Jane Mallison, Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days [2008]
271 entries: 250 monographical, 21 otherwise
Unranked—arranged chronologically with topical additions: related works listed under some of the main entries
Book Smart, though presenting a list of readings organized across the space of twelve months actually constitutes a third, shorter and less demanding, "lifetime reading plan" after Clifton Fadiman's and Philip Ward's. Formally it is a list of 120 works, 10 for each month. But in the preface, Mallison suggests reading only one of those 10 per month. The reader's supposed to pick one. "I long to believe there's one wild completist out there who will set out to use the book for ten years," she states. Since she also suggests picking any 12 books, not just one from each monthly list, the reader indeed could gradually, over the course of many years, go on the literary adventures she suggests, especially as many of the 120 entries give other suggested readings. They have been included in the list here.
These items included that are not one of the 120 main entries are as follows: Nos. 2, 3; the second bullet, 7, and 8; 11-14; 16, 17, and the fourth bullet; 19-21 and the Pasolini film; 24-26; 28-31; 34, 35; 37, 38; 40; the fifth bullet, 42, 43; 47, 48; the sixth bullet; 55, 56; 58; 64-67; 70; 74; 78-83; 88-90; 93-95; the seventh bullet; the Coppola film; 105-112; 114, 115; 117; 119, 120; 122, 123; 126, 127; the eighth and ninth bullets; 130; 132, 133; the tenth and eleventh bullets; 140-142; 144-147; 149, 150; 153; the thirteenth and fourteenth bullets; 158, the fifteenth and sixteenth bullets, and the Thurber play; 161-165; 168, 169; 174, the eighteenth bullet; 176-180; 182 and the Hellman operatta; 184, 185; 188-190; 193, 194; 197-199; 201-203; 206, 207; 209, 210; 213; the nineteenth bullet; 217, 218, and the twentieth bullet; 221, 222; 225, 226; 228-230; 232; 234-235; the twenty-first bullet, 237, and the Visconti film; 240, 241; 243-244; 246, 247; 250.
Mallison's is one of only two lists to include music, film, and opera/ musical theatre works, which are not entered into the Greater Books master list. These items are included in italics in the list below. The other is the Utne Reader's.
- 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*
- 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 Gardner
Grendel_1
1971—English
*Smart*
- 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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- 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*
Inferno_6
part of La Divina Commedia; written ca. 1308-21; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert and Jean Hollander's English translation—Italian
*Learning* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Smart* *Graphic* *Educated*
- 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*
'Ithaka'_2
—Greek
*Dirda* *Smart*
- Derek Walcott
Omeros_2
1990—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*
- Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad_1
2005—English
*Smart*
- 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*
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*
- 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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman* *Educated*
- Das Schloss_9
The Castle
1926—German
*Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Smart* *Newman*
- Philip Roth
The Breast_1
1972—English
*Smart*
- Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari_12
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh Century; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Royall Tyler's English translation—Japanese
*Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Magill* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Graphic*
Tales From Ovid: Twenty-Four Passages From the Metamorphoses_2
published in part in After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, 1994; in its entirety, 1997; English translations of selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses—English
*Smart* *Telegraph*
- 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*
--
- After Ovid: New Metamorphoses_1
1994; edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun—English
*Smart*
- Jane Alison
The Love-Artist_1
2001—English
*Smart*
Sophocles
- 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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō_20
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B C—Greek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Van Doren* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
- 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*
- Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49_3
1966—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Smart*
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Edipo Re
Oedipus Rex
film; 1967—Italian
- 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* *Smart* *Zane* *Reynolds* *World* *Graphic* *Newman*
- Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot_1
1984—English
*Smart*
- Frederick Brown
Flaubert_1
2006—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- Julian Barnes
England, England_1
1998—English
*Smart*
Robert Caro
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power_2
1982—English
*Smart* *Deposit*
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York_1
1974—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave_6
1845—English
*Rexroth* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Smart* *Educated*
- Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_7
French translation published 1791 as 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*
- Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life_1
2003—English
*Smart*
- Gordon S Wood
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin_1
2004—English
*Smart*
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*
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*
- Megan Marshall
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism_1
2005—English
*Smart*
--
- The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters_1
