Booklist

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Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Brian Stone)

The Exeter Book Riddles (Kevin Crossley-Holland)

The Book Of Job (Stephen Mitchell)

 

Edward Abbey

Desert Solitaire

 

Douglas Adams:

The Hitchiker’s Guide to The Galaxy series

Last Chance To See

The Salmon Of Doubt

 

Richard Adams:

Watership Down

The Plague Dogs

Shardik

 

Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger

 

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

 

Theodore Adorno

Gustav Mahler: A Musical Physiognamy

 

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Little Men

 

Edward Albee

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

 

Lloyd Alexander:

The Prydain series

The Marvellous Misadventures Of Sebastian

The First Two Lives Of Lewis-Kasha

 

Dorothy Allison

Bastard Out Of Carolina

 

Maya Angelou

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

 

Piers Anthony

The Xanth series

 

Karen Armstrong

A History of God

 

Isaac Asimov

Foundation

 

Margaret Atwood

Good Bones And Simple Murders

The Handmaid’s Tale

 

Jean M. Auel

Clan Of The Cave Bear

 

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

 

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

 

Paul Auster

Oracle Night

 

Natalie Babbitt

Tuck Everlasting

The Eyes Of The Amaryllis

 

Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

 

James Baldwin

Another Country

Giovanni’s Room

 

Honore de Balzac

Pere Goriot

 

Nick Bantock

The Griffin And Sabine series

 

Alessandro Baricco

Ocean Sea

 

J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan

 

Charles Baudelaire:

Paris Spleen

 

Peter Beagle:

The Last Unicorn

A Fine And Private Place

 

Samuel Beckett

Waiting For Godot

 

David Belden

Children Of Arable

 

Barbara Berger

Gwinna

 

Peter Bichsel

Kindergeschichten

 

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

 

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron

 

Nancy Bond

A String In The Harp

 

Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths

 

Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles

Dandelion Wine

Fahrenheit 451

 

Marion Zimmer Bradley:

The Mists Of Avalon

 

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

The Professor

 

Emily Bronte:

Wuthering Heights

 

Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code

 

Madeline Bruser

The Art Of Practicing

 

Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth

 

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master And Margarita

 

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

A Little Princess

 

John Cage

Silence

 

Italo Calvino

Cosmicomics

Invisible Cities

Difficult Loves

Mr. Palomar

Marcovaldo

Italian Folktales

The Baron In The Trees

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler

 

Anne Cameron

Daughters Of Copper Woman

 

Albert Camus

The Stranger

 

Orson Scott Card

Ender’s Game

Speaker For The Dead

Xenocide

Children Of The Mind

 

Alejo Carpentier

Baroque Concerto

 

John Le Carre

The Mission Song

 

Lewis Carroll

Alice In Wonderland

Through the Looking-Glass

 

Rachel Carson

The Sense Of Wonder

 

Willa Cather

My Antonia

O Pioneers!

The Song Of The Lark

 

Jung Chang

Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China

 

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

 

Amit Chaudhuri

Afternoon Raag

 

Anton Chekhov

Shadows and Light

The Three Sisters

 

G.K. Chesterton

Father Brown Stories

The Man Who Was Thursday

 

Ted Chiang

Stories Of Your Life And Others

 

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

A Vocation And A Voice

 

Deepak Chopra

The Return of Merlin

 

Sandra Cisneros

The House On Mango Street

 

Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

 

Elizabeth Coatsworth

The Cat Who Went To Heaven

 

Paulo Coelho

L’Alchimiste

 

Eoin Coifer:

The Artemis Fowl series

The Wish List

Airman

 

Martha Cooley

The Archivist

 

Caroline B. Cooney

Goddess Of Yesterday

 

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last Of The Mohicans

 

Susan Cooper:

The Dark Is Rising series

Seaward

 

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge Of Courage

 

Sharon Creech

Love That Dog

Walk Two Moons

 

Michael Crichton:

Jurassic Park

The Andromeda Strain

 

Roald Dahl:

