Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors I to L
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 |
- Anonymous, Chinese, 12th C BCE?.
- Ibn Batuta, Muhammad bin 'Abdullah, Arab, 1304-1369.
- Travels in Asia and Africa. Recommended by: Ward
- Ibn Hazm, 'Ali Ahmad, Arab in Islamic Spain, 994-1064.
- Ibn Khaldun, 'Abd Ar-Rahman bin Muhammad, Arab, 1332-1406.
- Ibsen, Henrik, Norwegian, 1828-1906.
- Ilango Adigal, Indian writing in Tamil, 2nd C CE.
- Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet). Recommended by:
Ward
- Illich, Ivan, Austrian-American writing in English, 1926-2002.
- Tools for Conviviality. Recommended by: Utne
- Deschooling Society. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- Inca and others, Peru, Pre-Columbian, 12th-15th C.
- Various Authors, Indian.
- Indian Devotional Poetry. Recommended by: Oriental
- Various Authors, Indian.
- Indo-Islamic Poetry. Recommended by: Oriental
- Innis, Harold A., Canadian, 1894-1952.
- The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic
History. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- Ionesco, Eugčne, Romanian-French, 1912-1994.
- The Bald Soprano. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Chairs. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Lesson. Recommended by: Bloom
- Amédée. Recommended by: Bloom
- Victims of Duty. Recommended by: Bloom
- Rhinoceros. Recommended by: Bloom
- Irigaray, Luce, French, 1930- .
- Irving, John, American, 1942- .
- Irving, Washington, American, 1783-1859.
- The Sketch Book. Recommended by: Bloom
- Isherwood, Christopher, English, 1904-1986.
- The Berlin Stories. Recommended by: Bloom Time
- A Single Man. Recommended by: Burgess
- Ishiguro, Kazuo, English, 1954- .
- Never Let Me Go. Recommended by: Time
- Isvarakrsna, Indian writing in Sanskrit, 4th C.
- Samkhyakarika. Recommended by: StJE
- Itoh, Teiji, Japanese, 1922- .
- Jabčs, Edmond, French, 1912-1991.
- The Book of Questions. Recommended by: Bloom
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jacob, Max, French, 1876-1944.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jacobs, Jane, American, 1916-2006.
- Jacobus de Varagine, Italian writing in Latin, ca. 1227-1298.
- Golden Legend. Recommended by: Ward
- Jacottet, Philippe, French, 1925- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jahiz, al-, Arab, ca. 780-ca. 868.
- The Life and Works of Jahiz. Recommended by: Ward
- James, C. L. R., Trinidadian, 1901-1989.
- James, Henry, American, 1843-1916.
- James, William, American, 1842-1910.
- Jami, Nur ad-Din 'Abd Ar-Rahman, Afghan writing in Persian, 1414-1492.
- Baharistan. Recommended by: Ward
- Various Artists, Japanese.
- Japanese Landscape Painting. Recommended by: StJE
- Various Authors, Japanese, 12th-13th C.
- [Japanese] Literature. Recommended by: Oriental
- Various Authors, Japanese, 9th-11th C.
- [Japanese] Poetry, Fiction, and Diaries. Recommended by: Oriental
- Jarrell, Randall, American, 1914-1965.
- Jarry, Alfred, French, 1873-1907.
- Selected Works. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jaspers, Karl, German, 1883-1969.
- The Perennial Scope of Philosophy. Recommended by: TLS
- Jayadeva, Indian writing in Sanskrit, 12th C.
- Jaynes, Julian, American, 1923- .
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral
Mind. Recommended by: LAT
- Jeffers, Robinson, American, 1887-1962.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jefferson, Thomas, and others, American, 18th C and following.
- Jekyll, Gertrude, English, 1843-1932.
- Jelinek, Elfriede, Austrian, 1946- . Nobel Laureate
- Jennings, Elizabeth, English, 1926- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jensen, Johannes V., Danish, 1873-1950. Nobel Laureate
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, American, 1849-1909.
- The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories. Recommended
by: Bloom NYPL
- Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, Indian writing in English, 1927- .
- Heat and Dust. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jiménez, Juan Ramón, Spanish, 1881-1958. Nobel Laureate
- Platero and I. Recommended by: NYPL
- Invisible Reality: Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Anonymous, Chinese, 1618.
