Masterpieces

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11/22/63 by Stephen King

1984 by George Orwell

2666 by Roberto Bolano

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

A Book of One’s Own by Thomas Mallon

A Boy at the Hogarth Press by Richard Kennedy

A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Classical Education by Richard Cobb

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

A Coffin for King Charles by C. V. Wedgwood

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler

A Dresser of Sycamore Trees by Garret Keizer

A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill

A False Spring by Pat Jordan

A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

A Fortunate Man by John Berger

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

A Genius in the Family by Hiram Percy Maxim

A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys

A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis

A Happy Boy by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

A Johnson Reader by Samuel Johnson

A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Mass for the Dead by William Gibson

A Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

A Moment’s Liberty by Virginia Woolf

A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr

A Palpable God by Reynolds Price

A Part of Myself by Carl Zuckmayer

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes

A Reader’s Delight by Noel Perrin

A Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby

A Simple Plan by Scott Smith

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Taste for Death by P. D. James

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Woman, A Man, and Two Kingdoms by Francis Steegmuller

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

Abel’s Island by William Steig

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings by Abraham Lincoln

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Act One by Moss Hart

Adam’s Task by Vicki Hearne

Adventures on the Wine Route by Kermit Lynch

After Babel by George Steiner

Ake by Wole Soyinka

Akenfield by Ronald Blythe

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

Alcestis by Euripides

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

American Prometheus by Kai Bird

Among Others by Jo Walton

An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer

Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Another Self by James Lees-Milne

Antigone by Sophocles

Anybody Can Do Anything by Betty MacDonald

April 1865 by Jay Winik

Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez

Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume

Artful by Ali Smith

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Astoria by Washington Irving

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Aubrey’s Brief Lives by John Aubrey

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Autobiography of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill

Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beowulf by Anonymous

Bequest of Wings by Annis Duff

Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer

Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters: 1874-1950 by George Bernard Shaw

Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace

Between Meals by A. J. Liebling

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Beyond a Boundary by C. L. R. James

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

Black Spring by Henry Miller

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

Boggs: A Comedy of Values by Lawrence Weschler

Book Lust by Nancy Pearl

Book of Ages by Jill Lepore

Bound to Please by Michael Dirda

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming

Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone

Bright Air, Brilliant Fire by Gerald Edelman

Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Burr by Gore Vidal

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Call It Sleep by Henry Roth

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire

Cane by Jean Toomer

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Carrie by Stephen King

Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Celestine by Gillian Tindall

Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

City by Clifford D. Simak

Classic Crimes by W. N. Roughead

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai

Clementine in the Kitchen by Samuel Chamberlain

Clockers by Richard Price

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Collected Dialogues by Plato

Collected Essays by James Baldwin

Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell by George Orwell

Collected Poems 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur

Collected Stories of Frank O’Connor by Frank O'Connor

Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris

Company by Samuel Beckett

Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings

Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector by Clarice Lispector

Confessions by Saint Augustine

Confessions of a Philosopher by Bryan Magee

Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs by Buddy Levy

Conversations with Glenn Gould by Jonathan Cott

Corinne, Or Italy by Madame de Stael

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Crazy Salad by Nora Ephron

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller

Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortazar

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Cultural Amnesia by Clive James

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Dakota by Kathleen Norris

Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos

Darwin Among The Machines by George Dyson

Darwin’s Dreampond by Tijs Goldschmidt

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave by Jean-Marie Chauvet

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Death of My Aunt by C. H. B. Kitchin

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

Dispatches by Michael Herr

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage by Richard Holmes

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Dubliners by James Joyce

Earthly Paradise by Colette

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean

Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

Eloise by Kay Thompson

Emma by Jane Austen

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly

Epitaph of a Small Winner by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Essays by Michel de Montaigne

Essays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum

Eyewitness to History by John Carey

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Fame and Obscurity by Gay Talese

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Fields of Fire by James Webb

Five Days in London by John Lukacs

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish

Footsteps by Richard Holmes

Forests by Robert Pogue Harrison

Forms of Devotion by Diane Schoemperlen

Foundation: The Foundation Trilogy, Book 1 by Isaac Asimov

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

France and England in North America by Francis Parkman

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger

Friends in High Places by Donna Leon

From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming

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

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins by Elizabeth Lawrence

Gardner’s Art through the Ages by Fred S. Kleiner

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

Garibaldi and the Thousand by George Macaulay Trevelyan

Germinal by Emile Zola

Giants and Heroes by Dianne Tittle de Laet

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

Giving Up the Gun by Noel Perrin

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Gold Coast by Elmore Leonard

