There are dramas, poems, short stories, speeches, biographies, and novels of all kinds on this list. Some of the poets only have individual works listed, but you really should read everything available.
Because of its sheer size and the fact that I did this in a spreadsheet, I'm going to commit a formatting sin and leave everything plain. You'll have to forgive me. Or you can format it for me ;)
My degree is in English literature, and my favorite works are almost all Early Modern, so a good chunk of these are dead white guys. I'm interested in reading more works written by women. There is always room for more books on this list!
Post your suggestions in the comments and I'll add them.
The Ultimate Reading List
A Work in Progress
Author, Title
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Adams, Douglass | The Hitch Hicker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Albaret, Celeste | Monsieur Proust |
| Albee, Edward | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
| Albom, Mitch | The Five People You Meet In Heaven |
| Albom, Mitch | Tuesdays with Morrie |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Alexander, Robert | The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar |
| Ali, Monica | Brick Lane |
| Allende, Isabel | Daughter of Fortune |
| Allende, Isabel | Eva Luna |
| Allende, Isabel | The House of the Spirits |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Ultima |
| Anderson, Hans Christian | The Little Match Girl |
| Anderson, Sherwood | Winesburg, Ohio |
| Anonymous | The Arabian Nights |
| Anonymous | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| Aristophanes | The Clouds |
| Arnold, Matthew | Dover Beach |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid's Tale |
| Atwood, Margaret | Oryx and Crake |
| Auden, W.H. | Epitaph of a Tyrant |
| Auden, W.H. | Musee des Beaux Arts |
| Auden, W.H. | In Memory of W.B. Yeats |
| Auden, W.H. | The Shield of Achilles |
| Auden, W.H. | The Unknown Citizen |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Austen, Jane | Emma |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion |
| Austen, Jane | Sense and Sensibility |
| Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey |
| Auster, Paul | Oracle Night |
| Baldwin, James | Nobody Knows My Name |
| Baldwin, James | Sonny's Blues |
| Banks, Iain | The Wasp Factory |
| Baudelaire, Charles | Correspondences |
| Baudelaire, Charles | Spleen |
| Baudelaire, Charles | The Jewels |
| Baum, Frank L. | The Scarecrow |
| Baum, Frank L. | The Wizard of Oz |
| Becket, Samuel | Waiting for Godot |
| Berger, Thomas | Little Big Man |
| Binyon, T.J. | Pushkin: A Biography |
| Bishop, Elizabeth | The Armadillo |
| Bishop, Elizabeth | The Fish |
| Blair, John | The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction |
| Blake, William | Songs of Innocence |
| Blake, William | Songs of Experience |
| Blume, Judy | Deenie |
| Blyton, Enid | The Faraway Tree Collection |
| Bolles, Richard Nelson | What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The Circular Ruins |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | The LIbrary of Babel |
| Bourdain, ANthony | Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Bradbury, Ray | The Illustrated Man |
| Brayson, Bill | Notes From A Small Island |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn | We Real Cool |
| Brothers Grimm | Rapunzel |
| Brothers Grimm | Snow White and Rose Red |
| Brown, Dan | The Da Vinci Code |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barret | Sonnets from the Portuegese |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barret | How do I love thee? |
| Browning, Robert | My Last Duchess |
| Browning, Robert | Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister |
| Browning, Robert | Porphyria's Lover |
| Browning, Robert | The Bishop Orders his Tomb |
| Browning, Robert | Pied Piper of Hamlin |
| Browning, Robert | Fra Lippo Lippi |
| Bryant, William Cullen | Thanatopsis |
| Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth |
| Bugliosi, Vincent and Gentry, Curt | Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders |
| Bukowski, Charles | Notes of a Dirty Old Man |
| Bulfinch | Bulfinch's Mythology |
| Bulgakov, Mikhail | The Master and Margarita |
| Bunyan, John | Theh Pilgrim's Progress |
| Burgess, Anthony | A Clockwork Orange |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | The Secret Garden |
| Butler, Judith | Gender Trouble |
| Byatt, A.S. | Possession |
| Byron, Lord George Gordon | Don Juan |
| Byron, Lord George Gordon | She Walks in Beauty |
| Byron, Lord George Gordon | So we'll go no more a-roving |
| Cain, William E. etc | The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger |
