Calvin
Christianae Religionis Institutio_7
Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536; French translation, Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, 1541—Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Reynolds* *World*

Italo Calvino
Il Visconte Dimezzato_1
The Cloven Viscount
1952—Italian
*Ward*

Il Barone Rampante_3
The Baron in the Trees
1957—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Il Cavaliere Inesistente_1
The Nonexistent Knight
1959—Italian
*Ward*

Le Cosmicomiche_1
Cosmicomics
1965—Italian
*Trinity*

Ti Con Zero_1
t zero
1967—Italian
*Bloom*

Le Città Invisibili_4
Invisible Cities
1972—Italian
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Zane*

Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati_1
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
first part published 1969, entitled Tarocchi: Il Mazzo Visconteo di Bergamo e New York; published in its entirety, 1973—Italian
*Dirda*

Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore_5
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
1979—Italian
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Harvard* *Educated*

Julia Cameron
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity_1
1992—English
*Utne*

Luís Vaz de Camões
Os Lusíadas_3
1572—Portuguese
*Ward* *Bloom* *World*

Dino Campana
Canti Orfici: Die Tragödie des Letzten Germanen in Italien_1
1914—Italian
*Bloom*

Tommaso Campanella
La Cittè del Sole_1
1602—Italian
*Bloom*

Albert Camus
L'Étranger_14
The Stranger
1942—French
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Recommended* *Educated*

La Peste_8
The Plague
1947—French
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

L'Homme Révolté_2
The Rebel
1951—French
*Bloom* *Recommended*

La Chute_3
The Fall
1956—French
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*

L'Exil et le Royaume_1
Exile and the Kingdom
1957—French
*Ward*

Gilbert Cannan
Round the Corner_1
1913—English
*Powys*

Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)
Hóng Lóu Mèng_8
The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
1791—Chinese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great* *World* *Recommended*

Karel Čapek
R U R_1
1921—Czech
*Bloom*

Válka s Mloky_1
War With the Newts
1936—Czech
*Bloom*

Truman Capote
Other Voices, Other Rooms_1
1948—English
*Fadiman*

Breakfast at Tiffany's _2
originally published 1958 in Esquire—English
*Fadiman* *Deposit*

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences_4
originally published serially Sep.-Oct. 1965 in the New Yorker—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Recommended*

Answered Prayers_1
1986—English
*Zane*

Fritjof Capra
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems_1
1996—English
*Utne*

Girolamo Cardano
De Vita Propria_1
1576—Latin
*Dirda*

Giosuè Carducci
Odi Barbare_1
originally published in three volumes, 1877-89—Italian
*Bloom*

Peter Carey
Illywhacker_1
1985—English
*Bloom*

Oscar and Lucinda_1
1988—English
*Bloom*

Thomas Carlyle
Sartor Resartus_1
originally published serially 1833-34 in Fraser's Magazine—English
*Bloom*

Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History_2
1842—English
*Baldwin* *Downs*

Past and Present_1
1843—English
*Lubbock*

The French Revolution_2
1837; revised 1857—English
*Lubbock* *Durant*

Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, April 2nd, 1866_1
1866—English
*Eliot*

Robert Caro
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York_1
1974—English
*Smart*

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power_2
1982—English
*Smart* *Deposit*

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent_1
1990—English
*Smart*

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate_1
2002—English
*Smart*

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power_1
2012—English
*Smart*

Alejo Carpentier
El Reino de Este Mundo _1
1949—Spanish
*Bloom*

Los Pasos Perdidos _2
1953—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

El Siglo de las Luces _1
Explosion in a Cathedral
1962—Spanish
*Bloom*

El Recurso del Método _2
1974—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17
1865—English
*Powys* *Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems_2
1869—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There_10
1871—English
*Powys* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Recommended*

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in 8 Fits_3
1876—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Graphic*

A Tangled Tale_2
originally published serially Apr. 1880-Mar. 1885 in the Monthly Packet—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

The Game of Logic_1
1887—English
*Ward*

Sylvie and Bruno_2
originally published in two volumes: Sylvie and Bruno, 1889; and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Pillow Problems Thought Out During Wakeful Hours_1
1893—English
*Ward*

Symbolic Logic_1
1896—English
*Ward*

Three Sunsets and Other Poems_2
1898—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

John le Carré
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold_2
1963—English
*Fadiman* *Van Doren*

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy_1
1974—English
*Telegraph*

The Little Drummer Girl_1
1983—English
*Van Doren*

The Constant Gardener_1
2001—English
*Van Doren*

Rachel Carson
The Sea Around Us_1
1951—English
*Fadiman*

Silent Spring_9
originally published Jun. 1962 in the New Yorker—English
*Downs* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Deposit* *Recommended* *Educated*

Angela Carter
The Magic Toyshop_1
1967—English
*Deposit*

Giacomo Casanova
Histoire de Ma Vie Jusqu'à l'An 1797_2
The Story of My Life
German translation published in part, 1822-24; abridged and censored version of the original French published 1826-38; original French published in its entirety, 1960-62—French
*France* *Rexroth*

Fernão Lopes de Castanheda
História_1
originally published in eight volumes, 1551-61—Portuguese
*Ward*

Baldassare Castiglione
Il Cortegiano_3
1528—Italian
*Zulli* *Ward* *Bloom*

Catullus
Poems_6
First Century B C—Latin
*Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Newman*

Willa Cather
O Pioneers!_1
1913—English
*Recommended*

The Song of the Lark_2
1915—English
*Dirda* *Van Doren*

My Ántonia_9
1918—English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

A Lost Lady_3
1923—English
*Adler* *Bloom* *Dirda*

The Professor's House_3
1925—English
*Bloom* *Dirda* *Zane*

My Mortal Enemy_1
1926—English
*Dirda*

Death Comes for the Archbishop_4
1927—English
*Magill* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Recommended*

Shadows on the Rock_1
1931—English
*Fadiman*

Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato)
De Agri Cultura_1
written ca. 160 B C—Latin
*Downs*

Camilo José Cela
La Familia de Pascual Duarte_1
The Family of Pascual Duarte
1942—Spanish
*Trinity*

Viaje a la Alcarria_1
1948—Spanish
*Ward*

La Colmena_1
1951—Spanish
*Bloom*

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Voyage au Bout de la Nuit_4
Journey to the End of Night
1932—French
*Bloom* *Norway* *Dirda* *Deposit*

Mort à Crédit_1
1936—French
*Dirda*

Evliya Celebi
Seyahatname_1
Book of Travels
Seventeenth Century—Persian
*Ward*

Benvenuto Cellini
Vita di Benvenuto di Maestro Giovanni Cellini Fiorentino, Scritta, per Lui Medesimo, in Firenze_7
Autobiography
written 1558-62—Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Aulus Cornelius Celsus
De Medicina_1
First Century B C—Latin
*Downs*

C W Ceram
Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte_1
Gods, Graves, and Scholars
1949—German
*Kanigel*

Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_37
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edith Grossman's English translation—Spanish
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Novelas Ejemplares_2
1613—Spanish
*Bloom* *Newman*

Aimé Césaire
Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal_1
originally published Aug. 1939 in Volontés; revised 1976 for inclusion in Oeuvres Complètes—French
*Bloom*

Les Armes Miraculeuses_1
1946; revised 1970—French
*Bloom*

Soleil cou Coupé_1
1948; revised and coupled with Corps Perdu as Cadastre, 1961—French
*Bloom*

Corps Perdu_1
1950; revised and coupled with Soleil cou Coupé as Cadastre, 1961—French
*Bloom*

Ferrements_1
1960; originally published 1955-59 in Présence Africaine—French
*Bloom*

Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay_1
2000—English
*Harvard*

Ananta Badu Chandidas
Srikrishna Kirtan_1
Love Songs of Chandidas
Fourteenth Century—Bengali
*Ward*

Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep_1
1939—English
*Telegraph*

The Long Goodbye_2
1953—English
*Zane* *Deposit*

François-René de Chateaubriand
Génie du Christianisme_1
1802; originally included the novellas, René and Atala, both later published together in a single volume, and as part of a larger work, Les Natchez, 1826—French
*Bloom*

Memoires d'Outre Tombe_2
originally published in two volumes, 1849 and 1850—French
*France* *Ward*

Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English version—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic**Recommended* *Educated*

Troilus and Criseyde_8
written ca. 1380s—English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Van Doren* *Newman*

John Cheever
The Wapshot Chronicle_1
1957—English
*Recommended*

Bullet Park_1
1969—English
*Bloom*

Anton Chekhov
P'esa Bez Nazvaniâ_1
That Worthless Fellow Platonov
1881—Russian
*Ward*

Ivanov_2
1887—Russian
*Ward* *Bloom*

Lešij_1
The Wood Demon
1889—Russian
*Ward*

Čajka_7
The Seagull
1896—Russian
*Powys* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Newman* *Recommended*

Dâdâ Vanâ_10
Uncle Vanya
1897—Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended*

Tri Sestry_8
Three Sisters
1901—Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Newman* *Recommended*

Višhnëvyj Sad_8
The Cherry Orchard
1904—Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Chéng Xuányīng
Zhuāngzī Zhúshū_1
Commentary on Zhuāngzī
Seventh Century—Chinese
*World*

Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Ĉto Delat'?_1
1863—Russian
*Bloom*

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (Lord Chesterfield)
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman_1
1774—English
*Invitation*

G K Chesterton
The Club of Queer Trades_1
1905—English
*Dirda*

Orthodoxy_2
1908—English
*Powys* *Reynolds*

The Napoleon of Notting Hill_1
1904—English
*Ward*

The Man Who Was Thursday_3
1908—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Dirda*

Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Yotsugi Soga_1
The Soga Successors
1683—Japanese
*Ward*

Sonezaki no Shinju_2
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
1703—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Shinju Mannenso_2
The Love Suicides in the Women's Temple
1710—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Meido no Hikyaku_2
The Courier for Hell
1711—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Kokusen'ya Kassen_2
The Battles of Coxinga
1715—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Nebiki no Kadomatsu_2
The Uprooted Pine
1718—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Onnagoroshi Abura no Jigoku_2
The Woman-Killer and the Hell of Oil
1721—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Shinju Ten no Amijima_2
The Love Suicides at Amijima
1721—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Horikawa Nami no Tsuzumi_2
1721—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Tamba Yosaku Machiyo no Komurobushi_2
1721—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Yari no Gonza_2
1721—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Hakata Kojoro Namimakura_2
1721—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Chomei Kamo
Hojoki_2
An Account of My Hut
written 1212—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Noam Chomsky
Syntactic Structures_1
1957—English
*SeymourSmith*

Noam Chomsky; Edward Herman
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media_1
1988—English
*Utne*

Kate Chopin
The Awakening_5
1899—English
*Bloom* *Campbell* *Zane* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd_1
1926—English
*Dirda*

Murder on the Orient Express_3
Murder in the Calais Coach
1934—English
*Dirda* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

The A.B C Murders_1
1936—English
*Dirda*

Ten Little Niggers_1
And Then There Were None
1939—English
*Dirda*

The Moving Finger_1
1942—English
*Dirda*

4-50 From Paddington_1
What Mrs. Gillicuddy Saw
1957—English
*Dirda*

The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side_1
1962—English
*Dirda*

Caryl Churchill
Cloud Nine_1
1979—English
*Utne*

Winston Churchill
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples_1
originally published in four volumes, 1956-58—English
*Telegraph*

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Epistulae ad Atticum_1
written 68-43 B C—Latin
*Dirda*

Pro Cluentio_1
written 66 B C—Latin
*Classics*

Pro Archia Poeta_1
written 62 B C—Latin
*Classics*

In Catilinam I-IV_1
written 63 B C—Latin
*Classics*

Pro Milone_1
written 52 B C—Latin
*Classics*

De Re Publica_1
written 54-51 B C—Latin
*Downs*

De Legibus_1
First Century B C—Latin
*Downs*

De Natura Decorum_2
written 45 B C—Latin
*Bloom* *Great*

Tusculanae Disputationes_1
written ca. 45 B C—Latin
*Dirda*

De Officiis_4
written 44 B C—Latin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Dirda* *World*

Laelius de Amicitia_5
written 44 B C—Latin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Read*

Cato Major de Senectute_6
written 44 B C—Latin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Ward*

Emil Cioran
Précis de Décomposition_1
1949—French
*Ward*

La Tentation d'Exister_1
1956—French
*Ward*

La Chute dans le Temps_1
1964—French
*Ward*

Le Mauvais Démiurge_1
1969—French
*Ward*

Amy Clampitt
Westward_1
1990—English
*Bloom*

Clarin (Leopoldo Alas)
La Regenta_1
1884-85—Spanish
*Bloom*

Alan Clark
Diaries_1
1993—English
*Telegraph*

Diaries: Into Politics 1972-1982_1
2000—English
*Telegraph*

Diaries: The Last Diaries 1993-1999_1
2002—English
*Telegraph*

John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (J P Clark)
Casualties: Poems 1966/ 68_1
1970—English
*Bloom*

Kenneth Clark
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form_1
1956; edited 1953 lectures—English
*Kanigel*

Arthur C Clarke
Childhood's End_2
1953—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*

Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible_1
originally published serially 1958-62; revised 1999—English
*Van Doren*

2001: A Space Odyssey_2
1968—English
*Learning* *Telegraph*

Gerald Clarke
Capote_1
1988—English
*Smart*

Paul Claudel
Tête d'Or_1
Head of Gold
1890—French
*Trinity*

L'Echange_1
The Exchange
1894—French
*Trinity*

Le Partage de Midi_1
The Break at Noon
1906—French
*Trinity*

L'Annonce Faite à Marie_1
The Annunciation to Mary
1910—French
*Trinity*

Le Soulier de Satin_1
The Satin Slipper
1943—French
*Trinity*

Carl von Clausewitz
Vom Kriege_4
On War
1832—German
*Downs* *Read* *SeymourSmith* *Telegraph*

Logan Clendening
The Human Body_1
1927; revised 1930, 1937, and 1945—English
*Durant*

Jean Cocteau
Les Enfants Terribles_1
1929—French
*Ward*

La Machine Infernale_1
1934—French
*Bloom*

Les Parent Terribles_1
1938—French
*Ward*

Michael D Coe
The Maya_1
1966—English
*Ward*

J M Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians_1
1980—English
*Zane*

Foe_1
1986—English
*Bloom*

Disgrace_2
1999—English
*Zane* *Van Doren*

Elizabeth Costello_1
2003—English
*Van Doren*

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep_4
1816—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions_7
1817—English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*

On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each_1
1826—English
*Classics*

Colette
La Retraite Sentimentale_1
1907—French
*Bloom*

Cheri_1
1920—French
*Graphic*

Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White_3
originally published serially Nov. 1859-Aug. 1860 in All the Year Round—English
*Bloom* *Guardian* *Telegraph*

No Name_1
originally published serially 1862 in All the Year Round—English
*Bloom*

The Moonstone_3
originally published serially 1868 in All the Year Round—English
*Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended*

Charles Colson
Born Again_1
1976—English
*Educated*

Christopher Columbus
Epistola de Insulis Nuper Repertis_1
1493—Latin
*Downs*

Philippe Commynes
Memoires_1
originally published in two volumes, 1524 and 1528—French
*Bloom*

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Pastors and Masters_1
1925—English
*Dirda*

Brothers and Sisters_1
1929—English
*Dirda*

A House and Its Head_1
1935—English
*Dirda*

Daughters and Sons_1
1937—English
*Dirda*

Parents and Children_1
1941—English
*Dirda*

Manservant and Maidservant_1
1947; U S edition entitled Bullivant and the Lambs—English
*Dirda*

Darkness and Day_1
1951—English
*Dirda*

The Present and the Past_1
1953—English
*Dirda*

A Father and His Fate_1
1957—English
*Dirda*

A God and His Gifts_1
1963—English
*Ward*

Auguste Comte
Cours de Philosophie Positive_2
originally published in six volumes, 1832-42—French
*Downs* *SeymourSmith*

Catéchisme Positiviste_1
1852—French
*Lubbock*

Marquis de Condorcet (Nicolas de Condorcet)
Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progrès de l'Esprit Humain qui fut Publié Après Sa Mort_1
1795—French
*Downs*

Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
Analects_12
Lún Yǔ
written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second Century—Chinese
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Downs* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Graphic*

William Congreve
Love for Love_1
1695—English
*Bloom*

The Way of the World_6
1700—English
*Read* *Bloom* *Newman* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Educated*

Evan S Connell
Mrs. Bridge_1
1959—English
*Zane*

Mr. Bridge_1
1969—English
*Zane*

Joseph Conrad
Almayer's Folly_1
1895—English
*Powys*

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea_2
1897; original U S edition entitled The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle—English
*Hundred* *Newman*

Heart of Darkness_16
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English
*Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Recommended* *Educated*

Lord Jim_6
originally published serially Oct. 1899-Nov. 1900 in Blackwood's Magazine—English
*Powys* *France* *Bloom* *Campbell* *Newman* *Recommended*

Nostromo_5
originally published serially 1904 in T P's Weekly—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Newman*

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale_2
1907—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Under Western Eyes_2
1911—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Chance_1
originally published serially 1912—English
*Powys*

Victory_2
1915—English
*Powys* *Bloom*

Benjamin Constant
Adolphe, Anecdote Trouvée dans les Papiers d'un Inconnu_2
originally anonymously published 1816—French
*France* *Bloom*

Le Cahier Rouge_1
1907—French
*Bloom*

Jill Conway
The Road From Coorain_1
1989—English
*Educated*

James Cook
The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery_1
written 1769, 1772-79—English
*Ward*

James Fenimore Cooper
The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; A Descriptive Tale_1
1823—English
*Magill*

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757_3
1826—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Recommended*

The Deerslayer: or, The First Warpath_2
1841—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Robert Coover
Spanking the Maid_1
1982—English
*Bloom*

Nicolas Copernicus
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium_6
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
1543—Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Van Doren*

Aaron Copland
What to Listen for in Music_1
1939; edited lectures—English
*Kanigel*

Tristan Corbière
Les Amours Jaunes_2
1873—French
*France* *Bloom*

Alfred Corn
A Call in the Midst of the Crowd_1
1978—English
*Bloom*

Pierre Corneille
Médée_1
1635—French
*Classics*

Le Cid_7
1637—French
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman* *Recommended*

Cinna ou la Clémence d'Auguste_4
1639—French
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Horace_3
1640—French
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Polyeucte_5
1643—French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Rodogune_1
1645—French
*Bloom*

Nicomède_1
1651—French
*Bloom*

Oedipe_1
1659—French
*Classics*

Julio Cortázar
Las Armas Secretas_1
1959—Spanish
*Bloom*

Rayuela_1
Hopscotch
1963—Spanish
*Bloom*

Todos los Fuegos el Fuego_1
All Fires the Fire and Other Stories
1966—Spanish
*Bloom*

Noël Coward
Private Lives_1
1930—English
*Recommended*

George Crabbe
The Village_1
1783—English
*Ward*

The Borough_1
1810—English
*Ward*

Hart Crane
White Buildings_1
1926—English
*Bloom*

The Bridge_1
1930—English
*Bloom*

Stephen Crane
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets_2
1893; revised 1896—English
*Newman* *Recommended*

The Red Badge of Courage_9
published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895—English
*Zulli* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Smart* *Campbell* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Douglas Crase
The Revisionist_1
1981—English
*Bloom*

Richard Crashaw
Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, With Other Delights of the Muses_1
1646; expanded 1648
*Newman*

Michael Crichton
Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences With the Northmen in A D 922_1
The 13th Warrior
1976—English
*Smart*

John Crowley
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament_2
1981—English
*Bloom* *Harvard*

Ægypt_1
1987; revised 2007, retitled Solitudes—English
*Bloom*

Love and Sleep_1
1994—English
*Bloom*

Gaspar da Cruz
Tractado em Que se Cõtam Muito por Estẽso as Cousas da China_1
Tratado das Cousas da China
1569—Portuguese
*Ward*

E E Cummings
Tulips and Chimneys_1
1923—English
*Bloom*

&_1
1925—English
*Bloom*

XLI Poems_1
1925—English
*Bloom*

Is 5_1
1926—English
*Bloom*

W (ViVa)_1
1931—English
*Bloom*

No Thanks_1
1935—English
*Bloom*

50 Poems_1
1940—English
*Bloom*

1 x 1_1
1944—English
*Bloom*

Xaipe_1
1950—English
*Bloom*

95 Poems_1
1958—English
*Bloom*

73 Poems_1
1962—English
*Bloom*

Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

Ernst Robert Curtius
Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittlelalter_1
1948—German
*Ward*

Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_1
1964—English
*Guardian*

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More_1
1977—English
*Deposit*

Lady Daibu
Kenreimon-in Ukyo no Daibu_1
The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu
late Twelfth-early Thirteenth centuries—Japanese
*Oriental*

Salvador Dalí
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí_1
1942; originally published in its English translation—French
*Ward*

John Dalton
A New System of Chemical Philosophy_1
1808—English
*Downs*

Mary Daly
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism_1
1978—English
*Utne*

Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast_3
1840; revised and expanded 1869—English
*Eliot* *Bloom* *Recommended*

Samuel Daniel
A Defence of Rime_1
1602—English
*Bloom*

Gabriele D'Annunzio
Il Trionfo Della Morte_1
The Triumph of Death
1894—Italian
*Powys*

Il Fuoco_1
The Flame of Life
1900—Italian
*Powys*

Maia_1
Canto Amàbeo Della Guerra
1903—Italian
*Bloom*

Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

La Vita Nuova_6
1295—Italian
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*

Convito_1
written 1304-07—Italian
*Classics*

De Vulgari Eloquentia_2
written ca. 1302-05—Latin
*Classics* *Ward*

De Monarchia_2
written ca. 1308-18—Latin
*Classics* *Read*

George Darley_1
Nepenthe
1835—English
*Bloom*

Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle_4
originally published as Journal and Remarks, 1832-1835, volume three of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Eagle, 1838; 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 1845—English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Fadiman*

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_24
1859—English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex_4
1871—English
*Durant* *Read* *Adler* *Recommended*

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882_1
originally published as part of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887; revised 1958—English
*Read*

Charles Galton Darwin
The Next Million Years_1
1952—English
*Van Doren*

René Daumal
Le Mont Analogue. Roman d'Aventures Alpines, Non Euclidiennes et Symboliquement Authentiques_1
Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
1952—French
*Bloom*

Guy Davenport
Tatlin_1
1974—English
*Bloom*

Robertson Davies
Fifth Business_1
1970—English
*Bloom*

The Manticore_1
1972—English
*Bloom*

World of Wonders_1
1975—English
*Bloom*

The Rebel Angels_2
1981—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

What's Bred in the Bone_2
1985—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman*

The Lyre of Orpheus_1
1988—English
*Fadiman*

Deborah Davis
Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball_1
2006—English
*Smart*

Robert Dawkins
The Selfish Gene_2
1976—English
*Great* *Educated*

Mary V Dearborn
Love in the Promised Land: The Story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey_1
1988—English
*Smart*

Daniel Defoe
The Shortest-Way With the Dissenters: Or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church_1
1702—English
*Eliot*

A Hymn to the Pillory_1
1703—English
*Van Doren*

A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Balgrave at Canterbury the Eighth of September, 1705_1
originally anonymously published 1706—English
*Dirda*

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner_21
originally anonymously published 1719—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Great* *Van Doren* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe_1
originally anonymously published 1719—English
*Ward*

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World_1
originally anonymously published 1720—English
*Ward*

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton_1
1720—English
*Classics*

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders_8
1722—English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque, Commonly Call'd Col. Jack_1
Colonel Jack
1722—English
*Van Doren*

A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public and Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665_6
originally anonymously published 1722—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Van Doren* *Newman*

The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II_2
Roxana
1724—English
*Van Doren* *Newman*

A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, Divided Into Circuits or Journies_1
1724-27—English
*Dirda*

Thomas Dekker
The Shoemaker's Holiday_1
1599—English
*Eliot*

Walter De la Mare
Poems_1
1906—English
*Bloom*

The Return_1
1910; revised 1922 and 1945—English
*Dirda*

The Listeners and Other Poems_1
1912—English
*Bloom*

Peacock Pie_1
1913—English
*Dirda*

Motley and Other Poems_1
1918—English
*Bloom*

The Veil and Other Poems_1
1921—English
*Bloom*

Memoirs of a Midget_2
1921—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

The Fleeting and Other Poems_1
1933—English
*Bloom*

Memory and Other Poems_1
1938—English
*Bloom*

The Burning-Glass and Other Poems_1
1945—English
*Bloom*

The Traveller_1
1945—English
*Bloom*

Inward Companion_1
1950—English
*Bloom*

Winged Chariot_1
1951—English
*Bloom*

O Lovely England and Other Poems_1
1953—English
*Bloom*

Don DeLillo
Running Dog_1
1978—English
*Bloom*

White Noise_3
1985—English
*Bloom* *Harvard* *Educated*

Libra_1
1988—English
*Bloom*

Mao II_1
1991—English
*Bloom*

Demosthenes
On the Crown_3
330 B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics*

Olynthiacs_2
349 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward*

First Philippic_3
ca. 351-50 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward*

Second Philippic_2
ca. 344-43 B C—Greek
*Downs* *Ward*

Third Philippic_2
341 B C—Greek
*Downs* *Ward*

Nigel Denis
Cards of Identity_1
1955—English
*Bloom*

René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences_17
Discourse on the Method
1637—French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *World*

La Géométrie_2
1637; originally published as an appendix to Discouse on the Method, but generally considered a distinct work—French
*Read* *Adler*

Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in Qua Dei Existentia et Animae Immortalitas Demonstratur_6
Meditations on First Philosophy
1641; French version, Méditations Metaphysiques, 1647—Latin
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Reynolds* *World* *Educated*

Principia Philosophiae_1
1644—Latin
*Classics*

Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii ut et Inquisitio Veritatis per Lumen Naturale_2
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
1684; originally published in its Dutch translation; in the original Latin, 1701—Latin
*Read* *Adler*

John Dewey
School and Society: Being Three Lectures by John Dewey, Supplemented by a Statement of the University Elementary School_1
1899—English
*Downs*

How We Think_1
1910; revised and retitled How We Think, A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process, 1933—English
*Read*

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education_1
1916—English
*Read*

Experience and Nature_1
1925—English
*Read*

Logic, the Theory of Inquiry_1
1938—English
*Read*

Experience and Education_1
1938—English
*Adler*

Anita Diamant
The Red Tent_1
1997—English
*Recommended*

Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies_1
1997—English
*Great*

Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao_2
2007—English
*Harvard* *Recommended*

Michael Dibdin
Ratking _1
1988—English
*Van Doren*

Vendetta _1
1990—English
*Van Doren*

Cabal _1
1992—English
*Van Doren*

Dead Lagoon _1
1994—English
*Van Doren*

A Long Finish _1
1998—English
*Van Doren*

Blood Rain _1
1999—English
*Van Doren*

And Then You Die _1
2002—English
*Van Doren*

Philip K Dick
The Man in the High Castle _1
1961—English
*Dirda*

Martian Time-Slip _1
1962—English
*Dirda*

Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We All Got Along After the Bomb _1
1963—English
*Dirda*

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch _1
1964—English
*Dirda*

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? _2
1968—English
*Dirda* *Telegraph*

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said _1
1974—English
*Dirda*

A Scanner Darkly _1
1977—English
*Dirda*

VALIS _1
1981—English
*Dirda*

Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club_14
The Pickwick Papers
originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, Boz—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress _9
originally published under the pseudonym, Boz, serially Feb. 1837-April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby _5
originally published serially Mar. 1838-Sep. 1839 under the pseudonym, Boz—English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended*

The Old Curiosity Shop _3
originally published serially Apr. 1840-Nov. 1841 in Master Humphrey's Clock under the pseudonym, Boz—English
*Baldwin* *Fadiman* *Newman*

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit_1
originally published serially Jan. 1843-Jul. 1844 under the pseudonym, Boz—English
*Bloom*

A Christmas Carol_7
1843—English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Guardian* *Taylor* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In_1
1844—English
*Bloom*

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home_1
1845—English
*Bloom*

The Battle of Life: A Love Story_1
1846—English
*Bloom*

Dealings With the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation_3
originally published serially Oct. 1846-Apr. 1848—English
*Baldwin* *Bloom* *Newman*

The Haunted Men and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time_1
1848—English
*Bloom*

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)_15
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Magill* *Read* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Recommended*

Bleak House_7
originally published serially Mar. 1852-Sep. 1853—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Hard Times - For These Times_7
originally published serially Apr. 1854-Aug. 1854 in Household Words—English
*Downs* *Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Little Dorrit_5
originally published serially Dec. 1855-Jun. 1857—English
*Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Newman*

A Tale of Two Cities_8
originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year Round—English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Guardian* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Great Expectations_15
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English
*Classics* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Recommended*

Our Mutual Friend_7
originally published serially May 1864-Nov. 1865—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren* *Deposit*

The Mystery of Edwin Drood_1
originally published serially Apr.-Sep. 1870—English
*Bloom*

James Dickey
Drowning With Others_1
1962—English
*Bloom*

Helmets_1
1964—English
*Bloom*

The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead, and Mercy_1
1968—English
*Bloom*

The Zodiac_1
1976—English
*Bloom*

The Strength of Fields_1
1979—English
*Bloom*

Emily Dickinson
The Poems of Emily Dickinson_3
1890—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Great*

John Dickinson et al.
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union_2
1777—English
*Read* *Adler*

Denis Diderot
Les Bijoux Indiscrets_1
originally anonymously published 1748—French
*Dirda*

Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville, ou Dialogue Entre A et B sur l'Inconvénient d'Attacher des Idées Morales à Certaines Actions Physiques Qui n'en Comportent Pas_1
originally published 1772 in Correspondance Littéraire—French
*Dirda*

Le Rêve de d'Alembert_2
originally published serially 1782 in Correspondance Littéraire—French
*Classics* *Ward*

Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître_4
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
published in part, 1785; in its entirety, 1796—French
*Ward* *Norway* *Dirda* *Newman*

La Religieuse_2
The Nun
1796—French
*Ward* *Dirda*

Le Neveu de Rameau ou la Satire Seconde_7
1805; originally published in its German traslation; in the original French, 1823—French
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Dirda* *Newman*

Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales_4
1934; Danish version entitled Syv Fantastiske Fortaellinger published 1935—English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Recommended*

Out of Africa_2
originally published under the author's given name, Karen Blixen, 1937; Danish version entitled Den Afrikanske Farm published the same year—English
*Dirda* *Recommended*

Vinter-Eventyr_1
1942; English version entitled Winter's Tales published the same year—Danish
*Bloom*

Pedanius Dioscorides
De Materia Medica_1
First Century—Greek
*Downs*

Thomas M Disch
On the Wings of Song_1
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1979 in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction—Greek
*Bloom*

Alfred Döblin
Berlin Alexanderplatz_2
1929—German
*Bloom* *Norway*

Theodosius Dobzhansky
Genetics and the Origin of Species_1
1937—English
*Adler*

E L Doctorow
The Book of Daniel_1
1971—English
*Bloom*

Ragtime_1
1975—English
*Fadiman*

World's Fair_1
1985—English
*Bloom*

Dogen
Shobogenzo Zuimonki_1
Thirteenth Century—Japanese
*Oriental*

Harriet Doerr
Stones for Ibarra_1
1984—English
*Zane*

J P Donleavy
The Ginger Man_1
1955—English
*Recommended*

Dǒng Zhòngshū
Chūnqiū Fánlù_1
The Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals
Second Century—Chinese
*World*

John Donne
First and Second Anniversaries_3
1612; The First Anniversary originally entitled An Anatomy of the World, published 1611; complete work included in Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death, 1633—English
*Classics* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes_3
1624—English
*Classics* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death_2
1633—English
*Ward* *Great*

José Donoso
El Obsceno P´jaro de la Noche_1
1970—Spanish
*Bloom*

John Dos Passos
The 42nd Parallel_3
1930—English
*Hundred* *Bloom* *Recommended*

1919_3
1932—English
*Hundred* *Bloom* *Recommended*

The Big Money_3
1936—English
*Hundred* *Bloom* *Recommended*

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bednye Lûdi_1
Poor Folk
1846—Russian
*Newman*

Dvojnik_2
The Double
originally published 1846 in Otečestvennye Zapiski—Russian
*Bloom* *Newman*

Dâdûškin Son_1
Uncle's Dream
1859—Russian
*Bloom*

Selo Stepančikovo i Ego Obitateli_1
The Village of Stepanchikovo; The Friend of the Family
1859—Russian
*Bloom*

Unižennye i Oskorblënnye_1
Humiliated and Insulted
originally published 1861 in Vrémâ—Russian
*Powys*

Zapiski iz Mërtvogo Doma_1
The House of the Dead
originally published 1861 in Vrémâ—Russian
*Newman*

Zapaski iz Podpol'â_6
Notes From Underground
1864—Russian
*Bloom* *Foundation* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Recommended*

Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translation—Russian
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Igrok_1
The Gambler
1867—Russian
*Bloom*

Idiot_11
originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
*Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Norway* *Deposit* *Newman* *Recommended*

Večnyj Muž_1
The Eternal Husband
originally published 1870 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
*Bloom*

Besy_9
Demons; The Devils; The Possessed
1872—Russian
*Powys* *Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Norway* *Zane* *Newman* *Recommended*

Brat'â Karamazovy_23
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Norman Douglas
South Wind_1
1917—English
*Bloom*

Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave_7
1845—English
*Rexroth* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Smart* *Educated* *Recommended*

Rita Dove
The Yellow House on the Corner_1
1980—English
*Bloom*

Museum_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

Thomas and Beulah_1
1986—English
*Bloom*

Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet_7
originally published 1887 in Beeton's Christmas Annual—English
*Hundred* *Ward* *Kanigel* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

The Sign of the Four_5
originally published Feb. 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly—English
*Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_7
1892; stories originally published Jul. 1891-Jun. 1892 in the Strand—English
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Dirda* *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes_4
1894; stories originally published 1892-3 in the Strand—English
*Hundred* *Ward* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

The Hound of the Baskervilles_5
1902; originally published serially Aug. 1901-Apr. 1902 in the Strand—English
*Hundred* *Ward* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

The Return of Sherlock Holmes_4
1905; stories originally published 1903-4 in the Strand—English
*Hundred* *Ward* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

The Lost World_1
1912—English
*Dirda*

The Valley of Fear_5
1915; originally published serially Sep. 1914-Feb. 1915 in the Strand—English
*Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes_4
1917; stories originally published Sep. 1908-Dec. 1913 in the Strand; except one published Sep. 1917 in Collier's Weekly—English
*Hundred* *Ward* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes_4
1927; stories originally published Oct. 1921-Apr. 1927 in the Strand—English
*Hundred* *Ward* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie_4
1900—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Recommended*

The Titan_1
1914—English
*Powys*

An American Tragedy_4
1925—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Recommended*

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Die Judenbuche_1
The Jew's Beech Tree
1842—German
*Trinity*

John Dryden
An Essay of Dramatick Poesie_2
1668—English
*Classics* *Van Doren*

Aureng-Zebe_1
1676—English
*Classics*

All for Love; or, The World Well Lost_3
1677—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Newman*

The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man_1
1677—English
*Classics*

Absalom and Achitophel_1
originally published in two volumes, 1681 and 1682; authorship of second is disputed—English
*Recommended*

MacFlecknoe or a Satyr Upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T S_1
1682—English
*Classics*

An Ode, On the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell_1
1696—English
*Classics*

Alexander's Feast: or The Power of Musique. An Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day_1
1697—English
*Classics*

W E B Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk_1
published in part serially in the Atlantic; in its entirety, 1903—English
*Educated*

Alexandre Dumas
Les Trois Mousquetaires_3
The Three Musketeers
originally published serially Mar.-Jul. 1844 in Le Siècle—French
*France* *Guardian* *Newman*

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo_4
originally published serially Aug. 1844-Jan. 1846 in Journal des Débats—French
*Magill* *Guardian* *Newman* *Recommended*

Vingt ans Après_1
originally published serially Jan.-Aug. 1845—French
*Newman*

Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans Plus Tard_1
originally published serially 1847-50—French
*Newman*

Alexandre Dumas, fils
La Dame aux Camélias_1
1848—French
*Newman*

Isadora Duncan
My Life_1
1928—English
*Kanigel*

Robert Duncan
Bending the Bow_1
1968—English
*Bloom*

Katherine Dunn
Geek Love_1
1989—English
*Zane*

Marguerite Duras
Le Square_1
1955—French
*Bloom*

Moderato Cantabile_1
1958—French
*Bloom*

Dix Heures et Demie du Soir en Été_1
1960—French
*Bloom*

L'Après-Midi de M. Andesmas_1
1964—French
*Bloom*

L'Amant_1
1984—French
*Bloom*

Gerard Durrell
My Family and Other Animals_1
1956—English
*List*

Lawrence Durrell
Reflections on a Marine Venus_2
1953—English
*List* *Ward*

Bitter Lemons_1
1957—English
*Ward*

Justine_4
1957—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Recommended*

Balthazar_3
1958—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*

Mountolive_3
1958—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*

Clea_3
1960—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*

The Greek Islands_1
1978—English
*Ward*

Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Der Besuch der Alten Dame_2
The Visit
1956—German
*Ward* *Bloom*

