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(includes some non-fiction as well)

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Japanese

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  100 Works of Japanese Literature

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  Russian lit
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  Maksim Gorky - Mother

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General

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  Theater/Drama part 1
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  Theater/Drama part 2
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  Novellas
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  Classics
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  100 Novellas
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  Short Story Collections
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  Female writers
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  A collection of 'must read' lists.
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  Essential Doorstoppers (Unfinished)
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  Dystopia & Utopia (Unfinished)
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  Essential Poetry Guide

Genre-Oriented Fiction

Science Fiction

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  Sci Fi 1
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  Sci Fi 3

Horror

Suggested horror titles.

Classic Horror

• Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
• Bram Stoker - Dracula
• Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Edgar Allen Poe - The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
• 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 - The Dunwich Horror

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
• China Mieville - King Rat

Fantasy

Suggested fantasy titles.

Epic Fantasy:

• Joe Abercrombie - The blade itself
• R.Scott Bakker - The darkness that comes before
• Steven Erikson - Gardens of the moon
• J.V.Jones - A Cavern of black Ice
• Robert Jordan - The eye of the world
• Paul Kearney - Hawkwood's voyage
• George R.R. Martin - A game of thrones
• K.J.Parker - Devices and desires
• Melanie Rawn - Dragon Prince
• Brian Ruckley - Winterbirth
• J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
• Tad WIlliams - The Dragonbone chair
• Terry Goodkind - Wizard's first rule
• David Zindell - The lightsone
• Daniel Abraham - A shadow in summer
• Chris Wooding - The braided path
• S.L.Farrell - A magic of Twilight
• Greg Keyes - The Briar King
• Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of The Wind

Urban Fantasy

• Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
• Graham Joyce - The tooth fairy
• R.A.Macavoy - Tea with the black dragon
• Jonathan Carroll - The land of laughs

Swords and sorcery

• R.E.Howard - Conan
• 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

Entry Level

• Terry Brooks - First King of Shamhara
• 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 Weiss, 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

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 Pratchet - 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

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 Sapkowsku - 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 Herbert and Brian Herbert: the Dune series
• Dave Duncan: King's Blades series
• David Eddings: Belgariad trilogy
• Piers Anthony: Incarnations of Immortality

Non-Fiction

Classical Philosophy.

Classical

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

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  Christian and Medieval

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  Modern

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  Modern Part 2

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  Scientific Revolution

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  German Idealism

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  Existentialism

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  Analytic

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  Analytic Part 2

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  Postmodernism

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  Feminism/Queer Theory