Matilda

The BFG

The Witches

James and the Giant Peach

Danny The Champion Of The World

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

 

Dante

Inferno

Purgatorio

 

Anita Diamant

The Red Tent

 

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

A Tale Of Two Cities

Hard Times

A Christmas Carol

 

Annie Dillard:

Pilgrim At Tinker Creek

Teaching A Stone To Talk

An American Childhood

 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

 

Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie

 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime And Punishment

Notes From Underground

The Brothers Karamazov

 

Rostislav Dubinsky

Stormy Applause

 

Lord Dunsany

Wonder Tales

 

Carol Easton

Jacqueline du Pre

 

Umberto Eco

The Name Of The Rose

 

Margaret Edson

W;t

 

Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America

 

T. S. Eliot

Murder In The Cathedral

The Cocktail Party

 

Michael Ende:

The NeverEnding Story

Momo

 

Laura Esquivel

Like Water For Chocolate

 

Antoine de St-Exupery

The Little Prince

 

Walter Farley

The Black Stallion

 

Richard Farina

been down so long it looks like up to me

 

William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying

 

Jasper Fforde

The Eyre Affair

 

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

 

Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones’ Diary

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Tender Is The Night

 

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

 

E. M. Forster

A Room With A View

A Passage To India

 

Anne Frank

The Diary Of A Young Girl

 

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

 

Sigmund Freud

Civilization and its Discontents

 

David Frost

The Americans

 

Cornelia Funke

The Thief Lord

Inkheart

 

Neil Gaiman:

The Sandman

American Gods

Anansi Boys

Neverwhere

The Dream Hunters

Good Omens

Fragile Things

Smoke and Mirrors

Coraline

 

James Gaines

Evening in the Palace of Reason

 

Timothy Gallwey

The Inner Game Of Tennis

 

Francesco Geminiani

The Art of Playing on the Violin

 

Jean Craighead George

The Talking Earth

Julie Of The Wolves

 

Kahlil Gibran:

The Prophet

The Madman

 

Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat, Pray, Love

 

Carol Gilligan

In A Different Voice

 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper And Other Stories

 

Malcom Gladwell

Blink

 

Arthur Golden

Memoirs Of A Geisha

 

William Golding

Lord Of The Flies

 

William Goldman

The Princess Bride

 

Peter Gomes

What We Forgot To Tell You

 

Edward Gorey

The Epiplectic Bicycle

The Curious Sofa

 

Arthur Guirdham

The Great Heresy: The History And Beliefs Of The Cathars

 

John Gunther

Death Be Not Proud

 

David Guterson:

Snow Falling On Cedars

 

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

 

Radclyffe Hall

The Well Of Loneliness

 

Patricia Hampl

Spillville

 

Thich Nhat Hanh:

Peace is Every Step

 

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

 

Nicholas Harnoncourt

Baroque Music: Music As Speech

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

 

Edward Hays

Sundancer

 

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

 

Mark Helprin:

A Soldier Of The Great War

Winter’s Tale

Swan Lake

A City In Winter

The Veil Of Snows

 

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man And The Sea

A Moveable Feast

 

O. Henry

Short Stories

 

Frank Herbert

The Dune series

 

Eugen Herrigel

Zen In The Art Of Archery

 

James Herriot:

All Things Bright And Beautiful

All Creatures Great And Small

All Things Wise And Wonderful

The Lord God Made Them All

 

Herman Hesse:

Siddhartha

Demian

Steppenwolf

 

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Lieblose Legenden

 

Jamake Highwater

Anpao

 

Benjamin Hoff

The Tao Of Pooh

The Te Of Piglet

 

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Goedel, Escher, Bach

Le Ton Beau de Marot

 

Franz Hohler

Wegwerfgeschichten

Ein Eigenartiger Tag

Das verlorene Gaehnen und andere nutzlose Geschichten

 

Felice Holman

Slake’s Limbo

 

Bohumil Hrabal

Too Loud A Solitude

I Served The King Of England

 