- Jinpingmei (Chin P'ing Mei (Ch'in Ping Mei;
also known as Golden Lotus; Plum in the Golden Vase).
Recommended by: Fadiman
4 Oriental Ward
- John Damascene, St., Syrian Greek, ca. 675-ca. 749.
- An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Recommended by: Aquinas
- John of the Cross, St. (Juan de la Cruz), Spanish, 1542-1591.
- John Paul II (Pope), Latin, 1920-2005.
- On the hundredth anniversary of Rerum novarum: encyclical letter
Centesimus annus. Recommended by: National
Review
- John XXIII (Pope), Italian writing in Latin, 1881-1963.
(See also Vatican II)
- Encyclicals of Pope John XXIII. Recommended by: Boston
PL
- Johnson, Denis, American, 1949- .
- Angels. Recommended by: Bloom
- Fiskadoro. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jesus' Son. Recommended by: Bloom
- Johnson, Eyvind, Swedish, 1900-1976. Nobel Laureate
- Johnson, Lionel, English, 1867-1902.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Johnson, Pamela Hansford, English, 1912-1981.
- An Error of Judgement. Recommended by: Burgess
- Johnson, Paul, English, 1928- .
- Johnson, Samuel, English, 1709-1784.
- Works. Recommended by: Bloom
- Vanity of Human Wishes. Recommended by: Adler
- Dictionary. Recommended by: Adler Seymour-Smith
- Rasselas. Recommended by: Adler
- Lives of the Poets. Recommended by: Adler (Selections)
- Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler Essays.
Recommended by: Utne
- Johnson, Virginia E., See Masters, William
H.
- Jonas, Hans, German-American writing in German, 1903-1993.
- Jones, David, Welsh, 1895-1974.
- Jones, Ernest, Welsh, 1879-1958.
- Jones, James, American, 1921-1977.
- Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka), American, 1934- .
- Jong, Erica, American, 1942- .
- How to Save Your Own Life. Recommended by: Burgess
- Jonson, Ben, English, 1573-1637.
- Plays. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
- Volpone. Recommended by: Rex
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Masques. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jouve, Pierre-Jean, French, 1887-1976.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Joyce, James, Irish, 1882-1941.
- József, Attila, Hungarian, 1905-1937.
- Perched on Nothing's Branch. Recommended by: Bloom
- Juana Ines de la Cruz, Sister, Mexican, ca. 1651-1695.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Juhasz, Ferenc, Hungarian, 1928- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Julius Caesar, Roman, 102-44 BCE.
- War in Gaul. Recommended by: Rex
- Jung, Carl Gustav, Swiss writing in German, 1875-1961.
- Justice, Donald, American, 1925- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Juvenal, Roman, ca. 60-ca. 140 CE.
- Various Authors, Jews in Provence, Spain, and Palestine writing in Hebrew
and Aramaic, 12th-16th C.
- Kabbalah (Includes the Zohar and many other books). (See also
Zohar)
Recommended by: Seymour-Smith
- Kabir, Indian writing in Hindi, ca. 1430-ca. 1518 .
- Kael, Pauline, American, 1919-2001.
- Kafka, Franz, Czech writing in German, 1883-1924.
- Kalevala, See Lönnrot
- Kalidasa, Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 400 .
- Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani, Hawaiian, 1815-1876.
- Kamo Chomei, Japanese, 1153-1216.
- Kanada, Indian writing in Sanskrit, 2nd C BCE.
- Vaisheshika-Sutra. Recommended by: StJE
- Kaniuk, Yoram, Israeli, 1930- .
- His Daughter. Recommended by: Bloom
- Kant, Immanuel, German, 1724-1804.
- Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu, Japanese, 1435-1516.
- Kapuscinski, Ryszard, Polish, 1932- .
- The Emperor. Recommended by: NYPL
- Karlfeldt, Erik Axel, Swedish, 1864-1931. Nobel Laureate
- Karp, Walter, American, 1934-1989.
- Kautilya, Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. late 4th C.
- Artha Shastra. Recommended by: StJE Ward
- Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese, 1899-1972. Nobel Laureate
- The Sound of the Mountain. Recommended by: Meaningful
- Beauty and Sadness. Recommended by: Fadiman 4
- Snow Country. Recommended by: MW Asian Ward
- Thousand Cranes. Recommended by: Ward
- Kazantzakis, Nikos, Greek, 1883-1957.
