The Editors of the Salem Press, Recommended Reading: 500 Classics Reviewed [1995]
512 entries: 450 monographical, 62 otherwise
Unranked—arranged alphabetically by work
This book, like Masterpieces of World Literature, is a product of Frank Magill's publishing house, Salem Press. Comparing the two lists, one immediately sees many of the same works in both. But the two books are sufficiently distinct to warrant the inclusion of two lists instead of a combination. Since the creation of Greater Books, this book has been revised as Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed [2015]. Eventually, an updated version of this list reflecting whatever changes have been made will replace this version.
- William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!_7
1936—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- John Dryden
Absalom and Achitophel_1
originally published in two volumes, 1681 and 1682; authorship of second is disputed—English
*Recommended*
- George Eliot
Adam Bede _7
1859—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Read* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais: An Elegy Upon the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc._2
1821—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
- Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March_4
1953—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart*
Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884—English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_7
1876—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Campbell* *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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence_6
1920—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Ben Jonson
The Alchemist_8
1610—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
Lawrence Durrell
- Justine_4
1957—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel*
- Balthazar_3
1958—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- Mountolive_3
1958—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- Clea_3
1960—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17
1865—English
*Powys* *Invitation* *France* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Maya Angelou
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes_1
1986—English
*Recommended*
- Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen Nichts Neues_6
All Quiet on the Western Front
originally published Dec. 1928 in Vossische Zeitung—German
*Hundred* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Deposit*
- Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men_5
1946—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart*
- William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well_8
ca. 1606-08—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Henry James
The Ambassadors_12
originally published serially 1903 in the North American Review—English
*Powys* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy_4
1925—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart*
- Euripides
Andromache _4
ca. 428-25 B.C—Greek
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- Jean Racine
Andromaque_6
1667—French
*Classics* *Read* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Great* *Newman*
- George Orwell
Animal Farm_8
1945—English
*Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Smart* *Graphic*
- Eugene O'Neill
Anna Christie_1
1921—English
*Recommended*
- Leo Tolstoy
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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Sophocles
Antigone_22
ca. 441 B.C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra_13
ca. 1606-08—English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- John O'Hara
Appointment at Samarra_3
1934—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
--
- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah_17
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's version—Arabic
*Lubock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *France* *Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Oriental* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Taylor*
- John Milton
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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith_3
1925—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel*
- William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying_8
1930—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Zane* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
As You Like It_12
1603—English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- T S Eliot
Ash Wednesday_7
1930—English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *GlobeMail* *Newman*
- Bernard Malamud
The Assistant_2
1957—English
*Recommended* *Smart*
- Kate Chopin
The Awakening_5
1899—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Graphic*
- Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt_5
1922—English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Euripides
Bakchai _14
The Bacchae
405 B.C—Greek
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *O'Hear*
- Carson McCullers
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe_2
1951—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Pär Lagerkvist
Barrabas_2
1950—Swedish
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers_4
1857—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Telegraph*
- Ellen Glasgow
Barren Ground_2
1925—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Ben Jonson
Bartholomew Fayre_5
1614—English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Recommended* *Newman*
'Bartleby, the Scrivener'_2
originally published serially Nov.-Dec. 1853 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art; included in Piazza Tales, 1856—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman*
- John Gay
The Beggar's Opera_2
1728—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar_5
1963—English
*Ward* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Harvard* *Graphic*
- Toni Morrison
Beloved_9
1987—English
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Telegraph* *Zane* *Harvard* *Deposit*
--
- Beowulf_14
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Seamus Heaney's modern English version—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Christopher Isherwood
- Mr. Norris Changes Trains_3
1936—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Goodbye to Berlin_4
1939—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Deposit*
--
- 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* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World*
- Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Foretopman_9
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
1924—English
*Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Newman*
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions_7
originally published in two volumes, 1817—English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- Aristophanes
Ornithes_13
The Birds
414 B.C—Greek
*Downs* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Richard Wright
Black Boy_3
originally published in two volumes: Black Boy, 1945; American Hunger, published in part serially, in its entirety, 1977—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Charles Dickens
Bleak House_7
originally published serially Mar. 1852-Sep. 1853—English
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*
- Cormac McCarthy
Blood Merdian or The Evening Redness in the West_4
1985—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Graphic*
'The Blue Hotel'_2
originally published serially Nov.-Dec. 1898 in Collier's Weekly; included in The Monster and Other Stories, 1899—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
- Henry James
The Bostonians_4
originally published serially in the Century Magazine, 1885-86—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- James Boswell
London Journal_5
written 1762-63—English
*Read* *Ward* *Recommended* *Smart* *Graphic*