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves

Goodbye, Darkness by William Manchester

Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Great Books by David Denby

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great River by Paul Horgan

Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old by Wilhelm Grimm

Growing Up by Russell Baker

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared M. Diamond

Guy de Maupassant’s Tales of Revenge – A Collection of Short Stories by Guy de Mauspassant

Guys and Dolls by Damon Runyon

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Heisenberg’s War by Thomas Powers

Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

Hermit of Peking by Hugh Trevor-Roper

Hiroshima Diary by Michihiko Hachiya

Histories by Herodotus

Histories and Annals by Tacitus

History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova

History of the Conquest of Mexico by William H. Prescott

History: A Novel by Elsa Morante

Holmes-Laski Letters by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir by D. J. Waldie

Home by Witold Rybczynski

Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford

Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by Stewart Brand

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

How to Tell When You’re Tired by Reg Theriault

Howards End by E. M. Forster

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Was A Stranger by Sir John Winthrop Hackett

If This Is a Man by Primo Levi

Ill Met By Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss

Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

In the Vineyard of the Text by Ivan Illich

In Xanadu by William Dalrymple

Independence Day by Richard Ford

Independent People by Halldor Laxness

Independent Spirit by Hubert Butler

Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Edmund Wilson

Italian Journey by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Japanese Inn by Oliver Hadley Statler

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Judgment Night by C. L. Moore

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Just So Stories for Little Children by Rudyard Kipling

Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier

Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kilvert’s Diary by Francis Kilvert

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

LaBrava by Elmore Leonard

Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama

Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson

Last Hope Island by Lynne Olson

Laughing in the Hills by Bill Barich

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Lenin’s Tomb by David Remnick

Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee

Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain

Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Letters of John Keats by John Keats

Letters of Pliny the Younger by Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis

Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

Life in Code by Ellen Ullman

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec

Light in August by William Faulkner

Light Years by James Salter

Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills

Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik

Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little, Big by John Crowley

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Longitude by Dava Sobel

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

lost boy lost girl by Peter Straub

Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac

Lost In Place by Mark Salzman

Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Ilene Beckerman

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

Maigret and the Man on the Bench by Georges Simenon

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Man Meets Dog by Konrad Lorenz

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Medea by Euripides

Medieval in LA by Jim Paul

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Melbourne by David Cecil

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

Memoirs by Louis de Rouvroy

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Memoirs of a Medieval Woman by Louise Collis

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Memorial by Ferdinando Camon

Memories of the Great & the Good by Alistair Cooke

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung

Merchant Kings by Stephen R. Bown

Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols

Metamorphoses by Ovid

Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

Molloy by Samuel Beckett

Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse

Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman by S. J. Perelman

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgins

Mrs. Adams in Winter by Michael O'Brien

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

My Father’s Fortune by Michael Frayn

My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle by Marcel Pagnol

My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

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

Native Son by Richard Wright

Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson

Navigator of the Flood by Mario Brelich

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

Night by Elie Wiesel

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes on a Cowardly Lion by John Lahr

Nova by Samuel R. Delany

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Oedipus the King by Sophocles

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

Old Glory by Jonathan Raban

Old Herbaceous by Reginald Arkell

Old House of Fear by Russell Kirk

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

On the Shoulders of Giants by Robert K. Merton

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso

Oranges by John McPhee

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Othello by William Shakespeare

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Part of Our Time by Murray Kempton

Passing the Time in Ballymenone by Henry Glassie

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Pax Britannica by Jan Morris

Pensees by Blaise Pascal

Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac

Period Piece by Gwen Raverat

Personal History by Katharine Graham

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie

Pigs Have Wings by P. G. Wodehouse

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years by Taylor Branch

Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill

Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch

Poems by Sappho

Poems and Sermons by John Donne

Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith

Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson

Possession by A. S. Byatt

Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number by Jacobo Timerman

Products of the Perfected Civilization by Nicolas Chamfort

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman

Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow

Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta by Doris Lessing

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha

Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas

Richard II by William Shakespeare

Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell

Ringworld by Larry Niven

River of Shadows by Rebecca Solnit

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins

Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

Saint-Exupery by Stacy Schiff

Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Selected Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke

Selected Stories, 1968-1994 by Alice Munro

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Skellig by David Almond

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa

Small Talk at Wreyland by Cecil Torr

Something Happened by Joseph Heller

Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell

Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Sparkle and Spin by Ann Rand

Spartina by John Casey

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov

Stoner by John Williams

Stories by Anton Chekhov

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948-1971 by Robert Craft

String Too Short to Be Saved by Donald Hall

Study is Hard Work by William H. Armstrong

Sudden Fiction by Robert Shapard

Swallowing Clouds by A. Zee

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-Me Book of Poems by X. J. Kennedy