2005; edited by Ronald A Bosco and Joel Myerson—English
*Smart*
- R W B Lewis
The Jameses: A Family Narrative_1
1991—English
*Smart*
- Lucasta Miller
The Brontë Myth_1
2001—English
*Smart*
- Patricia O'Toole
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918_1
1991—English
*Smart*
- Kenneth Silverman
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather_1
1984—English
*Smart*
- Lytton Strachey
Eminent Victorians_3
1918—English
*Fadiman* *Smart* *Telegraph*
- Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey: A Biography_1
originally published in two volumes, 1967 and 1968—English
*Smart*
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
De Vita Caesarum_5
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
written 121—Latin
*Downs* *Ward* *Great* *Smart* *Telegraph*
James Baldwin
- Go Tell It on the Mountain_2
1953—English
*Recommended* *Smart*
- 'Notes of a Native Son'_1
originally published Nov. 1955 in Harper's—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy_4
1925—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart*
- Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man_12
1952—English
*Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Educated*
- 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*
- Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain_1
1997—English
*Smart*
- Robert Morgan
Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution_1
2003—English
*Smart*
- Harriette Arnow
The Dollmaker_1
1954—English
*Smart*
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*
- 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*
- Bernard Malamud
The Assistant_2
1957—English
*Recommended* *Smart*
- 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*
- 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*
- Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale_5
1985—English
*Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Harvard*
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*
- Shirley_2
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1849—English
*Smart* *Newman*
- Villette_3
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1853—English
*Bloom* *Smart* *Newman*
- Lyndall Gordon
Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life_1
1994—English
*Smart*
- Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea_1
1966—English
*Smart*
- Daniel Defoe
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders_8
1722—English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Smart* *Newman*
- Euripides
Mēdeia_17
Medea
431 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translation—Greek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Meg Wolitzer
The Wife_1
2003—English
*Smart*
- Gail Godwin
The Odd Woman_1
1974—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- 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*
- A N Wilson
Tolstoy_1
1988—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth_5
1905—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart* *Newman* *Educated*
Virginia Woolf
- A Room of One's Own_4
1929—English
*Kanigel* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman*
- 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*
- To the Lighthouse_12
1927 —English
*Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Flush: A Biograpy_1
1933—English
*Smart*
- Sandra Gilbert; Susan Gubar
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination_1
1979—English
*Smart*
- Quentin Bell
Virginia Woolf_1
1972—English
*Smart*
- Hermione Lee
Virginia Woolf_1
1996—English
*Smart*
- Russell Banks
Continental Drift_1
1985—English
*Smart*
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Mástyer i Margaríta_6
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*
- Truman Capote
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences_3
originally published serially Sep.-Oct. 1965 in the New Yorker—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart*
- Gerald Clarke
Capote_1
1988—English
*Smart*
- Deborah Davis
Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball_1
2006—English
*Smart*
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*
- Zapaski iz Podpol'â_6
Notes From Underground
1864—Russian
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Foundation* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- 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*
- Meyer Levin
Compulsion_1
1956—English
*Smart*
- 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*
Ian McEwan
- Atonement_2
2001—English
*Guardian* *Smart*
- Amsterdam_1
1998—English
*Smart*
- Enduring Love_1
1997—English
*Smart*
- Saturday_1
2005—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- Robert B Parker
Early Autumn_1
1980—English
*Smart*
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin_6
1852—English
*Downs* *Rexroth* *Recommended* *Smart* *Taylor* *Educated*
'Everybody's Protest Novel'_1
originally published Spring 1949 in Zero; included in Collected Essays—English
*Smart*
- Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities_1
originally published serially Jul. 1984-Aug. 1985 in Rolling Stone; revised 1987—English
*Smart*
- Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart_9
1958—English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor*
- 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*
Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
film; 1979—English
- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad_18
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translation—Spanish
*Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Graphic* *Deposit* *Educated*
- 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*
Naguib Mahfouz
- 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*
- Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks_5
1901—German
*Ward* *Magill* *Trinity* *Norway* *Smart*
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*
Rohinton Mistry
- Family Matters_1
2002—English
*Smart*
- A Fine Balance_2
1995—English
*Guardian* *Smart*
- Such a Long Journey_1
1991—English
*Smart*
- V S Naipul
A House for Mr. Biswas_2
1961—English
*Smart* *Bloom*
- V S Naipul et al.
