1001 Books Updated Reading List
Since I retired in 2016, I have been reading the classics. I have been reading books on the 1001 list of books to read list, the three volume books to read before you die list, and Harvard classic lists among other lists. All told I have read about 1,000 classic books over the years, many of them in the last ten years. On average, I read about 200 books a year so, I have a ways to go finish these lists.
Presentism: Reading the Past Without Flattening It
One of the most interesting questions that arose while reading Tom Jones is how much older works should be judged by modern standards. Bill Maher often refers to this issue as presentism: the tendency to impose contemporary moral values on historical texts. The term originates in historiography, but it applies neatly to literature as well.
Maher’s commentary echoes critics such as Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, who argued that literature must be understood in its historical context. When we read Tom Jones solely through the lens of modern gender politics or class consciousness, we risk missing the novel’s innovations, its humor, and its critique of the society it depicts.
This does not mean ignoring the book’s problematic elements. Rather, it means holding two truths at once: the novel reflects its era, and it also transcends it. Sophia Western may not conform to modern feminist ideals, but within her historical context she exhibits agency, moral clarity, and resistance to patriarchal control. Fielding’s satire of hypocrisy and class pretension remains sharp even today.
Presentism tends to flatten a work into a moral checklist. Reading historically allows us to experience the novel as a conversation across time, rather than as a relic to be judged and discarded.
The lists follow with bolding indicating that I have read it. Comments are especially welcome. Lets make this an interactive voyage of discovery for all of us.
1001 Books Master List
2001: A Space Odyssey – Clarke, Arthur C.
A Clockwork Orange – Burgess, Anthony
A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway, Ernest
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing – McBride, Eimear
A Modest Proposal – Svevo, Italo
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Joyce, James
A Room With a View – Forster, E.M.
A Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
A Woman’s Life – Maupassant, Guy de
Absalom, Absalom! – Faulkner, William
Adam Bede – Eliot, George
Against the Day – Pynchon, Thomas
Ageyev, M. – Novel With Cocaine
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Carroll, Lewis
All the Pretty Horses – McCarthy, Cormac
American Psycho – Ellis, Bret Easton
Americanah – Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Animal Farm – Orwell, George
Anna Karenina – Tóibín, Colm
Arrow of God – Achebe, Chinua
At the Mountains of Madness – Lovecraft, H.P.
Bel-Ami – Maupassant, Guy de
Beloved – Morrison, Toni
Billy Bathgate – Doctorow, E.L.
Blood and Guts in High School – Acker, Kathy
Blood Meridian – McCarthy, Cormac
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Capote, Truman
Breakfast of Champions – Volpi, Jorge
Broad and Alien is the World – Alegria, Ciro
Brave New World – Huxley, Aldous
Babbitt – Lewis, Sinclair
Camilla – Burney, Fanny
Cancer Ward – Smollett, Tobias George
Cannery Row – Stein,
Casino Royale – Fleming, Ian
Cat’s Cradle – Vonegut
Cecilia – Burney, Fanny
Cigarettes – Mathews, Harry
Cloud Atlas – Mitchell, David
Cakes and Ale – Maugham, W. Somerset
Cause for Alarm – Ambler, Eric
Cecilia – Burney, Fanny
Cigarettes – Mathews, Harry
Cider House Rules, The – Irving, John
Clockwork Orange, A – Burgess, Anthony
Crying of Lot 49, The – Pynchon, Thomas
Dead Babies – Amis, Martin
Death of Ivan Ilyich, The – Tóibín, Colm
Devils, The – Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Adams, Douglas
Doctor Zhivago – Pasternak, Boris
Don Quixote – Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Don’t Move – Mazzantini, Margaret