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

 

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

 

Joe Hyams

Zen in the Martial Arts

 

Charles Ives

Essays before a Sonata

 

Brian Jacques

The Redwall series

 

John Irving

The World According To Garp

 

Henry James

The Portrait Of A Lady

 

Zdenek Jirotka

Saturnin

 

Diana Wynne Jones

Howl’s Moving Castle

Dark Lord of Derkholm

 

James Joyce

Dubliners

A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

 

Norton Juster

The Phantom Tollbooth

 

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

The Penal Colony and other stories

 

Michael Kaiser

The Art of the Turnaround

 

Wassily Kandinsky

On The Spiritual In Art

 

Yasunari Kawabata

Thousand Cranes

 

Susanna Kaysen

Girl, Interrupted

 

Garrison Keillor

Love Me

 

William Kennedy

Ironweed

 

Joseph Kerman

The Beethoven Quartets

 

Jack Kerouac:

On The Road

The Dharma Bums

Desolation Angels

Pomes All Sizes

 

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

 

Joseph Kesselring

Arsenic and Old Lace

 

Daniel Keyes

Flowers For Algernon

 

Jamaica Kincaid

Wide Sargasso Sea

 

Laurie King

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice

A Monstrous Regiment Of Women

 

Barbara Kingsolver:

The Bean Trees

Animal Dreams

Pigs In Heaven

 

Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

 

John Knowles

A Separate Peace

 

E.L. Kongingsburg

From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

 

Fritz Kreisler

Four Weeks In The Trenches

 

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting

Immortality

 

Mercedes Lackey:

Arrows Of The Queen

The Black Swan

 

Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter Of Maladies

 

Jane Langton

The Fledgling

The Diamond In The Window

 

Stieg Larsson

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

 

D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

 

Astrid Lindgren

The Brothers Lionheart

Ronia the Robber’s Daughter

The Children Of Noisy Village

 

William Least Heat Moon:

Blue Highways

 

Ursula LeGuin

The Earthsea series

 

Jonah Lehrer

Proust Was A Neuroscientist

 

Madeline L’Engle

A Wrinkle In Time

A Wind In The Door

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Many Waters

An Acceptable Time

Camilla

A Circle Of Quiet

The Summer Of The Great-Grandmother

The Irrational Season

 

Elizabeth LeGuin

Boccherini’s Body

 

Elmore Leonard

When The Women Come Out To Dance

 

Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera

 

C.S.Lewis:

The Chronicles of Narnia

Surprised By Joy

A Grief Observed

The Great Divorce

The Screwtape Letters

Till We Have Faces

Out Of The Silent Planet

Perelandra

That Hideous Strength

 

Alan Lightman:

Einstein’s Dreams

Good Benito

Dance For Two

 

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gift From The Sea

 

Richard Llewellyn

How Green Was My Valley

 

Hugh Lofting

Doctor Doolittle

 

Jack London

White Fang

 

Lois Lowry

The Giver

 

George MacDonald

The Complete Fairy Tales

 

Alan and Iris MacFarlane

Green Gold: The Empire Of Tea

 

David Mack:

Kabuki

 

Taizan Maezumi

Teaching Of The Great Mountain

 

Thomas Mann:

Death In Venice

The Magic Mountain

 

Sandor Marai

Conversations in Bolzano

 

Christopher Marlowe

Dr. Faustas

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Love in the Time of Cholera

 

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Beatrice and Virgil

 

George R R. Martin

A Song of Ice and Fire

 

Karl Marx

Manifesto

 

Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology

 

Guy De Maupassant

Short Stories

 

Armistead Maupin

Tales Of The City

 

Anne McCaffery

The Pern series

 

Scott McCloud

Understanding Comics

Zot!