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World_9
1932—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Graphic*
'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky'_1
originally published 1898 in McClure's; included in The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, 1898—English
*Recommended*
- Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder_3
1945—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Guardian*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman*
- Jack London
The Call of the Wild_3
originally published serially 1903 in the Saturday Evening Post—English
*Recommended* *Campbell* *Deposit*
- George Bernard Shaw
Candida_3
published in 1898 as part of Plays Pleasant; originally performed 1903—English
*Hundred* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translation—French
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English version—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Ezra Pound
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* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman*
- Rudyard Kipling
Captains Courageous_1
originally published serially 1896-97 in McClure's—English
*Recommended*
'The Cask of Amontillado'_2
originally published Nov. 1846 in Godey's Lady Book—English
*Ward* *Recommended*
- Franz Kafka
Das Schloss_9
The Castle
1926—German
*Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Smart* *Newman*
- Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_1
1955—English
*Recommended*
- Joseph Heller
Catch-22_10
1961—English
*List* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- J D Salinger
Catcher in the Rye_8
1951—English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Zane* *Taylor* *Graphic*
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle_3
1963—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Harvard*
'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'_3
originally entitled 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog', published Nov. 1865 in the Saturday Press; retitled and revised for inclusion in the Californian, Dec. 1865—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Recommended*
'The Celestial Omnibus'_1
—English
*Recommended*
- John Updike
The Centaur_1
published in part in Esquire and the New Yorker; in its entirety, 1963—English
*Recommended*
- Stendhal
Le Chartreuse de Parme_12
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839—French
*Classics* *France* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Zane* *Newman*
- Anton Chekhov
Višhnëvyj Sad_8
The Cherry Orchard
1904—Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
- Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_5
1812-18—English
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol_7
1843—English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Taylor* *Newman*
- Pierre Corneille
Le Cid_7
1637—French
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
'Civil Disobedience'_7
originally published 1849 as part of Aesthetic Papers—English
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith*
- Samuel Richardson
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady_5
1748—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Newman*
'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'_3
originally published 1933 in Scribner's; included in Winner Take Nothing, 1933—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Alice Walker
The Color Purple_3
1982—English
*Recommended* *Campbell* *Guardian*
- William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors_8
1594—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98—Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Educated*
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les Confessions_14
1782—French
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman* *Educated*
- Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_3
1889—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Boethius
Consolatio Philosophiae_5
The Consolations of Philosophy
written ca. 524—Latin
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Reynolds*
- André Gide
Les Faux-Monnayeurs_3
originally published 1925 in Nouvelle Revue Française—French
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity*
- Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs_2
originally published serially 1896 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- William Wycherley
The Country Wife_3
1675—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Immanuel Kant
Kritik der Reinen Vernunft_12
Critique of Pure Reason
1781; revised 1787—German
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *World*
- Arthur Miller
The Crucible_3
1953—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell*
- Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country_1
1948—English
*Recommended*
- Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49_3
1966—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Smart*
- Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac_3
1897—French
*Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Henry James
Daisy Miller_2
originally published serially Jun.-Jul. 1878 in Cornhill Magazine—English
*Recommended* *Campbell*
- Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine_1
published in part, Jun. 1953, in Gourmet; in its entirety, 1957—English
*Recommended*
'The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze'_1
originally published 1934 in Story—English
*Recommended*
- Charles Dickens
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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Nikolai Gogol
Mërtvyâ Duši_11
Dead Souls
1842—Russian
*Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman*
- Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop_4
1927—English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda*
- James Agee
A Death in the Family_3
1957—English
*Recommended* *Zane* *Smart*
- Thomas Mann
Der Tod in Venedig_8
Death in Venice
1911—German
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Graphic*
- Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman_6
1949—English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Educated*
- Leo Tolstoy
Smert' Ivana Il'icha_5
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1886—Russian
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Foundation* *Norway*
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto_12
ca. 1351-53—Italian
*Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Newman*
- James Fenimore Cooper
The Deerslayer: or, The First Warpath_2
1841—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Herman Hesse
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend_1
originally entitled Demian: Die Geschichte Einer Jugend, published 1919 under the pseudonym, Emil Sinclair—German
*Recommended*
- Alexis de Tocqueville
De la Démocratie en Amérique_12
Democracy in America
originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840—French
*Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Great* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Educated*
- Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex_4
1871—English
*Durant* *Read* *Adler* *Recommended*
- Eugene O'Neill
Desire Under the Elms_1
1924—English
*Recommended*
Plato
- Apologia Socratis_16
The Apology
early Fourth Century B.C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear*
- Crito_13
early Fourth Century B.C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
- Phaedo_14
early Fourth Century B.C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
'Zapiski Sumasšedšego'_2
'The Diary of a Madman'
1835—Russian
*Recommended* *Newman*
- Anne Frank
Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944_4
The Diary of a Young Girl
1947—Dutch
*Recommended* *Campbell* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- 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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus_10
