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<h2>Biographies</h2>
<h2>Biographies</h2>
<h2>Philosophy</h2>
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| colspan="5" |<h2>Autobiographies</h2>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Literary'''</h3>
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| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Life_on_the_Mississippi.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Life on the Mississippi|Life on the Mississippi]]''<br />(1883)<br />by Mark Twain </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_London.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Down and Out in Paris and London|Down and Out in Paris and London]]''<br />(1933)<br />by George Orwell </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Wind,_Sand_and_Stars.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Wind, Sand and Stars|Wind, Sand and Stars ]]''<br />(1939)<br />by Antoine de Saint-Exupery </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Speak_Memory.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Speak, Memory|Speak, Memory]]''<br />(1951)<br />by Vladimir Nabokov </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Moveable_Feast.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:A Moveable Feast|A Moveable Feast]]''<br />(1964)<br />by Ernest Hemingway </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Literary Autobiographies'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Diary of Lady Murasaki|Diary]]'' (1010) of Lady Murasaki </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edward Gibbon|Memoirs of My Life]]'' (1793) by Edward Gibbon </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater|Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' (1821) by Thomas de Quincey </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1825) by Shen Fu </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Stendhal|The Life of Henry Brulard]]'' (1836) by Stendhal </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ecce Homo (book)|Ecce Homo]]'' (1888) by Friedrich Nietzsche </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Goncourt brothers|Pages From the Goncourt Journals]]'' (1896) by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mikhail Bulgakov|A Country Doctor's Notebook]]'' (1918) by Mikhail Bulgakov </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Storm of Steel|Storm of Steel]]'' (1920) by Ernst Jünger </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Franz Kafka|Diaries]]'' (1923) of Franz Kafka </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Boris Pasternak|Safe Conduct]]'' (1931) by Boris Pasternak </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Life and Hard Times|My Life and Hard Times]]'' (1933) by James Thurber </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:G.K. Chesterton|The Autobiography]]'' (1936) of G.K. Chesterton </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rudyard Kipling|Something of Myself]]'' (1937) by Rudyard Kipling </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Homage to Catalonia|Homage to Catalonia]]'' (1938) by George Orwell </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:William Butler Yeats|The Autobiography]]'' (1938) of William Butler Yeats </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frigyes Karinthy|A Journey Round My Skull ]]'' (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:If This Is a Man|If This Is a Man]]'' (1947) by Primo Levi </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Barbara Comyns|Sisters by a River]]'' (1947) by Barbara Comyns </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sandor Marai|Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948]]'' (1948) by Sandor Marai </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:On Overgrown Paths|On Overgrown Paths]]'' (1949) by Knut Hamsun </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian|The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian]]'' (1951) by Nirad C. Chaudhuri </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:William Carlos Williams|The Autobiography]]'' (1951) of William Carlos Williams </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Junichiro Tanizaki|Childhood Years: A Memoir]]'' (1956) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Evelyn Waugh|A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography ]]'' (1964) by Evelyn Waugh </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:J.R. Ackerley|My Father and Myself]]'' (1968) by J.R. Ackerley </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Witold Gombrowicz|Diaries]]'' (1968) of Witold Gombrowicz </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Harry Mathews|My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973]]'' (1973) by Harry Mathews </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:R.K. Narayan|My Days]]'' (1974) by R.K. Narayan </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Morris|Condundrum]]'' (1974) by Jan Morris </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]'' (1975) by Primo Levi </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Going Solo|Going Solo]]'' (1986) by Roald Dahl </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Prisoner of Love (book)|Prisoner of Love]]'' (1986) by Jean Genet </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lyn Hejinian|My Life]]'' (1987) by Lyn Hejinian </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jacques Roubaud|The Great Fire of London]]'' (1989) by Jacques Roubaud </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Isaac Asimov|I, Asimov: A Memoir]]'' (1994) by Isaac Asimov </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Living to Tell the Tale|Living to Tell the Tale]]'' (2002) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Year of Magical Thinking|The Year of Magical Thinking]]'' (2005) by Joan Didion </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:What I Talk About When I Talk About Running|What I Talk About When I Talk About Running]]'' (2007) by Haruki Murakami </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Donald Keene|Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan]]'' (2008) by Donald Keene </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Karl Ove Knausgård|My Struggle]]'' (2009) by Karl Ove Knausgård </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[Autobiography]]'' (2013) by Morrissey </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Historical'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Pillow_Book.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book|The Pillow Book]]''<br />(1002)<br />by Sei Shonagon </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin|The Autobiography]]''<br />(1790)<br />of Benjamin Franklin </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Goodbye_to_All_That.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Goodbye to All That|Goodbye to All That]]''<br />(1929)<br />by Robert Graves </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Malcolm X|The Autobiography]]''<br />(1965)<br />of Malcolm X </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Surely_You're_Joking.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!|Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!]]''<br />(1985)<br />by Richard Feynman </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Historical Autobiographies'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kagerō Nikki|Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan ]]'' (974) by Mother of Michitsuna </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sarashina Nikki|As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams]]'' (11th Century) by Lady Sarashina </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lady Nijo|The Confessions]]'' (1307) of Lady Nijo </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Baburnama|The Baburnama: Memoirs]]'' (1530) of Babur </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Benvenuto Cellini|The Autobiography]]'' (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Girolamo Cardano|The Book of My Life]]'' (1576) by Girolamo Cardano </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Samuel Pepys|The Diary]]'' (1669) of Samuel Pepys </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:George Fox|The Journal]]'' (1694) of George Fox </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Histoire de ma vie|Story of My Life]]'' (1774) by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Catherine the Great|The Memoirs]]'' (1795) of Catherine the Great </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave|Narrative of the Life]]'' (1845) of Frederick Douglass </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Katsu Kokichi|Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai]]'' (1850) of Katsu Kokichi </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:William Tecumseh Sherman|The Autobiography]]'' (1886) of William Tecumseh Sherman </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant|Personal Memoirs]]'' (1886) of Ulysses S. Grant </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Charles Darwin|The Autobiography]]'' (1887) of Charles Darwin </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yukichi Fukuzawa|The Autobiography]]'' (1899) of Yukichi Fukuzawa </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Letters of Vincent van Gogh|The Letters]]'' (1891) by Vincent van Gogh </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Daniel Paul Schreber|Memoirs of My Nervous Illness]]'' (1902) by Daniel Paul Schreber </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Story of My Life (biography)|The Story of My Life]]'' (1903) by Helen Keller </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Maxim Gorky|My Childhood]]'' (1914) by Maxim Gorky </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Seven Pillars of Wisdom|Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'' (1922) by T.E. Lawrence </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Memoirs of an Infantry Officer|Memoirs of an Infantry Officer]]'' (1930) by Siegfried Sassoon </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí|The Secret Life]]'' (1942) of Salvador Dali </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Diary of a Young Girl|The Diary of a Young Girl]]'' (1944) by Anne Frank </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Felix Yusupov|Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin]]'' (1953) by Felix Yusupov </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frida Kahlo|The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait]]'' (1954) by Frida Kahlo </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cider with Rosie|Cider with Rosie]]'' (1959) by Laurie Lee </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Norman Rockwell|Norman Rockwell]]'' (1960) by Norman Rockwell </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Memories, Dreams, Reflections|Memories, Dreams, Reflections]]'' (1963) by Carl Jung </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Double Helix|The Double Helix]]'' (1968) by James D. Watson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Anne Truitt|Daybook: The Journey of an Artist]]'' (1982) by Anne Truitt </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Naturalist (book)|Naturalist]]'' (1994) by Edward O. Wilson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kay Redfield Jamison|An Unquiet Mind]]'' (1995) by Kay Redfield Jamison </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Howard Marks|Mr Nice]]'' (1996) by Howard Marks </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Uncle Tungsten|Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood]]'' (2001) by Oliver Sacks </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mineko Iwasaki|Geisha: A Life]]'' (2002) by Mineko Iwasaki </small>
