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Drug Books
Classics
- Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
- Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice
- Emily Bronde - Wuthering Heights
- Lewis Carroll - Alice's adventures in wonderland
- Joseph Conrad - The heart of darkness
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
- Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The brothers Karamazov
- George Eliot - Middlemarch
- Gustave Falubert - Madame Bovary
- Nikolay Gogol - Dead Souls
- Thomas Hardy - Tess of D'Urbervilles
- Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
- Mikhail Lermontov - A hero of our time
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick
- Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
- Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
- J.R.R Tolkien - The Lord of The Rings
- Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
- Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and sons
- Mark Twain - The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Gray
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The complete Sherlock Holmes
- Voltaire - Candide
- Emile Zola - L'assommoir (the dram shop)
- Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
- John Milton - Paradise Lost
Modern Classics
- Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
- Joseph Heller - Catch 22
- William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
- Albert Camus - The stranger
- John Fowles - The magus
- Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
- John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
- George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-four (1984)
- Virginia Woolf - To the lighthouse
- Yukio Mishima - The temple of the golden pavillion
- Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One hundred years of solitude
- Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
- Jack Kerouac - On the road
- Jean Paul Sartre - Nausea
- Jose Saramago - Blindness
- Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
- Alan Moor - Watchmen
- Toni Morrison - Beloved
- John Updike - Brazil
- Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being
- Aldous Huxley - Brave new world
- James Joyce - Ulysses
- David Herbert Richards Lawrence - Sons and lovers
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- André Gide - The Immoralist
- P.G. Wodehouse - Life with Jeeves
- Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse five
- =====Keri Hulme - The Bone People=====
- William Gibson - Neuromancer
Theater/drama
Classical through medieval:
- Sophocles - The three Theban plays
- Aeschylus - The Oresteia
- Euripides - Electra and other plays
- Menander - Plays and fragments
- Plautus - The pot of gold and other plays
- Seneca - Four tragedies and Octavia
- Terence - The comedies
- Kalidasa - The loom of time
- Hrotsvitha - The plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim
- Various - Japanese nô dramas (translated by Royall Tyler)
- Various - Chûshingura (translated by Donald Keene)
- Anonymous - Everyman and other miracle and morality plays
- Various - York mystery plays
Renaissance
- William Shakespeare - Complete works
- Thomas Kyd - The Spanish tragedy
- Christopher Marlowe - The complete plays
- Ben Jonson - Volpone and other plays
- John Webster - The duchess of Malfi and other plays
- Lope de Vega - Three major plays
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Life is a dream
- Molière - The misanthrope, Tartuffe and other plays
- Pierre Corneille - Le Cid
- Jean Racine - Phèdre
Restoration, romanticism and realism
- John Wilmot - The farce of Sodom or The quintessence of debauchery
- William Wycherley - The country wife
- William Congreve - The way of the world and other plays
- Aphra Behn - The rover and other plays
- John Gay - The beggar's opera
- Beaumarchais - The Figaro trilogy
- Carlo Goldoni - A servant to two masters
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan The school for scandal
- Friedrich Schiller - The robbers and Wallenstein
- Büchner - The complete plays
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
- Shelley - The Cenci
- Lord Byron - Six plays
- Feydeau - Plays: one and Plays: two
- Sir W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan - The complete annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
- Oscar Wilde - The importance of being earnest and other plays
- George Bernard Shaw - Plays by George Bernard Shaw
- G.B. Shaw - Pygmalion
- J.M.Synge - The playboy of the western world
- Henrik Ibsen - Four major plays
- August Strindberg - Five major plays
- W.B.Yeats - The collected works of W.B. Yeats
- Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac
20th century:
- Eugene O'neill - Long day's journey into tonight
- Anton Chekhov - The plays of Anton Chekhov
- Luigi Pirandello - Six characters in search of an author and other plays
- Maurice Maeterlinck - The blue bird: a fairy play in five acts
- Arthur Schnitzler - Four major plays
- J.M. Barrie - Peter pan and other plays
- Thornton Wilder - Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth and The matchmaker.
- Bertolt Brecht - The threepenny opera, Mother courage and her children and Life of Galileo
- Federico Garcia Lorca - Blood Wedding, Yerma and The house of Bernarda Alba
- Sean O'Casey - Plays
- Nöel Coward - The vortex
- Sophie Treadwell - Machinal
- R.C. Sheriff - Journey's end
- Tennessee Williams - A streetcar named desire and The glass menagerie
- Samuel Beckett - The complete dramatic works
- Peter Weiss - The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
- Jean Anouilh - Five plays
- Jean Giraudoux - The madwoman of Chaillot
- Harold Pinter - The homecoming, The birthday party and The room
- Jean-Paul Sartre - No exit and three other plays
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The visit
- Joe Orton - The complete plays
- Arthur Miller - The portable Arthur Miller
- Edward Albee - WHo's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Edward Albee - The american dream and The zoo story
- Jean Genet - The balcony
- Wole Soyinka - Death and the king's horseman
- Lorraine Hansberry - A raisin in the sun
- Sam Shepard - Seven plays
- David Mamet - Oleanna, Speed-the-plow and Glengarry Glen Ross
- Tony Kushner - Angels in America
- August Wilson - Three plays
- Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead and Arcadia
- Caryl Churchill - Cloud nine and Top girls
- Sarah Kane - Complete plays
- Bernard-Marie Koltes - Roberto Zucco
- Edward Bond - Lear
Contemporary
- David Gieselmann - Mr Kolpert
- Yasmina Reza - Art and The god of carnage
- Vassily Sigarev - Black Milk
- Alan Bennet - The complete talking heads
- Paula Vogel - The mammary plays
- David Hare - Racing Demon and The absence of war
- David Edgar - Pentecost
- Mark Ravenhill - Plays
- Joe Penhall - Blue/Orange
- Peter Morris - The age of consent and Gaudeamus
- Sarah Ruhl - Eurydice
- Suzan-Lori Parks - Topdog/Underdog
- Adam Rapp - Stone cold dead serious
- Doug Wright - I am my own wife and Quills
Fiction
Short Fiction
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Short Story Collections -
Flash Fiction and Short Short Stories -
Short Story Collections - 19th Century and Earlier -
Short Story Collections 1900-1940
Novellas
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100 Novellas -
Novellas -
100 Contemporary Novellas
American
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 - Collected Poems
- Ezra Pound - Personae: Collected Shorter 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 1956-1987
- Frank O'Hara - Collected Poems
- Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems
- John Berryman - The Dream Songs
- Charles Olson - The Maximus Poems
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
- Fenimore 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
- Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
- Thomas Pynchon - V.
