Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors A

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Abbey, Edward, American, 1927-1989.
- Desert Solitaire. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Abe Kobo, Japanese, 1925- .
- Woman in the Dunes. Recommended by: MW Asian Ward
Abelard, Pierre and Héloïse, French writing in Latin, 1079-1142 and 1101-1164.
- Letters. Recommended by: Rexmo Ward
- Historia Calamitatum. Recommended by: Ward
Abish, Walter, American, 1931- .
- Alphabetical Africa. Recommended by: Bloom
- How German Is It. Recommended by: Bloom
- Eclipse Fever. Recommended by: Bloom
- I Am the Dust Under Your Feet. Recommended by: Bloom
Abram, David, American, 1957- .
- The Spell of the Sensuous. Recommended by: Utne
Abrams, M. H., American, 1912- .
- The Mirror and the Lamp. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Abu Bakr Muhammad bin 'Abdulmalik ibn Tufail, Arab in Islamic Spain, ca. 1105-1185.
- Awakening of the Soul (Hayy ibn Yaqzan). Recommended by: Ward
Achebe, Chinua, Nigerian writing in English, 1930- .
- Arrow of God. Recommended by: Bloom
- No Longer at Ease. Recommended by: Bloom
- Things Fall Apart. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Meaningful NYPL Radcliffe Time Utne Ward
- A Man of the People. Recommended by: Burgess
Acheson, Dean, American, 1893-1971.
- Present at the Creation. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Adamic, Louis, American, 1899-1951.
- Dynamite: A Century of Class Violence in America, 1830-1930. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Adams, Douglas, English, 1952-2001.
- A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Recommended by: Harvard Radcliffe
Adams, Henry, American, 1838-1918.
- The Education of Henry Adams. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Hungry Mind ML Nonfiction NYPL Ward
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. Recommended by: Bloom National Review Ward
Adams, Léonie, American, 1899-1988.
- Poems: A Selection. Recommended by: Bloom
Addams, Jane, American, 1860-1935.
- Twenty Years at Hull-House. Recommended by: NYPL
Addison, Joseph and Richard Steele, English and Irish-English, 1672-1719 and 1672-1729.
- Spectator. Recommended by: Bloom Lubbock
Adi Granth, See Sacred Writings of the Sikhs
Adler, Alfred, Austrian, 1870-1937.
- Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation. Recommended by: Boston PL
Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren, American, 1902-2001 and 1926- .
- How to Read a Book. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
Adorno, Theodor, German, 1903-1969.
- Philosophy of Modern Music. Recommended by: Boston PL
- Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
Adunis, Lebanese, 1930- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Aeschylus, Greek, 525-456/5 BCE.
- Tragedies. Recommended by: Adler GBWW
- The Oresteia (Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides). Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock Rex SJC Ward
- Prometheus Bound. Recommended by: Bloom Lubbock SJC
- Seven Against Thebes. Recommended by: Bloom
- Persians. Recommended by: Bloom
- Suppliant Women. Recommended by: Bloom
Aesop, Greek, 620-560 BCE.
- Fables. Recommended by: Bloom Good Reading
Agee, James, American, 1909-1955.
- Permit Me Voyage. Recommended by: Bloom
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with Walker Evans). Recommended by: Bloom Boston PL Hungry Mind NYPL Utne
- A Death in the Family. Recommended by: Time
Agee, Philip, American, 1935- .
- Inside the Company: CIA Diary. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Agnon, S. Y., Israeli, 1888-1970. Nobel Laureate
- In the Heart of the Seas. Recommended by: Bloom
- Twenty-One Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
Aiken, Conrad, American, 1889-1973.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Akhmatova, Anna, Russian, 1888-1966.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Requiem. Recommended by: NYPL
Aksakov, Sergey, Russian, 1791-1859.
- A Family Chronicle. Recommended by: Bloom
Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Japanese, 1892-1927.
- Rashomon, and Other Stories. Recommended by: Ward
Alain-Fournier, French, 1886-1914.
- Le Grand Meaulnes. Recommended by: Bloom
Alas, Leopoldo (Clarín), Spanish, 1852-1901.
