Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors B

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 |

• Babbitt, Irving, American, 1865-1933.
  • Democracy and Leadership. Recommended by: National Review
• Babel, Isaac Emmanuelovich, Russian, 1894-ca. 1940 .
  • Collected Stories. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Bach, George R. and Herb Goldberg, American, 1914-1986 and 1937-.
  • Creative Aggression. Recommended by: LAT
• Bachelard, Gaston, French, 1884-1962.
  • The Poetics of Space. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Bachmann, Ingeborg, Austrian, 1926-1973.
  • In the Storm of Roses. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bacon, Francis, English, 1561-1626.
  • The Great Instauration. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • Advancement of Learning. Recommended by: Adler GBWW Ward
  • New Atlantis. Recommended by: Adler GBWW Ward
  • Essays. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Good Reading Lubbock Ward
  • Novum Organum. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas GBWW Lubbock Seymour-Smith SJC (Selections)
• Bai Juyi (Po Chü-i), Chinese, 772-846.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Ward
• Baker, Nicholson, American, 1957- .
  • Vox. Recommended by: Smiley
• Baldwin, James, American, 1924-1987.
  • The Price of a Ticket. Recommended by: Bloom Hungry Mind
  • Notes of a Native Son. Recommended by: LAT ML Nonfiction
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain. Recommended by: Boston PL Hungry Mind ML Novels Radcliffe Time
  • Collected Essays. Recommended by: Utne
  • The Fire Next Time. Recommended by: NYPL
  • The Devil Finds Work. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
  • Another Country. Recommended by: Burgess
• Ball, Edward, American, 1959- .
  • Slaves in the Family. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
• Ballard, J. G., English, 1930-2009.
  • The Unlimited Dream Company. Recommended by: Burgess
• Balzac, Honoré de, French, 1799-1850.
  • La Comédie Humaine. Recommended by: Rexmo Ward
  • Girl with the Golden Eyes. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Louis Lambert. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Wild Ass's Skin. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Père Goriot. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Meaningful
  • A Harlot High and Low. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Eugénie Grandet. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading
  • Cousin Bette. Recommended by: Bloom GBWW Smiley
  • Ursule Mirouet. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Cousin Pons. Recommended by: Smiley
• Banerji, Bibhutibhusan, Indian writing in Bengali, 1894-1950.
  • Pather Panchali (Song of the Road). Recommended by: Ward
• Banfield, Edward C., American, 1916-1999.
  • The Unheavenly City. Recommended by: National Review
• Banham, Reyner, English, 1922-1988.
  • Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Baraka, Amiri, See Jones, Leroi
• Barnes, Harry Elmer, American, 1889-1968.
  • A History of Historical Writing. Recommended by: Ward
• Baroja, Pio, Basque Spanish, 1872-1956.
  • Restlessness of Shanti Andía and Other Writings. Recommended by: Ward
• Barrie, J. M., Scottish, 1860-1937.
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Recommended by: NYPL
• Barth, John, American, 1930- .
  • The Floating Opera. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The End of the Road. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Sot-Weed Factor. Recommended by: Bloom Time
  • Giles Goat-Boy. Recommended by: Burgess LAT
• Barth, Karl, Swiss writing in German, 1886-1968.
  • The Word of God and the Word of Man. Recommended by: GBWW
  • Credo. Recommended by: TLS
• Barthélemy St.-Hilaire, Jules, French, 1805-1895.
  • The Buddha and His Religion. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Barthelme, Donald, American, 1931-1989.
  • Forty Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Dead Father. Recommended by: Bloom LAT
• Barthes, Roland, French, 1915-1980.
  • Mythologies. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans TLS
• Basho, Matsuo, Japanese, 1644-1694.
  • Poetry and Prose. Recommended by: MW Asian Oriental
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Recommended by: App Fadiman 4 StJE Ward
• Bassani, Giorgio, Italian, 1916- .