- The Greek Passion. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. Recommended by: Bloom
- Zorba the Greek. Recommended by: Meaningful
- Keats, Ezra Jack, American, 1916-1983.
- The Snowy Day. Recommended by: NYPL
- Keats, John, English, 1795-1821.
- Keble, John, English, 1792-1866.
- The Christian Year. Recommended by: Lubbock
- Keegan, John, English, 1934- .
- Kees, Weldon, American, 1914-1955?.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Keillor, Garrison, American, 1942- .
- WLT: A Radio Romance. Recommended by: Smiley
- Keller, Gottfried, Swiss writing in German, 1819-1890.
- Green Henry. Recommended by: Bloom
- Tales. Recommended by: Bloom
- Keller, Helen, American, 1880-1968.
- The Story of My Life. Recommended by: NYPL
- Keneally, Thomas, Australian, 1935- .
- Kenko Yoshida, Japanese, 1283-1350.
- Kennedy, William, American, 1928- .
- Ironweed. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Albany Cycle. Recommended by: Bloom
- Kennedy, John F., American, 1917-1963.
- Profiles in Courage. Recommended by: LAT
- Kennedy, Paul, English, 1945- .
- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Recommended by: TLS
- Kennedy, William, American, 1928- .
- Kepler, Johannes, German writing in Latin, 1571-1630.
- Kermode, Frank, English, 1919- .
- The Sense of an Ending. Recommended by: Bloom
- Kerouac, Jack, American, 1922-1969.
- Kertész, Imre, Hungarian, 1929- . Nobel Laureate
- Kesey, Ken, American, 1935-2001.
- Keynes, Maynard, English, 1883-1946.
- Khayyam, Omar, See Omar Khayyam
- Khlebnikov, Velimir, Russian, 1885-1922.
- The King of Time. Recommended by: Bloom
- Khushhal, Khan Khatak, Afghan writing in Pashto, 1613-1689.
- Divan. Recommended by: Ward
- Kierkegaard, Sřren, Danish, 1813-1855.
- Kincaid, Jamaica, American, 1949- .
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., American, 1929-1968.
- King, Stephen, American, 1947- .
- Carrie. Recommended by: NYPL
- Kingsley, Charles, English, 1819-1875.
- Westward Ho!. Recommended by: Lubbock
- Kingston, Maxine Hong, American, 1940- .
- Kinnell, Galway, American, 1927- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Kinsella, Thomas, Irish, 1928- .
- Peppercanister Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Kinsey, Alfred C., American, 1894-1956.
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Recommended by: Boston
PL
- The Kinsey Reports on Human Sexual Behavior (Sexual Behavior in
the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female). Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- Kipling, Rudyard, Anglo-Indian, 1865-1936. Nobel Laureate
- Kirk, Russell, American, 1918-1994.
- Kis, Danilo, Serbian, 1935-1989.
- A Tomb for Boris Davidovich. Recommended by: Bloom
- Klee, Paul, Swiss writing in German, 1879-1940.
- The Thinking Eye. Recommended by: Ward
- The Nature of Nature. Recommended by: Ward
- Klein, Naomi, Canadian, 1970- .
- Kleist, Heinrich von, German, 1777-1811.
- Writings. Recommended by: Ward
- Five Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
- Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
- Klossowski, Pierre, French, 1905-2001.
- The Laws of Hospitality. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Baphomet. Recommended by: Bloom
- Knight, George Wilson, English, 1897-1985.
- The Wheel of Fire. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Burning Oracle. Recommended by: Bloom
- Knowles, John, American, 1926-2001.
- Koch, Kenneth, American, 1925- .
- Seasons on Earth. Recommended by: Bloom
- Koestler, Arthur, English, 1905-1983.
- Kofsky, Frank, American, 1935-1997.
- Various Authors, Japanese, 8th-10th C.
- Kolakowski, Leszek, Polish, 1927- .
- Main Currents of Marxism. Recommended by: TLS
- Koninck, Charles de, Canadian, 1906-1965.
- "The Lifeless World of Biology". Recommended by: Aquinas
- Kopkind, Andrew, American, 1935-1994.
- The Thirty Years' War: Dispatches and Diversions from a Radical
Journalist. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- Koran, See Qur'an
- Kosinski, Jerzy, American, 1933-1991.
- Kotlowitz, Alex, American, 1955- .
