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Classics

Classics and Modern Classics

• Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
• Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice
• Emily Bronde - Wuthering Heights
• Lewis Carroll - Alice's adventures in wonderland
• Joseph Conrad - The heart of darkness
• Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
• Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - The brothers Karamazov
• George Eliot - Middlemarch
• Gustave Falubert - Madame Bovary
• Nikolay Gogol - Dead Souls
• Thomas Hardy - Tess of D'Urbervilles
• Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
• Mikhail Lermontov - A hero of our time
• Herman Melville - Moby Dick
• Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
• Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
• Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
• Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and sons
• Mark Twain - The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Gray
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The complete Sherlock Holmes
• Voltaire - Candide
• Emile Zola - L'assommoir (the dram shop)
• Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
• John Milton - Paradise Lost

Modern Classics

• Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
• Joseph Heller - Catch 22
• William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
• Albert Camus - The stranger
• John Fowles - The magus
• Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
• John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
• George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-four (1984)
• Virginia Woolf - To the lighthouse
• Yukio Mishima - The temple of the golden pavillion
• Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One hundred years of solitude
• Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
• Jack Kerouac - On the road
• Jean Paul Sartre - Nausea
• Jose Saramago - Blindness
• Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
• Toni Morrison - Beloved
• John Updike - Brazil
• Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being
• Aldous Huxley - Brave new world
• James Joyce - Ulysses
• David Herbert Richards Lawrence - Sons and lovers
• Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
• André Gide - The Immoralist
• P.G. Wodehouse - Life with Jeeves
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse five

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Classical through medieval:

• Sophocles - The three Theban plays
• Aeschylus - The Oresteia
• Euripides - Electra and other plays
• Menander - Plays and fragments
• Plautus - The pot of gold and other plays
• Seneca - Four tragedies and Octavia
• Terence - The comedies
• Kalidasa - The loom of time
• Hrotsvitha - The plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim
• Various - Japanese nô dramas (translated by Royall Tyler)
• Various - Chûshingura (translated by Donald Keene)
• Anonymous - Everyman and other miracle and morality plays
• Various - York mystery plays

Renaissance

• William Shakespeare - Complete works
• Thomas Kyd - The Spanish tragedy
• Christopher Marlowe - The complete plays
• Ben Jonson - Volpone and other plays
• John Webster - The duchess of Malfi and other plays
• Lope de Vega - Three major plays
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Life is a dream
• Molière - The misanthrope, Tartuffe and other plays
• Pierre Corneille - Le Cid
• Jean Racine - Phèdre

Restoration, romanticism and realism

• John Wilmot - The farce of Sodom or The quintessence of debauchery
• William Wycherley - The country wife
• William Congreve - The way of the world and other plays
• Aphra Behn - The rover and other plays
• John Gay - The beggar's opera
• Beaumarchais - The Figaro trilogy
• Carlo Goldoni - A servant to two masters
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan The school for scandal
• Friedrich Schiller - The robbers and Wallenstein
• Büchner - The complete plays
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
• Shelley - The Cenci
• Lord Byron - Six plays
• Feydeau - Plays: one and Plays: two
• Sir W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan - The complete annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
• Oscar Wilde - The importance of being earnest and other plays
• George Bernard Shaw - Plays by George Bernard Shaw
• G.B. Shaw - Pygmalion
• J.M.Synge - The playboy of the western world
• Henrik Ibsen - Four major plays
• August Strindberg - Five major plays
• W.B.Yeats - The collected works of W.B. Yeats
• Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac

20th century:

