My Read Books List
Works here were usually completely read by me unless otherwise specified. There are many more that I’ve sampled in smaller amounts, or skimmed (like The Upanishads, The Koran, and many books by poets and philosophers - barely to mention all sorts of periodical articles, etc.), but that list would have been unmanageable: these are most of the books I can recall reading (except for a some books from childhood like Thornton W. Burgess’ animal stories). Favorite thinkers are in bold type; recommended books are in italics; and works critically intertwined with my philosophical outlook are marked with a ☻
Intellectual Books
History of Philosophy:
An
Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy – John Mansley Robinson Parmenides’s Poem
☻Apology; Ion; Meno; Euthydemus; Cratylus; Phaedrus; Symposium; Republic; Theatetus; Parmenides; Sophist; Statesman; Philebus; Timaeus – Plato
Organon (sections from Categories, De Interpretatione, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics); On Memory; On Sleep; On Dreams; On Divination in Sleep; Metaphysics (sections); Nicomachean Ethics (sections); Poetics – Aristotle
Aristotle – Sir David Ross
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle – Jonathan Barnes (Editor)
Discourse on Method – Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy – Descartes
Ethics – Spinoza
Monadology – Leibniz
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (sections) – Locke
Principles of Human Knowledge – Berkeley
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous – Berkeley
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (sections) – Hume
☻Critique of Pure Reason – Kant
Critique of Practical Reason (sections) – Kant
Critique of Judgment – Kant
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of view (sections) – Kant
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics - Kant
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy: Patrick Gardiner (Editor)
☻Phenomenology of Mind – Hegel
The Philosophy of Right (sections) – Hegel
G.W.F. Hegel: On Art, Religion, Philosophy (sections) – J. Glenn Gray (Editor)
Hegel – Charles Taylor
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction - Peter Singer
Fear and Trembling (sections) – Kierkegaard
Concluding Unscientific Postscript (sections) – Kierkegaard
The Birth of Tragedy – Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil – Nietzsche
On The Genealogy of Morals – Nietzsche
Ecco Homo – Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (most) – Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols – Nietzsche
☻The Will to Power (half) – Nietzsche
☻New Nietzsche: Contemporary Styles of Interpretation - David B. Allison (Editor)
Karl Marx: Selected Writings – Lawrence H. Simon (Editor)
Introduction to Marx and Engels: A Critical Reconstruction – Richard Schmitt
Marx: A Very Short Introduction - Peter Singer
Ideas – Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl – Maurice Natanson
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life – Freud
☻The Interpretation of Dreams – Freud
Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious – Freud
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement – Freud
Totem and Taboo – Freud
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality – Freud
A Primer of Freudian Psychology – Calvin S. Hall
On Freud - Michael S. Trupp
Being and Time (most) – Martin Heidegger
☻Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings – David Farrel Krell (Editor)
Martin Heidegger: Poetry, Language, Thought – Albert Hofstadter (Editor)
Martin Heidegger – George Steiner
Tractutus Logico-Philosophicus – Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations – Wittgenstein
☻Blue & Brown Books – Wittgenstein
Lectures & Conversations: On Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief – Wittgenstein
☻On Certainty – Wittgenstein
Culture and Value (sections) – Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein – David Pears
The New Wittgenstein – Alice Marguerite Crary, Rupert Read (Editors)
Wittgenstein: On Rules and Private Language – Saul A. Kripke
Origins of Analytical Philosophy – Michael Dummett
Dummett: Philosophy of Language – Karen Green
A History of Western Philosophy – Bertrand Russell
Basic Teachings of the Great Philosophers – S. E. Frost, Jr.