- There Are No Children Here. Recommended by: NYPL
- Kott, Jan, Polish, 1914-2001.
- Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, German, 1840-1902.
- Krauss, Karl, Austrian, 1874-1936.
- The Last Days of Mankind. Recommended by: Bloom
- Krol, Ed, American, 1937?- .
- The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog. Recommended by:
NYPL
- Kropotkin, Peter, Russian, 1842-1921.
- Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, Swiss-American writing in English, 1926-2004.
- On Death and Dying. Recommended by: NYPL
- Kuhn, Thomas, American, 1922-1996.
- Kukai, Japanese, 774-835.
- Kundera, Milan, Czech, 1929- .
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Recommended by: TLS
- Küng, Hans, Swiss writing in German, 1928- .
- On Being a Christian. Recommended by: TLS
- Kunze, Reiner, East German, 1933- .
- Poems. Recommended by: Ward
- Stories. Recommended by: Ward
- The Lovely Years. Recommended by: Ward
- Kuprin, Alexander Ivanovich, Russian, 1870-1938.
- Garnet Bracelet. Recommended by: Ward
- Various Authors, Indians writing in Tamil, 1st-3rd C CE.
- Kushner, Tony, American, 1956- .
- Angels in America. Recommended by: Bloom Utne
- Kuzmin, Mikhail, Russian, 1872-1936.
- Alexandrian Songs. Recommended by: Bloom
- Kyd, Thomas, English, 1558-1594.
- The Spanish Tragedy. Recommended by: Bloom
- La Barre, Weston, American, 1911-1996.
- The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion. Recommended by: LAT
- La Fayette, Madame de, French, 1634-1693.
- La Fontaine, Jean de, French, 1621-1695.
- Selected Fables Set in Verse. Recommended by: Bloom SJC
(Selections) Ward
- La Place, Viana, American, 1951- .
- Verdura: Vegetables Italian Style. Recommended by: Utne
- La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, French, 1613-1680.
- Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de, French, 1741-1803.
- Laforgue, Jules, French, 1860-1887.
- Selected Writings. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lagerkvist, Pär, Swedish, 1891-1974. Nobel Laureate
- Evening Land. Recommended by: Ward
- Barabbas. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lagerlöf, Selma, Swedish, 1858-1940. Nobel Laureate
- Laing, R. D., Scottish, 1927-1989.
- Lamartine, Alphonse de, French, 1790-1869.
- Meditations. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lamb, Charles, English, 1775-1834.
- Essays. Recommended by: Bloom
- Essays of Elia. Recommended by: Ward
- Last Essays of Elia. Recommended by: Ward
- Lame Deer (John Fire), Native American, 1903?-1976.
- Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (With Richard Erdoes). Recommended
by: Counterpunch NF
- Lamott, Anne, American, 1954- .
- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi, prince of, Italian, 1896-1957.
- Landolfi, Tommaso, Italian, 1908-1979.
- Gogol's Wife and Other Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
- Landor, Walter Savage, English, 1775-1864.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Imaginary Conversations. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lanier, Sidney, American, 1842-1881.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Various Authors, Indians writing in Sanskrit, 5th C (Chinese translation).
- Lankavatara Sutra. Recommended by: Oriental
- Lao She, Chinese, 1899-1966.
- Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw). Recommended by: MW Asian
- Lao-tzu (Laozi), Chinese, ca. 604-ca. 531 BCE.
- Larkin, Philip, English, 1922-1985.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lasch, Christopher, American, 1932-1994.
- Various Authors, American.
- The Last Whole Earth Catalog (Ed. By Stewart Brand).
Recommended by: LAT
- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, French, 1743-1794.
- Lawrence, D. H., English, 1885-1930.
- Anonymous, Icelandic, fl. 1245.
- Laxdćla Saga (Saga of the People of Laxardal).
Recommended by: Smiley
- Laxness, Halldór, See Halldór Laxness
- Anonymous, Spanish, 1554.
- Le Carre, John, English, 1931- .
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Recommended by: Time
- Le Corbusier, French, 1887-1965.
- Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, French, 1929- .
- Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
- The Peasants of Languedoc. Recommended by: TLS
- Le Sueur, Meridel, American, 1900-1996.
- Leach, Bernard, English, 1887-1979.
- Lear, Edward, English, 1812-1888.