|}
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| colspan="5" |<h2>Books About Books</h2>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Books About Books'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Books_about_Books.png|100px]]<small> Books About Books </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1372579076250.jpg|100px]]<small> Writing </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h2>Business</h2>
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| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Intelligent_Investor.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Benjamin Graham|The Intelligent Investor]]''<br />by Benjamin Graham </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Security_Analysis.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Security Analysis (book)|Security Analysis 5th Edition]]''<br />by Graham and Dodd </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Random_Walk_Down_Wallstreet.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Peter Lynch|A Random Walk Down Wall Street]]''<br />by Burton G. Malkiel </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the+Little_Book_of_Common_Sense.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Book of Common Sense Investing|The Little Book of Common Sense Investing]]''<br />by Jack Bogle </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Irrational_Exuberance.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Irrational Exuberance|Irrational Exuberance]]''<br />by Robert J. Shiller </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Business Books'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Peter Lynch|One Up on Wall Street]]'' (1989) by Peter Lynch </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Peter Lynch|Beat the Street]]'' (2005) by Peter Lynch </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jeremy Siegel|Stocks for the Long Run 5th edition]]'' (1994) by Jeremy Sigel </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Philip A. Fisher|Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits]]'' (1958) by Philip A. Fisher </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h2>Essays</h2>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Classic Essays'''</h3>
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| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Essays_in_Idleness.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Yoshida Kenko|Essays in Idleness]]''<br />(1332)<br />by Yoshida Kenko </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Anatomy_of_Melancholy.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Burton|The Anatomy of Melancholy]]''<br />(1621)<br />by Robert Burton </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Painter_of_Modern_Life.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Charles Baudelaire|The Painter of Modern Life]]''<br />(1863)<br />by Charles Baudelaire </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Complete_Essays.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Mark Twain|The Complete Essays]]''<br />by Mark Twain </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:in_Defense_of_Sanity.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:G.K. Chesterton|In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays]]''<br />by G.K. Chesterton </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further Classic Essays'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Essays'' (1597) by Francis Bacon </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Complete Essays'' (1580) by Michel de Montaigne </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' (1750s) by Samuel Johnson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays'' (19th Century) by Charles Lamb </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Walden'' (1854) by Henry David Thoreau </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Essential Writings'' ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose'' (1891) by Oscar Wilde </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Essays'' (1918) by Robert Louis Stevenson </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Modern Essays (English Language)'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Collection_of_Essays.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''A Collection of Essays''<br />( )<br />by George Orwell </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:810107-L.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Geography of the Imagination''<br />( )<br />by Guy Davenport </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:We_Tell_Ourselves_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live''<br />( )<br />by Joan Didion </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:712170.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''The Portable Dorothy Parker''<br />( )<br />by Dorothy Parker </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:an_Elemental_Thing.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''An Elemental Thing''<br />( )<br />by Eliot Weinberger </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further Modern Essays (English Language)'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Early and Later Essays'' ( ) by W.B. Yeats </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by Virginia Woolf </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by T.S. Eliot </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Kokoro'' ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Essays'' ( ) by E.B. White </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Against Interpretation and Other Essays'' ( ) by Susan Sontag </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry'' ( ) by John Simon </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience'' ( ) by Aldous Huxley </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Mystery and Manners'' ( ) by Flannery O'Connor </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Literary Essays'' ( ) by Ezra Pound </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays'' ( ) by Anais Nin </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Portraits and Observations: The Essays'' ( ) by Truman Capote </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Best of Myles'' ( ) by Flann O'Brien </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''A Jacques Barzun Reader'' ( ) by Jacques Barzun </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Reflections on Exile'' ( ) by Edward W. Said </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Vintage Mencken'' ( ) by H.L. Mencken </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism'' ( ) by John Updike </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings'' ( ) by Angela Carter </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Fame &amp; Folly: Essays'' ( ) by Cynthia Ozick </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Donald Richie Reader'' ( ) by Donald Richie </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Dreamer of Dreams'' ( ) by John Simon </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''On Histories and Stories'' ( ) by A.S. Byatt </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings'' ( ) by John Fowles </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Finding a Form'' ( ) by William H. Gass </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''An Elemental Thing'' ( ) by Eliot Weinberger </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Modern Essays (non-English Language)'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Selected_Non-Fictions.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Selected Non-Fictions''<br />( )<br />by Jorge Luis Borges </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Barthes_Reader.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''A Barthes Reader''<br />( )<br />by Roland Barthes </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Six_Memos_for_the_Next_Millennium.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Six Memos for the Next Millennium''<br />( )<br />by Italo Calvino</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Less_than_One.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Less Than One: Selected Essays''<br />( )<br />by Joseph Brodsky </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Campo_Santo.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Campo Santo''<br />( )<br />by W.G. Sebald </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further Modern Essays (non-English Language)'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Visions of Excess'' ( ) by Georges Bataille </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Species of Spaces and Other Pieces'' ( ) by Georges Perec </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Leters, Numbers, Forms: Essays'' ( ) by Raymond Queneau </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by Zhou Zuoren </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Bilingual Essays'' ( ) by Lin Yutang </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Illuminations: Essays'' ( ) by Walter Benjamin </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Selected Prose'' ( ) by Fernando Pessoa </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Myself With Others: Essays'' ( ) by Carlos Fuentes </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Labyrinth of Solitude'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Spirit of Prague'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Encounter: Essays'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''How to Travel with a Salmon &amp; Other Essays'' ( ) by Umberto Eco </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Anathemas and Admiraitions'' ( ) by E.M. Cioran </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Passing By: Selected Essays'' ( ) by Jerzy Kosinski </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Other People's Trades'' ( ) by Primo Levi </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Nobody's Home'' ( ) by Dubravka Ugresic </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Essays.jpg|100px]]
