Thursday, June 11, 2015

The Ultimate Reading List

I've decided to embark on a reading challenge of sorts: an utterly insane reading list. The list is a mashup of the BBC Top 100 books, the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, and a few recommended reading lists from my college days.  I even wrote in some of my old favorites for the times when none of the other options seem appetizing. I've already read many of these, but most of them deserve to be read again.

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, ChinuaThings Fall Apart
Adams, DouglassThe Hitch Hicker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, RichardWatership Down
Albaret, CelesteMonsieur Proust
Albee, EdwardWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Albom, MitchThe Five People You Meet In Heaven
Albom, MitchTuesdays with Morrie
Alcott, Louisa MayLittle Women
Alexander, RobertThe Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Ali, MonicaBrick Lane
Allende, IsabelDaughter of Fortune
Allende, IsabelEva Luna
Allende, IsabelThe House of the Spirits
Anaya, RudolfoBless Me
Anaya, RudolfoUltima
Anderson, Hans ChristianThe Little Match Girl
Anderson, SherwoodWinesburg, Ohio
AnonymousThe Arabian Nights
AnonymousSir Gawain and the Green Knight
AristophanesThe Clouds
Arnold, MatthewDover Beach
Atwood, MargaretThe Handmaid's Tale
Atwood, MargaretOryx 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, JanePride and Prejudice
Austen, JaneEmma
Austen, JanePersuasion
Austen, JaneSense and Sensibility
Austen, JaneNorthanger Abbey
Auster, PaulOracle Night
Baldwin, JamesNobody Knows My Name
Baldwin, JamesSonny's Blues
Banks, Iain The Wasp Factory
Baudelaire, CharlesCorrespondences
Baudelaire, CharlesSpleen
Baudelaire, CharlesThe Jewels
Baum, Frank L. The Scarecrow
Baum, Frank L. The Wizard of Oz
Becket, SamuelWaiting for Godot
Berger, ThomasLittle Big Man
Binyon, T.J. Pushkin: A Biography
Bishop, ElizabethThe Armadillo
Bishop, ElizabethThe Fish
Blair, JohnThe Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction
Blake, WilliamSongs of Innocence
Blake, WilliamSongs of Experience
Blume, JudyDeenie
Blyton, EnidThe Faraway Tree Collection
Bolles, Richard NelsonWhat Colour is Your Parachute? 2005
Borges, Jorge LuisThe Circular Ruins
Borges, Jorge LuisThe LIbrary of Babel
Bourdain, ANthonyKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Bradbury, RayFahrenheit 451
Bradbury, RayThe Illustrated Man
Brayson, BillNotes From A Small Island
Bronte, CharlotteJane Eyre
Bronte, EmilyWuthering Heights
Brooks, GwendolynWe Real Cool
Brothers GrimmRapunzel
Brothers GrimmSnow White and Rose Red
Brown, DanThe Da Vinci Code
Browning, Elizabeth BarretSonnets from the Portuegese
Browning, Elizabeth Barret How do I love thee?