Dracula – Stevenson, Robert Louis
Erewhon – Butler, Samuel
Eugene Onegin – Pushkin, Alexander
Evelina – Burney, Fanny
Everything is Illuminated – Foer, Jonathan Safran
Excellent Women – Pym, Barbara
Fathers and Sons – Trollope, Anthony
Fantômas – Allain, Marcel
Far from the Madding Crowd – Hardy, Thomas
Fear of Flying – Jong, Erica
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
Fleming, Ian – Casino Royale
Foucault’s Pendulum – Eco, Umberto
Foundation – Asimov, Isaac
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway, Ernest
Forsyte Saga, The – Galsworthy, John
Giles Goat-Boy – Barth, John
Glamorama – Ellis, Bret Easton
Glass Bead Game, The – Hesse, Herman
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Baldwin, James
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Vonegut
Godfather, The – Puzo, Mario
Gone With the Wind – Mitchell, Margaret
Gravity’s Rainbow – Pynchon, Thomas
Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
Half of a Yellow Sun – Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Hamlet, The – Faulkner, William
Hard Times – Dickens, Charles
Heart of Darkness – Conrad, Joseph
Heartbreak Tango – Puig, Manuel
Henderson the Rain King – Bellow, Saul
Herzog – Bellow, Saul
Hobbit, The –
House of Doctor Dee, The – Ackroyd, Peter
House of the Seven Gables, The – Hawthorne, Nathaniel
House of the Spirits, The – Allende, Isabel
Hound of the Baskervilles, The – Doyle, Arthur Conan
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The – Hugo, Victor
I, Robot – Asimov, Isaac
Idiots, The – Dostoevsky, Fyodor
In Cold Blood – Capote, Truman
In the Heart of the Seas – Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Inside Mr. Enderby – Burgess, Anthony
Ivanhoe –
Jazz – Morrison, Toni
Jane Eyre – Brontë, Charlotte
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Vargas Llosa, Mario
Junkie – Burroughs, William
Kiss of the Spider Woman – Puig, Manuel
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – Lawrence, D.H.
Life of Pi – Martel, Yann
Like Water for Chocolate – Esquivel, Laura
Little Women – Alcott, Louisa May
London Fields – Amis, Martin
Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, The – Adams, Douglas
Lord of the Rings, The – Love in the Time of Cholera – García Márquez, Gabriel
Lucky Jim – Amis, Kingsley
Mansfield Park – Austen, Jane
Mason & Dixon – Pynchon, Thomas
Master and Margarita, The – Bulgakov, Mikhail
Melmoth the Wanderer – Maturin, Charles Robert
Memoirs of a Geisha – Golden, Arthur
Moby-Dick – Melville, Herman
Modest Proposal, A – Svevo, Italo
Money: A Suicide Note – Amis, Martin
Monkey: Journey to the West – Woolf, Virginia
Moor’s Last Sigh, The – Rushdie, Salman
Moll Flanders – Defoe, Daniel
Moor’s Last Sigh, The – Rushdie, Salman
Native Son – Woolf, Virginia
Naked Lunch – Burroughs, William
Neuromancer – Gibson, William
Nineteen Eighty-Four – Orwell, George
No One Writes to the Colonel – García Márquez, Gabriel
Notes from the Underground – Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Of Human Bondage – Maugham, W. Somerset
Of Love and Shadows – Allende, Isabel
Of Mice and Men – Stein
Once and Future King, The – White, Edmund
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Smith, Zadie
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Kesey, Ken
Pavel’s Letters – Maron, Monika
Pharoah – Prus, Boleslaw
Pilgrim’s Progress, The – Bunyan, John
Pierre and Jean – Maupassant, Guy de
Plumed Serpent, The – Lawrence, D.H.
Plot Against America, The – Roth, Philip
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A – Joyce, James
Pride and Prejudice – Austen, Jane
Proust, Marcel – Remembrance of Things Past
Pynchon, Thomas – V.
Quiet American, The – Greene, Graham
Ragtime – Doctorow, E.L.
Rainbow, The – Lawrence, D.H.
Rashomon – Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Razor’s Edge, The – Maugham, W. Somerset
Regent’s Wife, The – Alas, Leopoldo
Return of the Native – Hardy, Thomas
Room With a View, A – Forster, E.M.