| colspan="4" |
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| colspan="5" |<h2>Film</h2>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Tarkovsky.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Andrey Tarkovsky|Sculpting in Time]]''<br />by Andrey Tarkovsky </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Elements_of_Cinema.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Stefan Sharff|The Elements of Cinema]]''<br />by Stefan Sharff </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_History_of_Narrative_Film.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:David A. Cook|A History of Narrative Film]]''<br />by David A. Cook </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Filmmakers_Eye.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Gustavo Mercado|The Filmmaker's Eye]]''<br />by Gustavo Mercado </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Walter Murch|In the Blink of an Eye]]''<br />by Walter Murch </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Film Books'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eric Barnow|Documentary]]'' by Eric Barnow </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sidney Lumet|Making Movies]]'' by Sidney Lumet </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Pippin|Fatalism in American Film Noir]]'' by Robert Pippin </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Pippin|Hollywood Westerns and American Myth]]'' by Robert Pippin </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Bresson|Notes on Cinematography]]'' by Robert Bresson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ingmar Bergman|Images]]'' by Ingmar Bergman </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Andre Bazin|What is Cinema?]]'' by Andre Bazin </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alain Badiou|Cinema]]'' by Alain Badiou </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giles Deleuze|Cinema 1: The Movement-Image]]'' by Giles Deleuze </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>() by </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h2>General Non-Fiction</h2>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More General Non-Fiction'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The God Delusion'' ( ) by Richard Dawkins </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h2>History</h2>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Histories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]''<br />(450-420s BCE)<br />by Herodotus</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Landmark_Thucydides.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:History of the Peloponnesian War|History of the Peloponnesian War]]''<br />(430s-410s BCE)<br />by Thucydides </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hellenica|Hellenica]]''<br />(410s-360s BCE)<br />by Xenophon</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Egypt'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt'' by Kathryn Bard</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Ancient Egyptian Literature vol. 1, 2 &amp; 3'' by Miriam Lichtheim </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Village Life in Ancient Egypt'' by A.G. MacDowell </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Celts'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Ancient Celts'' by Barry Cunliffe </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Greece'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History'' by Pomeroy, Burstein et al </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Athenian Constitution'' by Aristotle </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Greek City States'' by P. J. Rhodes </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Polis: An Introduction to the Greek City State'' by Mogens Herman Hansen </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest'' by Michel M. Austin </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome'' by Robin Lane Fox </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 3.3 through 7.1'' </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Rome'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 7 through 14'' </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome (series)'' </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Rome: An Empire's Story'' by Greg Woolf </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Rome: From Village to Empire'' by Boatwright, Gargola et al </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Twelve Caesars'' by Suetonius </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''From the Gracchi to Nero'' by H.H. Scullard </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Later Roman Empire 284-602 AD'' by A. H. M. Jones </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Decline of the Ancient World'' by A. H. M. Jones </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''The Cambridge Medieval History vol. 1, 2, 4.1 and 4.2'' </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''New Cambridge Medieval History'' </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''China'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2'' by William Theodore de Bary </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Records of the Grand Historian: Qin and Han Dynasties'' by Sima Qian </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Search for Modern China'' by Jonathan D. Spence </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Buddhism in Chinese History'' by Arthur Wright </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Japan'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2'' by William Theodore de Bary </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present'' by Andrew Gordon </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Making of Modern Japan'' by Marius B. Jansen </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''USSR'''
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934'' by Sheila Fitzpatrick </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s'' by Sheila Fitzpatrick </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Begin_bronze_age_v2.jpg|100px]]
| colspan="4" |
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| colspan="5" |<h2>Philosophy</h2>
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:heraclitus.jpg|100px]]<small> Heraclitus </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:socrates.jpg|100px]]<small> Socrates </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:plato.jpg|100px]]<small> Plato </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:aristotle.jpg|100px]]<small> Aristotle </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:seneca.jpg|100px]]<small> Seneca </small>
|-
| rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Pre-Socratics
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Greek Philosophy|Early Greek Philosophy]]'' by Various </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pythagorean|The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library]]'' by Kenneth Sylvan Guthre </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Heraclitus|The Art and Thought of Heraclitus]]'' by Charles H. Kahn </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Parmenides of Elea|Fragments]]'' by Parmenides of Elea</small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Xenophanes|Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments]]'' by David Gallop </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sophism|The Greek Sophists]]'' by John Dillon and Tania Gergel </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Empedocles|The Extant Fragments]]'' by Empedocles </small>
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |On Socrates
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Trial of Socrates|The Trial of Socrates]]'' by I.F. Stone </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Aristophanes|The Clouds]] '' by Aristophanes </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Plato|Plato and the Socratic Dialogue]]'' by Charles H. Kahn </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''The Open Society and Its Enemies'' by Karl R. Popper </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''Plato on Knowledge and Forms'' by Gail Fine </small>
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |On Aristotle
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Aristotle|Aristotle on Nature and Living Things]]'' by David M. Balme </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Aristotle|Aristotle]] '' by Cristopher Shields </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''From Aristotle to Augustine'' by David Furley </small>
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |By Aristotle
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nicomachean Ethics|The Nicomachean Ethics]] '' by Aristotle </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Metaphysics (Aristotle)|Metaphysics ]] '' by Aristotle </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]] '' by Aristotle </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rhetoric (Aristotle)|Rhetoric]] '' by Aristotle </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Politics (Aristotle)|Politics]] '' by Aristotle </small>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Cynicism
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diogenes|Diogenes of Sinope: A Study of Greek Cynicism ]] '' by Farrand Sayre </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cynicism|The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy]]'' by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé </small>
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Epicureanism
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Epicureanism|The Cambridge's Companion to Epicureanism]] '' by James Warren </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Epicurus|The Essential Epicurus]] '' by Eugene O'Connor </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lucretius|The Nature of Things]] '' by Lucretius </small>
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Stoicism
