Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors C to D

This page tells you which authors and titles are included on which great books lists. For more information, see my Great Books page.

A | B | C-D | E-F | G-H | I-L | M | N-P | Q-R | S | T-V | W-Z |

• Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, Cuban, 1929- .
  • Three Trapped Tigers. Recommended by: Bloom
  • View of Dawn in the Tropics. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cahan, Abraham, American, 1860-1951.
  • The Rise of David Levinsky. Recommended by: Bloom
• Caillois, Roger, French, 1913-1978.
  • Man, Play, and Games. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Cain, James M., American, 1892-1977.
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice. Recommended by: BOMC ML Novels
• Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, Spanish, 1600-1681.
  • Life is a Dream. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Mayor of Zalamea. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Mighty Magician. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Doctor of His Own Honor. Recommended by: Bloom
• Caldwell, Erskine, American, 1903-1987.
  • Tobacco Road. Recommended by: ML Novels
• Calimachus, Greek, ca. 310 BCE-?.
  • Hymns and Epigrams. Recommended by: Bloom
• Calvin, John, Swiss writing in Latin, 1509-1564.
  • Institutes of the Christian Religion. Recommended by: Adler Colcc91 GBWW Seymour-Smith
• Calvino, Italo, Italian, 1923-1985.
  • The Non-Existent Knight and the Cloven Viscount. Recommended by: Ward
  • The Baron in the Trees. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Invisible Cities. Recommended by: Bloom
  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. Recommended by: Bloom
  • t zero. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cameron, Julia, American, 1948- .
  • The Artist's Way. Recommended by: Utne
• Camões, Luís Vaz de, Portuguese, 1524-1580.
  • Lusiads. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Campana, Dino, Italian, 1885-1932.
  • Orphic Songs. Recommended by: Bloom
• Campanella, Tomasso, Italian, 1568-1639.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The City of the Sun. Recommended by: Bloom
• Campion, Thomas, English, 1567-1620.
  • Songs. Recommended by: Bloom
• Camus, Albert, French, 1913-1960. Nobel Laureate
  • The Plague. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Ward
  • The Stranger. Recommended by: Bloom Boston PL Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Harvard Meaningful NYPL TLS Ward
  • The Fall. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • The Rebel. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Myth of Sisyphus. Recommended by: National Review TLS
  • Notebooks 1935-1951. Recommended by: TLS
• Canetti, Elias, Austrian, 1905-1994. Nobel Laureate
  • Crowds and Power. Recommended by: TLS
• Anonymous, Spanish, ca. 1140.
  • Cantar de Mio Cid (Poem of the Cid). Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Cao Xueqin (Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in), Chinese, 1715-1763.
  • The Dream of the Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone) . Recommended by: App Fadiman 4 MW Asian Oriental Rex Ward
• Capek, Karel, Czech, 1890-1938.
  • War with the Newts. Recommended by: Bloom
  • R.U.R.. Recommended by: Bloom
• Capote, Truman, American, 1924-1984.
  • In Cold Blood. Recommended by: Bloom Hungry Mind LAT ML Nonfiction NYPL Radcliffe
  • Other Voices, Other Rooms. Recommended by: BOMC
• Capra, Fritjof, Austrian-American writing in English, 1939- .
  • The Web of Life. Recommended by: Utne
• Carducci, Giosué, Italian, 1835-1907. Nobel Laureate
  • Hymn to Satan. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Barbarian Odes. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Rhymes and Rhythms. Recommended by: Bloom
• Carew, Thomas, English, 1594-1640.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Carey, Peter, Australian, 1943- .
  • Oscar and Lucinda. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Illywhacker. Recommended by: Bloom
• Carleton, Jetta, American, c.1913-1999.
  • The Moonflower Vine. Recommended by: Smiley
• Carlyle, Thomas, English, 1795-1881.
  • Past and Present. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • The French Revolution. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Selected Prose. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Sartor Resartus. Recommended by: Bloom
• Carmi, T., Israeli, 1925- .
  • At the Stone of Losses. Recommended by: Bloom
• Carnegie, Dale, American, 1888-1955.