  • The Heron. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bataille, Georges, French, 1897-1962.
  • Visions of Excess. Recommended by: Harvard
  • Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Eroticism). Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
  • Blue of Noon. Recommended by: Bloom
• Batatu, Hanna, Palestinian writing in English, 1926-2000.
  • The Egyptian, Syrian, and Iraqi Revolutions. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Bate, W. Jackson, American, 1918-1999.
  • Samuel Johnson. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Bates, Henry Walter, English, 1825-1892.
  • The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Recommended by: Ward
• Baudelaire, Charles, French, 1821-1867.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Rex SJC
  • Flowers of Evil. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Paris Spleen. Recommended by: Bloom
• Baum, L. Frank, American, 1856-1919.
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Recommended by: NYPL Radcliffe
• Bayatli, Yahya Kemal, Turkish, 1884-1958.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Ward
• Bazin, Andre, French, 1918-1958.
  • Orson Welles: A Critical View. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, French, 1732-1799.
  • Barber of Seville. Recommended by: Ward
  • Marriage of Figaro. Recommended by: Ward
• Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher, English, 1584-1616 and 1579-1625.
  • Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
• Beauvoir, Simone de, French, 1908-1986.
  • The Second Sex. Recommended by: Bloom Boston PL Colcc91 (Selections) Counterpunch Trans Good Reading NYPL Seymour-Smith TLS Utne
• Beck, Charlotte Joko, American, 1917- .
  • Everyday Zen. Recommended by: Utne
• Beck, Simone, French, 1904-1991.
  • Art of French Cooking. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Beckett, Samuel, Irish writing in French and English, 1906-1989. Nobel Laureate
  • Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamamable. Recommended by: Meaningful
  • Murphy. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Watt. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Waiting for Godot. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW NYPL Ward
  • Endgame. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Krapp's Last Tape. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Molloy. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Malone Dies. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • The Unnamable. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • How It Is. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bécquer, Gustavo Adolpho, Spanish, 1836-1870.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, English, 1803-1849.
  • Death's Jest-Book. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Beerbohm, Max, English, 1872-1956.
  • Zuleika Dobson. Recommended by: Bloom Good Reading ML Novels Smiley
  • Seven Men and Two Others. Recommended by: Bloom
• Behe, Michael J., American, 1952- .
  • Darwin's Black Box. Recommended by: National Review
• Behn, Aphra, English, 1640-1689.
  • Oroonoko. Recommended by: Smiley
  • "The Fair Jilt". Recommended by: Smiley
• Bell, Daniel, American, 1919- .
  • End of Ideology. Recommended by: TLS
  • The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Recommended by: TLS
• Belli, Giuseppe Gioachino, Italian, 1791-1863.
  • Roman Sonnets. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Bellow, Saul, American, 1915-2005. Nobel Laureate
  • Seize the Day. Recommended by: Bloom BOMC
  • Henderson the Rain King. Recommended by: ML Novels
  • The Adventures of Augie March. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading ML Novels Time
  • Herzog. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Hungry Mind LAT Time
  • Humboldt's Gift. Recommended by: Burgess Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Harvard
  • The Victim. Recommended by: Burgess
• Bely, Andrey, Russian, 1880-1934.
  • Petersburg. Recommended by: Bloom
• Ben Ezra, Moses ben Jacob, Jew in Islamic Spain writing in Hebrew, ca. 1055-1138.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Ward
• Benavente, Jacinto, Spanish, 1866-1954. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Benedict, Ruth, American, 1887-1948.
  • Patterns of Culture. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Benjamin, Walter, German, 1892-1940.
  • Illuminations. Recommended by: Bloom Counterpunch Trans
• Benn, Gottfried, German, 1886-1956.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bennett, Arnold, English, 1867-1931.
  • The Old Wives' Tale. Recommended by: Bloom ML Novels
• Bentham, Jeremy, English, 1748-1832.
  • Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Recommended by: Adler Ward
  • Theory of Fictions. Recommended by: Adler
• Anonymous, English, 8th C.
  • Beowulf. Recommended by: Bloom Rex
• Berger, Peter, American, 1929- .
  • The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty. Recommended by: TLS
• Berger, John, English, 1926- .
  • Pig Earth. Recommended by: Utne
• Berger, Thomas, American, 1924- .
  • Little Big Man. Recommended by: BOMC
• Bergson, Henri, French, 1859-1941. Nobel Laureate
  • Time and Free Will. Recommended by: Adler
  • Matter and Memory. Recommended by: Adler
  • Creative Evolution. Recommended by: Adler
  • Two Sources of Morality and Religion. Recommended by: Adler
  • An Introduction to Metaphysics. Recommended by: GBWW
• Berkeley, George, Irish-English, 1685-1753.
  • Principles of Human Knowledge. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas GBWW Lubbock Seymour-Smith SJC
• Berkman, Alexander, American, 1870-1936.
  • Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist and other works. Recommended by: Rexmo
• Berlin, Isaiah, English, 1909-1997.
  • Four Essays on Liberty. Recommended by: TLS
  • Russian Thinkers. Recommended by: TLS
  • The Proper Study of Mankind. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
  • The Hedgehog and the Fox. Recommended by: National Review
• Bernard, Claude, French, 1813-1878.
  • Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine. Recommended by: Adler
• Bernays, Edward L., American, 1891-1995.
  • The Engineering of Consent. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Bernhard, Thomas, Austrian, 1931-1989.
  • Woodcutters. Recommended by: Bloom
• Berryman, John, American, 1914-1972.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bettelheim, Bruno, Austrian-American writing in English, 1903-1990.
  • The Uses of Enchantment. Recommended by: NYPL
• Anonymous, Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 200 BCE.
  • The Bhagavad Gita. (See also Vyasa. Mahabharata) Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Oriental Rexmo StJE Ward
• Bhartrhari, Indian writing in Sanskrit, 7th C.
  • Poems. Recommended by: MW Asian Ward
• Bialik, Chaim Nachman, Ukrainian-Palestinian Jew writing in Hebrew, 1873-1934.
  • Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Ward
• Various Authors, Jews writing in Hebrew, 13th-2nd C BCE.
  • Bible. Hebrew Scriptures ("Old Testament"). (See also Apocrypha) Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock Seymour-Smith SJC (Selections) Ward
  • Genesis. Recommended by: Col61 Colcc91 Collh91
  • Exodus. Recommended by: Colcc91
  • Isaiah. Recommended by: Colcc91 Utne
  • Amos. Recommended by: Col61
  • Job. Recommended by: Col61 Collh91 Meaningful Rex
  • Song of Songs. Recommended by: Rexmo
  • Revised Standard Version. Recommended by: NYPL
• Various Authors, Jewish Christians writing in Greek, 1st C CE.
  • Bible. New Testament. (See also New Testament Apocrypha) Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock Seymour-Smith SJC (Selections) Ward
  • Gospels. Recommended by: Collh91
  • Matthew. Recommended by: Col61 Colcc91
  • John. Recommended by: Col61
  • Acts. Recommended by: Colcc91
  • Romans. Recommended by: Col61 Colcc91
  • James. Recommended by: Colcc91
  • Revelation. Recommended by: Colcc91
  • Revised Standard Version. Recommended by: NYPL
• Bierce, Ambrose, American, 1842-1914? .
  • Collected Writings. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bilhana, Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 1040-1095.
  • Caurapañcasika (Phantasies of a Love-Thief). Recommended by: Ward
• Billington, Ray Allen, American, 1903-1981.
  • The Genesis of the Frontier Theory: A Study in Historical Creativity. Recommended by: LAT
• Various Authors, Arab, 8th-11th C.
  • Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abassid Poets. Recommended by: Ward
• Bishop, Elizabeth, American, 1911-1979.
  • The Complete Poems. Recommended by: Bloom NYPL
• Bjørnson, Bjørnsterne, Norwegian, 1832-1910. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Black Elk, Native American, 1863-1950.
  • Black Elk Speaks (With William G. Neihardt (1881-1973)). Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans Hungry Mind Utne
• Blake, Robert, English, 1916-2003.
  • Disraeli. Recommended by: National Review
• Blake, William, English, 1757-1827.
  • Poetry and Prose. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Selected Works. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Rexmo Ward
  • The Book of Urizen. Recommended by: Utne
• Blanchot, Maurice, French, 1907-2003.
  • Thomas the Obscure. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bland, David Farrant, English, ca. 1911-1970.
  • History of Book Illustration. Recommended by: Ward
• Bloch, Marc, French, 1886-1944.
  • The Historian's Craft. Recommended by: TLS
  • Feudal Society. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans TLS
  • Strange Defeat. Recommended by: National Review
• Blok, Aleksandr, Russian, 1880-1921.
  • The Twelve and Other Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bloom, Allan, American, 1930-1992.
  • The Closing of the American Mind. Recommended by: National Review
• Bloom, Harold, American, 1930- .
  • The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. Recommended by: LAT
• Blume, Judy, American, 1938- .
  • Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. Recommended by: Time
• Boas, Franz, American, 1858-1942.
  • Chinook Texts. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Bobbio, Norberto, Italian, 1909-2004.
  • The Future of Democracy. Recommended by: TLS
• Bobrowski, Johannes, German, 1917-1965.
  • Shadow Lands. Recommended by: Bloom
• Boccaccio, Giovanni, Italian, 1313-1375.
  • Decameron. Recommended by: Bloom Collh91 Good Reading Meaningful Smiley Ward
• Bodhidharma (Daruma), Indian-Chinese, ca. 470-543 .
  • Selected Writings. Recommended by: StJE
• Boethius, Roman, ca. 480-524.
  • Consolation of Philosophy. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • On Music. Recommended by: Aquinas
• Bogan, Louise, American, 1887-1970.
  • The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bohr, Niels, Danish, 1885-1962.
  • Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature. Recommended by: GBWW (Selections)
  • Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics. Recommended by: GBWW
• Boiardo, Matteo Maria, Italian, 1441-1494.
  • Orlando Innamorato. Recommended by: Bloom
• Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas, French, 1636-1711.
  • Art of Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Lutrin. Recommended by: Bloom
• Böll, Heinrich, German, 1917-1985. Nobel Laureate
  • Billiards at Half-Past Nine. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bond, Edward, English, 1934- .
  • The Fool. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Saved. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bonnefoy, Yves, French, 1923- .
  • Words in Stone. Recommended by: Bloom
• Anonymous, Egyptian, Ancient, 23rd-16th C BCE.
  • Book of the Dead. Recommended by: Bloom
• Boorstin, Daniel, American, 1914-2004.
  • The Image, or What Happened to the American Dream. Recommended by: LAT
• Borges, Jorge Luis, Argentinian, 1899-1986.
  • A Personal Anthology. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Collected Fictions. Recommended by: Meaningful
  • Other Inquisitions. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
  • Ficciones (Fictions). Recommended by: Bloom Harvard NYPL Ward
  • Labyrinths. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Ward
  • The Aleph and Other Stories. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Dreamtigers. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
• Borkin, Joseph, American, 1911-1979.
  • The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Borrow, George, English, 1803-1881.
  • Lavengro. Recommended by: Ward
  • Romany Rye. Recommended by: Ward
• Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, French, 1627-1704.
  • Funerary Orations. Recommended by: Bloom
• Boston Women's Health Book Collective, American, Pub. 1973.
  • Our Bodies, Ourselves. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Boswell, James, Scottish, 1740-1795.
