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Classics

Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote

Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice

Emily Bronde - Wuthering Heights

Lewis Carroll - Alice's adventures in wonderland

Joseph Conrad - The heart of darkness

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Fyodor Dostoevsky - The brothers Karamazov

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Gustave Falubert - Madame Bovary

Nikolay Gogol - Dead Souls

Thomas Hardy - Tess of D'Urbervilles

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables

Mikhail Lermontov - A hero of our time

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Marcel Proust - Swann's Way

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and sons

Mark Twain - The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Gray

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The complete Sherlock Holmes

Voltaire - Candide

Emile Zola - L'assommoir (the dram shop)

Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book

John Milton - Paradise Lost



Modern Classics

Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Albert Camus - The stranger

John Fowles - The magus

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-four (1984)

Virginia Woolf - To the lighthouse

Yukio Mishima - The temple of the golden pavillion

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One hundred years of solitude

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

Jack Kerouac - On the road

Jean Paul Sartre - Nausea

Jose Saramago - Blindness

Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain

Toni Morrison - Beloved

John Updike - Brazil

Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being

Aldous Huxley - Brave new world

James Joyce - Ulysses

David Herbert Richards Lawrence - Sons and lovers

Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

André Gide - The Immoralist

P.G. Wodehouse - Life with Jeeves

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse five



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Classical through medieval:

Sophocles - The three Theban plays

Aeschylus - The Oresteia

Euripides - Electra and other plays

Menander - Plays and fragments

Plautus - The pot of gold and other plays

Seneca - Four tragedies and Octavia

Terence - The comedies

Kalidasa - The loom of time

Hrotsvitha - The plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim

Various - Japanese nô dramas (translated by Royall Tyler)

(translated by Royall Tyler) Various - Chûshingura (translated by Donald Keene)

(translated by Donald Keene) Anonymous - Everyman and other miracle and morality plays

Various - York mystery plays

Renaissance

William Shakespeare - Complete works

Thomas Kyd - The Spanish tragedy

Christopher Marlowe - The complete plays

Ben Jonson - Volpone and other plays

John Webster - The duchess of Malfi and other plays

Lope de Vega - Three major plays

Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Life is a dream

Molière - The misanthrope, Tartuffe and other plays

Pierre Corneille - Le Cid

Jean Racine - Phèdre

Restoration, romanticism and realism

John Wilmot - The farce of Sodom or The quintessence of debauchery

William Wycherley - The country wife

William Congreve - The way of the world and other plays

Aphra Behn - The rover and other plays

John Gay - The beggar's opera

Beaumarchais - The Figaro trilogy

Carlo Goldoni - A servant to two masters

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The school for scandal

Friedrich Schiller - The robbers and Wallenstein

Büchner - The complete plays

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust

Shelley - The Cenci

Lord Byron - Six plays

Feydeau - Plays: one and Plays: two

and Sir W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan - The complete annotated Gilbert & Sullivan

Oscar Wilde - The importance of being earnest and other plays

George Bernard Shaw - Plays by George Bernard Shaw

G.B. Shaw - Pygmalion

J.M.Synge - The playboy of the western world

Henrik Ibsen - Four major plays

August Strindberg - Five major plays

W.B.Yeats - The collected works of W.B. Yeats

Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac



20th century:

Eugene O'neill - Long day's journey into tonight

Anton Chekhov - The plays of Anton Chekhov

Luigi Pirandello - Six characters in search of an author and other plays

Maurice Maeterlinck - The blue bird: a fairy play in five acts

Arthur Schnitzler - Four major plays

J.M. Barrie - Peter pan and other plays

Thornton Wilder - Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth and The matchmaker.