Die Physiker_1
The Physicists
1962—German
*Ward*

Dù Yòu
Tōngdiǎn_1
late Eighth-early Ninth centuries—Chinese
*World*

José Maria de Eça de Queirós
O Crime do Padre Amaro_2
1875; revised 1876 and 1880—Portuguese
*Ward* *Dirda*

O Primo Basílio_2
1878—Portuguese
*Ward* *Dirda*

A Relíquia_1
1887—Portuguese
*Dirda*

Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica_3
1888—Portuguese
*Ward* *Bloom* *Dirda*

A Ilustre Casa de Ramires_1
1900—Portuguese
*Dirda*

Alves e C.a_1
The Yellow Sofa
1925—Portuguese
*Dirda*

Johann Peter Eckermann
Gespräche mit Goethe_3
originally published in three volumes: first and second, 1836; third, 1848—German
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics*

Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Il nome della rosa_1
1980—Italian
*Recommended*

Il Pendolo di Foucault_1
1988—Italian
*Graphic*

Baudolino_1
2000—Italian
*Harvard*

Arthur Eddington
The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900-1931_1
1933—English
*Adler*

Leon Edel
The Life of Henry James_1
originally published in five volumes: Henry James: The Untried Years: 1843-1870, 1953; Henry James: The Conquest of London: 1870-1881, 1962; Henry James: The Middle Years: 1882-1895, 1962; Henry James: The Treacherous Years: 1895-1901, 1969; Henry James: The Master: 1901-1916, 1972 —English
*Trinity*

Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent_1
1800—English
*Bloom*

G B Edwards
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page_1
1981—English
*Bloom*

Jonathan Edwards
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections_1
1746—English
*Trinity*

Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad_1
2010—English
*Recommended*

Dave Eggers
You Shall Know Our Velocity_1
2002—English
*Harvard*

What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentinno Achak Deng_1
2006—English=
*Recommended*

Gunnar Ekelöf
Diwan Över fursten av Emgión_1
1965—Swedish
*Ward*

Sagan om Fatumeh_1
1966—Swedish
*Ward*

Vägvisare Till Underjorden_2
1967—Swedish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Aus dem Leben Eines Taugenichts_1
1826—German
*Ward*

Albert Einstein
Die Grundlage der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie_1
Foundations of the General Theory of Relativity
1916—German
*SeymourSmith*

Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Gemeinverständlich_5
Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition
1917; revised through fourteenth edition, 1922—German
*Downs* *Adler* *Great* *Taylor* *Educated*

The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University_3
1921; expanded, 1945—English
*Read* *Good* *Fadiman*

On the Method of Theoretical Physics_1
1933; edited Jun. 1933 lecture—English
*Read*

Albert Einstein; Leopold Infeld
The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta_1
1938—English
*Read*

Riane Eisler
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future_1
1987—English
*Utne*

Louise Eldrich
Love Medicine_1
1984—English
*Zane*

George Eliot
Adam Bede _8
1859—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Read* *Bloom* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Mill on the Floss _6
1860—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman* *Recommended*

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe _6
1861—English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Campbell* *Newman* *Recommended*

Romola _1
originally published serially Jul. 1862-Aug. 1863 in Cornhill Magazine—English
*Baldwin*

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English
*Baldwin* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Daniel Deronda _4
1876—English
*Baldwin* *Bloom* *Zane* *Newman*

T S Eliot
Prufrock and Other Observations_4
1917—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail*

Poems: 1920_4
1920—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail*

Journey of the Magi_5
1927; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; eighth of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel Poems—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren*

A Song for Simeon_4
1927; with an illustration by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 16th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel Poems—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail*

Animula_4
1929; illustrations by Gertrude Hermes; 23rd of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel Poems—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail*

Marina_5
1930; illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer; 29th of a series of 37 pamphlets collectively entitled Ariel Poems—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren*

Ash Wednesday_7
1930—English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail* *Newman* *Recommended*

Triumphal March_4
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 Poems—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail*

Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama_4
1932—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail*

Murder in the Cathedral_4
1935—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Family Reunion_2
1939—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats_2
1939—English
*Bloom* *Van Doren*

The Cocktail Party_2
1949—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Four Quartets_10
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, 1942—English
*List* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Confidential Clerk_1
1953—English
*Fadiman*

The Cultivation of Christmas Trees_3
1954; illustrations by David Jones; part of a second series of Ariel Poems—English
*Ward* *GlobeMail* *Fadiman*

The Elder Statesman_1
1958—English
*Fadiman*

Stanley Elkin
The Living End_1
1979—English
*Bloom*

Havelock Ellis
Studies in the Psychology of Sex_1
originally published in seven volumes, 1897-1928—English
*Downs*

The Dance of Life_1
1923—English
*Hundred*

Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man_12
1952—English
*Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Recommended* *Educated*

Richard Ellmann
James Joyce_1
1959—English
*Smart*

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature_3
originally anonymously published 1836—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

The American Scholar_5
originally entitled, An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, published 1837—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Fadiman* *Newman*

Essays: First Series_3
1841—English
*Downs* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Essays: Second Series_3
1844—English
*Downs* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Poems_1
1847—English
*Great*

Representative Men: Seven Lectures_3
1850—English
*Read* *Bloom* *Recommended*

English Traits_2
1856—English
*Eliot* *Fadiman*

The Conduct of Life_1
1860; revised 1872—English
*Bloom*

Journals_2
1960-82—English
*Read* *Bloom*

Sextus Empiricus
Pyrrhōneioi Hypotypōseis_1
Outline of Pyrrhonism
late First Century-early Second Century—Greek
*SeymourSmith*

William Empson
Letter IV_1
1929—English
*Bloom*

Poems_1
1935—English
*Bloom*

Some Versions of Pastoral_1
1935; U S version originally entitled English Pastoral Poetry—English
*Bloom*

The Gathering Storm_1
1940—English
*Bloom*

Milton's God_1
1961—English
*Bloom*

Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Der Untergang der Titanic_1
The Sinking of the Titanic
1978—German
*Ward*

Epictetus
Diatribai_9
Discourses
compiled by Arrian; Second Century—Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity* *Van Doren*

Enchiridion of Epictetus_3
compiled by Arrian; Second Century—Greek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read*

Daniel Mark Epstein
Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington_1
2004—English
*Smart*

Desiderius Erasmus
Stultitiae Laus_10
In Praise of Folly
1511; revised—Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Reynolds* *Recommended*

Colloquia Familiaria_1
1518-33—Latin
*Ward*

George Etherege
The Man of Mode, or, Sr. Fopling Flutter_1
1676—English
*Bloom*

Euclid
Elements_6
written ca. 300 B C—Greek
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Van Doren*

Euripides
Alkēstis_6
Alcestis
438 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

Mēdeia_17
Medea
431 B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translation—Greek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*

Hērakleidai_2
Heracleidae; Herakles' Children
ca. 430 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler*

Hippolytos _11
428 B C—Greek
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Andromache _4
ca. 428-25 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended*

Hēkabē _3
Hecuba
written ca. 424 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*

Hiketides _2
The Suppliants
423 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler*

Hēraklēs Mainomenos _3
Herakles
ca. 416 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*

Trōiades _8
The Trojan Woman
415 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Ēlektra _7
Electra
written ca. 413 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Great* *Recommended*

Iphigeneia en Taurois _4
Iphigeneia in Tauris
written ca. 414-12 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Van Doren*

Iōn _4
written ca. 414-12 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*

Helenē _3
412 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*

Phoinissai _2
Phoenician Women
written c. 408 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler*

Orestēs _3
408 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*

Bakchai _14
The Bacchae
405 B C—Greek
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Iphigeneia en Aulidi _4
Iphigeneia in Aulis
405 B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Foundation*

Kyklōps_4
Cyclops
late Fifth Century B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*

Rhēsos_2
Rhesus
late Fifth Century B C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler*

Eusebius
Historia Ecclesiae_1
Fourth Century—Latin
*World*

John Fante
Ask the Dust_1
1939—English
*Zane*

Michael Faraday
A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter and Their Relations to Each Other_1
edited 1859 lectures; originally published in the Chemical News, 1860; book version published the same year—English
*Eliot*

The Chemical History of a Candle_2
edited 1848 lectures; originally published 1861 in the Chemical News; book version, entitled A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which Is Added a Lecture on Platinum (that lecture having been published in the Chemical News as 'On Platinum' the same year) also published 1861; 'On Platinum' removed for some later editions—English
*Eliot* *Read*

Experimental Researches in Electricity_3
originally published in two volumes, 1839 and 1844—English
*Read* *Downs* *Adler*

Richard Fariña
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me_1
1966—English
*Harvard*

George Farquhar
The Recruiting Officer_1
1706—English
*Bloom*

The Beaux' Strategem_1
1707—English
*Bloom*

J G Farrell
The Siege of Krishnapur_1
1973—English
*Bloom*

William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury_13
1929—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

As I Lay Dying_8
1930—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Zane* *Newman* *Recommended*

Sanctuary_2
1931—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Light in August_4
1932—English
*Bloom* *Campbell* *Newman* *Recommended*

Absalom, Absalom!_7
1936—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Recommended*

Intruder in the Dust_1
1936—English
*Smart*

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem_1
Wild Palms
1939—English
*Bloom*

The Hamlet_3
1940—English
*Bloom* *Zane* *Newman*

Go Down, Moses_1
1942; published in part in varied periodicals: 'The Old People', Sep. 1940 in Harper's; 'The Bear', May 1941 in the Saturday Evening Post, and later revised for inclusion in Big Woods, 1955; 'Delta Autumn', May-Jun. 1942 in Story; and 'Go Down, Moses', Jan. 1941 in Collier's—English
*Trinity*

A Fable_1
1954—English
*Magill*

The Town_1
1957—English
*Newman*

The Mansion_1
1959—English
*Newman*

The Reivers_1
1962—English
*Fadiman*

Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong_1
1993—English
*Guardian*

Élie Faure
Histoire de l'Art_1
originally published in five volumes, 1919-21—French
*Hundred*

Madame de la Fayette
La Princess de Clèves_4
originally anonymously published 1678—French
*France* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Newman*

Abul Fazl
Akbarnama_1
The Book of Akbar
written 1590-96—Persian
*World*

Alvin Feinman
Preambles and Other Poems_1
1964; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1990—English
*Bloom*

François Fénelon
Instructions et Avis sur Divers Points de la Morale et de la Perfection Chrétienne_1
1759—French
*Trinity*

Ferdowsi
Shahnameh_7
The Book of Kings
written ca. 977-1010—Persian
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Great* *World*

Rodrigo Fernández de Ribera
Los Anteojos de Mejor Vista_1
1620-25—Spanish
*Ward*

Richard Feynman
Q E D: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter_1
1985; edited 1983 lectures—English
*Great*

Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Reden an Die Dutsche Nation_1
1808—German
*Downs*

Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones's Diary_1
1996—English
*Guardian*

Henry Fielding
The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great_1
1731—English
*Classics*

An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews_1
1741—English
*Newman*

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams_6
1742—English
*Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Bloom* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great_2
originally published as the third volume of Miscellanies, 1743—English
*Classics* *Newman*

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Amelia_1
1751—English
*Newman*

Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon_1
1755—English
*Classics*

Orlando Figes
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924_1
1997—English
*Telegraph*

Jack Finney
The Body Snatchers_1
1955—English
*Smart*

Time and Again_1
1970—English
*Smart*

Ronald Firbank
Valmouth_1
1919—English
*Bloom*

The Flower Beneath The Foot: Being a Record of the Early Life of St. Laura De Nazianzi and the Times in which She Lived_1
1923—English
*Bloom*

Sorrow in Sunlight_1
1924; U S edition entitled Prancing Nigger—English
*Bloom*

Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli_1
1926—English
*Bloom*

The Artificial Princess_1
1934—English
*Bloom*

F Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise_2
1920—English
*Fadiman* *Newman*

The Beautiful and the Damned_1
1922—English
*Newman*

The Great Gatsby_17
1925—English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Great* *Guardian* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Tender Is the Night_6
originally published serially Jan.-Apr. 1934 in Scribner's Magazine—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Last Tycoon_1
1941; expanded and retitled The Love of the Last Tycoon, 1993—English
*Newman*

The Pat Hobby Stories_1
1962; originally published serially Jan. 1940-May 1941 in Esquire—English
*Newman*

Robert Fitzgerald
Poems_1
1935—English
*Bloom*

A Wreath for the Sea_1
1938—English
*Bloom*

In the Rose of Time_1
1956—English
*Bloom*

Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary_29
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translation—French
*Classics* *Durant* *Hundred* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Salammbô_4
1862—French
*Durant* *Classics* *Bloom* *Newman*

L'Éducation Sentimentale_8
1869—French
*Classics* *France* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Norway* *Newman* *Recommended*

La Tentation de Sainte Antoine_3
published in part, 1856; in its entirety, 1874—French
*Classics* *Trinity* *Newman*

Trois Contes_4
1877—French
*Classics* *Read* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

Bouvard et Pécuchet_1
1881—French
*Newman*

Gustave Flaubert; George Sand
Lettres de Gustave Flaubert à George Sand _1
1884; written 1863-80—French
*Graphic*

John Fletcher; Francis Beaumont
Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding_1
1610—English
*Eliot*

Dario Fo
Morte Accidentale di un Anarchico_1
1970—Italian
*Utne*

Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated_1
2002—English
*Recommended*

Ken Follett
Fall of Giants_1
2010—English
*Recommended*

Jean de la Fontaine
Fables_7
originally published in 12 volumes: first-sixth, 1668; seventh-eleventh, 1678; twelfth, 1694—French
*Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Theodor Fontane
Irrungen, Wirrungen_1
1888—German
*Eliot*

Effi Briest_2
originally published serially 1894-95—German
*Ward* *Bloom*

Mary Hallock Foote
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote_1
1972; written in the 1920s; edited by Rodman W Paul—English
*Smart*

Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier_4
1915—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Recommended*

Parade's End_4
originally published in four volumes: Some Do Not..., 1924; No More Parades, 1925; A Man Could Stand Up, 1926; Last Post, 1928—English
*Rexroth* *List* *Bloom* *Zane*

John Ford
'Tis Pity She's a Whore_1
ca. 1633—English
*Bloom*

E M Forster
A Room With a View_2
1908—English
*Graphic* *Recommended*

Howards End_4
1910—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Zane*

A Passage to India_8
1924—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Smart* *Recommended*

Ugo Foscolo
Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis_1
1798—Italian
*Bloom*

Dei Sepolcri_1
1807—Italian
*Bloom*

Le Grazie_1
published in part, 1803 and 1818; in its entirety, 1822
*Bloom*

Michel Foucault
Les Mots et les Choses: Une Archéologie des Sciences Humaines_1
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
1966—French
*Great*

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur_1
1822—French
*Read*

Henry Watson Fowler
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage_1
1926; later editions considered distinct works—English
*Dirda*

John Fowles
The Magus_1
1966; revised 1977—English
*Recommended*

The French Lieutenant's Woman_1
1969—English
*Recommended*

Anatole France
Le Livre de Mon Ami_1
1885—French
*Powys*

Thaïs_1
1890—French
*Bloom*

Les Opinions de Jérôme Coignard_1
1893—French
*Powys*

L'Orme du Mail_1
1897—French
*Powys*

L'Île des Pingouins_4
1908—French
*Durant* *Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom*

Anne Frank
Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944_4
The Diary of a Young Girl
1947—Dutch
*Campbell* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_7
1791; originally published in its French translation, entitled Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin; first-third parts of the original English published 1818 as volume one of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin; original English published in its entirety, 1868—English
*Eliot* *Hundred* *Downs* *Zulli* *Magill* *Smart* *Educated*

Miles Franklin
My Brilliant Career_1
1901—English
*Bloom*

James George Frazer
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion_6
originally entitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, published in two volumes, 1890; expanded and retitled 1900 to three volumes; expanded 1906-15 to 12 volumes; supplemental volume added for 1937 edition; distinct abridged versions, 1922, 1959, and 1994; Durant and the Jasper Lee Company ("Hundred") specify the 1922 abridged edition, while Good Reading specifies the 1959—English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Downs* *List* *Good* *Dirda*

Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain_1
1997—English
*Smart*

Harold Frederic
The Damnation of Theron Ware_1
1896; U K edition entitled Illumination—English
*Bloom*

R Austin Freeman
Mr. Pottermack's Oversight_1
1930—English
*Kanigel*

Paulo Freire; Myles Horton
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change_1
1990—English
*Utne*

Sigmund Freud
Die Traumdeutung_15
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899—German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Great* *Graphic*

Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens_2
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
1904—German
*Classics* *Fadiman*

Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie_1
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
1905; revised through sixth edition, 1925—German
*Fadiman*

Über Infantile Sexualtheorien_1
On the Sexual Theories of Children
1908—German
*Adler*

Die Zukunftigen Chancen der Psychoanalytischen Therapie_1
The Future Prospects of Psycho-analytic Therapy
1910—German
*Adler*

Über "Wilde" Psychoanalyse_1
"Wild" Psycho-Analysis
1910—German
*Adler*

Zur Einführung des Narzißmus_1
On Narcissism
1914—German
*Adler*

Zur Geschichte der Psychoanalytischen Bewegung_2
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
1914—German
*Adler* *Fadiman*

Triebe und Triebschicksale_1
Instincts and their Vicissitudes
1915—German
*Adler*

Zeitgemäßes Über Krieg und Tod_1
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
1915—German
*Adler*

Die Verdrängung_1
Repression
1915—German
*Adler*

Das Unbewusste_2
The Unconscious
1915—German
*Adler* *Deposit*

Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse_4
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
1917—German
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Good*

Jenseits des Lustprinzips_3
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
1920—German
*Classics* *Adler* *Fadiman*

Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse_1
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
1921—German
*Adler*

Das Ich und das Es_2
The Ego and the Id
1923—German
*Adler* *Fadiman*

Hemmung, Symptom und Angst_2
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
1926—German
*Classics* *Adler*

Das Unbehagen in der Kultur_7
Civilization and Its Discontents
1930—German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Van Doren*

Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse_4
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
1933—German
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman*

Abriss der Psychoanalyse_1
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
1940—German
*Van Doren*

Gilberto Freyre
Casa-Grande e Senzala_1
The Masters and the Slaves
1933—Portuguese
*Ward*

Sobrados e Mucambos_1
The Mansions and the Shanties
1936—Portuguese
*Ward*

Ordem e Progresso_1
Order and Progress
1957—Portuguese
*Ward*

Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique_2
1963—English
*SeymourSmith* *Educated*

Max Frisch
Stiller_2
I'm Not Stiller
1954—German
*Ward* *Bloom*

Andorra_1
1961—German
*Ward*

Der Mensch Erscheint im Holozän_1
Man in the Holocene
1979—German
*Bloom*

Jean Froissart
Chroniques_3
written 1369-1400—French
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Bloom*

Robert Frost
A Boy's Will_3
1913; revised 1930—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

North of Boston_3
1914; revised 1930—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

Mountain Interval_3
1916; revised 1930—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

New Hampshire_3
1923—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

West-Running Brook_3
1928; expanded 1930—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

A Further Range_3
1936—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

A Witness Tree_3
1942—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

A Masque of Reason_3
1945—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

Steeple Bush_3
1947—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

A Masque of Mercy_3
1947—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

In a Clearing_2
1962—English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Michael Frayn
Headlong_1
1999—English
*Smart*

Northrop Frye
Fables of Identity_1
1963—English
*Bloom*

Carlos Fuentes
Cambio de Piel_1
1967—Spanish
*Bloom*

Terra Nostra_2
1975—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Athol Fugard
A Lesson From Aloes_1
1978—English
*Bloom*

Francis Fukuyuma
The End of History and the Last Man_1
1992—English
*Educated*

Roy Fuller
The Middle of the War_1
1942—English
*Bloom*

Alan Furst
Night Soldiers_1
1988—English
*Van Doren*

Dark Star_1
1991—English
*Van Doren*

The Polish Soldier_1
1995—English
*Van Doren*

The World at Night_1
1996—English
*Van Doren*

Dark Voyage_1
2004—English
*Van Doren*

Fuzuli
Dastan-i Leyli vu Mecnun_3
The Epic of Layla and Majnun
Sixteenth Century—Turkish
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

William Gaddis
The Recognitions_2
1955—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

J R_2
1975—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book_1
2008—English
*Recommended*

Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch_1
1990—English
*Harvard*

John Kenneth Galbraith
The Great Crash of 1929_1
1955—English
*Educated*

The Affluent Society_1
1958—English
*Deposit*

Benito Pérez Galdós
Fortunato and Jacinto_3
1886-87—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Nazarín_1
1895—Spanish
*Ward*

Halma_1
1895—Spanish
*Ward*

Misericordia_1
1897—Spanish
*Ward*

Galen
De Naturalibus Facultatibus_3
On the Natural Faculties
First Century—Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Adler*

Galileo
Sidereus Nuncius_2
Starry Messenger
1610—Latin
*Classics* *Read*

Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo_8
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
1632—Italian
*Downs* *Learning* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Taylor* *GlobeMail* *Educated*

Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno è Due Nuove Scienze_4
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
1638—Italian
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Van Doren*

John Galsworthy
The Man of Property_4
1906—English
*Powys* *Bloom* *Smart* *Recommended*

The Country House_1
1907—English
*Powys*

Fraternity_1
1909—English
*Powys*

Indian Summer of a Forsyte_3
1918—English
*Bloom* *Smart* *Recommended*

In Chancery_3
1920—English
*Bloom* *Smart* *Recommended*

Awakening_3
1920—English
*Bloom* *Smart* *Recommended*

To Let_3
1921—English
*Bloom* *Smart* *Recommended*

John Galt
The Entail_1
1823—English
*Bloom*

Antonio Galvão
Tratado que Compôs o Nobre e Notauel Capitão Antonio Galuão, dos Diuersos e Desuayrados Caminhos, por Onde nos Tempos Passados a Pimenta e Especearia Veyo da India ás Nossas Partes, e Assi de Todos os Descobrimentos Antigos e Modernos, que são Feitos até a era de mil e Quinhentos e Cincoenta_1
The Discoveries of the World From Their First Original Unto the Year of Our Lord 1555
1653; retitled Tratado dos Descobrimentos, Antigos e Modernos, Feitos até a era de 1550, 1731—Portuguese
*Ward*

George Gamov
Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory_1
1966—English
*Great*

Mohandas K Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments With the Truth_4
originally published serially 1925-9 in Navijan—Gujarati
*Ward* *Oriental* *Great* *Educated*

Gāo Bǐng
Tángshī Pǐnhuì_1
The Graded Compendium of Tang Poetry
late Fourteenth-early Fifteenth centuries—Chinese
*World*

Federico García Lorca
Poema del Cante Jondo_1
published in part, Apr. 1927, in Verso y Prosa, and separately in 1930; in its entirety, 1931—Spanish
*Fadiman*

Canciones_1
1927—Spanish
*Fadiman*

Romancero Gitano_3
Gypsy Ballads
originally entitled Primero Romancero Gitano, published 1928—Spanish
*Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway*

Bodas de Sangre_2
Blood Wedding
1933—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Yerma_2
1934—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías_3
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
1935—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Seis Poemas Galegos_1
1935—Spanish
*Fadiman*

La Casa de Bernarda Alba_2
The House of Bernarda Alba
written 1936; published 1945—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Diván del Tamarit_1
originally published 1940 in Revista Hispánica Moderna—Spanish
*Fadiman*

Poeta en Nueva York_1
1942—Spanish
*Fadiman*

Suites_1
written 1920-23; published 1983—Spanish
*Fadiman*

Gabriel García Márquez
La Hojarasca_1
Leaf Storm
1955—Spanish
*Trinity*

El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba_1
No One Writes to the Colonel
1961—Spanish
*Trinity*

Cien Anõs de Soledad_18
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translation—Spanish
*Ward* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Recommended* *Educated*

El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera_7
Love in the Time of Cholera
1985—Spanish
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Recommended*

John Gardner
Grendel_1
1971—English
*Smart*

Robert Garnier
Les Juives_1
1583—French
*Bloom*

Marc Antoine_1
1587—French
*Bloom*

Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life_2
1848—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Cranford_2
originally published serially 1851 in Household Words—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

North and South_2
originally published serially Sep. 1854-Jan. 1855 in Household Words—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

A Life of Charlotte Brontë_2
1857—English
*Dirda* *Telegraph*

William Gass
Omensetter's Luck_1
1966—English
*Bloom*

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country_1
1968—English
*Bloom*

Théophile Gautier
Mademoiselle de Maupin_1
1835—French
*Bloom*

Émaux et Camées_1
Enamels and Cameos
1852; expanded later editions—French
*Bloom*

John Gay
The Beggar's Opera_2
1728—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Gě Hóng
Bàopǔzǐ_1
Bàopòzǐ; The Master Embracing Simplicity
ca. 317-18—Chinese
*World*

Jean Genet
Notre Dame des Fleurs_1
Our Lady of the Flowers
1943—French
*Bloom*

Journal du Voleur_1
The Thief's Journal
1949—French
*Bloom*

Le Balcon_1
The Balcony
1957—French
*Bloom*

Eugene Genovese
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made_1
1974—English
*Educated*

Genshin
Ojoyoshu_1
written 985—Japanese
*Oriental*

Geoffrey of Monmouth
Historia Regum Britanniae_2
written ca. 1136—Latin
*Downs* *Newman*

Henry George
Progress and Property: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy_1
1879—English
*Downs*

The Land Question: What It Involves, and How Alone It Can Be Settled_1
1881; originally entitled The Irish Land Question—English
*Classics*

The Science of Political Economy_1
1898—English
*Classics*

Al-Ghazali
Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal_2
Deliverance From Error
Eleventh-early Twelfth centuries—Arabic
*Ward* *Oriental*

Ihya Ulum al-Din_2
The Revival of Religious Sciences
Eleventh-early Twelfth centuries—Arabic
*Ward* *World*

Tahafut al-Falasifa_1
The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Eleventh-early Twelfth centuries—Arabic
*Ward*

Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies_1
2008—English
*Harvard*

Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_22
originally published in six volumes: first, 1776; second-third, 1781; fourth-sixth, 1788—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Telegraph* *World* *Educated*

Memoirs of My Life and Writings_3
originally published as part of Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbons, 1796; expanded 1896—English
*Classics* *Read* *Dirda*

Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm_1
1932—English
*Guardian*

Josiah Willard Gibbs
On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances_1
originally published serially 1875-8 in Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences—English
*Downs*

Kahlil Gibran
The Madman_1
1918—English
*Graphic*

William Gibson
Neuromancer_1
1984—English
*Telegraph*

André Gide
L'Immoraliste_1
1902—French
*Bloom*

Corydon_1
published in part, 1911-20; in its entirety, 1924—French
*Bloom*

Les Caves du Vatican_1
Lafcadio's Adventures
1914—French
*Bloom*

La Symphonie Pastorale_1
The Pastoral Symphony
1919—French
*Trinity*

Les Faux-Monnayeurs_3
originally published 1925 in Nouvelle Revue Française—French
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Recommended*

Journal_2
originally published in two volumes, 1939 and 1950—French
*France* *Bloom*

Barry Gifford
Wild at Heart_1
1990—English
*Graphic*

Sandra Gilbert; Susan Gubar
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination_1
1979—English
*Smart*

William Gilbert
De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure_4
On the Magnet
1600—Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Van Doren*

W S Gilbert
The "Bab" Ballads—Much Sound and Little Sense_1
1868—English
*Bloom*

More "Bab" Ballads_1
1872—English
*Bloom*

W S Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan
Thespis_1
1871—English
*Bloom*

Trial by Jury_1
1875—English
*Bloom*

The Sorcerer_1
1877—English
*Bloom*

H M S Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved the Sailor_1
1878—English
*Bloom*

The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty_1
1879—English
*Bloom*

Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride_1
1881—English
*Bloom*

Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri_1
1882—English
*Bloom*

Princess Idea; or, Castle Adamant_1
1884—English
*Bloom*

The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu_1
1885—English
*Bloom*

Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse_1
1887—English
*Bloom*

The Yeoman of the Guard; or, The Merryman and His Maid_1
1888—English
*Bloom*

The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria_1
1889—English
*Bloom*

Utopia, Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress_1
1893—English
*Bloom*

The Grand Duke; or, The Statutory Duel_1
1896—English
*Bloom*

David Gilmour
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa_1
1991—English
*Smart*

Étienne Gilson
Introduction aux Arts du Beau_1
1963—French
*Van Doren*

Allen Ginsberg
Howl and Other Poems_1
1956—English
*Great*

Natalia Ginzburg
Famiglia_1
1977—Italian
*Bloom*

Jean Giono
Le Hussard sur le Toit_1
The Horseman on the Roof
1951—French
*Bloom*

Jean Giraudoux
Intermezzo_1
The Enchanted
1933—French
*Bloom*

Ondine_1
1939—French
*Bloom*

L'Apollon de Bellac_1
The Apollo of Bellac
1942—French
*Bloom*

La Folle de Chaillot_1
The Madwoman of Chaillot
1945—French
*Bloom*

George Gissing
New Grub Street_1
1891—English
*Bloom*

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft_1
originally entitled An Author at Grass, published serially 1902-03 in the Fortnightly Review—English
*Hundred*

Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference_1
2000—English
*Telegraph*

Ellen Glasgow
Barren Ground_2
1925—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Vein of Iron_1
1935—English
*Bloom*

James Gleick
Chaos: Making a New Science_1
1987—English
*Utne* *Educated*

Gail Godwin
The Odd Woman_1
1974—English
*Smart*

William Godwin
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness_2
1793—English
*Downs* *SeymourSmith*

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers_7
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774; revised 1787—German
*Eliot* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Taylor* *Newman* *Recommended*

Egmont_3
1788—German
*Eliot* *Ward* *Bloom*

Erotica Romana_1
1790; later retitled Römische Elegien—German
*Bloom*

Venezianische Epigramme_1
1790—German
*Bloom*

Faust_27
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, 1832—German
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre_5
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
1795-96—German
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Hermann und Dorothea_2
1798—German
*Eliot* *Bloom*

Die Wahlverwandtschaften_3
Elective Affinities
1809—German
*Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity*

Aus Mienem Leben: Dichtung und Warheit_5
From My Life: Poetry and Truth
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 1811-13; fourth, 1833—German
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom*

Italienische Reise_2
Italian Journey
1816-17—German
*Ward* *Bloom*

Westöstlicher Diwan_2
The West-Eastern Divan
1819; revised 1827—German
*Ward* *Bloom*

Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Oder Die Entsagenden_4
Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants
1821; revised 1829—German
*Powys* *Classics* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Nikolai Gogol
Večori na Hutore Bliz Dikan'ki_1
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikaka
originally published in two volumes, 1831 and 1832—Russian
*Bloom*

Mirgorod_1
1835—Russian
*Bloom*

Revizor_2
The Government Inspector
1836; revised 1842—Russian
*Bloom* *Newman*

Mërtvyâ Duši_11
Dead Souls
1842—Russian
*Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman* *Recommended*

Damiâo de Góis
Crónica do Felicíssimo Rei D. Manuel_1
1566-67—Portuguese
*Ward*

Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha_1
1997—English
*Guardian*

William Golding
Lord of the Flies_6
1954—English
*Learning* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin_1
1956—English
*Bloom*

The Spire_1
1964—English
*Fadiman*

William Goldman
The Princess Bride_1
1973—English
*Recommended*

Carlo Goldoni
Il Servitore di due Padroni_1
1753—Italian
*Bloom*

La Locandiera_1
1753—Italian
*Ward*

I Rusteghi_1
1760—Italian
*Ward*

Il Ventaglio_1
1764—Italian
*Ward*

Oliver Goldsmith
The Traveller_1
1764—English
*Bloom*

The Vicar of Wakefield_6
1766—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Deserted Village_2
1770—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

She Stoops to Conquer_6
1773—English
*Eliot* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Educated*

Ernst Gombrich
The Story of Art_1
1950—English
*Ward*

Witold Gombrowicz
Ferdydurke_1
1937—Polish
*Bloom*

Pornografia_1
1960—Polish
*Bloom*

Kosmos_1
1965—Polish
*Bloom*

Ivan Goncharov
Fregat Pallada_1
The Frigate Pallada
originally published in Otečestvennye Zapiski, Apr. 1855—Russian
*Bloom*

Oblomov_4
1859—Russian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Newman*

Edmond de Goncourt; Jules de Goncourt
Journal des Goncourt: Memoires de la Vie Litteraire_1
1887-96—French
*Rexroth*

Luis de Góngora
Las Soledades_1
written 1613—Spanish
*Bloom*

Lyndall Gordon
Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life_1
1994—English
*Smart*

Maxim Gorky
Forma Gordeev_1
The Man Who Was Afraid
1899—Russian
*Powys*

Na Dne_1
The Lower Depths
1902—Russian
*Ward*

Mat'_1
Mother
1907—Russian
*Graphic*

Detstvo_1
Childhood
originally published in Russkoe Slovo, 1914—Russian
*Bloom*

V Lûdâh_1
My Apprenticeship
1916—Russian
*Bloom*

Vospominaniya o Lev Nikoláevič Tolstój_1
Reminiscences of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
1919—Russian
*Bloom*

Knigu o Leonâd Andrée: Vospominanya_1
A Book About Leonid Andreyev: Memoirs
1922—Russian
*Bloom*

Moi Universitety_1
My Universities
originally published in Krasnaia Nov', Mar.-Jul. 1923—Russian
*Bloom*

Gottfried von Strassberg
Tristan_4
early Thirteenth Century—German
*Ward* *Magill* *Trinity* *Dirda*

Jeremias Gotthelf
Die Schwarze Spinne_1
originally published as part of Bilder und Sagen aus der Schweiz, 1842—German
*Bloom*

Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man_3
1981—English
*Great* *Recommended* *Educated*

Remy de Gourmont
Litanies de la Rose_1
1892—French
*Powys*

Une Nuit de Luxembourg_1
1912—French
*Powys*

Chaim Grade
Tsemakh Atlas_1
The Yeshiva
originally published in two volumes, 1967 and 1968—Yiddish
*Bloom*

Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows_3
1908—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

Antonio Gramsci
Quaderni del Carcere_1
Prison Notebooks
written 1929-35—Italian
*Utne*

Ulysses S Grant
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant_1
1885—English
*Invitation*

Günter Grass
Die Blechtrommel_6
The Tin Drum
1959—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Zane* *Recommended*

Der Butt_1
1977—German
*Bloom*

Robert Graves
Good-Bye to All That_3
1929; revised 1957—English
*Ward* *Fadiman* *Telegraph*

I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B C, Murdered and Deified A D 54_5
1934—English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Deposit*

King Jesus_1
1946—English
*Bloom*

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth_1
published in part serially, 1944-5, in Wales; in its entirety, 1948; revised and expanded 1952 and 1961—English
*Ward*

New Poems 1962_2
1962—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Man Does, Woman Is_2
1964—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Love Respelt_2
1965—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Seventeen Poems Missing From 'Love Respelt'_2
1966—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Colophon to 'Love Respelt'_2
1967—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Poems 1965-1968_2
1968—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Beyond Giving_2
1969—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Poems 1968-1970_2
1970—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

The Green-Sailed Vessel_2
1971—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Poems 1970-1972_2
1972—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Timeless Meeting_2
1973—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

At the Gate_2
1974—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Cecil Gray
The History of Music_1
1928—English
*Durant*

Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard_1
1751—English
*Newman*

Henry Green
Party Going_1
1939—English
*Bloom*

Loving_1
1945—English
*Bloom*

Nothing_1
1950—English
*Bloom*

John Green
The Fault in Our Stars_1
2012—English
*Deposit*

John Richard Green
A Short History of the English People_1
1874—English
*Lubbock*

Graham Greene
Stamboul Train_1
1932—English
*Fadiman*

Brighton Rock_2
1938—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

The Power and the Glory_3
1940—English
*Bloom* *Great* *Zane*

The Ministry of Fear_1
1943—English
*Fadiman*

The Heart of the Matter_2
1948—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Quiet American_1
1955—English
*Fadiman*

Susan Griffin
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her_1
1978—English
*Utne*

Franz Grillparzer
Medea_1
1821—German
*Ward*

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch, d.h. die Beschreibung des Lebens Eines Seltsamen Vaganten, Genannt Melchior Sternfels von Fuchsheim_1
1669—German
*Ward*

David Grossman
See Under: Love_1
1986—Hebrew
*Bloom*

George Grote
History of Greece; From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary With Alexander the Great_1
originally published in twelve volumes, 1846-56—English
*Lubbock*

Hugo Grotius
De Jure Belli ac Pacis_1
On the Law of War and Peace
1625—Latin
*Downs*

Luis Vélez de Guevara
El Diablo Cojuelo_1
1641—Spanish
*Ward*

Francesco Guicciardini
L'Historia d'Italia_1
1561—Italian
*Ward*

Nicolás Guillén
La Paloma de Vuelo Popular_1
Elegís
1958—Spanish
*Bloom*

Ricardo Güiraldes
Don Segundo Sombra_1
1926—Spanish
*Ward*

John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud_1
1949—English
*Kanigel*