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People. Recommended by: Boston PL NYPL
• Caro, Robert, American, 1935- .
  • The Power Broker. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Carpentier, Alejo, Cuban, 1904-1980.
  • Explosion in a Cathedral. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Reasons of State. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Kingdom of This World. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Lost Steps. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Carr, E. H., English, 1892-1982.
  • What is History?. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Carroll, Lewis, English, 1832-1898.
  • Complete Works. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Harvard
  • Through the Looking-Glass. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
• Carson, Rachel, American, 1907-1964.
  • Silent Spring. Recommended by: Boston PL LAT ML Nonfiction National Review NYPL Utne
• Carver, Raymond, American, 1938-1988.
  • Cathedral. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
  • Where I'm Calling From. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cary, Joyce, Irish-English, 1888-1957.
  • The Horse's Mouth. Recommended by: Burgess Good Reading
• Casanova, Giacomo, Italian, 1725-1798.
  • History of My Life. Recommended by: Rex
• Castaneda, Carlos, American, 1931-1998.
  • The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Recommended by: LAT
• Castiglione, Baldassare, Italian, 1478-1529.
  • The Courtier. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Castoriadis, Cornelius, French, 1922-1997.
  • Political and Social Writings, 1961-1979: Recommencing the Revolution, from Socialism to the Autonomous Society. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Cather, Willa, American, 1876-1947.
  • My Ántonia. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Radcliffe
  • The Professor's House. Recommended by: Bloom
  • O Pioneers!. Recommended by: Hungry Mind Radcliffe
  • Shadows on the Rock. Recommended by: NYPL
  • A Lost Lady. Recommended by: Bloom GBWW
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop. Recommended by: BOMC Hungry Mind ML Novels Radcliffe Time
• Catt, Carrie Chapman, American, 1859-1947.
  • Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement (With Nettie Rogers Shuler). Recommended by: NYPL
• Catullus, Roman, ca. 84-ca. 54 BCE.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Rexmo Ward
  • Attis and Other Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Caudwell, Sarah, English, 1939-2000.
  • Thus Was Adonis Murdered. Recommended by: Good Reading
• Cavafy, C. P., Greek, 1863-1933.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cecil, David, Lord, English, 1902-1986.
  • Melbourne. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Cela, Camilo José, Spanish, 1916- . Nobel Laureate
  • The Hive. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Journey to the Alcarria. Recommended by: Ward
• Celan, Paul, Austrian-French writing in German, 1920-1970.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Meaningful Ward
• Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, French, 1894-1961.
  • Journey to the End of the Night. Recommended by: Bloom Meaningful
• Cellini, Benvenuto, Italian, 1500-1571.
  • Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Various Authors writing in Celtic languages, Celtic languages, 7th-19th C.
  • Celtic Miscellany. Recommended by: Ward
• Cernuda, Luis, Spanish, 1902-1963.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cervantes de Saavedra, Miguel de, Spanish, 1547-1616.
  • Don Quixote. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Harvard Lubbock Meaningful Rex Seymour-Smith SJC Smiley Ward
  • Exemplary Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
• Césaire, Aimé, Martinican, 1913-2008.
  • Collected Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
• Chaianov, A. V. (Chayanov), Russian, 1888-1939.
  • The Theory of Peasant Economy. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Chambers, Whittaker, American, 1901-1961.
  • Witness. Recommended by: National Review
• Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de, French, ca. 1740-1794.
  • Products of the Perfected Civilization. Recommended by: Bloom
• Various Authors, Chinese, 6th-10th C (with commentaries from the 16th-20th C).
  • Ch'an and Zen Teaching. Recommended by: Ward
• Chandidas, Indian writing in Bengali, 15th C.
  • Love Songs of Chandidas. Recommended by: Ward
• Chandler, Raymond, American, 1888-1959.
  • The Long Goodbye. Recommended by: Burgess
  • The Big Sleep. Recommended by: NYPL Time
• Anonymous, French, 11th C.
  • La Chanson de Roland (Song of Roland). Recommended by: Adler Bloom Ward
• Chapman, George, English, ca. 1559-1634.