Rosshalde – Hesse, Herman
Santa Evita – Martinez, Tomas Eloy
Satanic Verses, The – Rushdie, Salman
Secret Agent, The – Conrad, Joseph
Sense and Sensibility – Austen, Jane
Shamela – Fielding, Henry
Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of – Doyle, Arthur Conan
Shirley – Brontë, Charlotte
Silas Marner – Eliot, George
Slaughterhouse-Five –Vonegut
Smiley’s People – Le Carré, John
Sometimes a Great Notion – Kesey, Ken
Song of Solomon – Morrison, Toni
Sound and the Fury, The – Faulkner, William
Steppenwolf – Hesse, Herman
Sun Also Rises, The – Hemingway, Ernest
Tarzan of the Apes – Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Tender is the Night – Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Albigenses – Maturin, Charles Robert
The Autumn of the Patriarch – García Márquez, Gabriel
The Back Room – Martin Gaite, Carmen
The Black Dahlia – Ellroy, James
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Wodehouse, P.G.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Kundera, Milan
The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Butcher Boy – McCabe, Patrick
The Call of the Wild – London, Jack
The Castle – Kafka, Franz
The Catcher in the Rye – Salinger, J.D.
The Color Purple –
The Daughter – Matesis, Pavlos
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Tóibín, Colm
The Devils – Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
The End of the Affair – Greene, Graham
The English Patient – Ondaatje, Michael
The First Circle – Smollett, Tobias George
The Forsyte Saga – Galsworthy, John
The Glass Bead Game – Hesse, Herman
The God of Small Things – Roy, Arundhati
The Godfather – Puzo, Mario
The Grapes of Wrath –Stein
The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Green Man – Amis, Kingsley
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Rushdie, Salman
The Hamlet
The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood, Margaret
The Honorary Consul – Greene, Graham
The House of the Seven Gables –
The House of the Spirits – Allende, Isabel
The Idiot – Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Island of Dr. Moreau –
the Jungle –Lewis
The Lambs of London – Ackroyd, Peter
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Adams, Douglas
The Lord of the Rings –
The Man With the Golden Arm – Algren, Nelson
The Master and Margarita – Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Rushdie, Salman
The Old Devils – Amis, Kingsley
The Once and Future King – White, Edmund
The Pilgrim’s Progress – Bunyan, John
The Plumed Serpent – Lawrence, D.H.
The Plot Against America – Roth, Philip
The Quiet American – Greene, Graham
The Regent’s Wife – Alas, Leopoldo
The Satanic Verses – Rushdie, Salman
The Secret Agent – Conrad, Joseph
The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner, William
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Stevenson
The Tale of Genji – Murasaki, Shikibu
The Thin Man – Hammett, Dashiell
The Third Man –
The Thirty-Nine Steps – Buchan, John
The Three Musketeers – Dumas, Alexandre
The Time Machine – HG Wells
The Tin Drum – Grass, Günter
The Trial – Kafka, Franz
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Kundera, Milan
The War of the Worlds HG Wells–
The Way of All Flesh – Butler, Samuel
The White Tiger – Adiga, Aravind
The Wild Boys – Burroughs, William
The World for Julius – Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – Saramago, José
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – McCoy, Horace
Things Fall Apart – Achebe, Chinua
Through the Looking Glass – Carroll, Lewis
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Le Carré, John
Tirant lo Blanc – Martorell, Joanot
To Have and Have Not – Hemingway, Ernest
Treasure Island – Stevenson
Trial, The – Kafka, Franz
Tropic of Cancer – Miller, Henry
Tropic of Capricorn – Miller, Henry
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Vanishing Point – Markson, David
Vanity Fair –
Vineland – Pynchon, Thomas
Wild Boys, The – Burroughs, William
Women in Love – Lawrence, D.H.