  • The Life of Samuel Johnson. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Lubbock Ward
  • Journals. Recommended by: Adler (Selections) Bloom
• Botkin, B. A., American, 1901-1975.
  • A Treasury of Mississippi River Folktales. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Bouton, Jim, American, 1939- .
  • Ball Four. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF NYPL
• Bowen, Elizabeth, Anglo-Irish, 1899-1973.
  • The Death of the Heart. Recommended by: ML Novels Smiley Time
  • Collected Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Heat of the Day. Recommended by: Burgess
• Bowers, Edgar, American, 1924-2000.
  • Living Together: New and Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bowles, Paul, American, 1910-1999.
  • The Sheltering Sky. Recommended by: Bloom BOMC Harvard Hungry Mind ML Novels Time
• Bowra, Sir Cecil Maurice, English, 1898-1971.
  • Primitive Song. Recommended by: Ward
• Boyer, Richard O., American, 1903-1973.
  • Labor's Untold Story (With Herbert M. Morais). Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Boyle, Kay, American, 1903-1992.
  • Three Short Novels. Recommended by: Bloom
• Boyle, T. Coraghessan, American, 1948- .
  • Tortilla Curtain. Recommended by: Harvard
• Bracher, Karl Dietrich, German, 1922- .
  • The Totalitarian Experience. Recommended by: TLS
• Bradbury, Malcolm, English, 1932-2000.
  • The History Man. Recommended by: Burgess
• Bradbury, Ray, American, 1920- .
  • Fahrenheit 451. Recommended by: NYPL
• Braine, John, English, 1922-1986.
  • Room at the Top. Recommended by: Burgess
• Braudel, Fernand, French, 1902-1985.
  • The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans Fadiman 3 TLS
  • Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
• Braverman, Harry, American, 1920-1976.
  • Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Brecht, Bertolt, German, 1898-1956.
  • Poems, 1913-1956. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Threepenny Opera. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Galileo. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
  • The Good Woman of Setzuan. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Caucasian Chalk Circle. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Mother Courage and Her Children. Recommended by: Bloom GBWW
• Breton, André, French, 1896-1966.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Manifestoes of Surrealism. Recommended by: Bloom Counterpunch Trans
• Breuil, Henri, French, 1877-1961.
  • The Evolution of Rock Art in the Caves of France. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Bridges, Robert, English, 1844-1930.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Broch, Hermann, Austrian, 1886-1951.
  • The Sleepwalkers. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
  • Hugo von Hoffmannsthal and His Time. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Death of Virgil. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Brodie, Fawn M., American, 1915-1981.
  • Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. Recommended by: LAT
• Brodkey, Harold, American, 1930-1996.
  • Stories in an Almost Classical Mode. Recommended by: Bloom
• Brodsky, Joseph, Russian-American writing in English, 1940-1996. Nobel Laureate
  • A Part of Speech: Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Various authors, Aztecs (Mexico), 1519 ff..
  • Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Ed. by Miguel León-Portillo). Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Brontë, Charlotte, English, 1816-1855.
  • Jane Eyre. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Harvard Smiley Ward
  • Villette. Recommended by: Bloom
• Brontë, Emily, English, 1818-1848.
  • Wuthering Heights. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Meaningful Smiley Ward
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Brower, David, American, 1912-2000.
  • For Earth's Sake. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Brown, Dee Alexander, American, 1908-2002.
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Recommended by: NYPL
• Brown, George Douglas, See Douglas, George
• Brown, Margaret Wise, American, 1910-1952.
  • Goodnight Moon. Recommended by: NYPL
• Brown, Norman O., American, 1913-2002.
  • Love's Body. Recommended by: LAT
  • Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Browne, Sir Thomas, English, 1605-1682.
  • Religio Medici. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Garden of Cyrus. Recommended by: Bloom
• Browning, Robert, English, 1812-1849.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Good Reading
  • The Ring and the Book. Recommended by: Bloom
• Brownmiller, Susan, American, 1935- .
  • Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. Recommended by: NYPL
• Bruno, Giordano, Italian, 1548-1600.
  • The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bryant, William Cullen, American, 1794-1878.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bryson, Bill, American, 1951?-.
  • Made in America. Recommended by: Utne
  • The Lost Continent. Recommended by: Harvard
• Buber, Martin, Austrian, 1878-1965.
  • I and Thou. Recommended by: Boston PL Seymour-Smith TLS
• Büchner, Georg, German, 1813-1837.
  • Danton's Death. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Woyzeck. Recommended by: Bloom
• Buck, Pearl S., American, 1892-1973. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Buckley, William F., American, 1925-2008.
  • God and Man at Yale. Recommended by: National Review
• Various Authors, writing in Pali and Sanskrit, Indians writing in Pali and Sanskrit, 100-400 CE.
  • Buddhist Scriptures. Recommended by: Ward
• Bukowski, Charles, American, 1920-1994.
  • Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. Recommended by: LAT
  • Ham on Rye. Recommended by: Harvard
  • Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. Recommended by: Harvard
• Bulgakov, Mikhail, Russian, 1891-1940.
  • The Master and the Margarita. Recommended by: Bloom Harvard
• Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, English, 1803-1873.
  • The Last Days of Pompeii. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Bunin, Ivan, Russian, 1870-1953. Nobel Laureate
  • Selected Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
• Bunting, Basil, English, 1900-1985.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Buñuel. Luis, Spanish, 1900-1983.
  • My Last Sigh. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Bunyan, John, English, 1628-1688.
  • Pilgrim's Progress. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock Rex Seymour-Smith
• Burgess, Anthony, English, 1917-1994.
  • A Clockwork Orange. Recommended by: Boston PL Good Reading ML Novels NYPL Radcliffe Time
  • Nothing Like the Sun. Recommended by: Bloom
• Burke, Edmund, Irish, 1729-1797.
  • Selected Works. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Sublime and Beautiful. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Revolution in France. Recommended by: Bloom Seymour-Smith
• Burke, Kenneth, American, 1897-1993.
  • Counter-statement. Recommended by: Bloom
  • A Rhetoric of Motives. Recommended by: Bloom
• Burkert, Walter, German, 1931- .
  • Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Burney, Fanny, English, 1752-1840.
  • Evelina. Recommended by: Bloom
• Burnham, James, American, 1905-1987.
  • The Managerial Revolution. Recommended by: TLS
  • The Machiavellians. Recommended by: National Review
• Burns, Robert, Scottish, 1759-1796.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Good Reading Lubbock Rexmo Ward
• Burroughs, William S., American, 1914-1997.
  • The Naked Lunch. Recommended by: Hungry Mind LAT Radcliffe Time
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice, American, 1875-1950.
  • Tarzan of the Apes. Recommended by: NYPL
• Burton, Robert, English, 1577-1640.
  • The Anatomy of Melancholy. Recommended by: Bloom
• Burton, Sir Richard Francis, English, 1821-1890.
  • Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. Recommended by: Ward
• Butler, Joseph, English, 1692-1752.
  • The Analogy of Religion. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Butler, Samuel, English, 1613-1680.
  • Hudibras. Recommended by: Bloom
• Butler, Samuel, English, 1835-1902.
  • Erewhon. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Way of All Flesh. Recommended by: Bloom ML Novels
• Buzzati, Dino, Italian, 1906-1972.
  • The Tartar Steppe. Recommended by: Ward
• Byatt, A. S., English, 1936- .
  • Possession. Recommended by: Smiley Time
• Byron, George Gordon, Lord, English, 1788-1824.
  • Childe Harold. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Good Reading
  • Don Juan. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
• Byron, Robert, English, 1905-1941.
  • The Road to Oxiana. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF

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