1592—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Newman* *Educated*
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_7
1886—English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Boris Pasternak
Dóktor Živágo_5
Doctor Zhivago
Italian translation, 1957; original Russian, 1958—Russian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Telegraph*
- Henrik Ibsen
Et Dukkehjem_14
A Doll's House
1879—Norwegian
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- Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
Don Juan_8
originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824—English
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Newman*
- 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
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- Bram Stoker
Dracula_6
1897—English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Guardian*
- James Joyce
Dubliners_10
1914—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman*
- Alexander Pope
The Dunciad_2
originally anonymously published 1728; revised through fourth edition, 1743—English
*Recommended* *Dirda*
- Frank Herbert
Dune_2
1965—English
*Recommended* *Guardian*
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden_3
1952—English
*Recommended* *Magill* *Zane*
'Easter, 1916'_2
published separately 1916, in the New Statesman, Oct. 1920, and the Dial, Nov. 1920; included in Michael Robertes and the Dancer, 1920—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
- Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams_11
1918—English
*Durant* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Foundation* *Fadiman* *Kanigel*
'The Eighty-Yard Run'_1
—English
*Recommended*
- Euripides
Ēlektra _7
Electra
written ca. 413 B.C—Greek
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great*
- Jane Austen
Emma_11
originally anonymously published 1815—English
*Read* *List* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*
- Henrik Ibsen
En Folkefiende_5
An Enemy of the People
1882—Norwegian
*Classics* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
'The Enormous Radio'_1
originally published May 1947 in the New Yorker; included in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories, 1953—English
*Recommended*
--
- Sha Naqba Imuru_11
The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B.C—Sumerian; Akkadian
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Norway* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Peter Shaffer
Equus_3
1973—English
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Educated*
- Alexander Pope
Essay on Man_5
1734—English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais_26
Essays
originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French
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'The Eternal Moment'_1
—English
*Recommended*
- Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome_5
1911—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Newman*
- Aristotle
Ethika Nikomacheia_16
Nicomachean Ethics
Fourth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Reynolds*
- Baruch Spinoza
Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata_15
Ethics
1677—Latin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Deposit*
- Alexander Pushkin
Evgénij Onegin_7
Eugene Onegin
published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837—Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Great* *Newman*
'The Eve of St. Agnes'_3
part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
--
- The Somonyng of Everyman_4
late Fifteenth Century—English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Educated*
- Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene_8
originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596—English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451_2
published in part, Feb. 1951, as 'The Fireman' in Galaxy Science Fiction; in its entirety, 1953—English
*Recommended* *Deposit*
- Albert Camus
La Chute_3
The Fall
1956—French
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended*
'The Fall of the House of Usher'_5
originally published Sep. 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine; revised for inclusion in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840—English
*Eliot* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd_5
originally anonymously published serially in Cornhill Magazine, Jan.-Dec. 1874; revised 1895 and 1901—English
*Powys* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Newman*
- Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms_6
1929—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Smart* *Newman*
- Honoré de Balzac
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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Newman*
- Ivan Turgenev
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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Newman*
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- Sǿren Kierkegaard
Frygt og Baeven_3
Fear and Trembling
originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843—Danish
*Adler* *Recommended* *Great*
- Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones_6
originally entitled El Jardín de Senderos que se Bifurcan, published 1941; expanded 1944 and 1956—Spanish
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *GlobeMail* *Harvard*
- James Joyce
Finnegans Wake_5
1939—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- James Baldwin
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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne*
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
V Kruge Pervom_3
In the First Circle
1968; expanded 1978—Russian
*Read* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
'The Five-Forty-Eight'_1
originally published in the New Yorker; included in The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories, 1959—English
*Recommended*
- Bernard Malamud
The Fixer_2
1966—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Charles Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal_8
The Flowers of Evil
1857—French
*France* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman*
'For Esmé—In Love and Squalor'_1
originally published Apr. 1950 in the New Yorker; included in Nine Stories, 1953—English
*Recommended*
- Robert Lowell
For the Union Dead_1
1964—English
*Recommended*
- Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls_7
1940—English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Harvard* *Telegraph* *Newman*
John Galsworthy
- The Man of Property_4
1906—English
*Powys* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Smart*
- Indian Summer of a Forsyte_3
1918—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Smart*
- In Chancery_3
1920—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Smart*
- Awakening_3
1920—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Smart*
- To Let_3
1921—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Smart*
- T S Eliot
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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *GlobeMail* *Newman*
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus_12
originally anonymously published 1818—English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
- J D Salinger
Franny and Zooey_3
1961; 'Franny' originally published Jan. 1955 in the New Yorker; 'Zooey' originally published May 1957 in the New Yorker—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Deposit*
- John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman_2
1969—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
- Émile Zola
Germinal_10
originally published serially in Gil Blas Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885—French
*Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*
- Henrik Ibsen
Gengangere_5
Ghosts
1881—Norwegian
*Classics* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Newman*
'The Gift of the Magi'_1
originally entitled 'Gifts of the Magi', published December 1905 in the New York Sunday World; included in The Four Million, 1906—English