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland |
| Cather, Will | My Antonia |
| Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Chabdon, Michael | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales |
| Chbosky, Stephen | The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| Chekhov, Anton | The Lady with the Little Dog |
| Chekhov, Anton | The Cherry Orchard |
| Chekhov, Anton | My Life |
| Chekhov, Anton | The House with a Mansard |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Cisneros, Sandra | The House on Mango Street |
| Cliff, Michelle | No Telephone to Heaven |
| Clinton, Hillary Rodham | It Takes a Village |
| Clinton, Hillary Rodham | Living HIstory |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Work without Hope |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Frost at Midnight |
| Collett, Anne | Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins, and Seals |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Woman in White |
| Collodi, Carlo | Pinnochio |
| Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim |
| Cook, Blanche Wiesen | Elanore Roosevelt |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Cover, Judith Ortiz | The Meaning of Consuelo |
| Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage |
| Crane, Stephen | The Open Boat |
| Critser, Greg | Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World |
| cummings, e e | Buffalo Bill's |
| cummings, e e | in Just- spring |
| cummings, e e | I sing of Olaf glad and big |
| cummings, e e | the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls |
| cummings, e e | next to of course god america i |
| Dahl, Roald | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Dante | The Divine Comedy |
| Danticat, Edwidge | Krik? Krak! |
| Danticat, Edwidge | The Farming of Bones |
| Davies, Robertson | The Manticore |
| de Balzac, Honore | Cousin Bette |
| de Beauvoir, Simone | Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter |
| de Beauvoir, Simone | The Second Sex |
| De Bernieres, Louis | Captain Corelli's Mandolin |
| de Burgos, Julia | Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos |
| de la Barca, Pedro Calderon | Life Is a Dream |
| de Maupassant, Guy | The Necklace |
| de Maupassant, Guy | Bel-Ami |
| de Montaigne, Michel | Of Cannibals |
| de Montaigne, Michel | Of the Education of Children |
| de Montaigne, Michel | Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes |
| de Montaigne, Michel | That the Relish of Good and Evil Depends in a Great Measure upon Opinion |
| De Saint-Exupery, Antoine | The Little Prince |
| De Tocqueville, Alexis | Democracy in America |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| des Barres, Pamela | I'm With the Band |
| Diamant, Anita | The Red Tent |
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist |
| Dickens, Charles | Little Dorrit |
| Dickens, Charles | Our Mutual Friend |
| Dickins, Charles | Great Expectations |
| Dickins, Charles | David Copperfiefld |
| Dickinson, Emily | New Poems of Emily Dickinson |
| Didion, Joan | The Year of Magical Thinking |
| Didion, Joan | The White Album |
| Dineson, Isac | Out of Africa |
| Donne, John | The Good-Morrow |
| Donne, John | A Velediction Forbidding Mourning |
| Donne, John | The Flea |
| Donne, John | The Sun Rising |
| Donne, John | The Canonization |
| Donne, John | Go and Catch a Falling Star |
| Donne, John | Death, Be Not Proud |
| Donne, John | Batter My Heart |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Demons |
| Douglass, Frederick | Speech at Rochester (1852) |
| Douglass, Frederick | Speech at Canandaigua (1857) |
| Douglass, Sara | The Wayfarer Redemption Series |
| Douglass, Sara | Threshold |
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | The Return of Sherlock Holmes |
| Dr. Seuss | How the Grince Stole Christmas |
| Dreiser, Theodore | An American Tradgedy |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie |
| Dryden, John | Mac Flecknoe |
| Dryden, John | Absalom and Achitophel |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca |
| Dubus III, Andre | House of Sand and Fog |
| Duffy, Peter | The Bielski Brothers |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers |
| Dunbar, Paul Lawrence | Emancipation |
| Dunbar, Paul Lawrence | Encouragement |
| Dunbar, Paul Lawrence | Life's Tradgedy |
| Dunbar, Paul Lawrence | Ships that Pass in the Night |
| Dunbar, Paul Lawrence | Sympathy |
| Dunbar, Paul Lawrence | We Wear the Mask |
| Dunbar, Paul Lawrence | When Malindy Sings |
| Dunn, Mark | Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters |
| Easwaran, Eknath | The Bhagavad Gita |
| Eco, Umberto | The Name of the Rose |