  • Comedies, Tragedies, Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Char, René, French, 1907-1988.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Charters, Samuel, American, 1929- .
  • The Country Blues. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Charvaka, Indian, ca. 600 BCE.
  • Selected Writings. Recommended by: StJE
• Chase, Allan, American, 1913-1993.
  • The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene de, French, 1768-1848.
  • Memoirs (Memoires d'Outre-tombe). Recommended by: Ward
  • Atala. Recommended by: Bloom
  • René. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Genius of Christianity. Recommended by: Bloom
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, English, 1342-1400.
  • Works. Recommended by: Adler (Selections)
  • The Canterbury Tales. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Lubbock Meaningful Rex SJC (Selections) Ward
  • Troilus and Criseyde. Recommended by: Bloom GBWW
• Cheever, John, American, 1912-1982.
  • The Stories. Recommended by: Bloom Hungry Mind
  • Bullet Park. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Wapshot Chronicles. Recommended by: BOMC ML Novels
  • Falconer. Recommended by: Time
• Chekhov, Anton, Russian, 1860-1904.
  • Plays. Recommended by: Good Reading Rex Ward
  • Major Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Uncle Vanya. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW
  • Three Sisters. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 NYPL
  • The Cherry Orchard. Recommended by: Boston PL Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Selected Short Stories, Tales. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Good Reading Meaningful
• Chernow, Ron, American, 1949- .
  • The House of Morgan. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Chernyshevsky, Nikolay, Russian, 1828-1889.
  • What is to Be Done?. Recommended by: Bloom
• Chesnutt, Charles W., American, 1858-1932.
  • Short Fiction. Recommended by: Bloom
• Chesterton, G. K., English, 1874-1936.
  • The Innocence of Father Brown. Recommended by: NYPL
  • The Everlasting Man. Recommended by: National Review
  • Orthodoxy. Recommended by: National Review
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Father Brown Stories. Recommended by: Ward
  • The Man Who Was Thursday. Recommended by: Bloom
• Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese, 1653-1725.
  • Major Plays. (See also Takeda) Recommended by: Oriental Ward
  • The Love Suicides at Sonezaki. Recommended by: MW Asian
• Child, Julia, See Beck, Simone
• Chin P'ing Mei, See Jinpingmei
• Various Authors, Chinese, 10th C BCE-20th C.
  • Chinese Lyric Poetry. (See also Shijing, Chu Ci, Tao Qian, Tang Poetry, Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Li He, Su Dongpo, Li Yu, Yuan Mei) Recommended by: Oriental StJE
• Chomsky, Noam, American, 1928- .
  • Syntactic Structures. Recommended by: Boston PL Seymour-Smith
  • Manufacturing Consent (With Edward Herman). Recommended by: Utne
  • The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Chopin, Kate, American, 1851-1904.
  • The Awakening. Recommended by: Bloom Radcliffe Smiley
• Chrétien de Troyes, French, fl. 1160-1190.
  • Yvain: The Knight of the Lion. Recommended by: Bloom
• Christie, Agatha, English, 1890-1976.
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Recommended by: NYPL
• Christine de Pizan, Italian-French, ca. 1364-ca. 1430.
  • City of Ladies. Recommended by: Bloom Colcc91
• Various Authors, Chinese, 3rd C BCE-2nd C CE.
  • Chu Ci (Ch'u Tz'u: The Songs of the South, by Qu Yuan [Ch'ü Yuan] and others). Recommended by: Ward
• Chu Hsi, See Zhu Xi
• Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi), Chinese, 369-286 BCE.
  • Chuang Tzu. Recommended by: MW Asian Utne
  • Inner Chapters. (See also Texts of Taoism) Recommended by: Oriental StJE
• Churchill, Caryl, English, 1938- .
  • Cloud Nine. Recommended by: Utne
• Churchill, Winston, English, 1874-1965. Nobel Laureate
  • The Second World War. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction National Review TLS
  • The Gathering Storm (Volume 1 of The Second World War). Recommended by: NYPL
• Cicero, Roman, 106-43 BCE.