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Letters From a Stoic|Letters From a Stoic]] '' ( ) by Seneca </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Epictetus|Discourses and Selected Writings]] '' by Epictetus </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marcus Aurelius|Meditations]] '' ( ) by Marcus Aurelius </small>
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Skepticism
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sceptic|The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus]] '' by Norman Maccoll </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sextus Empiricus|Outlines of Pyrrhonism]] '' by Sextus Empiricus </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gnoticism|Neoplatonism and Gnosticism]] '' ( ) by Richard T. Wallis </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Neoplatonism|The Neoplatonists]] '' ( ) by John Gregory </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Plotinus|The Enneads]] '' ( ) by Plotinus </small>
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275260005616.jpg|100px]]<small> Ancient Western </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275260709180.jpg|100px]]<small> Christian and Medieval </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261036112.jpg|100px]]<small> Modern Part One </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261563696.jpg|100px]]<small> Modern Part Two </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261163720.jpg|100px]]<small> Scientific Revolution </small>
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261396385.jpg|100px]]<small> German Idealism </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261748849.jpg|100px]]<small> Existentialism </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261992670.jpg|100px]]<small> Analytic Part One </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275262163246.jpg|100px]]<small> Analytic Part Two </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275262414742.jpg|100px]]<small> Postmodernism </small>
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1273452327985.jpg|100px]]<small> Feminism and Queer Theory </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Existential_Crisis.jpg|100px]]<small> Existential Crisis: A Guide </small>
|}
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|-
| colspan="5" |<h2>Politics</h2>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Politics'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The New Machiavelli|The New Machiavelli]]'' (1910) by H.G. Wells </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''From Politics to Reason of State: The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 1250-1600'' by Maurizio Viroli</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Anarchist Literature'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Emma Goldman|Anarchism and Other Essays]]'' (1910) by Emma Goldman </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Fringe Politics'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Political History'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Democracy in America|Democracy in America]]'' (1831) by Alexis de Tocqueville </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''By Political Parties'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1361426772832.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1406914990397.jpg|100px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1383014676779.jpg|100px]] <small> Right-Wing </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Left_Wing.jpg|100px]] <small> Left-Wing </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Legal_Philosophy_Guide.png|100px]] <small> Legal Philosophy </small>
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|-
| colspan="5" |<h2>Religion and Occult</h2>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Western Religion'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Torah.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Torah|Torah]]''<br />( )<br />by Moshe Rabbenu (Moses Our Teacher/Rabbi)</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The Holy Bible.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The_Bible|The Bible]]''<br />( )<br />by various authors</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( )<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( )<br />by </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( )<br />by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Western Religion'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1393554877728.jpg|100px]]<small> Western Occult </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Esoteric_Occult_Magick.jpg|100px]]<small> Esoteric/Occult/Magick Reading </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hermeticism.jpg|100px]]<small> Hermeticism </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Catholicism.jpg|100px]]<small> Catholicism </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Christianity.png|100px]]<small> Christianity </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Eastern Religion'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Upanishads.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Upanishads|Upanishads]]''</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Daodejing.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dao De Jing|Daodejing]]''<br />by Laozi, trans. by Edmund Ryden</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Moon_on_a_Dewdrop.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dogen|Moon on a Dewdrop]]''<br />by Dogen </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Heart_Sutra.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Heart Sutra|Heart Sutra]]''<br />trans. by Red Pine </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Analects.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Confucius|The Analects]]''<br />of Confucius, trans. Raymond Dawson </small>
|-
| rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Primary Texts
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Zen Master Keizan|Transmission of Light]] '' ( ) by Zen Master Keizan </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lankavatara Sutra|Lankavatara Sutra]] '' ( ) trans. by Red Pine </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diamond Sutra|Diamond Sutra ]] '' ( ) trans. by Red Pine </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dhammapada|Dhammapada]] '' ( ) trans. by Gil Fronsdal </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Bhagavad Gita|The Bhagavad Gita]] '' ( ) trans. by Eknath Easwaran </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Zhuangzi|Basic Writings]] '' ( ) of Zhuangzi </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Xunzi|Basic Writings]] '' ( ) of Xunzi </small>
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| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mencius|Writings]] '' ( ) of Mencius </small>
|-
| rowspan="4" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Literature, Poetry, etc
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jorge Luis Borges|The Aleph and Other Stories]] '' ( ) by Jorge Luis Borges </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:G.V. Desani |All About H. Hatter]] '' ( ) by G.V. Desani </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Conference of the Birds|The Conference of the Birds]]'' (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Rubaiyat|The Rubaiyat]]'' (12th century) of Omar Khayyam </small>
|-
| rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Secondary &amp; Tertiary Resources
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fifty Eastern Thinkers]] '' ( ) by Diane Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Meister Eckhart|Selected Writings]] '' ( ) of Meister Eckhart </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Self-Disclosure of God]] '' ( ) by William C. Chittick </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy |The Gospel in Brief]] '' ( ) by Leo Tolstoy </small>
|-
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:D.T. Suzuki |Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings]] '' ( ) by D.T. Suzuki </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:eatern_religion.png|100px]] <small> Mysticism </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Islam.jpg|100px]] <small> Islam </small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Buddhism.jpg|100px]] <small> Buddhism </small>
| colspan="4" |
|}
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|-
| colspan="5" |<h2>Travel Literature</h2>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''General Travels'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Travels_of_Ibn_Battuta.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Ibn Battutah|The Travels]]''<br />( )<br />by Ibn Battutah </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Journals.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Journals]]''<br />( )<br />of Captain James Cook </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Waugh_Abroad.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Collected Travel Writing]]''<br />( )<br />by Evelyn Waugh </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_With_Herodotus.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels With Herodotus]]''<br />( )<br />by Ryszard Kapuscinsk </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Way_of_the_World.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Way of the World]]''<br />( )<br />by Nicolas Bouvier </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More General Travels'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |From the Meadows of Gold ]]'' ( ) by Mas'udi </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Voyages and Discoveries]]'' ( ) by Richard Hakluyt </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |South: The Endurance Expedition]]'' ( ) by Ernest Shackleton </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Last Grain Race]]'' ( ) by Eric Newby </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Pecked to Death by Ducks]]'' ( ) by Tim Cahill </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It]]'' ( ) by Geoff Dyer </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travels in Europe'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ibn_Fadlan_and_the_Land_of_Darkness.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness]]''<br />( )<br />by Ibn Fadlan </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Innocents_Abroad.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Innocents Abroad]]''<br />( )<br />by Mark Twain </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Black_Lamb_and_Grey_Falcoln.