Guō Xiàng (Kuo Hsiang)
Zhuāngzī Zhù_1
Commentary on Zhuāngzī
Third Century—Chinese
*World*

Peter Guralnick
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley_1
1994—English
*Smart*

Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley_1
1999—English
*Smart*

Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke_1
2005—English
*Smart*

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
Rasskazy Vel'zevula Svoemu Vnuku_1
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
1950—Russian
*SeymourSmith*

Gù Yánwǔ
Rìzhīlù_1
Seventeenth Century—Chinese
*World*

Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time_2
2003—English
*Guardian* *Smart*

A Spot of Bother_1
2006—English
*Smart*

Jessica Hagedorn
Dogeaters_1
1990—English
*Smart*

H Rider Haggard
King Soloman's Mines_1
1885—English
*Dirda*

She: A History of Adventure_1
originally published serially Oct. 1886-Jan. 1887 in the Graphic—English
*Dirda*

Edward Hayes
A Narrative of the Expedition of Sir Humfrey Gylberte in 1583 for the Planting of a Colony in America, as Given by Captain Edward Haies, a Distinguished Member of the Expedition_1
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
1589—English
*Eliot*

Hakuin Ekaku
Orategama_1
Eighteenth Century—Japanese
*Oriental*

Itsumadegusa_1
Wild Ivy
Eighteenth Century—Japanese
*Oriental*

Hala
Gaha Sattasai_1
early First Century—Sanskrit
*World*

Judah Halevi
Kitab al Khazari_1
The Kuzari
written ca. 1140—Arabic
*Ward*

Alex Haley; Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X_2
1965—English
*Learning* *Educated*

Donald Hall
The One Day_1
1988—English
*Bloom*

Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadani
Maqamat Badi az-Zaman al-Hamadhani_1
Ninth Century—Arabic
*Oriental*

Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
Jami al-Tawarikh_1
The Compendium of Chronicles
Universal History
early Fourteenth Century—Persian
*World*

Edith Hamilton
The Greek Way_1
1930—English
*Kanigel*

Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest_1
1929—English
*Dirda*

The Maltese Falcon_4
1930—English
*Dirda* *Telegraph* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi_1
ca. 1770 B C—Akkadian
*Downs*

Knut Hamsun
Sult_5
Hunger
published in part, 1888, in Ny Jord; in its entirety, 1890—Norwegian
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Norway* *Recommended*

Mysterier_1
Mysteries
1892—Norwegian
*Ward*

Pan_2
1894—Norwegian
*Ward* *Bloom*

Victoria. En Kjaerlighedshistorie_1
1898—Norwegian
*Ward*

Markens Grøde_1
Growth of the Soil
originally published in two volumes, 1917—Norwegian
*Recommended*

Peter Handke
Langsame Heimkehr_1
Slow Homecoming
1979—German
*Bloom*

Hán Fēizi (Han Fei-tzu)
Hán Fēizi_3
Third Century B C—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun_1
1959—English
*Recommended*

G H Hardy
A Mathematician's Apology_2
1940—English
*Adler* *Kanigel*

Thomas Hardy
Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School_1
originally anonymously published 1872—English
*Classics*

A Pair of Blue Eyes_1
originally published serially Sep. 1872-Jul. 1873—English
*Newman*

Far From the Madding Crowd_5
originally anonymously published serially Jan.-Dec. 1874 in Cornhill Magazine; revised 1895 and 1901—English
*Powys* *Bloom* *Guardian* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Return of the Native_8
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1878 in Belgravia, the Magazine of Fashion and Amusement—English
*Powys* *Classics* *Magill* *Bloom* *Campbell* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character_6
1886—English
*Powys* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Recommended* *Newman*

The Woodlanders_2
originally published serially May 1886-Apr. 1887 in Macmillan's Magazine—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

The Well-Beloved_1
1892; revised 1897—English
*Bloom*

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented_14
published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the Graphic—English
*Powys* *Hundred* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Jude the Obscure_8
originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Newman* *Recommended*

Wessex Poems and Other Verses_2
1898—English
*Powys* *Bloom*

Poems of the Past and Present_1
1901—English
*Bloom*

The Dynasts_3
originally published in three volumes: 1904, 1906, and 1908—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Time's Laughingstock and Other Verses_1
1909—English
*Bloom*

Satires of Circumstance: Lyrics and Reveries With Miscellaneous Pieces_1
1914—English
*Bloom*

Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses_1
1917—English
*Bloom*

Late Lyrics and Earlier With Many Other Verses_2
1922—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles_1
1925—English
*Bloom*

Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres_1
1925—English
*Bloom*

Al-Hariri of Basra
Maqamat al-Hariri_3
Eleventh Century—Arabic
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

Thomas Harris
Red Dragon_1
1981—English
*Telegraph*

Wilson Harris
Palace of the Peacock_1
1960—English
*Bloom*

The Far Journey of Oudin_1
1961—English
*Bloom*

The Whole Armour_1
1962—English
*Bloom*

The Secret Ladder_1
1963—English
*Bloom*

Harsha
Ratnavali_1
ca. early Seventh Century—Sanskrit
*Ward*

L P Hartley
The Go-Between_1
1953—English
*Smart*

William Harvey
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus_6
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
1628—Latin
*Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Taylor*

Exercitatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis_2
1649—Latin
*Read* *Adler*

Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium_2
1651—Latin
*Read* *Adler*

Jaroslav Hasek
Osudy Dobrého Vojáka Švejka za Svetové Války_4
The Good Soldier Švejk
1923—Czech
*Ward* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Deposit*

Wilhelm Hauff
Lichtenstein: Romantische Sage aus der Wuerttembergischen Geschichte_1
1826—German
*Ward*

Gerhart Hauptmann
Die Weber_2
1892—German
*Ward* *Trinity*

Hanneles Himmelfahrt_1
1893—German
*Ward*

Der Biberpelz_1
1893—German
*Ward*

Führmann Henschell_1
1898—German
*Ward*

Rose Bernd_1
1903—German
*Ward*

Der Narr in Christo Emanuel Quint_1
1910—German
*Powys*

Hamlet im Wittenberg_1
Hamlet in Wittenberg
1935—German
*Trinity*

Václav Havel
Zahradní Slavnost_1
The Garden Party
1963—Czech
*Ward*

Vyrozumění_1
The Memorandum
1965—Czech
*Ward*

Largo Desolato_1
1984—Czech
*Bloom*

Paul Hawken
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability_1
1993—English
*Utne*

John Hawkes
The Cannibal_1
1949—English
*Bloom*

The Lime Twig_1
1961—English
*Recommended*

Second Skin_1
1964—English
*Bloom*

Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes_3
1988; expanded 1996; abridged and edited version co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow entitled A Briefer History of Time published 2005—English
*Great* *Recommended* *Educated*

Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter_21
1850—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

The House of the Seven Gables_7
1851—English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Zulli* *Magill* *Campbell* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Blithedale Romance_3
1852—English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Newman*

The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni_4
1860—English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Bloom* *Newman*

Robert Hayden
A Ballad of Remembrance_2
1962—English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Words in the Mourning Time_2
1970—English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

The Night-Blooming Cereus_2
1972—English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Angle of Ascent_2
1975—English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

American Journal_2
1982—English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Friedrich von Hayek
The Road to Serfdom_1
1944—English
*SeymourSmith*

Shirley Hazzard
The Transit of Venus_1
1980—English
*Zane*

Ibn Hazm
Tawq al-Hamamah_2
The Ring of the Dove
written ca. 1022—Arabic
*Ward* *Oriental*

Seamus Heaney
Field Work_1
1979—English
*Bloom*

Station Island_1
1984—English
*Bloom*

Anthony Hecht
The Hard Hours_1
1967—English
*Bloom*

Millions of Strange Shadows_1
1977—English
*Bloom*

The Venetian Vespers_1
1979—English
*Bloom*

Sadegh Hedayat
Boof e-Kor_1
The Blind Owl
1937—Persian
*Ward*

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Die Phänomenologie des Geistes_4
Phenomenology of Spirit
1807—German
*Classics* *Read* *SeymourSmith* *Great*

Wissenschaft der Logik_1
1816—German
*Classics*

Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts_5
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
1820—German
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Trinity*

Vorlesungen Über die Ästhetik_1
1835; edited 1818, 1820-21, 1823, 1826, and 1828-29 lectures—German
*Classics*

Vorlesungen Über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichtem_6
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
1837; edited 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 lectures—German
*Invitation* *Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Trinity* *Van Doren*

Martin Heidegger
Sein und Zeit_1
1927—German
*Great*

Was Ist Metaphysik?_1
edited 1929 lecture—German
*Adler*

Heinrich Heine
Tragödien Nebst Einem Lyrischen Intermezzo_1
Tragedies With a Lyrical Intermezzo
1823—German
*Bloom*

Neue Gedichte_1
New Poems
1844—German
*Bloom*

Atta Troll: Ein Sommernachtstraumpan_1
1844—German
*Bloom*

Romanzero_1
1851—German
*Bloom*

Geständnisse_1
originally published as part of the first volume of Vermischte Schriften, 1854—German
*Powys*

Robert A Heinlen
The Door Into Summer_1
originally published serially Oct.-Dec. 1956 in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction—English
*Van Doren*

Stranger in a Strange Land_1
1961; alternate version published 1991—English
*Recommended*

Farnham's Freehold_1
originally published serially Jul.-Oct. 1964 in Worlds of If—English
*Van Doren*

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_1
originally published serially Dec. 1965-Apr. 1966 in Worlds of If—English
*Van Doren*

Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science_1
1958; edited 1955-56 lectures—English
*Adler*

Heliodorus of Emesa
Aethiopica_1
ca. Third Century—Greek
*Newman*

Joseph Heller
Catch-22_11
1961—English
*List* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Closing Time_1
1994—English
*Smart*

Hermann von Helmholtz
Über die Erhaltung der Kraft_1
1847—German
*Downs*

Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale_1
1983—English
*Van Doren*

A Soldier of the Great War_1
1991—English
*Van Doren*

Acharya Hemachandra
Tri-shashthi-shalaka-purusha-charitra_1
The Lives of Sixty-Three Great Men
includes appendix, Parishista-parvan (The Lives of the Jain Elders); Twelfth Century—Sanskrit
*World*

Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time_3
1924; expanded 1925—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard*

The Sun Also Rises_7
1926—English
*Good* *Bloom* *Campbell* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman* *Recommended*

A Farewell to Arms_6
1929—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Campbell* *Smart* *Newman* *Recommended*

Death in the Afternoon_1
1932—English
*Newman*

For Whom the Bell Tolls_7
1940—English
*Magill* *Campbell* *Zane* *Harvard* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Old Man and the Sea_8
1952—English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended*

A Moveable Feast_2
1964—English
*Harvard* *Newman*

The Garden of Eden_1
1986—English
*Bloom*

Frank Herbert
Dune_2
1965—English
*Guardian* *Recommended*

George Herbert
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations_4
1633—English
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Johann Gottfried Herder
Volkslieder Nebst Untermischten Anderen Stücken_1
Folk Songs
1778-79—German
*Trinity*

Vom Geiste der Ebräischen Poesie_1
On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry. An Instruction for Lovers of the Same and the Oldest History of the Human Spirit
1782-83—German
*Trinity*

Joseph Hergesheimer
Java Head_1
1918—English
*Kanigel*

Herodotus
Historiē_26
History
Fifth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *World* *Educated* *Recommended*

Robert Herrick
His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, Wherein (Amongst Other Things) He Sings the Birth of His Christ: and Sighes for His Saviors Suffering on the Crosse_1
1647—English
*Van Doren*

Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq._1
1648—English
*Van Doren*

Eugen Herrigel
Zen in the Art of Archery_1
1948—English
*Van Doren*

John Hersey
A Bell for Adano_2
1944—English
*Fadiman* *Kanigel*

Hiroshima_2
1946—English
*Fadiman* *Van Doren*

The Call_1
1985—English
*Fadiman*

Alexander Herzen
From the Other Shore_1
1850—Russian
*Bloom*

Byloe i Dumy_2
My Past and Thoughts
published in part serially 1855-9, 1861-2, and 1869 in Poliarnaia Zvezda (Pole Star); and 1857-67 in Kolokol—Russian
*Bloom* *Utne*

Hesiod
Erga kai Hēmerai_5
Works and Days
ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B C—Greek
*Downs* *Magill* *Bloom* *Utne* *Newman*

Theogonía_3
ca. Eighth-Seventh centuries B C—Greek
*Bloom* *Great* *Newman*

Herman Hesse
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend_1
1919; originally entitled, Demian: Die Geschichte Einer Jugend, published under the pseudonym, Emil Sinclair—German
*Recommended*

Siddhartha_3
1922—German
*Trinity* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Der Steppenwolf_4
1927—German
*Trinity* *Campbell* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Narziß und Goldmund_1
1930—German
*Bloom*

Das Glasperlenspiel_3
1943—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Georgette Heyer
Friday's Child_1
1944—English
*Dirda*

The Grand Sophy_1
1950—English
*Dirda*

Cotillion_1
1953—English
*Dirda*

Venetia_1
1958—English
*Dirda*

A Civil Contract_1
1961—English
*Dirda*

Carl Hiaasen
Tourist Season_1
1986—English
*Van Doren*

Strip Tease_1
1993—English
*Van Doren*

Lucky You_1
1997—English
*Van Doren*

Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley_1
1955—English
*Telegraph*

Hildegarde of Bingen
Scivias_1
ca. 1151-52—Latin
*Utne*

Geoffrey Hill
For the Unfallen_1
1959—English
*Bloom*

King Log_1
1968—English
*Bloom*

Mercian Hymns_1
1971—English
*Bloom*

Tenebrae_1
1978—English
*Bloom*

The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

James Hillman; Michael Ventura
We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy - And the World's Getting Worse_1
1992—English
*Utne*

James Hilton
Lost Horizon_1
1933—English
*Kanigel*

Hippocrates
Hippocratic Corpus_4
late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B C—Greek
*Read* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Van Doren*

Edward Hirsch
Earthly Measures_1
1994—English
*Bloom*

Henry Hitchings
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary_1
2005—English
*Smart*

Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf_3
originally published in two volumes, 1925 and 1926—German
*Downs* *Kanigel* *Educated*

Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker_1
1980—English
*Bloom*

Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil_16
1651—English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Deposit*

Elementorum Philosophiae Sectio Prima De Corpore_1
1655—Latin
*Classics*

Laura Z Hobson
Gentleman's Agreement_1
1947—English
*Kanigel*

David Hockney
David Hockney_1
1976—English
*List*

E T A Hoffmann
Die Elixiere des Teufels_2
1815—German
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Heinrich Hoffmann
Der Struwwelpeter_1
1845—German
*Graphic*

Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Elektra_2
1909—German
*Ward* *Bloom*

Der Rosenkavalier_1
1911—German
*Bloom*

Jedermann_1
1911—German
*Ward*

Die Frau Ohne Schatten_1
1919—German
*Bloom*

Der Schwierige_1
1921—German
*Bloom*

Das Salzburger Grosse Welttheater_1
1922—German
*Bloom*

Der Turm_1
1925; revised 1927—German
*Bloom*

Andreas Oder Vereinigten_1
1932—German
*Bloom*

Arabella_1
1933—German
*Bloom*

Douglas Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_1
1979—English
*Great*

James Hogg
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts and Other Evidence by the Editor_2
originally anonymously published 1824—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Vladimir Holan
Noc s Hamletem_1
A Night With Hamlet
1964—Czech
*Ward*

Friedrich Hölderlin
Hyperion Oder Der Eremit in Griechenland_1
originally published in two volumes, 1797 and 1799—German
*Ward*

John Hollander
Reflections on Espionage_1
1976—English
*Bloom*

Powers of Thirteen_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

Tessarae and Other Poems_1
1993—English
*Bloom*

Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_1
originally published serially 1857-58 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Baldwin*

Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey: A Biography_1
originally published in two volumes, 1967 and 1968—English
*Smart*

Homer
Iliad_33
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural version—Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translation—Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Hóng Shēng
Chángshēng Diàn_1
Ch'ang-sheng Tian; The Palace of Eternal Life
late Seventeenth Century—Chinese
*Ward*

Robert Hooke
Micrographica: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon_3
1665—English
*Downs* *Great* *Educated*

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Satirae_6
originally published in two volumes, 35 B C and 30 B C—Latin
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Downs* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*

Carmina_11
Odes
originally published in four volumes: first-third, 23 B C; fourth, 13 B C—Latin
*Baldwin* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Taylor* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*

Epodon_6
Epodes
30 B C—Latin
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Trinity* *Newman*

Epistularum_4
originally published in two volumes, 20 and 14 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Ars Poetica_5
ca. 10-8 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Trinity*

Horikawa
Sanuki no Suke Nikki_1
The Emperor Horikawa Diary
late Eleventh-early Twelfth centuries—Japanese
*Oriental*

Nick Hornby
High Fidelity_1
1995—English
*Harvard*

Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner_2
2003—English
*Guardian* *Recommended*

A E Housman
A Shropshire Lad_1
1896—English
*Bloom*

Last Poems_1
1922—English
*Bloom*

More Poems_1
1936—English
*Bloom*

Richard Howard
Untitled Subjects_1
1969—English
*Bloom*

Findings_1
1971—English
*Bloom*

William Dean Howells
A Modern Instance_1
1883—English
*Bloom*

The Rise of Silas Lapham_2
1885—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Huáng Zōngxī
Míngrú Xué Àn_1
The Scholarly Annals of Ming Confucians
Seventeenth Century—Chinese
*World*

William Henry Hudson
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest_1
1904—English
*Hundred*

Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues_1
1926—English
*Fadiman*

Fine Clothes to a Jew_1
1927—English
*Fadiman*

The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations_1
1931—English
*Fadiman*

The Dream Keeper_1
1932—English
*Fadiman*

A New Song_1
1938—English
*Fadiman*

I Wonder as I Wander_1
1940—English
*Bloom*

Shakespeare in Harlem_1
1942; illustrations by E McKnight Kauffer—English
*Fadiman*

Freedom's Plow_1
1943—English
*Fadiman*

Jim Crow's Last Stand_1
1943—English
*Fadiman*

Fields of Wonder_1
1947—English
*Fadiman*

One Way Ticket_1
1949—English
*Fadiman*

Montage of a Dream Deferred_1
1951—English
*Fadiman*

The Big Sea_1
1956—English
*Bloom*

Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz_1
1961—English
*Fadiman*

The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times_1
1967—English
*Fadiman*

Robert Hughes
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change_1
1980; book accompanying television series of the same name—English
*Deposit*

Ted Hughes
The Hawk in the Rain_1
1957—English
*Telegraph*

Lupercal_1
1960—English
*Telegraph*

Recklings_1
1966—English
*Telegraph*

Crow_1
originally published as Four Crow Poems, 1970; A Few Crows, 1970; Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970, expanded 1971; Crow Wakes, 1971; and as Hughes's portion of Poems: Ruth Fainlight, Ted Hughes, Alan Silitoe, 1971; only Collected Poems, 2003, includes singular version of this work—English
*Telegraph*

Prometheus on His Crag_1
1973; revised for inclusion in Moortown, 1979—English
*Telegraph*

Cave Birds_1
1975; expanded and revised 1978; revised for inclusion in Three Books, 1993—English
*Telegraph*

Season Songs_1
1976; published in part, 1968, as Five Autumn Songs for Children's Voices; and as part of Spring Summer Autumn Winter, 1973; revised 1985—English
*Telegraph*

Orts_1
1978; portions included as part of 'Earth-Numb' section of Moortown, 1979—English
*Telegraph*

Moortown Elegies_1
1978; included in Moortown, 1979; expanded and retitled Moortown Diary, 1989—English
*Telegraph*

Adam and the Sacred Nine_1
1979; revised for inclusion in Moortown, 1979—English
*Telegraph*

Remains of Elmet_1
1979; revised for inclusion in Three Books, 1993; revised and entitled Elmet, 1994—English
*Telegraph*

A Primer of Birds_1
1981; includes one poem from Crow Wakes, 1971—English
*Telegraph*

River_1
1983; revised for inclusion in Three Books, 1993—English
*Telegraph*

Flowers and Insects_1
1986—English
*Telegraph*

Wolfwatching_1
1989; includes two poems from A Primer of Birds—English
*Telegraph*

Capriccio_1
1990—English
*Telegraph*

Rain-Charm for the Duchy_1
1992—English
*Telegraph*

Birthday Letters_1
1998; published in part, 1995, in New Selected Poems 1957-1994—English
*Telegraph*

Howls and Whispers_1
1998
*Telegraph*

Victor Hugo
Hernani_2
1830—French
*Classics* *Ward*

Notre-Dame de Paris_8
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831—French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman* *Recommended*

Ruy Blas_1
1838—French
*Classics*

Les Contemplations_1
1856—French
*France*

Les Misérables_18
1862—French
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Guardian* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Recommended*

William Shakespeare_2
1864—French
*Classics* *Bloom*

Les Travailleurs de la Mer_3
1866—French
*Powys* *Classics* *Bloom*

La Légende des Siècles_2
originally published in three volumes: 1859, 1877, and 1883—French
*France* *Trinity*

La Fin de Satan_1
1886—French
*Bloom*

Dieu_1
1891—French
*Bloom*

Huìnéng
Liùzu Tánjīng_3
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
ca. Eighth-Thirteenth centuries—Chinese
*Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great*

Johan Huizinga
Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen_1
The Waning of the Middle Ages; The Autumn of the Middle Ages
1919—German
*Adler*

Ali Hujwiri
Kashf Al Mahjub_1
Revelation of the Veiled
Eleventh Century—Persian
*World*

Keri Hulme
The Bone People_1
1984—English
*Harvard*

Alexander von Humboldt
Kosmos. Entwurf Einer Physischen Weltbeschreibung_1
originally published in five volumes, 1845-62—German
*Downs*

David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects_3
originally published in three volumes: first-second, 1739; third, 1740—English
*Durant* *Read* *SeymourSmith*

Essays, Moral and Political_1
originally published in two volumes, 1741 and 1742; expanded 1748 with the inclusion of Three Essays, Moral and Political, published earlier the same year—English
*Read*

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding_10
1748—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren* *World*

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals_1
1751—English
*Classics*

The History of England_1
originally published in six volumes: fifth, 1754; sixth, 1756; third-fourth, 1759; first-second, 1761—English
*Lubbock*

My Own Life_1
1777—English
*Classics*

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion_1
originally anonymously published 1779—English
*Classics*

Zora Neale Hurston
Poker!_1
1931—English
*Graphic*

Their Eyes Were Watching God_7
1937—English
*Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Zane* *Harvard*

Dust Tracks on a Road_1
1942—English
*Utne*

James Hutton
Theory of the Earth_1
edited 1785 lectures; originally entitled Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land Upon the Globe, published 1788 in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; first book version, entitled Theory of the Earth; With Proofs and Illustrations, 1795—English
*Downs*

Aldous Huxley
Antic Hay_1
1923—English
*Bloom*

Point Counter Point_1
1928—English
*Bloom*

Brave New World_9
1932—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Graphic* *Recommended*

The Doors of Perception_2
1954—English
*Kanigel* *Graphic*

Julian Huxley
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis_1
1942—English
*Educated*

Christian Huygens
Traité de la Lumière_3
1690—French
*Read* *Adler* *Van Doren*

J K Huysmans
À Rebours_1
1884—French
*Dirda*

Là-Bas_1
1891—French
*Dirda*

Mary Hyde
The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi_1
1972—English
*Smart*

The Thrales of Streatham Park_1
1977—English
*Smart*

David Henry Hwang
M Butterfly_1
1988—English
*Trinity*

Henrik Ibsen
Brand_2
1866—Norwegian
*Ward* *Bloom*

Peer Gynt_6
1867—Norwegian
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Kejser og Galilæer_1
Emperor and Galilean
1873—Norwegian
*Bloom*

Samfundets Støtter_1
Pillars of Society
1877—Norwegian
*Classics* *Ward*

Et Dukkehjem_14
A Doll's House
1879—Norwegian
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Gengangere_5
Ghosts
1881—Norwegian
*Classics* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman* *Recommended*

En Folkefiende_5
An Enemy of the People
1882—Norwegian
*Classics* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Newman* *Recommended*

Vildanden_8
The Wild Duck
1885—Norwegian
*Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Newman*

Rosmersholm_2
1886—Norwegian
*Classics* *Ward*

Fruen fra Havet_2
The Lady From the Sea
1888—Norwegian
*Classics* *Bloom*

Hedda Gabler_10
1890—Norwegian
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended*

Bygmester Solness_5
The Master Builder
1892—Norwegian
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

John Gabriel Borkman_2
1896—Norwegian
*Classics* *Ward*

Når vi Døde Vågner_3
When We Dead Awaken
1899—Norwegian
*Classics* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Ihara Saikaku
Koshoku Gonin Onna_1
Five Women Who Loved Love
1685—Japanese
*Oriental*

Koshoku Ichidai Onna_2
The Life of an Amorous Woman
1686—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Nippon Eitaigura_1
The Japanese Family Storehouse
1688—Japanese
*Oriental*

Saikaku Oritome_1
Some Final Words of Advice
ca. 1690—Japanese
*Oriental*

Seken Munasanyo_1
This Scheming World
1692—Japanese
*Oriental*

Ilango Adigal
Silappathikaram_1
Second Century—Tamil
*Ward*

Ivan Illich
Tools for Conviviality_1
1973—English
*Utne*

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Tres Tristes Tigres_1
Three Trapped Tigers
1967—Spanish
*Bloom*

Vista del Amanecer en el Trópico_1
1974—Spanish
*Bloom*

Michael Innes
Operation Pax_1
The Paper Thunderbolt
1951—English
*List*

Eugène Ionesco
La Cantatrice Chauve_1
1951—French
*Bloom*

Le Leçon_1
1951—French
*Bloom*

Les Chaises_1
1952—French
*Bloom*

Victimes du Devoir_1
1953—French
*Bloom*

Amédée ou Comment s'en Débarrasser_1
1954—French
*Bloom*

Rhinocéros_2
1959—French
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Irenaeus
Against Heresies_1
written ca. 180—Greek
*Trinity*

John Irving
The World According to Garp_1
1978—English
*Fadiman*

The Hotel New Hampshire_1
1981—English
*Van Doren*

A Prayer for Owen Meaney_4
1989—English
*Guardian* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Washington Irving
A History of New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty_1
originally published under the pseudonym, Diedrich Knickerbocker, 1809—English
*Newman*

The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards_1
1832; revised 1851, retitled Tales of the Alhambra—English
*Newman*

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent._2
originally published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820; expanded 1848—English
*Baldwin* *Bloom*

Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life_1
2003—English
*Smart*

Christopher Isherwood
Mr. Norris Changes Trains_3
1936—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Goodbye to Berlin_4
1939—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Christopher and His Kind_1
1976—English
*Fadiman*

Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World_1
1986—English
*Smart*

The Remains of the Day_4
1989—English
*Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit*

Never Let Me Go_1
2005—English
*Smart*

Izumo Takeda; Shoraku Miyoshi; Senryu Namiki
Kanadehon Chushingura_2
The Treasure of Loyal Retainers
1748—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Izumi Shikibu
Izumi Shikibu Nikki_1
The Izumi Shikibu Diary
Eleventh Century—Japanese
*Oriental*

Edmond Jabès
Le Livre des Questions_1
The Book of Questions
originally published in seven volumes, 1963-73—French
*Bloom*

Harriet Ann Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself_1
published in part serially in the New-York Tribune; in its entirety, 1861—English
*Educated*

Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities_2
1961—English
*Utne* *Great*

Jacobus de Varagine
Legenda Aurea_1
The Golden Legend
written ca. 1264—Latin
*Ward*

Al-Jahiz
Kitab al-Hayawan_1
The Book of Animals
Ninth Century—Arabic
*Ward*

Kitab al-Bukhala_1
The Book of Misers
Ninth Century—Arabic
*Ward*

Kitab al-Bayan wa al-Tabyin_1
The Book of Eloquence and Demonstration
Ninth Century—Arabic
*Ward*

C L R James
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution_1
1938—English
*Bloom*

Henry James
The American_4
originally publishsed serially 1876-77 in the Atlantic Monthly; revised 1907—English
*Zulli* *Read* *Trinity* *Newman*

Daisy Miller_2
originally published serially Jun.-Jul. 1878 in Cornhill Magazine—English
*Campbell* *Recommended*

The Europeans_3
originally published serially Jul.-Oct. 1878 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Ward* *Trinity* *Newman*

Washington Square_3
originally published serially 1880 in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English
*Ward* *Smart* *Recommended*

The Portrait of a Lady_14
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Educated*

The Bostonians_4
originally published serially 1885-86 in the Century Magazine—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Princess Casamassima_2
originally published serially 1885-86 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

The Aspern Papers_2
originally published serially 1888 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Dirda* *Smart*

The Tragic Muse_1
originally published serially 1889-90 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Powys*

The Other House_1
originally published serially 1896 in the Illustrated London News—English
*Classics*

The Spoils of Poynton_1
originally entitled The Old Things, published serially 1896 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Newman*

What Maisie Knew_1
originally published serially 1897 in the Chap-Book and, revised, in the New Review—English
*Newman*

The Turn of the Screw_9
originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898—English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Awkward Age_1
originally published serially 1898-99 in Harper's Weekly—English
*Bloom*

The Wings of the Dove_3
1902—English
*Powys* *Bloom* *Newman*

The Ambassadors_13
originally published serially 1903 in the North American Review—English
*Powys* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Beast in the Jungle_4
originally published in The Better Sort, 1903—English
*Powys* *Adler* *Foundation* *Dirda*

The Golden Bowl_6
1904—English
*Powys* *Magill* *Bloom* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Newman*

The American Scene_1
published in part serially 1905-06 in the North American Review, Harper's Weekly, and the Fortnightly Review; in its entirety, 1907—English
*Dirda*

A Small Boy and Others_1
1913—English
*Dirda*

The Ivory Tower_1
1917—English
*Ward*

William James
The Principles of Psychology_6
1890—English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902_7
1902; edited lectures—English
*Classics* *Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Great* *Recommended*

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking_8
1907—English
*Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *World* *Recommended*

Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy_1
1911—English
*Classics*

Jami
Baharistan_1
Abode of Spring
Fifteenth Century—Persian
*Ward*

Sébastien Japrisot
Compartiment Tueurs_1
The 10:30 from Marseilles; The Sleeping-Car Murders
1962—French
*Van Doren*

Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles_1
A Very Long Engagement
1991—French
*Van Doren*

Randall Jarrell
Blood for a Stranger_1
1942—English
*Bloom*

Little Friend, Little Friend_1
1945—English
*Bloom*

Losses_1
1948—English
*Bloom*

The Seven-League Crutches_1
1951—English
*Bloom*

Pictures From an Institution_1
1954—English
*List*

The Woman at the Washington Zoo_1
1960—English
*Bloom*

The Lost World_1
1965—English
*Bloom*

Alfred Jarry
Ubu Roi_1
1896—French
*France*

Ubu Cocu, ou l'Archeopteryz_1
1943; written 1897—French
*Bloom*

Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphyscien_1
1911—French
*Bloom*

Jayadeva
Gita Govinda_3
Song of Govinda
ca. 1200—Sanskrit
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind _1
1976—English
*Van Doren*

James Jeans
Mysterious Universe_1
1930—English
*Hundred*

Thomas Jefferson
A Summary View of the Rights of British America_1
1774—English
*Downs*

Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America_4
The Declaration of Independence
1776—English
*Zulli* *Read* *Adler* *Van Doren*

Edward Jenner
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae_2
1798—English
*Eliot* *Downs*

Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox_1
1799—English
*Eliot*

A Continuation of Facts and Observations relative to the Variolae Vaccinae_1
1800—English
*Eliot*

Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs_2
originally published serially 1896 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Heat and Dust_1
1975—English
*Bloom*

Juan Ramón Jiménez
La Realidad Invisible (1917-1920, 1924): Libro Inedito_1
1983—Spanish
*Bloom*

John of Damascus
The Foundation of Knowledge_1
Eighth Century—Greek
*World*

John of Salisbury
Policraticus, Sive de Nugis Curialium et de Vestigiis Philosophorum_1
1159—Latin
*Downs*

Adam Johnson
The Orphan Master's Son_1
2012—English
*Recommended*

Charles Johnson
Middle Passage_1
1990—English
*Recommended*

Denis Johnson
Angels_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

Fiskadoro_1
1985—English
*Bloom*

Jesus' Son_2
1992—English
*Bloom* *Zane*

Samuel Johnson
London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal_1
originally anonymously published 1738—English
*Newman*

The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated_3
1749—English
*Read* *Dirda* *Newman*

A Dictionary of the English Language_6
1755—English
*Downs* *Read* *Ward* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Newman*

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale_7
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1759—English
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Smart* *Recommended*

Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets_6
The Lives of the Poets
published in part, 1744, as An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Strange, Son of the Earl Rivers; in its entirety, in ten volumes: first-fifth, 1779; sixth-tenth, as part of the anthology, The Works of the English Poets, 1781; complete work published separately 1781 in six volumes, retitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works—English
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Dirda* *Newman* *Recommended*

David Jones
In Parenthesis_2
1937—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

The Anathemata_2
1952—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Edward P Jones
The Known World_1
2003—English
*Recommended*

James Jones
From Here to Eternity_1
1951—English
*Fadiman*

Ben Jonson
Every Man in His Humour_1
1598—English
*Classics*

Sejanus His Fall_1
1603—English
*Classics*

Volpone_6
1606—English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Newman* *Recommended*

Epicoene, or The Silent Woman_1
1609—English
*Classics*

The Alchemist_8
1610—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Newman* *Recommended*

Bartholomew Fayre_5
1614—English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Newman* *Recommended*

Timber: or, Discoveries; Made Upon Men and Matter: As They Have Flow'd Out of His Daily Readings; or Had Their Refluxe to His Peculiar Notion of the Times_1
1641—English
*Classics*

James Joyce
Dubliners_10
1914—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Newman* *Recommended*

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_14
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the Egoist—English
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Deposit* *Newman* *Recommended*

Exiles_1
1918—English
*Classics*

Ulysses_20
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English
*Classics* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Finnegans Wake_5
1939—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman* *Recommended*

San Juan de la Cruz (Saint John of the Cross)
La Noche Oscura del Alma_2
Dark Night of the Soul
written 1578-79 and 1584-85—Spanish
*France* *Ward*

Cántico Espiritual_1
written 1577-84—Spanish
*Ward*

Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love_1
written ca. 1395—English
*Trinity*

Carl Jung
Psychologische Typen_1
Psychological Types
1921—German
*SeymourSmith*

Die Beziehungen Zwischen dem Ich und dem Unbewußten_1
The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious
1928; English translation included in Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, 1953—German
*Magill*

Über die Psychologie des Unbewußten_1
On the Psychology of the Unconscious
1943; English translation included in Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, 1953—German
*Magill*

Ernst Jünger
In Stahlgewittern_2
1920; revised through 1978 edition—German
*Trinity* *Dirda*

Auf den Marmorklippen_1
On the Marble Cliffs
1942—German
*Trinity*

Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth_1
1961—English
*Harvard*

Flavius Anicius Justinianus (Justinian I)
Corpus Juris Civilis_1
529-34—Latin
*Downs*

Justin Martyr
The First Apology_1
Second Century—Greek
*Trinity*

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Satires_4
late First-early Second centuries; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Rolfe Humphries's English translation—Latin
*Downs* *Ward* *Bloom* *Smart*

Franz Kafka
Die Verwandlung_14
The Metamorphosis
originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Stanley Corngold's English translation—German
*Ward* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Recommended*

In der Strafkolonie_5
In the Penal Colony
1919—German
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail* *Smart*

Der Prozess_16
The Trial
1925—German
*France* *Read* *List* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Das Schloss_9
The Castle
1926—German
*Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Der Verschollene_2
Amerika
published in part, 1913, as 'Der Heizer'; in its entirety, 1927—German
*Bloom* *Newman*

Die Zürauer Aphorismen_1
The Zürau Aphorisms
1931—German
*Bloom*

Kalidasa
Abhijnanasakuntalam_6
The Recognition of Sakuntala
ca. Fifth Century—Sanskrit
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Norway* *World*

Meghaduta_4
The Cloud Messenger
ca. Fifth Century—Sanskrit
*Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great* *World*

Kumarasambhava_1
The Birth of Kumara
ca. Fifth Century—Sanskrit
*World*

Wassily Kandinsky
Über das Geistige in der Kunst: Insbesondere in der Malerei_1
1912—German
*Ward*

Yoram Kaniuk
His Daughter_1
1987—Hebrew
*Bloom*

Immanuel Kant
Kritik der Reinen Vernunft_11
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787—German
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *World* *Recommended*

Prolegomena zu Einer Jeden Künftigen Metaphysic, die als Wissenschaft Wird Auftreten Können_1
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
1783—German
*Classics*

Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten_4
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
1785; revised 1786—German
*Eliot* *Read* *Adler* *Great*

Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft_3
Critique of Practical Reason
1788—German
*Classics* *Read* *Adler*

Kritik der Urteilskraft_3
Critique of Judgment
1790—German
*Classics* *Read* *Adler*

Die Religion Innerhalb der Grenzen der Bloßen Vernunft_1
Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone
1793—German
*Classics*

