Great Books: Index by Period and Culture:
Western Literature, Modern (18th-21st C) and All Periods
Periods and Nationalities
18th C
English (British Isles)
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Defoe, Daniel
- Swift, Jonathan
- Congreve, William
- Addison, Joseph and Richard Steele
- Farquhar, George
- Gay, John
- Berkeley, George
- Pope, Alexander
- Richardson, Samuel
- Butler, Joseph
- Fielding, Henry
- Johnson, Samuel
- Hume, David
- Sterne, Laurence
- Gray, Thomas
- White, Gilbert
- Collins, William
- Smollett, Tobias
- Smart, Christopher
- Smith, Adam
- Morgann, Maurice
- Cook, James
- Goldsmith, Oliver
- Burke, Edmund
- Lennox, Charlotte
- Cowper, William
- Gibbon, Edward
- Paine, Thomas
- Boswell, James
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Godwin, William
- Burns, Robert
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Malthus, Thomas
English (North America)
Latin
Italian
French
- Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblin de
- Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de
- Voltaire
- Prévost, Antoine-Francois, l'Abbé
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques
- Diderot, Denis
- Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
- Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas
- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de
- Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de
- Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de
- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Germanic
19th C
English (British Isles)
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Burney, Fanny
- Crabbe, George
- Blake, William
- Dalton, John
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Hogg, James
- Wordsworth, William
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Austen, Jane
- Lamb, Charles
- Landor, Walter Savage
- Hazlitt, William
- Galt, John
- Maturin, Charles
- De Quincey, Thomas
- Peacock, Thomas Love
- Byron, George Gordon, Lord
- Faraday, Michael
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Keble, John
- Clare, John
- Keats, John
- Darley, George
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Lyell, Charles
- Hood, Thomas
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Newman, John Henry
- Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
- Borrow, George
- Wade, Thomas
- Mill, John Stuart
- Darwin, Charles
- FitzGerald, Edward
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
- Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Browning, Robert
- Dickens, Charles
- Lear, Edward
- Smiles, Samuel
- Trollope, Anthony
- Brontë, Charlotte
- Brontë, Emily
- Clough, Arthur Hugh
- Kingsley, Charles
- Eliot, George
- Ruskin, John
- Spencer, Herbert
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis
- Arnold, Matthew
- Patmore, Coventry
- Collins, Wilkie
- Macdonald, George
- Bates, Henry Walter
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
- Meredith, George
- Rossetti, Christina
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Carroll, Lewis
- Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis)
- Morris, William
- Butler, Samuel
- Gilbert, W. S.
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Pater, Walter
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hopkins, Gerald Manley
- Stoker, Bram
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Wilde, Oscar
- Gissing, George
- Davidson, John
- Dowson, Ernest
- Johnson, Lionel
- Douglas (Brown), George
- Saki (H. H. Munro)
English (North America)
- Irving, Washington
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lincoln, Abraham and Stephen Douglas
- Stowe, Hariet Beecher
- Very, Jones
- Dana, Richard Henry
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Douglass, Frederick
- Melville, Herman
- Whitman, Walt
- Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard
- Parkman, Francis
- Dickinson, Emily
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Twain, Mark
- Howells, William Dean
- Adams, Henry
- Lanier, Sidney
- James, William
- Bierce, Ambrose
- James, Henry
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Chopin, Kate
- Frederic, Harold
- Norris, Frank
- Crane, Stephen
Latin
Italian
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
French
- Constant, Benjamin
- Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph
- Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene de
- Ampère, André Marie
- Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis
- Stendhal
- Lamartine, Alphonse de
- Vigny, Alfred de
- Comte, Auguste
- Balzac, Honoré de
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Hugo, Victor
- Sand, George
- Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Nerval, Gérard de
- Musset, Alfred de
- Gautier, Théophile
- Bernard, Claude
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Goncourt, Edmond de and Jules de
- Fabre, Jean-Henri
- Mistral, Frédéric
- Sully Prudhomme
- Zola, Émile
- Mallarmé, Stéphane
- Verlaine, Paul
- Corbière, Tristan
- Maupassant, Guy de
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Poincaré, Jules Henri
- Durkheim, Emile
Germanic
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Humboldt, Alexander von
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Hölderlin, Friedrich
- Schlegel, Friedrich
- Hoffmann, E. T. A.