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Black Lamb and Grey Falcon]]''<br />( )<br />by Rebecca West </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Time_of_Gifts.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |A Time of Gifts]]''<br />( )<br />by Patrick Leigh Fermor </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Rings_of_Saturn.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Rings of Saturn]]''<br />( )<br />by W.G. Sebald </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travels in Europe'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pausanias|Guide to Greece]]'' (2nd century) by Pausanias </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland]]'' ( ) by Samuel Johnson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Sentimental Journey]]'' ( ) by Laurence Sterne </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Letters from England]]'' ( ) by Voltaire </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Italian Journey: 1786:1788]]'' (1788) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Travel Pictures]]'' ( ) by Heinrich Heine </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Letters from Russia]]'' ( ) by Adolphe de Custine </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Winter Notes on Summer Impressions]]'' ( ) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Sakhalin Island]]'' ( ) by Anton Chekhov </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |D.H. Lawrence and Italy]]'' ( ) by D.H. Lawrence </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Mani: Travels in the Souther Peloponnese]]'' ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Silent Traveler in London]]'' ( ) by Chiang Lee </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Stones of Aran: Labyrinth]]'' ( ) by Tim Robinson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Colossus of Maroussi]]'' ( ) by Henry Miller </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere]]'' ( ) by Jan Morris </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |In Siberia]]'' ( ) by Colin Thubron </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fado]]'' ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travels in Asia'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Travels_of_Marco_Polo.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]''<br />(13th century)<br />of Marco Polo </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Narrow_Road_to_the_Deep_North.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Oku no Hosomichi|Narrow Road to the Deep North]]''<br />(1689)<br />by Matsuo Basho </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Seven_Years_in_Tibet.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Seven Years in Tibet|Seven Years in Tibet]]''<br />(1951)<br />by Heinrich Harrer </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Arabian_Sands.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Arabian Sands|Arabian Sands]]''<br />(1959)<br />by Wilfred Thesiger </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Snow_Leopard.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Snow Leopard|The Snow Leopard]]''<br />1978)<br />by Peter Matthiessen </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travels in Asia'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:John Mandeville|The Travels]]'' ( ) of Sir John Mandeville </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels]]'' ( ) by Evliya Celebi </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Unbeaten Tracks in Japan]]'' ( ) by Isabella L. Bird </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Malay Archipelago]]'' ( ) by Alfred Russel Wallace </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina]]'' ( ) by Richard Burton</small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan]]'' ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Southern Gates of Arabia]]'' ( ) by Freya Stark </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Time to Keep Silence]]'' ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Barbarian in Asia]]'' ( ) by Henri Michaux </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China]]'' ( ) by David Kidd </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hindoo Holiday]]'' ( ) by J.R. Ackerley </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush]]'' ( ) by Eric Newby </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Inland Sea]]'' ( ) by Donald Richie </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Lost Heart of Asia]]'' ( ) by Colin Thubron </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Riding the Iron Rooster]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Great Railway Bazaar]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |City of Djinns]]'' ( ) by William Dalrymple </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul Bowles|Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue]]'' (1963) by Paul Bowles </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travels in Africa'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_in_West_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in West Africa]]''<br />( )<br />by Mary Kingsley </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Out_of_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Out of Africa]]''<br />( )<br />by Isak Dinesen </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Green_Hills_of_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Green Hills of Africa]]''<br />( )<br />by Ernest Hemingway </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Journey_Without_Maps.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Journey Without Maps]]''<br />( )<br />by Graham Greene </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Voices_of_Marrakesh.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Voices of Marrakesh ]]''<br />( )<br />by Elias Canetti </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travels in Africa'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in the Interior of Africa]]'' ( ) by Mungo Park </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Source of the Nile]]'' ( ) by Richard Burton </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Naturalist on the River Amazons]]'' ( ) by Henry Walter Bates </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in the Congo]]'' ( ) by Andre Gide </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |North of South]]'' ( ) by Shiva Naipaul </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |African Laughter]]'' ( ) by Doris Lessing </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travels in the Americas'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_in_Alaska.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Travels in Alaska|Travels in Alaska]]''<br />( )<br />by John Muir </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_With_Charley.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Travels With Charley|Travels With Charley: In Search of America]]''<br />( )<br />by John Steinbeck </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kon-Tiki.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kon-Tiki|Kon-Tiki]]''<br />( )<br />by Thor Keyerdahl </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:in_Patagonia.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:In Patagonia|In Patagonia]]''<br />( )<br />by Bruce Chatwin </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:an_African_in_Greenland.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |An African in Greenland]]''<br />( )<br />by Tete-Michel Kpomassie </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travels in the Americas'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition]]'' ( ) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America]]'' ( ) by Alexander von Humboldt </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil]]'' ( ) by Jean de Lery </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Journals]]'' ( ) of Lewis and Clark </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Oregon Trail]]'' ( ) by Francis Parkman </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |American Notes for General Circulation]]'' ( ) by Charles Dickens </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]]'' ( ) by Henry David Thoreau </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Roughing It]]'' ( ) by Mark Twain </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Two Years in the French West Indies]]'' ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Kabloona]]'' ( ) by Gontran de Poncins </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Here is New York]]'' ( ) by E.B. White </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Lawless Roads]]'' ( ) by Graham Greene </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |I See by My Outfit]]'' ( ) by Peter S. Beagle </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Coming in to the Country]]'' ( ) by John McPhee </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Into the Wild]]'' ( ) by Bill Bryson </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Turn in the South]]'' ( ) by V.S. Naipaul </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Old Patagonian Express]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''The River Of Doubt'' ( ) by [[wikipedia: |Candice Millard]] </small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travel Anthologies'''</h3>
|-
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Book_of_Traveller's_Tales.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''A Book of Traveler's Tales''<br />edited by Eric Newby </small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Colonial_American_Travel_Narratives.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Colonial American Travel Narratives''</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_in_the_Reich.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany''</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Unsuitable_for_Ladies.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travelers''</small>
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Americans_in_Paris.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Americans in Paris''</small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travel Anthologies'''
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Travel Writing 1700-1830'' </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing'' </small>
|-
| colspan="5" |<small>''Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing'' </small>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travel_literature.jpg|80px]]
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Biographies