 

Robin McKinley

The Door In The Hedge

The Blue Sword

The Hero And The Crown

Beauty

The Outlaws Of Sherwood

 

Thomas Merton

Thoughts In Solitude

 

Stephanie Meyer

Twilight

 

Arthur Miller

Death Of A Salesman

 

Steven Millhauser

Little Kingdoms

 

A. A. Milne

Winnie-The-Pooh

 

John Milton

Paradise Lost

 

Margaret Mitchell

Gone With The Wind

 

Li Mo

Spirit Bridges

 

Walter Moers

Wild Ride through the Night

 

L.M. Montgomery

Anne Of Green Gables

 

Alan Moore

V for Vendetta

Watchmen

 

Toni Morrison

Beloved

The Bluest Eye

Jazz

 

Greg Mortenson

Three Cups Of Tea

 

Leopold Mozart

A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing

 

W. A. Mozart

Letters

 

Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Norwegian Wood

After the Quake

 

Azar Nafisi

Reading Lolita in Tehran

 

E. Nesbit

Five Children And It

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

On The Genealogy Of Morals

 

Robert O’Brian

Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH

 

Mary O’Hara

My Friend Flicka

 

Georgia O’Keefe

Letters

 

Scott O’Dell

Island Of The Blue Dolphins

 

Kakuzo Okakura

The Book Of Tea

 

Istvan Orkeny

One-Minute Stories

 

George Orwell

Animal Farm

1984

 

Katsuhiro Otomo

Akira

 

Amos Oz

A Tale Of Love And Darkness

 

Christopher Paolini

The Inheritance series

 

Sara Paretsky

Total Recall

 

Katherine Paterson

Bridge To Terabithia

 

Gary Paulson

Hatchet

Dogsong

 

Milorad Pavic

Dictionary of the Khazars

 

D. Manus Pinkwater:

Lizard Music

 

Tamora Pierce:

Song of the Lioness

 

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

 

Christine de Pizan

The Book Of The City Of Ladies

 

Plato

Symposium

 

Edouard de Pomaine

French Cooking in Ten Minutes

 

Gene Stratton Porter

A Girl Of The Limberlost

 

Terry Pratchett

Reaper Man

Hogfather

Good Omens

 

E. Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

 

Philip Pullman:

His Dark Materials trilogy

The Firework-Maker’s Daughter

Count Karlstein

I Was A Rat!

Clockwork

The Good Man Jesus And The Soundrel Christ

 

Johann Joachim Quantz

On Playing The Flute

 

Robert V. S. Reddick

The Red Wolf Conspiracy

The Ruling Sea

 

Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet On The Western Front

 

Anne Rice

Interview with the Vampire

 

Morcedai Richler

Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang

 

Rainer Maria Rilke:

Letters To A Young Poet

Stories Of God

 

Rick Riordan

The Lightning Thief

 

Tom Robbins

Jitterbug Perfume

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

Skinny Legs And All

 

Edmond Rostand

Cyrano de Bergerac

 

Charles Rosen

Arnold Schoenberg

 

Philip Roth

American Pastoral

The Plot Against America

 

J.K. Rowling:

The Harry Potter series

 

Arundhati Roy

The God Of Small Things

 

Louis Sachar

Holes

 

Carl Sagan

Contact

The Dragons Of Eden

 

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher In The Rye

Nine Stories

Franny and Zooey

 

Mark Salzman

Iron and Silk

 

Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis

 

Robert J. Sawyer

Illegal Alien

Flashforward

Hominids

Humans

Hybrids

 

Arnold Schoenberg

Style And Idea

 

Ben Schott

Schott’s Original Miscellany

Schott’s Food And Drink Miscellany

 

Robert Schumann

Criticism from the Neue Zeitschrift

 

Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe

 

David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day

 

Kate Seredy

The White Stag

 

Anna Sewall

Black Beauty

 

George Selden

The Cricket In Times Square

 

William Shakespeare

Love’s Labors Lost

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Romeo and Juliet

The Merchant Of Venice

Much Ado About Nothing

Hamlet

Measure for Measure

Othello

King Lear

Macbeth

Antony and Cleopatra

Pericles

Coriolanus

The Winter’s Tale

Cymbeline

The Tempest

 