  • Works. Recommended by: Adler (Selections)
  • Selected Works. Recommended by: Aquinas Ward
  • On the Gods. Recommended by: Bloom
  • On the Good Life. Recommended by: Colcc91
  • Offices. Recommended by: Aquinas Lubbock
  • On Friendship. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • On Old Age. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Cioran, Emil M., French, 1911-1995.
  • Short History of Decay. Recommended by: Ward
  • Temptation to Exist. Recommended by: Ward
  • Fall Into Time. Recommended by: Ward
  • New Gods. Recommended by: Ward
• Cisneros, Sandra, American, 1954- .
  • House on Mango Street. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
• Clampitt, Amy, American, 1920-1994.
  • Westward. Recommended by: Bloom
• Clare, John, English, 1793-1864.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Clark, Kenneth, English, 1903-1983.
  • Civilisation. Recommended by: National Review
• Clark (-Bekederemo), John Pepper, Nigerian writing in English, 1935- .
  • Casualties: Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Clarke, Arthur C., English, 1917-2008.
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Various Authors, Japanese, 8th-17th C. .
  • Classic Japanese Poetry. Recommended by: Rex
• Classical Literary Criticism, See Aristotle, Horace, Longinus
• Clausewitz, Karl von, German, 1780-1831.
  • On War. Recommended by: Adler Seymour-Smith
• Cleaver, Eldridge, American, 1935-1998.
  • Soul on Ice. Recommended by: LAT
• Clough, Arthur Hugh, English, 1819-1861.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cockburn, Andrew, American, 1947- .
  • The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Cockburn, Claud, English, 1904-1981.
  • I, Claud. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Cocteau, Jean, French, 1889-1963.
  • Les Enfants Terribles (Children of the Game, Holy Terrors). Recommended by: Ward
  • The Infernal Machine and Other Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
• Coetzee, J. M., South African, 1940- . Nobel Laureate
  • Foe. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
• Cohn, Norman, English, 1915- .
  • The Pursuit of the Millennium. Recommended by: National Review TLS
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, English, 1772-1834.
  • Selected Works. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Poems. Recommended by: Adler (Selections)
  • The Ancient Mariner. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Christabel. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Kubla Khan. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Biographia Literaria. Recommended by: Adler Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Writings on Shakespeare. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
• Coles, Robert, American, 1929- .
  • Children of Crisis (5 vols.). Recommended by: LAT ML Nonfiction
• Colette, French, 1873-1954.
  • Collected Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Retreat from Love. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Chéri. Recommended by: Good Reading
• Collingwood, R. G., English, 1889-1943.
  • The Idea of History. Recommended by: National Review TLS
• Collins, Wilkie, English, 1824-1889.
  • Moonstone. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
  • Woman in White. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
  • No Name. Recommended by: Bloom
• Collins, William, English, 1721-1759.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Comfort, Alex, English, 1920-2000.
  • The Joy of Sex. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Commynes, Philippe de, French, ca. 1447-1511.
  • Memoirs. Recommended by: Bloom
• Comnena, Anna, Byzantine Greek, 1083-ca. 1153.
  • Alexiad. Recommended by: Ward
• Compton-Burnett, Ivy, English, 1892-1969.
  • A God and His Gifts. Recommended by: Ward
  • The Mighty and Their Fall. Recommended by: Burgess
• Comte, Auguste, French, 1798-1857.
  • The Positive Philosophy. Recommended by: Adler Lubbock Seymour-Smith
• Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, English, 1859-1930.
  • Sherlock Holmes stories. Recommended by: Rexmo Ward
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles. Recommended by: NYPL Smiley
• Confucius (Kong Fuzi), Chinese, 551-479 BCE.
  • The Analects. Recommended by: Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock Oriental Seymour-Smith StJE Ward
  • Daxue (Ta Hsueh; The Great Learning, attributed). Recommended by: Oriental StJE
  • Chang Yun (Doctrine of the Mean, attributed). Recommended by: Oriental StJE
• Congreve, William, English, 1670-1729.
  • The Way of the World. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
  • Love for Love. Recommended by: Bloom
• Conquest, Robert, English, 1917- .
  • The Great Terror. Recommended by: National Review
• Conrad, Joseph, English, 1857-1924.