Autobiographies

Literary


Life on the Mississippi
(1883)
by Mark Twain
Down and Out in Paris and London
(1933)
by George Orwell
Wind, Sand and Stars
(1939)
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Speak, Memory
(1951)
by Vladimir Nabokov
A Moveable Feast
(1964)
by Ernest Hemingway
More Literary Autobiographies
Diary (1010) of Lady Murasaki
Memoirs of My Life (1793) by Edward Gibbon
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey
Six Records of a Floating Life (1825) by Shen Fu
The Life of Henry Brulard (1836) by Stendhal
Ecce Homo (1888) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Pages From the Goncourt Journals (1896) by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
A Country Doctor's Notebook (1918) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Storm of Steel (1920) by Ernst Jünger
Diaries (1923) of Franz Kafka
Safe Conduct (1931) by Boris Pasternak
My Life and Hard Times (1933) by James Thurber
The Autobiography (1936) of G.K. Chesterton
Something of Myself (1937) by Rudyard Kipling
Homage to Catalonia (1938) by George Orwell
The Autobiography (1938) of William Butler Yeats
A Journey Round My Skull (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy
If This Is a Man (1947) by Primo Levi
Sisters by a River (1947) by Barbara Comyns
Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948 (1948) by Sandor Marai
On Overgrown Paths (1949) by Knut Hamsun
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951) by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
The Autobiography (1951) of William Carlos Williams
Childhood Years: A Memoir (1956) by Junichiro Tanizaki
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography (1964) by Evelyn Waugh
My Father and Myself (1968) by J.R. Ackerley
Diaries (1968) of Witold Gombrowicz
My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 (1973) by Harry Mathews
My Days (1974) by R.K. Narayan
Condundrum (1974) by Jan Morris
The Periodic Table (1975) by Primo Levi
Going Solo (1986) by Roald Dahl
Prisoner of Love (1986) by Jean Genet
My Life (1987) by Lyn Hejinian
The Great Fire of London (1989) by Jacques Roubaud
I, Asimov: A Memoir (1994) by Isaac Asimov
Living to Tell the Tale (2002) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007) by Haruki Murakami
Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan (2008) by Donald Keene
My Struggle (2009) by Karl Ove Knausgård
Autobiography (2013) by Morrissey