Browning, RobertMy Last Duchess
Browning, RobertSoliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Browning, RobertPorphyria's Lover
Browning, RobertThe Bishop Orders his Tomb
Browning, RobertPied Piper of Hamlin
Browning, RobertFra Lippo Lippi
Bryant, William CullenThanatopsis
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth
Bugliosi, Vincent and Gentry, CurtHelter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Bukowski, CharlesNotes of a Dirty Old Man
BulfinchBulfinch's Mythology
Bulgakov, MikhailThe Master and Margarita
Bunyan, JohnTheh Pilgrim's Progress
Burgess, AnthonyA Clockwork Orange
Burnett, Frances Hodgson The Secret Garden
Butler, JudithGender Trouble
Byatt, A.S.Possession
Byron, Lord George GordonDon Juan
Byron, Lord George GordonShe Walks in Beauty
Byron, Lord George GordonSo we'll go no more a-roving
Cain, William E. etcThe Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Camus, AlbertThe Stranger
Capote, TrumanIn Cold Blood
Carroll, LewisAlice in Wonderland
Cather, WillMy Antonia
CervantesDon Quixote
Chabdon, MichaelThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Chaucer, GeoffreyThe Canterbury Tales
Chbosky, StephenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower
Chekhov, AntonThe Lady with the Little Dog
Chekhov, AntonThe Cherry Orchard
Chekhov, AntonMy Life
Chekhov, AntonThe House with a Mansard
Chopin, KateThe Awakening
Cisneros, SandraThe House on Mango Street
Cliff, MichelleNo Telephone to Heaven
Clinton, Hillary RodhamIt Takes a Village
Clinton, Hillary RodhamLiving HIstory
Coleridge, Samuel TaylorKubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment
Coleridge, Samuel TaylorThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Coleridge, Samuel TaylorWork without Hope
Coleridge, Samuel TaylorFrost at Midnight
Collett, AnneSwimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins, and Seals
Collins, WilkieThe Woman in White
Collodi, CarloPinnochio
Conan Doyle, Sir ArthurAdventures of Sherlock Holmes
Conrad, JosephHeart of Darkness
Conrad, JosephLord Jim
Cook, Blanche Wiesen Elanore Roosevelt
Cooper, James FenimoreThe Last of the Mohicans
Cover, Judith OrtizThe Meaning of Consuelo
Crane, StephenRed Badge of Courage
Crane, StephenThe Open Boat
Critser, GregFat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
cummings, e eBuffalo Bill's
cummings, e ein Just- spring
cummings, e eI sing of Olaf glad and big
cummings, e ethe Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
cummings, e enext to of course god america i
Dahl, RoaldCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
DanteThe Divine Comedy
Danticat, EdwidgeKrik? Krak!
Danticat, EdwidgeThe Farming of Bones
Davies, RobertsonThe Manticore
de Balzac, HonoreCousin Bette
de Beauvoir, SimoneMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
de Beauvoir, SimoneThe Second Sex
De Bernieres, LouisCaptain Corelli's Mandolin
de Burgos, JuliaSong of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos
de la Barca, Pedro CalderonLife Is a Dream
de Maupassant, GuyThe Necklace
de Maupassant, GuyBel-Ami
de Montaigne, MichelOf Cannibals
de Montaigne, MichelOf the Education of Children
de Montaigne, MichelOf the Custom of Wearing Clothes
de Montaigne, MichelThat the Relish of Good and Evil Depends in a Great Measure upon Opinion
De Saint-Exupery, AntoineThe Little Prince
De Tocqueville, AlexisDemocracy in America
Defoe, DanielRobinson Crusoe
des Barres, PamelaI'm With the Band
Diamant, AnitaThe Red Tent
Dickens, CharlesA Christmas Carol
Dickens, CharlesA Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, CharlesOliver Twist
Dickens, CharlesLittle Dorrit
Dickens, CharlesOur Mutual Friend
Dickins, CharlesGreat Expectations
Dickins, CharlesDavid Copperfiefld
Dickinson, EmilyNew Poems of Emily Dickinson
Didion, JoanThe Year of Magical Thinking
Didion, JoanThe White Album
Dineson, IsacOut of Africa
Donne, JohnThe Good-Morrow
Donne, JohnA Velediction Forbidding Mourning
Donne, JohnThe Flea
Donne, JohnThe Sun Rising
Donne, JohnThe Canonization
Donne, JohnGo and Catch a Falling Star