• Eugene O'neill - Long day's journey into tonight
• Anton Chekhov - The plays of Anton Chekhov
• Luigi Pirandello - Six characters in search of an author and other plays
• Maurice Maeterlinck - The blue bird: a fairy play in five acts
• Arthur Schnitzler - Four major plays
• J.M. Barrie - Peter pan and other plays
• Thornton Wilder - Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth and The matchmaker.
• Bertolt Brecht - The threepenny opera, Mother courage and her children and Life of Galileo
• Federico Garcia Lorca - Blood Wedding, Yerma and The house of Bernarda Alba
• Sean O'Casey - Plays
• Nöel Coward - The vortex
• Sophie Treadwell - Machinal
• R.C. Sheriff - Journey's end
• Tennessee Williams - A streetcar named desire and The glass menagerie
• Samuel Beckett - The complete dramatic works
• Peter Weiss - The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
• Jean Anouilh - Five plays
• Jean Giraudoux - The madwoman of Chaillot
• Harold Pinter - The homecoming, The birthday party and The room
• Jean-Paul Sartre - No exit and three other plays
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The visit
• Joe Orton - The complete plays
• Arthur Miller - The portable Arthur Miller
• Edward Albee - WHo's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Edward Albee - The american dream and The zoo story
• Jean Genet - The balcony
• Wole Soyinka - Death and the king's horseman
• Lorraine Hansberry - A raisin in the sun
• Sam Shepard - Seven plays
• David Mamet - Oleanna, Speed-the-plow and Glengarry Glen Ross
• Tony Kushner - Angels in America
• August Wilson - Three plays
• Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead and Arcadia
• Caryl Churchill - Cloud nine and Top girls
• Sarah Kane - Complete plays
• Bernard-Marie Koltes - Roberto Zucco
• Edward Bond - Lear

Contemporary

• David Gieselmann - Mr Kolpert
• Yasmina Reza - Art and The god of carnage
• Vassily Sigarev - Black Milk
• Alan Bennet - The complete talking heads
• Paula Vogel - The mammary plays
• David Hare - Racing Demon and The absence of war
• David Edgar - Pentecost
• Mark Ravenhill - Plays
• Joe Penhall - Blue/Orange
• Peter Morris - The age of consent and Gaudeamus
• Sarah Ruhl - Eurydice
• Suzan-Lori Parks - Topdog/Underdog
• Adam Rapp - Stone cold dead serious
• Doug Wright - I am my own wife and Quills

Fiction

Short Fiction

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  Short Story Collections
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  Flash Fiction and Short Short Stories
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  Short Story Collections - 19th Century and Earlier
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  Short Story Collections 1900-1940

Novellas

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  100 Novellas
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  Novellas
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  100 Contemporary Novellas

American

Selected Fiction Works.

Great Short Story Authors and Collections

• Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales
• Edgar Allan Poe - Collected Works
• Mark Twain - Collected Short Stories
• Herman Melville - Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales
• Stephen Crane - Maggie and other Stories
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - Flappers and Philosophers
• Ernest Hemingway - Collected Short Works
• Sherwood Anderson - Death in the Woods and other Stories
• Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From
• John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
• H. P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)