  • Heart of Darkness. Recommended by: Boston PL GBWW ML Novels Radcliffe SJC Smiley
  • Lord Jim. Recommended by: Bloom ML Novels NYPL Radcliffe
  • Nostromo. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Meaningful ML Novels
  • The Secret Agent. Recommended by: Bloom ML Novels Ward
  • Under Western Eyes. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Victory. Recommended by: Bloom
• Constant, Benjamin, French, 1767-1830.
  • Adolphe. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Red Notebook. Recommended by: Bloom
• Various Authors, Various Nations, Various, 20th C.
  • Contemporary Drama. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
• Various Authors, Indonesian, 20th C.
  • Contemporary Indonesian Poetry. Recommended by: Ward
• Cook, James, English, 1728-1779.
  • Journals (Voyages). Recommended by: Lubbock Ward
• Cooper, James Fenimore, American, 1789-1851.
  • Deerslayer. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cooper, William, English, 1910-2002.
  • Scenes from Provincial Life. Recommended by: Burgess
• Coover, Robert, American, 1932- .
  • Spanking the Maid. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.. Recommended by: LAT
• Copernicus, Polish writing in Latin, 1473-1543.
  • On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas GBWW Seymour-Smith SJC (Selections)
• Corbière, Tristan, French, 1845-1875.
  • Les Amours Jaunes. Recommended by: Bloom
• Corn, Alfred, American, 1943- .
  • A Call in the Midst of the Crowd. Recommended by: Bloom
• Corneille, Pierre, French, 1606-1684.
  • Chief Plays. Recommended by: Ward
  • The Cid. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom
  • Polyeucte. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Nicomède. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Horace. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Cinna. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Rodogune. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cortázar, Julio, Argentinian, 1914-1984.
  • Hopscotch. Recommended by: Bloom
  • All Fires the Fire. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Blow-up and Other Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cowper, William, English, 1731-1800.
  • Poetical Works. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cozzens, James Gould, American, 1903-1978.
  • Guard of Honor. Recommended by: BOMC
• Crabbe, George, English, 1754-1832.
  • Poetical Works. Recommended by: Bloom
• Crane, Hart, American, 1899-1932.
  • Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose. Recommended by: Bloom
• Crane, Stephen, American, 1871-1900.
  • The Red Badge of Courage. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Crase, Douglas, American, 1944- .
  • The Revisionist. Recommended by: Bloom
• Crashaw, Richard, English, 1612-1649.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Croce, Benedetto, Italian, 1866-1952.
  • Selected Works. Recommended by: Ward
• Croly, Herbert, American, 1869-1930.
  • The Promise of American Life. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Cronon, William, American, 1954- .
  • Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Crowley, John, American, 1942- .
  • Little, Big. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Aegypt. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Love and Sleep. Recommended by: Bloom
• cummings, e. e., American, 1894-1962.
  • Complete Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Cunha, Euclides da, Brazilian, 1866-1909.
  • Rebellion in the Backlands. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Curie, Marie, Polish-French, 1867-1934.
  • Treatise on Radioactivity. Recommended by: NYPL
• Curnonsky, French, 1872-1956.
  • Larousse Traditional French Cooking. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Curtius, Ernst Robert, German, 1886-1956.
  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Recommended by: Ward
• Various authors, Various, Pub. 1951.
  • The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology (Edited by Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)). Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Dahl, Robert, American, 1915- .
  • Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City. Recommended by: TLS
• Dalí, Salvador, Spanish, 1904-1989.
  • Secret Life of Salvador Dalí. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans Ward
• Dalton, John, English, 1766-1844.
  • Proportion of Gases in the Atmosphere. Recommended by: Aquinas
• Daly, Mary, American, 1928- .
  • Gyn/Ecology. Recommended by: Utne
• Dana, Richard Henry, American, 1815-1882.
  • Two Years Before the Mast. Recommended by: Bloom
• Dangerfield, George, English, 1904-1986.
  • The Strange Death of Liberal England. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Daniel, Samuel, English, 1563-1619.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • A Defence of Ryme. Recommended by: Bloom
• D'Annunzio, Gabriele, Italian, 1863-1938.