Donne, JohnDeath, Be Not Proud
Donne, JohnBatter My Heart
Dostoevsky, FyodorThe Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, FyodorCrime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, FyodorDemons
Douglass, FrederickSpeech at Rochester (1852)
Douglass, FrederickSpeech at Canandaigua (1857)
Douglass, SaraThe Wayfarer Redemption Series
Douglass, SaraThreshold
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Dr. SeussHow the Grince Stole Christmas
Dreiser, TheodoreAn American Tradgedy
Dreiser, TheodoreSister Carrie
Dryden, JohnMac Flecknoe
Dryden, JohnAbsalom and Achitophel
Du Maurier, DaphneRebecca
Dubus III, AndreHouse of Sand and Fog
Duffy, PeterThe Bielski Brothers
Dumas, AlexandreThe Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, AlexandreThe Three Musketeers
Dunbar, Paul LawrenceEmancipation
Dunbar, Paul LawrenceEncouragement
Dunbar, Paul LawrenceLife's Tradgedy
Dunbar, Paul LawrenceShips that Pass in the Night
Dunbar, Paul LawrenceSympathy
Dunbar, Paul LawrenceWe Wear the Mask
Dunbar, Paul LawrenceWhen Malindy Sings
Dunn, MarkElla Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Easwaran, EknathThe Bhagavad Gita
Eco, UmbertoThe Name of the Rose
Eggers, DaveA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ehrenreich, BarbaraNickel and Dimed
Eliot, GeorgeMiddlemarch
Eliot, GeorgeThe 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 EastonLess Than Zero
Ellison, RalphInvisible Man
Emerson, Ralph WaldoNature
Emerson, Ralph WaldoSelf-Reliance
Emerson, Ralph WaldoThe American Scholar
Emerson, Ralph WaldoDivinity School Address
Emerson, Ralph WaldoConcord Hymn
Emerson, Ralph WaldoGood-bye, proud world
Emerson, Ralph WaldoThe Snow-Storm
Eugenides, JeffreyMiddlesex
Eugenides, JeffreyThe Virgin Suicides
EuripidesHeracles
EuripidesThe Trojan Woman
F. Scott FitzgeraldTender Is The Night
Faludi, SusanBacklash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Farrell, HenryWhat Happened to Baby Jane
Faulk, SebastianBirdsong
Faulkner, WilliamAs I Lay Dying
Faulkner, WilliamSanctuary
Faulkner, WilliamThe Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, WilliamLight in August
Faulkner, WilliamBarn Burning
Faulkner, WilliamThe Bear
Fielding, HelenBridget Jones's Diary
Fielding, HenryTom Jones
Fielding, HenryJoseph Andrews
Finney, JackTime and Again
Fitzgerald, F. ScottThe Great Gatsby
Flaubert, GustaveMadame Bovary
Foer, Jonathan SafranEverything is Illuminated
Ford, Maddox FordThe Good Soldier
Forster, E.M.A Passage to India
Forster, E.M.A Room with a View
Frank, AnneThe Diary of a Young Girl
Franken, AlLies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Franklin, BenjaminPoor Richard's Almanac
Franklin, BenjaminAutobiography
Freud, SigmundCivilization and Its Discontents
Freud, SigmundA Philosophy of Life
Freud, SigmundAnalysis Terminable and Interminable
Freud, SigmundOn Creativity and the Unconscious
Freud, SigmundThe relation of the Poet to Daydreaming
Friedman, MiltonA Monetary History of the United States
Frost, RobertThe Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
Gibbon, EdwardThe HIstory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibbons, StellaCold Comfort Farm
Gibson, WilliamThe Miracle Worker
Gillingham, John & Ralph A. GriffithsMedieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Ginsberg, AllenHowl
Gogol, NikolaiDead Souls
Golden, ArthurMemoirs of a Geisha
Golding, WilliamLord of the Flies
Goldman, WilliamMarathon Man
Goldsmith, OliverThe Vicar of Wakefield
Gordimer, NadineJump and Other Stories
Grafton, SueR Is for Ricochet
Grafton, SueS Is for Silence
Grahame, KennethThe Wind in the Willows
Granowsky, AlvinGoldilocks and the Three BEars
Gray, ThomasElegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Gray, ThomasOde on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Grealy, LucyAutobiography of a Face
Guest, TimMy Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru
Haddon, MarkThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Hall, Rachel HowzellA Quiet Storm
Hanley, VictoriaThe Seer and the Sword