Poets and Poetry Collections

• Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
• Emily Dickinson - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
• William Butler Yeats - Complete Poetry
• William Butler Yeats - A Vision
• William Blake - Complete Works
• Sharon Olds - Collected Poems
• Pablo Neruda  - Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair
• Pablo Neruda - Odes
• Pablo Neruda - Collected Poetry
• Fredrico Garcia Lorca - Complete, Selected Poems.
• John Wieners - Collected Poetry (Black Sparrow Press)
• Adrienne Rich - Collected Poems
• WH Auden - Collected Poems
• Richard Brautigan -The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
• Margaret Randall - Collected Poetry
• Li Young Li - Rose
• Li Young Li - Book of My Nights
• C.A. Conrad - Book of Frank
• C.A. Conrad- A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon
• John Keats - Complete Works
• Christina Rossetti - Complete Poems
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Complete Poetry
• Kim Addonizio - Tell Me
• Alfred Lord Tennyson - Complete Poetry
• Rita Dove - Complete Poems
• Gary Snyder - Turtle Island
• T.S. Eliot - Collected Poems
• Lord Byron- Complete Poems
• Percy Bysshe Shelley- Complete Poems
• Shakespeare - Sonnets
• Mary Oliver - Complete Poetry
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Complete Poems
• William Wordsworth- Complete Poems
• Robert Browning- Complete Poems
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets
• Arthur Rimbaud- Translation by Wallace Fowlie
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti - A Coney Island Of The Mind
• Lou Welch -Collected Poetry
• Robert Frost - Complete Poems
• Robert Frost - Prose Poems
• Jack Kerouck - Mexico City Blues
• Jack Kerouac - Poems All Sizes
• Jack Kerouck - Haiku
• Anne Sexton- Complete Poems
• Diane Di Prima - Selected Poems
• Diane Di Prima - Loba
• Ernest Dowson - Poems and Prose
• Galway Kinnell - Collected, Selected (various editions)
• Jorge Louis Borges - Collected Poetry
• Fernando Pessoa - Collected Poems
• Octavio Paz - Complete Poems
• Edgar Allen Poe- The Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe
• Ezra Pound - Personae: Collected Shorter Poems
• Wallace Stevens - Harmonium
• Robinson Jeffers - Selected Poems
• Robert Frost - Collected Poems
• Hart Crane - White Buildings
• Gerard Manley Hopkins - Complete Poetry
• Dylan Thomas - Complete Poems
• Alexander Pope - Complete Works
• Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
• Eileen Myles - Maxfield Parrish (Black Sparrow Press)
• Pierre Reverdy - Collected Poetry
• Billy Collins - Picnic, Lightning
• Billy Collins - The Trouble With Poetry
• Charles Simic - Walking the Black Cat
• Lyn Lifshin - Collected Poetry
• James Dickey - Collected Poetry
• Thomas Hardy - Complete Poems
• Hart Crane - The Bridge
• Williams Carlos Williams - Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2
• John Ashbery - Collected Poems 1956-1987
• John Ashbery - Some Trees
• John Ashbery - Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror
• Frank O'Hara - Collected Poems
• Frank O'Hara - Lunch Poems, Pocket Poets Series
• Anne Waldman - Fast Speaking Woman
• James Wright - The Branch Will Not Break
• Robert Bly - Collected Poems (various editions)
• Franz Wright - Collected Poetry
• Edwin Denby - Collected
• e.e. cummings - Books of Poems to Waft Farts With
• Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems
• Allen Ginsberg - Kaddish
• Allen Ginsberg - Reality Sandwiches
• Allen Ginsberg - The Fall of America
• Bob Kaufman - Golden Sardine
• Bob Kaufman - Solitudes Crowded With Lonliness
• John Berryman - The Dream Songs
• Louis Zukofsky - Z
• Louis Zukofsky - Selected Shorter Poetry
• Charles Olson - The Maximus Poems
• Michael Meyerhofer - Damnatio Memoriae and Blue Collar Eulogies
• Tony Hoagland - Donkey Gospels and What Narcissism Means to Me
• Stephen Dobyns - Velocities
• Donald Hall - Without
• Gilliaume Appolinaire - Selected Writings
• Elizabeth Bishop - Complete Poetry
• Sylvia Plath - Complete Poetry
• Philip Larkin - Selected Poetry
• Vladmir Mayakovsky - Collected Translations
• Cornelius Eady - Hardheaded Weather
• Gwendolyn Brooks - Collected Poetry
• Robert Burns - Complete Poetry
• John Claire -Complete Works
• Aleksandr Blok - Verses About The Lady Beautiful
• Virgil - Aeneid
• Dante Aligheri - La Vita Nuova
• Petrarch - Collected Sonnets
• Basho - Haiku
• Maya Angelou - Collected Poems
• Lucille Clifton -Quilting
• Lucille Clifton - Blessing The Boats New and Selected Poems
• Lucille Clifton - Mercy
• Li Bai - Collected Poems
• Kenneth Rexroth - 100 Poems From The Japanese
• Kenneth Rexroth - 100 Poems From The Chinese
• Tu Fu - Collected Poems
• Rainer Maria Rilke - Collected Poems
• Alexander Pushkin - Complete Poems
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Poems
• Boris Pasternak - Collected Poetry
• Margaret Atwood - Selected Poetry
• Edna St. Vincent Milay - Complete Poems
• H.D. - Collected Poetry
• Theodore Roethke - Collected Poetry
• D.H. Lawrence - Complete Poems
• Gary Soto - Oranges