The Mentor Philosophers: The Age of Belief, The Medieval Philosophers – Anne Fremantle (Editor)
The Mentor Philosophers: The Age of Adventure, the Renaissance Philosophers – Giorgiode Santillana (Editor)
The Mentor Philosophers: The Age of Reason, the 17th Century Philosophers – Stuart Hamphsire (Editor)
The Mentor Philosophers: The Age of Enlightenment, the 18th Century Philosophers – Isaiah Berlin (Editor)
The Mentor Philosophers: The Age of Ideology, the 19th Century Philosophers – Henry D. Aiken (Editor)
The Mentor Philosophers: The Age of Analysis, the 20th Century Philosophers – Morton White (Editor)
Philosophy of the Twentieth Century Vol. 1-4 – William Barrett, Henry D. Aiken (Editors)
Fifty Major Philosophers: A Reference Guide – Diane Collonson
One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers – Stuart Brown (Editor)
Analytic Philosophy: Beginnings to the Present - Jordan J. Lindberg
Twentieth Century Philosophy: The Analytic Tradition – Morris Weitz (Editor)
Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy – Avrum Stroll
An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis – John Hospers
Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida – Allan Megill
Modern French Philosophy – Vincent Descombes
Critical Theory since 1965 - Hazard Adams (Editor), Leroy Searle
Pragmatism:
Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays - Charles Sanders Peirce, Morris R. Cohen (Editor) (at least first essay)
An Introduction to C. S. Peirce - Robert S. Corrington
Reconstruction in Philosophy – John Dewey
Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Cooperative Intelligence - James Campbell
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays – Willard V. Quine
Word and Object - Willard V. Quine
On Quine – Lynn Hankinson Nelson
Quine: Language, Experience and Reality – Christopher Hookway
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation - Donald Davidson
☻Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective – Donald Davidson
The Philosophy of Donald Davidson - Lewis Edwin Hahn (Editor)
Donald Davidson – Simon Evnine
Pragmatism: An Open Question - Hilary Putnam
Reason, Truth and History - Hilary Putnam
The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays - Hilary Putnam
The Many Faces of Realism - Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam: Realism, Reason and the Uses of Uncertainty - Christopher Norris
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature – Richard Rorty
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity – Richard Rorty
☻Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers - Richard Rorty
☻Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth - Richard Rorty
☻Essays on Heidegger and Others - Richard Rorty
Philosophy and Social Hope – Richard Rorty
Post-Analytic Philosophy – John, Rajchman, Cornel West
Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism - W. J. T. Mitchell (Editor)
Postmodernism & Semiotics:
Ecrits – Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan – Anika Lemaire
Madness and Civilization – Michel Foucault
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences – Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality, Vol.1 – Michel Foucault
The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
Nietzsche and Philosophy – Gilles Deleuze
Difference and Repetition – Gilles Deleuze
Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties - Gilles Deleuze
Foucault – Gilles Deleuze
Anti-Oedipus – Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Negotiations – Gilles Deleuze
Deleuze: The Clamor of Being - Alain Badiou
Deleuzism: A Metacommentary – Ian Buchanan
Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation – Dorothea Olkowski
Gilles Deleuze – Claire Colebrook
The Deleuze Connections – John Rajchman
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge - Jean-Francois Lyotard
☻The Revolution in Poetic Language – Julia Kristeva
Simulations - Jean Baudrillard
Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism – Fredric Jameson
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics – Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe
Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative – Jean-Luc Nancy
On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy – D. Sheppard (Editor)
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture - Hal Foster (Editor), et al
Superstructuralism: The Philosophy of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism - Richard Harland
An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism - Madan Sarup
The Origins of Postmodernity – Perry Anderson
From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology – Lawrence Cahoone (Editor)
Postmodernism - Thomas Docherty (Editor)
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity - John Lechte
The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought – Stuart Sim (Editor)
☻Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations - Steven Best, Douglas Kellner
The Postmodern Turn – Steven Best, Douglas Kellner
The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium -Steven Best, Douglas Kellner
The Illusions of Postmodernism – Terry Eagleton
Introduction to Literary Theory – Terry Eagleton
On Signs – Marshall Blonsky (Editor)
Basics of Semiotics - John Deely
Elements of Semiology – Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes – Michael Moriarty
Theory of Semiotics - Umberto Eco
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language – Umberto Eco
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts – Umberto Eco
The Limits of Interpretation - Umberto Eco
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition - Umberto Eco
Serendipities – Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction - Michael Caesar