Hansberry, LorraineA Raisin in the Sun
Hardy, ThomasTess of the D'Urbervilles
Hardy, ThomasFar From The Madding Crowd
Hardy, ThomasJude the Obscure
Hardy, ThomasThe Darkling Thrush
Hardy, ThomasChannel Firing
Hardy, ThomasConvergence of the Twain
Hardy, ThomasThe Man He Killed
Hardy, ThomasHap
Harvard, JoeVelvet Ungerground's The Velvet Underground and Nico
Hathaway, Katharine ButlerThe Little Locksmith
Hawthorne, NathanielThe Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, NathanielMy Kinsman, Major Molineaux
Hawthorne, NathanielYoung Goodman Brown
Hawthorne, NathanielThe Minister's Black Veil
Hawthorne, NathanielThe Birthmark
Hawthorne, NathanielThe Artist of the Beautiful
Hayden, RobertMiddle Passage
Hayden, RobertThose Winter Sundays
Heaney, SeamusBeowulf: A New Verse Translation
Hegi, UrsulaSacred Time
Heller, JosephCatch 22
Hellman, LillianThe Children's Hour
Hemingway, ErnestA Moveable Feast
Hemingway, ErnestThe Snows of Kilimanjaro
Hemingway, ErnestThe Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, ErnestTo Have and Have Not
Hemingway, ErnestIn Our Time
Hemingway, ErnestA Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Hemingway, ErnestThe Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Hemingway, ErnestHills 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, PatrickSpeech at Virginia Convention (1775)
Henry, PatrickGive me Liberty or Give me Death
Herbert, FrankDune
Herbert, GeorgeThe Collar
Herbert, GeorgeRedemption
Herbert, GeorgeVirtue
Herbert, GeorgeLove [III]
Herbert, GeorgeEaster Wings
Herbert, GeorgeThe Flower
HerodotusThe Histories
Herrick, RobertDelight in Disorder
Herrick, RobertUpon Julia's CLothes
Herrick, RobertTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Herrick, RobertHis Prayer to Ben Jonson
Hersh, Seymour M. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath
Hesse, HermanSiddhartha
Hillenbrand, LauraSeabiscuit: An American Legend
Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders
Holman, VirginiaRescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad
Holmes, Sr., Oliver WendellOld Ironsides
HomerThe Iliad
HomerThe Odyssey
Hopkins, Gerard ManleyGod's Grandeur
Hopkins, Gerard ManleyPied Beauty
Hopkins, Gerard ManleyThe Windhover
Hopkins, Gerard ManleySpring and Fall
HoraceThe Art of Poetry
Hornby, NickHigh Fidelity
Hornby, NickThe Polysyllabic Spree
Hornby, NickSongbook
Hosseini, KhaledThe 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, AriannaPigs at teh Trough
Hughes, LangstonTheme for English B
Hughes, LangstonHarlem
Hughes, LangstonLife is Fine
Hughes, LangstonMother to Son
Hughes, LangstonThe Negro Speaks of Rivers
Hughes, LangstonA Dream Deferred
Hugo, VictorLes Miserables
Hugo, VictorThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hume, DavidOn Miracles
Hurston, Zora NealeTheir Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, AldousBrave New World
Hyland, M.J. How the Light Gets In
Ibsen, HenrikAn Enemy of the People
Ibsen, HenrikA Doll's House
Irvin, JimThe Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion
Irving, JohnA Prayer for Owen Meaney
Irving, WashingtonThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Irving, WashingtonRip Van Winkle
Ishiguro, KazuoThe Remains of the Day
Jackson, ShirleyThe Lottery And Other Stories
James, HenryThe Art of Fiction
James, HenrySay Goodbye to Daisy Miller
James, HenryWashington Square
Jefferson, ThomasThe Declaration of Independence
Jefferson, ThomasVirginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Jefferson, ThomasFirst Inagural Address
Jefferson, ThomasSecond Inaugural Address
Jefferson, ThomasLetter to Peter Carr
Jensen, Jan LarsNervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
Johnson, SamuelThe Rambler No. 4
Johnson, SamuelPreface to the Dictionary
Johnson, SamuelLetter to Lord Chesterfield
Johnson, SamuelPreface to Shakespeare
Johnson, SamuelNote on King LEar
Johnson, SamuelMetaphysical Wit
Johnson, SamuelCriticisms of Paradise Lost from the Life of Milton
Johnson, SamuelA Letter to a Noble Lord
Johnson, SpencerWho Moved my Cheese?
