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==General==
[[Category:British]]
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[[Category:Essential Fiction]]
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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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===[[Novellas]]===
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===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- 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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===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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===Mexican===
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===Norse===
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===Persian===
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===[[Russian]]===
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===Spanish===
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==Genre-Oriented Fiction==
===[[Science Fiction]]===
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===Horror===
[[File:Horror.jpg|right|Suggested horror titles|200px]]  
'''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
 
 
===[[Philosophy]]===
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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''
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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

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

Novellas

  • 100 Novellas
    100 Novellas
  • Novellas
    Novellas
  • 100 Contemporary Novellas
    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

(includes some non-fiction as well)

British & Irish

Chinese

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

Czech

Dutch

French

German

Italian

Japanese

  • 100 Works of Japanese Literature
    100 Works of Japanese Literature

Mexican

Norse

Persian

Russian

  • Russian lit
    Russian lit
  • Maksim Gorky - Mother
    Maksim Gorky - Mother

Spanish

Genre-Oriented Fiction

Science Fiction

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

Horror

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

Classical Philosophy
Classical Philosophy
Classical Philosophy

Pre-socratics:

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
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