  • Maia: In Praise of Life. Recommended by: Bloom
• Dante Alighieri, Italian, 1265-1321.
  • Works. Recommended by: Adler (Selections)
  • Divine Comedy. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Lubbock Meaningful Seymour-Smith SJC Ward
  • Inferno. Recommended by: Col37 Col61 Collh91
  • The New Life. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Dário, Rubén, Nicaraguan, 1867-1916.
  • Selected Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
• Darley, George, Irish, 1795-1846.
  • Nepenthe. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Darwin, Charles, English, 1809-1882.
  • Selected Works. Recommended by: Colcc91 (Selections)
  • The Voyage of the Beagle (A Naturalist's Voyage. Recommended by: Fadiman 4 Lubbock
  • The Origin of Species. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Lubbock Seymour-Smith SJC Ward
  • The Descent of Man. Recommended by: Adler GBWW
  • Autobiography. Recommended by: Adler
• Darwish, Mahmud, Palestinian (Arabic), 1942?-2008.
  • The Music of Human Flesh. Recommended by: Bloom
• Daumal, René, French, 1908-1944.
  • Mount Analogue. Recommended by: Bloom
• Davenport, Guy, American, 1927- .
  • Tatlin!. Recommended by: Bloom
• David, Elizabeth, American, 1913-1992.
  • French Provincial Cooking. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• David-Neel, Alexandra, French, 1868-1969.
  • My Journey to Lhasa. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Davidson, John, Scottish, 1857-1909.
  • Ballads and Songs. Recommended by: Bloom
• Davie, Donald, English, 1922- .
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Davies, Robertson, Canadian, 1913-1995.
  • The Deptford Trilogy. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Rebel Angels. Recommended by: Bloom Burgess
• Davis, Mike, American, 1946- .
  • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Recommended by: Harvard
• de Gaulle, Charles, French, 1890-1970.
  • The Edge of the Sword. Recommended by: National Review
• De la Mare, Walter, English, 1873-1956.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Memoirs of a Midget. Recommended by: Bloom
• De Quincey, Thomas, English, 1785-1859.
  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Selected Prose. Recommended by: Bloom
• de Ste. Croix, G. E. M., English, 1910-2000.
  • The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Debo, Angie, American, 1890-1988.
  • Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Debord, Guy, French, 1931-1994.
  • Society of the Spectacle. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans Harvard
• Dedekind, Richard, German, 1831-1916.
  • Essay on the Theory of Numbers. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC
• Defoe, Daniel, English, 1660-1731.
  • Roxana. Recommended by: Smiley
  • Robinson Crusoe. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock Rexmo Smiley Ward
  • Moll Flanders. Recommended by: Bloom Rexmo
  • Journal of a Plague Year. Recommended by: Bloom
• Deighton, Len, English, 1929- .
  • Bomber. Recommended by: Burgess
• Delany, Samuel R., American, 1942- .
  • Babel 17. Recommended by: Harvard
• Deledda, Grazia, Italian, 1871-1936. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• DeLillo, Don, American, 1936- .
  • White Noise. Recommended by: Bloom Harvard Hungry Mind Radcliffe Time
  • Libra. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Running Dog. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Mao II. Recommended by: Bloom Harvard
• Deloria, Vine, Jr., Native American, 1933-2005.
  • Custer Died for Your Sins. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF Hungry Mind
• Demosthenes, Greek, ca. 384-322 BCE.
  • Philippics, Olynthiacs, and Minor Public Orations. Recommended by: Ward
  • De Corona. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Denby, Edwin, American, 1903-1983.
  • Looking at Dance. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Dennis, Nigel, English, 1912-1989.
  • Cards of Identity. Recommended by: Bloom
• Derrida, Jacques, French, 1930-2004.
  • Of Grammatology. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Desai, Anita, Indian writing in English, 1937- .
  • Fire on the Mountain. Recommended by: MW Asian
  • Games at Twilight. Recommended by: MW Asian
• Descartes, René, French, 1596-1650.
