Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors Q to R

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Qu Yuan, See Chu Ci
Quasimodo, Salvatore, Italian, 1901-1968. Nobel Laureate
- Selected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
Anonymous, French, ca. 1225.
- Queste del Saint Graal. Recommended by: Ward
Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gómez, Spanish, 1580-1645.
- Sueños (Dreams). Recommended by: Bloom Ward
- Historia de la Vida del Buscón (Life and Adventures of Don Pablos the Sharper). Recommended by: Ward
- Satirical Letter of Censure. Recommended by: Bloom
Revealed to Muhammad, Arab, ca. 610-632.
- Qur'an. Recommended by: App Bloom Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock (Selections) Oriental Seymour-Smith Ward
Rabe, David, American, 1940- .
- Streamers. Recommended by: Bloom
Rabelais, François, French, 1483-1553.
- Gargantua and Pantagruel. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Col37 Col61 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Meaningful Rex Seymour-Smith SJC (Selections) Utne Ward
Racine, French, 1639-1699.
- Tragedies. Recommended by: Adler (Selections)
- Phèdre. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Rexmo SJC
- Berenice. Recommended by: GBWW
- Andromache. Recommended by: Bloom
- Britannicus. Recommended by: Bloom
- Athaliah. Recommended by: Bloom
Radiguet, Raymond, French, 1903-1923.
- Count d'Orgel's Ball. Recommended by: Bloom
Raleigh, Sir Walter, English, ca. 1554-1618 .
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Ramayana, See Valmiki
Ramsey, Charles George, American, 1884-1963.
- Architectural Graphic Standards (With Harold Reeve Sleeper). Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Rand, Ayn, American, 1905-1982.
- The Fountainhead. Recommended by: Radcliffe
- Atlas Shrugged. Recommended by: Boston PL Harvard NYPL Radcliffe
Ransom, John Crowe, American, 1888-1974.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Ravikovitch, Dalia, Israeli, 1936-2005.
- A Dress of Fire. Recommended by: Bloom
Rawls, John, American, 1921-2002.
- A Theory of Justice. Recommended by: Colcc91 LAT ML Nonfiction TLS
Read, Herbert, English, 1893-1968.
- The Green Child. Recommended by: Rexmo Ward
- The Contrary Experience: Autobiographies. Recommended by: Ward
Various Authors, Various, 20th C.
- Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach (Ed. By William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt). Recommended by: Good Reading
Rechy, John, American, 1934- .
- City of Night. Recommended by: LAT
Redol, Alves, Portuguese, 1911-1969.
- The Man with Seven Names. Recommended by: Ward
Reed, Ishmael, American, 1938- .
- Mumbo Jumbo. Recommended by: Bloom
Reed, John, American, 1887-1920.
- Ten Days That Shook the World. Recommended by: Boston PL NYPL
Reich, Wilhelm, Austrian, 1897-1957.
- The Function of the Orgasm. Recommended by: Boston PL
- Character Analysis. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
Reisner, Marc, American, 1948-2000.
- Cadillac Desert. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Reitman, Ben L., American, 1879-1942.
- Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Remarque, Erich Maria, German, 1898-1970.
- All Quiet on the Western Front. Recommended by: Boston PL NYPL
Rembrandt van Rijn, See Rosenberg
Renoir, Jean, French, 1894-1979.
- Renoir, My Father. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas, French, 1734-1806.
- Monsieur Nicolas. Recommended by: Rex
Reverdy, Pierre, French, 1889-1960.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Rexroth, Kenneth, American, 1905-1982.
- An Autobiographical Novel. Recommended by: Utne
Rey, H. A., American, 1898-1977.
- Curious George Learns the Alphabet. Recommended by: Harvard
Reymont, Wladyslaw, Polish, 1867-1925. Nobel Laureate
- Works.
Rhodes, Richard, American, 1937- .
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Rhys, Jean, English, 1894-1979.
- Wide Sargasso Sea. Recommended by: ML Novels NYPL Radcliffe Smiley Time
Ribá, Carles, Catalan, 1893-1959.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Rich, Adrienne, American, 1929- .
- On Lies, Secrets and Silence. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
Richardson, Samuel, English, 1689-1761.
- Clarissa. Recommended by: Bloom
- Pamela. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
- Sir Charles Grandison. Recommended by: Bloom
Richler, Mordecai, Canadian, 1931-2001.
- Cocksure. Recommended by: Burgess
Richter, Conrad, American, 1890-1968.
- The Trees/The Fields/The Town (Trilogy). Recommended by: BOMC
Riesman, David, American, 1909-2002.
- The Lonely Crowd. Recommended by: LAT TLS
Various Authors, Indians writing in Sanskrit, 12th-8th C BCE.
- Rig Veda. (See also Vedas) Recommended by: StJE
Riis, Jacob, American, 1849-1914.
- The Battle with the Slum. Recommended by: NYPL
- How the Other Half Lives. Recommended by: Boston PL
Rilke, Rainer Maria, German, 1875-1926.
- Duino Elegies. Recommended by: Utne
- Works. Recommended by: Ward
- Selected Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
- Sonnets to Orpheus. Recommended by: Bloom
- Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Recommended by: Bloom
- New Poems: First Part and Other Part. Recommended by: Bloom
Rimbaud, Arthur, French, 1854-1891.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Rex SJC Ward
Ritsos, Yannis, Greek, 1909-1990.