Bertolt Brecht - The threepenny opera, Mother courage and her children and Life of Galileo

and Federico Garcia Lorca - Blood Wedding, Yerma and The house of Bernarda Alba

and Sean O'Casey - Plays

Nöel Coward - The vortex

Sophie Treadwell - Machinal

R.C. Sheriff - Journey's end

Tennessee Williams - A streetcar named desire and The glass menagerie

and Samuel Beckett - The complete dramatic works

Peter Weiss - The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Jean Anouilh - Five plays

Jean Giraudoux - The madwoman of Chaillot

Harold Pinter - The homecoming, The birthday party and The room

and Jean-Paul Sartre - No exit and three other plays

Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The visit

Joe Orton - The complete plays

Arthur Miller - The portable Arthur Miller

Edward Albee - WHo's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee - The american dream and The zoo story

and Jean Genet - The balcony

Wole Soyinka - Death and the king's horseman

Lorraine Hansberry - A raisin in the sun

Sam Shepard - Seven plays

David Mamet - Oleanna, Speed-the-plow and Glengarry Glen Ross

and Tony Kushner - Angels in America

August Wilson - Three plays

Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead and Arcadia

and Caryl Churchill - Cloud nine and Top girls

and Sarah Kane - Complete plays

Bernard-Marie Koltes - Roberto Zucco

Edward Bond - Lear

Contemporary

David Gieselmann - Mr Kolpert

Yasmina Reza - Art and The god of carnage

and Vassily Sigarev - Black Milk

Alan Bennet - The complete talking heads

Paula Vogel - The mammary plays

David Hare - Racing Demon and The absence of war

and David Edgar - Pentecost

Mark Ravenhill - Plays

Joe Penhall - Blue/Orange

Peter Morris - The age of consent and Gaudeamus

Sarah Ruhl - Eurydice

Suzan-Lori Parks - Topdog/Underdog

Adam Rapp - Stone cold dead serious

Doug Wright - I am my own wife and Quills

Great Short Story Authors and Collections

Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales

Edgar Allan Poe - Collected Works

Mark Twain - Collected Short Stories

Herman Melville - Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales

Stephen Crane - Maggie and other Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Flappers and Philosophers

Ernest Hemingway - Collected Short Works

Sherwood Anderson - Death in the Woods and other Stories

Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From

John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever

H. P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)

Poets and Poetry Collections

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

Emily Dickinson - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

William Butler Yeats - Complete Poetry

William Butler Yeats - A Vision

William Blake - Complete Works

Sharon Olds - Collected Poems

Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda - Odes

Pablo Neruda - Collected Poetry

Fredrico Garcia Lorca - Complete, Selected Poems.

John Wieners - Collected Poetry (Black Sparrow Press)

Adrienne Rich - Collected Poems

WH Auden - Collected Poems

Richard Brautigan -The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

Margaret Randall - Collected Poetry

Li Young Li - Rose

Li Young Li - Book of My Nights

C.A. Conrad - Book of Frank

C.A. Conrad- A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon

John Keats - Complete Works

Christina Rossetti - Complete Poems

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Complete Poetry

Kim Addonizio - Tell Me

Alfred Lord Tennyson - Complete Poetry

Rita Dove - Complete Poems

Gary Snyder - Turtle Island

T.S. Eliot - Collected Poems

Lord Byron- Complete Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley- Com plete Poems

plete Poems Shakespeare - Sonnets

Mary Oliver - Complete Poetry

Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Complete Poems

William Wordsworth- Complete Poems

Robert Browning- Complete Poems

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets

Arthur Rimbaud- Translation by Wallace Fowlie

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - A Coney Island Of The Mind

Lou Welch -Collected Poetry

Robert Frost - Complete Poems

Robert Frost - Prose Poems

Jack Kerouck - Mexico City Blues

Jack Kerouac - Poems All Sizes

Jack Kerouck - Haiku

Anne Sexton- Complete Poems

Diane Di Prima - Selected Poems

Diane Di Prima - Loba

Ernest Dowson - Poems and Prose

Galway Kinnell - Collected, Selected (various editions)

