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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 - H.P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)

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

French

Italian

Japanese

Norse

German

Russian

Spanish

Mexican

Persian



General

Genre-Oriented Fiction

Science Fiction

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