Jonson, BenOn My First Daughter
Jonson, BenTo John Donne
Jonson, BenOn Giles and Joan
Jonson, BenOn My First Son
Jonson, BenTo the Memory of...William Shakespeare...
Jonson, BenVolpone
Jordan, RobertThe Wheel of Time Series
Joyce, JamesUlysses
Joyce, JamesFinnegan's Wake
Joyce, JamesDubliners
Joyce, JamesA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, FranzThe Metamorphosis
Kafka, FranzThe Trial
Kafka, FranzThe Hunger Artist
Kagan, DonaldThe Archidamian War
Kagan, DonaldThe Fall of the Athenian Empire
Kagan, DonaldThe Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
Kagan, DonaldThe Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
Kaysen, SusannaGirl, Interrupted
Keats, JohnOde to a Nightingale
Keats, JohnOde on a Grecian Urn
Keats, JohnOde on Melancholy
Keats, JohnTo Autumn
Keats, JohnOn first Looking into Chapman's Homer
Keats, JohnLa Belle Dame sans Merci: A Balald
Keats, JohnLetters: To George and Thomas Keats on Negative Capability
Keller, HelenThe Story of My LIfe
Kennedy, William J. Iron Weed
Kerouac, JackOn the Road
Kesey, KenOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Keyes, DanielFlowers 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, DickBabe
King, Jr., Martin LutherLetter from Birmingham Jail
King, Jr., Martin LutherI Have a Dream
King, Jr., Martin LutherAddress to Memphis Sanitation Workers (I've Been to the Mountaintop)
King, StephenCarrie
King, StephenChristine
King, StephenCujo
King, StephenRita Hayworth
King, StephenThe Shining
Kipling, RudyardThe Man Who Would Be King
Kipling, RudyardJust So Stories
Kipling, RudyardIf
Kipling, RudyardOn the Road to Mandalay
Kipling, RudyardThe Recessional
Knowles, JohnA Separate Peace
Kohner, FredrickGidget
Krist, GaryExtravagance
Lahiri, JhumpaThe Namesake
Lamott, AnneBird by Bird
Larkin, PhilipChurch Going
Larkin, PhilipDockery and Son
Larkin, PhilipPosterity
Larsen, NellaPassing
Larson, ErikThe 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, NormanThe Song of Names
Lee, HarperTo Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Tommy etc The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Lerner, Alan JayBrigadoon
Lethem, JonathanThe Fortress of Solitude
Levin, IraRosemary's Baby
Levy, AndreaSmall Island
Lewis, C.S.The Chronicles of Narnia
Lewis, SinclairMain Street
Lewis, SinclairBabbitt
Lincoln, AbrahamFirst Inagural Address
Lincoln, AbrahamSecond Inaugural Address
Lincoln, AbrahamThe Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln, AbrahamThe Gettysburg Address
Lincoln, AbrahamLetter to Mrs. Bixby
Lipton, LawrenceThe Holy Barbarians
London, JackThe Call of the Wild
London, JackWhite Fang
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthThe Children's Hour
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthPaul Revere's Ride
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthA Psalm of Life
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEvangeline: A Tale of acadie
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthMy Lost Youth