Letters Between Father and Son_1
1999; published in part in the New Yorker; edited by Gillon Aitken—English
*Smart*
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*
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*
- Jessica Hagedorn
Dogeaters_1
1990—English
*Smart*
- A B Yehoshua
Mar Mani_1
Mr. Mani
1989; Mallison ("Smart")specifies Hillel Halkin's English translation—Hebrew
*Smart*
Jack Finney
- Time and Again_1
1970—English
*Smart*
- The Body Snatchers_1
1955—English
*Smart*
- Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward, 2000-1887_4
1888—English
*Invitation* *Hundred* *Downs* *Smart*
E M Forster
- A Passage to India_8
1924—English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Smart*
—English
*Smart*
- 'Two Cheers for Democracy'_1
—English
*Smart*
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World_9
1932—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Great* *Guardian* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Graphic*
- 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*
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*
- Washington Square_3
originally published serially 1880 in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English
*Ward* *Recommended* *Smart*
- The Aspern Papers_2
originally published serially 1888 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
*Dirda* *Smart*
- Gloria Naylor
Linden Hills_1
1985—English
*Smart*
George Orwell
- Animal Farm_8
1945—English
*Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Smart* *Graphic*
- 'Such, Such Were the Joys'_1
originally published Sep.-Oct. 1952 in the Partisan Review—English
*Smart*
originally published Autumn 1936 in New Writing; included in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, 1950—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- 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*
- Barry Unsworth
The Songs of the Kings_1
2002—English
*Smart*
- Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One_2
originally published Feb. 1948 in Horizon—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*
- Nathanael West
The Day of the Locust_2
1939—English
*Bloom* *Smart*
- Peter Lefcourt
The Deal_1
1991—English
*Smart*
- Jane Smiley
Ten Days in the Hills_1
2007—English
*Smart*
- Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim_2
1954—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*
David Lodge
- Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses_2
1975—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*
- Small World: An Academic Romance_2
1984—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*
- Richard Russo
Straight Man_1
1997—English
*Smart*
- Jane Smiley
Moo_1
1995—English
*Smart*
- Michael Frayn
Headlong_1
1999—English
*Smart*
- Katharine Weber
The Music Lesson_1
1999—English
*Smart*
- A S Byatt
Possession_3
1990—English
*Guardian* *Smart* *Educated*
- Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Satires_4
late First-early Second centuries; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Rolfe Humphries's English translation—Latin
*Downs* *Ward* *Bloom* *Smart*
Alison Lurie
- Foreign Affairs_1
1984—English
*Smart*
- The War Between the Tates_1
1974—English
*Smart*
Lorrie Moore
stories originally published in varied periodicals: the New Yorker, Elle, the New York Times, the Paris Review—English
*Smart*
- Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire_8
1962—English
*List* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*
- 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* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Smart* *Newman*
David Sedaris
- Me Talk Pretty One Day_1
2000; presented in part as radio essays—English
*Smart*
radio essay; originally presnted Dec. 1992; included in Barrel Fever, 1994—English
*Smart*
--
- Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules_1
2005; edited by David Sedaris—English
*Smart*
James Thurber
- 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*
- 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'_1
originally published Mar. 1939 in the New Yorker; included in My World - And Welcome to It, 1942—English
*Smart*
A Thurber Carnival_1
play, 1960—English
1996; includes The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments [1932]; My Life and Hard Times [1933]; The Last Flower: A Parable in Pictures [1939]; and The 13 Clocks [1950]; selections from Is Sex Necessary?, 1929; The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities, 1931; Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More or Less Inspirational Pieces, 1937; My World - And Welcome to It, 1942; The Thurber Carnival, 1945; The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures, 1948; The Thurber Album: A New Collection of Pieces About People, 1952; Thurber Country: A New Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species, 1953; Thurber's Dogs: A Collection of the Master's Dogs, Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Living and Long Ago, 1955; Further Fables of Our Time, 1956; Alarms and Diversions, 1957; and The Years With Ross, 1959; nearly all of Fables of Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, 1940; and seven essays previously uncollected in book form; edited by Garrison Keillor—English
*Smart*
- Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest_8
1895—English
*Powys* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Smart* *Trinity* *Newman* *Educated*
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*
- London Journal_5
written 1762-63—English
*Read* *Ward* *Recommended* *Smart* *Graphic*
- Mary Hyde
The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi_1
1972—English
*Smart*
- Walter Jackson Bate
Samuel Johnson_1
1977—English
*Smart*
- Bruce Redford
Designing the Life of Johnson_1
2002—English
*Smart*
- David Buchanan
The Treasures of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers_1
1974—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- 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*
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections From the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language_1
2002; edited by Jack Lynch—English
*Smart*
- Henry Hitchings
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary_1
2005—English
*Smart*
- Allen Reddick
The Making of Johnson's Dictionary_1
1990—English
*Smart*
- Charlotte Lenox
The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella_1