Structuralism and Since: From Levi Strauss to Derrida – John Sturrock (Editor)
The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction – Jonathan D. Culler
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction – Jonathan D. Culler
Derrida & Deconstruction:
Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction – Jacques Derrida
☻Speech and Phenomena – Jacques Derrida
☻Writing and Difference – Jacques Derrida
Positions – Jacques Derrida
☻Of Grammatology – Jacques Derrida
☻Margins of Philosophy – Jacques Derrida
Dissemination – Jacques Derrida
Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question – Jacques Derrida
☻Spurs: Nietzsche's Style: Eperons Les Styles De Nietzsche – Jacques Derrida
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond – Jacques Derrida (Most)
The Truth in Painting – Jacques Derrida
☻Limited Inc. – Jacques Derrida
Memories for Paul de Man – Jacques Derrida
A Taste for the Secret – Jacques Derrida, et al
A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds – Peggy Kamuf (Editor), Jacques Derrida
Derrida – Christopher Norris
Jacques Derrida – Geoffrey Bennington (Translator), Jacques Derrida
Derrida: The Great Philosophers – Christopher Johnson
Wittgenstein and Derrida – Henry Staten
Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics – Christina Howells
Later Derrida: Reading the recent Work – Herman Rapaport
The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion – John D. Caputo
Deconstruction in a Nutshell – John D. Caputo
Deconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction – Vincent B. Leitch
Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy – Samuel C. Wheeler III
Deconstruction Reframed – Floyd Merrell
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism – Jonathan Culler
Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys – Gregory L. Ulmer
Deconstructions: A User's Guide – Nicholas Royle (Editor)
☻Erring: A Postmodern A/Theology – Mark C. Taylor
Altarity – Mark C. Taylor
☻The Tain of the Mirror – Rodolphe Gasche
☻Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida – Rudolphe Gasche
The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul De Man – Rodolphe Gasche
Paul De Man – Martin McQuillan
☻Blindness and Insight – Paul De Man
Allegories of Reading – Paul De Man
The Resistance to Theory – Paul De Man
The Rhetoric of Romanticism – Paul De Man
Aesthetic Ideology – Paul De Man
Adorno & The Frankfurt School:
Negative Dialectics – Theodore W. Adorno
Minima Moralia – Theodor Adorno
Culture Industry – Theodor Adorno
Prisms – Theodor Adorno (half)
Adorno – Martin Jay
Adorno: An Introduction – Willem Van Reijen
Adorno: A Critical Introduction – Simon Jarvis
Dialectic of Enlightenment – Max Horkheimer, Theodore W. Adorno
One Dimensional Man – Herbert Marcuse
Eros and Civilization – Herbert Marcuse
Illuminations – Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (Designer) (half)
☻Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas – David Held
The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923-1950 – Martin Jay
Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence:
Language and Responsibility – Noam Chomsky
Reflections on Language – Noam Chomsky
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind - Noam Chomsky
On Nature and Language (some) – Noam Chomsky
Chomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics – James McGilvray
Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals – Neilson Voyne Smith
☻Gödel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Mind’s I – Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett (Editors)
☻Consciousness Explained – Daniel C. Dennett
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language – Steven Pinker
How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language – Steven Pinker
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology – Jerry A. Fodor
In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind - Jerry Fodor
Fodor: Language, Mind, and Philosophy – M.J. Cain
The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities – Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding – Raymond W. Gibbs
☻Metaphors We Live by – George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
☻Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought – George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
☻Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again – Andy Clark
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science – Andy Clark
Reclaiming Cognition: The Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion – Rafael Nunez, Walter J. Freeman (Editors)
What Is Cognitive Science – Ernest Lepore, Zenon W. Pylyshyn (Editors)
Introduction to Cognitive Science – Paul Thagard
Cognitive Science: An Introduction – David W. Green (Editor)
Cognition – John G. Benjafield
☻Cognition – John C. Jahnke, Ronald H. Nowaczyk
Cognition – Arnold Lewis Glass, Keith James Holyoak, John Lester Santa
☻Cognitive Neuroscience – The Biology of the Mind – Michael S. Gazzaniga, Richard B. Ivry, George R. Mangun
The Human Brain – Susan Greenfield
Creating Mind: How the Brain Works – John E. Dowling
The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution: With a New Epilogue, Cognitive Science After 1984 – Howard E. Gardner
Minds, Brains, and Computers: The Foundations of Cognitive Science: An Anthology – Denise Dellarosa Cummins, Robert Cummins (Editors)
Minds, Brains and Science – John Searle
Artificial Minds – Stan Franklin
Mind over machine: the power of human intuition and expertise in the era of the Computer – Hubert L. Dreyfus
☻What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason – Hubert L. Dreyfus
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics – Roger Penrose
The Computer and the Brain – John Von Neumann?