Zum Ewigen Frieden. Ein Philosophischer Entwurf_3
Perpetual Peace
1795; expanded 1796—German
*Downs* *Read* *Trinity*

Lectures on Ethics_1
transcriptions of lectures delivered 1775-80—German
*Classics*

Kautilya (Chanakya) (Vishnu Gupta)
Arthashastra_2
Fourth-Third centuries B C—Sanskrit
*Ward* *World*

Kaviraja Suri
Raghavapandaviya_1
Twelfth Century—Sanskrit
*World*

Kawabata Yasunari
Yukiguni_4
Snow Country
published in part serially 1935-47; in its entirety, 1948; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edward G Seidensticker's English translation—Japanese
*Ward* *Fadiman* *Great* *Smart*

Meijin_1
The Master of Go
originally published serially 1951; later revised—Japanese
*Fadiman*

Yama no Oto_1
The Sound of the Mountain
1954—Japanese
*Norway*

Koto_1
The Old Capital
1962—Japanese
*Recommended*

Utsukushisa to Kanashimi To_1
Beauty and Sadness
1964—Japanese
*Fadiman*

Nikos Kazantzakis
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel_1
1938—Greek
*Bloom*

Zorba the Greek_3
1946—Greek
*Fadiman* *Norway* *Recommended*

The Greek Passion_1
1954; U K edition entitled Christ Recrucified—Greek
*Bloom*

The Last Temptation of Christ_1
1955—Greek
*Recommended*

John Keats
Endymion_2
1818—English
*Ward* *Newman*

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems_1
1820—English
*Ward*

John Keble
The Christian Year_1
1827—English
*Lubbock*

Weldon Kees
The Last Man_1
1943—English
*Bloom*

The Fall of the Magicians_1
1947—English
*Bloom*

Poems, 1947-1954_1
1954—English
*Bloom*

Gottfried Keller
Der Grüne Heinrich_1
1855; revised 1879—German
*Bloom*

Das Fähnlein der Sieben Aufrechten_1
originally published in Deutschen Volkskalender, 1860—German
*Eliot*

Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe_1
written ca. 1430-38—English
*Educated*

Thomas á Kempis
De Imitatione Christi_4
The Imitation of Christ
written ca. 1418-27—Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Trinity* *Great*

Thomas Keneally
Schindler's Ark_2
1982; some later editions entitled Schindler's List—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

The Playmaker_1
1987—English
*Bloom*

William Kennedy
Legs_1
1975—English
*Bloom*

Billy Phelan's Greatest Game_1
1978—English
*Bloom*

Ironweed_2
1983—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Quinn's Book_1
1988—English
*Bloom*

Very Old Bones_1
1992—English
*Bloom*

The Flaming Corsage_1
1996—English
*Bloom*

Roscoe_1
2002—English
*Bloom*

Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes _1
2012—English
*Bloom*

Johannes Kepler
Astronomia Nova_2
1609—Latin
*Downs* *Great*

Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae_2
originally published in three volumes: 1617, 1620, and 1621—Latin
*Read* *Van Doren*

Harmonices Mundi_3
The Harmony of the World
1619—Latin
*Downs* *Read* *SeymourSmith*

Frank Kermode
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction_1
1967; edited 1965 lectures entitled The Long Perspectives—English
*Bloom*

Jack Kerouac
On the Road_5
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, 2007—English
*Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_5
1962—English
*Learning* *Campbell* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Sometimes a Great Notion_2
1964—English
*Harvard* *Recommended*

Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon_1
short story published April 1959 in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; novel published 1966—English
*Recommended*

John Maynard Keynes
The Economic Consequences of the Peace_1
1919—English
*Downs*

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money_3
1936—English
*Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor*

Ibn Khaldun
Kitab al-Ibar_2
Fourteenth Century—Arabic
*Ward* *World*

Muqaddimah_3
Fourteenth Century; originally written as the preface to Kitab al-Ibar—Arabic
*Ward* *Oriental* *Great*

Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam_8
ca. Eleventh-Twelfth centuries; compiled by Edward FitzGerald in five editions, 1859, 1868, 1872, 1879, and 1889—Persian
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Oriental* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Great* *Recommended*

Amir Khusrow
Ghurratul-Kamaal_1
The Prime of Perfection
Thirteenth-early Fourteenth centuries—Persian
*World*

Noh Sepehr_1
Mathnavi of the Nine Skies
Thirteenth-early Fourteenth centuries—Persian
*World*

Ishqia_1
Ashiqe; Mathnavi Duval Rani-Khizr Khan; Romance of Duval Rani and Khizr Khan
Thirteenth-early Fourteenth centuries—Persian
*World*

Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Would Cure the World_1
2003—English
*Harvard*

Alexander Kielland
Skipper Worse_1
1882—Norwegian
*Eliot*

Sǿren Kierkegaard
Enten - Eller_2
Either/ Or
originally published under the pseudonym, Victor Eremita, 1843—Danish
*Ward* *SeymourSmith*

Stadier på Livets Vej_1
Stages on Life's Way
1845—Danish
*Ward*

Frygt og Baeven_4
Fear and Trembling
originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843—Danish
*Adler* *Trinity* *Great* *Recommended*

Sygdommen til Dǿden_2
The Sickness Unto Death
originally published under the pseudonym, Anti-Climacus, 1849—Danish
*Magill* *Recommended*

Jamaica Kincaid
A Small Place_1
1988—English
*Utne*

Stephen King
The Stand_1
1978—English
*Zane*

It_1
1986—English
*Deposit*

Charles Kingsley
Westward Ho!_1
1855—English
*Lubbock*

Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts_1
1976—English
*Recommended*

Ki no Tsurayuki
Tosa Nikki_1
originally anonymously published; written Tenth Century—Japanese
*Oriental*

Thomas Kinsella
Peppercanister Poems_1
1979; originally published as Butcher's Dozen, 1972; A Selected Life, 1972; Vertical Man, 1973; The Good Fight: A Poem for the Tenth Anniversary of the Death of John F Kennedy, 1973; One, 1974; A Technical Supplement, 1976; Song of the Night and Other Poems, 1978; The Messenger, 1978—English
*Bloom*

Rudyard Kipling
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses_1
1886—English
*Bloom*

Soldiers Three: A Collection of Stories Setting Forth Certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris and John Learoyd_1
1888—English
*Hundred*

The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale Without a Plot_1
1888—English
*Hundred*

In Black and White_1
1888—English
*Hundred*

Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses_1
1892—English
*Bloom*

The Jungle Book_4
1894—English
*Powys* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Second Jungle Book_3
1895—English
*Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Seven Seas_1
1896—English
*Bloom*

Captains Courageous_1
originally published serially 1896-97 in McClure's—English
*Recommended*

Kim_6
originally published serially Dec. 1900-Oct. 1901 in McClure's and Jan. 1901-Oct. 1901 in Cassell's—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Five Nations_1
1903—English
*Bloom*

The Puck of Pock's Hill_1
1906—English
*Bloom*

Danilo Kiš
Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča_1
1976—Serbo-Croatian
*Bloom*

Paul Klee
Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre_1
originally published in two volumes: Das Bildnerische Denken, 1956; Unendliche Naturgeschichte, 1964—German
*Ward*

Heinrich von Kleist
Amphitryon_2
1807—German
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Robert Guiskard, Herzog der Normänner_1
1808—German
*Bloom*

Penthesilea_3
1808—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Der Zerbrochne Krug_2
published and performed in part, 1808; published in its entirety, 1811—German
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe_1
Kathie of Heilbronn or The Trial by Fire
1810—German
*Trinity*

Michael Kohlhaas_1
1810—German
*Trinity*

Prinz Friedrich von Homburg Oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin_2
1821—German
*Ward* *Bloom*

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Der Messias_1
The Messiah
originally published serially 1748-73 in Bremer Beiträge—German
*Trinity*

Pierre Klossowski
Roberte ce Soir_1
1954—French
*Bloom*

La Révocation de l'Édit de Nantes_1
1959—French
*Bloom*

Le Souffleur_1
1960—French
*Bloom*

Le Baphomet_1
1965—French
*Bloom*

George Wilson Knight
The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy_1
1930—English
*Bloom*

The Burning Oracle: Studies in the Action of Poetry_1
1939—English
*Bloom*

John Knowles
A Separate Peace_2
1959—English
*Campbell* *Recommended*

Kenneth Koch
Seasons on Earth_1
1987—English
*Bloom*

Arthur Koestler
Sonnenfinsternis_1
Darkness at Noon
1941—German
*Great*

Anna Komnene
Alexiad_1
written ca. 1148—Greek
*Ward*

Karl Kraus
Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit_1
originally published serially 1919 in Fackel—German
*Bloom*

Paul de Kruif
Microbe Hunters_1
1926—English
*Kanigel*

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
On Death and Dying_1
1969—English
*Recommended*

Thomas S Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_5
1962; expanded 1970—English
*Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Great*

Kukai
Jujushinron_2
Treatise on the Ten Stages of the Development of the Mind
830—Japanese
*Ward* *World*

Milan Kundera
Nesnesitelná Lehkost Bytí_3
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1984; originally published in its French translation, L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'Être; the original Czech, 1985—Czech
*Bloom* *Harvard* *Recommended*

Kǒng Yǐngdá (K'ung Ying-ta)
Wujīng Zhèngyì_1
Correct Meanings of the Five Classics
653—Chinese
*World*

Reiner Kunze
Sensible Wege_1
1969—German
*Ward*

Der Löwe Leopold, Fast Märchen, Fast Geschichten_1
1970—German
*Ward*

Zimmerlautstärke_1
1972—German
*Ward*

Die Wunderbaren Jahre_1
The Lovely Years
1976—German
*Ward*

Alexander Kuprin
Poedinok_1
The Duel
1905—Russian
*Ward*

Tony Kushner
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes_2
originally presented in two parts: Millennium Approaches, 1990; and Perestroika, 1992—English
*Bloom* *Utne*

Mikhail Kuzmin
Alexandrian Songs_1
originally published serially 1906 in Vesy—Russian
*Bloom*

Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo Is Mad Again_2
ca. 1587—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Choderlos de Laclos
Les Liaisons Dangereuses_6
The Dangerous Liaisons
1782—French
*France* *Rexroth* *Bloom* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic*

Pär Lagerkvist
Barrabas_2
1950—Swedish
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Aftonland_1
Evening Land
1953—Swedish
*Ward*

Diogenes Laërtius
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers_3
Third Century—Greek
*Durant* *Downs* *World*

Alphonse de Lamartine
Méditations Poétiques_1
1820—French
*Bloom*

Charles Lamb
Essays of Elia_4
1823; originally published serially 1820-25 in the London Magazine—English
*Baldwin* *Powys* *Hundred* *Ward*

Last Essays of Elia_4
1833; originally published serially 1820-25 in the London Magazine—English
*Baldwin* *Powys* *Hundred* *Ward*

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Il Gattopardo_5
The Leopard
1958; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Archibald Colquhoun's English translation—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Zane* *Smart* *Recommended*

I Racconti_1
1961—Italian
*Ward*

Walter Savage Landor
Imaginary Conversations_1
originally published in five volumes: first and second, 1824; third, 1828; fourth and fifth, 1829—English
*Bloom*

Stephen Langton et al.
Magna Carta Libertatum_1
Magna Carta
1215—Latin
*Downs*

Lánlíng Xiàoxiào Shēng
Jīn Píng Méi_3
The Golden Lotus; The Plum in the Golden Vase
1610; author's identity unknown, given name is a pseudonym—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman*

Lǎo Shě
Luòtuo Xiángzi_1
Rickshaw Boy; Camel Xiangzi
originally published serially 1937 in Yuzhoufeng—Chinese
*Fadiman*

Lǎozǐ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
Dàodéjīng_11
Tao te Ching
ca. Sixth Century B C—Chinese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Dirda* *Great* *World* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Pierre-Simon Laplace
Mécanique Céleste_1
originally published in five volumes, 1799-1825—French
*Downs*

Viana La Place
Verdura: Vegetables Italian Style_1
1991—English
*Utne*

Philip Larkin
The North Ship_2
1945; expanded 1966 by one poem—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

XX Poems_2
1951—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Less Deceived_2
1955—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Whitsun Weddings_2
1964—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

High Windows_2
1974—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Comte de Lautreamont
Les Chants de Maldoror_2
The Songs of Maldoror
1869—French
*France* *Newman*

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un Ordre Nouveau et d'Après les Découvertes Modernes_4
1789—French
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great*

Brother Lawrence
The Practice of the Presence of God_1
Seventeenth Century; compiled by Joseph de Beaufort—English
*Trinity*

D H Lawrence
Sons and Lovers_9
1913—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended*

Love Poems and Others_1
1913—English
*Bloom*

The Rainbow_2
1915—English
*Bloom* *Newman*

Amores_1
1916—English
*Bloom*

Look! We Have Come Through!_1
1917—English
*Bloom*

New Poems_1
1918—English
*Bloom*

Bay_1
1919—English
*Bloom*

Women in Love_5
1920—English
*Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman* *Recommended*

Tortoises_1
1921—English
*Bloom*

Aaron's Rod_1
1922—English
*Newman*

Birds, Beasts and Flowers_1
1923—English
*Bloom*

Studies in Classic American Literature_1
1923; 13 essays, eight of which published 1918-9 in the English Review, one in the Nation and Athenaeum, Jul. 1921; later editions omit 'The Two Principles'—English
*Bloom*

Kangaroo_1
1923—English
*Newman*

The Plumed Serpent_1
1926—English
*Newman*

Lady Chatterley's Lover_4
abridged version, 1928; complete work, 1960—English
*Taylor* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

The Escaped Cock_1
1929—English
*Newman*

Pansies_1
1929—English
*Bloom*

Last Poems_1
1932—English
*Bloom*

T E Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom_3
1922—English
*France* *Zane* *Telegraph*

Camara Laye
L'Enfant Noir_1
1953—French
*Ward*

Le Regard du Roi_1
1954—French
*Ward*

Halldór Laxness
Sjálfstætt Fólk_2
Independent People
originally published in two volumes, 1934 and 1935—Icelandic
*Norway* *Zane*

Edward Lear
A Book of Nonsense_1
originally anonymously published 1846; revisd 1861—English
*Bloom*

Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets_1
1870—English
*Bloom*

More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes Botany &c._1
1872—English
*Bloom*

Laughable Lyrics. A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, &c._1
1877—English
*Bloom*

Queery Leery Nonsense_1
1911—English
*Bloom*

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird_5
1960—English
*Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Recommended*

Hermione Lee
Virginia Woolf_1
1996—English
*Smart*

Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
Letters to the Royal Society_1
written 1673-1723; French translation published in part in Philosophical Transactions and Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris—Dutch
*Downs*

Sheridan Le Fanu
The House by the Church-Yard_1
1863—English
*Dirda*

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram Haugh_1
originally published serially 1864 in Dublin University Magazine—English
*Dirda*

Carmilla_1
originally published as part of In a Glass Darkly, 1872—English
*Dirda*

Peter Lefcourt
The Deal_1
1991—English
*Smart*

Ursula K Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea_3
1968—English
*Harvard* *Deposit* *Recommended*

The Left Hand of Darkness_3
1969—English
*Bloom* *Harvard* *Recommended*

The Tombs of Atuan_2
1971—English
*Deposit* *Recommended*

The Farthest Shore_2
1972—English
*Deposit* *Recommended*

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia_1
1974—English
*Utne*

Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea_1
1990—English
*Deposit*

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Discours de Métaphysique_1
1686—French
*Read*

La Monadologie_2
1714—French
*Classics* *Read*

Nouveaux Essais sur l'Entendement Humain_2
1765—French
*Classics* *Read*

Eino Leino
Helkavirsiä_1
originally published in two volumes, 1903 and 1916—Finnish
*Ward*

Michel Leiris
L'Âge d'Homme_1
1939—French
*Bloom*

Stanislaw Lem
Śledztwo_1
The Investigation
1959—Polish
*Bloom*

Solaris_1
1961—Polish
*Bloom*

Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time_2
1962—English
*Harvard* *Recommended*

Vladimir Lenin
Čto Delat'?_1
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement
1902—Russian
*Ward*

Gosudarstvo i Revolûciâ_2
The State and Revolution
1917—Russian
*Read* *Downs*

Charlotte Lenox
The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella_1
1752—English
*Smart*

Donna Leon
Death at Le Fenice_1
1992—English
*Van Doren*

Death in a Strange Country_1
1993—English
*Van Doren*

Acqua Alta_1
1996—English
*Van Doren*

Uniform Justice_1
2003—English
*Van Doren*

Doctored Evidence_1
2004—English
*Van Doren*

Suffer the Little Children_1
2007—English
*Van Doren*

Elmore Leonard
Killshot_1
1989—English
*Telegraph*

Giacomo Leopardi
Operette Morali_2
1827—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom*

Canti_1
1835—Italian
*Ward*

Pensieri di Varia Filosofia e Bella Letteratura_1
Zibaldone
1898—Italian
*Ward*

Mikhail Lermontov
Geroj Našego Vremeni_2
A Hero of Our Time
1840; revised 1841—Russian
*Bloom* *Newman*

Gaston Leroux
Le Fantôme de l'Opéra_1
The Phantom of the Opera
originally published serially 1909-10—French
*Recommended*

Nikolai Leskov
Ledi Makbet Mcenskogo Uezda_1
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
1865—Russian
*Ward*

Zayachii Remiz_1
The Rabbit Warren; The March Hare
1895—Russian
*Ward*

Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook_2
1962—English
*Bloom* *Norway*

The Good Terrorist_1
1985—English
*Recommended*

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Laokoon Oder Über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie_3
Laocoon: or, The limits of Poetry and Painting
1766—German
*Invitation* *Classics* *Bloom*

Minna von Barnhelm Oder das Soldatenglück_2
1767—German
*Eliot* *Classics*

Emilia Galotti_1
1772—German
*Ward*

Nathan der Weise_3
1779—German
*Classics* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts_2
1780—German
*Eliot* *Classics*

Primo Levi
Se Questo è un Uomo_3
Survival in Auschwitz; If This Is a Man
1947—Italian
*Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren*

Il Sistema Periodico_2
1975—Italian
*Bloom* *Van Doren*

L'Osteria di Brema_1
Shema
1975—Italian
*Bloom*

Se Non Ora, Quando?_2
1982—Italian
*Bloom* *Van Doren*

Ad Ora Certa_1
1984—Italian
*Bloom*

Meyer Levin
Compulsion_1
1956—English
*Smart*

Philip Levine
Pili's Wall_1
1971—English
*Bloom*

Claude Lévi-Strauss
Tristes Tropiques_2
1955—French
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Le Cru et la Cuit_1
The Raw and the Cooked
1964; first of four volumes of Mythologiques—French
*Fadiman*

George Henry Lewes
The Biographical History of Philosophy_1
1848; later revised—English
*Lubbock*

C S Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet_1
1938—English
*Van Doren*

The Screwtape Letters_2
1942—English
*Trinity* *Zane*

Perelandra_1
1943—English
*Van Doren*

That Hideous Strength_1
1945—English
*Van Doren*

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_4
1950—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Recommended*

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia_3
1951—English
*Guardian* *Harvard* *Recommended*

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_3
1952—English
*Guardian* *Harvard* *Recommended*

The Silver Chair_3
1953—English
*Guardian* *Harvard* *Recommended*

The Horse and His Boy_3
1954—English
*Guardian* *Harvard* *Recommended*

The Magician's Nephew_3
1955—English
*Guardian* *Harvard* *Recommended*

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life_1
1955—English
*Educated*

The Last Battle_3
1956—English
*Guardian* *Harvard* *Recommended*

David Levering Lewis
W E B DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919_1
1994—English
*Smart*

W E B DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963_1
2001—English
*Smart*

R W B Lewis
The Jameses: A Family Narrative_1
1991—English
*Smart*

Sinclair Lewis
Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott_2
1920—English
*Magill* *Recommended*

Babbitt_5
1922—English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Arrowsmith_3
1925—English
*Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Recommended*

Elmer Gantry_1
1926—English
*Fadiman*

Dodsworth_1
1929—English
*Fadiman*

It Can't Happen Here_1
1935—English
*Bloom*

Alan Lightman
Einstein's Dreams_1
1992—English
*Graphic*

Lǐ Hè (Li Ho)
Sānjiā Píngzhù Lǐ Chángjí Gēshī_1
San-chia Li Ch'ang-chi Ko-shih
edited by Wáng Qí; early Ninth Century—Chinese
*Ward*

José Lezama Lima
Paradiso_1
1966—Spanish
*Bloom*

Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address_2
1865—English
*Zulli* *Van Doren*

Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Långstrump_1
Pippi Longstocking
1945—Swedish
*Norway*

David Lindsay
A Voyage to Arcturus_1
1920—English
*Bloom*

Vachel Lindsay
Collected Poems_1
1923; revised and expanded 1925; originally published in varied periodicals: the Metropolitan; Poetry; the Independent; Tuck's Magazine; Reedy's Mirror; the Little Review; the American Magazine; the Outlook; the Chicago Herald; the Masses; the Red Cross Magazine; the Bookman; the Seven Arts; Forum; the Chicago Daily News; Contemporary Verse; the New Republic; the New York Sun; Others; Youth; the Yale Review; or anthologies—English
*Bloom*

Línjì Yìxuán (Lin-chi l-Hsüan)
Línjì Yǔlù_1
Record of Linj
ca. Ninth-Twelfth centuries—Chinese
*Oriental*

Carlos Linneaus
Systema Naturae_2
1735; revised through twelfth edition, 1766-8—Latin
*Downs* *Great*

Lín Yǔtáng
The Importance of Living_1
Shēnghuó de Yishù
1937—English
*Ward*

Clarice Lispector
A Hora da Estrela_1
1977—Portuguese
*Utne*

Emile Littré
Le Dictionnaire de la Langue Française_1
1863-72—French
*France*

Liú Yìqìng (Liu I-ching)
Shìshuì Xīnyǔ_1
Shih-shuo Hsin-yu; A New Account of the Tales of the World
Fifth Century—Chinese
*World*

Livy (Titus Livius)
Ab Urbe Condita Libri_6
History of Rome
First Century B C—Latin
*Lubbock* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity* *World*

Li Ying-Chang
Tàishàng Gǎnyìng Piān_1
T'ai-shang Kan-ying P'ien; Lao Tse's Treatise on the Response of the Tao; Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution
Twelfth Century—Chinese
*Ward*

Mario Vargas Llosa
La Guerra del Fin del Mundo_1
1981—Spanish
*Bloom*

John Locke
Epistola de Tolerantia_4
1689; English version entitled A Letter Concerning Toleration published the same year—Latin
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity*

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_4
originally anonymously published 1689—English
*Classics* *Downs* *Trinity* *World*

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_9
1689—English
*Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Van Doren* *Reynolds*

Some Thoughts Concerning Education_3
1693—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read*

Of the Conduct of the Understanding_1
originally published as part of the Posthumous Works of John Locke, 1706—English
*Lubbock*

David Lodge
Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses_2
1975—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*

Small World: An Academic Romance_2
1984—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*

Jack London
The Call of the Wild_3
originally published serially 1903 in the Saturday Evening Post—English
*Campbell* *Deposit* *Recommended*

The Sea-Wolf_1
1904—English
*Recommended*

John Barleycorn_1
1913—English
*Graphic*

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha_2
1855—English
*Kanigel* *Recommended*

Longinus
Perì Hýpsous_2
On the Sublime
ca. First Century—Greek
*Ward* *Bloom*

Longus
Daphnis kai Chloē_2
Daphnis and Chloe
Second Century—Greek
*Magill* *Newman*

Guillaume de Lorris; Jean de Meun
Roman de la Rose_2
written in two parts, the first by Lorris, the second by Muen, ca. 1230 and 1275, respectively
*Ward* *Newman*

H P Lovecraft
The Shadow Out of Time_1
originally published Jun. 1936 in Astounding Stories—English
*Dirda*

The Shadow Over Innsmouth_1
1936—English
*Dirda*

At the Mountains of Madness_1
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1936 in Astounding Stories—English
*Dirda*

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward_1
published in part serially May-Jul. 1941 in Weird Tales; in its entirety in Beyond the Wall of Sleep, 1943—English
*Dirda*

James Lovelock
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth_1
1979—English
*Educated*

James Russell Lowell
On Democracy_1
1884; edited lecture—English
*Eliot*

Robert Lowell
Life Studies_1
1959—English
*Ward*

For the Union Dead_1
1964—English
*Recommended*

Near the Ocean_1
1967—English
*Ward*

Notebook 1967-68_1
1969; revised and expanded as Notebook, 1970—English
*Ward*

History_1
1973—English
*Ward*

For Lizzie and Harriet_1
1973—English
*Ward*

The Dolphin_1
1973—English
*Ward*

Day by Day_1
1977—English
*Ward*

John Livingston Lowes
The Road to Xanadu_1
1966—English
*Ward*

Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcano_2
1947—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Lois Lowry
The Giver_1
1993—English
*Recommended*

Lucan
De Bello Civili_3
Pharsalia
written 61-65—Latin
*Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Lucian
Alexander the False Prophet_1
Second Century—Greek
*Classics*

Gallus_1
The Dream or The Cock
Second Century—Greek
*Classics*

Icaromenippus_1
Second Century—Greek
*Classics*

Philopseudes Sive Incredulus_1
The Lover of Lies or The Doubter
Second Century—Greek
*Classics*

Prometheus Es in Verbis_1
A Literary Prometheus
Second Century—Greek
*Classics*

Verae Historiae_6
True History
Second Century—Greek
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Dirda* *Newman*

De Morte Peregrini_2
The Passing of Peregrinus
Second Century—Greek
*Classics* *Newman*

Dialogi Mortuorum_2
Dialogues of the Dead
Second Century—Greek
*Classics* *Dirda*

Dialogi Deorum_2
Dialogues of the Gods
Second Century—Greek
*Classics* *Dirda*

Dialogi Meretricii_1
Dialogues of the Courtesans
Second Century—Greek
*Dirda*

Asinus_1
Lucius or The Ass
Second Century—Greek
*Dirda*

Vitarum Auctio_2
The Sale of Creeds; Philosophers for Sale
Second Century—Greek
*Classics* *Read*

Somnium Sive Vita Luciani_1
The Dream or Lucian's Career
Second Century—Greek
*Classics*

Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit_2
How to Write History
Second Century—Greek
*Classics* *Read*

Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura_19
On the Nature of Things
First Century B C—Latin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Fitz Hugh Ludlow
The Hasheesh Easter_1
1857—English
*Graphic*

Emil Ludwig
Napoleon_1
1925—German
*Durant*

Luó Guànzhōng
Sān Guó Yǎn Yì_2
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
1522; written Fourteenth Century—Chinese
*Fadiman* *Great*

Alison Lurie
Foreign Affairs_1
1984—English
*Smart*

The War Between the Tates_1
1974—English
*Smart*

Martin Luther
Disputatio pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum_2
The Ninety-Five Theses; Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
1517—Latin
*Eliot* *Classics*

An den Christlichen Adel Deutscher Nation_5
Address to the Christian Nobility
1520—German
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *World*

De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium_5
Von der Babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirche; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
1520; German version published the same year—Latin
*Classics* *Read* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *World*

Von der Freiheit Eines Christenmenschen_4
The Freedom of a Christian; A Treatise on Christian Liberty
1520—German
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *World*

Der Kleine Katechismus_1
The Small Catechism
1529—German
*Trinity*

Tischreden_1
Table Talk
1566—German
*Read*

Lù Yóu
Jiànnán Shīgǎo_1
Collected Poems
1220—Chinese
*Ward*

Lǔ Xùn (Lu Hsün)
Yě Cǎo_1
Wild Grass
originally published serially 1924-27 in Threads of Talk—Chinese
*Ward*

Charles Lyell
Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation_2
originally published in three volumes: 1830, 1832, and 1833—English
*Downs* *Read*

Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man_1
1863—English
*Hundred*

Norbert Lynton
The Story of Modern Art_1
1980—English
*Ward*

George MacDonald
At the Back of the North Wind_1
originally published serially 1868 in Good Words for the Young—English
*Bloom*

Lilith_1
1895—English
*Bloom*

Antonio Machado
Juan de Mairena_1
Sentencias, Donaires, Apuntes y Recuerdos de un Profesor Apórifo
1936—Spanish
*Ward*

Niccolò Machiavelli
La Mandragola_2
1524—Italian
*Classics* *Bloom*

Belfagor Arcidiavolo_1
The Devil Takes a Wife
written 1518-27; originally published as part of the author's collected works, 1549—Italian
*Classics*

Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio_4
1531—Italian
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*

Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532—Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *World* *Deposit* *Recommended* *Educated*

Nathaniel Mackey
Bedouin Hornbook_1
1986—English
*Utne*

Djbot Baghostus's Run_1
1993—English
*Utne*

Louis MacNeice
Out of the Picture_1
1937—English
*Bloom*

The Earth Compels_1
1938—English
*Bloom*

Autumn Journal_1
1939—English
*Bloom*

Plant and Phantom_1
1941—English
*Bloom*

Springboard_1
1944—English
*Bloom*

Holes in the Sky_1
1948—English
*Bloom*

Ten Burnt Offerings_1
1952—English
*Bloom*

Autumn Sequel_1
1954—English
*Bloom*

Visitations_1
1957—English
*Bloom*

Solsticies_1
1961—English
*Bloom*

The Burning Perch_1
1963—English
*Bloom*

James Madison
Constitution for the United States of America_3
1787—Emglish
*Zulli* *Read* *Adler*

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That_1
1973; revised 1981—Marathi
*Utne*

Naguib Mahfouz
Midaq Alley_1
1948—Arabic
*Bloom*

Bein el-Qasrein_2
Palace Walk
1956; Mallison ("Smart") specifies William M Hutchin and Olive E Kenny's English translation—Arabic
*Utne* *Smart*

Qasr el-Shoaq_2
Palace of Desire
1957—Arabic
*Utne* *Smart*

El-Sukkareyya_2
Sugar Street
1957—Arabic
*Utne* *Smart*

Awlad Haritna_1
Children of Gebelawi
originally published serially 1959 in Al-Ahram—Arabic
*Norway*

Miramar_1
1972—Arabic
*Bloom*

Fountain and Tomb_1
1975—Arabic
*Bloom*

Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783_1
1890—English
*Downs*

Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead_3
1948—English
*Learning* *Fadiman* *Deposit*

Advertisements for Myself_1
1959; published in part in varied periodicals—English
*Bloom*

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/ The Novel as History_1
originally published Mar. 1968 as 'The Steps of the Pentagon', in Harper's Magazine—English
*Fadiman*

The Executioner's Song_2
1979—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Ancient Evenings_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

Maimonides (Moshe ben Maimon)
Dalalatul al-Hairin_3
Moreh Nevukhim; The Guide for the Perplexed
written Twelfth Century; Hebrew version published 1204—Arabic
*Ward* *SeymourSmith* *World*

Xavier de Maistre
Voyage Autour de ma Chambre_1
1794—French
*Dirda*

Expédition Nocturne Autour de ma Chambre_1
1825—French
*Dirda*

Bernard Malamud
The Natural_1
1952—English
*Recommended*

The Assistant_2
1957—English
*Smart* *Recommended*

The Fixer_2
1966—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Stéphane Mallarmé
Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard_2
originally published May 1897 in Cosmopolis; published separately 1914—French
*Trinity* *Newman*

Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur_13
1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Telegraph* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

André Malraux
Les Conquérants_1
1928—French
*Bloom*

La Voie Royale_1
1930—French
*Bloom*

La Condition Humaine_5
Man's Fate
1933—French
*France* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Recommended*

L'Espoir_2
Man's Hope
1938—French
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Les Voix du Silence_2
1951—French
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Thomas Robert Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population_6
originally anonymously published 1798; revised and published under the author's name, 1803—English
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Good* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith*

David Mamet
American Buffalo_1
1975—English
*Bloom*

Speed-the-Plow_1
1988—English
*Bloom*

Manikkavacakar
Tiruvacakam_1
Ninth Century—Tamil
*World*

Henning Mankell
Mördare Utan Ansikte_1
Faceless Killers
1991—Swedish
*Van Doren*

Hundarna i Riga_1
The Dogs of Riga
1992—Swedish
*Van Doren*

Den Vita Lejoninnan_1
The White Lioness
1993—Swedish
*Van Doren*

Den Femte Kvinnan_1
The Fifth Woman
1996—Swedish
*Van Doren*

Brandvägg_1
Firewall
1998—Swedish
*Van Doren*

Danslärarens Återkomst_1
The Return of the Dancing Master
2000—Swedish
*Van Doren*

Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks_5
1901—German
*Ward* *Magill* *Trinity* *Norway* *Smart*

Tristan_1
1903—German
*Bloom*

Tonio Kröger_1
originally published in Neue Deutsche Rundschau, Feb. 1903—German
*Bloom*

Fiorenza_1
1907—German
*Bloom*

Der Tod in Venedig_7
Death in Venice
1911—German
*Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Herr und Hund: Eine Idyll_1
A Man and His Dog
1919—German
*Bloom*

Unordnung und Fruhes Leid_1
Disorder and Early Sorrow
originally published in Neue Rundschau, 1925—German
*Bloom*

Der Zauberberg_12
The Magic Mountain
1924; Mallison ("Smart") specifies John E Woods's English translation—German
*Read* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Mario und der Zauberer_2
Mario and the Magician
1929—German
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Joseph und Seine Brüder_3
Joseph and His Brothers
1943—German
*Read* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Doctor Faustus. Das Leben des Deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, Erzählt von Einem Freunde_1
1947—German
*Bloom*

Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren, Erster Teil_2
1954—German
*Bloom* *Van Doren*

Jorge Manrique
Coplas a la Muerte de su Padre_1
written ca. 1476—Spanish
*Bloom*

Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi_4
The Betrothed
1827—Italian
*Eliot* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Del Romanzo Storico_1
written ca. 1828-50—Italian
*Bloom*

Máo Zédōng
Máo Zhuxí Yulù_2
Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung
1966—Chinese
*SeymourSmith* *Taylor*

Sándor Márai
A Gyertyák Csonkig Égnek_1
Embers
1942—Hungarian
*Zane*

Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton_17
Meditations
written 161-80—Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great* *Van Doren*

Marguerite de Navarre
Heptameron_1
1558—French
*Bloom*

Lynn Margulis; Dorion Sagan
What Is Life?_1
1995—English
*Utne*

Jacques Maritain
Art et Scolastique_1
1920—English
*Read*

Distinguer pour Unir ou Les Degrés du Savoir_1
1932—French
*Read*

Humanisme Intégral: Problemes Temporels et Spirituals d'une Nouvelle Chrétienté_1
1936—French
*Read*

Les Droits de l'Homme et la Loi Naturelle_1
1942—French
*Read*

Pierre de Marivaux
Arlequin Poli par l'Amour_1
1720—French
*Bloom*

La Double Inconstance_1
1723—French
*Bloom*

Le Triomphe de Plutus_1
1728—French
*Bloom*

Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard_1
1730—French
*Bloom*

L'Heureux Strategème_1
1733—French
*Bloom*

Les Fausses Confidences_1
1737—French
*Bloom*

Les Sincères_1
1739—French
*Bloom*

Le Paysan Parvenu_1
written 1735—French
*Ward*

Christopher Marlowe
Dido, Queen of Carthage_2
ca. 1587-93—English
*Dirda* *Newman*

Tamburlaine the Great_7
1590—English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Ward* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Jew of Malta_5
1592—English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Ward* *Dirda* *Newman*

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus_10
1592—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Massacre at Paris_1
1593—English
*Newman*

Edward II_5
1593—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Dirda* *Newman*

John P Marquand
H M Pulham, Esquire_1
1941—English
*Bloom*

Megan Marshall
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism_1
2005—English
*Smart*

John Marston
The Malcontent_1
1603—English
*Bloom*

Yann Martel
Life of Pi_2
2001—English
*Guardian* *Recommended*

Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
Epigrams_3
86-103—Latin
*Downs* *Ward* *Bloom*

Karl Marx
Das Kapital, Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie_12
originally published in three volumes: 1867, 1885, and 1894—German
*Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *World*

The Civil War in France: Address of the General Council of the International Working-Men's Association_1
1871—English
*Classics*

Ökonomisch-Philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844_1
written 1844—German
*Rexroth*

Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie_1
written ca. 1858; published 1939—German
*Deposit*

Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei_13
The Communist Manifesto
1848—German
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *Educated*

John Masefield
The Box of Delights_1
1935—English
*Dirda*

Bobbie Ann Mason
In Country_1
1985—English
*Smart*

Elvis Presley_1
2002—English
*Smart*

Philip Massinger
A New Way to Pay Old Debts_2
1626—English
*Eliot* *Bloom*

Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology_3
1915—English
*Powys* *Magill* *Bloom*

Al-Masudi
Muruj adh-Dhahab wa Ma'adin al-Jawahir_1
Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems
Tenth Century—Arabic
*World*

Charles Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer_1
1820—English
*Bloom*

W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage_3
1915—English
*Powys* *Hundred* *Recommended*