Sei Shonagon

The Pillow Book

 

Dan Simmons

Hyperion

The Fall Of Hyperion

 

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Shrewd Todie And Lyzer The Miser

Short Stories

 

William Sleator

House Of Stairs

The Boy Who Reversed Himself

 

Jane Smiley

A Thousand Acres

 

Betty Smith

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

 

Dodie Smith

The 101 Dalmations

 

Alexander McCall Smith

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

 

Robert Spaethling

Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life

 

Art Spiegelman

Maus

 

Suzanne Fisher Staples

Shabanu

 

Constantin Stanislavski

An Actor Prepares

 

William Steig

Dominic

Abel’s Island

 

John Steinbeck:

Tortilla Flat

In Dubious Battle

Of Mice And Men

The Red Pony

The Grapes Of Wrath

Cannery Row

The Pearl

East Of Eden

Sweet Thursday

Travels With Charley

The Acts Of King Arthur And His Noble Knights

 

Arnold Steinhardt

Indivisible By Four

 

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

Quicksilver

 

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

 

Mary Stewart

The Crystal Cave

The Hollow Hills

The Last Enchantment

The Wicked Day

 

Bram Stoker

Dracula

 

Tom Stoppard

Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 

Patrick Sueskind

Der Kontrabass

 

Rosemary Sutcliff

The Sword And The Circle

The Light Beyond The Forest

The Road To Camlann

The Mark Of The Horse Lord

The Lantern Bearers

The Shining Company

The Eagle Of The Ninth

Tristan And Iseult

 

Shinichi Suzuki

Nurtured By Love

 

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

Gulliver’s Travels

 

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

The Kitchen God’s Wife

The Hundred Secret Senses

 

Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

Idylls Of The King

 

Rudolf Tesnohlidek

The Cunning Little Vixen

 

Osamu Tezuka:

Buddha

Black Jack

Ode to Kirohito

Phoenix: A Tale of the Future

 

Lewis Thomas

The Lives of a Cell

The Medusa and the Snail

 

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Civil Disobediance

Walking

Letters to a Spiritual Seeker

 

J.R.R. Tolkien:

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

The Silmarillion

Roverandom

Smith of Wotton Major

Farmer Giles of Ham

Leaf by Niggle

 

Leo Tolstoy

The Death Of Ivan Ilyich

Stories

 

P.L. Travers

Mary Poppins

 

Chogyam Trungpa

Shambhala

 

Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching

 

Gail Tsukiyama

The Samurai’s Garden

 

Mark Twain

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories

The Prince And The Pauper

A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court

 

John Updike

S.

 

Naoki Urasawa

Pluto

 

Peter Ustinov

The Old Man And Mr. Smith

 

John Varley

The Golden Globe

 

Helen Vendler

The Odes Of John Keats

Coming of Age as a Poet

Poets Thinking

 

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse V

 

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

 

Edith Wharton

The Age Of Innocence

The House Of Mirth

 

E.B. White

Charlotte’s Web

Stuart Little

The Trumpet Of The Swan

 

T.H. White:

The Once And Future King

The Book of Merlyn

 

Elie Wiesel

Night

Dawn

Day

The Gates Of The Forest

 

Oscar Wilde

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

The Importance Of Being Earnest

Fairy Tales

 

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Little House series

 

Thornton Wilder

Our Town

 

Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie

 

Jeanette Winterson

Art And Lies

Art Objects

 

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

 

Gene Wolfe

The Book of the New Sun

 

Tom Wolfe

I Am Charlotte Simmons

 

Virginia Woolf:

A Room Of One’s Own

To The Lighthouse

Mrs. Dalloway

The Death Of The Moth and other Essays

 

Dorothy Wordsworth:

Diary

 

Johann Wyss

The Swiss Family Robinson

 

William Butler Yeats

Mythologies

Short Stories

 

Benjamin Zander/Rosamund Stone Zander

The Art Of Possibility

 

Stefan Zweig

The World of Yesterday

 

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