Mind,
Language, Machine: Artificial Intelligence in the Poststructuralist Age –
Michael L. Johnson ☻Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence – John Haugland (Editor)
Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction – Jack Copeland
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig
Artificial Intelligence – Patrick Henry Winston
Understanding Artificial Intelligence – Scientific American (Editor)
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design – Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores
The Digital Phoenix: How Computers Are Changing Philosophy – Terrell Ward Bynum, James Moor (Editors)
☻The Society of Mind – Marvin Minsky
Psychology – Henry L. Roediger III, J. Philippe Rushton, Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Scott G. Paris
Psychology: Themes and Variations – Wayne Weiten
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding – Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela
Cybernetics, Cyborgology & Systems Theory:
☻Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal – Norbert Wiener
Cybernetics of Cybernetics – Heinz Von Foerster
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications – Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
☻Introduction to Systems Philosophy – Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought - Ervin Laszlo
The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time – Ervin Laszlo
Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural System – Joanna R. Macy
Reasoning into Reality: A System-Cybernetics Model and Therapeutic Interpretation of Buddhist Middle Path Analysis – Peter G. Fenner
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature – Donna J. Haraway
The Cyborg Handbook – Chris Hables Gray (Editor)
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics – N. Katherine Hayles
Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems – Paul Cilliers
Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity – William Rasch (Editor)
☻The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture – Mark C. Taylor
Linked: The New Science of Networks – Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age – Duncan J. Watts
Aesthetics:
Critical Terms for Art History – Robert S. Nelson, Richard Shiff (Editors)
Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art – Mary Anne Staniszewski
Ways of Seeing – John Berger
The Continental Aesthetics Reader – Clive Cazeaux (Editor)
Aesthetics – Patrick Maynard, Susan Feagin (Editors)
Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts – David Goldblatt, Lee B. Brown (Editors)
But Is It Art? An Introduction to Art Theory – Cynthia A. Freeland
Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas – Charles Harrison, Paul Wood (Editors)
☻Theories of Art Today – Noel Carroll (Editor)
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction – Noel Carroll
☻A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern – Kirk Varnedoe
Movements in Art Since 1945: Issues and Concepts – Edward Smith-Lucie
ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present – Robert Atkins
Art Since 1960 – Michael Archer
Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s-1990s – Linda Weintraub
Avant-Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now – Brandon Taylor
Art and the Brain: Controversies in Science & the Humanities (Journal of Consciousness Studies Volume 6 (1999) June - July) – Joseph Goguen (Editor)
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers – Leonard Koren
Zen:
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
Introduction to Zen Buddhism – Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Manual of Zen Buddhism – Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (Editor)
Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy – Katsuki Sekida
☻Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan & Hekiganroku – Katsuki Sekida (Translator)
The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment – Roshi Philip Kapleau
Taking the Path of Zen – Robert Aitken
☻The Way of Zen – Alan Watts
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones – Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki (Editors)
☻Tao Te Ching – Lao-Tzu
