Jane Mallison, Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days [2008]
271 entries: 250 monographical, 21 otherwise
Unrankedarranged 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. These items are included in list but not numbered; nor are they included in the master list. The other is the Utne Reader's.
- Beowulf
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries; Mallison specifies Seamus Heaney's modern English versionEnglish
- Michael Crichton
Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences With the Northmen in A D 922
The 13th Warrior
1976English
- John Gardner
Grendel
1971English
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison specifies Edith Grossman's English translationSpanish
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
1478; Mallison specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
Inferno
part of La Divina Commedia; written ca. 1308-21; Mallison specifies Robert and Jean Hollander's English translationItalian
- Homer
Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C; Mallison specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
'Ithaka'
Greek
- Derek Walcott
Omeros
1990English
- Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
2005English
- James Joyce
Ulysses
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
Franz Kafka
- Die Verwandlung
The Metamorphosis
originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter; Mallison specifies Stanley Corngold's English translationGerman
- In der Strafkolonie
In the Penal Colony
1919German
- Der Prozess
The Trial
1925German
- Das Schloss
The Castle
1926German
- Philip Roth
The Breast
1972English
- Murasaki Shikibu
Genji Monogatari
The Tale of Genji
ca. early Eleventh Century; Mallison specifies Royall Tyler's English translationJapanese
Tales From Ovid: Twenty-Four Passages From the Metamorphoses
published in part in After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, 1994; in its entirety, 1997; English translations of selections from Ovid's MetamorphosesEnglish
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon
Metamorphoses
8; Mallison specifies Charles Martin's English translationLatin
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- After Ovid: New Metamorphoses
1994; edited by Michael Hofmann and James LasdunEnglish
- Jane Alison
The Love-Artist
2001English
Sophocles
- Oidipous Tyrannos
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B C; Mallison specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
- Aristotle
Peri Poiêtikês
De Poetica; Poetics
Fourth Century B CGreek
- Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49
1966English
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Edipo Re
Oedipus Rex
film; 1967Italian
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid
First Century B C; Mallison specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
- Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
1984English
- Frederick Brown
Flaubert
2006English
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translationFrench
- Julian Barnes
England, England
1998English
Robert Caro
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
1982English
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
1974English
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent
1990English
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
2002English
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power
2012English
- Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
1845English
- Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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, 1868English
- Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
2003English
- Gordon S Wood
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
2004English
Peter Guralnick
- Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
1994English
- Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
1999English
- Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
2005English
David Levering Lewis
- W E B DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
1994English
- W E B DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
2001English
- Megan Marshall
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
2005English
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- The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters
2005; edited by Ronald A Bosco and Joel MyersonEnglish
- R W B Lewis
The Jameses: A Family Narrative
1991English
- Lucasta Miller
The Brontë Myth
2001English
- Patricia O'Toole
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
1991English
- Kenneth Silverman
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
1984English
- Lytton Strachey
Eminent Victorians
1918English
- Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey: A Biography
originally published in two volumes, 1967 and 1968English
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
De Vita Caesarum
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
written 121Latin
James Baldwin
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
1953English
originally published Nov. 1955 in Harper'sEnglish
- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year RoundEnglish
- Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy
1925English
- Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
1952English
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
1925English
- Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain
1997English
- Robert Morgan
Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution
2003English
- Harriette Arnow
The Dollmaker
1954English
Thomas Hardy
- Jude the Obscure
originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly MagazineEnglish
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the GraphicEnglish
- Bernard Malamud
The Assistant
1957English
- Thomas Mann
Der Zauberberg
The Magic Mountain
1924; Mallison specifies John E Woods's English translationGerman
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
1854English
- Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
1985English
Charlotte Brontë
- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
- Shirley
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1849English
- Villette
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1853English
- Lyndall Gordon
Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
1994English
- Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea
1966English
- Daniel Defoe
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
1722English
- Euripides
Mēdeia
Medea
431 B C; Mallison specifies Michael Collier and Georgia Ann Machemer's English translationGreek
- Meg Wolitzer
The Wife
2003English
- Gail Godwin
The Odd Woman
1974English
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
- A N Wilson
Tolstoy
1988English
- Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter
originally published in three volumes: Kransen, 1920; Husfrue, 1921; Korset, 1922; Mallison specifies Tiina Nunnally's English translationNorwegian
- Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
1905English
Virginia Woolf
- A Room of One's Own
1929English
- Mrs. Dalloway
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925English
- To the Lighthouse
1927 English
- Flush: A Biograpy
1933English
- Sandra Gilbert; Susan Gubar
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
1979English
- Quentin Bell
Virginia Woolf
1972English
- Hermione Lee
Virginia Woolf
1996English
- Russell Banks
Continental Drift
1985English
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Mástyer i Margaríta
The Master and Margarita
published in part, 1966-67, in Moskva; in its entirety, 1973; revised 1989; Mallison specifies Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's English translationRussian
- Truman Capote
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
originally published serially Sep.-Oct. 1965 in the New YorkerEnglish
- Gerald Clarke
Capote
1988English
- Deborah Davis
Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
2006English
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
- Zapaski iz Podpol'â
Notes From Underground
1864Russian
- Brat'â Karamazovy
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
- Meyer Levin
Compulsion
1956English
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
1850English
Ian McEwan
- Atonement
2001English
- Amsterdam
1998English
- Enduring Love
1997English
- Saturday
2005English
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674English
- Robert B Parker
Early Autumn
1980English
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852English
'Everybody's Protest Novel'
originally published Spring 1949 in Zero; included in Collected EssaysEnglish
- Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
originally published serially Jul. 1984-Aug. 1985 in Rolling Stone; revised 1987English
- Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
1958English
- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
film; 1979English
- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967; Mallison specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translationSpanish
- Kawabata Yasunari
Yukiguni
Snow Country
published in part serially 1935-47; in its entirety, 1948; Mallison specifies Edward G Seidensticker's English translationJapanese
Naguib Mahfouz
- Bein el-Qasrein
Palace Walk
1956; Mallison specifies William M Hutchin and Olive E Kenny's English translationArabic
- Qasr el-Shoaq
Palace of Desire
1957Arabic
- El-Sukkareyya
Sugar Street
1957Arabic
- Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks
1901German
John Galsworthy
- The Man of Property
1906English
- Indian Summer of a Forsyte
1918English
- In Chancery
1920English
- Awakening
1920English
- To Let
1921English
Rohinton Mistry
- Family Matters
2002English
- A Fine Balance
1995English
- Such a Long Journey
1991English
- V S Naipul
A House for Mr. Biswas
1961English
- V S Naipul et al.
Between Father and Son: Family Letters
1999; published in part in the New Yorker; edited by Gillon AitkenEnglish
Nuala O'Faolain
- My Dream of You
2001English
- Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
1996English
- Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
2003English
José Rizal
- Noli Me Tángere
1887; Mallison specifies Harold Augenbraum's English translationSpanish
- El Filibusterismo
The Reign of Greed
1891Spanish
- Jessica Hagedorn
Dogeaters
1990English
- A B Yehoshua
Mar Mani
Mr. Mani
1989; Mallison specifies Hillel Halkin's English translationHebrew
Jack Finney
- Time and Again
1970English
- The Body Snatchers
1955English
- Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward, 2000-1887
1888English
E M Forster
- A Passage to India
1924English
English
- 'Two Cheers for Democracy'
English
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
1932English
- George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949English
Henry James
- The Ambassadors
originally published serially 1903 in the North American ReviewEnglish
- Washington Square
originally published serially 1880 in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly MagazineEnglish
- The Aspern Papers
originally published serially 1888 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
- Gloria Naylor
Linden Hills
1985English
George Orwell
- Animal Farm
1945English
- 'Such, Such Were the Joys'
originally published Sep.-Oct. 1952 in the Partisan ReviewEnglish
originally published Autumn 1936 in New Writing; included in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, 1950English
- Phillip Pullman
His Dark Materials
originally published in three volumes: Northern Lights, 1995 (U S title: The Golden Compass); The Subtle Knife, 1997; The Amber Spyglass, 2000English
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
originally anonymously published 1818English
- Barry Unsworth
The Songs of the Kings
2002English
- Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One
originally published Feb. 1948 in HorizonEnglish
- Nathanael West
The Day of the Locust
1939English
- Peter Lefcourt
The Deal
1991English
- Jane Smiley
Ten Days in the Hills
2007English
- Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim
1954English
David Lodge
- Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses
1975English
- Small World: An Academic Romance
1984English
- Richard Russo
Straight Man
1997English
- Jane Smiley
Moo
1995English
- Michael Frayn
Headlong
1999English
- Katharine Weber
The Music Lesson
1999English
- A S Byatt
Possession
1990English
- Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Satires
late First-early Second centuries; Mallison specifies Rolfe Humphries's English translationLatin
Alison Lurie
- Foreign Affairs
1984English
- The War Between the Tates
1974English
Lorrie Moore
stories originally published in varied periodicals: the New Yorker, Elle, the New York Times, the Paris ReviewEnglish
- Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire
1962English
- François Rabelais
La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
originally published in five volumes: Les Horribles et Épouvantables Faits et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua, 1532; La Vie Très Horrifique du Grand Gargantua, Père de Pantagruel, 1534; Le Tiers Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1546; Le Quart Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1552; Le Cinquiesme et Dernier Livre des Faicts et Dicts Héroïques du Bon Pantagruel, 1564; Mallison specifies Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux's English translationFrench
David Sedaris
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
2000; presented in part as radio essaysEnglish
radio essay; originally presnted Dec. 1992; included in Barrel Fever, 1994English
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- Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
2005; edited by David SedarisEnglish
James Thurber
- Fables of Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated
1940; 28 stories originally published Jan. 1939-Feb. 1940 in the New YorkerEnglish
- Further Fables for Our Time