*Recommended*
- J P Donleavy
The Ginger Man_1
1955—English
*Recommended*
- Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie_4
1944—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell*
- James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain_2
1953—English
*Recommended* *Smart*
'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'_2
originally published 1953 in Modern Writing I; included in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955—English
*Recommended* *Trinity*
- Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier_4
1915—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane*
- Doris Lessing
The Good Terrorist_1
1985—English
*Recommended*
- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath_11
1939—English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow_4
1973—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Graphic*
- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations_15
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English
*Classics* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman*
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby_17
1925—English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Great* *Guardian* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Knut Hamsun
Markens Grøde_1
Growth of the Soil
originally published in two volumes, 1917—Norwegian
*Recommended*
- Jonathan Swift
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships_29
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735—English
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- William Shakespeare
Hamlet_27
1602—English
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- Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust_2
1934—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness_16
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English
*Magill* *Adler* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler_10
1890—Norwegian
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Newman*
William Shakespeare
- The First Part of Henry IV_13
1597—English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Second Part of Henry IV_12
1600—English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Henry V_9
1599—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *O'Hear* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Euripides
Hippolytos _11
428 B.C—Greek
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of Seven Gables_7
1851—English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Zulli* *Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Newman*
- Isabel Allende
La Casa de los Espíritus_2
The House of Spirits
1982—Spanish
*Recommended* *Trinity*
- Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift_3
1975—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart*
- Victor Hugo
Notre-Dame de Paris_8
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831—French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Knut Hamsun
Sult_5
Hunger
published in part, 1888, in Ny Jord; in its entirety, 1890—Norwegian
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway*
'Hyperion'_2
part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
- Eugene O'Neill
The Iceman Cometh_4
1946—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Idiot_11
originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
*Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Deposit* *Newman*
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Idylls of the King_2
published in parts, 1859-85—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
- 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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest_8
1895—English
*Powys* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Smart* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A H H_3
1849—English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- William Carlos Williams
In the American Grain_1
1925—English
*Recommended*
- Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man_12
1952—English
*Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography_16
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English
*Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Henry Fielding
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams_6
1742—English
*Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure_8
originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar_9
1599—English
*Durant* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Upton Sinclair
The Jungle_5
originally published serially in Appeal to Reason, Feb.-Nov. 1905—English
*Hundred* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell*
Rudyard Kipling
- The Jungle Book_4
1894—English
*Powys* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*
- The Second Jungle Book_3
1895—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped_3
originally published serially May-Jul. 1886 in Young Folks—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- Rudyard Kipling
Kim_6
originally published serially Dec. 1900-Oct. 1901 in McClure's and Jan. 1901-Oct. 1901 in Cassell's—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
King Lear_21
1606—English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
'Poceluj'_1
'The Kiss'
—Russian
*Recommended*
- 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* *Recommended* *Smart*
'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'_4
originally published in Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep, 1816—English
*Read* *Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
- D H Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover_4
abridged version, 1928; complete work, 1960—English
*Recommended* *Taylor* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Oscar Wilde
Lady Windmere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman_3
1892—English
*Ward* *Recommended* *Newman*
- James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757_3
1826—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Recommended*
- Nikos Kazantzakis
The Last Temptation of Christ_1
1953—Greek
*Recommended*
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892—English
*Powys* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
'Leda and the Swan'_2
originally published Jun. 1924 in the Dial and Aug. 1924 in To-Morrow; also published as 'Leda' in the first version of A Vision, 1926; included in The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 1924; that book (except the play, The Cat and the Moon) made part of The Tower, 1928—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'_4
part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848
*Eliot* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Il Gattopardo_5
The Leopard
1958; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Archibald Colquhoun's English translation—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Smart*
- James Agee
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men_6
1941; photography by Walker Evans—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Utne* *Dirda* *Smart* *Deposit*
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño_8
Life Is a Dream
1635—Spanish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great*
- James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D._21
1791—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman*
'Ligeia'_2
originally published Sep. 1838 in the American Museum; revised for inclusion in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840; Phantasy Pieces, 1842; Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, 1845; the New York World, Feb. 1845; and the Broadway Journal, Sep. 1845—English
*Magill* *Recommended*
- William Faulkner
Light in August_4
1932—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Newman*
- John Hawkes
The Lime Twig_1
1961—English
*Recommended*
'Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798'_3