  • Discourse on Method. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Colcc91 Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Lubbock Seymour-Smith SJC Ward
  • Meditations on the First Philosophy. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Collh91 GBWW SJC
  • Objections Against the Meditations and Replies. Recommended by: GBWW
  • Rules for the Direction of the Mind. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas GBWW SJC
  • Geometry. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas GBWW SJC (Selections)
  • The World. Recommended by: SJC (Selections)
  • Principles of Philosophy. Recommended by: Aquinas
• Detienne, Marcel, French, 1935- .
  • The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Hindi, 15th-17th C.
  • Devotional Poetry of North India. (See also Indian Devotional Poetry, Kabir) Recommended by: MW Asian
• Dewey, John, American, 1859-1952.
  • Philosophy and Civilization. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
  • The School and the Child. Recommended by: Boston PL
  • How We Think. Recommended by: Adler
  • Democracy and Education. Recommended by: Adler
  • Experience and Nature. Recommended by: Adler
  • Logic, the Theory of Inquiry. Recommended by: Adler
  • Human Nature and Conduct. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
  • Experience and Education. Recommended by: GBWW
• Sayings of Gautama Buddha, Indian writing in Pali, ca. 300 BCE.
  • Dhammapada. Recommended by: Oriental Seymour-Smith StJE Ward
• Anonymous, Indian writing in Sanskrit, 1st C CE (translated into Chinese ca. 400).
  • Diamond Sutra. Recommended by: StJE
• Dick, Philip K., American, 1928-1982.
  • Ubik. Recommended by: Time
• Dickens, Charles, English, 1812-1870.
  • Works. Recommended by: Adler (Selections)
  • Pickwick Papers. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Lubbock Rexmo Ward
  • David Copperfield. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock
  • The Adventures of Oliver Twist. Recommended by: Bloom
  • A Tale of Two Cities. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
  • Bleak House. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3
  • Hard Times. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Nicholas Nickleby. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Dombey and Son. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Great Expectations. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Meaningful
  • Martin Chuzzlewit. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Christmas Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Little Dorrit. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW
  • Our Mutual Friend. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Recommended by: Bloom
• Dickey, James, American, 1923-1997.
  • The Early Motion. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Central Motion. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Deliverance. Recommended by: ML Novels Time
• Dickinson, Emily, American, 1830-1886.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Good Reading Ward
• Diderot, Denis, French, 1713-1784.
  • Memoirs of a Nun. Recommended by: Ward
  • Dialogues. Recommended by: Ward
  • Rameau's Nephew. Recommended by: Bloom GBWW Ward
  • Jacques the Fatalist and His Master. Recommended by: Meaningful Ward
  • The Encyclopedia (Ed. by Diderot). Recommended by: Seymour-Smith
• Didion, Joan, American, 1934- .
  • Slouching Toward Bethlehem. Recommended by: Hungry Mind LAT
  • Play It As It Lays. Recommended by: Time
• Dillard, Annie, American, 1945- .
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Dinesen, Isak, Danish writing in English, 1885-1962.
  • Winter's Tales. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Seven Gothic Tales. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Out of Africa. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Disch, Thomas M., American, 1940- .
  • On Wings of Song. Recommended by: Bloom
• Djilas, Milovan, Yugoslavian, 1911-1995.
  • The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System. Recommended by: TLS
• Dobie, J. Frank, American, 1888-1964.
  • The Mustangs. Recommended by: LAT
• Döblin, Alfred, German, 1878-1957.
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz. Recommended by: Bloom Meaningful
• Dobzhansky, Theodosius, Russian-American writing in English, 1900-1975.
  • Genetics and the Origin of Species. Recommended by: Boston PL GBWW
• Doctorow, E. L., American, 1931- .
  • The Book of Daniel. Recommended by: Bloom
  • World's Fair. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Ragtime. Recommended by: BOMC ML Novels Time
• Dodds, E. R., English, 1893-1979.
  • The Greeks and the Irrational. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Dogen, Japanese, 1200-1253.
  • Shobo-Genzo (Sermons). Recommended by: StJE
• Donleavy, J. P., Irish, 1926- .
