Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors T to V

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• Tacitus, Roman, ca. 55-ca. 117 CE .
  • Annals. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas GBWW Seymour-Smith SJC (Selections) Ward
  • Histories. Recommended by: Adler GBWW Rex Ward
  • Agricola. Recommended by: Adler
  • Germania. Recommended by: Adler Lubbock
• Tagore, Rabindranath, Indian writing in Bengali, 1861-1941. Nobel Laureate
  • Poems and Stories. Recommended by: MW Asian
  • Complete Poems and Plays. Recommended by: Oriental Ward
• Takeda Izumo, Japanese, ca. 1690-ca. 1749.
  • Chushingara. (An earlier version is by Chikamatsu) Recommended by: Oriental Ward
• Talmon, J. T., Israeli, 1916-1980.
  • The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy. Recommended by: TLS
• Various Authors, Mesopotamian Jews writing in Hebrew and Aramaic, 2nd to 6th C.
  • Talmud (Babylonian). Recommended by: Ward
  • Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth). Recommended by: Bloom
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Tamil.
  • Tamil Poetry. (See also Eight Anthologies, Ilango Adigal, Kuruntokai, Ten Long Poems) Recommended by: StJE
• Various Authors, Chinese, 618-907.
  • Tang Poetry. (See also Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Li He) Recommended by: App MW Asian
• Tanizaki Junichiro, Japanese, 1886-1965.
  • The Makioka Sisters. Recommended by: Fadiman 4 Good Reading Smiley Ward
  • Seven Japanese Tales. Recommended by: MW Asian
• Tao Qian (T'ao Ch'ien; also known as Tao Yuanming), Chinese, 365-427.
  • Poems. Recommended by: MW Asian Ward
• Tarbell, Ida, American, 1857-1944.
  • The History of the Standard Oil Company. Recommended by: Boston PL Counterpunch NF
• Tarkington, Booth, American, 1869-1946.
  • The Magnificent Ambersons. Recommended by: ML Novels
• Tasso, Torquato, Italian, 1544-1595.
  • Gerusalemme Liberata. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Tate, Allen, American, 1899-1979.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Tawney, R. H., English, 1880-1962.
  • The Acquisitive Society. Recommended by: GBWW
  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Taylor, A. J. P., English, 1906-1990.
  • The Struggle for Mastery in Europe. Recommended by: TLS
• Taylor, James M., American, 1843-1930.
  • Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus. Recommended by: Aquinas
• Taylor, Jeremy, English, 1613-1697.
  • Holy Dying. Recommended by: Bloom
• Taylor, Jeremy, English, 1613-1667.
  • Holy Living and Dying. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Traditional, Various, Earliest times-19th C.
  • Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania (Edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg). (See also Shaking the Pumpkin) Recommended by: LAT
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Tamil, 1st C BCE-3rd C CE.
  • Ten Long Poems. (See also Kuruntokai, Tamil Poetry) Recommended by: MW Asian
• Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, English, 1809-1892.
  • Idylls of the King. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Shorter Poems. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Terence, Roman, ca. 195-159 BCE.
  • Comedies. Recommended by: Ward
  • Girl from Andros. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Eunuch. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Mother-in-Law. Recommended by: Bloom
• Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Jesús), Spanish, 1515-1582.
  • Life of Saint Teresa. Recommended by: Ward
• Terkel, Studs, American, 1912- .
  • Working. Recommended by: LAT ML Nonfiction
• Various Authors, Chinese, 6th C ff..
  • Texts of Chinese Buddhism. Recommended by: Oriental
• Various Authors, Japanese, 6th C ff..
  • Texts of Japanese Buddhism. Recommended by: Oriental
• Various Authors, Chinese, 6th-4th C BCE.
  • Texts of Taoism. (Includes Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu) Recommended by: Ward
• Tey, Josephine, Scottish, 1896-1952.
  • The Daughter of Time. Recommended by: Good Reading
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, English, 1811-1863.
  • Pendennis. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Vanity Fair. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock Smiley Ward
  • Henry Esmond. Recommended by: Bloom
• Thelwell, Michael, Jamaican, 1939- .
  • The Harder They Come. Recommended by: Bloom
• Theocritus, Greek, 3rd C BCE.
  • Idylls. Recommended by: Bloom
• Theophrastus, Greek, ca. 372-ca. 287 BCE.
  • Characters. Recommended by: Ward
• Theroux, Alexander, American, 1939- .
  • Darconville's Cat. Recommended by: Burgess
• Theroux, Paul, American, 1941- .
  • The Mosquito Coast. Recommended by: Bloom Burgess
• Thomas à Kempis, German writing in Latin, 1380-1471.