originally published in Lyrical Ballads, 1798—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Louisa M Alcott
Little Women_6
originally published in two volumes: Little Women, 1868; and Good Wives, 1869—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard* *Graphic*
- 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* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Educated*
- Samuel Johnson
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; published in ten volumes, first-fifth in 1779 and sixth-tenth in 1781, as part of a larger set, The Works of the English Poets; published indepdently in six volumes, retitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1781—English
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Newman*
- Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita_11
1955—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey Into Night_8
1956—English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Educated*
- Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel_2
1929—English
*Recommended* *Kanigel*
- Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim_6
originally published serially Oct. 1899-Nov. 1900 in Blackwood's Magazine—English
*Powys* *France* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Newman*
- William Golding
Lord of the Flies_6
1954—English
*Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Graphic*
- J R R Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings_6
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* *Harvard*
'The Lottery'_1
originally published Jun. 1948 in the New Yorker—English
*Recommended*
'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'_4
originally published Jun. 1915 in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
'The Luck of Roaring Camp'_2
originally published Aug. 1868 in Overland Monthly—English
*Eliot* *Recommended*
- Aristophanes
Lysistrate_13
Lysistrata
411 B C—Greek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
- William Shakespeare
Macbeth_16
ca. 1607—English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- 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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Stephen Crane
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets_2
1893; revised 1896—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
- Thomas Mann
Der Zauberberg_12
The Magic Mountain
1924; Mallison ("Smart") specifies John E Woods's English translation—German
*Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart*
- John Fowles
The Magus_2
1966; revised 1977—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
- Sinclair Lewis
Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott_2
1920—English
*Magill* *Recommended*
- George Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara_4
1905—English
*Read* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon_4
1930—English
*Recommended* *Dirda* *Telegraph* *Graphic*
- George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman_7
performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915—English
*Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Lord Byron
Manfred_3
1817—English
*Classics* *Eliot* *Recommended*
- André Malraux
La Condition Humaine_5
Man's Fate
1933—French
*France* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda*
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park_4
originally anonymously published 1814—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- Ray Bradbury
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
*Recommended* *Kanigel*
'The Masque of the Red Death'_2
originally entitled 'The Mask of the Red Death', published May 1842 in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine; retitled and revised for publication in the Broadway Journal, Jul. 1845—English
*Recommended* *Graphic*
- Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character_6
1886—English
*Powys* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure_10
1604—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Carson McCullers
The Member of the Wedding_1
1946—English
*Recommended*
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice_11
ca. 1596-98—English
*Durant* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon_14
Metamorphoses
8; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Charles Martin's English translation—Latin
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Norway* *Dirda* *Great* *O'Hear* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
- Franz Kafka
Die Verwandlung_14
The Metamorphosis
originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Stanley Corngold's English translation—German
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
- Charles Johnson
Middle Passage_1
1990—English
*Recommended*
- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English
*Baldwin* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
- William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream_14
ca. 1595-1600—English
*Durant* *Hundred* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss _6
1860—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- Molière
Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux_13
The Misanthrope
1666—French
*Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman*
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables_18
1862—French
*Baldwin* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Guardian* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit*
- August Strindberg
Fröken Julie_5
Miss Julie
written 1888—Swedish
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway_11
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Educated*
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851—English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Jonathan Swift
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
*Read* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Daniel Defoe
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders_8
1722—English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Smart* *Newman*
- Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone_3
originally published serially 1868 in All the Year Round—English
*Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur_13
1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Telegraph* *Great* *Newman* *Graphic*
- William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing_10
ca. 1598-99—English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman*
- T S Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral_4
1935—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended* *Educated*
'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'_5
originally published Apr. 1841 in Graham's Magazine; revised for inclusion in The Prose Romances of Edgar A Poe, 1843—English
*Ward* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Telegraph* *Newman*
'Musée des Beaux Arts'_1
originally entitled 'Palais des Beaux Arts', published Spring 1939 in New Writing; retitled for inclusion in Another Time, 1940; included in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966, and Collected Poems, 1976—English
*Recommended*
- Willa Cather
My Ántonia_8
1918—English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Smart*
- Anne Radcliffe
The Mysteries of Udolpho_1
1794—English
*Recommended*
- Richard Wright
Native Son_8
1940—English
*Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Educated*
- Bernard Malamud
The Natural_1
1952—English
*Recommended*
- Jean-Paul Sartre
La Nausée_7
Nausea
1938—French
*Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Graphic*
- Charles Dickens
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*
- George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four_17
1949—English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Huis Clos_6
No Exit
1944—French
*Read* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Educated*
- Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey_2