Talleyrand by Duff Cooper

Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson

Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen

Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta by Ross E. Dunn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Aeneid by Virgil

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The All of It by Jeannette Haien

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

The Arabian Nights by Anonymous

The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher

The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate

The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman

The Aspern Papers by Henry James

The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth by Roy Andries de Groot

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Baburnama by Babur

The Bacchae by Euripides

The Beast in the Nursery by Adam Phillips

The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge

The Bogey Man by George Plimpton

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura

The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan

The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

The Bookshop Novels: Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley

The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

The Clouds by Aristophanes

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James by M. R. James

The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter

The Collected Stories of William Trevor by William Trevor

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir

The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg by Carl Sandburg

The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor by Flannery O'Connor

The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka

The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle by Charles de Gaulle

The Complete Works of O. Henry by O. Henry

The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Cosmic Code by Heinz R. Pagels

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The Dead of the House by Hannah Green

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy

The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies

The Destruction of Lord Raglan by Christopher Hibbert

The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Double Helix by James D. Watson

The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard

The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist

The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx

The Element of Lavishness by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor’s Last Island by Julia Blackburn

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous

The Essential Haiku by Robert Hass

The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

The Face of Battle by John Keegan

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Firm by John Grisham

The First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook

The First Man by Albert Camus

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles

The Fringes of Power by John Colville

The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

The Gentleman in Trollope by Shirley Robin Letwin

The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport

The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

The Goncourt Journal by Edmond de Goncourt

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing

The Great Crash, 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

The Greek Passion by Nikos Kazantzakis

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Habit of Being by Flannery O'Connor

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Hills is Lonely by Lillian Beckwith

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary

The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

The House of Life by Mario Praz

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

The Iliad by Homer

The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Infatuations by Javier Marias

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf

The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion

The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

The Likeness by Tana French

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

The List of Books by Frederic Raphael

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien

The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg

The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi

the lives and times of archy and mehitabel by Don Marquis

The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari

The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard

The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day

The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters by George Lyttelton

The Mabinogion by Anonymous

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Major Works by Sir Thomas Browne

The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

The Maples Stories by John Updike

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso

The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Medical Detectives by Berton Roueche

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel

The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz by Hector Berlioz

The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

The Modern Researcher by Jacques Barzun

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban

The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho

The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

The Odes of Horace by Horace

The Odyssey by Homer

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Oldest Dead White European Males by Bernard Knox

The Once and Future King by T. H. White

The Oresteia by Aeschylus

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

The Origins of European Thought by Richard Broxton Onians

The Outermost House by Henry Beston

The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Panda’s Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould

The People of the Abyss by Jack London

The People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart

The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro

The Prelude and Other Poetry by William Wordsworth

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

The Princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

The Quest for Corvo by A. J. A. Symons

The Rainbabies by Laura Melmed

The Reckoning by Charles Nicholl

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

The Roots of Civilization by Alexander Marshack

The Sagas of Icelanders by Anonymous

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. Tomlinson

The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

The Selected Letters of William James by William James

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth

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

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Spare Room by Helen Garner

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carre

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin

The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

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

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Surprise of Cremona by Edith Templeton

The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Third Man by Graham Greene

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Three Golden Keys by Peter Sis

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay

The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Trojan Women by Euripides

The Tuscan Year by Elizabeth Romer

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

The U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch

The Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

The Village of Waiting by George Packer

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

The Voices of Silence by Andre Malraux

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

The Way Things Are by Lucretius

The Wicked Pavilion by Dawn Powell

The Wild Ass’s Skin by Honore de Balzac

The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch

The William Tyndale Old Testament by William Tyndale

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The World According to Garp by John Irving

The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy

The World of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry

The Worm Forgives the Plough by John Stewart Collis

The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

The Zoom Trilogy by Tim Wynne-Jones

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill

There Is a World Elsewhere by F. Gonzalez-Crussi

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

This House of Sky by Ivan Doig

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Time and the Art of Living by Robert Grudin

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Topper by Thorne Smith

Torregreca by Ann Cornelisen

Tracks by Robyn Davidson

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Travels with Lizbeth by Lars Eighner

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

Truman by David McCullough

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Two Sought Adventure by Fritz Leiber

Ulysses by James Joyce

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Venice for Pleasure by Joseph Gluckstein Links

Village School by Miss Read

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

War in Val d’Orcia by Iris Origo

Watership Down by Richard Adams

We Die Alone by David Howarth

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

When French Women Cook by Madeleine Kamman

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen

Within the Context of No Context by George W. S. Trow

Within This Wilderness by Feenie Ziner

Witnessing America by Library of Congress

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel

Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo

Zibaldone by Giacomo Leopardi