The Moon and Sixpence_1
1919—English
*Bloom*

The Razor's Edge_2
1944—English
*Kanigel* *Harvard*

Guy de Maupassant
Une Vie_1
1883—French
*Ward*

Pierre et Jean_1
originally published serially 1888—French
*Ward*

Françcois Mauriac
Le Désert de l'Amour_1
1925—French
*Bloom*

Thérèse Desqueyroux_1
1927—French
*Bloom*

La Pharisienne_1
1941—French
*Bloom*

Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca_5
1938—English
*Dirda* *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Vladimir Mayakovsky
Klop_2
The Bedbug
1929—Russian
*Ward* *Bloom*

Banya_1
The Bathhouse
1930—Russian
*Ward*

Edwin Justus Mayer
Children of Darkness_1
1930—English
*Bloom*

James Clerk Maxwell
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism_1
originally published in two volumes, 1873—English
*SeymourSmith*

William Maxwell
So Long, See You Tomorrow_1
1979—English
*Zane*

Peter Mayle
A Year in Provence_1
1989—English
*Telegraph*

John McCabe
Laurel and Hardy_1
1975; edited by Al Kilgore; includes filmography by Richard W Bann—English
*List*

Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin_1
2009—English
*Recommended*

Mary McCarthy
The Groves of Academe_1
1951—English
*List*

The Group_1
1963—English
*Fadiman*

Cormac McCarthy
Child of God_1
1973—English
*Bloom*

Suttree_1
1979—English
*Bloom*

Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West_4
1985—English
*Bloom* *Zane* *Graphic* *Recommended*

All the Pretty Horses_1
1992—English
*Van Doren*

The Crossing_1
1994—English
*Van Doren*

Cities of the Plain_1
1998—English
*Van Doren*

The Road_1
2006—English
*Educated*

William McCarthy
Heather Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman_1
1985—English
*Smart*

J D McClatchy
The Rest of the Way_1
1992—English
*Bloom*

James McCourt
Time Remaining_1
1993—English
*Bloom*

Carson McCullers
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter_4
1940—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Recommended*

The Member of the Wedding_1
1946—English
*Recommended*

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe_2
1951—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Ian McEwan
Enduring Love_1
1997—English
*Smart*

Amsterdam_1
1998—English
*Smart*

Atonement_3
2001—English
*Guardian* *Smart* *Recommended*

Saturday_1
2005—English
*Smart*

Robin McKinley
The Blue Sword_1
1982—English
*Harvard*

Larry McMurty
Lonesome Dove_2
1985—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*

James M McPherson
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era_1
1988; abridged version, 2003—English
*Educated*

Margaret Mead
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization_2
1928—English
*Fadiman* *Kanigel*

Herman Melville
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life_1
1846—English
*Newman*

Oomo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South_1
1847—English
*Newman*

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither_1
1849—English
*Newman*

Redburn: His First Voyage_1
1849—English
*Newman*

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War_1
1850—English
*Newman*

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851—English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Recommended* *Educated*

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities_1
1852—English
*Newman*

The Piazza Tales_2
1856; originally published serially Nov. 1853-Aug. 1855 in Putnam's Monthly—English
*Bloom* *Newman*

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade_2
1857—English
*Zane* *Newman*

Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land_2
1876—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

Billy Budd, Foretopman_9
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
1924—English
*Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Journal Up the Straits: October 11, 1856-May 5, 1857_1
1935—English
*Classics*

Menander
Perikeiromene_1
ca. 314-13 B C—Greek
*Downs*

Dyskolos_2
ca. 317-16 B C—Greek
*Downs* *Newman*

Samia_3
The Girl From Samos
ca. 315-09 B C—Greek
*Downs* *Bloom* *Newman*

Epitrepontes_1
Fourt Century B C—Greek
*Downs*

H L Mencken
The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States_1
1919—English
*Kanigel*

Mèng Zǐ (Mencius) (Meng Tzu)
Mèng Zǐ_5
Mencius; Meng Tzu
Fourth Century B C—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great* *World*

Gerardus Mercator
Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura_1
Atlas, or, Cosmographic Meditations on the Creation of the World and the Form of Creation
originally published in three volumes: 1585, 1589, and 1595—Latin
*Taylor*

George Meredith
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel_2
1859—English
*Classics* *Hundred*

Evan Harrington_1
1861—English
*Classics*

Modern Love_2
1862—English
*Classics* *Dirda*

The Adventures of Harry Richmond_1
originally published serially Sep. 1870-Nov. 1871 in Cornhill Magazine—English
*Powys*

Beauchamp's Career_1
1875—English
*Classics*

The Egoist_2
1879—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

The Tragic Comedians_1
1880—English
*Classics*

Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth_1
1883—English
*Classics*

Diana of the Crossways_1
1885—English
*Classics*

A Reading of Earth_1
1888—English
*Classics*

Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History_1
1898—English
*Classics*

Prosper Mérimée
La Chronique du Temps de Charles IX_1
1829—French
*Dirda*

Colomba_1
originally published Jul. 1840 in Revue des Deux Mondes—French
*Dirda*

Carmen_2
published in part, Oct. 1845, in Revue des Deux Mondes; in its entirety, 1846—French
*Dirda* *Newman*

Lokis_1
originally published Sep. 1869 in Revue des Deux Mondes—French
*Dirda*

James Merrill
The Changing Light at Sandover_1
originally published as 'The Book of Ephraim', in Divine Comedies, 1976; Mirabell: Books of Number, 1978; and Scripts for the Pageant, 1980; published as a single work, with the addition of 'The Higher Keys', 1982—English
*Bloom*

Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain_2
1948—English
*Kanigel* *Educated*

Claire Messud
When the World Was Steady_1
1995—English
*Smart*

The Last Life_1
1999—English
*Smart*

The Hunters_1
2001—English
*Smart*

The Emperor's Children_1
2006—English
*Smart*

Gustav Meyrink
Der Golem_1
originally published serially 1913-14 in Die Weissen Blätter—German
*Kanigel*

Mother of Michitsuna
Kagero Nikki_2
The Gossamer Years
written ca. 974—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Adam Mickiewicz
Pan Tadeusz, Czyli Ostatni Zajazd na Litwie. Historia Szlachecka z Roku 1811 i 1812 we Dwunastu Ksiegach Wierszem_2
Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Lithuanian Foray: A Nobleman's Tale From the Years of 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse
1834—Polish
*Ward* *World*

Thomas Middleton; William Rowley
The Changeling_1
1622—English
*Bloom*

Milarepa
Mila Grubum_1
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Eleventh-Twelfth centuries—Tibetan
*Ward*

John Stuart Mill
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive_2
1843—English
*Lubbock* *Read*

Principles of Political Economy_1
1848; revised through seventh edition, 1871—English
*Lubbock*

On Liberty_16
1859—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Recommended*

Considerations on Representative Government_3
1861—English
*Read* *Adler* *Van Doren*

Utilitarianism_5
originally published serially 1861 in Fraser's Magazine—English
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Foundation*

The Subjection of Women_2
1869—English
*Read* *Fadiman*

Autobiography_7
1873—English
*Eliot* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom*

On Nature_1
1874—English
*Classics*

Alice Miller
Das Drama des Begabten Kindes_1
The Drama of the Gifted Child
1979—German
*Utne*

Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman_6
1949—English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Crucible_3
1953—English
*Fadiman* *Campbell* *Recommended*

Darlis Miller
Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West_1
2002—English
*Smart*

Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn_1
1938—English
*Recommended*

Lucasta Miller
The Brontë Myth_1
2001—English
*Smart*

Perry Miller
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century_1
1939—English
*Educated*

Walter M Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz_1
early version published as three stories, all in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', Apr. 1955; 'And the Light Is Risen', Aug. 1956; and 'The Last Canticle', Feb. 1957; revised and expanded for book publication, 1959—English
*Van Doren*

A A Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh_3
published in part serially 1924-25; in its entirety, 1926—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

Czesław Miłosz
Zniewolony Umysł_1
The Captive Mind
1953—Polish
*Van Doren*

John Milton
The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty_1
1642—English
*Classics*

On Education_2
originally anonymously published 1644—English
*Eliot* *Classics*

Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England_12
1644—English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin_1
1645—English
*Adler*

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates_1
1649—English
*Classics*

Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes_8
1671—English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman* *Recommended*

Poems, &c. Upon Several Occasions_1
1673—English
*Adler*

Mishima Yukio
Kamen no Kokuhaku_1
Confessions of a Mask
1949—Japanese
*Fadiman*

Kinkaku-ji_2
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1956—Japanese
*Ward* *Fadiman*

Gogo no Eiko_1
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
1963—Japanese
*Fadiman*

Haru no Yuki_3
Spring Snow
1969; first of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility—Japanese
*Ward* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Honba_2
Runaway Horses
1969; second of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility—Japanese
*Ward* *Fadiman*

Akatsuki no Tera_2
The Temple of Dawn
1970; third of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility—Japanese
*Ward* *Fadiman*

Tennin Gosui_2
The Decay of the Angel
1971; fourth of four novels in the tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility—Japanese
*Ward* *Fadiman*

Rohinton Mistry
Such a Long Journey_1
1991—English
*Smart*

A Fine Balance_3
1995—English
*Guardian* *Smart* *Recommended*

Family Matters_1
2002—English
*Smart*

David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas_2
2004—English
*Guardian* *Harvard*

Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind_2
1936—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph*

Nancy Mitford
Madame de Pompadour_1
1954—English
*Van Doren*

Kenji Miyazawa
Haru to Shura_1
Spring and Asura
1924—Japanese
*Utne*

Molière
Les Précieuses Ridicules_3
1659—French
*Classics* *Bloom* *Newman*

Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre_7
1660—French
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

L'École des Maris_1
1661—French
*Bloom*

L'École des Femmes_6
The School for Wives
1662—French
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

La Critique de l'École des Femmes_1
1663—French
*Adler*

L'Impromptu de Versailles_1
1663—French
*Classics*

Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664—French
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

L'Amour Médecin_1
1665—French
*Ward*

Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux_13
The Misanthrope
1666—French
*Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Le Médecin Malgre Lui_5
1666—French
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Trinity*

Le Sicilien ou L'Amour Peintre_1
1667—French
*Ward*

L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge_9
The Miser
1668—French
*Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman*

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme_8
1670—French
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman*

Les Fourberies de Scapin_2
1671—French
*Classics* *Ward*

Les Femmes Savantes_2
The Learned Ladies
1672—French
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Le Malade Imaginaire_6
The Imaginary Invalid
1673—French
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

N Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn_1
1969—English
*Campbell*

Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais_26
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Eugenio Montale
Ossi di Seppia_1
Cuttlefish Bones
1925; expanded 1928—Italian
*Bloom*

Le Occasioni_1
The Occasions
1939—Italian
*Bloom*

La Bufera e Altro_1
The Storm and Other Things
1956; expanded 1957—Italian
*Bloom*

L'Opera in Versi_1
1980; retitled Altri Versi e Poesie Disperse, 1981—Italian
*Bloom*

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Lettres Persanes_3
1721—French
*Read* *Ward* *Trinity*

Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains et de Leur Décadence_1
1734—French
*Ward*

De l'Esprit des Lois_7
The Spirit of Laws
originally anonymously published 1748—French
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity*

L M Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables_2
1908—English
*Guardian* *Recommended*

Alan Moore
Watchmen_1
originally published serially 1986-87—English
*Harvard*

George Moore
Héloïse and Abélard_1
1921—English
*Durant*

Marianne Moore
What Are Years_1
1941—English
*Bloom*

Nevertheless_1
1946—English
*Bloom*

Like a Bulwark_1
1956—English
*Bloom*

O To Be a Dragon_1
1959—English
*Bloom*

Tell Me, Telle_1
1966—English
*Bloom*

Elsa Morante
La Storia_1
1974—Italian
*Norway*

Leandro Fernández de Moratín
El Sí de las Niñas_1
The Maidens' Consent
1806—Spanish
*Trinity*

Alberto Moravia
1934_1
1982—Italian
*Bloom*

Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia_14
Utopia
1516—Latin
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Recommended* *Educated*

Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation_1
written ca. 1534—English
*Rexroth*

Robert Morgan
Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution_1
2003—English
*Smart*

Maurice Morgann
An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff_1
1777—English
*Bloom*

Eduard Mörike
Das Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein_1
The Little Gnome of Stuttgart
1853—German
*Trinity*

Mozart auf der Reise Nach Prag_2
1856—German
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Mori Ogai
Gan_1
The Wild Geese
originally published serially 1911-13—Japanese
*Ward*

Desmond Morris
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal_1
1967—English
*Educated*

William Morris
The Earthly Paradise_1
1868—English
*Bloom*

News From Nowhere_1
1890—English
*Bloom*

The Well at the World's End_1
1896—English
*Bloom*

Wright Morris
Ceremony in Lone Tree_1
1960—English
*Bloom*

Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye_1
1970—English
*Campbell*

Song of Solomon_5
1977—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Educated*

Beloved_9
1987—English
*Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Telegraph* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Deposit*

Jazz_1
1992—English
*Fadiman*

Moschus_1
Poetry
Second Century B C—Greek
*Classics*

Mòzǐ (Mo Tzu)
Mòzǐ_3
Mo Tzu
ca. Fifth Century B C—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

Slawomir Mrozek
Wesele w Atomicach_1
The Ugupu Bird
1959—Polish
*Ward*

Tango_1
1964—Polish
*Ward*

Edwin Muir
Variations on a Time Theme_1
1934—English
*Bloom*

Journeys and Places_1
1937—English
*Bloom*

The Narrow Place_1
1943—English
*Bloom*

The Voyage and Other Poems_1
1946—English
*Bloom*

The Labyrinth_1
1949—English
*Bloom*

One Foot in Eden_1
1956—English
*Bloom*

Nizam al-Mulk
Siyasatnama_2
Book of Government
Eleventh Century—Persian
*Ward* *World*

Alice Munro
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You..._1
1974—English
*Bloom*

Haruki Murakami
Hitsuji o Meguru Boken_1
A Wild Sheep Chase
1982—Japanese
*Harvard*

Sekai no Owari to Hadoboirudo Wandarando_1
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
1985—Japanese
*Harvard*

Nejimaki-Dori Kuronikuru_3
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
originally published in three volumes, 1994-95—Japanese
*Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*

Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari_13
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh Century; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Royall Tyler's English translation—Japanese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Murasaki Shikibu Nikki_1
written ca. 1008-10—Japanese
*Oriental*

Iris Murdoch
The Sandcastle_1
1957—English
*Fadiman*

A Severed Head_1
1961—English
*Fadiman*

Bruno's Dream_1
1969—English
*Bloom*

The Sea, the Sea_1
1978—English
*Harvard*

The Good Apprentice_1
1985—English
*Bloom*

Michael Murphy
Golf in the Kingdom_1
1972—English
*Utne*

Gilbert Murray
A History of Ancient Greek Literature_1
1897—English
*Durant*

Robert Musil
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleßx_1
1906—German
*Bloom*

Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften_5
The Man Without Qualities
originally published in three volumes: 1930, 1933, and 1943—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway*

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
Sahih Muslim_1
Ninth Century—Arabic
*Ward*

Alfred de Musset
Lorenzaccio_1
1834—French
*Bloom*

Histoire d'un Merle Blanc_1
1842—French
*Eliot*

Vladimir Nabokov
Korol, Dama, Valet_1
King, Queen, Knave
originally published serially 1930 in Sovremennye Zapiski under the pseudonym, V Sirin—Russian
*Fadiman*

Zashchita Luzhina_1
The Defense
originally published 1928, under the pseudonym, V Sirin—Russian
*Fadiman*

Speak, Memory_1
published in part serially; in its entirety, 1951; U S version originally entitled Conclusive Evidence; varied revised versions—English
*Fadiman*

Bend Sinister_1
1947—English
*Ward*

Lolita_11
1955—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Pnin_2
1957—English
*Fadiman* *Recommended*

Pale Fire_8
1962—English
*List* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Recommended*

Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle_2
1969—English
*Ward* *Fadiman*

Nagai Kafu
Sumidagawa_1
Sumida River
1911—Japanese
*Ward*

Nagarjuna
Mulamadhyamakakarika_1
Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way
ca. 150-250—Sanskrit
*World*

Mustafa Naima
Ravdatu 'l-Huseyn fi Hulasat-i Ahbari 'l-Hafiqayn_1
Tarikh i-Naima; Annals of the Turkish Empire From 1591 to 1659 of the Christian Era
1704—Turkish
*World*

V S Naipul
A House for Mr. Biswas_2
1961—English
*Smart* *Bloom*

A Bend in the River_2
1979—English
*Bloom* *Great*

V S Naipul et al.
Between Father and Son: Family Letters_1
1999; published in part in the New Yorker; edited by Gillon Aitken—English
*Smart*

R K Narayan
Swami and Friends_1
1935—English
*Fadiman*

The English Teacher_2
1945—English
*Fadiman* *Great*

The Guide_1
1958—English
*Bloom*

The Vendor of Sweets_1
1967—English
*Fadiman*

Thomas Nashe
The Unfortunate Traveller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton_1
1594—English
*Bloom*

Gloria Naylor
The Women of Brewster Place_1
1982—English
*Bloom*

Linden Hills_1
1985—English
*Smart*

John G Neihardt
Black Elk Speaks_2
1932—English
*Utne* *Graphic*

László Németh
Guilt_1
1936—Hungarian
*Bloom*

Pablo Neruda
Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada_1
1924—Spanish
*Bloom*

Residencia en la Tierra_1
originally published in three volumes: Residencia I, 1933; Residencia II, 1935; and Tercera Residencia, 1947—Spanish
*Bloom*

Canto General_3
1950; English translation of 'Alturas de Machu Picchu', the second canto, published 1948 in the Tiger's Eye and 1950 in Let the Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Utne*

Cien Sonetos de Amor_1
1959—Spanish
*Great*

Plenos Poderes_1
Fully Empowered
1962—Spanish
*Bloom*

Gérard de Nerval
Sylvie: Souvenirs du Valois_1
originally published in La Revue des Deux Mondes, 1853—French
*Bloom*

Aurélia ou le Rêve et la Vie_1
1855—French
*Bloom*

E Nesbit
The Story of the Treasure-Seekers_1
1899—English
*Dirda*

Five Children and It_1
published in part as a series of stories collectively entitled The Psammead, or The Gifts in the Strand Magazine, 1900; in its entirety, 1902—English
*Dirda*

The Phoenix and the Carpet_1
1904—English
*Dirda*

The Railway Children_2
originally published serially 1905 in the London Magazine—English
*Dirda* *Telegraph*

The Story of the Amulet_1
1906—English
*Dirda*

Wet Magic_1
1913—English
*Dirda*

Simon Newcomb
The Extent of the Universe_1
1884—English
*Eliot*

John Henry Newman
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine_1
1845; revised 1878—English
*Classics*

Apologia pro Vita Sua_3
1864; revised 1865—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Trinity*

An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent_1
1870—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated_3
1873; originally published in two parts: The Scope and Nature of University Education (published 1852 with two alternate titles: Discourses on University Education; and Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education, then retitled and revised in 1859); and Lectures and Essays on University Subjects, 1859—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Bloom*

The Via Media of the Anglican Church_3
1877; originally published in two volumes, the first of which consists of edited lectures originally published as Lectures on the Prophetical Office of the Church, 1837; the second consisting of varied works originally published 1830-45—English
*Classics*

Isaac Newton
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica_9
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1687; revised 1713 and 1726—Latin
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *Reynolds*

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light_3
1704; Latin version, 1706—English
*Read* *Adler* *Van Doren*

Martin Andersen Nexø
Pelle Erobreren_1
Pelle the Conquerer
originally published in four volumes, 1906-10—Danish
*Bloom*

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (James Ngugi)
A Grain of Wheat_1
1967—English
*Bloom*

Petals of Blood_2
1977—English
*Ward* *Trinity*

Nicomachus of Gerasa
Introduction to Arithmetic_2
late First-early Second centuries—Greek
*Read* *Adler*

Friedrich Nietzsche
Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik_1
The Birth of Tragedy
1872; revised and retitled Die Geburt der Tragödie, Oder: Griechentum und Pessimismus, 1886—German
*Bloom*

Die Frühliche Wissenschaft_1
The Gay Science; The Joyous Wisdom
1882—German
*Powys*

Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen_15
Thus Spake Zarathustra
originally published in four volumes, 1883-85—German
*Powys* *Durant* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *World* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie der Zukunft_8
Beyond Good and Evil
1886—German
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Zur Genealogue der Moral_5
On the Genealogy of Morals
1887—German
*Classics* *Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Reynolds*

Götzen-Dämmerung, Oder, Wie Man mit dem Hammer Philosophirt_1
Twilight of the Idols
1889—German
*Trinity*

Der Antichrist_1
1895—German
*Fadiman*

Der Wille zur Mach_3
The Will to Power
1901; revised 1906—German
*Read* *Good* *Bloom*

Ecce Homo: Wie Man Wird, Was Man Ist_4
1908—German
*Powys* *Classics* *Fadiman* *Educated*

Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife_1
2003—English
*Guardian*

Lady Nijo
Towazugatari_1
The Confessions of Lady Nijo
early Fourteenth Century—Japanese
*Oriental*

Anaïs Nin
Delta of Venus_1
1977—English
*Utne*

The Diaries of Anaïs Nin_1
originally published in seven volumes, 1966-80—English
*Graphic*

Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Kulli Bhat_1
1939—Hindustani
*Ward*

Billesur Bakriha_1
1941—Hindustani
*Ward*

Frank Norris
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco_1
1899—English
*Hundred* *Recommended*

The Octopus: A Story of California_2
1901—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Novalis
Hymnen an Die Nacht_2
originally published 1800 in Athenaeum—German
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Joyce Carol Oates
Them_1
1969—English
*Bloom*

Flann O'Brien
The Dalkey Archive_1
1964—English
*Bloom*

The Third Policeman_1
1967—English
*Bloom*

Patrick O'Brien
Master and Commander_2
1969—English
*Telegraph* *Van Doren*

Post Captain_1
1972—English
*Van Doren*

H.M.S. Surprise_1
1973—English
*Van Doren*

The Mauritius Command_1
1977—English
*Van Doren*

Desolation Island_1
1978—English
*Van Doren*

The Fortune of War_1
1979—English
*Van Doren*

The Surgeon's Mate_1
1980—English
*Van Doren*

The Ionian Mission_1
1981—English
*Van Doren*

Treason's Harbour_1
1983—English
*Van Doren*

The Far Side of the World_1
1984—English
*Van Doren*

The Reverse of the Medal_1
1986—English
*Van Doren*

The Letter of Marque_1
1988—English
*Van Doren*

The Thirteen-Gun Salute_1
1989—English
*Van Doren*

The Nutmeg of Consolation_1
1991—English
*Van Doren*

Clarissa Oakes_1
1992; U S title: The Truelove—English
*Van Doren*

The Wine-Dark Sea_1
1993—English
*Van Doren*

The Commodore_1
1994—English
*Van Doren*

The Yellow Admiral_1
1996—English
*Van Doren*

The Hundred Days_1
1998—English
*Van Doren*

Blue at the Mizzen_1
1999—English
*Van Doren*

Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried_1
1990—English
*Smart*

Sean O'Casey
The Shadow of a Gunman_2
1923—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Juno and the Paycock_3
1924—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*

The Plough and the Stars_3
1926—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*

The Silver Tassie_1
1929—English
*Recommended*

Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried_1
1990—English
*Recommended*

Nuala O'Faolain
My Dream of You_1
2001—English
*Smart*

Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman_1
1996—English
*Smart*

Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman_1
2003—English
*Smart*

Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood_2
published in part, Apr. 1948, as 'The Train', the Sewanee Review; Feb. 1949, as 'The Heart of the Park', in the Partisan Review; Dec. 1949, as 'The Peeler', in the Partisan Review; and Apr. 1952, as 'Enoch and the Gorilla', in New World Writing; in its entirety, 1952—English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

The Violent Bear It Away_1
1960; first chapter is revised version of 'You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead', New World Writing, Oct. 1955—English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

John O'Hara
Appointment in Samarra_3
1934—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

BUtterfield 8_1
1935—English
*Fadiman*

Gabriel Okara
The Fisherman's Invocation_1
1978; poems originally published in periodicals, anthologies, and the author's books; and new poems—English
*Bloom*

Christopher Okigbo
Labyrinths, With Path of Thunder_1
1971; 'Heavensgate' published separately 1962; 'Silences: Lament of the Silent Sisters' published 1963 in Transition; 'Distances' published 1964 in Transition; 'Limits' published 1962 in Transition, and, revised, separately 1964; 'Silences: Lament of the Drums' published separately 1965; 'Path of Thunder' published Feb. 1968 in Black Orpheus; all works revised for inclusion in this book—English
*Bloom*

Ben Okri
The Famished Road_1
1991—English
*Graphic*

Sharon Olds
The Dead and the Living_1
1983—English
*Utne*

Yury Olesha
Zavist'_1
Envy
1927—Russian
*Bloom*

Sunday Okenwa Olisah
No Condition Is Permanent_1
originally published 1960's under the pseudonym, The Master of Life—English
*Ward*

Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems_1
1992; selections from No Voyage, and Other Poems, 1963, expanded 1965; The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems, 1972; The Night Traveler, 1978; Twelve Moons, 1979; American Primitive, 1983; Dream Work, 1986; House of Light, 1990; plus a section entitled New Poems (1991-1992)—English
*Utne*

Charles Olson
Y & X_1
1948—English
*Bloom*

In Cold Hell, in Thicket_1
1953; includes one poem originally published in Y & X—English
*Bloom*

The Maximus Poems_1
originally published in four volumes: The Maximus Poems 1-10, 1953; The Maximus Poems, 11-22, 1956; The Maximus Poems IV, V, VI, 1968; The Maximus Poems: Volume Three, 1975—English
*Bloom*

The Distances_1
1960; includes nine poems originally published in In Cold Hell, in Thicket —English
*Bloom*

O'Ryan_1
1960; expanded 1966—English
*Bloom*

West_1
1966—English
*Bloom*

Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient_1
1992—English
*Deposit*

Eugene O'Neill
Anna Christie_1
1921—English
*Recommended*

Desire Under the Elms_1
1924—English
*Recommended*

Strange Interlude_1
1928—English
*Recommended*

Lazarus Laughed_1
1928—English
*Bloom*

Mourning Becomes Electra_4
1931—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman*

The Iceman Cometh_4
1946—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Long Day's Journey Into Night_8
1956—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Educated*

Oliver Onions
In Accordance With the Evidence_1
1910—English
*Powys*

The Debit Account_1
1913—English
*Powys*

The Story of Louie_1
1913—English
*Powys*

O no Yasumaro
Kojiki_1
early Eighth Century—Japanese
*Great*

Origen
Contra Celsum_1
written 248; this work critiques The True Word by the Second-Century philosopher Celsus; it includes extensive quotations from, or perhaps the entirety of, that work, which otherwise is not extant—Greek
*Trinity*

De Principiis_1
On First Principles
Third Century—Greek
*World*

José Ortega y Gasset
Meditaciondes del Quijote_1
1914—Spanish
*Ward*

España Invertebrada_1
originally published serially 1921 in El Sol—Spanish
*Ward*

La Rebelión de las Masas_2
The Revolt of the Masses
originally published serially 1929 in El Sol—Spanish
*Ward* *Fadiman*

Joe Orton
Ruffian on the Stair_1
1964: radio play; revised 1967 for stage performance—English
*Bloom*

Entertaining Mr. Sloan_1
1964—English
*Bloom*

Loot_1
1966—English
*Bloom*

The Erpingham Camp_1
1966, as part of the television series The Seven Deadly Sins; revised 1967—English
*Bloom*

The Good and Faithful Servant_1
1967: television play—English
*Bloom*

Funeral Games_1
1968: television play—English
*Bloom*

What the Butler Saw_1
1969—English
*Bloom*

George Orwell
Burmese Days_1
1934—English
*Fadiman*

The Road to Wigan Pier_1
1937—English
*Educated*

Homage to Catalonia_2
1938—English
*Kanigel* *Deposit*

Animal Farm_8
1945—English
*Van Doren* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Smart* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Nineteen Eighty-Four_17
1949—English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Aleksandr Ostrovsky
Svoi Lyudi Sochtemsya_1
It's a Family Affair
1850—Russian
*Ward*

Groza_2
The Storm
1859—Russian
*Ward* *Bloom*

Les_1
The Forest
1871—Russian
*Ward*

Vincent O'Sullivan
The Good Girl_1
1912—English
*Powys*

Patricia O'Toole
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918_1
1991—English
*Smart*

Thomas Otway
Venice Preserv'd_2
1682—English
*Bloom* *Newman*

Ovid
Metamorphoseon_15
Metamorphoses
8; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Charles Martin's English translation—Latin
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Dirda* *Great* *O'Hear* *Smart* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Ars Amatoria_4
ca. late First Century B C-early First Century—Latin
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Heroides_1
Epistulae Heroidum
ca. First Century B C—Latin
*Bloom*

Robert Owen
A New View Of Society: Or, Essays on the Formation of Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice_1
1813; retitled A New View Of Society: Or, Essays on the Formation of Human Character Prepatory to the Development of a Plan for Gradually Ameliorating the Condition of Mankind, 1816—English
*Downs*

Wilfred Owen
Poems_3
1920; four poems previously published; 'Memoir' by Edmund Blunden added for 1931 edition; revised 1933; retitled The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, 1963, with a new introduction and notes by C Day Lewis plus four drafts of 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and an unfinished poem, 'Wild With All Regrets'—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Taylor*

Amos Oz
A Perfect Peace_1
1982—Hebrew
*Bloom*

Cynthia Ozick
The Messiah of Stockholm_1
1987—English
*Bloom*

Padmasambhava
Bardo Thodol_1
The Tibetan Book of the Dead; Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State
ca. Eighth Century—Tibetan
*Graphic*

Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels_1
1979—English
*Utne*

Thomas Paine
Common Sense; Addresed to the Inhabitants of America_4
1776—English
*Downs* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Educated*

The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution_7
originally published in two volumes, 1791 and 1792—English
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Good* *Great* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology_1
originally published in three volumes: 1794, 1795, and 1807—English
*Magill*

Gregory Palamas
Triads for the Defense of Those Who Practice Sacred Quietude_1
Fourteenth Century—Greek
*World*

Grace Paley
The Little Disturbances of Man_1
1959—English
*Bloom*

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute_1
1974—English
*Harvard*

Orhan Pamuk
Benim Adım Kırmızı_1
My Name Is Red
1998—Turkish
*Recommended*

Sumitranandan Pant
Svarnkiran_1
A Golden Ray
1946—Hindustani
*Ward*

Svarndhuli_1
Golden Dust
1948—Hindustani
*Ward*

Lokayatan_1
The House of the People
1964—Hindustani
*Ward*

Ambroise Paré
The Apologie and Treatise Containing the Voyages Made to Divers Places_1
written Sixteenth Century—Latin
*Eliot*

Cesare Parese
Lavorare Stanca_1
Hard Labor
1936; expanded 1943—Italian
*Bloom*

Dialoghi con Leucò_1
1947—Italian
*Bloom*

Vilfredo Pareto
Trattato di Sociologia Generale_1
The Mind and Society
1916—Italian
*SeymourSmith*

Robert B Parker
Early Autumn_1
1980—English
*Smart*

Francis Parkman
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life_1
originally published serially 1847-49 in Knickerbocker's Magazine—English
*Bloom*

France and England in North America_2
originally published in seven volumes: Pioneers of France in the New World, 1865; The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, 1867; The Discovery of the Great West, 1869; The Old Regime in Canada, 1874; Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV, 1877; Montcalm and Wolfe, 1884; A Half-Century of Conflict, 1892—English
*Rexroth* *Bloom*

Blaise Pascal
Experiences Nouvelles Touchant le Vide_1
1647—French
*Adler*

Lettres Provinciales_6
1656-57—French
*Classics* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity*

Récit de la Grande Expérience de l'Équilibre des Liqueurs_1
1663—French
*Adler*

Traites de l'Équilibre des Liqueurs et de la Pesanteur de la Masse de l'Air_1
1663—French
*Adler*

Traité du Triangle Arithmétique Avec Quelques Autres Petits Traités sur la Même Matière_1
1665—French
*Adler*

Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669—French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *O'Hear* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *Recommended*

Boris Pasternak
Dóktor Živágo_5
Doctor Zhivago
1957; originally published in its Italian translation; in the original Russian, 1958—Russian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

Louis Pasteur
The Physiological Theory of Fermentation_1
1879—French
*Eliot*

Patanjali
Yoga Sutras_3
ca. Second Century B C—Sanskrit
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

Ann Patchett
Bel Canto_1
2001—English
*Deposit*

Walter Pater
Studies in the History of the Renaissance_2
1873; ten essays, six of which originally published in the Fortnightly Review, 1869-71, two in the Westminster Review, 1867-68—English
*Powys* *Bloom*

Marius the Epicurean_2
1885—English
*Powys* *Bloom*

Imaginary Portraits_2
four essays originally published 1885-7 in Macmillan's Magazine—English
*Powys* *Bloom*

Plato and Platonism_1
1893—English
*Powys*

Gaston de Latour_1
1896—English
*Powys*

Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country_1
1948—English
*Recommended*

Jean Paul
Titan_1
originally published in four volumes, 1800-03—German
*Trinity*

Flegeljahre_1
The Awkward Age
1804-05—German
*Trinity*

Pausanias
Description of Greece_1
Second Century—Greek
*Ward*

Konstantin Paustovsky
Povest' o Žizni_1
Story of a Life
originally published in six volumes, 1946-1963—Russian
*Ward*

Ivan Pavlov
Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex_1
1927—Russian
*Downs*

Octavio Paz
El Laberinto de la Soledad_2
1950—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Piedra de Sol_3
1957—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Salamandra (1958-1961)_2
1962—Spanish
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Blanco_3
1967—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Topoemas_2
1968—Spanish
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Ladera Este (1962-1968)_3
1969—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Pasado en Claro_2
1975—Spanish
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Vuelta_2
1976—Spanish
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Árbol Adentro_2
1987—Spanish
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Octavio Paz; Charles Tomlinson
Hijos del Aire_2
Airborn
1979—Spanish; English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Thomas Love Peacock
Nightmare Abbey_2
1818; revised 1837—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Maid Marian_1
1822—English
*Dirda*

Crotchet Castle_1
1831; revised 1837—English
*Dirda*

Gryll Grange_2
originally published serially 1860 in Fraser's Magazine—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan_1
1946—English
*Bloom*

Gormenghast_1
1950—English
*Bloom*

Titus Alone_1
1959—English
*Bloom*

Charles Péguy
Le Mystère de la Charité de Jeanne d'Arc_1
1910—French
*Bloom*

David Pelzer
A Child Called 'It'_1
1995—English
*Telegraph*

William Penn
Some Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Related to the Conduct of Human Life. Part 1_1
1693—English
*Eliot*

More Fruits of Solitude, Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims, Relating to the Conduct of Human Life_1
1702—English
*Eliot*

Samuel Pepys
Diary_4
written 1660-69; published in part, 1825; expanded and revised 1875-79; further revised versions, 1893-99 and 1926; final work, in nine volumes, 1970-83
*Hundred* *Ward* *Great* *Newman*

Walker Percy
The Moviegoer_2
1961—English
*Bloom* *Smart*

Georges Perec
La Vie Mode d'Emploi_1
Life: A User's Manual
1978—French
*Fadiman*

Charles Perrault
Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé_1
Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye
1867—French
*Deposit*

Saint-John Perse
Éloges_1
1924—French
*Ward*

Anabase_2
1924—French
*Ward* *Bloom*

Exil_2
1942—French
*Ward* *Bloom*

Vents_1
1946—French
*Ward*

Amers_1
1957—French
*Ward*

Chronique_1
1960—French
*Ward*

Oiseaux_2
1963—French
*Ward* *Bloom*

Persius
Satires_1
First Century—Latin
*Bloom*

Fernando Pessoa
O Guardador de Rebanhos_1
written 1914—Portuguese
*Bloom*

Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, Ajudante de Guarda-Livros na Cidade de Lisboa_2
The Book of Disquiet
1928—Portuguese
*Bloom* *Norway*

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Wie Gertrud Ihre Kinder Lehrt_1
How Gertrude Teaches Her Children
1801—German
*Downs*

Sándor Petőfi
János Vitéz_1
written 1845—Hungarian
*Ward*

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
De Secreto Conflictu Curarum Mearum_1
Secretum
written ca. 1347-53—Latin
*Ward*

Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta_3
Il Canzoniere
1374—Italian
*Ward* *World* *Newman*

I Trionfi_1
ca. 1351-74—Italian
*Ward*

Africa_2
written ca. 1337-43—Latin
*Ward* *Trinity*

Petronius
Satyricon_8
late First Century—Latin
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended*

Pindar
Epinikia_3
Victory Odes
Fifth Century B C—Greek
*Downs* *Ward* *Bloom*

Robert Pinget
Le Libera_1
1968—French
*Bloom*

Fable_1
1971—French
*Bloom*

Cette Voix_1
1975—French
*Bloom*

Harold Pinter
The Room_1
1957—English
*Ward*

The Birthday Party_1
1958—English
*Zane*

The Dumb Waiter_1
1959; originally performed in its German translation—English
*Ward*

The Caretaker_3
1960—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Collection_1
1962—English
*Ward*