originally anonymously published 1817—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Zapaski iz Podpol'â_6
Notes From Underground
1864—Russian
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Foundation* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Willa Cather
O Pioneers!_1
1913—English
*Recommended*
'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'_2
originally published Jul. 1890 in the San Francisco Examiner; included in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891—English
*Recommended* *Graphic*
'Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood'_4
originally entitled 'Ode', published in Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807; retitled and revised for inclusion in Poems, 1815; revised for inclusion in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, 1820—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
John Keats
originally anonymously published Jan. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Telegraph* *Newman*
originally published Jul. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Telegraph* *Newman*
'Hymn to Aphrodite'_3
lone complete poem among the fragments of the author's work; late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B C—Greek
*Magill* *Recommended* *Great*
- Homer
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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Sophocles
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō_20
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B C—Greek
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- Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translation—Greek
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- W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage_3
1915—English
*Powys* *Hundred* *Recommended*
- John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men_4
1937—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian*
- Kawabata Yasunari
Koto_1
The Old Capital
1962—Japanese
*Recommended*
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea_8
1952—English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Newman*
- Charles Dickens
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* *Recommended* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty_16
1859—English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Taylor* *World*
- Titus Lucretius Carus
De Rerum Natura_19
On the Nature of Things
First Century B.C—Latin
*Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Graphic* *Educated*
- 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
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Graphic*
- T H White
The Once and Future King_2
published in five volumes, 1938-71—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Odîn den' Ivána Denîsoviča_4
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
originally published Nov. 1962 in Nóvyj Mîr—Russian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity*
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_5
1962—English
*Learning* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Deposit* *Graphic*
'The Open Boat'_2
originally published Jun. 1897 in Scribner's; included in The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, 1898—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
'The Open Window'_1
originally published in the Westminster Gazette; part of Beasts and Super-Beasts, 1914—English
*Recommended*
- Aeschylus
Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
Othello_14
ca. 1604—English
*Durant* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Thornton Wilder
Our Town_5
1938—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Educated*
- Isak Dinesen
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
*Recommended* *Dirda*
'The Outcasts of Poker Flat'_2
originally published Jan. 1869 in Overland Monthly—English
*Eliot* *Recommended*
- Colin Wilson
The Outsider_1
1956—English
*Recommended*
'Šinel''_3
'The Overcoat'
1842—Russian
*Magill* *Recommended* *Foundation*
'Ozymandias'_3
originally published Jan. 1818 in the Examiner; included in Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems, 1818—English
*Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire_8
1962—English
*List* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*
- Katherine Anne Porter
Pale Horse, Pale Rider_2
1939—English
*Recommended* *Bloom*
- Samuel Richardson
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded_4
1740; later revised—English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
John Milton
- Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes_8
1671—English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
- E M Forster
A Passage to India_8
1924—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Smart*
- William Carlos Williams
Paterson_4
published in five volumes: 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
'Paul's Case'_1
originally published 1905 in McClure's—English
*Recommended*
--
- Pearl_2
probably the same author as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English
*Recommended* *Dirda*
- Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt_6
1867—Norwegian
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669—French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *O'Hear* *Reynolds*
'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'_1
originally Jan. 1948 published in the New Yorker; included in Nine Stories, 1953—English
*Recommended*
- Peter Barrie
Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up_1
1904—English
*Recommended*
- Jean Racine
Phèdre_11
1677—French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *Newman*
- 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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- 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* *Recommended* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- William Carlos Williams
Pictures From Brueghel_3
1962—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Recommended*
- John Bunyan
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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
'The Pit and the Pendulum'_3
originally published 1842 in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, May 1845—English
*Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Albert Camus
La Peste_8
The Plague
1947—French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell*
- John Millington Synge
The Playboy of the Western World_5
1907—English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity*
- Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin_2
1957—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Aristotle
Peri Poiêtikês_15
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B.C—Greek
*Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Educated*
- Emily Dickinson
The Poems of Emily Dickinson_3
1890—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Great*
- James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_14
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the Egoist—English
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Besy_9
Demons; The Devils; The Possessed
1872—Russian
*Powys* *Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Zane* *Newman*
- James M Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice_1
1934—English
*Recommended*
- William James
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking_8
1907—English
*Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *World*
- Desiderius Erasmus
Stultitiae Laus_10
In Praise of Folly
1511; later revised—Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Dirda* *Reynolds*
- William Wordsworth
The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem_9
1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805—English
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813—English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_2
1961—English
*Recommended* *Zane*
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532—Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper_2