Historical


The Pillow Book
(1002)
by Sei Shonagon
The Autobiography
(1790)
of Benjamin Franklin
Goodbye to All That
(1929)
by Robert Graves
The Autobiography
(1965)
of Malcolm X
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
(1985)
by Richard Feynman
More Historical Autobiographies
Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (974) by Mother of Michitsuna
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (11th Century) by Lady Sarashina
The Confessions (1307) of Lady Nijo
The Baburnama: Memoirs (1530) of Babur
The Autobiography (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini
The Book of My Life (1576) by Girolamo Cardano
The Diary (1669) of Samuel Pepys
The Journal (1694) of George Fox
Story of My Life (1774) by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
The Memoirs (1795) of Catherine the Great
Narrative of the Life (1845) of Frederick Douglass
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (1850) of Katsu Kokichi
The Autobiography (1886) of William Tecumseh Sherman
Personal Memoirs (1886) of Ulysses S. Grant
The Autobiography (1887) of Charles Darwin
The Autobiography (1899) of Yukichi Fukuzawa
The Letters (1891) by Vincent van Gogh
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1902) by Daniel Paul Schreber
The Story of My Life (1903) by Helen Keller
My Childhood (1914) by Maxim Gorky
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) by T.E. Lawrence
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) by Siegfried Sassoon
The Secret Life (1942) of Salvador Dali
The Diary of a Young Girl (1944) by Anne Frank
Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin (1953) by Felix Yusupov
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (1954) by Frida Kahlo
Cider with Rosie (1959) by Laurie Lee
Norman Rockwell (1960) by Norman Rockwell
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) by Carl Jung
The Double Helix (1968) by James D. Watson
Daybook: The Journey of an Artist (1982) by Anne Truitt
Naturalist (1994) by Edward O. Wilson
An Unquiet Mind (1995) by Kay Redfield Jamison
Mr Nice (1996) by Howard Marks
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001) by Oliver Sacks
Geisha: A Life (2002) by Mineko Iwasaki

Books About Books

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Business


The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis 5th Edition
by Graham and Dodd
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
by Burton G. Malkiel
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
by Jack Bogle
Irrational Exuberance
by Robert J. Shiller
More Business Books
One Up on Wall Street (1989) by Peter Lynch
Beat the Street (2005) by Peter Lynch
Stocks for the Long Run 5th edition (1994) by Jeremy Sigel
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958) by Philip A. Fisher

Essays

Classic Essays


Essays in Idleness
(1332)
by Yoshida Kenko
The Anatomy of Melancholy
(1621)
by Robert Burton
The Painter of Modern Life
(1863)
by Charles Baudelaire
The Complete Essays
by Mark Twain
In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays
by G.K. Chesterton
Further Classic Essays
Essays (1597) by Francis Bacon
The Complete Essays (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
Selected Essays (1750s) by Samuel Johnson
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays (19th Century) by Charles Lamb
Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
The Essential Writings ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (1891) by Oscar Wilde
Essays (1918) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Modern Essays (English Language)


A Collection of Essays
( )
by George Orwell
Geography of the Imagination
( )
by Guy Davenport
We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live
( )
by Joan Didion
The Portable Dorothy Parker
( )
by Dorothy Parker
An Elemental Thing
( )
by Eliot Weinberger
Further Modern Essays (English Language)
Early and Later Essays ( ) by W.B. Yeats
Selected Essays ( ) by Virginia Woolf
Selected Essays ( ) by T.S. Eliot
Selected Essays ( ) by D.H. Lawrence
Kokoro ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn
Essays ( ) by E.B. White
Against Interpretation and Other Essays ( ) by Susan Sontag
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 ( ) by Ezra Pound
In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays ( ) by Anais Nin
Portraits and Observations: The Essays ( ) by 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
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 Essays (non-English Language)


Selected Non-Fictions
( )
by Jorge Luis Borges
A Barthes Reader
( )
by Roland Barthes
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
( )
by Italo Calvino
Less Than One: Selected Essays
( )
by Joseph Brodsky
Campo Santo
( )
by W.G. Sebald
Further Modern Essays (non-English Language)
Visions of Excess ( ) by Georges Bataille
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces ( ) by Georges Perec
Leters, Numbers, Forms: Essays ( ) by Raymond Queneau
Selected Essays ( ) by Zhou Zuoren
Selected Bilingual Essays ( ) by Lin Yutang
Illuminations: Essays ( ) by Walter Benjamin
The Selected Prose ( ) by Fernando Pessoa
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 Admiraitions ( ) by E.M. Cioran
Passing By: Selected Essays ( ) by Jerzy Kosinski
Other People's Trades ( ) by Primo Levi
Nobody's Home ( ) by Dubravka Ugresic
Recommendation images

Film


Sculpting in Time
by Andrey Tarkovsky
The Elements of Cinema
by Stefan Sharff
A History of Narrative Film
by David A. Cook
The Filmmaker's Eye
by Gustavo Mercado
In the Blink of an Eye
by Walter Murch
More Film Books
Documentary by Eric Barnow
Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
Fatalism in American Film Noir by Robert Pippin
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth by Robert Pippin
Notes on Cinematography by Robert Bresson
Images by Ingmar Bergman
What is Cinema? by Andre Bazin
Cinema by Alain Badiou
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image by Giles Deleuze
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The God Delusion ( ) by Richard Dawkins
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History