| Eggers, Dave | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and Dimed |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch |
| Eliot, George | The Mill on the Floss |
| Eliot, T.S. | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| Eliot, T.S. | The Hollow Men |
| Eliot, T.S. | Choruses from the Rock |
| Ellis, Bret Easton | Less Than Zero |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Nature |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Self-Reliance |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | The American Scholar |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Divinity School Address |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Concord Hymn |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Good-bye, proud world |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | The Snow-Storm |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey | Middlesex |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey | The Virgin Suicides |
| Euripides | Heracles |
| Euripides | The Trojan Woman |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tender Is The Night |
| Faludi, Susan | Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women |
| Farrell, Henry | What Happened to Baby Jane |
| Faulk, Sebastian | Birdsong |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying |
| Faulkner, William | Sanctuary |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August |
| Faulkner, William | Barn Burning |
| Faulkner, William | The Bear |
| Fielding, Helen | Bridget Jones's Diary |
| Fielding, Henry | Tom Jones |
| Fielding, Henry | Joseph Andrews |
| Finney, Jack | Time and Again |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran | Everything is Illuminated |
| Ford, Maddox Ford | The Good Soldier |
| Forster, E.M. | A Passage to India |
| Forster, E.M. | A Room with a View |
| Frank, Anne | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| Franken, Al | Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them |
| Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard's Almanac |
| Franklin, Benjamin | Autobiography |
| Freud, Sigmund | Civilization and Its Discontents |
| Freud, Sigmund | A Philosophy of Life |
| Freud, Sigmund | Analysis Terminable and Interminable |
| Freud, Sigmund | On Creativity and the Unconscious |
| Freud, Sigmund | The relation of the Poet to Daydreaming |
| Friedman, Milton | A Monetary History of the United States |
| Frost, Robert | The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged |
| Gibbon, Edward | The HIstory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Gibbons, Stella | Cold Comfort Farm |
| Gibson, William | The Miracle Worker |
| Gillingham, John & Ralph A. Griffiths | Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction |
| Ginsberg, Allen | Howl |
| Gogol, Nikolai | Dead Souls |
| Golden, Arthur | Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Goldman, William | Marathon Man |
| Goldsmith, Oliver | The Vicar of Wakefield |
| Gordimer, Nadine | Jump and Other Stories |
| Grafton, Sue | R Is for Ricochet |
| Grafton, Sue | S Is for Silence |
| Grahame, Kenneth | The Wind in the Willows |
| Granowsky, Alvin | Goldilocks and the Three BEars |
| Gray, Thomas | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| Gray, Thomas | Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College |
| Grealy, Lucy | Autobiography of a Face |
| Guest, Tim | My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru |
| Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
| Hall, Rachel Howzell | A Quiet Storm |
| Hanley, Victoria | The Seer and the Sword |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
| Hardy, Thomas | Far From The Madding Crowd |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Darkling Thrush |
| Hardy, Thomas | Channel Firing |
| Hardy, Thomas | Convergence of the Twain |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Man He Killed |
| Hardy, Thomas | Hap |
| Harvard, Joe | Velvet Ungerground's The Velvet Underground and Nico |
| Hathaway, Katharine Butler | The Little Locksmith |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | My Kinsman, Major Molineaux |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Young Goodman Brown |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Minister's Black Veil |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Birthmark |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Artist of the Beautiful |
| Hayden, Robert | Middle Passage |
| Hayden, Robert | Those Winter Sundays |
| Heaney, Seamus | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation |
| Hegi, Ursula | Sacred Time |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch 22 |
| Hellman, Lillian | The Children's Hour |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Moveable Feast |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises |
| Hemingway, Ernest | To Have and Have Not |
| Hemingway, Ernest | In Our Time |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Clean, Well-Lighted Place |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Hills Like White Elephants |
| Henry, O. | Gift of the Magi |
| Henry, O. | The Last Leaf |
| Henry, O. | Man About Town |
| Henry, O. | The Ransom of Red Chief |
| Henry, Patrick | Speech at Virginia Convention (1775) |
| Henry, Patrick | Give me Liberty or Give me Death |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune |
| Herbert, George | The Collar |
| Herbert, George | Redemption |
| Herbert, George | Virtue |
| Herbert, George | Love [III] |
| Herbert, George | Easter Wings |
| Herbert, George | The Flower |
| Herodotus | The Histories |
| Herrick, Robert | Delight in Disorder |
| Herrick, Robert | Upon Julia's CLothes |
| Herrick, Robert | To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
| Herrick, Robert | His Prayer to Ben Jonson |
| Hersh, Seymour M. | My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath |
| Hesse, Herman | Siddhartha |
| Hillenbrand, Laura | Seabiscuit: An American Legend |
| Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders |
| Holman, Virginia | Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad |
| Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell | Old Ironsides |
| Homer | The Iliad |
| Homer | The Odyssey |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | God's Grandeur |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Pied Beauty |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | The Windhover |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Spring and Fall |
| Horace | The Art of Poetry |
| Hornby, Nick | High Fidelity |
| Hornby, Nick | The Polysyllabic Spree |
| Hornby, Nick | Songbook |
| Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner |
| Housman, A.E. | To an Athlete Dying Young |
| Housman, A.E. | Terrence, This is Stupid Stuff |
| Howard, Henry (Earl of Surrey) | Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought |
| Howard, Henry (Earl of Surrey) | Epitaph on Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| Huffington, Arianna | Pigs at teh Trough |
| Hughes, Langston | Theme for English B |
| Hughes, Langston | Harlem |
| Hughes, Langston | Life is Fine |
| Hughes, Langston | Mother to Son |
| Hughes, Langston | The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
| Hughes, Langston | A Dream Deferred |
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables |
| Hugo, Victor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Hume, David | On Miracles |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| Hyland, M.J. | How the Light Gets In |
| Ibsen, Henrik | An Enemy of the People |
| Ibsen, Henrik | A Doll's House |
| Irvin, Jim | The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meaney |
| Irving, Washington | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Irving, Washington | Rip Van Winkle |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The Remains of the Day |
| Jackson, Shirley | The Lottery And Other Stories |
| James, Henry | The Art of Fiction |
| James, Henry | Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller |
| James, Henry | Washington Square |
| Jefferson, Thomas | The Declaration of Independence |
| Jefferson, Thomas | Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom |
| Jefferson, Thomas | First Inagural Address |
| Jefferson, Thomas | Second Inaugural Address |
| Jefferson, Thomas | Letter to Peter Carr |
| Jensen, Jan Lars | Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature |
| Johnson, Samuel | The Rambler No. 4 |
| Johnson, Samuel | Preface to the Dictionary |
| Johnson, Samuel | Letter to Lord Chesterfield |
| Johnson, Samuel | Preface to Shakespeare |
| Johnson, Samuel | Note on King LEar |
| Johnson, Samuel | Metaphysical Wit |
| Johnson, Samuel | Criticisms of Paradise Lost from the Life of Milton |
| Johnson, Samuel | A Letter to a Noble Lord |
| Johnson, Spencer | Who Moved my Cheese? |
| Jonson, Ben | On My First Daughter |
| Jonson, Ben | To John Donne |
| Jonson, Ben | On Giles and Joan |
| Jonson, Ben | On My First Son |
| Jonson, Ben | To the Memory of...William Shakespeare... |
| Jonson, Ben | Volpone |
| Jordan, Robert | The Wheel of Time Series |
| Joyce, James | Ulysses |
| Joyce, James | Finnegan's Wake |
| Joyce, James | Dubliners |
| Joyce, James | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis |
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial |
| Kafka, Franz | The Hunger Artist |
| Kagan, Donald | The Archidamian War |
| Kagan, Donald | The Fall of the Athenian Empire |