The Homecoming_2
1965—English
*Bloom* *Zane*

Fernão Mendes Pinto
Peregrinação_1
1614—Portuguese
*Ward*

Luigi Pirandello
Il Fu Mattia Pascal_1
1904—Italian
*Ward*

Liola: Commedia Campestre in Tre Atti_1
1916; Sicilian version published the same year—Italian
*Bloom*

Così è, se Vi Pare!_1
It Is So! (If You Think So)
1917—Italian
*Bloom*

Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore_4
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1921—Italian
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended*

Enrico IV_1
Henry IV
1922—Italian
*Bloom*

Ciascuno a Suo Modo_1
Each in His Own Way
1924—Italian
*Bloom*

José Cardoso Pires
Balada da Praia dos Cães_1
Ballad of Dogs' Beach: Dossier of a Crime
1982—Portuguese
*Bloom*

Robert M Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values_2
1974—English
*Fadiman* *Telegraph*

Christine de Pizan
Le Livre de la Cité des Dames_1
1405—French
*Bloom*

Jean Plaidy
The Plantagenet Prelude_1
1976—English
*Telegraph*

The Revolt of the Eaglets_1
1977—English
*Telegraph*

The Heart of the Lion_1
1978—English
*Telegraph*

The Prince of Darkness_1
1978—English
*Telegraph*

The Battle of the Queens_1
1978—English
*Telegraph*

The Queen From Provence_1
1979—English
*Telegraph*

Edward Longsharks_1
1979; retitled The Hammer of the Scots, 2008—English
*Telegraph*

The Follies of the King_1
1980—English
*Telegraph*

The Vow on the Heron_1
1980—English
*Telegraph*

Passage to Pontefract_1
1981—English
*Telegraph*

The Star of Lancaster_1
1981—English
*Telegraph*

Epitaph for Three Women_1
1981—English
*Telegraph*

Red Rose of Anjou_1
1982—English
*Telegraph*

The Sun in Splendour_1
1982—English
*Telegraph*

Max Planck
Acht Vorlesungen Über Theoretische Physik, Gehalten an der Columbia University in the City of New York im Frühjahr 1909, von Dr. Max Planck_1
Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909
1910; edited 1909 lectures—German
*Great*

Die Entstehung und Bisherige Entwicklung der Quantentheorie_2
Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory: Being the Nobel Prize Address Delivered Before the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, 2 June, 1920
1922—German
*Read* *Educated*

Wege zur Physikalischen Erkenntnis: Reden und Vortrage_1
Where Is Science Going?
1932; originally published in its English translation; in its original German, 1933—German
*Read*

Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiogarphie. Mit Einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue Gehaltenen Traueransprache_2
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
1948—German
*Read* *Adler*

Sylvia Plath
The Colossus and Other Poems_1
1960—English
*Ward*

The Bell Jar_5
originally published 1963 under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas—English
*Ward* *Guardian* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Ariel_1
1965; revised 2004—English
*Ward*

Winter Trees_1
1971—English
*Ward*

Crossing the Water_1
1971—English
*Ward*

Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963_1
1975—English
*Ward*

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams_1
1977; expanded later edition—English
*Ward*

Plato
Euthyphro_6
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Adler* *Campbell* *O'Hear* *Van Doren*

Apologia Socratis_16
The Apology
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Crito_13
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *O'Hear* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Phaedo_14
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *O'Hear* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Cratylus_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Theaetetus_4
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Van Doren*

Sophist_4
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Classics* *Read**Adler* *Van Doren*

Statesman_3
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Downs* *Adler* *Van Doren*

Critias_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Parmenides_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Philebus_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Symposium_10
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Van Doren* *Graphic*

Phaedrus_3
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Classics* *Adler* *Read*

Charmides_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Laches_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Lysis_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Euthydemus_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Protagoras_5
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

Gorgias_2
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Read* *Adler*

Meno_4
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Read* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

Ion_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Recommended* *Educated*

Timaeus_3
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Classics* *Downs* *Adler*

Laws_2
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Downs* *Adler*

The Seventh Letter_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Adler*

Andrei Platonov
Kotlovan_1
The Foundation Pit
1987; written 1926-30—Russian
*Bloom*

Titus Maccius Plautus
Amphitryo_3
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Persa_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Menaechmi_2
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward*

Cistellaria_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Miles Gloriosus_3
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Mostellaria_2
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward*

Epidicus_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Mercator_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Curculio_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Pseudolus_2
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward* *Bloom*

Casina_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Captivi_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Bacchides_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Asinaria_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Aulularia_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Rudens_3
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Truculentus_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Trinummus_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Stichus_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Poenulus_1
Third-early Second centuries B C—Latin
*Ward*

Pliny the Elder
Naturalis Historia_1
ca. 77-79—Latin
*Downs*

Pliny the Younger
Epistulae_1
First Century—Latin
*Ward*

Plotinus
Enneads_6
Third Century—Greek
*Read* *Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *World*

Plutarch
Bìoi Paràllēloi_18
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
First Century—Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Van Doren* *Educated*

Moralia_2
First Century—Greek
*Read* *Bloom*

Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket_4
published in part, 1836-37, in the Southern Literary Messenger, under the author's given name; in its entirety, 1838, under the pseudonym, Arthur Gordon Pym—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Norway* *Newman*

Eureka_1
1848—English
*Bloom*

Henri Poincaré
La Science et l'Hypothèse_2
1902—French
*Read* *Adler*

La Science et Méthode_1
1908—French
*Read*

Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World_1
2001—English
*Van Doren*

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals_1
2006—English
*Van Doren*

Marco Polo; Rustichello da Pisa
Livre des Merveilles du Monde_3
ca. 1300—French
*Rexroth* *Downs* *Ward*

Polybius
Histories_2
Second Century B C—Greek
*Downs* *Trinity*

Alexander Pope
Essay on Criticism_5
1711—English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Dirda* *Van Doren* *Newman*

The Rape of the Lock_8
originally anonymously published 1712 in Linot's Miscellany; expanded 1714 and 1717—English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Dirda* *Great* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Dunciad_2
originally anonymously published 1728; revised through fourth edition, 1743—English
*Dirda* *Recommended*

Four Ethic Epistles_1
Moral Essays
originally published in four volumes: An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington, 1731; Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst, 1733; An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Cobham, 1734; Of The Characters of Women: An Epistle To A Lady, 1735; revised and included with three additional epistles in The Works of Alexander Pope, 1735, entitled Ethic Epistles, the Second Book, to Several Persons; those additional epistles removed and work revised and retitled Four Ethic Epistles for unpublished collected works, 1744; retitled Moral Essays for inclusion in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. in Nine Volumes Complete, 1751—English
*Newman*

Essay on Man_6
1734—English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Van Doren* *Newman *Recommended*

Karl Popper
Logik der Forschung_1
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
1934—German
*SeymourSmith*

The Open Society and Its Enemies_1
1945—English
*Great*

Katherine Anne Porter
Pale Horse, Pale Rider_2
1939—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Ship of Fools_2
1962—English
*Zane* *Recommended*

Chaim Potok
The Chosen_2
1967—English
*Smart* *Recommended*

The Promise_1
1969—English
*Smart*

My Name Is Asher Lev_1
1972—English
*Smart*

Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews_1
1978—English
*Smart*

Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit_1
1902—English
*Van Doren*

Ezra Pound
A Lume Spento_1
1908—English
*Bloom*

Personae of Ezra Pound_3
1909—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Dirda*

The Spirit of Romance_2
1910; edited lectures—English
*Ward* *Dirda*

Canzoni of Ezra Pound_1
1911—English
*Bloom*

The Ripostes of Ezra Pound_1
1912—English
*Bloom*

Lustra_1
1916; revised U S version, 1917—English
*Bloom*

Quia Pauper Amavi_1
1918—English
*Bloom*

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley_2
1920—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Cantos_7
published in part in Poetry, Jun.-Aug. 1917; the Criterion, Jul. 1923; the Transatlantic Review, Jan. 1924; and in the following volumes: The Fourth Canto, 1919; A Draft of XVI Cantos, 1925; A Draft of Cantos 17-27, 1928; A Draft of XXX Cantos, 1930; Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI, 1934; The Fifth Decad of Cantos, 1937; Cantos LII-LXXI, 1940; The Pisan Cantos, 1948; Seventy Cantos, 1950; Section: Rock-Drill, 85-95 de los Cantares, 1955; Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, 1959; Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII, 1968; in its entirety, revised and expanded, 1987—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman* *Recommended*

A.B C of Reading_3
1934—English
*Ward* *Dirda* *Newman*

Guide to Kulchur_2
1938—English
*Ward* *Newman*

Anthony Powell
A Question of Upbringing_2
1951—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

A Buyer's Market_2
1952—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

The Acceptance World_2
1955—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

At Lady Molly's_2
1957—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant_2
1960—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

The Kindly Ones_2
1962—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

The Valley of Bones_2
1964—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

The Soldier's Art_2
1966—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

The Military Philosophers_2
1968—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

Books Do Furnish a Room_2
1971—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

Temporary Kings_2
1973—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

Hearing Secret Harmonies_2
1975—English
*Fadiman* *Zane*

John Cowper Powys
Wolf Solent_1
1929—English
*Bloom*

A Glastonbury Romance_1
1933—English
*Bloom*

Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Bumi Manusia_2
This Earth of Mankind
1980—Malay
*Fadiman* *Utne*

Anak Semua Bangsa_2
Child of All Nations
1980—Malay
*Fadiman* *Utne*

Jejak Langkah_2
Footsteps
1985—Malay
*Fadiman* *Utne*

Rumah Kaca_2
House of Glass
1988—Malay
*Fadiman* *Utne*

Premchand
Godan_1
The Gift of a Cow
1936—Hindustani
*Ward*

William Hickling Prescott
The History of the Conquest of Mexico_1
1843—English
*Invitation*

Jacques Prévert
Paroles_1
—French
*Bloom*

Abbé Prévost
Mémoires et Aventures d'un Homme de Qualité qui s'Est Retiré du Monde_1
originally published in seven volumes: first-fourth, 1728; fifth-seventh, 1731—French
*Ward*

L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut_3
seventh volume of Homme de Qualité [see above]; published separately 1731—French
*France* *Ward* *Bloom*

F T Prince
Poems_1
1938—English
*Bloom*

Soldiers Bathing and Other Poems_1
1954—English
*Bloom*

The Doors of Stone (Poems 1938-62)_1
1963—English
*Bloom*

Memoirs in Oxford_1
1970—English
*Bloom*

Drypoints in Hasidim_1
1975—English
*Bloom*

Afterword on Rupert Brooke_1
1976—English
*Bloom*

Later On_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

Walks in Rome_1
1987—English
*Bloom*

Procopius
De Bellis_1
Wars of Justinian
written ca. 545—Greek
*Ward*

Peri Ktismaton_1
De Aedificiis
written ca. 557—Greek
*Ward*

Anekdota_1
Historia Arcana
written ca. 550-60—Greek
*Ward*

Sextus Propertius
Elegiae_2
First Century B C—Latin
*Ward* *Newman*

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Qu'est-ce Que la Popriété? Ou Recherche sur le Principe du Droit et du Gouvernment_1
1840—French
*Downs*

Marcel Proust
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu_17
In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27—French
*Classics* *France* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Recommended*

Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)
Almagest_4
Second Century—Greek
*Read* *Adler* *Great* *Van Doren*

Geographike Hyphegesis_2
Geography
Second Century—Greek
*Downs* *Taylor*

Phillip Pullman
His Dark Materials_4
originally published in three volumes: Northern Lights, 1995 (U S title: The Golden Compass); The Subtle Knife, 1997; The Amber Spyglass, 2000—English
*Guardian* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard*

Alexander Pushkin
Ruslan i Lûdmila_1
1820—Russian
*Bloom*

Evgénij Onegin_7
Eugene Onegin
published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837—Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended*

Povesti Pokojnogo Ivana Petroviča Belkina_1
The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
1831—Russian
*Bloom*

Boris Godunov_2
1831—Russian
*Classics* *Bloom*

Mocart i Sal'eri_1
Mozart and Salieri
1832—Russian
*Classics*

Kapitanskaâ Dočka_5
The Captain's Daughter
originally published 1836 in Sovremennik—Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Newman*

Pú Sōngling
Liáozhāi Zhìyì_1
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio
written ca. late Seventeenth Century; published 1766—Chinese
*Ward*

Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood_1
1883—English
*Harvard*

Barbara Pym
Excellent Women_1
1952—English
*Fadiman*

An Unsuitable Attachment_1
1982—English
*Fadiman*

Thomas Pynchon
V_1
1963; revised for U K edition published the same year—English
*Bloom*

The Crying of Lot 49_3
1966—English
*Bloom* *Smart* *Recommended*

Gravity's Rainbow_4
1973—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Francisco de Quevedo
Historia de la Vida del Buscón, Llamado Don Pablos, Ejemplo de Vagamundos y Espejo de Tacaños_1
El Buscón
1626—Spanish
*Ward*

Sueños y Discursos de Verdades Descubridoras de Abusos, Vicios y Engaños en Todos los Oficios del Mundo_2
Dreams
1627—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Thomas de Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater_2
originally published serially Sep.-Oct. 1821 in the London Magazine—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Daniel Quinn
Ishmael_1
1992—English
*Van Doren

Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)
Insitutio Oratoria_3
ca. 95—Latin
*Downs* *Ward* *Trinity*

Qū Yuán; Sòng Yù
Cǔ Chí_2
Songs of the South; Verses of Chu
ca. Third Century B C-Third Century—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental*

David Rabe
Streamers_1
1975—English
*Bloom*

François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel_22
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, 1564; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translation—French
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Jean Racine
Andromaque_6
1667—French
*Classics* *Read* *Bloom* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended*

Les Plaideurs_1
1668—French
*Classics*

Britannicus_2
1669—French
*Classics* *Bloom*

Bérénice_2
1670—French
*Classics* *Adler*

Phèdre_11
1677—French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *Newman* *Recommended*

Esther_2
1689—French
*Classics* *Trinity*

Athalie_4
1691—French
*Classics* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*

Anne Radcliffe
The Mysteries of Udolpho_1
1794—English
*Recommended*

Raymond Radiguet
Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel_1
Count of d'Orgel's Ball
1924—French
*Bloom*

Walter Raleigh
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana_1
The Discovery of Guiana
1596—English
*Eliot*

Ramanuja
Gita Bhashya_1
Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita
ca. Eleventh Century—Sanskrit
*World*

Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged_2
1957—English
*Great* *Recommended*

Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons_2
1930—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph*

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling_1
1938—English
*Smart*

Herbert Read
The Green Child_1
1935—English
*Ward*

Contrary Experiences: Autobiographies_1
published in part, 1933, as The Innocent Eye; and 1940, as Annals of Innocence and Experience; in its entirety, 1963—English
*Ward*

Charles Reade
The Cloister and the Hearth_1
1861—English
*Hundred**

Allen Reddick
The Making of Johnson's Dictionary_1
1990—English
*Smart*

Bruce Redford
Designing the Life of Johnson_1
2002—English
*Smart*

Alves Redol
A Barca dos Sete Lemes_1
1958—Portuguese
*Ward*

John Reed
Ten Days That Shook the World_2
1919—English
*Kanigel* *Recommended*

Ishmael Reed
Mumbo Jumbo_1
1972—English
*Bloom*

Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen Nichts Neues_6
All Quiet on the Western Front
originally published Dec. 1928 in Vossische Zeitung—German
*Hundred* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Ernest Renan
Vie de Jésus_1
1863; revised 1867—French
*Hundred*

Jules Renard
Journal de Jules Renard_1
1925—French
*France*

Mary Renault
Fire From Heaven_1
1969—English
*Telegraph*

The Persian Boy_1
1972—English
*Telegraph*

Funeral Games_1
1981—English
*Telegraph*

Jean Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mon Père_1
Renoir, My Father
1962—French
*List*

Nicolas-Edme Rétif (Rétif de la Bretonne)
Monsieur Nicolas_1
originally published in 16 volumes, 1794-97—French
*Rexroth*

Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz_1
1717—French
*France*

Joshua Reynolds
Discourses on Art_1
15 edited 1769-90 lectures—English
*Classics*

Kenneth Rexroth
An Autobiographical Novel_1
1965—English
*Utne*

Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea_1
1966—English
*Smart*

Samuel Richardson
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded_4
1740; later revised—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Newman* *Recommended*

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady_5
1748—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Zane* *Newman* *Recommended*

The History of Sir Charles Grandison_2
1753—English
*Bloom* *Newman*

Rainer Maria Rilke
Neue Gedichte_1
New Poems
1907—German
*Bloom*

Der Neuen Gedichte Anderer Teil_1
Another Part of the New Poems
1908—German
*Bloom*

Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge_2
The Notebooks of Malte Laurdis Brigge
1910—German
*Bloom* *Trinity*

Duineser Elegien_5
The Duino Elegies
1923—German
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne*

Die Sonette an Orpheus_4
The Sonnets to Orpheus
1923—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Briefe an Einen Jungen Dichter_1
Letters to a Young Poet
1929—German
*Graphic*

Arthur Rimbaud
Une Saison en Enfer_6
A Season in Hell
1873—French
*France* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman*

Les Illuminations_5
published in part serially May-Jun. 1886 in La Vogue; in its entirety later the same year—French
*France* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Ward* *Newman*

Sogyal Rinpoche
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying_1
1992—English
*Utne*

José Eustacio Rivera
La Vorágine_1
The Vortex
1924—Spanish
*Ward*

José Rizal
Noli Me Tángere_1
1887; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Harold Augenbraum's English translation—Spanish
*Smart*

El Filibusterismo_1
The Reign of Greed
1891—Spanish
*Smart*

Alain Robbe-Grillet
Les Gommes_1
1953—French
*Bloom*

Le Voyeur_1
1955—French
*Bloom*

La Jalousie_1
1957—French
*Bloom*

Dans le Labyrinthe_1
1959—French
*Bloom*

Pour un Nouveau Roman_1
1963; originally published serially 1955-63—French
*Bloom*

Projet pour une Révolution à New York _1
1970—French
*Bloom*

Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping_1
1980—English
*Harvard*

Gilead_1
2004—English
*Harvard*

François de la Rochefoucauld
Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales_4
originally anonymously published 1665—French
*Durant* *France* *Ward* *Bloom*

Mémoires_1
originally published in unauthorized editions of disputed multiple authorship—French
*Ward*

Mercè Rodoreda
La Plaça del Diamant_2
The Time of the Doves
1962—Catalan
*Bloom* *Zane*

James Harvey Robinson
The Ordeal of Civilization_1
1926—English
*Durant*

Richard Rodriguez
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez_1
1982—English
*Educated*

Theodore Roethke
Open House_1
1941—English
*Bloom*

The Lost Son and Other Poems_1
1948—English
*Bloom*

The Far Field_1
1964—English
*Bloom*

Theodore Roethke; David Wagoner
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63_1
1972—English
*Bloom*

Fernando de Rojas
Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea_2
La Celestina
1499—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Romain Rolland
Jean Christophe_3
originally published in ten volumes: L'Aube, 1904; Le Matin, 1904; L'Adolescent, 1904; La Révolte, 1905; La Foir sur la Place, 1908; Antoinette, 1908; Dans la Maison, 1908; Les Amies, 1910; Le Buisson Ardent, 1911; La Nouvelle Journée, 1912—French
*Powys* *Durant* *Hundred*

Ole Edvard Rølvåg
I de Dage_1
1923; English translation published with Riket Grundlægges as Giants in the Earth—Norwegian
*Fadiman*

Riket Grundlægges_1
1924; English translation published with I de Dage as Giants in the Earth—Norwegian
*Fadiman*

Pierre de Ronsard
Les Odes_2
originally published in five volumes: first-fourth, 1550; fifth, 1552—French
*France* *Bloom*

William Roper
The Life of Sir Thomas More_2
1626—English
*Eliot* *Rexroth*

João Guimarães Rosa
Sagarana_1
1946—Portuguese
*Ward*

Grande Sertão: Veredas_2
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
1956—Portuguese
*Ward* *Norway*

Isaac Rosenberg
Night and Day_1
1912—English
*Bloom*

Youth_1
1915—English
*Bloom*

Moses_1
1916—English
*Bloom*

Jakob Rosenberg
Rembrandt: Life and Work_1
1964—English
*Ward*

Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac_3
1897—French
*Magill* *Newman* *Recommended*

Leo Rosten
The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N_1
1937; originally published in part in the New Yorker—English
*Van Doren*

The Joys of Yiddish_1
1968—English
*Van Doren*

Henry Roth
Call It Sleep_1
1934—English
*Bloom*

Joseph Roth
Radetzkymarsch_1
The Radetzky March
1932—German
*Bloom*

Philip Roth
Goodbye, Columbus_1
1959—English
*Fadiman*

Portnoy's Complaint_3
1969—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Deposit*

The Breast_1
1972—English
*Smart*

My Life as a Man_1
1974—English
*Bloom*

The Ghost Writer_1
1979—English
*Bloom*

Zuckerman Bound_1
1981—English
*Bloom*

The Anatomy Lesson_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

The Prague Orgy_1
1985—English
*Bloom*

The Counterlife_1
1986—English
*Bloom*

Patrimony: A True Story_1
1991—English
*Bloom*

Operation Shylock_1
1993—English
*Bloom*

The Human Stain_2
2000—English
*Telegraph* *Recommended*

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts_3
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
1750—French
*Classics* *Trinity* *Dirda*

Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes_7
Discourse on Inequality
1755—French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Adler* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Van Doren*

Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse_3
originally entitled Lettres de Deux Amans Habitans d'une Petite Ville au Pied des Alpes, published 1761—French
*Bloom* *Dirda* *Newman*

Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique_17
The Social Contract
1762—French
*Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Good* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Educated*

Émile, ou de l'Éducation_6
1762—French
*Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman*

Les Confessions_14
1782—French
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire_1
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
1782—French
*Dirda*

Raymond Roussel
Locus Solus_1
1914—French
*Bloom*

Mary Rowlandson
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson_1
1682—English
*Educated*

J K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_5
1997—English
*Guardian* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard*

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets_4
1998—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard*

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_4
1999—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard*

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_4
2000—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard*

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix_4
2003—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard*

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince_4
2005—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard*

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows_4
2007—English
*Guardian* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard*

Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things_1
1997—English
*Recommended*

Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita
El Libro de Buen Amor_1
written 1330-43—Spanish
*Ward*

Juan Rulfo
El Llano en Llamas_1
1953—Spanish
*Ward*

Pedro Páramo_2
1955—Spanish
*Ward* *Norway*

Rumi
Masnavi-l Ma'navi_3
Mathnavi
written ca. 1258-73—Persian
*Ward* *Norway* *World*

Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi_1
written ca. 1250—Persian
*Utne*

Fihi Ma Fihi_1
Thirteenth Century—Persian
*Ward*

Steven Runciman
A History of the Crusades_2
1951—English
*List* *Telegraph*

Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children_8
1981—English
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Recommended*

The Satanic Verses_2
1988—English
*Trinity* *Recommended*

Haroun and the Sea of Stories_1
1990—English
*Harvard*

John Ruskin
Modern Painters_2
originally published in five volumes: first, 1843; second, 1846; third-fourth, 1856; fifth, 1860—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

The Seven Lamps of Architecture_1
1849—English
*Kanigel*

The Stones of Venice_2
originally published in three volumes: first, 1851; second-third, 1853—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy_2
originally published serially 1860-61 in Cornhill Magazine—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Munera Pulveris: Six Essays on the Elements of Political Economy_1
1872; originally published serially 1862-63 in Fraser's Magazine—English
*Ward*

Sesame and Lilies_1
two edited 1864 lectures, 'Of Kings' Treasures' and 'Of Queens' Gardens'; published 1865; second edition that year includes preface; revised, with new preface and essay 'The Mystery of Life and Its Art', 1871; 'Mystery' essay removed and another new preface added for 1882 edition—English
*Eliot*

The Queen of the Air: A Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm_1
1869—English
*Bloom*

Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life_1
originally published in three volumes, 1885-89—English
*Ward*

Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy_2
1912—English
*Read* *Adler*

The Analysis of Mind_2
1921—English
*Read* *Ward*

An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth_2
1940—English
*Read* *Ward*

A History of Western Philosophy_1
1945—English
*Ward*

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits_2
1948—English
*Read* *Ward*

Richard Russo
Straight Man_1
1997—English
*Smart*

Shota Rustaveli
Vepkhistkaosani_1
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
late Twelfth Century—Georgian
*Ward*

Cornelius Ryan
The Longest Day_1
1959—English
*Educated*

Anatoly Rybakov
Deti Arbata_1
Children of the Arabat
1987—Russian
*Fadiman*

Strah_1
Fear
1990—Russian
*Fadiman*

Prah i Pepel_1
Dust and Ashes
1994—Russian
*Fadiman*

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Venus im Pelz_1
Venus in Furs
1870—German
*Graphic*

Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales_1
1985—English
*Great*

Marquis de Sade
Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'École du Libertinage_1
written 1785; published 1905—French
*Newman*

Justine ou Les Malheurs de la Vertu_1
1791; revised and retitled La Nouvelle Justine ou Les Malheurs de la Vertu, 1797—French
*Newman*

Mulla Sadra
Al-Asfar_1
The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect
early Seventh Century—Arabic
*World*

Carl Sagan
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective_1
1973—English
*Great*

Edward Said
Orientalism_1
1978—English
*Deposit*

Culture and Imperialism_1
1993—English
*Utne*

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Le Petit Prince_5
1943—French
*Van Doren* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Deposit* *Recommended*

J Hector St. John (J Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur)
Letters From an American Farmer Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs Not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America_1
1782—English
*Smart*

Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon
Memoires_1
written 1739-49; published in part, 1788; in its entirety, 1858—French
*France*

Francis de Sales
Introduction à la Vie Dévote_1
1609—French
*Trinity*

Tayeb Salih
Mawsim al-Hijra ila ash-Shamal_1
Season of Migration to the North
1966—Arabic
*Norway*

Pedro Salinas
La Voz a ti Debida_1
My Voice Because of You
1933—Spanish
*Bloom*

J D Salinger
Catcher in the Rye_8
1951—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Zane* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Franny and Zooey_3
1961; 'Franny' originally published Jan. 1955 in the New Yorker; 'Zooey' originally published May 1957 in the New Yorker—English
*Fadiman* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction_1
1961; two novellas originally published in the New Yorker, 1955 and 1959, respectively—English
*Harvard*

Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
The Conspiracy of Cataline_1
First Century—Latin
*Downs*

The Jugurthine War_1
First Century—Latin
*Downs*

James Salter
Light Years_1
1975—English
*Bloom*

Solo Faces_1
1979—English
*Bloom*

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Gospoda Golovlëvy_1
The Golovlyov Family
published in part serially 1875-6 and 1880 in Otečestvennye Zapiski—Russian
*Ward*

Francesco de Sanctis
Storia Della Letteratura Italiana_1
History of Italian Literature
originally published in two volumes, 1870 and 1871—Italian
*Trinity*

George Sand
La Mare au Diable_2
1846—French
*Eliot* *Bloom*

Diego de San Pedro
Cárcel de Amor_1
ca. Fifteenth Century—Spanish
*Bloom*

George Santayana
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress_1
originally published in five volumes, 1905-06—English
*Read*

Scepticism and Animal Faith_2
1923—English
*Read* *Magill*

Persons and Places_1
1944—English
*Read*

Al Santoli
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three Soldiers Who Fought It_1
1981—English
*Smart*

José Saramago
Memorial do Convento_1
Baltasar and Blimunda
1982—Portuguese
*Bloom*

Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira_2
Blindness
1995—Portuguese
*Norway* *Van Doren*

A Caverna_1
The Cave
1995—Portuguese
*Van Doren*

Severo Sarduy
Maitreya_1
1978—Spanish
*Bloom*

Nathalie Sarraute
Le Planetarium_1
1959—French
*Bloom*

L'Usage de la Parole_1
1980—French
*Bloom*

Jean-Paul Sartre
La Nausée_7
Nausea
1938—French
*Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Graphic* *Recommended*

L'Être et le Néant: Essai d'Ontologie Phénoménologique_5
Being and Nothingness
1943—French
*Read* *Ward* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great*

Les Mouches_2
The Flies
1943—French
*Ward* *Trinity*

Huis Clos_6
No Exit
1944—French
*Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Recommended* *Educated*

L'Idiot de la Famille: Gustave Flaubert de 1821 à 1857_1
1971-2—French
*Bloom*

Les Séquestrés d'Altona_1
1959—French
*Ward*

Les Mots_2
1964—French
*Ward* *Bloom*

Saint Genet, Comédien et Martyr_1
1952—French
*Bloom*

May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude_1
1973—English
*Educated*

Siegfried Sassoon
War Poems_1
1919—English
*Great*

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man_1
1928—English
*Telegraph*

Sithalai Sattanar (Seethalai Saathanar)
Manimekalai_1
one of five Great Epics of Tamil literature; ca. Second Century—Tamil
*Ward*

Dorothy L Sayers
Gaudy Night_1
1935—English
*Dirda*

Maurice Scève
Délie, Objet de Plus Haulte Vertu_1
1544—French
*Bloom*

Simon Schama
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution_2
1989—English
*Fadiman* *Telegraph*

Erich Schiffmann
Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness_1
1996—English
*Utne*

Friedrich Schiller
Die Räuber_3
1781—German
*Classics* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Kabale und Liebe_2
1784—German
*Classics* *Trinity*

Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien_3
1787—German
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Briefe Über Don Carlos_1
1788—German
*Ward*

Über die Äthetische Erziehung des Menschen in Einer Reihe von Briefen_2
1794—German
*Eliot* *Classics*

Wallenstein_3
three parts: Die Piccolomini, Wallensteins Lager, and Wallensteins Tod, 1798-99—German
*Classics* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Maria Stuart_3
1800—German
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Die Jungfrau von Orleans_1
written 1801—German
*Classics*

Wilhelm Tell_4
1804—German
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Trinity*

Friedrich Schleiermacher
Der Christliche Glaube Nach den Grundsätzen der Evangelischen Kirche_1
The Christian Faith
1821-22; revised 1830-31—German
*World*

Reinhold Schneider
Las Casas vor Karl V_1
Imperial Mission
1938—German
*Trinity*

Arnold Schopenhauer
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung_3
The World as Will and Idea
originally published in two volumes, 1819 and 1844—German
*Classics* *Ward* *SeymourSmith*

Parerga and Paraliopomena_1
1851—German
*Ward*

Ben Schott
Schott's Original Miscellany_1
2002—English
*Telegraph*

Erwin Schrödinger
What Is Life?_2
1944; edited 1943 lectures—English
*Adler* *Educated*

Nature and the Greeks_1
1954—English
*Van Doren*

Bruno Schulz
Sklepy Cynamonowe_1
The Street of Crocodiles
1934—Polish
*Bloom*

Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą_1
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
1937—Polish
*Bloom*

E F Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered_1
1973—English
*Utne*

James Schuyler
Freely Espousing_1
1969—English
*Bloom*

The Crystal Lithium_1
1972—English
*Bloom*

Hymn to Life_1
1974—English
*Bloom*

The Morning of the Poem_1
1980—English
*Bloom*

A Few Days_1
1985—English
*Bloom*

Delmore Schwartz
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities_1
1938—English
*Bloom*

Marcel Schwob
Les Vies Imaginaires_1
1896—French
*Ward*

Albert Schweitzer
Zwischen Wasser und Urwald_1
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest
1920—German
*Ward*

Aus Meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit_1
Memoirs of Childhood and Youth
1924—German
*Ward*

Aus Meinem Leben und Denken_1
Out of My Life and Thought
1931—German
*Ward*

Das Urwaldspital zu Lambaréné_1
More From the Primeval Forest
1931—German
*Ward*

Leonardo Sciasia
Il Giorno Della Civetta_1
1961—Italian
*Bloom*

Il Contesto_1
1971—Italian
*Bloom*

Walter Scott
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since_3
originally anonymously published 1814—English
*Baldwin* *Ward* *Bloom*

Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer_3
originally anonymously published 1815—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys*

The Antiquary_1
originally anonymously published 1816—English
*Baldwin*

The Black Dwarf_1
originally anonymously published 1816—English
*Baldwin*

The Tale of Old Mortality_2
originally anonymously published 1816—English
*Baldwin* *Bloom*

Rob Roy_2
originally anonymously published 1817—English
*Baldwin* *Newman*

The Heart of Midlothian_3
originally anonymously published 1818—English
*Baldwin* *Powys* *Bloom*

The Bride of Lamermoor_3
originally anonymously published 1819—English
*Baldwin* *Powys* *Newman*

A Legend of Montrose_1
originally anonymously published 1819—English
*Baldwin*

Ivanhoe_6
originally anonymously published 1819—English
*Baldwin* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Magill* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Monastery_1
originally anonymously published 1820—English
*Baldwin*

The Abbot_1
originally anonymously published 1820—English
*Baldwin*

Kenilworth_1
originally anonymously published 1821—English
*Baldwin*

The Pirate_1
originally anonymously published 1822—English
*Baldwin*

The Fortunes of Nigel_1
originally anonymously published 1822—English
*Baldwin*

Peveril of the Peak_1
originally anonymously published 1822—English
*Baldwin*

Quentin Durward_1
originally anonymously published 1823—English
*Baldwin*

St. Ronan's Well_1
originally anonymously published 1823—English
*Baldwin*

Redgauntlet_2
originally anonymously published 1824—English
*Baldwin* *Bloom*

The Betrothed_1
originally anonymously published 1825—English
*Baldwin*

The Talisman_1
originally anonymously published 1825—English
*Baldwin*

Woodstock; or, The Cavalier_1
originally anonymously published 1826—English
*Baldwin*

St. Valentine's Day; or, The Fair Maid of Perth_1
originally anonymously published 1828—English
*Baldwin*

Anne of Geierstein; or, The Maiden of the Mist_1
originally anonymously published 1829—English
*Baldwin*

Count Robert of Paris_1
originally anonymously published 1831—English
*Baldwin*

Castle Dangerous_1
originally anonymously published 1831—English
*Baldwin*

Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones_1
2002—English
*Guardian*

David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day_1
2000; presented in part as radio essays—English
*Smart*

Mendele Mokher Seforim
The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third_1
1878—Yiddish
*Bloom*

Sei Shonagon
Makura no Soshi_4
The Pillow Book
written 1002—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great*

Jaroslav Seifert
Morový Sloup_1
1968-70—Czech
*Ward*

Deštník z Picadilly_1
1979—Czech
*Ward*

Hubert Selby
Last Exit to Brooklyn_1
published in part, 1956, as 'The Queen Is Dead', in the Black Mountain Review; and 1961, as 'Tralala', in the Provincetown Review; in its entirety, 1964—English
*Graphic*

Hans Selye
The Stress of Life_1
1956—English
*Kanigel*

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Thyestes_2
First Century—Latin
*Classics* *Magill*

Phaedra_1
First Century—Latin
*Classics*

Medea_1
First Century—Latin
*Bloom*

Hercules Furens_1
First Century—Latin
*Bloom*

De Constantia Sapientis_1
First Century—Latin
*Classics*

De Brevitate Vitae_2
First Century—Latin
*Classics* *Great*

De Consolatione ad Marciam_1
ca. 40-45—Latin
*Classics*

De Providentia_1
First Century—Latin
*Ward*

De Clementia_1
written 55-56—Latin
*Ward*

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium_1
First Century—Latin
*Ward*

Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Automoribundia_1
1948—Spanish
*Ward*

Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy_2
1993—English
*Guardian* *Deposit*

Yaakov Shabtai
Zikhron Devraim_1
Past Continuous
1977—Hebrew
*Bloom*

David Shahar
Summer in the Street of the Prophets_1
1973—Hebrew
*Bloom*

A Voyage to Ur of the Chaldees_1
1978—Hebrew
*Bloom*

The Day of the Countess_1
1981—Hebrew
*Bloom*

Nin-Gal_1
1985—Hebrew
*Bloom*

The Day of the Ghosts_1
1988—Hebrew
*Bloom*

A Tammuz Night's Dream_1
1989—Hebrew
*Bloom*

Nights of Lutetia_1
1991—Hebrew
*Bloom*

On Candles and Winds_1
1994—Hebrew
*Bloom*

Peter Shaffer
Equus_3
1973—English
*Trinity* *Recommended* *Educated*

Al-Shafii
Kitab al-Risala_1
late Eighth-early Ninth centuries—Arabic
*World*

William Shakespeare
The Two Gentlemen of Verona_7
ca. 1590-4—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

Romeo and Juliet_14
ca. 1591-7—English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

The First Part of Henry VI_6
ca. 1592—English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

The Second Part of Henry VI_6
ca. 1592—English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

The Third Part of Henry VI_6
ca. 1592—English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

The Taming of the Shrew_9
ca. 1592-94—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Richard III_11
ca. 1592-97—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Titus Andronicus_5
1594—English
*Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

The Comedy of Errors_8
1594—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

A Midsummer Night's Dream_15
ca. 1595-1600—English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Merchant of Venice_11
ca. 1596-98—English
*Durant* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Merry Wives of Windsor_7
ca. 1597-1602—English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Van Doren* *Newman*

