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==Fiction==
===American===
[[File:American_lit_003b.jpg|thumb|Selected Fiction Works.]]
====Great Short Story Authors and Collections====
*Hawthorne - ''Twice Told Tales''
*Edgar Allan Poe - ''Collected Works''
*Mark Twain - ''Collected Short Stories''
*Herman Melville - ''Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales''
*Stephen Crane - ''Maggie and other Stories''
*F. Scott Fitzgerald - ''Flappers and Philosophers''
*Ernest Hemingway - ''Collected Short Works''
*Sherwood Anderson - ''Death in the Woods and other Stories''
*Raymond Carver - ''Where I'm Calling From''
*John Cheever - ''The Stories of John Cheever''
*H. P. Lovecraft - ''Necronomicon''


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====Poets and Poetry Collections====


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*Walt Whitman - ''Leaves of Grass''
*Emily Dickinson - ''The Poetry of Emily Dickinson''
*T.S. Eliot - ''The Waste Land and other Poems''
*Wallace Stevens - ''Harmonium''
*Robinson Jeffers - ''Selected Poems''
*Robert Frost - ''Collected Poems''
*Hart Crane - ''The Bridge''
*Williams Carlos Williams - ''Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2''
*John Ashbery - ''Collected Poems''
*Allen Ginsberg - ''Howl and Other Poems''
*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire] '''- Les Fleurs du mal'''''<span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; "> (English: </span>'''''The Flowers of Evil'''''<span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">)</span>


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====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''


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====Others====


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*Feminore 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''
*Thoams Pynchon - ''Gravity's Rainbow''
*William Gibson'' - Pattern Recognition''
*Hunter S. Thompson - ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas''
*Toni Morrison - ''Song of Solomon''
*Philip Roth - ''Portnoy's Complaint''
*Philip Roth - ''American Pastoral''
*Cormac McCarthy - ''The Road''
*John Kennedy Toole - ''A Confederacy of Dunces''
*Don Delillo - ''Libra''
*Don Delillo - ''Underworld''
*David Foster Wallace - ''Infinite Jest''


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[[File:Nigralit.jpg|thumb|African American Literature.]]


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====Slave Narratives====
*Olaudah Equiano - ''The Interesting Narrative''
*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 Pawl 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''
*Mella 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''


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====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''


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===Australian===
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(includes some non-fiction as well)
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===British & Irish===
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===Chinese===
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===French===
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===Italian===
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===[[Japanese]]===
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===Norse===
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===German===
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===[[Russian]]===
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===Spanish===
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===Mexican===
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===General===
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==Genre-Oriented Fiction==
===[[Science Fiction]]===
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===Horror===
[[File:Horror.jpg|thumb|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''
*Peter Straub - ''Shadowland''
 
====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''
*Mark Z. Danielewski - ''House of Leaves''
 
===Fantasy===
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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, American Gods, The Anansi Boys''
*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 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''
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 Herbert and Brian Herbert: the Dune series
*Dave Duncan: King's Blades series
*David Eddings: Belgariad trilogy
*Piers Anthony: Incarnations of Immortality
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==Non-Fiction==
===[[Philosophy]]===
 
===[[File:1275260005616.jpg|thumb|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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Revision as of 05:39, 24 March 2012

Fiction

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 - Necronomicon

Poets and Poetry Collections

  • Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
  • Emily Dickinson - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
  • T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land and other Poems
  • Wallace Stevens - Harmonium
  • Robinson Jeffers - Selected Poems
  • Robert Frost - Collected Poems
  • Hart Crane - The Bridge
  • Williams Carlos Williams - Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2
  • John Ashbery - Collected Poems
  • Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems
  • Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil)

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

  • Feminore 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
  • Thoams Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
  • 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
  • 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 Pawl 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
  • Mella 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

French

Italian

Japanese

  • 100 Works of Japanese Literature
    100 Works of Japanese Literature

Norse

German

Russian

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

Spanish

Mexican

General

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

Genre-Oriented Fiction

Science Fiction

  • Sci Fi 1
    Sci Fi 1
  • Sci Fi 3
    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
  • Peter Straub - Shadowland

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
  • Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

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, American Gods, The Anansi Boys
  • 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 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

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

Non-Fiction

Philosophy

Classical Philosophy.
Classical

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
  • 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
    Analytic
  • Analytic Part 2
    Analytic Part 2
  • Postmodernism
    Postmodernism
  • Feminism/Queer Theory
    Feminism/Queer Theory
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