| Kagan, Donald | The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War |
| Kagan, Donald | The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition |
| Kaysen, Susanna | Girl, Interrupted |
| Keats, John | Ode to a Nightingale |
| Keats, John | Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Keats, John | Ode on Melancholy |
| Keats, John | To Autumn |
| Keats, John | On first Looking into Chapman's Homer |
| Keats, John | La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Balald |
| Keats, John | Letters: To George and Thomas Keats on Negative Capability |
| Keller, Helen | The Story of My LIfe |
| Kennedy, William J. | Iron Weed |
| Kerouac, Jack | On the Road |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon |
| Keynes, Simon and Michael Lapidge, trans. | Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Secret Life of Bees |
| King-Smith, Dick | Babe |
| King, Jr., Martin Luther | Letter from Birmingham Jail |
| King, Jr., Martin Luther | I Have a Dream |
| King, Jr., Martin Luther | Address to Memphis Sanitation Workers (I've Been to the Mountaintop) |
| King, Stephen | Carrie |
| King, Stephen | Christine |
| King, Stephen | Cujo |
| King, Stephen | Rita Hayworth |
| King, Stephen | The Shining |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Man Who Would Be King |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Just So Stories |
| Kipling, Rudyard | If |
| Kipling, Rudyard | On the Road to Mandalay |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Recessional |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Kohner, Fredrick | Gidget |
| Krist, Gary | Extravagance |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | The Namesake |
| Lamott, Anne | Bird by Bird |
| Larkin, Philip | Church Going |
| Larkin, Philip | Dockery and Son |
| Larkin, Philip | Posterity |
| Larsen, Nella | Passing |
| Larson, Erik | The Devil in the White City |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Sons and Lovers |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Rocking Horse Winner |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| Lawrence, Jerome and Lee, Robert E. | Inherit the Wind |
| Lebrecht, Norman | The Song of Names |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lee, Tommy etc | The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band |
| Lerner, Alan Jay | Brigadoon |
| Lethem, Jonathan | The Fortress of Solitude |
| Levin, Ira | Rosemary's Baby |
| Levy, Andrea | Small Island |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Main Street |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Babbitt |
| Lincoln, Abraham | First Inagural Address |
| Lincoln, Abraham | Second Inaugural Address |
| Lincoln, Abraham | The Emancipation Proclamation |
| Lincoln, Abraham | The Gettysburg Address |
| Lincoln, Abraham | Letter to Mrs. Bixby |
| Lipton, Lawrence | The Holy Barbarians |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild |
| London, Jack | White Fang |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | The Children's Hour |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Paul Revere's Ride |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | A Psalm of Life |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Evangeline: A Tale of acadie |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | My Lost Youth |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | The Children's Hour |
| Lorca, Federico Garcia | Blood Wedding |
| Lovelace, Richard | To Lucasta, Going to the Wars |
| Macaulay, David | The New Way Things Work |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | The Prince |
| Maguire, Gregory | Wicked: The Life and Times of teh Wicked Witch of the West |
| Mailer, Norman | The Naked and the Dead |
| Malory, Sir Thomas ed. Eugene Vinaver | King Arthur and His Knights |
| Marillier, Juliet | The Sevenwaters Series |
| Marlowe, Christopher | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus |
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | Love in teh Time of Cholera |
| Mars, Julie | A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister |
| Martel, Yann | Life of Pi |
| Martin, Valerie | Property |
| Marvell, Andrew | To His Coy Mistress |
| Marx, Karl | The Communist Manifest |
| Marx, Karl | On The Jewish Question |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | The Razor's Edge |
| McCaffrey, Anne | The Dragonriders of Pern Series |
| McCarthy, Mary | A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays |
| McCarthy, Mary | The Group |
| McDonald, Gregory | Fletch |
| McEwan, Ian | Atonement |
| Mckean, James | Quattrocento |
| McLaughlin, Emma | The Nanny Diaries |
| McMurtry, Larry | Term of Endearment |