Jorge Louis Borges - Collected Poetry

Fernando Pessoa - Collected Poems

Octavio Paz - Complete Poems

Edgar Allen Poe- The Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe

Ezra Pound - Personae: Collected Shorter Poems

Wallace Stevens - Harmonium

Robinson Jeffers - Selected Poems

Robert Frost - Collected Poems

Hart Crane - White Buildings

Gerard Manley Hopkins - Complete Poetry

Dylan Thomas - Complete Poems

Alexander Pope - Complete Works

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales

Eileen Myles - Maxfield Parrish (Black Sparrow Press)

Pierre Reverdy - Collected Poetry

Billy Collins - Picnic, Lightning

Billy Collins - The Trouble With Poetry

Charles Simic - Walking the Black Cat

Lyn Lifshin - Collected Poetry

James Dickey - Collected Poetry

Thomas Hardy - Complete Poems

Hart Crane - The Bridge

Williams Carlos Williams - Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2

John Ashbery - Collected Poems 1956-1987

John Ashbery - Some Trees

John Ashbery - Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror

Frank O'Hara - Collected Poems

Frank O'Hara - Lunch Poems, Pocket Poets Series

Anne Waldman - Fast Speaking Woman

James Wright - The Branch Will Not Break

Robert Bly - Collected Poems (various editions)

Franz Wright - Collected Poetry

Edwin Denby - Collected

e.e. cummings - Books of Poems to Waft Farts With

Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg - Kaddish

Allen Ginsberg - Reality Sandwiches

Allen Ginsberg - The Fall of America

Bob Kaufman - Golden Sardine

Bob Kaufman - Solitudes Crowded With Lonliness

John Berryman - The Dream Songs

Louis Zukofsky - Z

Louis Zukofsky - Selected Shorter Poetry

Charles Olson - The Maximus Poems

Michael Meyerhofer - Damnatio Memoriae and Blue Collar Eulogies

and Tony Hoagland - Donkey Gospels and What Narcissism Means to Me

and Stephen Dobyns - Velocities

Donald Hall - Without

Gilliaume Appolinaire - Selected Writings

Appolinaire - Selected Writings Elizabeth Bishop - Complete Poetry

Sylvia Plath - Complete Poetry

Philip Larkin - Selected Poetry

Vladmir Mayakovsky - Collected Translations

Cornelius Eady - Hardheaded Weather

Gwendolyn Brooks - Collected Poetry

Robert Burns - Complete Poetry

John Claire -Complete Works

Aleksandr Blok - Verses About The Lady Beautiful

Virgil - Aeneid

Dante Aligheri - La Vita Nuova

Petrarch - Collected Sonnets

Basho - Haiku

Maya Angelou - Collected Poems

Lucille Clifton -Quilting

Lucille Clifton - Blessing The Boats New and Selected Poems

Lucille Clifton - Mercy

Li Bai - Collected Poems

Kenneth Rexroth - 100 Poems From The Japanese

Kenneth Rexroth - 100 Poems From The Chinese

Tu Fu - Collected Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke - Collected Poems

Alexander Pushkin - Complete Poems

Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Poems

Boris Pasternak - Collected Poetry

Margaret Atwood - Selected Poetry

Edna St. Vincent Milay - Complete Poems

H.D. - Collected Poetry

Theodore Roethke - Collected Poetry

D.H. Lawrence - Complete Poems

Gary Soto - Oranges

Plays and Playwrights

Eugene O'Neill - Complete Plays (Library of America)

Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman

Thornton Wilder - Our Town

Tennessee Williams - Plays 1937 - 1955 (Library of America)

Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun

Edward Albee - The Collected Plays of Edward Albee

Sam Shepard - Buried Child

August Wilson - Fences

Tony Kushner - Angels in America

Others

Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville - Moby-Dick

Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Henry James - The American

Henry James - The Turn of the Screw and other short novels

Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

Jack London - The Call of the Wild

Gertrude Stein - Three Lives

Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence

Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy

Willa Cather - My Ántonia

Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Sinclair Lewis - Main Street

Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt

Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy

Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bells Toll

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer

John O'Hara - Appointment in Samarra

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

John Steinbeck - East of Eden

John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust

Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

Richard Wright - Native Son

Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men

Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451

J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

William Gaddis - The Recognitions

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Jack Kerouac - On the Road

William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch

John Updike - Rabbit,Run

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

John Barth - The Sot-Weed Factor

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Saul Bellow - Herzog

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon - V.