- La Regenta. Recommended by: Bloom
Albee, Edward, American, 1928- .
- The American Dream. Recommended by: LAT
Alberti, Rafael, Spanish, 1902-1984.
- The Owl's Insomnia: Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Alcman, Greek, 7th C BCE.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Alcott, Louisa May, American, 1832-1888.
- Little Women. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
Aldiss, Brian, English, 1925- .
- Life in the West. Recommended by: Burgess
Aleichem, Sholem, See Sholem Aleichem
Aleixandre, Vicente, Spanish, 1898-1984. Nobel Laureate
- A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Alexander, Christopher, American, 1936- .
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF Utne
Alfieri, Vittorio, Italian, 1749-1803.
- Saul. Recommended by: Bloom
Algren, Nelson, American, 1909-1981.
- The Man with the Golden Arm. Recommended by: BOMC
- A Walk on the Wild Side. Recommended by: LAT
Allison, Dorothy, American, 1949- .
- Bastard Out of Carolina. Recommended by: Harvard Hungry Mind Utne
Alvarez, Julia, American, 1950- .
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Recommended by: Harvard
Amichai, Yehuda, Israeli, 1934- .
- Selected Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
- Travels. Recommended by: Bloom
Amis, Kingsley, English, 1922-1995.
- Lucky Jim. Recommended by: Burgess Good Reading Time
- The Anti-Death League. Recommended by: Burgess
Amis, Martin, English, 1949- .
- London Fields. Recommended by: Harvard
- Money. Recommended by: Time
Ammons, A. R., American, 1926- .
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Selected Longer Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Sphere: The Form of a Motion. Recommended by: Bloom
Ampère, André Marie, French, 1775-1836.
- Papers. Recommended by: Aquinas
Amundsen, Roald, Norwegian, 1872-1928.
- The South Pole. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
Anand, Margot, French-American writing in English, 1943- .
- The Art of Sexual Ecstasy. Recommended by: Utne
Anantha Murthy, U. R., Indian writing in Kannada, 1932- .
- Samskara. Recommended by: MW Asian
Anaya, Rudolfo, American, 1937- .
- Bless Me Ultima. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
Andersen Nexø, Martin, Danish, 1869-1954.
- Pelle the Conqueror. Recommended by: Bloom
Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish, 1805-1875.
- Fairy Tales and Stories. Recommended by: Meaningful
Anderson, Jack, American, 1922-2005.
- Confessions of a Muckraker. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Anderson, Sherwood, American, 1876-1941.
- Winesburg, Ohio. Recommended by: Bloom Hungry Mind ML Novels
- Death in the Woods and Other Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
Andrade, Eugénio de, Portuguese, 1923- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Andreyev, Leonid, Russian, 1871-1919.
- Selected Tales. Recommended by: Bloom
Andric, Ivo, Bosnian, 1892-1975. Nobel Laureate
- The Bridge on the Drina. Recommended by: Bloom
Angelou, Maya, American, 1928- .
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Recommended by: Hungry Mind NYPL
Anger, Kenneth, American, 1930- .
- Hollywood Babylon. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Angulo, Jaime de, American, 1887-1950.
- Indian Tales. Recommended by: LAT
Anouilh, Jean, French, 1910-1987.
- Becket. Recommended by: Bloom
- Antigone. Recommended by: Bloom
- Eurydice. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Rehearsal. Recommended by: Bloom
Anselm, St., Italian-English writing in Latin, 1033-1109.
- Proslogium. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC
- Reply to Gaunilo. Recommended by: Aquinas
Ansky, S., Russian writing in Yiddish, 1863-1920.
- The Dybbuk. Recommended by: Bloom
Various Authors, Chinese, 8th C BCE-20th C.
- Anthology of Chinese Literature. Recommended by: Ward
Various Authors writing in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, etc., Arabic, Persian, Turkish, etc., 7th-18th C.
- Anthology of Islamic Literature, From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times. Recommended by: Ward
Various Authors, Japanese, 8th-19th C.
- Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Nineteenth Century. Recommended by: Ward
Various Authors, Korean, 1st Millennium-20th C.