The First Part of Henry IV_13
1597—English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Richard II_10
1597—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Love's Labour Lost_6
1598—English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

King John_5
ca. 1598—English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World*

Much Ado About Nothing_10
ca. 1598-99—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Julius Caesar_9
1599—English
*Durant* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Henry V_10
1599—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *O'Hear* *Taylor* *World* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Second Part of Henry IV_12
1600—English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will_10
1602—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Hamlet_27
1602—English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Troilus and Cressida_7
ca. 1602-09—English
*Ward* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

As You Like It_12
1603—English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Measure for Measure_10
1604—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Othello_14
ca. 1604—English
*Durant* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Coriolanus_8
written ca. 1605-08—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

King Lear_21
1606—English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Pericles, Prince of Tyre_4
ca. 1606-08—English
*Ward* *Adler* *Van Doren* *Newman*

All's Well That Ends Well_8
ca. 1606-8—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Macbeth_16
written ca. 1606—English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Antony and Cleopatra_13
ca. 1606—English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Timon of Athens_7
written ca. 1607—English
*Durant* *Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

The Tempest_20
1611—English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Winter's Tale_10
ca. 1611—English
*Classics* *Magill* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman*

Henry VIII_6
ca. 1613—English
*Ward* *Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*

The Two Noble Kinsmen_1
written ca. 1613-4—English
*Newman*

Cymbeline_6
written ca. 1609—English
*Adler* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman*

Sonnets_8
1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Rape of Lucrece_2
1594—English
*Ward* *Newman*

Venus and Adonis_2
1593—English
*Ward* *Newman*

Adi Shankara
Brahmasutra Bhasya_2
Commentary on the Brahma Sutra
ca. early Ninth Century—Sanskrit
*Oriental* *World*

Shantideva
Bodhisattvacharyavatara_1
written ca. 700—Sanskrit
*Oriental*

Shào Yōng
Huángjí Jīngshì_1
Book of Supreme World Ordering Principles
Eleventh Century—Chinese
*World*

George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man_1
1894—English
*Fadiman*

The Devil's Disciple_1
1897—English
*Fadiman*

You Can Never Tell_1
1897—English
*Classics*

The Quintessene of Isbenism_1
1892; edited 1890 lecture—English
*Bloom*

The Perfect Wagnerite_1
1898; expanded 1907—English
*Bloom*

Candida_3
published 1898 as part of Plays Pleasant; originally performed 1903—English
*Hundred* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Caesar and Cleopatra_3
1901—English
*Read* *Fadiman* *Foundation*

Man and Superman_7
performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915—English
*Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Major Barbara_4
1905—English
*Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense About Artists Being Degenerate_2
1908—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

Fanny's First Play_1
1911—English
*Powys*

Androcles and the Lion_2
1912—English
*Powys* *Fadiman*

Pygmalion_7
1913—English
*Powys* *Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Heartbreak House_3
1919—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Back to Methusela_2
1921—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Saint Joan_8
1923—English
*Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Future of Political Science in America: An Address by Mr. Bernard Shaw to the Academy of Political Science, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on the 11th. April, 1933_1
1933—English
*Classics*

London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto (Later Known as Bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars_1
1937; originally published serially 1888-89 in the Star—English
*Classics*

Rupert Sheldrake
Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science_1
1995—English
*Utne*

Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus_12
originally anonymously published 1818—English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cenci_1
1819—English
*Eliot*

Prometheus Unbound_4
1820—English
*Magill* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Adonais: An Elegy Upon the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperon, etc._2
1821—English
*Newman* *Recommended*

Epipsychidion_1
originally anonymously published 1821—English
*Newman*

Sam Shephard
La Turista_1
1967—English
*Bloom*

The Tooth of Crime_1
1972—English
*Bloom*

Curse of the Starving Class_1
1976—English
*Bloom*

Buried Child_1
1979—English
*Bloom*

True West_1
1981—English
*Bloom*

Savage/ Love_1
1981—English
*Bloom*

Sam Shephard; Joseph Chaikin
Tongues_1
1981—English
*Bloom*

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Rivals_3
1775—English
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Bloom*

School for Scandal_6
1777—English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Ward* *Bloom* *Smart* *Educated*

The Critic: or, a Tragedy Rehearsed_1
1779—English
*Lubbock*

Shì Dàoyuán_1
Jǐngdé Chuándēnglù
The Transmission of the Lamp
ca. 1004-07—Chinese
*World*

Shimazaki Toson
Hakai_1
The Broken Commandement
1906—Japanese
*Ward*

Shī Nài'ān
Shuǐ Hŭ Zhuàn_5
The Water Margin
written Fourteenth Century—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Great* *World* *Graphic*

Shinran
Kyogyoshinsho_1
written ca. 1224—Japanese
*World*

Tannisho_1
transcribed by Yuen, late Thirteenth Century—Japanese
*Oriental*

Saadi Shirazi
Bostan_1
written 1257—Persian
*Norway*

Gullistan_3
written 1258—Persian
*Baldwin* *Ward* *World*

Mikhail Sholokhov
Tihij Don_1
originally published in four volumes: first-third (English title: And Quiet Flows the Don) serially 1928-32 in Oktâbr' (October); fourth (English title: The Don Flows Home to Sea) serially 1937-40 in Novyj Mir (The New World)—Russian
*Recommended*

Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice_1
1950—English
*Guardian*

Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella_2
1591—English
*Bloom* *Newman*

Defence of Poesie_3
1595—English
*Eliot* *Bloom* *Newman*

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia_2
written ca. 1580; revised versions published 1590 and 1593; English
*Bloom* *Newman*

Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony_1
1977—English
*Utne*

Kenneth Silverman
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather_1
1984—English
*Smart*

Simǎ Guāng
Zīzhì Tōngjiàn_1
The Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government
1084—Chinese
*World*

Simǎ Qiān
Shǐjì_4
The Records of the Grand Historian
written 109-91 B C—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *World*

Claude Simon
Le Vent: Tentative de Restitution d'un Rétable Baroque_1
1957—French
*Bloom*

L'Herbe_1
1958—French
*Bloom*

La Route des Flandres_1
1960—French
*Bloom*

Upton Sinclair
The Jungle_5
originally published serially Feb.-Nov. 1905 in Appeal to Reason—English
*Hundred* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Recommended*

Charles Singer
A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century_1
1941—English
*Ward*

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Der Sotn in Goray_1
Satan in Goray
originally published serially 1935 in Globus—Yiddish
*Bloom*

Di Familye Moshkat_2
The Family Moskat
1950—Yiddish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Der Kuntsnmakher fun Lublin_1
The Magician of Lublin
1960—Yiddish
*Fadiman*

In My Family's Court_2
1963—Yiddish
*Ward* *Bloom*

The Manor_1
1967—Yiddish
*Bloom*

The Estate_1
1969—Yiddish
*Bloom*

Israel Joshua Singer
Yoshe Kalb_1
1932—Yiddish
*Bloom*

The Brothers Ashkenazi_1
1936—Yiddish
*Bloom*

B F Skinner
Beyond Freedom and Dignity_1
1971—English
*SeymourSmith*

Josef Škvorecký
Zbabĕlci_1
The Cowards
1958—Czech
*Ward*

Bassaxofon_1
The Bass Saxophone
1967—Czech
*Ward*

Christopher Smart
Jubilate Agno_1
written 1759-63—English
*Bloom*

A Song to David_1
1763—English
*Bloom*

Samuel Smiles
Self-Help; With Illustrations of Character and Conduct_1
1859—English
*Lubbock*

Jane Smiley
Moo_1
1995—English
*Smart*

Ten Days in the Hills_1
2007—English
*Smart*

Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments_3
1759—English
*Classics* *Read* *Trinity*

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations_15
1776; revised through third edition, 1784—English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor*

Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_2
1943—English
*Smart* *Recommended*

Anna Deavere Smith
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992_1
1994—English
*Utne*

Delia Smith
Delia's How to Cook Book One_1
1998—English
*Telegraph*

Delia's How to Cook Book Two_1
1999—English
*Telegraph*

Delia's How to Cook Book Three_1
2001—English
*Telegraph*

Margaret Smith
Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam. Being the Life and Teachings of Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya of Basra, Sufi Saint, ca. A H 99-185, A D 717-801_1
1928—English
*Utne*

Preserved Smith
The Age of the Reformation_1
1920—English
*Durant*

Stevie Smith
A Good Time Was Had by All_1
1937—English
*Bloom*

Tender Only to One_1
1938—English
*Bloom*

Mother, What Is Man?_1
1942—English
*Bloom*

Harold's Leap_1
1950—English
*Bloom*

Not Waving but Drowning_1
1957—English
*Bloom*

Scorpion and Other Poems_1
1972—English
*Bloom*

Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Roderick Random_2
1748—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle_1
1751; revised 1758—English
*Classics*

The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker_2
1771—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

Hjalmar Söderberg
Historietter_1
1898—Swedish
*Ward*

Doktor Glas_1
1905—Swedish
*Ward*

Gertrud_1
1906—Swedish
*Ward*

Vladimir Solovyov
Lectures on Godmanhood_1
edited 1878-81 lectures—Russian
*World*

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Odîn den' Ivána Denîsoviča_5
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
originally published Nov. 1962 in Nóvyj Mîr—Russian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Rakovyj Korpus_3
Cancer Ward
1967—Russian
*Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

V Kruge Pervom_4
In the First Circle
1968; expanded 1978—Russian
*Read* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Avgust 1914_1
August 1914
1971; expanded 1984—Russian
*Bloom*

Arhipelag GULAG_2
The Gulag Archipelago
1974-8—Russian
*Bloom* *Educated*

Somadeva
Katha-sarit-sagara_2
Eleventh Century—Sanskrit
*Ward* *World*

Sophocles
Antigone_22
ca. 441 B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translation—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Oidipous epi Kolōnō_20
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Aias_5
Ajax
ca. 450-430 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Van Doren*

Philoktētēs_5
Philocetes
409 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Van Doren*

Trachiniai_4
The Trachiniae; The Women of Trachis
ca. 450-420 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*

Ēlektra_4
Electra
ca. 410-400 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom*

Soseki Natsume
Kokoro_4
originally entitled Kokoro: Sensei no Isho, published serially Apr.-Aug. 1914 in Asahi Shinbun—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Great*

Michi Kusa_1
Grass on the Wayside
1915—Japanese
*Ward*

Wole Soyinka
A Dance of the Forest_2
1960—English
*Bloom* *Trinity*

The Interpreters_1
1964—English
*Fadiman*

Death and the King's Horsemen_2
1975—English
*Fadiman* *Trinity*

Muriel Spark
The Ballad of Peckham Rye_1
1960—English
*Telegraph*

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_2
1961—English
*Recommended* *Zane*

Jonathan Spence
The Death of Woman Wang_1
1978—English
*Bloom*

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci_1
1984—English
*Bloom*

Herbert Spencer
First Principles_1
1862—English
*SeymourSmith*

The Man Versus the State_1
1884—English
*Downs*

Oswald Spengler
Der Untergang des Abendlandes_1
The Decline of the West
originally published in two volumes, 1918 and 1923; first volume revised 1922—German
*Durant*

Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene_8
originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596—English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset_1
1596—English
*Read*

Art Spiegelman
Maus_1
originally published serially 1980-91 in Raw; published in book form in two volumes: Maus: A Survivor's Tale, 1986; and And Here My Troubles Began, 1991;—English
*Deposit*

Herbert Spinden
A Study of Maya Art: Its Subject Matter and Historical Development_1
1913—English
*Ward*

Baruch Spinoza
Korte Verhandeling van God, de Mensch en Deszelvs Welstand_1
ca. 1660—Dutch
*Classics*

Tractatus Theologico-Politicus_4
originally anonymously published 1670—Latin
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Trinity* *Dirda*

Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata_15
Ethics
1677—Latin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Van Doren* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione_1
1677—Latin
*Durant*

Nichita Stănescu
11 Elegii_1
1966—Romanian
*Ward*

Starhawk
The Fifth Sacred Thing_1
1993—English
*Utne*

Christina Stead
The Man Who Loved Children_2
1940—English
*Bloom* *Zane*

Wallace Stegner
The Big Rock Candy Mountain_1
1943—English
*Fadiman*

Angle of Repose_3
1971—English
*Fadiman* *Smart* *Recommended*

Gertrude Stein
Three Lives_2
1906—English
*Bloom* *Newman*

Tender Buttons_2
1914—English
*Bloom* *Newman*

Geography and Plays_1
1922—English
*Newman*

The Making of Americans: Being the History of a Family's Progress_2
published in part, 1924, in the Transatlantic Review; in its entirety, 1925; abridged version, 1934
*Bloom* *Newman*

The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas_2
published in part in the Atlantic Monthly; in its entirety, 1933—English
*Newman* *Educated*

The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind_2
1936#151;English
*Bloom*

John Steinbeck
The Red Pony_1
published in part serially 1933-36; in its entirety, 1937—English
*Recommended*

Of Mice and Men_4
1937—English
*Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Recommended*

The Grapes of Wrath_12
1939—English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Cannery Row_1
1945—English
*Harvard*

The Pearl_1
1947—English
*Campbell*

East of Eden_3
1952—English
*Magill* *Zane* *Recommended*

Travels with Charley_1
1962—English
*Van Doren*

Stendhal
De l'Amour_2
1822—French
*Read* *Bloom*

Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle_18
The Red and the Black
1830—French
*Powys* *Classics* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Deposit* *Newman* *Recommended*

Le Chartreuse de Parme_12
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839—French
*Classics* *France* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Henri Brulard_1
1890; written 1835-36—French
*Classics*

Racine et Shakespeare_1
1823-35—French
*Classics*

Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman_14
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67—English
*Powys* *Durant* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Sermons of Mr. Yorick_1
originally published in seven volumes: first-second, 1760; third-fourth, 1766; fifth-seventh, 1769—English
*Ward*

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy_6
1768—English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Wallace Stevens
Harmonium_4
1923; revised 1931—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren*

Ideas of Order_3
1936—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Man With the Blue Guitar_3
1937—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Parts of a World_3
1942—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Transport to Summer_3
1947—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Auroras of Autumn_3
1950—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination_2
1951; six essays, three of which originally published as Three Academic Pieces, 1947—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped_3
originally published serially May-Jul. 1886 in Young Folks—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended*

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_7
1886—English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Zane* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

The Master of Ballantrae_1
1889—English
*Bloom*

Treasure Island_5
originally entitled Treasure Island or, The Mutiny of the Hispaniola, published serially 1891-92 in Young Folks under the pseudonym, Captain George North—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Campbell* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

Weir of Hermiston_2
1896—English
*Hundred* *Bloom*

Adalbert Stifter
Der Nachsommer_1
1857—German
*Bloom*

Kathryn Stockett
The Help_1
2009—English
*Recommended*

Robert Stone
Dog Soliders_1
1974—English
*Bloom*

A Flag for Sunrise_1
1981—English
*Bloom*

Bram Stoker
Dracula_6
1897—English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Guardian* *Recommended*

Tom Stoppard
Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead_2
1966—English
*Educated* *Recommended*

Travesties_1
1974—English
*Bloom*

Theodor Storm
Immensee_1
originally published in Volksbuch auf das Jahr 1850, 1849; revised 1851—German
*Bloom*

Der Schimmelreiter_1
1888—German
*Eliot*

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin_6
1852—English
*Downs* *Rexroth* *Smart* *Taylor* *Recommended* *Educated*

Strabo
Geographica_1
7 B C—Greek
*Downs*

Lytton Strachey
Eminent Victorians_3
1918—English
*Fadiman* *Smart* *Telegraph*

Queen Victoria_2
1921—English
*Fadiman* *Educated*

Mark Strand
The Continuous Life_1
1990—English
*Bloom*

Dark Harbor_1
1993—English
*Bloom*

August Strindberg
Hemsöborna_1
1887—Swedish
*Ward*

Fröken Julie_5
Miss Julie
written 1888—Swedish
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Newman* *Recommended*

Den Starkare_1
The Stronger
1889—Swedish
*Ward*

Le Plaidoyer d'un Fou_1
originally published 1893 in its German translation; in the original French, 1895—French
*Powys*

Till Damaskus_1
originally published in three volumes: first-second, 1898; third, 1904—Swedish
*Bloom*

Fadren_3
The Father
written 1887—Swedish
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom*

Dödsdansen_1
The Dance of Death
written 1900—Swedish
*Bloom*

Ett Drömspel_3
A Dream Play
1907—Swedish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Spöksonaten_2
The Ghost Sonata
1908—Swedish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*

Påsk_1
Easter
1909—Swedish
*Ward*

Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge_1
2008—English
*Recommended*

William Strunk, Jr.
The Elements of Style_1
1919; revised 1935, as The Elements and Practice of Composition; revised and expanded 1959 by E B White—English
*Kanigel*

Snorri Sturluson
The Prose Edda_2
written ca. 1220—Norse
*Bloom* *Great*

Heimskringla_1
written ca. 1230—Norse
*Ward*

William Styron
Lie Down in Darkness_1
1951—English
*Smart*

The Long March_2
originally entitled Long March, published 1953 in Discovery, —English
*Bloom* *Smart*

Sophie's Choice_2
1979—English
*Deposit* *Recommended*

Lie Down in Darkness_1
1951—English
*Smart*

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness_1
originally entitled 'Darkness Visible', published Dec. 1989 in Vanity Fair—English
*Smart*

Hermann Sudermann
Das Hohe Lied_1
1908—German
*Powys*

Sudraka
Mrcchakatika_2
The Little Clay Cart
ca. Second Century B C-Fifth Century—Sanskrit
*Ward* *Oriental*

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
De Vita Caesarum_5
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
written 121—Latin
*Downs* *Ward* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph*

Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (Takasue's Daughter) (Lady Sarashina)
Sarashina Nikki_2
written Eleventh Century—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi (Sohrevardi)
Hikmat al-Ishraq_1
Oriental Theosophy; The Philosophy of Illumination
Twelfth Century—Arabic
*World*

William Graham Sumner
Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals_1
1907—English
*Durant*

Sūnzǐ (Sun-tzu)
Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ_4
The Art of War
written ca. Fifth-Third centuries B C—Chinese
*Learning* *Fadiman* *Great* *Deposit*

Italo Svevo
Una Vita_1
1892—Italian
*Ward*

Senilità_2
As a Man Grows Older
1898—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom*

La Coscienza di Zeno_3
Zeno's Conscience
1923—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Norway*

May Swenson
New and Selected Things Taking Place_1
1978; published in part in varied periodicals; plus selections from Another Animal, 1954; A Cage of Spines, 1958; To Mix With Time: New and Selected Poems, 1963; Half Sun Half Sleep: New Poems, 1967; Iconographs, 1970—English
*Bloom*

In Other Words_1
1987—English
*Bloom*

Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub_4
1704; revised through fifth edition, 1710—English
*Powys* *Read* *Bloom* *Newman*

A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet: Together With a Proposal for the Encouragement of Poetry in This Kingdom_1
1721—English
*Eliot*

Drapier's Letters_1
originally published in seven parts, 1724-25—English
*Ward*

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships_28
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735—English
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public_6
originally anonymously published 1729—English
*Classics* *Read* *Smart* *Graphic* *Newman* *Recommended*

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D S P D_1
1739—English
*Classics*

Journal to Stella_1
1766—English
*Read*

John Addington Symonds
Renaissance in Italy_1
originally published in seven volumes, 1875-86—English
*Durant*

A J A Symons
The Quest for Corvo_1
1944—English
*Ward*

John Millington Synge
In the Shadows of the Glen_1
1903—English
*Bloom*

Riders to the Sea_2
1904—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

The Well of the Saints_1
1905—English
*Bloom*

The Playboy of the Western World_5
1907—English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity*

The Tinker's Wedding_1
1909—English
*Bloom*

Deirdre of the Sorrows_1
1910—English
*Bloom*

Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
Tarikh al-Tabari_1
The History of the Prophets and Kings
early Tenth Century—Arabic
*World*

Cornelius Tacitus
De Origine et Situ Germanorum_5
Germania
written ca. 98—Latin
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*

De Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae_3
Agricola
written ca. 98—Latin
*Rexroth* *Read* *Trinity*

Dialogus de Oratoribus_3
written ca. 102—Latin
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Trinity*

Historiae_8
written ca. 100-10—Latin
*Invitation* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Trinity* *Van Doren*

Annales_11
written First Century—Latin
*Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Van Doren*

Rabindranath Tagore
Visarjan_2
The Sacrifice
1890—Bengali
*Ward* *Oriental*

Gitanjali_1
1910; English version, Gitanjali (Song Offerings), consists of selections from Gitanjali, 1910; Naivedya, 1901; Kheya, 1906; Giti-Malya, 1914; and others—Bengali
*Ward*

Dakghar_2
The Post Office
1912—Bengali
*Ward* *Oriental*

Chitrangada_2
1892; English translation entitled Chitra—not the same as the author's poetry book entitled Chitra, 1896—Bengali
*Ward* *Oriental*

Stray Birds_2
1916—Bengali
*Ward* *Oriental*

Phalguni_2
The Cycle of Spring
1916—Bengali
*Ward* *Oriental*

Ghare-Baire_1
The Home and the World
1916—Bengali
*Ward*

Hippolyte Taine
Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise_1
1863; revised 1866—French
*Durant*

Les Origines de la France Contemporaine_1
originally published in five volumes: L'Ancien Régime, 1875; La Révolution: I - L'Anarchie, 1878; La Révolution: II - La Conquête Jacobin, 1881; La Révolution: III - Le Gouvernement Révolutionnaire, 1883; La Régime Moderne: I - Napoleon, 1890; La Régime Moderne: II, 1893—French
*Durant*

Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club_2
1989—English
*Campbell* *Recommended*

Tanizaki Junichiro
Tade Ku Mushi_1
Some Prefer Nettles
originally published serially 1928-29—Japanese
*Ward*

Sasameyuki_4
The Makioka Sisters
published in part serially Jan.-Mar. 1943 in Chuo Koron; in its entirety in three volumes: 1946, 1947, and 1948—Japanese
*Ward* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane*

Táo Hóngjǐng
Zhēngào_1
The Declarations of the Perfected
written ca. 516—Chinese
*World*

Booth Tarkington
Monsieur Beaucaire_1
1900—English
*Zane*

Donna Tartt
The Secret History_2
1992—English
*Guardian* *Deposit*

Bernardo Tasso
L'Amadigi_1
1560—Italian
*Ward*

Torquato Tasso
Rinaldo_1
1562—Italian
*Ward*

La Gerusalemme Liberata_4
1581—Italian
*Baldwin* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Nahum Tate
The History of King Lear_1
1681—English
*Newman*

R H Tawney
The Acquisitive Society_1
1920—English
*Adler*

A J P Taylor
The Origins of the Second World War_1
1961—English
*Telegraph*

Frederick Winslow Taylor
The Principles of Scientific Management_1
1911—English
*Downs*

Jeremy Taylor
Holy Living and Holy Dying_3
originally published in two volumes: The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650; and The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying, 1651—English
*Lubbock* *Bloom* *Trinity*

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A H H_3
1849—English
*Magill* *Newman* *Recommended*

Maud and Other Poems_1
1850—English
*Newman*

Idylls of the King_2
published in part, 1859-85—English
*Newman* *Recommended*

Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Andria_3
166 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Hecrya_3
165 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Heauton Timorumenos_2
163 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward*

Phormio_2
161 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward*

Eunuchus_3
161 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Adelphi_2
160 B C—Latin
*Classics* *Ward*

Teresa of Ávila
La Vida de Santa Teresa de Jesús_3
1588—Spanish
*Ward* *Graphic* *Educated*

Tertullian
De Praescriptione Haereticorum_1
Prescriptions Against Heretics
late Second-early Third centuries—Latin
*Trinity*

William Makepeace Thackeray
The Luck of Barry Lyndon_1
originally published serially 1844—English
*Newman*

The Snobs of England, by One of Themselves_1
originally published serially 1846-47; retitled The Book for Snobs for publication in book form, 1848—English
*Classics*

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written by Himself_5
1852—English
*Baldwin* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *Bloom*

The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq._2
originally published serially 1853-55—English
*Baldwin* *Classics*

The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century_1
originally published serially Nov. 1857-Oct. 1859—English
*Classics*

The Four Georges_1
edited 1860-61 lectures—English
*Classics*

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero_18
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Recommended*

The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and Greatest Enemy_3
originally published serially 1848-50—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics*

Michael Thelwell_3
The Harder They Come
1980; based on the film of the same name—English
*Bloom*

Theocritus_3
Idylls
Third Century B C—Greek
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Bloom*

Theophrastus
Historia Plantarum_1
Inquiry Into Plants
Fourth-early Third centuries B C—Greek
*Downs*

On the Causes of Plants_1
Fourth-early Third centuries B C—Greek
*Downs*

Characters_1
Fourth-early Third centuries B C—Greek
*Ward*

Paul Theroux
The Mosquito Coast_1
1981—English
*Bloom*

Wilfred Thesiger
The Marsh Arabs_1
1964—English
*List*

Thomas Aquinas
De Ente et Essentia_1
On Being and Essence
written ca. 1252-56—Latin
*Hundred*

Summa Theologiae_13
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74—Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *World*

Summa Contra Gentiles_1
Summa Contra Gentes
written ca. 1270—Latin
*Ward*

Dylan Thomas
18 Poems_2
1934—English
*Magill* *Bloom*

Twenty-five Poems_2
1936—English
*Magill* *Bloom*

The Map of Love_2
1939—English
*Magill* *Bloom*

A Portrait of the Arist as a Young Dog_1
1940—English
*Ward*

Deaths and Entrances_2
1946; published in part, 1943, as New Poems—English
*Magill* *Bloom*

In Country Sleep and Other Poems_2
1952—English
*Magill* *Bloom*

Under Milk Wood_1
1953—English
*Recommended*

Lewis Thomas
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher_2
1974; 29 essays originally published serially 1971-73 in the New England Journal of Medicine—English
*Smart* *Recommended*

The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher_1
1979; 29 essays originally published in the New England Journal of Medicine—English
*Smart*

Late-Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony_1
1983; 24 essays originally published in varied periodicals: Discover, the New York Review of Books, the New England Journal of Medicine—English
*Smart*

John Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science_1
1922—English
*Durant*

Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods_20
1854—English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Great* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Cape Cod_1
1865; edited lectures—English
*Classics*

Hester Thrale (Heather Lynch Piozzi)
Thraliana, the Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi) 1776-1809_1
writeen 1776-1809; published 1942; edited by Katherine C Balderston—English
*Smart*

Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life_1
1786—English
*Smart*

Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War_23
early Fifth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *World* *Educated*

James Thurber
My Life and Hard Times_1
1933—English
*Fadiman*

Fables of Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated_1
1940; 28 stories originally published Jan. 1939-Feb. 1940 in the New Yorker—English
*Smart*

Further Fables for Our Time_1
1956; 47 stories, 37 of which originally published in the New Yorker—English
*Smart*

James Thurber; E B White
Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do_1
1929—English
*Fadiman*

Tirso de Molina
El Burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de Piedra_2
ca. 1630—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Alexis de Tocqueville
L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution_3
1866—French
*Ward* *Fadiman* *Trinity*

De la Démocratie en Amérique_12
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840—French
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Recommended* *Educated*

Tokutomi Kenjiro
Omoide no Ki_1
Footprints in the Snow
1901—Japanese
*Ward*

J R R Tolkien
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again_4
1937—English
*Fadiman* *Guardian* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

The Lord of the Rings_7
originally published in three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 1954-55—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Harvard*

Melvin B Tolson
Harlem Gallery_1
1965—English
*Bloom*

Leo Tolstoy
Semejnoe Sčhast'e_1
Family Happiness
originally published Apr. 1859 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
*Bloom*

Kazaki_1
The Cossacks
originally published 1863 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
*Bloom*

Voyna i Mir"_25
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869—Russian
*Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *World* *Newman* *Recommended*

Anna Karenina_20
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translation—Russian
*Eliot* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Ispoved'_1
A Confession
1884—Russian
*Bloom*

Smert' Ivana Il'icha_5
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1886—Russian
*Bloom* *Foundation* *Norway* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Krejzcerova Sonata_1
The Kreutzer Sonata
1889—Russian
*Bloom*

Chto Takoye Iskusstvo?_1
What Is Art?
1897—Russian
*Read*

Voskresenie_1
Resurrection
1899—Russian
*Deposit*

Vlast' t'My_1
The Power of Darkness
1902—Russian
*Bloom*

Hadži-Murat_1
Hadji Murat
1912—Russian
*Bloom*

Fal'šivyj Kupon_1
The Forged Coupon
1912—Russian
*Bloom*

John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces_3
written early 1960's; published 1980—English
*Guardian* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Jean Toomer
Cane_2
published in part in varied periodicals; in its entirety, 1923—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

Cyril Tourneur
The Revenger's Tragedy_1
1606—English
*Bloom*

Michel Tournier
Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique_1
Friday
1967—French
*Bloom*

Le Roi des Aulnes_1
1970—French
*Bloom*

Arnold Toynbee
A Study of History_1
originally published in twelve volumes, 1934-61—English
*Read*

Civilization on Trial_1
1948—English
*Read*

Thomas Traherne
A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God, in Several Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the Same_1
originally anonymously published 1699—English
*Bloom*

Centuries of Meditations_1
written ca. 1670; published 1908—English
*Bloom*

William Trevor
The Love Department_1
1966—English
*Ward*

The Children of Dynmouth_1
1976—English
*Ward*

The Story of Lucy Gault_1
2002—English
*Recommended*

Anthony Trollope
The Warden_3
1855—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Telegraph*

Barchester Towers_4
1857—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

Doctor Thorne_2
1858—English
*Bloom* *Telegraph*

Framley Parsonage_2
originally published serially Jan. 1860-Apr. 1861 in Cornhill Magazine—English
*Bloom* *Telegraph*

Orley Farm_1
originally published serially Mar. 1861-Oct. 1862—English
*Bloom*

The Small House at Allington_2
originally published serially Sep. 1862-Apr. 1864—English
*Bloom* *Telegraph*

Can You Forgive Her?_1
originally published serially 1864-65—English
*Bloom*

The Last Chronicle of Barset_3
originally published serially Dec. 1866-Jul. 1867—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Telegraph*

Phineas Finn_1
originally published serially Oct. 1867-May 1868 in St. Paul's Magazine—English
*Bloom*

The Eustace Diamonds_2
originally published serially Jul. 1871-Feb. 1873 in the Fortnightly Review—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Phineas Redux_1
originally published serially Jul. 1873-Jan. 1874 in the Graphic—English
*Bloom*

The Way We Live Now_2
originally published serially 1875—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Prime Minister_1
originally published serially Nov. 1875-Jun. 1876—English
*Bloom*

The Duke's Children_1
originally published serially Oct. 1879-Jul. 1880 in All the Year Round—English
*Bloom*

An Autobiography_1
1883—English
*Fadiman*

Chrétien de Troyes
Érec et Énide_1
written ca. 1170—French
*World*

Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette_2
written ca. 1170—French
*World* *Newman*

Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion_3
written ca. 1170—French
*Bloom* *Dirda* *World*

Cligès_1
written ca. 1176—French
*World*

Perceval, le Conte du Graal_2
written 1181-91—French
*World* *Newman*

Lynne Truss
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation_1
2003—English
*Telegraph*

Tsongkhapa
An Ocean of Reasoning_1
late Fourteenth-early Fifteenth centuries—Tibetan
*World*

Barbara W Tuchman
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century_2
1978—English
*Deposit* *Educated*

Ibn Tufail
Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan_1
Philosophus Autodidactus; The Improvement of Human Reason
Twelfth Century—Arabic
*Ward*

Ivan Turgenev
Zapiski Ohotnika_4
A Sportsman's Sketches
originally published in Sovremennik, 1852—Russian
*Powys* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

Mesâc v Derevne_1
A Month in the Country
1855—Russian
*Bloom*

Dvorânskoe Gnezdo_2
Home of the Gentry; Liza
originally published in Sovremennik, Jan. 1859—Russian
*Eliot* *Powys*

Pervaâ Lûbov'_3
First Love
1860—Russian
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom*

Nakanúne_1
On the Eve
1860—Russian
*Bloom*

Otcy i Deti_11
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended*

Vešnie Vody_1
Torrents of Spring
1872—Russian
*Ward*

Nov'_2
Virgin Soil
1877—Russian
*Powys* *Classics*

Stihotvoreniâ v Proze_1
originally published in Vestnik Evropy, 1882—Russian
*Ward*

Nat Turner; Thomas Ruffin Gray
The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. as Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R Gray_1
1831—English
*Graphic*

Amos Tutuola
The Palm-Wine Drinkard, and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town_2
1952—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad_2
1869—English
*Classics* *Newman*

Roughing It_2
1872—English
*Kanigel* *Newman*

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_7
1876—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Newman* *Recommended*

A Tramp Abroad_1
1880—English
*Classics*

The Prince and the Pauper_2
1881—English
*Newman* *Recommended*

Life on the Mississippi_4
1883—English
*Classics* *Magill* *Trinity* *Newman*

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884—English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_3
1889—English
*Bloom* *Newman* *Recommended*

Pudd'nhead Wilson_1
1894—English
*Bloom*

No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger_2
1916; revised 1969—English
*Read* *Bloom*

Letters From the Earth_1
written in part ca. 1910; published 1962—English
*Newman*

Udayana (Udyanacharya)
Nyaya-kusumanjali_1
Tenth Century—Sanskrit
*World*

Ueda Akinari
Ugetsu Monotagari_1
Tales of Moonlight and Rain
1796—Japanese
*Ward*

Brenda Ueland
If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit_1
1938—English
*Utne*

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812_1
1990—English
*Educated*

Umaswati
Tattvartha Sutra_1
Moksh-Shastra
ca. Second Century B C—Sanskrit
*World*

Miguel de Unamuno
Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida_1
1912—Spanish
*Ward*

Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho_1
Our Lord Don Quixote
1914—Spanish
*Bloom*

Niebla_1
Mist
1914—Spanish
*Trinity*

Tres Novelas Ejemplares y un Prólogo_1
1920—Spanish
*Bloom*

Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter_3
originally published in three volumes: Kransen, 1920; Husfrue, 1921; Korset, 1922; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tiina Nunnally's English translation—Norwegian
*Bloom* *Smart* *Recommended*

Evelyn Underhill
Mysticism_1
1911—English
*Trinity*

The Mystic Way_1
1913—English
*Trinity*

Barry Unsworth
The Songs of the Kings_1
2002—English
*Smart*

John Updike
Rabbit, Run_3
1960—English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph*

The Centaur_1
published in part in Esquire and the New Yorker; in its entirety, 1963—English
*Recommended*

Rabbit Redux_3
1971—English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph*

Rabbit Is Rich_3
1981—English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph*

The Witches of Eastwick_1
1984—English
*Bloom*

Rabbit at Rest_3
1990—English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph*

Honoré d'Urfé
L'Astrée_1
originally published in six volumes, 1607-27—French
*Newman*

Juan Valera
Pepita Jiménez_1
originally published serially 1874 in Revista de España—Spanish
*Eliot*

Paul Valéry
La Soirée de Monsieur Teste_1
1896—French
*Trinity*

Poesies_1
1931—French
*Trinity*

Mon Faust_1
1946—French
*Trinity*

César Vallejo
Los Heraldos Negros_1
1919—Spanish
*Ward*

Trilce_1
1922—Spanish
*Ward*

España, Aparta de Mí Este Cáliz_2
1939—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Poemas Humanas_1
1939—Spanish
*Ward*

Valmiki
Ramayana_10
ca. Fifth-Second centuries B C—Sanskrit
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Ward* *Magill* *Oriental* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *World*

Mark Van Doren
That Shining Place_1
1969—English
*Van Doren*

Good Morning: Last Poems_1
1973—English
*Van Doren*

Henry Van Dyke
The Story of the Other Wise Man_1
1895—English
*Zane*

Giorgio Vasari
Le Vite de' Più Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori, e Architettori da Cimabue Insino a' Tempi Nostri_5
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects; The Lives of the Artists
1550; expanded 1568—Italian
*Durant* *Ward* *Bloom* *Kanigel* *Telegraph*

Vatsayana
Kama Sutra_2
ca. Fourth-Third centuries B C—Sanskrit
*Ward* *Taylor*

Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions_2
1899—English
*Downs* *Adler*

Lope de Vega
Arcadia_1
1598—Spanish
*Ward*

Peribáñez and the Comendador of Ocaña_1
ca. 1604-14—Spanish
*Ward*

Castelvines y Monteses_1
ca. 1606-12—Spanish
*Classics*

Arte Nuevo de Hacer Comedias_1
1609—Spanish
*Classics*

El Perro del Hortelano_2
1613—Spanish
*Classics* *Ward*

Rimas Sacras_1
1614—Spanish
*Trinity*

Pastores de Belen: Prosas y Versos Divinos_1
1614—Spanish
*Ward*

Fuenteovejuna_3
1619—Spanish
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom*

El Caballero de Olmedo_2
written ca. 1620—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

El Mejor Alcalde, el Rey_1
written 1620-23—Spanish
*Classics*

Novelas a Marcia Leonarda_1
originally published in four volumes: Las Fortunas de Diana, 1621; La Desdicha por la Honra, 1624; La Más Prudente Venganza, 1624; Guzmán el Bravo, 1624—Spanish
*Ward*