Plays and Playwrights

• Eugene O'Neill - Complete Plays (Library of America)
• Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
• Thornton Wilder - Our Town
• Tennessee Williams - Plays 1937 - 1955 (Library of America)
• Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
• Edward Albee - The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
• Sam Shepard - Buried Child
• August Wilson - Fences
• Tony Kushner - Angels in America

Others

• Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
• Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
• Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Henry James - The American
• Henry James - The Turn of the Screw and other short novels
• Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
• Kate Chopin - The Awakening
• Jack London - The Call of the Wild
• Gertrude Stein - Three Lives
• Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
• Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
• Willa Cather - My Ántonia
• Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
• Sinclair Lewis - Main Street
• Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt
• Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
• Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
• Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bells Toll
• William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
• William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
• Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
• John O'Hara - Appointment in Samarra
• Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• John Steinbeck - East of Eden
• John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
• Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
• Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
• Richard Wright - Native Son
• Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
• Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451
• J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
• Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
• William Gaddis - The Recognitions
• Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
• Jack Kerouac - On the Road
• William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
• John Updike - Rabbit,Run
• Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
• Joseph Heller - Catch-22
• John Barth - The Sot-Weed Factor
• Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
• Saul Bellow - Herzog
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
• Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
• Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
• Thomas Pynchon - V.
• William Gibson - Pattern Recognition
• Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
• Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
• Philip Roth - American Pastoral
• Cormac McCarthy - The Road
• John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
• Don Delillo - Libra
• Don Delillo - Underworld
• David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

African American Literature.

Slave Narratives

• Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative
• Solomon Northrup - Twelve Years a Slave
• Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• - Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Reconstruction Era

• W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk
• - The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Booker T.Washington - Up From Slavery

Harlem Renaissance

• Langston Hughes - Not Without Laughter
• Jean Toomer - Cane
• George S. Schugler - Black No More
• Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Claude McKay - Home to Harlem
• Nella Larsen - Quicksand and Passing
• - The Walls of Jericho
• - The Blacker and the Berry

Civil Rights Era

• James Baldwin - Go Tell it on the Mountain
• Richard Wright - Native Son
• Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
• - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Gwendolyn Brooks - Selected Poems
• Chester Himes - If he Hollers Let Him Go
• Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun

Contemporary

• Charles Mingus - Beneath the Underdog
• Alice Walker - The Color Purple
• Toni Morrison - Beloved
• Walter Mosley - Killing Johnny Fry
• Alex haley - Roots
• Amiri Baraka - Somebody Blew Up America
• Terry McMillan - Waiting to Exhale
• Gloria Naylor - Linden Hills
• Ismael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo
• - Kindre D
• Edward P. Jones - The Known World

Australian

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British & Irish

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Chinese

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  Guide to Journey to the West translations
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  Guide to Romance of the Three Kingdoms translations

Czech

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Dutch

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French

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German

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Italian

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Japanese

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  100 Works of Japanese Literature

Mexican

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Norse

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Persian

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Russian

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  Russian lit
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  Maksim Gorky - Mother

Spanish

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Genre-Oriented Fiction

Science Fiction

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  Sci Fi 1
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  Sci Fi 3
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  NPR's Top 100 Sci-fi and Fantasy

Horror

Suggested horror titles

Classic Horror

• Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
• Bram Stoker - Dracula
• Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Stories and Poems
• Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow
• Matthew Lewis - The Monk
• Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
• Ambrose Bierce - Ghost, and Other Stories

20th Century Horror

• Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
• Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
• Clive Barker - Books of Blood
• Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Stephen King - It, Pet Sematary
• Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
• Dan Simmons - Song of Kali
• Algernon Blackwood - Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
• M.R. James - Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories
• Mervyn Peake - Boy in Darkness
• William Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
• H. P. Lovecraft - Collected Stories