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthThe Children's Hour
Lorca, Federico GarciaBlood Wedding
Lovelace, RichardTo Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Macaulay, DavidThe New Way Things Work
Machiavelli, NiccoloThe Prince
Maguire, GregoryWicked: The Life and Times of teh Wicked Witch of the West
Mailer, NormanThe Naked and the Dead
Malory, Sir Thomas ed. Eugene VinaverKing Arthur and His Knights
Marillier, JulietThe Sevenwaters Series
Marlowe, ChristopherThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Marquez, Gabriel GarciaOne Hundred Years of Solitude
Marquez, Gabriel GarciaLove in teh Time of Cholera
Mars, JulieA Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister
Martel, YannLife of Pi
Martin, ValerieProperty
Marvell, AndrewTo His Coy Mistress
Marx, KarlThe Communist Manifest
Marx, KarlOn The Jewish Question
Maugham, W. SomersetThe Razor's Edge
McCaffrey, AnneThe Dragonriders of Pern Series
McCarthy, MaryA Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
McCarthy, MaryThe Group
McDonald, GregoryFletch
McEwan, IanAtonement
Mckean, JamesQuattrocento
McLaughlin, EmmaThe Nanny Diaries
McMurtry, LarryTerm of Endearment
McNeil, Legs & McCain, GillianPlease Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral HIstory of Punk
Melville, HermanMoby Dick
Melville, HermanBilly Budd
Melville, HermanBartleby the Scrivener
Mencken, H.R.Mencken's Chrestomathy
Mencken, H.R.My Life as Author and Editor
Metalious, GracePeyton Place
Meyers, PhilipThe Vanishing Newspaper
Milford, NancySavage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mill, John StuartOn Liberty
Miller, ArthurThe Crucible
Miller, ArthurDeath of a Salesman
Miller, HenrySexus
Milne, A.A.Winnie the Pooh
Milton, JohnParadise Lost
Mistry, RohintonA Fine Balance
Mitchell, DavidCloud Atlas
Mitchell, MargaretGone With The Wind
Moliere, Jean-Baptiste PoquelinThe Misanthrope
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables
Moore, BarringtonSocial Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Moore, MichaelFahrenheit 9/11
More, ThomasUtopia
Morrison, ToniBeloved
Nabokov, VladimirLolita
Nabokov, VladimirSpeak, Memory
Nabokov, VladimirSigns and Symbols
Nabokov, VladimirA Bad Day
Nabokov, VladimirThe Duel
Nafisi, AzarReading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Nietzche, FredrichThe Portable Nietzche
Nietzsche, FriedrichOn Truth and Falsity in their Ultramoral Sense
Nietzsche, FriedrichBeyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche, FriedrichOn the Geneology of Morals
Nietzsche, FriedrichEcce Homo
Niffenegger, AudreyThe Time Traveler's Wife
Nix, GarthThe Abhorsen Series
Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, James NormanMutiny on the Bounty
O'Conner, FlanneryA Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Conner, FlanneryEverything that Rises Must Converge
O'Conner, FlanneryGood Country People
O'Conner, FlanneryParker's Back
O'Neill, EugeneLong Day's Journey Into Night
O'Neill, EugeneAh, Wilderness!