1956; 47 stories, 37 of which originally published in the New YorkerEnglish
- 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'
originally published Mar. 1939 in the New Yorker; included in My World - And Welcome to It, 1942English
A Thurber Carnival
play, 1960English
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 KeillorEnglish
- Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
1895English
James Boswell
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1791English
- London Journal
written 1762-63English
- Mary Hyde
The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi
1972English
- Walter Jackson Bate
Samuel Johnson
1977English
- Bruce Redford
Designing the Life of Johnson
2002English
- David Buchanan
The Treasures of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers
1974English
- 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
1782English
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749English
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections From the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language
2002; edited by Jack LynchEnglish
- Henry Hitchings
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
2005English
- Allen Reddick
The Making of Johnson's Dictionary
1990English
- Charlotte Lenox
The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella
1752English
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
School for Scandal
1777English
- Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67English
Jonathan Swift
- Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
- 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
originally anonymously published 1729English
Latin
- Hester Thrale (Heather Lynch Piozzi)
Thraliana, the Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi) 1776-1809
writeen 1776-1809; published 1942; edited by Katherine C BalderstonEnglish
- Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life
1786English
- Mary Hyde
The Thrales of Streatham Park
1977English
- James Clifford
Heather Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)
1941English
- William McCarthy
Heather Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman
1985English
- Beryl Bainbridge
According to Queeney
2001English
- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme
1759; Mallison specifies Tobias Smollett's English translationFrench
- Samuel Johnson
The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
1759English
Lillian Hellman and Leonard Bernstein
Candide
operetta, 1956; new versions, 1973, 1989, and 1999
- Louisa M Alcott
Little Women
originally published in two volumes: Little Women, 1868; and Good Wives, 1869English
- Katharine Weber
The Little Women
2003English
- Geraldine Brooks
March
2005English
- Willa Cather
My Ántonia
1918English
Mark Haddon
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2003English
- A Spot of Bother
2006English
- Gabriel García Márquez
El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
Love in the Time of Cholera
1985Spanish
- Philip Wylie
The Disappearance
1951English
- L P Hartley
The Go-Between
1953English
James Joyce
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
- Dubliners
1914English
- Richard Ellmann
James Joyce
1959English
- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960English
Claire Messud
- The Emperor's Children
2006English
- When the World Was Steady
1995English
- The Last Life
1999English
- The Hunters
2001English
Chaim Potok
- The Chosen
1967English
- The Promise
1969English
- My Name Is Asher Lev
1972English
- Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews
1978English
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling
1938English
- Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1943English
- Anzia Yezierska
Bread Givers
1925English
- Mary V Dearborn
Love in the Promised Land: The Story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey
1988English
Pat Barker
- Regeneration
1991English
- Union Street
1982English
- The Eye in the Door
1993English
- The Ghost Road
1995English
- Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895English
Joseph Heller
- Catch-22
1961English
- Closing Time
1994English
- Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
1929English
- Homer
Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C; Mallison notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural versionGreek
War Music
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 recordingsEnglish
Bobbie Ann Mason
- In Country
1985English
- Elvis Presley
2002English
- Al Santoli
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three Soldiers Who Fought It
1981English
'Facing It'
English
- Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried
1990English
William Styron
- The Long March
originally entitled Long March, published 1953 in DiscoveryEnglish
- Lie Down in Darkness
1951English
- Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
originally entitled 'Darkness Visible', published Dec. 1989 in Vanity FairEnglish
- Edmund Wilson
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
1962English
James Agee
- A Death in the Family
1957English
- Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
1962English
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
1941; photography by Walker EvansEnglish
Saul Bellow
- Herzog
1964English
- The Adventures of Augie March
1953English
- Mr. Sammler's Planet
1970English
- Humboldt's Gift
1975English
William Faulkner
- Absalom, Absalom!
1936English
- Intruder in the Dust
1936English
Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Remains of the Day
1989English
- Never Let Me Go
2005English
- An Artist of the Floating World
1986English
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Il Gattopardo
The Leopard
1958; Mallison specifies Archibald Colquhoun's English translationItalian
- 'The Professor and the Siren'
Italian
- David Gilmour
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
1991English
Luchino Visconti
Il Gattopardo
film; 1963Italian
- Walker Percy
The Moviegoer
1961English
- Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose
1971English
- Mary Hallock Foote
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote
1972; written in the 1920s; edited by Rodman W PaulEnglish
- Darlis Miller
Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West
2002English
Lewis Thomas
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
1974; 29 essays originally published serially 1971-73 in the New England Journal of MedicineEnglish
- The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
1979; 29 essays originally published in the New England Journal of MedicineEnglish
- Late-Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
1983; 24 essays originally published in varied periodicals: Discover, the New York Review of Books, the New England Journal of MedicineEnglish
- Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men
1946English
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
- Daniel Mark Epstein
Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
2004English