New Horror

• Laird Barron - Occultation
• Joe R. Lansdale - The Best of Joe R. Lansdale
• Will Elliot - The Pilo Family Circus
• Edward Lee - Bullet Through Your Face
• Tim Curran - The Devil Next Door
• Dave Brockie - Whargoul
• Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box
• Thomas Ligotti - Teatro Grottesco

Fantasy

Suggested fantasy titles

Epic Fantasy:

• J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
• George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
• Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time
• Michael Meyerhofer - Wytchfire
• Paul Kearney - Hawkwood's Voyage
• K.J.Parker - Devices and Desires
• Melanie Rawn - Dragon Prince
• Brian Ruckley - Winterbirth
• Tad WIlliams - The Dragonbone Chair
• David Zindell - The Lightsone
• Daniel Abraham - A Shadow in Summer
• Chris Wooding - The Braided Path
• Raymond E. Feist - The Riftwar Cycle
• Greg Keyes - The Briar King
• Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of The Wind
• Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
• Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn: The Final Empire

Urban Fantasy

• Jim Butcher - The Dresden files
• Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, American Gods, The Anansi Boys
• Graham Joyce - The Tooth Fairy
• R.A.Macavoy - Tea with the Black Dragon
• Jonathan Carroll - The Land of Laughs
• Seanan McGuire - October Daye series

Swords and Sorcery

• Raymond E. Feist - Magician
• Fritz Leiber - The First Book of Lankhmar
• Michael Moorcock - Elric of Melnibone
• Michael Shea - The Incomplete Nifft
• Jack Vance - Tales of the Dying Earth
• Karl Edward Wagner - Gods in Darkness
• C.L.Moore - Jirel of Joiry
• Ed Greenwood - Elminster: The Making of a Mage

Entry Level

• Terry Brooks - First King of Shannara
• Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising
• David Eddings - Pawn of Prophecy
• David Eddings - The Diamond Throne
• Raymond E.Feist - Magician
• Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragons of Autumn Twilight
• Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragon Wing
• Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Rose of the Prophet
• Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Time of the Twins
• C.S.Lewis - The Lion', 'The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
• R.A.Salvatore - Homeland
• Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
• Guy Gavriel Kay - The Fionavar Tapestry

Coming of Age

• Glen Cook - The Swordbearer
• Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
• J.V.Jones - The Baker's Boy
• Rebecca Bradley - Lady in Gil

Historic Fantasy

• David Gemell - Troy
• Guy Gavriel Kay - The Lions of Al-Rassan
• J.Gregory Keyes - Newton's Cannon
• R.A.MacAvoy - Damiano
• T.H.White - The Once and Future king
• Gene Wolfe - Latro in the Mist
• George R.R. Martin - Fevre Dream
• John M.Ford - The Dragon Waiting
• Mary Gentle - A Secret History

Mystery

• Steven Brust - The Book of Jhereg
• Jim Butcher - Storm Front
• Glen Cook - Sweet Silver Blues
• Barry Hughart - Bridge of Birds
• Matthew Hughes - Majestrum

Comic Fantasy

• Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum
• Christopher Moore - Lamb
• Peter David - Sir Apropos of Nothing
• Mary Gentle - Grunts
• William Goldman - The Princess Bride

Weird

• H.P.Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
• William Hope Hodgson - The House in the Borderland
• Clark Ashton Smith - The Emperor of Dreams
• Jeff Vandermeer - City of Saints and Madmen
• China Miéville - Perdido Street Station

Mythic

• Roger Zelazny - Creatures of Light and Darkness
• Mickey Zucker Reichert - The Last of the Renshai
• Jonh Myers Myers - Silverlock
• Steven Brust - To Reign in Hell
• Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword
• Michael Scott Rogan - The Anvil of Ice