Orringer, JulieHow to Breathe Underwater
Orwell, George1984
Orwell, GeorgeAnimal Farm
Orwell, GeorgePolitics and the English Language
Otsuka, JulieWhen the Emperor Was Divine
OvidMetamorphoses
Owen, WilfredDulce et Decorum Est
Owen, WilfredThe Parable of the Old Man and the Young
Pagels, ElaineThe Gnostic Gospels
Paine, ThomasCommon Sense
Parker, DorothyComplete Stories
Parker, DorothyThe Portable Dorothy Parker
Patchett, AnnBel Canto
Patchett, AnnTruth & Beauty: A Friendship
Picoult, JodiMy Sister's Keeper
Plath, SylviaThe Bell Jar
Plath, SylviaThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Plath, SylviaLady Lazarus
Plath, SylviaMirror
Plath, SylviaAriel
PlatoApology
PlatoThe Symposium
PlatoThe Republic
Platt, ColinKing Death: The Black Death and its aftermath in late-medieval England
PlutarchLives of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Poe, Edgar AllanComplete Tales & Poems
Pope, AlexanderAn Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Pope, AlexanderEssay on Man
Pope, AlexanderThe Rape of the Lock
Pound, EzraThe River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Pound, EzraIn a Station of the Metro
Pound, EzraA Virginal
Pound, EzraThe Return
Pound, EzraBallad of the Goodly Fere
Powell, DawnComplete Novels
Pressfield, StevenThe Legend of Bagger Vance
Proust, MarcelSwann's Way
Pullman, PhilipHis Dark Materials
Puzo, MarioThe Godfather: Book 1
Rand, AynThe Fountainhead
Ransome, ArthurSwallows and Amazons
Rawlings, Marjorie KinnanThe Yearling
Reger, RogerEmily the Strange
Rilke, Rainer MariaLetters to a Young Poet
Rimbaud, ArthurThe Drunken Boat
Rimbaud, ArthurDawn
Rimbaud, ArthurOphelia
Roach, MaryStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Robert, HenryRobert's Rules of Order
Robinson, ElisabethThe True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Rodgers, MaryFreaky Friday
Roethke, TheodoreMy Papa's Waltze
Roethke, TheodoreRoot Cellar
Roethke, TheodoreChild on top of a Greenhouse
Rostand, EdmondCyrano de Bergerac
Rousseau, Jean JacquesA Dissertation on the Origan and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind
Rowling, J.K. The Harry Potter Series
Roy, ArundhatiThe God of Small Things
Rubin, Theodore IsaacDavid and Lisa
Rushdie, SalmanMidnight's Children
Russo, RichardEmpire Falls
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey
Salten, FelixWalt Disney's Bambi
Sandburg, CarlChicago
Sandburg, CarlFog
Sanderson, BrandonThe Mistborn Trilogy
Sartre, Jean-PaulNo Exit
Schreiber, Flora RhetaSybil
Schreiner, OliveThe Story of An African Farm
Scott, Sir WalterIvanhoe
Sebold, AliceThe Lovely Bones
Sedaris, DavidHolidays on Ice
Sedaris, DavidMe Talk Pretty One Day
Segal, ErichThe Love Story
Service, Robert W. The Cremation of Sam McGee
Seth, VikramA Suitable Boy
Sexton, AnneThe Complete Poems
Shaefer, JackShane
Shakespeare, WilliamComplete Works
Shaw, George BernardPygmalion
Shaw, George BernardMan and Superman
Shelley, MaryFrankenstein
Shelley, Percy ByssheA Defence of Poetry
Shelley, Percy ByssheOzymandias
Shelley, Percy ByssheEngland in 1819
Shelley, Percy ByssheOde to the West Wind
Shelley, Percy ByssheHymn to Intellectual Beauty
Shelley, Percy ByssheSong to the Men of England
Shelley, Percy ByssheAdonais
Shelley, Percy ByssheMutability
Shelley, Percy ByssheMont Blanc
Sherman, William TecumsehMemoirs of General W.T. Sherman
Shields, CarolUnless
Shute, NevilA Town Like Alice
Sidney, Sir PhilipAstrophil and Stella
Sijie, DaiBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sinclair, UptonThe Jungle
Singer, Isaac Bashevis Gimpel the Fool
Sinker, DanielWe Owe You Nothing - Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews
Smith, BettyA Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, BettyA Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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