Histories
(450-420s BCE)
by Herodotus
History of the Peloponnesian War
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Egypt
An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt by Kathryn Bard
Ancient Egyptian Literature vol. 1, 2 & 3 by Miriam Lichtheim
Village Life in Ancient Egypt by A.G. MacDowell
Celts
The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe
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Greece
Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History by Pomeroy, Burstein et al
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
The Greek City States by P. J. Rhodes
Polis: An Introduction to the Greek City State by Mogens Herman Hansen
The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest by Michel M. Austin
The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox
The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 3.3 through 7.1
Rome
The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 7 through 14
Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome (series)
Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf
Rome: From Village to Empire by Boatwright, Gargola et al
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
From the Gracchi to Nero by H.H. Scullard
The Later Roman Empire 284-602 AD by A. H. M. Jones
The Decline of the Ancient World by A. H. M. Jones
The Cambridge Medieval History vol. 1, 2, 4.1 and 4.2
New Cambridge Medieval History
China
Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2 by William Theodore de Bary
Records of the Grand Historian: Qin and Han Dynasties by Sima Qian
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence
Buddhism in Chinese History by Arthur Wright
Japan
Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2 by William Theodore de Bary
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon
The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen
USSR
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934 by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Philosophy

Heraclitus Socrates Plato Aristotle Seneca
Pre-Socratics Early Greek Philosophy by Various
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library by Kenneth Sylvan Guthre
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus by Charles H. Kahn
Fragments by Parmenides of Elea
Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments by David Gallop
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon and Tania Gergel
The Extant Fragments by Empedocles
On Socrates The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue by Charles H. Kahn
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper
Plato on Knowledge and Forms by Gail Fine
On Aristotle Aristotle on Nature and Living Things by David M. Balme
Aristotle by Cristopher Shields
From Aristotle to Augustine by David Furley
By Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Metaphysics by Aristotle
Poetics by Aristotle
Rhetoric by Aristotle
Politics by Aristotle
Cynicism Diogenes of Sinope: A Study of Greek Cynicism by Farrand Sayre
The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé
Epicureanism The Cambridge's Companion to Epicureanism by James Warren
The Essential Epicurus by Eugene O'Connor
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
Stoicism Letters From a Stoic ( ) by Seneca
Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
Meditations ( ) by Marcus Aurelius
Skepticism The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus by Norman Maccoll
Outlines of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus
Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ( ) by Richard T. Wallis
The Neoplatonists ( ) by John Gregory
The Enneads ( ) by Plotinus
Ancient Western Christian and Medieval Modern Part One Modern Part Two Scientific Revolution
German Idealism Existentialism Analytic Part One Analytic Part Two Postmodernism
Feminism and Queer Theory Existential Crisis: A Guide

Politics

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Politics
The New Machiavelli (1910) by H.G. Wells
From Politics to Reason of State: The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 1250-1600 by Maurizio Viroli
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Anarchist Literature
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) by Emma Goldman
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Political History
Democracy in America (1831) by Alexis de Tocqueville
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Right-Wing Left-Wing Legal Philosophy

Religion and Occult

Western Religion


Torah
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The Bible
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Western Occult Esoteric/Occult/Magick Reading Hermeticism Catholicism Christianity

Eastern Religion


Upanishads
Daodejing
by Laozi, trans. by Edmund Ryden
Moon on a Dewdrop
by Dogen
Heart Sutra
trans. by Red Pine
The Analects
of Confucius, trans. Raymond Dawson
Primary Texts Transmission of Light ( ) by Zen Master Keizan
Lankavatara Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine
Diamond Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine
Dhammapada ( ) trans. by Gil Fronsdal
The Bhagavad Gita ( ) trans. by Eknath Easwaran
Basic Writings ( ) of Zhuangzi
Basic Writings ( ) of Xunzi
Writings ( ) of Mencius
Literature, Poetry, etc The Aleph and Other Stories ( ) by Jorge Luis Borges
All About H. Hatter ( ) by G.V. Desani
The Conference of the Birds (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar
The Rubaiyat (12th century) of Omar Khayyam
Secondary & Tertiary Resources Fifty Eastern Thinkers ( ) by Diane Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson
Selected Writings ( ) of Meister Eckhart
The Self-Disclosure of God ( ) by William C. Chittick
The Gospel in Brief ( ) by Leo Tolstoy
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings ( ) by D.T. Suzuki
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Mysticism Islam Buddhism

Travel Literature

General Travels


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

Travels in Europe


Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness
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by Ibn Fadlan
The Innocents Abroad
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by Mark Twain
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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by Rebecca West
A Time of Gifts
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by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Rings of Saturn
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by W.G. Sebald
More Travels in Europe
Guide to Greece (2nd century) by Pausanias
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 (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
D.H. Lawrence and Italy ( ) by D.H. Lawrence
Mani: Travels in the Souther Peloponnese ( ) 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
Fado ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk

Travels in Asia


The Travels
(13th century)
of Marco Polo
Narrow Road to the Deep North
(1689)
by Matsuo Basho
Seven Years in Tibet
(1951)
by Heinrich Harrer
Arabian Sands
(1959)
by Wilfred Thesiger
The Snow Leopard
1978)
by Peter Matthiessen
More Travels in Asia
The Travels ( ) of Sir John Mandeville
An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels ( ) by Evliya Celebi
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
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush ( ) by Eric Newby
The Inland Sea ( ) by Donald Richie
The Lost Heart of Asia ( ) by Colin Thubron
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 (1963) by Paul Bowles

Travels in Africa


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

Travels in the Americas


Travels in Alaska
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by John Muir
Travels With Charley: In Search of America
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by John Steinbeck
Kon-Tiki
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by Thor Keyerdahl
In Patagonia
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by Bruce Chatwin
An African in Greenland
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by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
More Travels in 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
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
The Lawless Roads ( ) by Graham Greene
I See by My Outfit ( ) by Peter S. Beagle
Coming in to the Country ( ) by John McPhee
Into the Wild ( ) by Bill Bryson
A Turn in the South ( ) by V.S. Naipaul
The Old Patagonian Express ( ) by Paul Theroux
The River Of Doubt ( ) by Candice Millard

Travel Anthologies


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