Alternate World

• Stephen R. Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, The Mirror in her Dreams
• Julian May - The Many-Coloured Land
• Stephen R. Lawhead - The Paradise War
• Poul Anderson - Three Heards and Three Lions
• Roger Zelazny - The Great Book of Amber
• Garth Nix - The Old Kingdom

Old School

• George MacDonal - Phantastes
• E.R.Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros
• Lord Dunsany - The King of Elfland's Daughter
• Ernest Bramah - The Wallet of Kail Lung
• David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus
• Charles G. Finney - The Circus of Dr.Lao
• Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
• Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan

Miscellaneous

• Paul Edwin Zimmer - The Lost Prince
• David Gemell - Legend
• C.S.Friedman - Black Sun Rising
• K.J.Parker - Shadow
• Kate Elliot - King's Dragon
• Michael A.Stackpole - Talion Revenant
• Matthew Woodring Stover - Heroes Die
• Gene Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer
• Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates
• John Marco - The Jackal of Nar
• Andrzej Sapkowski - Blood of Elves
• Ken Grimwood - Replay
• Glen Cook - Chronicles of the Black Company
• Patricia A. Mckillip - The Riddle-Master of Hed
• Sean Ruselss - The Initiate Brother
• Brent Weeks - The Way of Shadows
• Jeniffer Fallon - The Immortal Prince
• John Crowley - Little, Big
• Catherynne M. Valente - In the Night Garden
• M. John Harrison - Viriconium
• Jack Vance - Lyonesse
• Frank & Brian Herbert - The Dune Series
• Dave Duncan - King's Blades Series
• David Eddings - Belgariad Trilogy
• Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality

Non-Fiction

Essays

Essays

Classics

• Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenko
• Essays by Francis Bacon
• The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
• The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
• Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
• A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays by Charles Lamb
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
• The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire
• In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
• The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde
• Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)

• A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
• The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats [vols. IV and V: Early and Later Essays]
• Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf

  

• Selected Essays by D.H. Lawrence
• Selected Essays by T.S. Eliot
• Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
• Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn
• Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
• Essays of E.B. White
• Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
• We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
• Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry by John Simon
• Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experienceby Aldous Huxley
• Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
• Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
• In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays by Anais Nin
• Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
• The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
• A Jacques Barzun Reader by Jacques Barzun
• Reflections on Exile by Edward W. Said
• The Vintage Mencken by H.L. Mencken
• The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

  

• Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
• Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
• Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick
• The Donald Richie Reader by Donald Richie
• Dreamer of Dreams by John Simon
• On Histories and Stories by A.S. Byatt
• Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings by John Fowles
• Finding a Form by William H. Gass
• An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger

Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)

• Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
• Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille
• Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
• Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays by Raymond Queneau
• Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren
• Selected Bilingual Essays of Lin Yutang
• Illuminations: Essays by Walter Benjamin

  

• A Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
• The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
• Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
• Myself With Others: Essays by Carlos Fuentes
• The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
• The Spirit of Prague by Ivan Klima
• Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera
• How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco
• Anathemas and Admirations by E.M. Cioran
• Passing By: Selected Essays by Jerzy Kosinski
• Other People's Trades by Primo Levi
• Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic
• Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald

Philosophy

• 
  Christian and Medieval
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  Modern
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  Modern Part 2
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  Scientific Revolution
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  German Idealism
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  Existentialism
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  Analytic Part 1
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  Analytic Part 2
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  Postmodernism
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  Feminism/Queer Theory

Classical Philosophy

Classical Philosophy

Pre-socratics:

• Various - Early Greek Philosophy
• Kenneth Sylvan Guthre - The Pythagorean Sourcebook and library
• Charles H.Kahn - The art and thought of Heraclitus
• Parmenides of Elea - Fragments
• David Gallop - Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments
• John Dillon, Tania Gergel - The Greek sophists
• Empedocles - The extant Fragments
• Various links
  • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics
  • http://www.heraclitusfragments.com
  • http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/

On Socrates:

• I.F.Stone - The trial of Socrates
• Aristophanes - The clouds
• Charles H.Kahn - Plato and the Socratic dialogue
• Karl R. Popper - The open society and its enemies
• Gail Fine - Plato on knowledge and forms.