1881—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
- Noël Coward
Private Lives_1
1930—English
*Recommended*
- Aeschylus
Promētheus Desmōtēs_12
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Prometheus Unbound_3
1820—English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
'The Prussian Officer'_2
included in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, 1914—English
*Adler* *Recommended*
'The Purloined Letter'_3
originally published 1844 in the The Gift for 1845; included in Tales, 1845—English
*Eliot* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion_7
1913—English
*Powys* *Read* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity*
- Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun_1
1959—English
*Recommended*
- Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock_7
originally anonymously published in Linot's Miscellany 1712; expanded 1714 and 1717—English
*Lubbock* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman*
- Samuel Johnson
The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale_7
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1759—English
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Smart*
- Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca_5
1938—English
*Recommended* *Dirda* *Guardian* *Telegraph* *Deposit*
- Albert Camus
L'Homme Révolté_2
The Rebel
1951—French
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Stendhal
Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle_18
The Red and the Black
1830—French
*Powys* *Classics* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Newman* *Deposit*
- Stephen Crane
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* *Recommended* *Smart* *Campbell* *Newman* *Educated*
- John Steinbeck
The Red Pony_1
originally published in part serially 1933-36; in its entirety, 1937—English
*Recommended*
- 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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Representative Men: Seven Lectures_3
1850—English
*Read* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- Plato
Politeia_24
The Republic
early Fourth Century B.C—Greek
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Thomas Hardy
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* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Newman* *Educated*
William Shakespeare
- Richard II_9
1597—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Richard III_11
ca. 1592-7—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Thomas Paine
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* *Recommended* *Great* *Telegraph*
'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'_7
originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817—English
*Baldwin* *Read* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Robert Browning
The Ring and the Book_4
published in four volumes, 1868-69—English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
'Rip Van Winkle'_4
part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848
*Eliot* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham_2
1885—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Daniel Defoe
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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Great* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman*
'The Rocking-Horse Winner'_2
originally published Jul. 1926 in Harper's Bazaar; included in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories, 1928—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet_13
ca. 1591-97—English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
'A Rose for Emily'_2
originally published Apr. 1930 in Forum—English
*Adler* *Recommended*
- Tom Stoppard
Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead_2
1966—English
*Recommended* *Educated*
- 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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great*
'Sailing to Byzantium'_2
part of October Blast, 1927; published Spring 1928 in the Exile; October Blast made part of The Tower, 1928—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended*
- George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan_8
1923—English
*Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Educated*
- William Faulkner
Sanctuary_2
1931—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter_21
1850—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Jack London
The Sea-Wolf_1
1904—English
*Recommended*
--
- The Seafarer_1
written ca. Tenth century—English
*Recommended*
- Anton Chekhov
Čajka_7
The Seagull
1896—Russian
*Powys* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Newman*
'The Secret Sharer'_1
originally published 1910 in Harper's; included in Twixt Land and Sea, 1912—English
*Recommended*
- Saul Bellow
Seize the Day_3
1956—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Educated*
- Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility_4
originally published under the pseudonym, A Lady, 1811—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Newman*
- Gustave Flaubert
L'Éducation Sentimentale_8
1869—French
*Classics* *France* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Newman*
- John Knowles
A Separate Peace_2
1959—English
*Recommended* *Campbell*
- Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales_4
1934; Danish version entitled Syv Fantastiske Fortaellinger published 1935—English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda*
- Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer_6
1773—English
*Eliot* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Educated*
- Katherine Anne Porter
Ship of Fools_2
1962—English
*Recommended* *Zane*
- Sǿren Kierkegaard
Sygdommen til Dǿden_2
The Sickness Unto Death
originally published under the pseudonym, Anti-Climacus, 1849—Danish
*Magill* *Recommended*
- Herman Hesse
Siddhartha_3
1922—German
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Graphic*
'Signs and Symbols'_1
originally entitled 'Symbols and Signs', published May 1958 in the New Yorker; retitled for inclusion in Nabokov's Dozen, 1948—French
*Recommended*
- George Eliot
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe _6
1861—English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Newman*
- 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*
'Un Cœur Simple'_3
part of Trois Contes, 1877—French
*Bloom* *Foundation* *Recommended*
--
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_7
probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie_4
1900—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane*
- Luigi Pirandello
Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore_4
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1921—Italian
*Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death_3
1969—English
*Recommended* *Zane* *Deposit*
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha_2
1855—English
*Recommended* *Kanigel*
- William Blake
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* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- William Shakespeare
Sonnets_8
1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From the Portuguese_2
1850—English
*Magill* *Recommended*
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Die Sonette an Orpheus_4
The Sonnets to Orpheus
1923—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- D H Lawrence
Sons and Lovers_9
1913—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Newman*
- William Styron
Sophie's Choice_2
1979—English
*Recommended* *Deposit*
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers_7
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774; revised 1787—German
*Eliot* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Taylor* *Newman*
- John Barth
The Sot-Weed Factor_3
1960—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury_13
1929—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo Is Mad Again_2
ca. 1587—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
- Mishima Yukio