William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon

Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth - American Pastoral

Cormac McCarthy - The Road

John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

Don Delillo - Libra

Don Delillo - Underworld

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

Slave Narratives

Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative

Solomon Northrup - Twelve Years a Slave

Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

- Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Reconstruction Era

W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk

- The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Booker T.Washington - Up From Slavery

Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes - Not Without Laughter

Jean Toomer - Cane

George S. Schugler - Black No More

Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Claude McKay - Home to Harlem

Nella Larsen - Quicksand and Passing

- The Walls of Jericho

- The Blacker and the Berry

Civil Rights Era

James Baldwin - Go Tell it on the Mountain

Richard Wright - Native Son

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

- The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Gwendolyn Brooks - Selected Poems

Chester Himes - If he Hollers Let Him Go

Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun

Contemporary

Charles Mingus - Beneath the Underdog

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Walter Mosley - Killing Johnny Fry

Alex haley - Roots

Amiri Baraka - Somebody Blew Up America

Terry McMillan - Waiting to Exhale

Gloria Naylor - Linden Hills

Ismael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo

- Kindre D

Edward P. Jones - The Known World

(includes some non-fiction as well)

British & Irish [ edit | edit source ]

Classic Horror

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Bram Stoker - Dracula

Henry James - The Turn of the Screw

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Stories and Poems

Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow

Matthew Lewis - The Monk

Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer

Ambrose Bierce - Ghost, and Other Stories

20th Century Horror

Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House

Richard Matheson - I Am Legend

Clive Barker - Books of Blood

Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes

Stephen King - It , Pet Sematary

, Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs

Dan Simmons - Song of Kali

Algernon Blackwood - Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

M.R. James - Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories

Mervyn Peake - Boy in Darkness

William Hodgson - The House on the Borderland

H. P. Lovecraft - Collected Stories

New Horror

Laird Barron - Occultation

Joe R. Lansdale - The Best of Joe R. Lansdale

Will Elliot - The Pilo Family Circus

Edward Lee - Bullet Through Your Face

Tim Curran - The Devil Next Door

Dave Brockie - Whargoul

Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box

Thomas Ligotti - Teatro Grottesco

Epic Fantasy:

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring

George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones

Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time

Michael Meyerhofer - Wytchfire

Paul Kearney - Hawkwood's Voyage

K.J.Parker - Devices and Desires

Melanie Rawn - Dragon Prince

Brian Ruckley - Winterbirth

Tad WIlliams - The Dragonbone Chair

David Zindell - The Lightsone

Daniel Abraham - A Shadow in Summer

Chris Wooding - The Braided Path

Raymond E. Feist - The Riftwar Cycle

Greg Keyes - The Briar King

Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of The Wind

Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora

Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn: The Final Empire

Urban Fantasy

Jim Butcher - The Dresden files

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, American Gods, The Anansi Boys

Graham Joyce - The Tooth Fairy

R.A.Macavoy - Tea with the Black Dragon

Jonathan Carroll - The Land of Laughs

Seanan McGuire - October Daye series

Swords and Sorcery

Raymond E. Feist - Magician

Fritz Leiber - The First Book of Lankhmar

Michael Moorcock - Elric of Melnibone

Michael Shea - The Incomplete Nifft

Jack Vance - Tales of the Dying Earth

Karl Edward Wagner - Gods in Darkness

C.L.Moore - Jirel of Joiry

Ed Greenwood - Elminster: The Making of a Mage

Entry Level

Terry Brooks - First King of Shannara

Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising

David Eddings - Pawn of Prophecy

David Eddings - The Diamond Throne

Raymond E.Feist - Magician

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragon Wing

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Rose of the Prophet

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Time of the Twins

C.S.Lewis - The Lion' , ' The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