By plato:

(Note made by Isabelle: later translations are usually more accessible. I AM not a fan of Jowett. Since she composed this list I thought it necessary to add this)

• Early Works:
  • Apology
  • Crito
  • Euthyphro (holiness, the Euthyphro dilemma)
  • Ion
  • Laches (courage)
  • Protagoras (the teachability of virtue)
  • Gorgias (rethoric vs. philosophy)
  • Meno (virtue, Meno's paradox)
• Middle Works
  • Parmenides - Forms
  • Phaedo (the death of socrates, the afterlife)
  • Phaedrus (love and rethoric)
  • Republic (politics, the state and the soul)
  • Symposium (true love, the 'Ladder of Love')
  • Theaetetus (knowledge)
• Later Works
  • Critias (Atlantis)
  • Sophist (more on Forms)
  • Timaeus (the purpose of the universe)

On Aristotle

• David M.Balme - Aristotle on Nature and Living Things: Philosophical and Historical Studies
• Cristopher Shields - Aristotle
• David Furley - From Aristotle to Augustine

By Aristotle

(Another note by Isabelle: Oxford translations are best)

• The Nicomachean Ethics (virtue ethics, leads into Politics)
• Rethoric
• Metaphysics
• Poetics
• Politics

Cynicism

• Farrand Sayre - Diogenes of Sinope: A study of Greek cynicism
• R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé -The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy

Epicureanism

• James Warren - The Cambridge's companion to Epicureanism
• Eugene O'connor - The essential Epicurus
• Lucretius - The nature of things

Stoicism

(Isabella specified Penguin Classics)

• Seneca - Letters from a stoic
• Epictetus - Discourses and selected writings
• Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Skepticism

• Norman Maccoll - The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus
• Sextus Empiricus - Outlines of Pyrrhonism
• Richard T. Wallis - Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
• John Gregory - The neoplatonists
• Plotinus - The enneads

Travel Literature

General

• From the Meadows of Gold by Mas'udi
• The Travels of Ibn Battutah
• Voyages and Discoveries by Richard Hakluyt
• The Journals of Captain James Cook
• South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
• The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
• Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh
• Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinsk
• The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier
• Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill
• Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer

Europe

• Guide to Greece by Pausanias
• Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan
• A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
• A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
• Letters From England by Voltaire
• Italian Journey: 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine
• Letters from Russia by Adolphe De Custine
• Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov
• The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
• D. H. Lawrence and Italy by D.H. Lawrence
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

  

• Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• The Silent Traveler in London by Chiang Lee
• Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson
• The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
• Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
• In Siberia by Colin Thubron
• The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
• Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk

Asia

• The Travels of Marco Polo
• The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
• An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi
• Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird
• The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
• A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina by Richard Burton
• Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

  

• The Southern Gates of Arabia by Freya Stark
• A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• A Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
• Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd
• Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley
• Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
• A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
• The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
• Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
• The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
• Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
• The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
• City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
• Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue by Paul Bowles

Africa

• Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park

  

• Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
• Source of the Nile by Richard Burton
• The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
• Travels in the Congo by Andre Gide
• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
• Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
• Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
• The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti
• North of South by Shiva Naipaul
• African Laughter by Doris Lessing

The Americas

• Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
• Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America by Alexander von Humboldt
• History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean de Lery
• The Journals of Lewis and Clark
• The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
• American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
• Travels in Alaska by John Muir

  

• Roughing It by Mark Twain
• Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
• Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins
• Here is New York by E.B. White
• Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
• Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
• The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
• An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
• I See by My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle
• Coming into the Country by John McPhee
• A Walk in the Woods, A Brief History of Nearly Everything, and In a Sunburnt Country by Bill Bryson
• A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
• The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux

Anthologies

• A Book of Traveller's Tales by Eric Newby
• Travel Writing 1700-1830
• Colonial American Travel Narratives
• Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
• Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
• Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
• Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
• Americans in Paris