Wuthering Heights – Brontë, Emily
Zorba the Greek – Kazantzákis, Nikos
Additional list
Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
Share
My Dog Tulip
Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales
Diane Ackerman
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Americanah
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee and Walker Evans
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
Fascism: A Warning
Madeleine Albright
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Wandering Stars
Sholem Aleichem
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
From Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich
Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book 1
Dante Alighieri
Purgatorio: The Divine Comedy, Book 2
Dante Alighieri
Paradiso: The Divine Comedy, Book 3
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Skellig
David Almond
A Coffin for Dimitrios
Eric Ambler
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
Share
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
Ms. Bixby’s Last Day
John David Anderson
Fake or Follower: Refusing to Settle for a Shallow Faith
Andi Andrew
The Traveler’s Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
Andy Andrews
The Noticer
Andy Andrews
The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric, Ivo Andríc
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
Bolu Babalola
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
The Baburnama
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman
Ann Baer
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Bernard Bailyn
The Birthday Boys
Beryl Bainbridge
Nicholson Baker
Growing Up
Russell Baker
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
Sarah Bakewell
Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball
The Drowned World
- G. Ballard
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
The Wild Ass’s Skin
Honoré de Balzac
The Sweet Hereafter
Russell Banks
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
- N. P. Barbellion
Laughing in the Hills
Bill Barich
Regeneration: Regeneration Trilogy, Book 1
Pat Barker
The Eye in the Door: Regeneration Trilogy, Book 2
Pat Barker
The Ghost Road: Regeneration Trilogy, Book 3
Pat Barker
Flaubert’s Parrot
Julian Barnes
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal)
Kelly Barnhill
Peter Pan and Wendy
- M. Barrie
We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel
Quan Barry
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Matsuo Bashō
Samuel Johnson
Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire
Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Charles Baxter the Vacuum
Stephen Baxte The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir
The Coming of Age
Simone de Beauvoir
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Ilene Beckerman
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Company
Samuel Beckett
Molloy
Samuel Beckett
The Hills is Lonely
Lillian Beckwith
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
Felice Benuzzi
Beowulf
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John BerendtA Fortunate Man
John Berger, photographs by Jean Mohr
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
The Diary of a Country Priest
Georges Bernanos
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
The Outermost House
Henry Beston
The Bible
80 Not Out: My Favourite Cricket Memories
Dickie Bird
The Complete Poems, 1927–1979
Elizabeth Bishop
We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Ilene Beckerman
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
Felice Benuzzi
Beowulf
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
The Bible
The Complete Poems, 1927–1979
Elizabeth Bishop
The Emperor’s Last Island
Julia Blackburn
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake
The Wilder Shores of Love
Lesley Blanch
Out of Africa
Karen Blixen
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 – 1849
Sidney Blumenthal
Iron John: A Book about Men
Robert Bly
Akenfield
Ronald Blythe
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
The 21 Balloons
William Pene Du Bois
The Cost of Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
Bono, Michka Assayas
The Book of Common Prayer
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
The Ascent of Rum Doodle
- E. Bowman
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The Chaneysville Incident
David Bradley
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63
Taylor Branch
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963–65
Taylor Branch
The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
The Complete Cosmic
Memorial
Ferdinando Camon
Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume 1
Joseph Campbell
Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume 2
Joseph Campbell
Occidental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume 3
Joseph Campbell
Creative Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume 4
Joseph Campbell
The Plague
Albert Camus
The First Man
Albert Camus
Auto da fé
Elias Canetti, Cicely Veronica Wedgwood
Chicken Soup for the Soul: A Book of Miracles: 101 True Stories of Healing, Faith, Divine Intervention, and Answered Prayers
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, LeAnn Thieman
Slightly Out of Focus
Robert Capa
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Enders Game
Eyewitness to History
John Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Thad Carhart
Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe
Caritón
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
Eric Carle
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 1
Robert A. Caro
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 2
Robert A. Caro
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 3
Robert A. Caro
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
Robert A. Caro
A Month in the Country
- L. Carr
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
The Horse’s Mouth
Joyce Cary
History of My Life
Giacomo Casanova
Spartina
John Casey
Cash: The Autobiography
Johnny Cash
The Book of the Courtier
Baldassare Castiglione
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather
The Poems of Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Melbourne
David Cecil
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Clémentine in the Kitchen
Samuel Chamberlain
Witness
Whittaker Chambers
Products of the Perfected Civilization
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, translated and introduced by W. S. Merwin
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
Lord of Scoundrels
Loretta Chase
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave
Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire
The Stories of John Cheever
John CheeverThe Journals of John Cheever
John Cheever
Stories
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
The Seagull
Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Man Who Was Thursday
- K. Chesterton
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
Pema Chodron
A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government
Nakae Chomin
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
The Future of God: A Practical Approach to Spirituality for Our Times
Deepak Chopra
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Their Finest Hour
Winston Churchill
The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
Rome and a Villa
Eleanor Clark
I’m Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope
Amy Newmark & Breena Clarke
Childhood’s End
Arthur C. Clarke
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Chris Cleave
This beautifully written and plotted story takes place in wartime London and besieged Malta. There were many novels written about WWII in the first two decades of the 21st c but this one is truly extraordinary and will stay with you!