R.A.Salvatore - Homeland

Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials

Guy Gavriel Kay - The Fionavar Tapestry

Coming of Age

Glen Cook - The Swordbearer

Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice

J.V.Jones - The Baker's Boy

Rebecca Bradley - Lady in Gil

Historic Fantasy

David Gemell - Troy

Guy Gavriel Kay - The Lions of Al-Rassan

J.Gregory Keyes - Newton's Cannon

R.A.MacAvoy - Damiano

T.H.White - The Once and Future king

Gene Wolfe - Latro in the Mist

George R.R. Martin - Fevre Dream

John M.Ford - The Dragon Waiting

Mary Gentle - A Secret History

Mystery

Steven Brust - The Book of Jhereg

Jim Butcher - Storm Front

Glen Cook - Sweet Silver Blues

Barry Hughart - Bridge of Birds

Matthew Hughes - Majestrum

Comic Fantasy

Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum

Christopher Moore - Lamb

Peter David - Sir Apropos of Nothing

Mary Gentle - Grunts

William Goldman - The Princess Bride

Weird

H.P.Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness

William Hope Hodgson - The House in the Borderland

Clark Ashton Smith - The Emperor of Dreams

Jeff Vandermeer - City of Saints and Madmen

China Miéville - Perdido Street Station

Mythic

Roger Zelazny - Creatures of Light and Darkness

Mickey Zucker Reichert - The Last of the Renshai

Jonh Myers Myers - Silverlock

Steven Brust - To Reign in Hell

Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword

Michael Scott Rogan - The Anvil of Ice

Alternate World

Stephen R. Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever , The Mirror in her Dreams

, Julian May - The Many-Coloured Land

Stephen R. Lawhead - The Paradise War

Poul Anderson - Three Heards and Three Lions

Roger Zelazny - The Great Book of Amber

Garth Nix - The Old Kingdom

Old School

George MacDonal - Phantastes

E.R.Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros

Lord Dunsany - The King of Elfland's Daughter

Ernest Bramah - The Wallet of Kail Lung

David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus

Charles G. Finney - The Circus of Dr.Lao

Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita

Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan

Miscellaneous

Paul Edwin Zimmer - The Lost Prince

David Gemell - Legend

C.S.Friedman - Black Sun Rising

K.J.Parker - Shadow

Kate Elliot - King's Dragon

Michael A.Stackpole - Talion Revenant

Matthew Woodring Stover - Heroes Die

Gene Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer

Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates

John Marco - The Jackal of Nar

Andrzej Sapkowski - Blood of Elves

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Glen Cook - Chronicles of the Black Company

Patricia A. Mckillip - The Riddle-Master of Hed

Sean Ruselss - The Initiate Brother

Brent Weeks - The Way of Shadows

Jeniffer Fallon - The Immortal Prince

John Crowley - Little, Big

Catherynne M. Valente - In the Night Garden

M. John Harrison - Viriconium

Jack Vance - Lyonesse

Frank & Brian Herbert - The Dune Series

Dave Duncan - King's Blades Series

David Eddings - Belgariad Trilogy

Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality

Classics

Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenko

by Yoshida Kenko Essays by Francis Bacon

by Francis Bacon The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne

by Michel de Montaigne The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

by Robert Burton Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays by Charles Lamb

by Charles Lamb Walden by Henry David Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

of Ralph Waldo Emerson The Complete Essays of Mark Twain

of Mark Twain The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire

by Charles Baudelaire In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton

of G.K. Chesterton The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde

by Oscar Wilde Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)