- Anthology of Korean Poetry, From the Earliest Era to the Present. Recommended by: Ward
Various Authors, Sri Lankan, 6th-19th C.
- An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature up to 1815. Recommended by: Ward
Anwar, Chairil, Indonesian, 1922-1949.
- Complete Poetry and Prose. Recommended by: Ward
Anzaldua, Gloria, American, 1942-2004.
- Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Recommended by: Hungry Mind Utne
Various Authors, Jews writing in Hebrew and Aramaic, 2nd C BCE-1st C CE.
- Apocrypha. Recommended by: Bloom
Apollinaire, Guillaume, French, 1880-1918.
- Selected Writings. Recommended by: Bloom
Apollonius of Perga, Greek, fl. 247-205 BCE.
- On Conic Sections. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Rexmo SJC (Selections)
Apollonius Rhodius, Greek, fl. 220 BCE.
- Argonautica. Recommended by: Ward
Appelfeld, Aharon, Israeli, 1932- .
- The Immortal Bartfuss. Recommended by: Bloom
- Badenheim 1939. Recommended by: Bloom
Applewhite, James, American, 1935- .
- River Writing: An Eno Journal. Recommended by: Bloom
Apuleius, Roman, fl. ca. 155 CE.
- Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses). Recommended by: Bloom Rex Utne Ward
Aquinas, St. Thomas, See Thomas Aquinas, St.
Arabian Nights, See Thousand and One Nights
Aragon, Louis, French, 1897-1982.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Archilochus, Greek, 7th C BCE.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Archimedes, Greek, ca. 287-212 BCE.
- Works. Recommended by: Adler (Selections) GBWW Rexmo
- On Floating Bodies. Recommended by: Aquinas
- On Conoids and Spheroids. Recommended by: Aquinas
- Quadrature of the Parabola. Recommended by: Aquinas
Arden, John, English, 1930- .
- Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
Arenas, Reinaldo, Cuban, 1943-1990.
- The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando. Recommended by: Bloom
Arendt, Hannah, American, 1906-1975.
- On Violence. Recommended by: Colcc91
- Origins of Totalitarianism. Recommended by: Colcc91 (Selections) National Review TLS
- Eichmann in Jerusalem. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF TLS
- The Life of the Mind. Recommended by: LAT
Ariès, Philippe, French, 1914-1984.
- The Hour of Our Death. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
Ariosto, Ludovico, Italian, 1474-1533.
- Orlando Furioso. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
Aristophanes, Greek, 448-388 BCE.
- Plays. Recommended by: Adler (Selections) GBWW Good Reading Ward
- Lysistrata. Recommended by: Bloom Col61 Fadiman 4
- The Clouds. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Col61 Collh91 Fadiman 4 Lubbock SJC
- The Birds. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 4
- The Frogs. Recommended by: Bloom Col37 Col61
- Plutus. Recommended by: Col37
- Knights. Recommended by: Bloom Lubbock
- Wasps. Recommended by: Bloom
- Assemblywomen. Recommended by: Bloom
Aristotle, Greek, 384-322 BCE.
- Works. Recommended by: Adler (Selections) GBWW Seymour-Smith
- Ethics (Nicomachean). Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Colcc91 Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock SJC Ward
- Politics. Recommended by: Aquinas Colcc91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Lubbock SJC (Selections) Ward
- Poetics. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Collh91 Fadiman 4 Rexmo SJC Ward
- Physics. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC (Selections)
- Metaphysics. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC (Selections)
- On Generation and Corruption. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC (Selections)
- Parts of Animals. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC (Selections)
- Generation of Animals. Recommended by: SJC (Selections)
- De Anima. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC
- On Interpretation. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC (Selections)
- Prior Analytics. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC (Selections)
- Categories. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC (Selections)
- Rhetoric. Recommended by: Aquinas
- Posterior Analytics. Recommended by: Aquinas
- Topics. Recommended by: Aquinas
Armah, Ayi K., Ghanaian writing in English, 1939- .
- The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. Recommended by: Bloom
Arnold, Matthew, English, 1822-1888.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Essays. Recommended by: Bloom
Aron, Raymond, French, 1905-1983.