  • The Ginger Man. Recommended by: Good Reading ML Novels
• Donne, John, English, 1573-1631.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Good Reading
  • Sermons. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Selected Works. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 SJC Ward
• Donoso, José, Chilean, 1924- .
  • The Obscene Bird of Night. Recommended by: Bloom
• Doolittle, Hilda, See H. D.
• Dos Passos, John, American, 1896-1970.
  • U.S.A. (Trilogy). Recommended by: Bloom BOMC Hungry Mind ML Novels NYPL
• Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich, Russian, 1821-1881.
  • Notes from the Underground. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Crime and Punishment. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Col61 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Harvard Meaningful Ward
  • The Brothers Karamazov. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Harvard Meaningful Rex SJC Ward
  • The Idiot. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Meaningful Smiley Ward
  • The Possessed (The Devils). Recommended by: Bloom Meaningful
  • Short Novels. Recommended by: Bloom
• Douglas (Brown), George, Scottish, 1869-1902.
  • The House with the Green Shutters. Recommended by: Bloom
• Douglas, Keith, English, 1920-1944.
  • The Complete Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Douglas, Mary, English, 1921- .
  • Purity and Danger. Recommended by: TLS
• Douglas, Norman, English, 1868-1952.
  • Looking Back. Recommended by: National Review
  • South Wind. Recommended by: Bloom
• Douglas, Stephen, See Lincoln, Abraham and Stephen Douglas
• Douglass, Frederick, American, ca. 1817-1895 .
  • My Bondage and My Freedom. Recommended by: Good Reading
  • Selected Essays. Recommended by: SJC
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Recommended by: Bloom Rexmo
  • The Constitution and Slavery. Recommended by: SJC
• Dove, Rita, American, 1952- .
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Dower, John, American, 1938- .
  • War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Dowson, Ernest, English, 1867-1900.
  • Complete Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Drayton, Michael, English, 1563-1631.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Dreiser, Theodore, American, 1871-1945.
  • Sister Carrie. Recommended by: Bloom ML Novels
  • An American Tragedy. Recommended by: Bloom Hungry Mind ML Novels Radcliffe Time
• Drucker, Peter F., American, 1909-2005.
  • The New Society: The Anatomy of the Industrial Order. Recommended by: LAT
• Drummond de Andrade, Carlos, Brazilian, 1902-1987.
  • Travelling in the Family. Recommended by: Bloom
• Dryden, John, English, 1631-1700.
  • Poetry and Plays. Recommended by: Bloom Lubbock
  • Critical Essays. Recommended by: Bloom
• Du Bellay, Joachim, French, 1522-1560.
  • The Regrets. Recommended by: Bloom
• Du Bois, W. E. B., American, 1868-1963.
  • The Souls of Black Folk. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF Hungry Mind ML Nonfiction NYPL
• Du Fu (Tu Fu), Chinese, 712-770.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Rex Utne Ward
• Du Maurier, Daphne, English, 1907-1989.
  • Rebecca. Recommended by: Radcliffe
• Dumas, Alexandre, French, 1802-1870.
  • The Count of Monte Cristo. Recommended by: Harvard
• Dumont, René, French, 1904-2001.
  • Stranglehold on Africa. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Dunbar, William, Scottish, ca. 1456-ca. 1513 .
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Duncan, Robert, American, 1919-1988.
  • Bending the Bow. Recommended by: Bloom
• Durant, Will and Ariel, American, 1885-1981 and 1898-1981.
  • The Story of Philosophy. Recommended by: Good Reading
  • The Story of Civilization. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
• Duras, Marguerite, French, 1914-1996.
  • The Lover. Recommended by: Bloom NYPL
  • Four Novels. Recommended by: Bloom
• Durkheim, Emile, French, 1858-1917.
  • Suicide: A Study in Sociology. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans NYPL
• Durrell, Lawrence, English, 1912-1990.
  • Alexandria Quartet. Recommended by: Bloom Burgess ML Novels
• Dürrenmatt, Friedrich, Swiss writing in German, 1921- .
  • The Visit. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • The Physicists. Recommended by: Ward
• Dworkin, Ronald, American, 1931- .
  • Taking Rights Seriously. Recommended by: TLS

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