A Collection of Essays by George Orwell

by George Orwell The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats [vols. IV and V: Early and Later Essays]

of W.B. Yeats [vols. IV and V: Early and Later Essays] Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf

by Virginia Woolf Selected Essays by D.H. Lawrence

by D.H. Lawrence Selected Essays by T.S. Eliot

by T.S. Eliot Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard

by Annie Dillard Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn

by Lafcadio Hearn Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport

by Guy Davenport Essays of E.B. White

of E.B. White Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag

by Susan Sontag We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion

by Joan Didion Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry by John Simon

by John Simon Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience by Aldous Huxley

by Aldous Huxley Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor

by Flannery O'Connor Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

of Ezra Pound In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays by Anais Nin

by Anais Nin Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote

of Truman Capote The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien

by Flann O'Brien A Jacques Barzun Reader by Jacques Barzun

by Jacques Barzun Reflections on Exile by Edward W. Said

by Edward W. Said The Vintage Mencken by H.L. Mencken

by H.L. Mencken The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

by Dorothy Parker Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike

by John Updike Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter

by Angela Carter Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick

by Cynthia Ozick The Donald Richie Reader by Donald Richie

by Donald Richie Dreamer of Dreams by John Simon

by John Simon On Histories and Stories by A.S. Byatt

by A.S. Byatt Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings by John Fowles

by John Fowles Finding a Form by William H. Gass

by William H. Gass An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger

Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)

Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

by Jorge Luis Borges Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille

by Georges Bataille Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec

by Georges Perec Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays by Raymond Queneau

by Raymond Queneau Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren

of Zhou Zuoren Selected Bilingual Essays of Lin Yutang

of Lin Yutang Illuminations: Essays by Walter Benjamin

by Walter Benjamin A Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes

by Roland Barthes Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

by Italo Calvino The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

of Fernando Pessoa Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky

by Joseph Brodsky Myself With Others: Essays by Carlos Fuentes

by Carlos Fuentes The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz

by Octavio Paz The Spirit of Prague by Ivan Klima

by Ivan Klima Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera

by Milan Kundera How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco

by Umberto Eco Anathemas and Admirations by E.M. Cioran

by E.M. Cioran Passing By: Selected Essays by Jerzy Kosinski

by Jerzy Kosinski Other People's Trades by Primo Levi

by Primo Levi Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic

by Dubravka Ugresic Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald





Pre-socratics:

Various - Early Greek Philosophy

Kenneth Sylvan Guthre - The Pythagorean Sourcebook and library

Charles H.Kahn - The art and thought of Heraclitus

Parmenides of Elea - Fragments

David Gallop - Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments

John Dillon, Tania Gergel - The Greek sophists

Empedocles - The extant Fragments

Various links http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics http://www.heraclitusfragments.com http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/



On Socrates:

I.F.Stone - The trial of Socrates

Aristophanes - The clouds

Charles H.Kahn - Plato and the Socratic dialogue

Karl R. Popper - The open society and its enemies

Gail Fine - Plato on knowledge and forms.

By plato:

(Note made by Isabelle: later translations are usually more accessible. I AM not a fan of Jowett. Since she composed this list I thought it necessary to add this)

Early Works: Apology Crito Euthyphro (holiness, the Euthyphro dilemma) Ion Laches (courage) Protagoras (the teachability of virtue) Gorgias (rethoric vs. philosophy) Meno (virtue, Meno's paradox)

Middle Works Parmenides - Forms Phaedo (the death of socrates, the afterlife) Phaedrus (love and rethoric) Republic (politics, the state and the soul) Symposium (true love, the 'Ladder of Love') Theaetetus (knowledge)

Later Works Critias (Atlantis) Sophist (more on Forms) Timaeus (the purpose of the universe)



On Aristotle

David M.Balme - Aristotle on Nature and Living Things: Philosophical and Historical Studies

Cristopher Shields - Aristotle

David Furley - From Aristotle to Augustine

By Aristotle

(Another note by Isabelle: Oxford translations are best)

The Nicomachean Ethics (virtue ethics, leads into Politics)

Rethoric

Metaphysics

Poetics

Politics

Cynicism

Farrand Sayre - Diogenes of Sinope: A study of Greek cynicism

R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé -The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy

Epicureanism

James Warren - The Cambridge's companion to Epicureanism

Eugene O'connor - The essential Epicurus

Lucretius - The nature of things

Stoicism

(Isabella specified Penguin Classics)

Seneca - Letters from a stoic

Epictetus - Discourses and selected writings

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Skepticism

Norman Maccoll - The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus

Sextus Empiricus - Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Richard T. Wallis - Neoplatonism and Gnosticism

John Gregory - The neoplatonists

Plotinus - The enneads

General

From the Meadows of Gold by Mas'udi

by Mas'udi The Travels of Ibn Battutah

of Ibn Battutah Voyages and Discoveries by Richard Hakluyt

by Richard Hakluyt The Journals of Captain James Cook

of Captain James Cook South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton

by Ernest Shackleton The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby

by Eric Newby Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh

by Evelyn Waugh Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinsk

by Ryszard Kapuscinsk The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier

by Nicolas Bouvier Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill

by Tim Cahill Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer

Europe

Guide to Greece by Pausanias

by Pausanias Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan

by Ibn Fadlan A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne

by Laurence Sterne Letters From England by Voltaire

by Voltaire Italian Journey: 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine

by Heinrich Heine Letters from Russia by Adolphe De Custine

by Adolphe De Custine Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

by Mark Twain D. H. Lawrence and Italy by D.H. Lawrence

by D.H. Lawrence Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

by Rebecca West Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor

by Patrick Leigh Fermor A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

by Patrick Leigh Fermor The Silent Traveler in London by Chiang Lee

by Chiang Lee Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson

by Tim Robinson The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller

by Henry Miller Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris

by Jan Morris In Siberia by Colin Thubron

by Colin Thubron The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald

by W. G. Sebald Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk

Asia

The Travels of Marco Polo

of Marco Polo The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Mandeville An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi

of Evliya Celebi Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho

by Matsuo Basho Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird

by Isabella L. Bird The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace

by Alfred Russel Wallace A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina by Richard Burton

by Richard Burton Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

by Lafcadio Hearn The Southern Gates of Arabia by Freya Stark

by Freya Stark A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor

by Patrick Leigh Fermor A Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux

by Henri Michaux Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd

by David Kidd Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley

by J.R. Ackerley Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer

by Heinrich Harrer A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby

by Eric Newby The Inland Sea by Donald Richie

by Donald Richie Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

by Wilfred Thesiger The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron

by Colin Thubron The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

by Peter Matthiessen Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux

by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

by Paul Theroux City of Djinns by William Dalrymple

by William Dalrymple Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue by Paul Bowles

Africa

Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park

by Mungo Park Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley

by Mary Kingsley Source of the Nile by Richard Burton

by Richard Burton The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

by Henry Walter Bates Travels in the Congo by Andre Gide

by Andre Gide Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

by Isak Dinesen Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene

by Graham Greene The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti

by Elias Canetti North of South by Shiva Naipaul

by Shiva Naipaul African Laughter by Doris Lessing

The Americas

Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America by Alexander von Humboldt

by Alexander von Humboldt History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean de Lery

by Jean de Lery The Journals of Lewis and Clark

of Lewis and Clark The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman

by Francis Parkman American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau Travels in Alaska by John Muir

by John Muir Roughing It by Mark Twain

by Mark Twain Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn

by Lafcadio Hearn Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins

by Gontran de Poncins Here is New York by E.B. White

by E.B. White Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

by John Steinbeck Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

by Thor Heyerdahl The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene

by Graham Greene In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

by Bruce Chatwin An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie

by Tété-Michel Kpomassie I See by My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle

by Peter S. Beagle Coming into the Country by John McPhee

by John McPhee A Walk in the Woods, A Brief History of Nearly Everything , and In a Sunburnt Country by Bill Bryson

, and by Bill Bryson A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul

by V.S. Naipaul The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux

Anthologies