- The Opium of the Intellectuals. Recommended by: TLS
- Memoirs. Recommended by: TLS
Arora, David, American, fl. 1979.
- Mushrooms Demystified. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Arreola, Juan Jose, Mexican, 1918- .
- Confabulario and Other Inventions. Recommended by: Ward
Arrian, Greek, ca. 100-180 CE.
- Anabasis. Recommended by: Ward
Arrow, Kenneth, American, 1921- .
- Social Choice and Individual Values. Recommended by: TLS
Artaud, Antonin, French, 1896-1948.
- Theater and Its Double. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
- Selected Writings. Recommended by: Bloom
Asch, Sholem, Polish-American writing in Yiddish, 1880-1957.
- East River. Recommended by: Bloom
Ashbery, John, American, 1927- .
- The Double Dream of Spring. Recommended by: Bloom
- Houseboat Days. Recommended by: Bloom
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Flow Chart. Recommended by: Bloom
- Hotel Lautréamont. Recommended by: Bloom
- And the Stars Were Shining. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems. Recommended by: LAT
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia, New Zealander, 1908-1984.
- Spinster. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Ashvaghosha, Indian writing in Sanskrit, 1st-2nd C CE.
- Buddha-charita. Recommended by: StJE
Asimov, Isaac, American, 1920-1992.
- Asimov on Numbers. Recommended by: Good Reading
Asturias, Miguel Angel, Guatemalan, 1899-1974. Nobel Laureate
- Men of Maize. Recommended by: Bloom
Athanasius, St., Byzantine Greek, ca. 297-373.
- On the Incarnation. Recommended by: Aquinas
Atkinson, Kate, English, 1951- .
- Emotionally Weird. Recommended by: Harvard
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Recommended by: Smiley
Atwood, Margaret, Canadian, 1939- .
- Surfacing. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Handmaid's Tale. Recommended by: Harvard NYPL
- The Blind Assassin. Recommended by: Time
Aubigné, Agrippa d', French, 1552-1630.
- Les Tragiques. Recommended by: Bloom
Aubrey, John, English, 1626-1697.
- Brief Lives. Recommended by: Bloom
Auden, W. H., English, 1907-1973.
- The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue. Recommended by: NYPL
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4
- The Dyer's Hand. Recommended by: Bloom
Auerbach, Erich, German, 1892-1957.
- Mimesis: Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
Augustine, St., North African writing in Latin, 354-430.
- Works. Recommended by: Adler (Selections)
- Confessions. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Lubbock Seymour-Smith SJC Ward
- City of God. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Colcc91 (Selections) GBWW
- On Christian Doctrine. Recommended by: Aquinas GBWW
- On the Teacher. Recommended by: Aquinas
- On the Spirit and the Letter. Recommended by: Aquinas
- On Nature and Grace. Recommended by: Aquinas
- On the Gift of Perserverance. Recommended by: Aquinas
- On the Predestination of the Saints. Recommended by: Aquinas
Austen, Jane, English, 1775-1817.
- Pride and Prejudice. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Meaningful SJC Ward
- Emma. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW SJC
- Mansfield Park. Recommended by: Bloom
- Persuasion. Recommended by: Bloom Harvard Smiley Utne
Auster, Paul, American, 1947- .
- The New York Trilogy. Recommended by: Harvard
Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Arab in Islamic Spain, 1126-1198.
- On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy. Recommended by: Oriental
Avogadro, Amadeo, Italian, 1776-1856.
- Masses and Proportions of Elementary Molecules. Recommended by: Aquinas
Anonymous, Indian (extant only in Chinese translation), 5th-6th C.
- Awakening of Faith in Mahayana. Recommended by: Oriental
Ayensu, Edward S. and Robert A. DeFilipps, Ghanaian-American and American, 1935- and 1939-.
- Endangered and Threatened Plants of the United States. Recommended by: LAT
Aztecs, Aztecs (Mexico), 12th-15th C.
- Works on the Aztecs. (See also Broken Spears) Recommended by: Ward
Azuela, Mariano, Mexican, 1873-1952.
- Underdogs. Recommended by: Ward

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