  • Imitation of Christ. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Thomas Aquinas, St., Italian writing in Latin, ca. 1225-1274 .
  • Summa Theologica. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas (Selections) GBWW Rexmo Seymour-Smith SJC (Selections)
  • Selected Writings. Recommended by: Aquinas Colcc91 Ward
  • Proem to the Posterior Analytics. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • On the Teacher. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • Canon of the Mass. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • On the Principles of Nature. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • On the Combination of the Elements. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • On Kingship. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • The Division and Method of the Sciences. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • On Being and Essence. Recommended by: Aquinas
• Thomas, Dylan, Welsh, 1914-1953.
  • The Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Thomas, Edward, English, 1878-1917.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Thomas, Keith, Welsh, 1933- .
  • Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF TLS
• Thomas, Lewis, American, 1913-1993.
  • The Lives of a Cell. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Thomas, R. S., Welsh, 1913-2000.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Thompson, D'Arcy, Scottish, 1860-1948.
  • On Growth and Form. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Thompson, E. P., English, 1924-1993.
  • The Making of the English Working Class. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF ML Nonfiction TLS
• Thompson, Francis, English, 1859-1907.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Thompson, Hunter S., American, 1937-2005.
  • Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. Recommended by: LAT
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Thomson, David, English, 1941- .
  • A Biographical Dictionary of Film. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis), Scottish, 1834-1882.
  • City of the Dreadful Night. Recommended by: Bloom
• Thoreau, Henry David, American, 1817-1862.
  • Walden. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Utne Ward
  • Civil Disobedience. Recommended by: Adler Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Seymour-Smith
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Essays. Recommended by: Bloom
• Anonymous, Arab, ca. 1500.
  • The Thousand and One Nights. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock Meaningful Oriental Ward
• Various Authors, Vietnamese, 11th-20th C.
  • A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry. Recommended by: Ward
• Thucydides, Greek, 470/460-ca.400 BCE.
  • History of the Peloponnesian War. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Colcc91 Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Harvard Lubbock Rex Seymour-Smith SJC Utne Ward
• Thurber, James, American, 1894-1961.
  • A Thurber Carnival. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
• Tillich, Paul, German-American writing in English, 1886-1965.
  • The Courage to Be. Recommended by: NYPL
• Tinbergen, Niko, Dutch, 1907-1988.
  • Curious Naturalists. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Tocqueville, Alexis de, French, 1805-1859.
  • Democracy in America. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW SJC (Selections)
  • The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Recommended by: Aquinas
• Toer, Pramoedya Ananta, Indonesian, 1925- .
  • The Buru Quartet. Recommended by: Utne
• Toffler, Alvin, American, 1928- .
  • Future Shock. Recommended by: LAT
• Tokutomi Kenjiro, Japanese, 1868-1927.
  • Footsteps in the Snow. Recommended by: Ward
• Tolkien, J. R. R., English, 1892-1973.
  • The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy). Recommended by: Harvard Radcliffe Time
  • The Hobbit. Recommended by: NYPL
• Tolson, M. B., American, 1900-1966.
  • Harlem Gallery. Recommended by: Bloom
• Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich, Russian, 1828-1910.
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. Recommended by: Meaningful
  • The Cossacks. Recommended by: Bloom
  • War and Peace. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Harvard Meaningful Rex Seymour-Smith SJC Ward
  • Anna Karenina. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Harvard Meaningful Smiley Utne Ward
  • A Confession. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Power of Darkness. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Short Novels. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Kingdom of God is Within You. Recommended by: Rexmo
  • What is Art?. Recommended by: Adler
  • Twenty-Three Tales. Recommended by: Adler
• Toole, John Kennedy, American, 1937-1969.
  • Confederacy of Dunces. Recommended by: Burgess
• Toomer, Jean, American, 1894-1967.
  • Cane. Recommended by: Bloom Hungry Mind
• Tourneur, Cyril, English, ca. 1575-1626.
  • The Revenger's Tragedy. Recommended by: Bloom
• Tournier, Michel, French, 1924- .
  • The Ogre. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Friday. Recommended by: Bloom
• Toynbee, Arnold, English, 1889-1975.
  • Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation. Recommended by: NYPL
  • A Study of History. Recommended by: Adler ML Nonfiction TLS
  • Civilization on Trial. Recommended by: Adler
• Traherne, Thomas, English, 1637-1674.
  • Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings. Recommended by: Bloom
• Trakl, Georg, Austrian, 1887-1914.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Tranströmer, Tomas, Swedish, 1931- .
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Trench, Richard, English, 1949- .