- Complete Nonsense. Recommended by: Bloom
- Leary, Timothy, American, 1920-1996.
- The Politics of Ecstasy. Recommended by: NYPL
- Leavis, F. R., English, 1895-1978.
- Leavitt, Helen, American, 1932- .
- Superhighway-Super Hoax. Recommended by: NYPL
- Leblanc, Adrian Nicole, American, 1964- .
- Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the
Bronx. Recommended by: Harvard
- Lee, Harper, American, 1926- .
- Lee, Chang-rae, American, 1965- .
- A Gesture Life. Recommended by: Smiley
- Lee, Li-Young, American, 1957- .
- Lefebvre, Georges, French, 1874-1959.
- Lefebvre, Henri, French, 1901-1991.
- Anonymous, Hawaiian, First pub. 1891.
- A Legendary Tradition of Kamapua'a: The Hawaiian Pig-God (Ed.
and trans. by Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa). Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
- LeGuin, Ursula K., American, 1929- .
- The Left Hand of Darkness. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Earthsea Trilogy. Recommended by: Harvard
- The Dispossessed. Recommended by: Utne
- Lehman, Godfrey, American, 1925?-.
- We the Jury: The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms.
Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- Leib, Mani, Ukrainian-American writing in Yiddish, 1883-1953.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, German, 1646-1716.
- Works. Recommended by: Seymour-Smith
- Discourse on Metaphysics. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas SJC
- New Essays Concerning Human Understanding. Recommended by: Adler
- Monadology. Recommended by: Adler SJC
- What is Nature?. Recommended by: SJC
- Essay on Dynamics. Recommended by: SJC
- Leino, Eino, Finnish, German, 1878-1926.
- Helkavirsiä (Whitsongs). Recommended by: Ward
- Leiris, Michel, French, 1901-1990.
- Manhood. Recommended by: Bloom
- Leivick, H. (Leivick Halpern), Russian-American writing in Yiddish,
1888-1962.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lem, Stanislaw, Polish, 1921- .
- L'Engle, Madeleine, American, 1918- .
- A Wrinkle in Time. Recommended by: Harvard
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, Russian, 1870-1924.
- Lennox, Charlotte, English, 1729?-1804.
- The Female Quixote. Recommended by: Smiley
- Leo XIII (Pope), Italian writing in Latin, 1810-1903.
- Aeterni Patris. Recommended by: Aquinas
- Rerum Novarum. Recommended by: Aquinas
- Leon, Fray Luis de, Spanish, ca. 1528-1591 .
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Leonardo da Vinci, Italian, 1452-1519.
- Leopardi, Giacomo, Italian, 1798-1837.
- Leopold, Aldo, American, 1913-1983.
- A Sand County Almanac. Recommended by: NYPL
- Lermontov, Mikhail, Russian, 1814-1841.
- Narrative Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- A Hero of Our Time. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
- Leskov, Nikolai Semyonovich, Russian, 1831-1895.
- Lessing, Doris, English (childhood in Rhodesia), 1919- . Nobel Laureate
- Lessing, Gotthold, German, 1729-1781.
- Laocoön. Recommended by: Bloom
- Nathan the Wise. Recommended by: Bloom
- Letham, Jonathan, American, 1964- .
- Girl in Landscape. Recommended by: Harvard
- Levi, Carlo, Italian, 1902-1975.
- Levi, Primo, Italian, 1919-1987.
- If Not Now, When?. Recommended by: Bloom
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Periodic Table. Recommended by: Bloom Counterpunch Trans
- If this is a Man. Recommended by: TLS
- The Drowned and the Saved. Recommended by: TLS
- Levine, Philip, American, 1928- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude, French, 1908- .
- The Raw and the Cooked. Recommended by: Boston
PL
- Tristes Tropiques ((A World on the Wane)). Recommended
by: Bloom Counterpunch Trans
TLS
- Structural Anthropology. Recommended by: GBWW (Selections)
- The Savage Mind. Recommended by: TLS
- Lewes, George Henry, English, 1817-1878.
- The History of Philosophy. Recommended by: Lubbock
- Lewis, C. S., English, 1898-1963.
- Lewis, Sinclair, American, 1885-1951. Nobel Laureate
- Lezama Lima, José, Cuban, 1912-1976.
- Paradiso. Recommended by: Bloom
- Li Bai (Li Po), Chinese, 701-762.