- Exile and Return. Recommended by: Bloom
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, French, 1922-2008.
- The Voyeur. Recommended by: Bloom
- Jealousy. Recommended by: Bloom
- In the Labyrinth. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Erasers. Recommended by: Bloom
- Project for a Revolution in New York. Recommended by: Bloom
- For a New Novel. Recommended by: Bloom Counterpunch Trans
Roberts, Keith, English, 1935-2000.
- Pavane. Recommended by: Burgess
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, American, 1869-1935.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Robinson, Marilynne, American, 1944- .
- Housekeeping. Recommended by: Time
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, English, 1647-1680.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Rodoreda, Merce, Catalan, 1908-1983.
- The Time of the Doves. Recommended by: Bloom
Roethke, Theodore, American, 1908-1963.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Straw for the Fire. Recommended by: Bloom
Rogers, Carl R., American, 1902-1987.
- On Becoming a Person. Recommended by: LAT
Rojas, Fernando de, Spanish, ca. 1465-1541.
- Celestina. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
Rolland, Romain, French, 1866-1944. Nobel Laureate
- Works.
Various Authors, Romanian, 19th-20th C.
- Romanian Poems: A Bilingual Anthology. Recommended by: Ward
Rombauer, Irma, American, 1877-1962.
- The Joy of Cooking. Recommended by: National Review NYPL
Ronsard, Pierre de, French, ca. 1524-1585.
- Odes, Elegies, Sonnets. Recommended by: Bloom
Rorty, Richard, American, 1931-2007.
- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Recommended by: TLS
Rosa, João Guimarães, Brazilian, 1908-1967.
- Sagarana. Recommended by: Ward
- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. Recommended by: Meaningful Ward
Rosenbaum, Jonathan, American, 1943- .
- Movie Wars. Recommended by: Harvard
Rosenberg, Isaac, English, 1890-1918.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Rosenberg, Jakob, American, 1893-1980.
- Rembrandt: Life and Work. Recommended by: Ward
Rossetti, Christina, English, 1830-1894.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, English, 1828-1882.
- Poems and Translations. Recommended by: Bloom
Roth, Henry, American, 1906-1995.
- Call It Sleep. Recommended by: Bloom Time
Roth, Joseph, Austrian, 1894-1939.
- The Radetzky March. Recommended by: Bloom
Roth, Philip, American, 1933- .
- Portnoy's Complaint. Recommended by: Bloom Burgess Hungry Mind LAT ML Novels NYPL Time
- My Life as a Man. Recommended by: Bloom
- Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Counterlife. Recommended by: Bloom
- Patrimony. Recommended by: Bloom
- Operation Shylock. Recommended by: Bloom
- American Pastoral. Recommended by: Time
Rougemont, Denis de, Swiss writing in French, 1906-1985.
- Love in the Western World. Recommended by: National Review
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, French, 1712-1778.
- Confessions. Recommended by: Bloom Col37 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Seymour-Smith Ward
- On the Origin of Inequality. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Colcc91 GBWW SJC
- On the Political Economy. Recommended by: Adler GBWW
- Émile. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
- Social Contract. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Colcc91 GBWW Good Reading SJC
- La Nouvelle Héloïse. Recommended by: Bloom
Roussel, Raymond, French, 1877-1933.
- Locus Solus. Recommended by: Bloom
Rowley, William, See Thomas Middleton
Ruiz, Juan (Archpriest of Hita), Spanish, ca. 1283-ca. 1350.
- Book of Good Love. Recommended by: Ward
Rukeyser, Muriel, American, 1913-1980.
- A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. Recommended by: Utne
Rulfo, Juan, Mexican, 1918-1986.
- Pedro Paramo. Recommended by: Meaningful
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din, Persian, 1207-1273.
- The Divan of Shams-i-Tabriz. Recommended by: Utne
- Mathnawi. Recommended by: Meaningful Oriental Ward
- Discourses. Recommended by: Ward
Rushdie, Salman, Indian writing in English, 1947- .
- Midnight's Children. Recommended by: Bloom Meaningful ML Novels MW Asian Radcliffe Time
- The Satanic Verses. Recommended by: Harvard Radcliffe
Ruskin, John, English, 1819-1900.
- Selected Writings. Recommended by: Lubbock
- Praeterita. Recommended by: Ward
- Modern Painters. Recommended by: Bloom Lubbock
- Stones of Venice. Recommended by: Bloom
- Unto This Last. Recommended by: Bloom
- Queen of the Air. Recommended by: Bloom
Russell, Bertrand, English, 1872-1970. Nobel Laureate
(See also Whitehead, Alfred North and Bertrand Russell)
- Why I Am Not a Christian. Recommended by: NYPL
- Autobiography. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- History of Western Philosophy. Recommended by: Ward
- The Problems of Philosophy. Recommended by: Adler GBWW
- The Analysis of Mind. Recommended by: Adler
- An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth. Recommended by: Adler
- Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. Recommended by: Adler
Russo, Richard, American, 1949- .
- Empire Falls. Recommended by: Harvard
Rustaveli, Shota, Georgian, fl. 1200.
- The Man in the Panther's Skin. Recommended by: Ward

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