The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
The Tao of Symbols – James N. Powell
The Dhammapada: The Path of Reflection – Juan Mascaro (Translator)
The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha – E.A. Burtt (Editor)
Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahana Scripture – Robert Thurman (Translator)
The Zen Teachings of Rinzai – Irmgard Schloegl (Translator)
A Primer of Soto Zen: A Translation of Dogen’s Shobogenzo Zuimonki – Rene Masunaga (Translator)
Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness – James H. Austin
Other Non-Fiction
☻The Essential Kabbalah: Heart of Jewish Mysticism (half) – Daniel C. Matt
☻The Nature of Life – John H. Postlethwait, Janet L. Hopson
A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy – Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit (Editors)
☻The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient (some) – Donald A. Wittman
Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption – Mark C. Taylor
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea – Daniel C. Dennett
☻The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects – Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
Letters to a Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens
Literature:
Works of current particular interest to me are starred * Only poems I found especially significant are included
I Have only read the following Bible Books:
Genesis*; Exodus (excerpts)*; Job*; Psalms*; Ecclesiastes; Song of Solomon; Isaiah*; Jeremiah (1/2); Ezekiel*; Daniel*; Amos*; Mathew*; Mark*; Luke*; John*; Some later Epistles*; Revelation*
The Odyssey (epic poem) – Homer
Works and Days (poetry) – Hesiod
Prometheus Bound (drama) – Aeschylus*
Oedipus Rex (drama) – Sophocles
Aenead (poetry, sections) – Virgil*(particularly book six)
Arabian Nights (stories)
The Dream of the Rood (poetry) – The Vercelli Book*
Rubaiyat (poetry) – Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald translation)
Canterbury Tails (poetry, sections) - Chaucer
Inferno (poetry) – Dante* The Tain (epic) Mankind (drama) The Old Wives Tale (drama) – George Peele Endymion (drama) – John Lyly The Spanish Tragedy (drama) – Thomas Kyd Tamburlane part I (drama) – Christopher Marlowe The Faerie Queen (poetry, sections) – Edmund Spencer Doctor Faustus (drama) – Christopher Marlowe* Romeo and Juliet (drama) – Shakespeare Hamlet (drama) – Shakespeare* Othello (drama) – Shakespeare Kink Lear (drama) – Shakespeare Macbeth (drama) – Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream (drama) - Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (drama) – Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing (drama) – Shakespeare As You Like It (drama) – Shakespeare Twelfth Night (drama) – Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida (drama) – Shakespeare Richard III (drama) – Shakespeare
Henry IV parts 1 & 2 (drama) – Shakespeare
A Winter’s Tale (drama) – Shakespeare
The Tempest (drama) – Shakespeare*
Paradise Lost (poetry) – John Milton*
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment (poetry) – Anne Bradstreet
To His Coy Mistress (poetry) – Andrew Marvell
Rape of the Lock (poetry) – Alexander Pope
Robinson Crusoe (novel) – Daniel Defoe
Candide
(novel) – Voltaire The
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (autobiography)* The Castel of Otranto (novel) – Horace Walpole
Sorrows of Young Werther (story) – Goethe
Faust part I (drama) – Goethe*
Faust
Part II (drama) – Goethe* Hyperion
(prose) – Holderlin* The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (poetry) – William Blake*
Urizen (poetry) – William Blake*
An Evening Walk: Addressed to a Young Lady (poetry) – William Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above (poetry)– William Wordsworth
Prelude: Or Growth of a Poet’s Mind (poetry) – William Wordsworth
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poetry) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan (poetry) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Meaning of Existence (essay) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mansfield Park (prose) – Jane Austen
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (poetry) – Lord Byron
The Prisoner of Chillon (poetry) – Lord Byron*