| McNeil, Legs & McCain, Gillian | Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral HIstory of Punk |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick |
| Melville, Herman | Billy Budd |
| Melville, Herman | Bartleby the Scrivener |
| Mencken, H.R. | Mencken's Chrestomathy |
| Mencken, H.R. | My Life as Author and Editor |
| Metalious, Grace | Peyton Place |
| Meyers, Philip | The Vanishing Newspaper |
| Milford, Nancy | Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Mill, John Stuart | On Liberty |
| Miller, Arthur | The Crucible |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman |
| Miller, Henry | Sexus |
| Milne, A.A. | Winnie the Pooh |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost |
| Mistry, Rohinton | A Fine Balance |
| Mitchell, David | Cloud Atlas |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With The Wind |
| Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin | The Misanthrope |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Green Gables |
| Moore, Barrington | Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy |
| Moore, Michael | Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| More, Thomas | Utopia |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Speak, Memory |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Signs and Symbols |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | A Bad Day |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | The Duel |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
| Nietzche, Fredrich | The Portable Nietzche |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | On Truth and Falsity in their Ultramoral Sense |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Beyond Good and Evil |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | On the Geneology of Morals |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Ecce Homo |
| Niffenegger, Audrey | The Time Traveler's Wife |
| Nix, Garth | The Abhorsen Series |
| Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, James Norman | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| O'Conner, Flannery | A Good Man is Hard to Find |
| O'Conner, Flannery | Everything that Rises Must Converge |
| O'Conner, Flannery | Good Country People |
| O'Conner, Flannery | Parker's Back |
| O'Neill, Eugene | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| O'Neill, Eugene | Ah, Wilderness! |
| Orringer, Julie | How to Breathe Underwater |
| Orwell, George | 1984 |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| Orwell, George | Politics and the English Language |
| Otsuka, Julie | When the Emperor Was Divine |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses |
| Owen, Wilfred | Dulce et Decorum Est |
| Owen, Wilfred | The Parable of the Old Man and the Young |
| Pagels, Elaine | The Gnostic Gospels |
| Paine, Thomas | Common Sense |
| Parker, Dorothy | Complete Stories |
| Parker, Dorothy | The Portable Dorothy Parker |
| Patchett, Ann | Bel Canto |
| Patchett, Ann | Truth & Beauty: A Friendship |
| Picoult, Jodi | My Sister's Keeper |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath |
| Plath, Sylvia | Lady Lazarus |
| Plath, Sylvia | Mirror |
| Plath, Sylvia | Ariel |
| Plato | Apology |
| Plato | The Symposium |
| Plato | The Republic |
| Platt, Colin | King Death: The Black Death and its aftermath in late-medieval England |
| Plutarch | Lives of the Ancient Greeks and Romans |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Complete Tales & Poems |
| Pope, Alexander | An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot |
| Pope, Alexander | Essay on Man |
| Pope, Alexander | The Rape of the Lock |
| Pound, Ezra | The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
| Pound, Ezra | In a Station of the Metro |
| Pound, Ezra | A Virginal |
| Pound, Ezra | The Return |
| Pound, Ezra | Ballad of the Goodly Fere |
| Powell, Dawn | Complete Novels |
| Pressfield, Steven | The Legend of Bagger Vance |
| Proust, Marcel | Swann's Way |
| Pullman, Philip | His Dark Materials |
| Puzo, Mario | The Godfather: Book 1 |
| Rand, Ayn | The Fountainhead |
| Ransome, Arthur | Swallows and Amazons |
| Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan | The Yearling |
| Reger, Roger | Emily the Strange |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria | Letters to a Young Poet |
| Rimbaud, Arthur | The Drunken Boat |
| Rimbaud, Arthur | Dawn |
| Rimbaud, Arthur | Ophelia |
| Roach, Mary | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
| Robert, Henry | Robert's Rules of Order |
| Robinson, Elisabeth | The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters |
| Rodgers, Mary | Freaky Friday |
| Roethke, Theodore | My Papa's Waltze |
| Roethke, Theodore | Root Cellar |
| Roethke, Theodore | Child on top of a Greenhouse |