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Classical Education
Richard Cobb
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Life & Times of Michael K
- M. Coetzee
Disgrace: A Novel
- M. Coetzee
A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses
Isabel Colegate
Earthly Paradise
Colette, edited by Robert Phelps
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
Colette
Sailing Alone Around the Room
Billy Collins
Carrying the Fire
Michael Collins
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games Trilogy
Suzanne Collins
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
The Worm Forgives the Plough
John Stewart Collis
Memoirs of a Medieval Woman
Louise CollisThe Fringes of Power
John Colville
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
Barbara Comyns
The Analects
Confucius
The Last Romantics: A Novel
Tara Conklin
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn
Evan S. Connel
Enemies of Promise
Cyril Connolly
A Personal Record
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
The Prince of Tides: A Novel
Pat Conroy
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
The Road from Coorain
Jill Ker Conway
Memories of the Great & the Good
Alistair Cooke
Talleyrand
Duff Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
Torregreca
Ann Cornelisen
Cronopios and Famas
Julio Cortázar
Conversations with Glenn Gould
Jonathan Cott
The Bull of Minos: The Great Discoveries of Ancient Greece
Leonard Cottrell
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey
Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948–1971
Robert Craft
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Margaret Craven
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin
Little, Big
John Crowley
Complete Poems, 1904–1962
- E. Cummings
Rebellion in the Backlands
Euclides da Cunha
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
Will Cuppy
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
John le Carré
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, edited by Bernard DeVoto
D
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Goodnight Baseball
Michael Dahl, illustrated by Christina Forshay
Matilda
Roald Dahl
In Xanadu
William Dalrymple
The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
The Geography of the Imagination
Guy Davenport
Tracks
Fifth Business: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 1
Robertson Davies
The Manticore: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 2
Robertson Davies
World of Wonders: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 3
Robertson Davies
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day
Underworld: A Novel
Don DeLillo
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Diary of a Provincial Lady
- M. Delafield
Nova
Samuel R. Delany
Great Books
David Denby
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
Tiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself: 40 Ways to Transform Your Inner Critic and Your Life
Lori Deschene
The Paperboy
Pete Dexter
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
In the Distance
Hernan Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Goodnight Baseball
Michael Dahl, illustrated by Christina Forshay
Matilda
Roald Dahl
In Xanadu
William Dalrymple
The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
The Geography of the Imagination
Guy Davenport
Tracks
Robyn Davidson
Fifth Business: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 1
Robertson Davies
The Manticore: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 2
Robertson Davies
World of Wonders: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 3
Robertson Davies
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day
Underworld: A Novel
Don DeLillo
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Diary of a Provincial Lady
- M. Delafield
Samuel R. Delany
Great Books
Clear Light of Day
Anita DesaiTiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself: 40 Ways to Transform Your Inner Critic and Your Life
Lori Deschene
The Paperboy
Pete Dexter
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
In the Distance
Hernan Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
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The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
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A House for Mr. Biswas
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The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
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After Before Time
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Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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Portrait of a Marriage
Nigel Nicolson
The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Ringworld
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Master and Commander
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The Little Red Chairs
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Mrs. Adams in Winter
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The Things They Carried
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The Complete Stories
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The Habit of Being
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Eugene O’Neill
Dreams from My Father
Barack Obama
The Book of Tea
Kakuzo Okakura
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Mary Oliver
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Tillie Olsen
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Michael Ondaatje
The Origins of European Thought About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate
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Tommy Orange
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
The 42nd Parallel: Volume 1 of the U.S.A. Trilogy
John Dos Passos
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John Dos Passos
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John Dos Passos
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
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Elaine Pagels
The Cosmic Code
Heinz R. Pagels
My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle
Marcel Pagnol
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
France and England in North America
Francis Parkman
Pensées
Blaise Pascal
Doctor Zhivago
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Bridge to Terabithia
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
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This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
Cesare Pavese
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Chris Pavone
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987
Octavio Paz, edited by Eliot Weinberger
Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen
Crowning the Customer: How to Become Customer-Driven
Feargal Quinn
The Qur’an
Old Glory
Jonathan Raban
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais
Sparkle and Spin
Ann Rand and Paul Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
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Claudia Rankine
Swallows and Amazons
Arthur Ransome
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
Period Piece
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Slavomir Rawicz
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Lenin’s Tomb
David Remnick
The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great
Mary Renault
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Ruth Rendell
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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All Passion Spent
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Mark Salzman
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Robert M. Sapolsky
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José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero
No Exit
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Siegfried Sassoon
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Vanity Fair
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How to Tell When You’re Tired
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Paul Theroux
Arabian Sands
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The Invisible Man
- G. Wells
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
Boggs: A Comedy of Values
Lawrence Weschler
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West
The Hot Rock
Donald E. Westlake
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Charlotte’s Web
- B. White
The Once and Future King
- H. White
The Making of the President 1960
Theodore H. White
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Night
Elie Wiesel
Kaddish
Leon Wieseltier
Collected Poems 1943-2004
Richard Wilbur
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Stoner
John Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
Tarka the Otter
Henry Williamson
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Lincoln at Gettysburg
Garry Wills
Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Edmund Wilson
Naturalist
Edward O. Wilson
April 1865
Jay Winik
Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams
Lynne Withey
Pigs Have Wings
- G. Wodehouse
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Maryanne Wolf
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of ‘The Book of the New Sun’
Gene Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraf
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
Gordon S. Wood
Winter’s Bone: A Novel
Daniel Woodrell
Underdawgs: How Brad Stevens and Butler University Built the Bulldogs for March Madness
The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
A Moment’s Liberty
Virginia Woolf, abridged and edited by Anne Olivier Bell
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
The Prelude and Other Poetry
William Wordsworth
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Native Son
Richard Wright
The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf
The Day of the Triffids
John WyndhamAgree (21)
The Zoom Trilogy
Tim Wynne-Jones, pictures by Eric Beddows
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
365 Dalai Lama: Daily Advice from the Heart
Dalai Lama XIV
A Little Life: A Novel
Hanya Yanagihara
The Tower
- B. Yeats
Bread Givers
Anzia Yezierska
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Swallowing Clouds
- Zee
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
Within This Wilderness
Feenie Ziner
Germinal
Emile Zola
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
A Part of Myself
Carl Zuckmayer
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Reader Poll Please let us know which books you have read and let me know
Which direction should I prioritize going forward?
- 📘 More 18th–19th century classics
- 🌍 More non‑Western classics
- 🧠 More philosophy and ideas
- 📖 More modern (20th‑century) classics
- 🔁 Re‑reading major works with fresh annotations
Feel free to explain your vote in the comments or recommend a specific title.
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