Recommended Reading/Non-fiction

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
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

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 ( ) by Francis Bacon
The Complete Essays ( ) by Michel de Montaigne
Selected Essays ( ) by Samuel Johnson
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays ( ) by Charles Lamb
Walden ( ) by Henry David Thoreau
The Essential Writings ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose ( ) by Oscar Wilde
Essays ( ) 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
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General Non-Fiction
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More General Non-Fiction
The God Delusion ( ) by Richard Dawkins
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading ( ) by Mortimer J. Adler
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History
Histories (450-20s BCE) by Herodotus	History of the Peloponnesian War (5th century BCE) by Thucydides	File:.jpg ( )	File:.jpg ( )	File:.jpg ( )
Greece
Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History by Pomeroy, Burstein et al
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
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

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 Aristphanes
	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

Religion
Western Religion
Torah ( ) by Moshe Rabbenu (Moses Our Teacher/Rabbi)	The Bible ( ) by God	File:.jpg ( ) by	File:.jpg ( ) by	File:.jpg ( ) by
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Eastern Religion
Upanishads	Daodejing by Laozi, trans. by Edmund Ryden	Moon on a Dewdrop by Dogen	File:.jpg ( ) by	File:.jpg ( ) by
Primary Texts	Transmission of Light ( ) by Zen Master Keizan
	Lankavatara Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine
	Heart 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
	The Analects ( ) of Confucius, trans. by Raymond Dawson
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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Travel Literature
General Travels
The Travels ( ) by Ibn Battutah	The Journals ( ) of Captain James Cook	Collected Travel Writing ( ) by Evelyn Waugh	Travels With Herodotus ( ) by Ryszard Kapuscinsk	The Way of the World ( ) 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 ( ) by Ibn Fadlan	The Innocents Abroad ( ) by Mark Twain	Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ( ) by Rebecca West	A Time of Gifts ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor	The Rings of Saturn ( ) 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 ( ) by Mary Kingsley	Out of Africa ( ) by Isak Dinesen	Green Hills of Africa ( ) by Ernest Hemingway	Journey Without Maps ( ) by Graham Greene	The Voices of Marrakesh ( ) by Elias Canetti
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 ( ) by John Muir	Travels With Charley: In Search of America ( ) by John Steinbeck	Kon-Tiki ( ) by Thor Keyerdahl	In Patagonia ( ) by Bruce Chatwin	An African in Greenland ( ) 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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