| Rostand, Edmond | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Rousseau, Jean Jacques | A Dissertation on the Origan and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind |
| Rowling, J.K. | The Harry Potter Series |
| Roy, Arundhati | The God of Small Things |
| Rubin, Theodore Isaac | David and Lisa |
| Rushdie, Salman | Midnight's Children |
| Russo, Richard | Empire Falls |
| Salinger, J.D. | Catcher in the Rye |
| Salinger, J.D. | Franny and Zooey |
| Salten, Felix | Walt Disney's Bambi |
| Sandburg, Carl | Chicago |
| Sandburg, Carl | Fog |
| Sanderson, Brandon | The Mistborn Trilogy |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | No Exit |
| Schreiber, Flora Rheta | Sybil |
| Schreiner, Olive | The Story of An African Farm |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Ivanhoe |
| Sebold, Alice | The Lovely Bones |
| Sedaris, David | Holidays on Ice |
| Sedaris, David | Me Talk Pretty One Day |
| Segal, Erich | The Love Story |
| Service, Robert W. | The Cremation of Sam McGee |
| Seth, Vikram | A Suitable Boy |
| Sexton, Anne | The Complete Poems |
| Shaefer, Jack | Shane |
| Shakespeare, William | Complete Works |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Man and Superman |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | A Defence of Poetry |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | Ozymandias |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | England in 1819 |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | Ode to the West Wind |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | Hymn to Intellectual Beauty |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | Song to the Men of England |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | Adonais |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | Mutability |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | Mont Blanc |
| Sherman, William Tecumseh | Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman |
| Shields, Carol | Unless |
| Shute, Nevil | A Town Like Alice |
| Sidney, Sir Philip | Astrophil and Stella |
| Sijie, Dai | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis | Gimpel the Fool |
| Sinker, Daniel | We Owe You Nothing - Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Enyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | The Gulag Archipelago |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexander | The Fingers of Aurora |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Sophocles | Oedipus at Colonus |
| Sophocles | Antigone |
| Sophocles | Philoctetes |
| Spenser, Edmund | The Faerie Queene |
| Spinoza | Ethics |
| Stein, Joseph | Fiddler on the Roof |
| Steinbeck, John | Grapes of Wrath |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Stevens, Wallace | Sunday Morning |
| Stevens, Wallace | The Emperor of Ice-Cream |
| Stevens, Wallace | The Snow Man |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Kidnapped |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Stone, Robert | Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Strindberg, August | Miss Julie |
| Styron, William | Sophie's Choice |
| Sun Tzu | The Art of War |
| Susann, Jacqueline | Valley of the Dolls |
| Suskind, Ron | The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels |
| Swift, Jonathan | A Modest Proposal |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Tan, Amy | The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing LIfe |
| Tarkington, Booth | Penrod |
| Tartt, Donna | The Secret History |
| Taylor, Hobart Chatfield | Moliere: A Biography |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred | The Eagle |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred | The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred | Ulysses |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred | The Lotos-Eaters |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred | Crossing the Bar |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred | The Passing of Arthur |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace | Vanity Fair |
| Thayer, Ernest | Casey at the Bat |
| Thomas, Dylan | Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night |
| Thompson, Hunter S. | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| Thompson, Kay | Eloise |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Civil Disobedience |
| Thoreau, Henry David | A Plea for Captain John Brown |
| Thucydides | The History of the Peloponnesian War |
| Thurber, James | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| Thurman, Judith | Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette |
| Tolkein, J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings |
| Tolkein, J.R.R. | The Hobbit |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace |
| Tolstoy, Leo | The Death of Ivan Ilych |
| Toole, John Kennedy | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Tucker, Lisa | The Song Reader |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Twain, Mark | The Jumping Frog |
| Twain, Mark | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Twain, Mark | Fenimore Cooper's LIterary Offenses |
| Twain, Mark | The War Prayer |
| Twain, Mark | The Prince and the Pauper |
| Uhrv, Alfred | Driving Miss Daisy |
| Various | The Bible |
| Verne, Jules | Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Vidal, Gore | The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 |
| Vigorito, Tony | Just a Couple of Days |
| Virgil | Aeneid |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang | Faust |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Galapagos |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughter-house Five |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Walker, Alice | Meridian |
| Washington, Booker T. | Up From Slavery |
| Washington, George | Farewell Address |
| Webb, Charles | The Graduate |
| Weisberg, Jacob | George W. Bushism |
| Weisel, Elie | Night |
| Wells, H.G. | The Time Machine |
| Wells, H.G. | The War of the Worlds |
| Wells, Rebecca | The Divine Secrets of teh Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
| Welty, Eudora | The Collected Stories |
| West, Rebecca | The Return of the Soldier |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| Wharton, Edith | Roman Holiday |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence |
| White, E.B. | Stuart Little |
| White, E.B. | Charlotte's Web |
| Whitman, Walt | Leaves of Grass |
| Whitman, Walt | Song of Myself |
| Whitman, Walt | There Was a Child Went Forth |
| Whitman, Walt | When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
| Whitman, Walt | When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd |
| Whitman, Walt | A Noiseless Patient Spider |
| Whitman, Walt | O Captain! My Captain! |
| Whitman, Walt | Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf | The Barefoot Boy |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf | Barbara Frietchie |
| Wicomb, Zoe | Playing in the Light |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Wiggin, Kate Douglas | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Little House on the Prairie |
| Wilder, Thornton | Our Town |
| Williams, Tennessee | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie |
| Williams, WIlliam Carlos | The Red Wheelbarrow |
| Williams, William Carlos | This is Just to Say |
| Williams, William Carlos | Danse Russe |
| Williams, William Carlos | Spring and All |
| Wodehouse, P.G. | The Code of the Woosters |
| Wolfe, Tom | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test |
| Wolff, Tobias | Old School |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Room of One's Own |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse |
| Wordsworth, William | Preface to Lyrical Ballads |
| Wordsworth, William | We Are Seven |
| Wordsworth, William | Expostulation and Reply |
| Wordsworth, William | Resolution and Independence |
| Wordsworth, William | London, 1802 |
| Wordsworth, William | Surprised by Joy |
| Wordsworth, William | Intimations of Immortality |
| Wordsworth, William | Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey |
| Wordsworth, William | My Heart Leaps Up |
| Wordsworth, William | Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 |
| Wordsworth, William | The World is Too Much with Us |
| Wordsworth, William | I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy |
| Wurtzel, Elizabeth | Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women |
| Wyatt, Sir Thomas the Elder | The Long Love that in My Thought Doth Harbor |
| Wyatt, Sir Thomas the Elder | Whoso List to Hunt |
| Wyatt, Sir Thomas the Elder | They Flee from Me |
| Wyss, Johann David | The Swiss Family Robinson |
| Yeats, William Butler | When You Are Old |
| Yeats, William Butler | The WIld Swans at Coole |
| Yeats, William Butler | Easter, 1916 |
| Yeats, William Butler | Lake Isle of Innisfree |
| Yeats, William Butler | The Second Coming |
| Yeats, William Butler | Sailing to Byzantium |
| Yeats, William Butler | Leda and the Swan |
| Yeats, William Butler | Among School Children |
| Yeats, William Butler | Lapis Lazuli |
| Yeats, William Butler | Byzantium |
| Yeats, William Butler | The Circus Animals' Desertion |
| Zafon, Carlos Ruiz | The Shadow of the Wind |
| Zola, Emile | Germinal |
That list is awe inspiring
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ReplyDeleteThat's really very inspiring! Good list!
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