- Poems. Recommended by: Ward
- Li He (Li Ho), Chinese, 791-817.
- Poems. Recommended by: Ward
- Li Yu, Chinese, 1125-1210.
- Poems. Recommended by: Ward
- Liebling, A. J., American, 1904-1963.
- Various Authors, Byelorussian, 19th-20th C.
- Like Water, Like Fire: An Anthology of Byelorussian Poetry from 1828
to the Present. Recommended by: Ward
- Lin Yutang, Chinese, 1895-1976.
- The Importance of Living. Recommended by: Ward
- Lincoln, Abraham, American, 1809-1865.
(See also Lincoln,
Abraham and Stephen Douglas)
- Selected Speeches. Recommended by: SJC
- Lincoln, Abraham and Stephen Douglas, American, 1809-1865 and 1813-1861.
(See also Lincoln, Abraham)
- Lindgren, Astrid, Swedish, 1907-2002.
- Lindsay, David, English, 1876-1945.
- A Voyage to Arcturus. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lindsay, Vachel, American, 1879-1931.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Linebaugh, Peter, American, 1942- .
- The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth
Century. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- Linnaeus, Carolus, Swedish writing in Latin, 1707-1778.
- Systema Naturae. Recommended by: Aquinas
- Lippmann, Walter, American, 1889-1974.
- Lispector, Clarice, Brazilian, 1925-1977.
- The Hour of the Star. Recommended by: Utne
- Lissitzky, El, Russian writing in German, 1890-1941.
- Various Authors, Japanese, 1868-1912.
- Literature of the Meiji Period. Recommended by: Oriental
- Liu E, Chinese, 1857-1909.
- Travels of Lao Can. Recommended by: MW Asian
- Livy, Roman, 59 BCE-17 CE .
- Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich, Russian, 1792-1856.
- Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels. Recommended
by: Aquinas SJC
- Locke, John, English, 1632-1688.
- Lodge, David, English, 1935- .
- London, Jack, American, 1876-1916.
- Lonergan, Bernard, Canadian, 1904-1984.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, American, 1807-1882.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Longinus, Greek, 1st C CE.
- On the Sublime (in Classical Literary Criticism).
Recommended by: Bloom
Ward
- Lönnrot, Elias, Finnish, 1802-1884.
- Loos, Adolf, Austrian, 1870-1933.
- Lord, Albert Bates, American, 1912-1991.
- Lorenz, Konrad, Austrian, 1903-1989.
- Anonymous, Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 255.
- Lotus Sutra (Saddharma-Pundarika Sutra, also known as
Sutra of the Lotus of the True Law). Recommended by: App Oriental Ward
- Lovelace, Richard, English, 1618-1657.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lowell, Robert, American, 1917-1977.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
- Life Studies. Recommended by: LAT
- Lowry, Malcolm, English, 1909-1957.
- Lu Xun (Lu Hsün), Chinese, 1881-1936.
- Lucan, Roman, 39-65 CE.
- Lucian, Syrian Greek, ca. 115-ca. 180 .
- Works. Recommended by: Adler (Selections) Ward
- Satires. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lucretius, Roman, ca. 100-ca. 50 BCE.
- Luis de León, Fray, Spanish, ca. 1528-1591.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lukács, Georg, Hungarian writing in German, 1885-1971.
- Lumumba, Patrice, Congolese, 1925-1961.
- Luo Guanzhong (Luo Kuan-chung), Chinese, ca. 1330-1400.
- The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Recommended by: Fadiman 4
- Lustig, Arnost, Czech, 1926- .
- Lovely Green Eyes. Recommended by: Smiley
- Luther, Martin, German, 1483-1546.
- Table Talk. Recommended by: Adler
- Three Treatises. Recommended by: Adler
- Freedom of a Christian. Recommended by: SJC
- Secular Authority. Recommended by: SJC
- Commentary on Galatians. Recommended by: SJC
(Selections)
- Sincere Admonition. Recommended by: SJC
- On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church. Recommended by: Seymour-Smith
- Luxemburg, Rosa, German, 1870-1919.
- Lyell, Charles, English, 1797-1875.
- Principles of Geology. Recommended by: Adler
- Lynton, Norbert, English, 1927- .
- Story of Modern Art. Recommended by: Ward
- Lysohorsky, Ondra, Czech writing in Lachian, 1905-1989.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Ward
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