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==General== | |||
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1270061661552.jpg|Classics | |||
playrecs.jpg|Theater/Drama part 1 | |||
playrecs2.jpg|Theater/Drama part 2 | |||
femaleauthors.jpg|Female writers | |||
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Doorstoppers list for wiki.jpg|Essential Doorstoppers (Unfinished) | |||
dystopiautopia.jpg|Dystopia & Utopia (Unfinished) | |||
essential poetry guide.png|Essential Poetry Guide | |||
list of must read links.png|A collection of 'must read' lists. | |||
1340327360957.jpg|Drug Books | |||
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'''Classics[[File:1270061661552.jpg|thumb|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'' | |||
'''Theater/drama[[undefined|thumb|link=File:Playrecs.jpg]] | |||
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:[[File:Playrecs2.jpg|thumb|]] | |||
*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 Stories List.jpg|Short Story Collections | |||
Flash ficiton and short short stories.jpg|Flash Fiction and Short Short Stories | |||
19thandearlier.png|Short Story Collections - 19th Century and Earlier | |||
1900-40s.jpg|Short Story Collections 1900-1940 | |||
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=== | ===[[Novellas]]=== | ||
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Novellas2.jpg|100 Novellas | |||
Novellas 1.3.jpg|Novellas | |||
Contemporary novellas.jpg|100 Contemporary Novellas | |||
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===American=== | ===American=== | ||
<gallery widths="120"> | [[File:American_lit_003b.jpg|thumb|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- Com''plete 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'' | |||
[[File:Nigralit.jpg|thumb|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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(includes some non-fiction as well) | |||
===British & Irish=== | |||
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===Chinese=== | |||
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===Dutch=== | |||
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===French=== | ===French=== | ||
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===Horror=== | |||
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'''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=== | |||
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'''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== | |||
===[[File:Essays.jpg|right|250px|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[[File:810107-L.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*''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 Experience''by 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[[File:712170.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*''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[[File:568357-L.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*''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 | |||
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===[[File:1275260005616.jpg|right|250px|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'' | |||
===[[File:Travel_literature.jpg|right|250px]][[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[[File:The_Colossus_of_Maroussi.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*''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[[File:The_Snow_Leopard.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*''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[[File:Green_Hills_of_Africa.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*''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[[File:Kon-Tiki.jpg|right|150px]] | |||
*''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'' | |||
[[Category:Recommended Reading]] |
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General
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Classics
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Theater/Drama part 1
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Theater/Drama part 2
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Female writers
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Humor
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Depressing Literature
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Essential Doorstoppers (Unfinished)
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Dystopia & Utopia (Unfinished)
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Essential Poetry Guide
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A collection of 'must read' lists.
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Drug Books
Classics
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- 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:
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- 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
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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
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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
(includes some non-fiction as well)
British & Irish
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
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
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100 Works of Japanese Literature
Mexican
Norse
Persian
Russian
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Russian lit
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Maksim Gorky - Mother
Spanish
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
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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
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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
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Essays Essays
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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
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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
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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
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
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Travel Literature
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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