  • Forbidden Sands: A Search in the Sahara. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Trevor, William, Irish, 1928- .
  • The Love Department. Recommended by: Ward
  • The Children of Dynmouth. Recommended by: Ward
• Trilling, Lionel, American, 1905-1975.
  • The Liberal Imagination. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction National Review
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Pali, 5th C BCE.
  • Tripitaka (Tipitaka). Recommended by: Oriental
• Troeltsch, Ernst, German, 1865-1923.
  • The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Trollope, Anthony, English, 1815-1882.
  • Barchester Towers. Recommended by: Good Reading
  • Barsetshire Novels. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Warden. Recommended by: Fadiman 4 Good Reading
  • The Last Chronicle of Barset. Recommended by: Fadiman 4 Smiley
  • Palliser Novels. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Eustace Diamonds. Recommended by: Fadiman 4 Smiley
  • Orley Farm. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Way We Live Now. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4
  • Autobiography. Recommended by: Fadiman 4
• Truffaut, Francois, French, 1932-1984.
  • The Films in My Life. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in, See Cao Xueqin
• Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanova, Russian, 1892-1941.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Tu Fu, See Du Fu
• Tuchman, Barbara, American, 1912-1989.
  • The Guns of August. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard, American, 1821-1873.
  • The Cricket and Other Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich, Russian, 1818-1883.
  • A Sportsman's Notebook. Recommended by: Bloom
  • A Month in the Country. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Fathers and Sons. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Rexmo Smiley Ward
  • On the Eve. Recommended by: Bloom
  • First Love. Recommended by: Bloom
• Turner, Frederick Jackson, American, 1861-1932.
  • The Frontier in American History. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Tutuola, Amos, Nigerian writing in English, 1920- .
  • Palm-Wine Drinkard. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Twain, Mark, American, 1835-1910.
  • Letters from the Earth. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
  • Huckleberry Finn. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Meaningful Rex SJC Ward
  • Tom Sawyer. Recommended by: Ward
  • Pudd'nhead Wilson. Recommended by: Bloom
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Devil's Racetrack. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Mysterious Stranger. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
  • Complete Short Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Autobiography. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Tyler, Anne, American, 1941- .
  • The Accidental Tourist. Recommended by: BOMC
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Recommended by: Smiley
• Tyng, Sewell, American, 1895-1946.
  • The Campaign of the Marne, 1914. Recommended by: National Review
• Tzara, Tristan, French, 1896-1963.
  • Seven Dada Manifestoes. Recommended by: Bloom
• Ueda Akinari, Japanese, 1734-1809.
  • Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain). Recommended by: Ward
• Ueland, Brenda, American, 1891-1985.
  • If You Want to Write. Recommended by: Utne
• Unamuno, Miguel de, Spanish, 1864-1936.
  • Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations. Recommended by: Ward
  • Three Exemplary Novels. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Our Lord Don Quixote. Recommended by: Bloom
• Undset, Sigrid, Norwegian, 1882-1949. Nobel Laureate
  • Kristin Lavransdatter. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley (Selections)
• Ungaretti, Giuseppe, Italian, 1888-1970.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Buried Harbour: Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• United Nations, Various, Pub. 1945.
  • United Nations Charter. Recommended by: NYPL
• United States documents, See American State Papers
• United States Supreme Court, American, 1789- .
  • Opinions. Recommended by: Colcc91 (Selections) SJC (Selections)
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Sanskrit, ca. 1000-500 BCE.
  • Upanishads. Recommended by: App Oriental Seymour-Smith StJE Ward
• Updike, John, American, 1932- .
  • The Witches of Eastwick. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Coup. Recommended by: Burgess
  • Couples. Recommended by: LAT
  • The Complete Henry Bech. Recommended by: Smiley
  • Rabbit, Run. Recommended by: BOMC Hungry Mind Radcliffe Time
• Valentine, Douglas, American, 1949- .
  • The Phoenix Program. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Valéry, Paul, French, 1871-1945.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom SJC
  • Manifestoes of Surrealism. Recommended by: Bloom
• Vallejo, César, Peruvian, 1892-1938.
  • Poetry. Recommended by: Ward
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Spain, Take This Cup From Me. Recommended by: Bloom
• Valmiki, Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 300 BCE.
  • Ramayana. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Lubbock (Selections) Meaningful MW Asian Oriental StJE Ward
• Van Doren, Charles, See Adler, Mortimer
• Van Gogh, Vincent, See Gogh, Vincent van
• Vargas Llosa, Mario, Peruvian, 1936- .
  • The War of the End of the World. Recommended by: Bloom
• Vasari, Giorgio, Italian, 1511-1574.
  • Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Various clerics convened by Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, Latin, Pub. 1962-1965.
  (See also John XXIII)
  • Vatican II. "Lumen Gentium". Recommended by: Aquinas
• Vatsyayana, Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 4th C.
  • Kama Sutra. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans Ward
• Vaughan, Henry, Welsh, 1621-1695.
  • Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
• Veblen, Thorstein, American, 1857-1929.
  • Theory of the Leisure Class. Recommended by: GBWW NYPL
• Anonymous (Badarayana?), Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 4th C BCE-2nd C CE.
  • Vedanta Sutra (with the commentary of Shankara 788-820). Recommended by: Oriental StJE
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Sanskrit, 12th-8th C BCE.
  • Vedas. (See also Rig Veda) Recommended by: Oriental
• Vega, Lope de, Spanish, 1562-1635.
  • Peribáñez. Recommended by: Ward
  • Fuente Ovejuna. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Dog in the Manger. Recommended by: Ward
  • Knight from Olmedo. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Justice Without Vengeance. Recommended by: Ward
  • La Dorotea. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Lost in a Mirror. Recommended by: Bloom
• Vélez de Guevara, Luis, Spanish, 1579-1644.
  • El Diablo Cojuelo. Recommended by: Ward
• Velikovsky, Immanuel, Russian-American writing in English, 1895-1979.
  • Worlds in Collision. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Verga, Giovanni, Italian, 1840-1922.
  • The House by the Medlar Tree. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Little Novels of Sicily. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Mastro Don Gesualdo. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • The She-Wolf and Other Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
• Verlaine, Paul, French, 1844-1896.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Very, Jones, American, 1813-1880.
  • Essays and Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Vesaas, Tarjei, Norwegian, 1897-1970.
  • Ice Palace. Recommended by: Ward
  • Boat in the Evening. Recommended by: Ward
• Veyne, Paul, French, 1930- .
  • The Roman Empire. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Vicente, Gil, Portuguese writing in Spanish and Portuguese, ca. 1465-ca. 1536.
  • Four Plays. Recommended by: Ward
• Vico, Giovanni Battista, Italian, 1668-1744.
  • New Science of Giambattista Vico. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Seymour-Smith Ward
• Vidal, Gore, American, 1925- .
  • Myra Breckenridge. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Lincoln. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Creation. Recommended by: Burgess
  • United States: Essays 1952-1992. Recommended by: Hungry Mind Utne
  • Burr. Recommended by: BOMC LAT
• Vidyapati Thakur, Indian writing in Sanskrit and Bihari, 1352-ca. 1448.
  • Love Songs. Recommended by: Ward
• Viete, Francois, French writing in Latin, 1540-1603.
  • Introduction to the Analytical Art. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC
  • Standard Enumeration of Geometric Results. Recommended by: Aquinas
• Vigny, Alfred de, French, 1797-1863.
  • Chatterton. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Villas Boas, Orlando and Claudio, Brazilian, 1914-2002 and 1916-1998.
  • Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths. Recommended by: Ward
• Villon, French, 1431-ca. 1462.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Anonymous, Indian Buddhist writing in Sanskrit, 2nd C CE.
  • Vimalakirti Sutra. Recommended by: App Oriental StJE
• Virgil, Roman, 70-19 BCE.
  • Works. Recommended by: Adler Lubbock
  • The Aeneid. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Harvard Meaningful Rexmo Seymour-Smith SJC Ward
  • Eclogues. Recommended by: Bloom GBWW
  • Georgics. Recommended by: Bloom GBWW
• Vittorini, Elio, Italian, 1908-1966.
  • Women of Messina. Recommended by: Bloom
• Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese, 1912- .
  • How We Won the War. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Voltaire, French, 1694-1778.
  • Candide. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Col37 Col61 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Seymour-Smith Smiley Ward
  • Zadig. Recommended by: Bloom Lubbock Ward
  • L'Ingénu. Recommended by: Ward
  • Letters on the English. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
  • Philosophical Dictionary. Recommended by: Adler
  • The Lisbon Earthquake. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Other Works. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Micromegas. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Von Neumann, John, American, 1903-1957.
  • Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., American, 1922-2007.
  • Cat's Cradle. Recommended by: Bloom LAT Radcliffe
  • Slaughterhouse-Five. Recommended by: BOMC Hungry Mind ML Novels Radcliffe Time
  • Breakfast of Champions. Recommended by: Harvard
• Vyasa, Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 200 BCE.
  • The Mahabharata. (See also Bhagavad Gita) Recommended by: App Bloom Fadiman 4 Lubbock (Selections) Meaningful MW Asian Oriental Rex StJE Utne

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