Haru no Yuki_3
Spring Snow
1969—Japanese
*Ward* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Herman Hesse
Der Steppenwolf_4
1927—German
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Graphic*
- Eugene O'Neill
Strange Interlude_1
1928—English
*Recommended*
- Albert Camus
L'Étranger_14
The Stranger
1942—French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire_5
1947—English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Educated*
- Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae_13
Summa Theologica
written 1265-74—Latin
*Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Reynolds* *World*
- Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises_7
1926—English
*Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman*
'The Swimmer'_1
originally published Jul. 1864 in the New Yorker; included in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, 1964—English
*Recommended*
- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities_8
originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year Round—English
*Classics* *Baldwin* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great_7
1590—English
*Baldwin* *Classics* *Ward* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew_9
ca. 1592-94—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Lăozĭ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)
Dàodéjĭng_11
Tao te Ching
ca. Sixth Century B.C—Chinese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Utne* *Dirda* *Great* *World* *Graphic*
- Molière
Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664—French
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
'The Tell-Tale Heart'_3
originally published Jan. 1843 in the Pioneer; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, Aug. 1845—English
*Recommended* *Newman* *Graphic*
- William Shakespeare
The Tempest_20
1611—English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- John Reed
Ten Days That Shook the World_2
1919—English
*Recommended* *Kanigel*
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night_6
originally published serially Jan.-Apr. 1934 in Scribner's Magazine—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman*
- Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented_14
published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the Graphic—English
*Powys* *Hundred* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Deposit*
- Anton Chekhov
Tri Sestry_8
Three Sisters
1901—Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Newman*
- Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There_10
1871—English
*Powys* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *World* *Graphic*
- H G Wells
The Time Machine_5
1895—English
*Rexroth* *Magill* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Telegraph*
- Günter Grass
Die Blechtrommel_6
The Tin Drum
1959—German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Norway* *Zane*
- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird_5
1960—English
*Recommended* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse_12
1927 —English
*Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749—English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Telegraph*
Franz Kafka
- Der Prozess_16
The Trial
1925—German
*France* *Read* *List* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Educated*
- 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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Euripides
Trōiades _8
The Trojan Woman
415 B.C—Greek
*Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn_1
1938—English
*Recommended*
- Henry James
The Turn of the Screw_9
originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898—English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Magill* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will_10
1602—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Jules Verne
Vingt Mille Lieues Souls les Mers_5
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
1870—French
*Magill* *Learning* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Telegraph*
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast_3
1840; revised and expanded 1869—English
*Eliot* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- James Joyce
Ulysses_20
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English
*Classics* *France* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin_6
1852—English
*Downs* *Rexroth* *Recommended* *Smart* *Taylor* *Educated*
- Anton Chekhov
Dâdâ Vanâ_10
Uncle Vanya
1897—Russian
*Classics* *Ward* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman*
- Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood_1
1953—English
*Recommended*
- Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcano_2
1947—English
*Bloom* *Recommended*
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*
- 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* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Educated*
'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'_3
written ca. 1611-12; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English
*Van Doren* *Recommended* *Trinity*
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield_6
1766—English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman_8
1792—English
*Durant* *Downs* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Ben Jonson
Volpone_6
1606—English
*Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- Samuel Beckett
En Attendant Godot_13
Waiting for Godot
1953—French
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods_20
1854—English
*Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Great* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
'Le Mur'_1
'The Wall'
part of Le Mur, 1939—French
*Recommended*
--
- The Wanderer_2
written ca. Fifth-Tenth centuries—English
*Recommended* *Newman*
- John Cheever
The Wapshot Chronicle_1
1957—English
*Recommended*
- Leo Tolstoy
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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Newman*
- H G Wells
The War of the Worlds_4
originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's Magazine—English
*Rexroth* *Learning* *Recommended* *Dirda*
- Henry James
Washington Square_3
originally published serially 1880 in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English
*Ward* *Recommended* *Smart*
'The Waste Land'_11
originally published Oct. 1922 in the Criterion—English
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves_5
1931—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh_5
1903; written 1873-74—English
*Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended*
- William Congreve
The Way of the World_6
1700—English
*Read* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Newman* *Educated*
- Robertson Davies
What's Bred in the Bone_2
1985—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Edward Albee
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?_2
1962—English
*List* *Recommended*
- William Butler Yeats
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
*Recommended* *Great*
- Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows_3
1908—English
*Recommended* *Guardian* *Telegraph*
- 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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane*
- William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale_10
ca. 1611—English
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Abe Kobo
Suna no Onna_3
The Woman in the Dunes
1962—Japanese
*Ward* *Recommended* *Zane*
- D H Lawrence
Women in Love_5
1920—English
*Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *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* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
'Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy'_1
—Yiddish
*Recommended*
- Thomas Wolfe
You Can't Go Home Again_1
1940—English
*Recommended*
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek_3
1946—Greek
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway*