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

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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

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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

James Mustich

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

James Mustich

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

Andrea

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

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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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1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die

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What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America

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Bound to Please

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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

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Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

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“Bequest of Wings”

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The World As I Found It

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

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Dorothy Dunnett

My Family and Other Animals

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Justine: The Alexandria Quartet, Book 1

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

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The Name of the Rose

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Pawn of Prophecy

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R. Eddison

Bright Air, Brilliant Fire

Gerald Edelman

The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs

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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

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S. Eliot

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S. Eliot

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Joseph J. Ellis

Invisible Man

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Joseph Todd Emerson

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Robert Carol Emerson

Peace Like a River

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Louise Erdrich

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Euclid’s Elements (the Thirteen Books)

Euclid

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Alcestis

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Euripides

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Euripides

Something Permanent

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Erasure: A Novel

Percival Everett

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Kali Fajardo-Anstine

The Chemical History of a Candle

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As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

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The Sound and the Fury

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Light in August

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John FeinsteinA Time of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor

My Brilliant Friend: The Neapolitan Novels, Book 1

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Elena Ferrante

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Elena Ferrante

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Elena Ferrante

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Timothy Ferris

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Richard P. Feynman

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

Time and Again

Jack Finney

Paul Revere’s Ride

David Hackett Fischer

The Art of Eating

F. K. Fisher

The Great Gatsby

Scott FitzgeraldOffshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

Harriet the Spy

Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

From Russia with Love

Ian Fleming

Brazilian Adventure

Peter Fleming

There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

Antony Flew, Roy Abraham Varghese

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel

Jonathan Safran Foer

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

Johnny Tremain

Esther Forbes

The Good Soldier

Ford Maddox Ford

Independence Day

Richard Ford

Flour Water Salt Yeast

Ken Forkish

Divine Days: A Novel

Leon Forrest

A Passage to India

M. Forster

The Day of the Jackal

Frederick Forsyth

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

W. Fowler

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

Freedom: A Novel

Jonathan Franzen

Flashman

George MacDonald Fraser

My Father’s Fortune

Michael Frayn

The Women’s Room

Marilyn French

The Witch Elm: A Novel

Tana French

The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

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Betty Friedan

The Poetry of Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Terra Nostra. English

Carlos Fuentes

The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel

Carlos Fuentes

Critical Path

Buckminster Fuller

The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle

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The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth

Roy Andries de Groot

Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman

A Lesson Before Dying

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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

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Cranford

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Futility: A Novel

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The Glass Palace

Amitav Ghosh

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Cold Comfort Farm

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Pattern Recognition

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A Mass for the Dead

William Gibson

City of Girls

Elizabeth Gilbert

Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

The Little Virtues

Natalia Ginzburg

Passing the Time in Ballymenone

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Constellations: Reflections from Life

Sinéad Gleeson

Faust

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Italian Journey

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds – Clean Edition

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

Lord of the Flies

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Darwin’s Dreampond

Tijs Goldschmidt

Oblomov

The Goncourt Journal

Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

There Is a World Elsewhere

González-Crussi

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Panda’s Thumb

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Gran

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Günter Grass

Good-bye to All That

Robert Graves

I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54

Robert Graves

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy

The Dead of the House

Hannah Green

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

The End of the Affair

Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

Graham Greene

The Third Man

Graham Greene

Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old

Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

The Firm

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Life and Fate

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The Little World of Don Camillo

Giovanni Guareschi

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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The New Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

Kelsang Gyatso

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Hiroshima Diary

Michihiko Hachiya, MD

I Was A Stranger

Sir John Winthrop Hackett

The All of It

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The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

String Too Short to Be Saved

Donald Hall

A Drinking Life

Pete Hamill

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Dashiell Hammet

A Romantic Education

Patricia Hampl

Hunger

Knut Hamsun

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

Peter Handke

84, Charing ross Road

Helene Hanff

The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Thich Nhat Hanh

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Sleepless Nights

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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

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Thomas Harris

Dalva: A Novel

Jim Harrison

Forests

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The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

Michael H. Hart

Act One

Moss Hart

Plainsong

Kent Haruf

Edited by Robert Hass

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit

Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

Something Happened

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Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Winter’s Tale

Mark Helprin

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

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Dune

Frank Herbert

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Michael Herr

Zen in the Art of Archery

Eugen Herrigel

All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot

My Past and Thoughts

Alexander Herzen

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

An Infamous Army

Georgette Heyer

Kon-Tiki

Thor Heyerdahl

The Destruction of Lord Raglan

Christopher Hibbert

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

James Hilton

A Rage in Harlem

Chester Himes

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The Outsiders

E. Hinton

The Mouse and His Child

Russell Hoban

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Eric Hodgins

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg

One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai

Footsteps

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Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage

Richard Holmes

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The Iliad

Homer

The Odyssey

Homer

The Odes of Horace

Great River

Paul Horgan

Ten Years in the Tub

Nick Hornby

Magpie Murders: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz

The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Khaled Hosseini

Rogue Male

Geoffrey Household

We Die Alone

David Howarth

World of Our Fathers

Irving Howe

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Hugh Howey

The Black Cloud

Fred Hoyle

A High Wind in Jamaica

Richard Hughes

The Fatal Shore

Robert Hughes

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor Hugo

The Autumn of the Middle Ages

Johan Huizinga

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

Zora Neale Hurston

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters

George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis

Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

In the Vineyard of the Text

Ivan Illich

The World According to Garp

John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Life Among the Savages

Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Beyond a Boundary

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Henry James

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Henry James

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Henry James

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William James

Moom invalley in November

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Julian Jaynes

Heat and Dust

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Harold and the Purple Crayon

A Johnson Reader

Samuel Johnson, edited by E. L. McAdam Jr. and George Milne

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

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Pat Jordan

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James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

Ulysses

James Joyce

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Alfredo Véa Jr.

Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O’Neill

Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., Tip O’Neill, William Novak

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Storm of Steel

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Sebastian Junger

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Norton Juster

Why We Can’t Wait

Martin Luther King Jr.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller Jr.

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

James Tiptree Jr.

The Complete Stories

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Franz Kafka

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When Breath Becomes Air

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When French Women Cook

Madeleine Kamman

Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat

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The Liars’ Club

Mary Karr

The Perfect Stranger

The Green Fool

Patrick Kavanagh

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Yasunari Kawabata

The Lions of Al-Rassan

Guy Gavriel Kay

The Greek Passion

Nikos Kazantzaki

Letters of John Keats

John Keats

The Face of Battle

John Keegan

The Secret of the Old Clock

Carolyn Keene

A Dresser of Sycamore Trees

Garret Keizer

The Story of My Life

Helen Keller

Part of Our Time

Murray Kempton

Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-Me Book of Poems

Edited by X. J. Kennedy and Dorothy M. Kennedy

A Boy at the Hogarth Press

Richard Kennedy

The Pound Era

Hugh Kenner

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard, edited by W. H. Auden

Kilvert’s Diary

Francis Kilvert

Carrie

Microbe Hunters

Paul de Kruif

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

When French Women Cook

Madeleine Kamman

Andersonville

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Liars’ Club

The Greek Passion

Nikos Kazantzakis

The Face of Battle

John Keegan

The Secret of the Old Clock

Carolyn Keene

A Dresser of Sycamore Trees

Garret Keizer

The Story of My Life

Helen Keller

Part of Our Time

Murray Kempton

Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-Me Book of Poems

Edited by X. J. Kennedy and Dorothy M. Kennedy

A Boy at the Hogarth Press

The Pound Era

Hugh Kenner

11/22/63

Stephen King

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp

Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui

Karen Kingston

Just So Stories for Little Children

Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

Old House of Fear

Russell Kirk

Death of My Aunt

The Beginning of All Things: Science and Religion

Hans Kng, John Bowden

The Oldest Dead White European Males

Bernard Knox

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L’Engle

Dangerous Liaisons

Choderlos de Laclos

The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology

Lorne Ladner

The Princess of Clèves

Madame de Lafayette

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Pär Lagerkvis

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa LahirAgree (24)

Notes on a Cowardly Lion

John Lahr

The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler

I Know This Much Is True

Wally Lamb

Megan Loyd Cram

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Patriots

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Alfred Lansing

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson

In The Garden of Beasts: Love and Terror in Hitler’s Berlin

Erik Larson

Sons and Lovers

H. Lawrence

Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins

Elizabeth Lawrence

Independent People

Halldór Laxness

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The Book of Job

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Daphne du Maurier

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Leo Africanus

Amin Maalouf

Anybody Can Do Anything

Betty MacDonald

Autumn Journal

Louis MacNeice

The Towers of Trebizond

Rose Macaulay

The Wild Places

Robert Macfarlane

Whisky Galore

Compton Mackenzi

Eastern Approaches

Fitzroy Maclean

A River Runs Through It

Norman Maclean

Confessions of a Philosopher

Bryan Magee

The Armies of the Night

Norman Mailer

The Executioner’s Song

Norman Mailer

The Fixer: A Novel

Bernard Malamud

Kaputt

Curzio Malaparte

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Vladimir Nabokov

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

A House for Mr. Biswas

S. Naipaul

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

K. Narayan

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

The Women of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor

Mama Day

Gloria Naylor

After Before Time

Robbi Neal

I’ll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson

Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem

Marilyn Nelson

100 Love Sonnets

Pablo Neruda, Stephen Tapscott

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

Eric Newby

Newton’s Principia

Sir Isaac Newton

The Reckoning

Charles Nicholl

Merry Hall

Beverley Nichols

Portrait of a Marriage

Nigel Nicolson

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Ringworld

Larry Niven

Master and Commander

Patrick O’Brian

The Little Red Chairs

Edna O’Brien

At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O’Brien

The Third Policeman: A Novel

Flann O’Brien

Mrs. Adams in Winter

Michael O’Brien

The Things They Carried

Tim O’Brien

The Complete Stories

Flannery O’Connor

The Habit of Being

Flannery O’Connor

Collected Stories

Frank O’Connor

Are You Somebody?

Nuala O’FaolaiShare

Into the Heart of Borneo

Redmond O’Hanlon

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Eugene O’Neill

Dreams from My Father

Barack Obama

The Book of Tea

Kakuzo Okakura

The Famished Road

Ben Okri

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

Tell Me a Riddle

Tillie Olsen

Warlight

Michael Ondaatje

The Origins of European Thought About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate

B. Onians

There There: A Novel

Tommy Orange

Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte

Lorenzo Da Ponte

The 42nd Parallel: Volume 1 of the U.S.A. Trilogy

John Dos Passos

1919: Volume 2 of the U.S.A. Trilogy

John Dos Passos

The Big Money: Volume 3 of the U.S.A. Trilogy

John Dos Passos

The Village of Waiting

George Packer

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

George Packer

The Gnostic Gospels

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

Boris PasternakShare

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

Kiss the Girls

James Patterson

Medieval in LA

Jim Paul

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This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

Cesare Pavese

Two Nights in Lisbon: A Novel

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

Citizen

Claudia Rankine

Swallows and Amazons

Arthur Ransome

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin

Period Piece

Gwen Raverat

The Long Walk

Slavomir Rawicz

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls

Village School

Miss Read

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

Edited by Joan Reardon

Forest of the Hanged: A Novel

Liviu Rebreanu

Mumbo Jumbo

Ishmael Reed

Tender at the Bone

Ruth Reichl

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

A Judgement in Stone

Ruth Rendell

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

American Prometheus

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

A Bullet in the Ballet

Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

All Passion Spent

Vita Sackville-West

The Dragons of Eden

Carl Sagan

The Sagas of Icelanders

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Memoirs

Duc de Saint-Simon

Light Years

James Salter

Lost In Place

Mark Salzman

Lying Awake: A Novel

Mark Salzman

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

Poems

Sappho

Blindness

José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero

No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston

Siegfried Sassoon

Histories and Annals

Tacitus

Fame and Obscurity

Gay Talese

This One Summer

Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

The Arrival

Shaun Tan

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (light Novel)

Tao Te Ching

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

The Surprise of Cremona

Edith Templeton

The Daughter of Time

Josephine Tey

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

How to Tell When You’re Tired

Reg Theriault

The Great Railway Bazaar

Paul Theroux

Arabian Sands

Religion and the Decline of Magic

Keith Thomas

The Lives of a Cell

Lewis Thomas

On Growth and Form

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Lark Rise to Candleford

Flora Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

The Killer Inside Me

Jim Thompson

Ellen Ullman

Kristin Lavransdatter

Sigrid Undset

The Maples Stories

John Updike

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story

Luis Alberto Urrea

Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border

Luis Alberto Urrea

Antonio Buero Vallejo, Philip G. Johnston

Luis Enrique Rivera

The Dying Earth

Jack Vance

Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind

Iyanla Vanzant

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Giorgio Vasari

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

The Birds

Tarjei Vesaas

Burr

Gore Vidal

1876

Gore Vidal

Leonardo’s Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master

Leonardo Da Vinci

Candide, or Optimism

Voltaire

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Susan Vreeland

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

Ocean Vuong

President’s Men

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

Holy Land

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Infinite Jest: A Novel

David Foster Wallace

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Awaken the Species

Neale Donald Walsch

The Compleat Angler

Izaak Walton

Among Others

Jo Walton

The Boxcar Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Beautiful Swimmers

William W. Warner

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

The Philosopher’s Diet: How to Lose Weight & Change the World

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Winifred Watson

The Loved One

Evelyn Waugh

A Question of Choice

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A Coffin for King Charles

V. Wedgwood

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II

George Weigel

Simone Weil: An Anthology

Simone Weil, edited by Siân Miles

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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

Michael Fergus McGrath

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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Jake Cosmos Aller

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