Prometheus Unbound (poetry) – Percy Bysshe Shelly*
A Defense of Poetry (essay) – Percy Bysshe Shelly
Frankenstein (novel) – Mary Shelly*
Rip Van Winkle (story) – Washington Irving*
Legend of Sleepy Hollow (story) – Washington Irving*
Sarrasine (story) – Honore de Balzac
Self Reliance (essay) – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circles (essay) – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature (essay) – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall of the House of Usher (story) – Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado (story) – Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter (story) – Edgar Allan Poe
The Man of the Crowd (story) – Edgar Allan Poe
Letter to B (letter) – Edgar Allan Poe
Al Aaraaf (poetry) – Edgar Allan Poe*
Great Expectations (novel) – Charles Dickens
Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (novel) – Frederick Douglass
Wuthering Heights (novel) – Emily Bronte
Minister’s Black Veil (story) – Nathaniel Howthorn
A Scarlet Letter (novel) – Nathaniel Hawthorn
Moby Dick (novel) – Herman Melville
Benito Cereno (story) – Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener (story) – Herman Melville
Civil Disobedience (essay) – Henry David Thoreau
Walden (autobiography) – Henry David Thoreau
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (autobiography) – Harriet Jacobs
Les Miserables (novel) – Victor Hugo
Flowers of Evil (poetry) – Baudelaire
Notes from the Underground (novella) – Fedor Dostoyevsky*
Treasure Island (novel) – Robert Louis Stevenson
An Enemy of the People (drama) – Henrik Ibsen
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (novel) – Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn (novel) – Mark Twain
The Death of Ivan Illyche (story) – Leo Tolstoy
Family Happiness (novella) – Leo Tolstoy
A White Heron (story) – Sarah Orne Jewett
Gooseberries (story) – Anton Chekhov
The Azure (poetry) – Stephane Mallarme
The Yellow Wallpaper (story) – Charlotte Perkins Gilman*
Song of Myself (poetry) – Walt Whitman
I Sing the Body Electric (poetry) – Walt Whitman
258: There’s a certain Slant of light (poetry) - Emily Dickenson
280: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (poetry) – Emily Dickenson
Alice in Wonderland (novel) – Lewis Carroll*
Through the Looking Glass (novel) – Lewis Caroll
What Massie New (novel) – Henry James
Tree of Knowledge (story) – Henry James
Man and Superman (drama) – George Bernard Shaw
The Heart of Darkness (novella) – Joseph Conrad*
The House of Mirth (novel) – Edith Wharton
The Wild Swans at Coole (poetry) – W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming (poetry) – W.B. Yeats
Among School Children (poetry) – W.B. Yeats
Man Against the Sky (poetry) – Edwin Arlington Robinson*
Man Who Died Twice (poetry) – Edwin Arlington Robinson*
The Bee (poetry) – Paul Valery
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (autobiography) – James Weldon Johnson
Oh! Pioneers (novel) – Willa Cather
Buddenbrooks (novel) – Thomas Mann
The Way of All Flesh (novel) – Samuel Butler
Wind in the Willows (novel) – Kenneth Grahame
The Road Not Taken (poetry) – Robert Frost
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening (poetry) – Robert Frost
Design (poetry) – Robert Frost
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (poetry) – Wallace Stevens
Dubliners (stories) – James Joyce
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (novel) – James Joyce
Ulysses (novel) – James Joyce
Finnegans Wake (book) – James Joyce*
In a Station of the Metro (poetry) – Ezra Pound
The Red Wheelbarrow (poetry) – William Carlos Williams
Remembrance of Things Past (novel) – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse (novel) – Virginia Wolf
Metamorphoses (story) – Franz Kafka*
The Hunger Artist (story) – Franz Kafka
Sons and Lovers (novel) – D.H. Lawrence
Snake (poetry) – D.H. Lawrence
The Jungle (novel) – Sinclair Lewis
The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock (poetry) – T.S. Eliot
Sweeny Erect (poetry) – T.S. Eliot
Sweeny Among the Nightingales (poetry) – T.S. Eliot
The Wasteland (poetry) – T.S. Eliot*
The Hollow Men (poetry) – T.S. Eliot*
The Four Quartets (poetry) – T.S. Eliot*
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