1752—English
*Smart*
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
School for Scandal_6
1777—English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Ward* *Bloom* *Smart* *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*
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
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *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_7
originally anonymously published 1729—English
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Recommended* *Smart* *Graphic* *Newman*
—Latin_1
*Smart*
- 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*
- Mary Hyde
The Thrales of Streatham Park_1
1977—English
*Smart*
- James Clifford
Heather Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)_1
1941—English
*Smart*
- William McCarthy
Heather Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman_1
1985—English
*Smart*
- Beryl Bainbridge
According to Queeney_1
2001—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- 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*
Lillian Hellman and Leonard Bernstein
Candide
operetta, 1956; new versions, 1973, 1989, and 1999—
- 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*
- Katharine Weber
The Little Women_1
2003—English
*Smart*
- Geraldine Brooks
March_1
2005—English
*Smart*
- Willa Cather
My Ántonia_8
1918—English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Dirda* *Smart*
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*
- Gabriel García Márquez
El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera_6
Love in the Time of Cholera
1985—Spanish
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart*
- Philip Wylie
The Disappearance_1
1951—English
*Smart*
- L P Hartley
The Go-Between_1
1953—English
*Smart*
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*
- Dubliners_10
1914—English
*Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman*
- Richard Ellmann
James Joyce_1
1959—English
*Smart*
- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird_5
1960—English
*Recommended* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*
Claire Messud
- The Emperor's Children_1
2006—English
*Smart*
- When the World Was Steady_1
1995—English
*Smart*
- The Last Life_1
1999—English
*Smart*
- The Hunters_1
2001—English
*Smart*
Chaim Potok
- The Chosen_1
1967—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling_1
1938—English
*Smart*
- Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_1
1943—English
*Smart*
- Anzia Yezierska
Bread Givers_1
1925—English
*Smart*
- Mary V Dearborn
Love in the Promised Land: The Story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey_1
1988—English
*Smart*
Pat Barker
- Regeneration_1
1991—English
*Smart*
- Union Street_1
1982—English
*Smart*
- The Eye in the Door_1
1993—English
*Smart*
- The Ghost Road_1
1995—English
*Smart*
- 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*
Joseph Heller
- Catch-22_10
1961—English
*List* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Closing Time_1
1994—English
*Smart*
- Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms_6
1929—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Smart* *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*
War Music_1
English version of the Iliad; originally published in five volumes: War Music, 1981; Kings, 1991; The Husbands, 1995; All Day Permanent Red, 2003; and Cold Calls, 2005; portions also published as sound recordings—English
*Smart*
Bobbie Ann Mason
- In Country_1
1985—English
*Smart*
- Elvis Presley_1
2002—English
*Smart*
- Al Santoli
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three Soldiers Who Fought It_1
1981—English
*Smart*
'Facing It'_1
—English
*Smart*
- Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried_1
1990—English
*Smart*
William Styron
- The Long March_2
originally entitled Long March, published 1953 in Discovery—English
*Bloom* *Smart*
- 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*
- Edmund Wilson
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War_2
1962—English
*Bloom* *Smart*
James Agee
- A Death in the Family_3
1957—English
*Recommended* *Zane* *Smart*
- Letters of James Agee to Father Flye_1
1962—English
*Smart*
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men_6
1941; photography by Walker Evans—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Utne* *Dirda* *Smart* *Deposit*
Saul Bellow
- Herzog_3
1964—English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Smart*
- The Adventures of Augie March_4
1953—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart*
- Mr. Sammler's Planet_1
1970—English
*Smart*
- Humboldt's Gift_3
1975—English
*Recommended* *Fadiman* *Smart*
William Faulkner
- Absalom, Absalom!_7
1936—English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Intruder in the Dust_1
1936—English
*Smart*
Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Remains of the Day_4
1989—English
*Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit*
- Never Let Me Go_1
2005—English
*Smart*
- An Artist of the Floating World_1
1986—English
*Smart*
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Il Gattopardo_5
The Leopard
1958; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Archibald Colquhoun's English translation—Italian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Smart*
- 'The Professor and the Siren'_1
—Italian
*Smart*
- David Gilmour
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa_1
1991—English
*Smart*
Luchino Visconti
Il Gattopardo
film; 1963—Italian
- Walker Percy
The Moviegoer_2
1961—English
*Bloom* *Smart*
- Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose_2
1971—English
*Fadiman* *Smart*
- Mary Hallock Foote
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West_1
1972; edited by Rodman W Paul—English
*Smart*
- Darlis Miller
Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West_1
2002—English
*Smart*
Lewis Thomas
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher_1
1974; 29 essays originally published serially 1971-73 in the New England Journal of Medicine—English
*Smart*
- 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*
- Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men_5
1946—English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart*
- 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*
- Daniel Mark Epstein
Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington_1
2004—English
*Smart*