- 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
Slave Narratives
- Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative
- Solomon Northrup - Twelve Years a Slave
- 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 Paul 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
- Nella 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
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British & Irish
Chinese
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Guide to Journey to the West translations -
Guide to Romance of the Three Kingdoms translations
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
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100 Works of Japanese Literature
Mexican
Norse
Persian
Russian
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Russian lit -
Maksim Gorky - Mother
Spanish
Genre-Oriented Fiction
Science Fiction
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Sci Fi 1 -
Sci Fi 3 -
NPR's Top 100 Sci-fi and Fantasy
Horror
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 Allan Poe - The Complete Stories and Poems
- 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
Epic Fantasy:
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
- George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
- Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time
- Paul Kearney - Hawkwood's Voyage
- K.J.Parker - Devices and Desires
- Melanie Rawn - Dragon Prince
- Brian Ruckley - Winterbirth
- Tad WIlliams - The Dragonbone Chair
- David Zindell - The Lightsone
- Daniel Abraham - A Shadow in Summer
- Chris Wooding - The Braided Path
- Raymond E. Feist - The riftwar cycle
- Greg Keyes - The Briar King
- Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of The Wind
- Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
- Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Urban Fantasy
- Jim Butcher - The Dresden files
- 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
- Seanan McGuire - October Daye series
Swords and Sorcery
- Raymond E. Feist - Magician
- 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
- Ed Greenwood - Elminster: The Making of a Mage
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 Weis & 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
- Guy Gavriel Kay - The Fionavar Tapestry
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
- Garth Nix - The Old Kingdom
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 & Brian Herbert - The Dune Series
- Dave Duncan - King's Blades Series
- David Eddings - Belgariad Trilogy
- Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality
Non-Fiction
Essays
Classics
- Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenko
- Essays by Francis Bacon
- The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
- Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
- A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays by Charles Lamb
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
- The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire
- In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
- The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde
- Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson
Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)
- A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
- The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats [vols. IV and V: Early and Later Essays]
- Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf
- Selected Essays by D.H. Lawrence
- Selected Essays by T.S. Eliot
- Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn
- Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
- Essays of E.B. White
- Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
- We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
- Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry by John Simon
- Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experienceby Aldous Huxley
- Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
- Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
- In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays by Anais Nin
- Portraits and Observations: The Essays of 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
- The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
- 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 and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)
- Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
- Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille
- Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
- Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays by Raymond Queneau
- Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren
- Selected Bilingual Essays of Lin Yutang
- Illuminations: Essays by Walter Benjamin
- A Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
- Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
- The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
- Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
- 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 Admirations by E.M. Cioran
- Passing By: Selected Essays by Jerzy Kosinski
- Other People's Trades by Primo Levi
- Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic
- Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald
Philosophy
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Christian and Medieval -
Modern -
Modern Part 2 -
Scientific Revolution -
German Idealism -
Existentialism -
Analytic Part 1 -
Analytic Part 2 -
Postmodernism -
Feminism/Queer Theory
Classical Philosophy
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
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
General
- From the Meadows of Gold by Mas'udi
- The Travels of Ibn Battutah
- Voyages and Discoveries by Richard Hakluyt
- The Journals of Captain James Cook
- South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
- The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
- Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh
- Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinsk
- The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier
- Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill
- Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
Europe
- Guide to Greece by Pausanias
- Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan
- 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 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
- The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
- D. H. Lawrence and Italy by D.H. Lawrence
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
- Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- A Time of Gifts 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
- The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
- Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
Asia
- The Travels of Marco Polo
- The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi
- Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
- 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
- Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
- A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
- The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
- Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
- The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
- 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 by Paul Bowles
Africa
- Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park
- Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
- Source of the Nile by Richard Burton
- The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
- Travels in the Congo by Andre Gide
- 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
- North of South by Shiva Naipaul
- African Laughter by Doris Lessing
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
- Travels in Alaska by John Muir
- 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
- Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
- Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
- The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
- In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
- An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
- I See by My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle
- Coming into 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
Anthologies
- A Book of Traveller's Tales by Eric Newby
- Travel Writing 1700-1830
- Colonial American Travel Narratives
- Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
- Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
- Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
- Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
- Americans in Paris