El Castigo sin Venganza_2
Lost in a Mirror
written 1631—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

La Dorotea_2
1632—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom*

Lo Cierto por lo Dudoso_1
Seventeenth Century—Spanish
*Classics*

Giovanni Verga
I Malavoglia_2
1881—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom*

Novelle Rusticane_2
Little Novels of Sicily
1883—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom*

Mastro-Don Gesualdo_2
1889—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom*

Jules Verne
Voyage au Centre de la Terre_1
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
1864—French
*Dirda*

Voyages et Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras_1
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
1864; revised 1866—French
*Dirda*

De la Terre à la Lune_1
From the Earth to the Moon
1865—French
*Downs*

Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers: Tour du Monde Sous-Marin_5
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
1870—French
*Magill* *Learning* *Dirda* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours_2
Around the World in Eighty Days
1873—French
*Dirda* *Recommended*

L'Île Mystérieuse_1
The Mysterious Island
1874—French
*Dirda*

Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum_1
The Begum's Fortune
1879—French
*Dirda*

Mathias Sandorf_1
originally published serially 1885 in Le Temps—French
*Dirda*

Robur-le-Conquérant_1
Robur the Conquerer
1886—French
*Dirda*

Le Testament d'un Excentrique_1
The Will of an Eccentric
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1899 in Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation—French
*Dirda*

Maître du Monde_1
Master of the World
1904—French
*Dirda*

Jules Verne; Michael Verne
L'Étonnante Aventure de la Mission Barsac_1
The Barsac Mission
originally published serially 1914—French
*Dirda*

Tarjei Vesaas
Is-slottet_1
The Ice Palace
1963—Norwegian
*Ward*

Båten om Krelden_1
The Boat in the Evening
1968—Norwegian
*Ward*

Andreas Vesalius
De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem_2
1543—Latin
*Downs* *Great*

Gil Vicente
Auto da Índia_1
1509—Portuguese
*Ward*

O Velho da Horta_1
1512—Portuguese
*Ward*

Auto dos Físicos_1
1512—Portuguese
*Ward*

Quem Tem Farelos?_1
1515—Portuguese
*Ward*

Giambattista Vico
Principi di Scienza Nuova d'Intorno Alla Comune Natura Delle Nazioni_6
The New Science
1725; revised 1730 and 1744—Italian
*Downs* *Ward* *Bloom* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great*

Gore Vidal
Myra Breckinridge_2
1968—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Burr_1
1973—English
*Fadiman*

Lincoln_1
1984—English
*Bloom*

Alfred de Vigny
Chatterton_1
1835—French
*Bloom*

Les Destinées_1
1864—French
*France*

Claudio Villas-Bôas; Orlando Villas-Bôas
Xingu; os Índios, Seus Mitos_1
1970—Portuguese
*Ward*

François Villon
Le Grand Testament Villon et le Petit. Son Codicille. Le Jargon et Ses Ballades_6
1489—French
*Classics* *France* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid_26
First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translation—Latin
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Smart* *Zane* *Van Doren* *Reynolds* *World* *Graphic* *Newman* *Recommended*

Eclogues_4
First Century B C—Latin
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom* *Newman*

Georgics_4
First Century B C—Latin
*Classics* *Adler* *Bloom* *Newman*

Vishakhadatta
Mudrarakshasa_1
The Signet of the Minister
ca. Fourth-Eighth centuries—Sanskrit
*Ward*

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
De Architectura_2
Ten Books on Architecture
written ca. 15 B C—Latin
*Downs* *Kanigel*

Elio Vittorini
Le Donne di Messina_1
1949—Italian
*Bloom*

Voltaire
Micromégas_2
1752—French
*Lubbock* *Fadiman*

Lettres Philosophiques_5
Letters Concerning the English Nation
originally published 1733 in its English translation; in the original French, 1734; revised 1778—English
*Eliot* *Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman*

Zadig_6
1747—French
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman*

Le Siècle de Louis XIV_2
1751—French
*Classics* *Fadiman*

Poème sur le Désastre de Lisbonne_1
1756—French
*Bloom*

Essay sur l'Histoire Générale et sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations, Depuis Charlemagne Jusqu'à nos Jours_1
1756—French
*World*

Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translation—French
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Traité sur la Tolérance_1
1763—French
*Durant*

Dictionnaire Philosophique_4
1764—French
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Fadiman*

L'Ingénu, Histoire Veritable, Tiree des Manuscrits du Père Quefnel_1
1767—French
*Ward*

Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle_3
1963—English
*Bloom* *Harvard* *Recommended*

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death_4
1969—English
*Zane* *Van Doren* *Deposit* *Recommended*

Breakfast of Champions_1
1973—English
*Harvard*

Vyasa
Mahabharata_13
includes Bhagavad Gita; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth Century—Sanskrit
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Oriental* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World* *Graphic*

Helen Waddell
The Wandering Scholars_1
1927—English
*Ward*

Derek Walcott
Ti-Jean and His Brothers_1
1958—English
*Fadiman*

Another Life_1
1973—English
*Bloom*

Omeros_2
1990—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*

Shah Waliullah
Hujjat Allah al-Baligha_1
The Conclusive Argument From God
Eighteenth Century—Arabic
*World*

Alice Walker
The Color Purple_3
1982—English
*Campbell* *Guardian* *Recommended*

David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest_2
1996—English
*Harvard* *Graphic*

Conrad Hal Wallington
The Nature of Life_1
1961—English
*Adler*

Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto_1
originally published under the pseudonym, Onuphrio Muralto, 1764—English
*Newman*

Izaak Walton
The Compleat Angler_4
1653; revised through sixth edition, 1676—English
*Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Bloom* *Newman*

Wáng Chōng
Lùnhéng_1
Balanced Inquiries; Critical Essays
80—Chinese
*Ward*

Wáng Chóngyáng (Wang Zhe)
Wáng Chóngyáng Quánzhēn Jí_1
Anthology of Complete Perfection
Twelfth Century—Chinese
*World*

Wáng Shifǔ
Xīxiāngji_1
The Story of the Western Wing
late Thirteenth Century—Chinese
*World*

Wáng Wéi
Wang Yu-ch'eng Chi Chien-chu_1
Seventh Century—Chinese
*Ward*

Wáng Yángmíng (Bo'an)
Chuáxí Lù_2
Instructions for Practical Living
late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuries—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Inquiry on the Great Learning_2
late Fifteenth-early Sixteenth centuries—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men_5
1946—English
*Bloom* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Recommended*

World Enough and Time_1
1950—English
*Bloom*

Audubon, a Vision_1
1969—English
*Bloom*

Booker T Washington
Up From Slavery_1
originally published serially 1900 in the Outlook—English
*Educated*

James D Watson
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of D N A_3
1968—English
*Fadiman* *Great* *Educated*

Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies_1
1930—English
*Bloom*

A Handful of Dust_2
1934—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*

Scoop_2
1938—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Put Out More Flags_1
1942—English
*Bloom*

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder_3
1945—English
*Fadiman* *Guardian* *Recommended*

The Loved One_2
originally published Feb. 1948 in Horizon—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*

Men at Arms_1
1952—English
*Telegraph*

Officers and Gentlemen_1
1955—English
*Telegraph*

Unconditional Surrender_1
1961—English
*Telegraph*

Katharine Weber
The Music Lesson_1
1999—English
*Smart*

The Little Women_1
2003—English
*Smart*

Max Weber
Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus_3
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
1905—German
*Foundation* *Great* *Educated*

John Webster
The White Devil_2
1612—English
*Bloom* *Dirda*

The Duchess of Malfi_4
ca. 1613-14—English
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Bloom* *Dirda*

Noah Webster
An American Dictionary of the English Language_1
originally entitled A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, published 1806; retitled, revised, and expanded 1828; revised and expanded 1841; later editions considered distinct, collectively-authored works—English
*Downs*

Frank Wedekind
Erdgeist_1
Earth Spirit
1895; first of the two Lulu Plays—German
*Bloom*

Die Büchse der Pandora_1
Pandora's Box
1904; second of the two Lulu Plays—German
*Bloom*

Frühlings Erwachen_1
1906—German
*Bloom*

Alfred Wegener
Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane_1
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
1915; revised 1920, 1922, and 1929—German
*Educated

Simone Weil
Attente de Dieu_1
Waiting for God
1950—French
*Trinity*

Steven Weinberg
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe_1
1977; expanded 1993—English
*Educated*

H G Wells
The Time Machine_5
1895—English
*Rexroth* *Magill* *Dirda* *Telegraph* *Recommended*

The Island of Doctor Moreau_2
1896—English
*Rexroth* *Dirda*

The Invisible Man_2
originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's Magazine—English
*Rexroth* *Dirda*

The War of the Worlds_4
originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's Magazine—English
*Rexroth* *Learning* *Dirda* *Recommended*

When the Sleeper Awakes_1
originally published serially 1898-1903 in the Graphic; revised and retitled, The Sleeper Awakes, 1910—English
*Rexroth*

The First Men in the Moon_2
1901—English
*Rexroth* *Dirda*

Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul_1
1905—English
*Rexroth*

In the Days of the Comet_1
1906—English
*Rexroth*

The War in the Air_1
originally published serially 1908 in the Pall Mall Magazine—English
*Rexroth*

Tono-Bungay_2
1909—English
*Hundred* *Rexroth*

Ann Veronica_1
1909—English
*Rexroth*

The History of Mr. Polly_1
1910—English
*Rexroth*

The New Machiavelli_1
originally published serially 1910 in the English Review—English
*Rexroth*

The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind_1
originally entitled A Prophetic Trilogy, published serially Jan.-Mar. 1914 in the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine; retitled for publication in book form, 1914—English
*Rexroth*

The Research Magnificent_1
1915—English
*Rexroth*

The Outline of History_1
originally published serially 1919-20; revised through 1937 edition; later revisions made by Raymond Postgate and G P Wells—English
*Durant*

Eudora Welty
The Robber Bridegroom_1
1942—English
*Bloom*

Delta Wedding_1
1946—English
*Bloom*

The Ponder Heart_1
originally published 1953 in the New Yorker—English
*Bloom*

Losing Battles_1
1970—English
*Dirda*

The Optimist's Daughter_1
1972—English
*Dirda*

Timberlake Wertenbaker
Our Country's Good_1
1988—English
*Trinity*

John Wesley
Sermons_2
141 sermons; Eighteenth Century—English
*Trinity* *Reynolds*

Cornel West
Race Matters_1
1994—English
*Utne*

Nathanael West
Miss Lonelyhearts_1
1933—English
*Bloom*

A Cool Million_1
1934—English
*Bloom*

The Day of the Locust_2
1939—English
*Bloom* *Smart*

Rebecca West
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia_2
1941—English
*Fadiman* *Deposit*

The Fountain Overflows_1
1956—English
*Zane*

Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth_7
1905—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Newman* *Educated* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

Ethan Frome_5
1911—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Campbell* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Custom of the Country_3
1913—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman*

The Age of Innocence_7
1920—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

John Wheelwright
Rock and Shell_1
1933—English
*Bloom*

Mirrors of Venus_1
1938—English
*Bloom*

Political Self-Portrait_1
1940—English
*Bloom*

E B White
Stuart Little_1
1945—English
*Van Doren*

Charlotte's Web_3
1952—English
*Van Doren* *Guardian* *Recommended*

Edmund White
Forgetting Elena_1
1973—English
*Bloom*

Nocturnes for the King of Naples_1
1978—English
*Bloom*

Eric Walter White
Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works_1
1966—English
*List*

Gilbert White
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne_2
1789—English
*Lubbock* *Rexroth*

Patrick White
Voss_2
1957—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Riders in the Chariot_2
1961—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Fringe of Leaves_1
1976—English
*Bloom*

T H White
The Once and Future King_2
originally published in five volumes, 1938-71—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*

Alfred North Whitehead
Introduction to Mathematics_3
1911—English
*Read* *Van Doren* *Adler*

Science and the Modern World_2
1925—English
*Read* *Adler*

Adventures of Ideas_1
1933—English
*Read*

Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892—English
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Van Doren* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Democratic Vistas_2
1871—English
*Downs* *Fadiman*

Specimen Days_2
1882—English
*Classics* *Bloom*

Christoph Martin Wieland
Geschichte des Agathon_1
Story of Agathon
1766-67—German
*Trinity*

Norbert Wiener
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and Machine_1
1948; revised 1961—English
*SeymourSmith*

Elie Wiesel
Un di Velt Hot Geshvign_2
Night
1954; abridged French translation, entitled La Nuit, published 1958; alternate abridged version, in English, entitled Night, published 1960—Yiddish
*Kanigel* *Recommended*

Tous les Fleuves Vont à la Mer_1
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928-1969
1994—French
*Educated*

Richard Wilbur
The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems_1
1947—English
*Bloom*

Ceremony and Other Poems_1
1950—English
*Bloom*

Things of This World_1
1956—English
*Bloom*

Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems_1
1961—English
*Bloom*

Walking to Sleep_1
1969—English
*Bloom*

The Mind-Reader_1
1976—English
*Bloom*

James Wilcox
Modern Baptists_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Grey_5
originally published Jul. 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; revised and expanded 1891; alternate earlier version published 2011—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Intentions_1
1891; 'The Decay of Lying - An Observation' originally published Jan. 1889 in the Nineteenth Century; 'Pen, Pencil and Poison: A Study in Green'; 'The Critic as Artist', originally entitled 'The True Function and Value of Criticism: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing: A Dialogue', published Jul. and Sep. 1890 in the Nineteenth Century; 'The Truth of Masks: A Note on Illusion'—English
*Powys*

The Soul of Man Under Socialism_1
1891—English
*Powys*

Lady Windmere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman_3
1892—English
*Ward* *Newman* *Recommended*

A Woman of No Importance_2
1893—English
*Ward* *Newman*

Salomé_2
1893; English version, 1894—French
*Powys* *Newman*

An Ideal Husband_2
1895—English
*Ward* *Newman*

The Importance of Being Earnest_8
1895—English
*Powys* *Ward* *Magill* *Smart* *Trinity* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Ballad of Reading Gaol_1
originally published under the pseudonym, c.3.3., 1898—English
*Newman*

De Profundis_3
published in part, 1905; additional portions published 1913; in its entirety, 1949; revised 1962 and included in The Letters of Oscar Wilde—English
*Powys* *Ward* *Newman*

Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey_1
1927—English
*Fadiman*

Our Town_5
1938—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Educated* *Recommended*

The Skin of Our Teeth_1
1942—English
*Bloom*

Matchmaker_1
1955; based on his 1938 play, The Merchant of Yongers, itself based on John Oxenford's A Day Well Spent, 1835, and Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux Will er Sich Machen, 1842—English
*Bloom*

Henry Smith Williams
A History of Science_1
originally published in ten volumes, 1904-10—English
*Durant*

Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie_5
1944—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Van Doren* *Recommended*

A Streetcar Named Desire_5
1947—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Educated*

Summer and Smoke_1
1948; later revised and retitled The Eccentricities of a Nightingale—English
*Bloom*

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_1
1955—English
*Recommended*

William Carlos Williams
The Tempers_2
1913—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Al Que Quierre!_2
1917—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Sour Grapes_2
1921—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Spring and All_4
1923—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Van Doren* *Newman*

In the American Grain_1
1925—English
*Recommended*

An Early Martyr and Other Poems_2
1935—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Adam and Eve and the City_2
1936—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Wedge_2
1944—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Paterson_5
originally published in five volumes: 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958—English
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Clouds_2
1948—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Pink Church_2
1949—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Desert Music_2
1954—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Journey to Love_2
1955—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Pictures From Brueghel_3
1962—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

A N Wilson
Tolstoy_1
1988—English
*Smart*

August Wilson
Fences_1
1983—English
*Bloom*

Joe Turner's Come and Gone_2
1984—English
*Bloom* *Utne*

Colin Wilson
The Outsider_1
1956—English
*Recommended*

Edmund Wilson
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties_1
1952; originally published in varied periodicals—English
*Bloom*

Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War_2
1962—English
*Bloom* *Smart*

E O Wilson
On Human Nature_1
1978—English
*Educated*

Woodrow Wilson
The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People_1
1913; 1912 speeches edited by William Bayard Hale—English
*Downs*

Jeanette Winterson
The Passion_1
1987—English
*Bloom*

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung_1
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
originally published 1921 in Annalen der Naturphilosophie—German
*Ward*

Philosophische Untersuchungen_3
Philosophical Investigations
1953—German
*List* *Adler* *SeymourSmith*

P G Wodehouse
Carry On, Jeeves_1
1925—English
*Deposit*

Christa Wolf
Kassandra_1
Cassandra
1983—German
*Bloom*

Naomi Wolf
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women_1
1991; expanded 2002—English
*Telegraph*

Gene Wolfe
The Shadow of the Torturer_1
1980; first volume of The Book of the New Suns series—English
*Harvard*

The Claw of the Conciliator_1
1981; second volume of The Book of the New Sun series—English
*Harvard*

Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel_2
1929—English
*Kanigel* *Recommended*

You Can't Go Home Again_1
1940—English
*Recommended*

Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff_1
1979—English
*Learning*

The Bonfire of the Vanities_2
originally published serially Jul. 1984-Aug. 1985 in Rolling Stone; revised 1987—English
*Smart* *Recommended*

Wolfram von Eschenbach
Parzival_4
ca. early Thirteenth Century—German
*Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda*

Meg Wolitzer
The Wife_1
2003—English
*Smart*

Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman_8
1792—English
*Durant* *Downs* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Wonhyo
Dacheng Qixinlun Shuji_1
Commentary on Awakening of Faith
Seventh Century—Korean
*World*

Gordon S Wood
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin_1
2004—English
*Smart*

Bob Woodward; Carl Bernstein
All the President's Men_1
1987—English
*Educated*

Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out_1
1915—English
*Graphic*

Mrs. Dalloway_11
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

To the Lighthouse_12
1927—English
*Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended*

Orlando: A Biography_4
1928—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Newman*

A Room of One's Own_5
1929—English
*Kanigel* *Smart* *Deposit* *Van Doren* *Newman*

The Waves_5
1931—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman* *Recommended*

Flush: A Biograpy_1
1933—English
*Smart*

Between the Acts_1
1941—English
*Bloom*

John Woolman
The Journal of John Woolman_3
1774—English
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Trinity*

Dorothy Wordsworth
The Grasmere Journals_1
1897—English
*Bloom*

William Wordsworth
The Excursion: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem_1
1814—English
*Classics*

The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem_9
1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805—English
*Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Telegraph* *Van Doren* *Newman* *Recommended*

Patricia C Wrede
Dealing With Dragons_1
published in part, 1987, as 'The Improper Princess', in Spaceships and Spells; in its entirety, 1990—English
*Harvard*

Austin Tappan Wright
Islandia_1
1942—English
*Van Doren*

Charles Wright
The Southern Cross_1
1981—English
*Bloom*

The Other Side of the River_1
1984—English
*Bloom*

Zone Journals_1
1988—English
*Bloom*

Xionia_1
1990—English
*Bloom*

James Wright
The Green Wall_1
1957—English
*Bloom*

Saint Judas_1
1959—English
*Bloom*

The Branch Will Not Break_1
1963—English
*Bloom*

Shall We Gather at the River_1
1968—English
*Bloom*

Two Citizens_1
1973—English
*Bloom*

To a Blossoming Pear Tree_1
1977—English
*Bloom*

This Journey_1
1982—English
*Bloom*

Jay Wright
Dimensions of History_1
1976—English
*Bloom*

The Double Invention of Komo_1
1980—English
*Bloom*

Elaine's Book_1
1988—English
*Bloom*

Boleros_1
1991—English
*Bloom*

Richard Wright
Native Son_8
1940—English
*Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Recommended* *Educated*

Black Boy_3
originally published in two volumes: Black Boy, 1945; and American Hunger, published in part serially, in its entirety, 1977—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

Wú Chéng-ēn (Ruzhong)
Xi Yóu Jì_6
Journey to the West; Monkey
late Sixteenth Century—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Great* *Graphic*

Wú Jìngzǐ
Rúlínwùishi_1
The Scholars
written ca. 1750—Chinese
*Ward*

William Wycherley
The Country Wife_3
1675—English
*Bloom* *Newman* *Recommended*

The Plain Dealer_1
1676—English
*Bloom*

Elinor Wylie
Last Poems of Elinor Wylie_1
1943; three of four sections previously unpublished—English
*Bloom*

Philip Wylie
The Disappearance_1
1951—English
*Smart*

John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids_1
1951—English
*Telegraph*

Johann David Wyss
Der Schweizerische Robinson_1
1812—German
*Ward*

Xenophon
Apology_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Ward*

Anabasis_3
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Downs* *Ward*

Hellenica_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Ward*

Kúrou Paideía_1
Cryopaedia
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Ward*

Memorabilia_2
Apomnemoneumata
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Ward*

Symposium_1
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Ward*

Xuánzàng (Hsuan-tang)
Dà Táng Xiyù Jì_1
Ta T'ang Hsiyü Chi; The Great Tang Records of the Western Religions
written 626-46; compiled by Biànjī—Chinese
*World*

Xúnzǐ (Hsün-tzu)
Xúnzǐ_3
Hsün-tzu
Third Century B C—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

William Butler Yeats
The Countess Cathleen_2
originally entitled The Countess Kathleen, part of The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, 1892; retitled and revised 1911; the poems included in The Countless Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics later included in the author's collected poems under the title, The Rose—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Celtic Twilight_1
originally entitled The Celtic Twilight. Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries, published 1893; expanded 1902; revised for inclusion in Early Poems and Stories, 1925; included in Mythologies, 1959—English
*Bloom*

The Land of Heart's Desire_2
1894—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Secret Rose_1
1897; revised for inclusion in The Secret Rose. Rosa Alchemica. The Tables of the Law. The Adoration of the Magi. John Sherman and Dhoya, 1908; revised for inclusion in Early Poems and Stories, 1925; included in Mythologies, 1959—English
*Bloom*

The Wind Among the Reeds_6
1899—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph*

The Shadowy Waters_6
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 poems—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph*

Cathleen Ni Houlihan_2
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—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The King's Threshold_2
1903; revised for inclusion in Poems, 1899-1905, 1906; revised 1911—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

On Baile's Strand_2
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—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Hour-Glass: A Morality_2
part of The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, 1904; revised 1907; revised for inclusion in Responsibilties [1914]—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Pot of Broth_2
originally published as part of The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, 1904; revised 1905—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Tables of the Law and the Adoration of the Magi_1
1904; revised for inclusion in Early Poems and Stories, 1925; included in Mythologies, 1959—English
*Bloom*

Stories of Red Hanrahan_1
1905; revisions of stories from The Secret Rose; revised for inclusion in The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan, 1908; included in Mythologies, 1959—English
*Bloom*

Deirdre_2
published as part of 'The Entrance of Deirdre' in Poems, 1899-1905, 1906; published separately 1907; revised 1911—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Unicorn From the Stars_2
1908—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Green Helmet_2
1908; part of The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910; revised 1911—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Reveries Over Childhood and Youth_2
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, 1955—English
*Magill* *Fadiman*

The Wild Swans at Coole_2
originally entitled The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, published 1917; includes the play, At the Hawk's Well; retitled and expanded 1919 to include Nine Poems [1918] and additional poems; At the Hawk's Well later included in Four Plays for Dancers, 1921—English
*Great* *Recommended*

Per Amica Silentia Lunae_1
1918; included in Mythologies, 1959—English
*Bloom*

The Dreaming of the Bones_3
originally published Jan. 1919 in the Little Review; included in Two Plays for Dancers, 1919, and its expanded version, Four Plays for Dancers, 1921—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Graphic*

The Only Jealousy of Emer_2
part of Two Plays for Dancers, 1919, and its expanded version, Four Plays for Dancers, 1921—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Michael Robartes and the Dancer_6
1920—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph*

Calvary_2
part of Four Plays for Dancers, 1921—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Player Queen_2
1922—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Trembling of the Veil_2
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, 1955—English
*Magill* *Fadiman*

The Cat and the Moon_2
originally published as part of The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 1924—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Bounty of Sweden: A Meditation, and a Lecture Delivered Before the Royal Swedish Academy, and Certain Notes_2
1925; included in Autobiogarphies, 1955—English
*Magill* *Fadiman*

A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded Upon the Writings of Giraldus and Upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka_2
1925; revised 1937—English
*Ward* *Bloom*

Estrangement: Being Some Fifty Thoughts From a Diary Kept by William Butler Yeats in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Nine_2
1926; included in Autobiogarphies, 1955—English
*Magill* *Fadiman*

The Resurrection_2
originally published 1927 in the Adelphi; originally performed 1934—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

The Tower_6
1928; originally published as Seven Poems and a Fragment, 1922; The Cat and the Moon, 1924; and October Blast, 1927—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph*

The Death of Synge and Other Passages From an Old Diary_2
1928; included in Autobiogarphies, 1955—English
*Magill* *Fadiman*

The Winding Stair_6
1929—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph*

The Words Upon the Window Pane_2
1930—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems_7
1932—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Van Doren*

The King of the Great Clock Tower_2
part of The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems, 1934—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

A Full Moon in March_2
1935—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

Dramatis Personae_2
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, 1955—English
*Magill* *Fadiman*

The Herne's Egg_2
1938—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman*

New Poems_6
1938—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph*

Last Poems and Two Plays_1
1939; includes the plays, The Death of Cuchulain, and Purgatory—English
*Van Doren*

A B Yehoshua
A Late Divorce_1
1982—Hebrew
*Bloom*

Mar Mani_1
Mr. Mani
1989; Mallison ("Smart")specifies Hillel Halkin's English translation—Hebrew
*Smart*

Anzia Yezierska
Bread Givers_1
1925—English
*Smart*

Yi Hwang
Seonghak Sipdo_1
The Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning
1681—Korean
*World*

Yoshida Kenko
Tsurezuregusa_2
Essays in Idleness
written 1330-32—Japanese
*Ward* *Oriental*

Marguerite Yourcenar
Le Coup de Grâce_1
1939—French
*Bloom*

Les Mémoires d'Hadrien_2
The Memoirs of Hadrian
1951—French
*Bloom* *Norway*

Yú Yǎn
Zhōuyì Cāntóng Qì Fāhuī_1
Elucidation of the Cantong Qi
1284—Chinese
*World*

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
La Sombra del Viento_1
2001—Spanish
*Guardian*

Yevgeny Zamyatin
My_1
We
originally published 1924 in its English translation; in the original Russian, 1952—Russian
*Ward*

Zhì Yǐ (Chih-I)
Fáhuá Xuányì_1
Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra
Sixth Century—Chinese
*World*

Commentaries on the Vimalakirti Sutra_1
Sixth Century—Chinese
*World*

Zhū Xī (Chu Hsi)
Jìnsīlù_1
Chin-ssu Lu; Reflections on Things at Hand
Twelfth Century—Chinese
*Ward*

Sìshū Zhāngju Jízhù_1
Commentaries on the Four Books
Twelfth Century—Chinese
*World*

Zhuāngzī (Zhuāng Zhōu) (Chuang-tzu)
Zhuāngzī_5
Nánhuá Zhēnjīng
ca. Third Century B C—Chinese
*Ward* *Oriental* *Utne* *Great* *World*

Howard Zinn
A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present_2
1980; expanded and revised through fifth edition, 2005—English
*Utne* *Harvard*

Émile Zola
Thérèse Raquin_2
originally published serially 1867 in L'Artiste—French
*Ward* *Deposit*

L'Assommoir_5
1877—French
*Ward* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Zane* *Newman*

Nana_6
originally published serially 1879-80 in La Voltaire—French
*Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Zane* *Newman*

Au Bonheur des Dames_1
originally published serially 1883 in Gil Blas—French
*Dirda*

Germinal_10
originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil Blas—French
*Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*

La Terre_1
1887—French
*Dirda*

La Bête Humaine_2
1890—French
*Dirda* *Newman*

Markus Zusak
The Book Thief_1
2005—English
*Deposit*

Quran_11
Koran
Seventh Century—Arabic
*Downs* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World*

Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah_17
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's version—Arabic
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *France* *Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Oriental* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Taylor* *Recommended*

Sirat Antar ibn Shaddad_1
The Romance of Antar
Eleventh-Fourteenth centuries—Arabic
*Ward*

Muallaqat_3
The Seven Odes
compiled Eighth Century—Arabic
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

Talmud_2
Shas
ca. Second-Fifth centuries—Aramaic; Hebrew
*Downs* *Ward*

Zohar_1
foundational work of Kabbalah Jewish literature; published, and probably written in part, by Moses de Leon in the Thirteenth Century; redaction from oral tradition ascribed by De Leon to Shimon bar Yochai, Second Century—Aramaic
*Utne*

Sasna Tsrer_1
Daredevils of Sassoun
written ca. Tenth Century—Armenian
*Ward*

Avesta_3
ca. Fourth Century B C; foundational work of Zoroastrian literature—Avestan
*Ward* *SeymourSmith* *World*

Cantong Qi_1
Kinship of the Three
traditionally attributed to Wei Boyang; ca. Second Century B.—Chinese
*World*

Shījīng_4
Shih-Ching; The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes
one of the Five Classics of Confucianism; Eleventh-Seventh centuries B C—Chinese
*Lubbock* *Ward* *Oriental* *World*

Yì Jīng_2
I Ching; Zhouyi; The Classic of Changes; The Book of Changes
one of the Five Classics of Confucianism; Eleventh-Third centuries B C—Chinese
*SeymourSmith* *World*

Liǐjì_1
The Classic of Rites; The Book of Rites
one of the Five Classics of Confucianism; includes The Doctrine of the Mean and the Great Learning; ca. Eleventh-Third centuries B C—Chinese
*World*

Hekigan Roku_1
The Blue Cliff Record
originally compiled 1125; expanded by Yuanwu Keqin; partially commentraies on The Transmission of the Lamp—Chinese
*Ward*

The Wanderer_2
written ca. Fifth-Tenth centuries—English
*Newman* *Recommended*

The Seafarer_1
written ca. Tenth century—English
*Recommended*

The Second Shepherds' Play_1
Fifteenth Century—English
*Trinity*

Book of Common Prayer_1
1549; revised 1552, 1559, 1604, 1662; first-second versions edited by Thomas Cranmer—English
*Dirda*

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_7
probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English
*Magill* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Recommended* *Educated*

Pearl_2
probably the same author as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English
*Dirda* *Recommended*

The Somonyng of Everyman_4
late Fifteenth Century—English
*Magill* *Trinity* *Recommended* *Educated*

Dream of the Rood_1
ca. Seventh-Ninth centuries—English
*Newman*

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_1
annals; written Ninth-Twelfth centuries—English
*Telegraph*

Beowulf_14
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

The Gospel of Truth_1
probably originally written in Greek; earliest extant copy is Coptic Egyptian translation; Second Century—Egyptian
*SeymourSmith*

The Book of the Dead_3
The Book of Coming Forth by Day
varying versions; written ca. Sixteenth-First centuries B C—Egyptian
*Downs* *Bloom* *Great*

The Story of Sinuhe_1
ca. Twentieth Century B C—Egyptian
*Ward*

Kalevala_3
compiled by Elias Lönnrot; 1835; revised 1849—Finnish
*Baldwin* *Rexroth* *Ward*

La Chanson de Roland_9
ca. Eleventh Century—French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Van Doren* *Newman*

Queste del Saint Graal_1
early Thirteenth Century—French
*Ward*

Nibelungenlied_8
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries—German
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great*

The Bible_17
Downs also lists John Wycliffe's 1382 English translation of the Vulgate; Bloom, Dirda, and the Globe and Mail specify the King James Version, translated 1604-11 to English from the Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament) and the Greek (New Testament), revised 1769 by Benjamin Blayney—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Good* *Bloom* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World* *Recommended*

Pirkei Avot_1
Pirkei Avoth; Sayings of the Fathers
ca. Third Century—Hebrew
*Bloom*

Togail Bruidne Dá Derga_1
The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel
part of the Ulster Cycle—Irish
*Eliot*

Okagami_1
The Great Mirror
written ca. 1119—Japanese
*Ward*

Heike Monogatari_1
The Tale of the Heike
ca. Thirteenth-Fourteenth centuries—Japanese
*Oriental*

Hagoromo_1
Celestial Feather Robe; The Feather Mantle
ca. early Sixteenth Century—Japanese
*Graphic*

Ise Monogatari_1
The Tales of Ise
probably written in part by Ariwara no Narihira; Ninth-Tenth centuries—Japanese
*Oriental*

Yamato Monogatari_1
Tales of Yamato
written Tenth Century—Japanese
*Oriental*

Popul Vuh_2
Harvard Book Store specifies the Dennis Tedlock translation—K'iche'
*Harvard* *Graphic*

The Poetic Edda_1
Thirteenth Century—Norse
*Bloom*

Njáls Saga_5
ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse
*Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Norway* *Dirda*

Laxdaela Saga_1
ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse
*Dirda*

Grettis Saga_1
ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse
*Dirda*

Egil Saga_1
ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse
*Dirda*

Volsunga Saga_2
ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse
*Eliot* *Classics*

Milinda Panha_2
Questions of Milinda
written ca. Second Century B C-Second Century—Pali
*Ward* *Oriental*

Mahavamsa_1
The Great Chronicle
written ca. Third Century B C-Fifth Century—Pali
*World*

Dhammapada_3
part of the Khuddaka Nikaya, fifth of five nikayas in the Sutta Pitaka; written ca. Third Century B C—Pali
*Ward* *Oriental* *SeymourSmith*

Samyutta Nikaya_1
third of five nikayas in the Sutta Pitaka—Pali
*World*

Mahasatipatthana Sutta_1
The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness
commonly paired with Satipatthana Sutra (The Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness)—Pali
*Oriental*

Guru Granth Sahib_2
Adi Granth
written ca. Fifteenth-Sixteenth centuries—Punjabi
*Ward* *World*

Ollantay_1
ca. 1770; attributed to Antonio Valdes; the original Quechua and German translation both published 1857—Quechua
*Graphic*

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion_1
published in part serially 1903 in Znamya; in its entirety as part of Sergei Nilus's Velikoe v" Malom" i Antihrist" (The Great Within the Miniscule and Antichrist), 1905—Russian
*Taylor*

Mahayana Sraddhotpada Sastra_2
Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana
original Sanskrit version attributed to Asvaghosa not exant—Chinese
*Oriental* *World*

Infinite Life Sutra_1
Amitabhavyuha Sutra; Longer Sukhavativyuha Sutra—Sanskrit
*Oriental*

Amitabha Sutra_1
Shorter Sukhavativyuha Sutra—Sanskrit
*Oriental*

Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra_1
The Perfection of Wisdom
ca. First Century B C—Sanskrit
*Oriental*

Vajracchedika Prajñaparamita Sutra_1
The Diamond Sutra
ca. First Century B C—Sanskrit
*Oriental*

Manusmrti_1
Laws of Manu; Manava Dharmasastra
ca. Fifth Century B C—Sanskrit
*World*

Bhagavata Purana_1
ca. Fourth-Tenth centuries—Sanskrit
*World*

Lankavatara Sutra_1
ca. Fourth-Fifth centuries—Sanskrit
*Oriental*

Panchatantra_3
Pancatranta
attributed to Vishnu Sharma; ca. Third Century B C—Sanskrit
*Ward* *Oriental* *World*

Rigveda_3
ca. Eighteenth-Twelfth centuries B C—Sanskrit
*Oriental* *Great* *World*

Saddharma Pundarika Sutra_2
Lotus Sutra
ca. First Century B C-Second Century—Sanskrit
*Ward* *Oriental*

Srimaladevi Simhanada Sutra_1
The Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala
complete original Sanskrit version not extant; Chinese translation
*Oriental*

Vimalakirti Sutra_2
ca. First Century—Sanskrit
*Oriental* *World*

Yogacarabhumi-sastra_1
Discourse on the Stages of Yoga Practice
Fourth Century B C; attributed to Asanga—Sanskrit
*World*

El Cantar de Mio Cid_4
written ca. 1195-1207—Spanish
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity*

La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de Sus Fortunas y Adversidades_2
anonymously published 1554—Spanish
*Magill* *Bloom*

Sha Naqba Imuru_11
The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B C—Sumerian; Akkadian
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Norway* *Great* *Graphic* *Recommended* *Educated*

Kuruntokai_1
one of the Eṭṭtuttokai, or eight anthologies, that forms part of the Patiṉeṅmēlkaṅakku—Tamil
*Ward*

Akananuru_1
one of the Eṭṭtuttokai, or eight anthologies, that forms part of the Patiṉeṅmēlkaṅakku—Tamil
*Ward*

Purananuru_1
one of the Eṭṭtuttokai, or eight anthologies, that forms part of the Patiṉeṅmēlkaṅakku—Tamil
*Ward*

Dede Korkut_1
The Book of Dede Korkut; Dada Gorgud; Dede Qorqut; Qorqit Ata
written ca. Thirteenth-Fifteenth centuries—Turkish
*Oriental*

Mabinogion_2
compiled ca. Eleventh-Thirteenth centuries; includes The Four Branches of the Mabinogi—Welsh
*Ward* *Great*