- Kleist, Heinrich von
- Clausewitz, Karl von
- Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
- Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Gotthelf, Jeremias
- Heine, Heinrich
- Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Mörike, Eduard
- Stifter, Adalbert
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Büchner, Georg
- Kierkegaard, Søren
- Wagner, Richard
- Storm, Thedor
- Mommsen, Theodor
- Marx, Karl
- Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels
- Keller, Gottfried
- Fontane, Theodor
- Engels, Friedrich
- Mendel, Gregor
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Heyse, Paul von
- Dedekind, Richard
- Bjørnson, Bjørnsterne
- Krafft-Ebing, Richard von
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Eucken, Rudolf
- Strindberg, August
- Gogh, Vincent van
- Gjellerup, Karl
- Pontopiddan, Henrik
- Herzl, Theodor
Slavic, Other European
- Aksakov, Sergey
- Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich
- Mickiewicz, Adam Bernard
- Pushkin, Alexanader Sergeyevich
- Lönnrot, Elias
- Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
- Herzen, Aleksandr
- Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich
- Lermontov, Mikhail
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich
- Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich
- Petöfi, Sandor
- Ostrovsky, Alexander Nikolayevich
- Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail Yevgrafovich
- Chernyshevsky, Nikolay
- Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich
- Leskov, Nikolai Semyonovich
- Sienkiewicz, Henryk
- Chekhov, Anton
20th C
English (British Isles)
- Jekyll, Gertrude
- Bridges, Robert
- Frazer, Sir James George
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Conrad, Joseph
- Thompson, Francis
- Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur
- Grahame, Kenneth
- Housman, A. E.
- Ellis, Havelock
- Barrie, J. M.
- Thompson, D'Arcy
- Whitehead, Alfred North
- Whitehead, Alfred North and Bertrand Russell
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Yeats, William Butler
- Potter, Beatrix
- Wells, H. G.
- Bennett, Arnold
- Galsworthy, John
- Galsworthy, John
- Douglas, Norman
- Synge, John Millington
- Beerbohm, Max
- Powys, John Cowper
- Russell, Bertrand
- Ford, Ford Madox
- De la Mare, Walter
- Moore, G. E.
- Chesterton, G. K.
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Churchill, Winston
- Lindsay, David
- Hardy, G. H.
- Thomas, Edward
- Jones, Ernest
- Forster, E. M.
- Strachey, Lytton
- Hall, Radclyffe
- Tawney, R. H.
- Wodehouse, P. G.
- Joyce, James
- Woolf, Virginia
- Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley
- Milne, A. A.
- Keynes, Maynard
- O'Casey, Sean
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Dinesen, Isak
- Firbank, Ronald
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Muir, Edwin
- Cary, Joyce
- Eliot, T. S.
- Collingwood, R. G.
- Toynbee, Arnold
- Rosenberg, Isaac
- Christie, Agatha
- Compton-Burnett, Ivy
- Tolkien, J. R. R.
- MacDiarmid, Hugh
- West, Rebecca
- Owen, Wilfred
- Read, Herbert
- Stark, Freya
- Huxley, Aldous
- Rhys, Jean
- Priestley, J. B.
- Hartley, L. P.
- Jones, David
- Williamson, Henry
- Leavis, F. R.
- Graves, Robert
- Tey, Josephine
- Knight, George Wilson
- Lewis, C. S.
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Edwards, G. B.
- Hilton, James
- Hughes, Richard
- Bunting, Basil
- Pritchett, V. S.
- Oakeshott, Michael
- Smith, Stevie
- Cecil, David, Lord
- Markham, Beryl
- Popper, Karl
- Orwell, George
- O'Connor, Frank
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Muggeridge, Malcolm
- Mitford, Nancy
- Cockburn, Claud
- Dangerfield, George
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Greene, Graham
- Green, Henry
- Waddington, C. H.
- Snow, C. P.
- Koestler, Arthur
- Renault, Mary
- Warner, Rex
- Powell, Anthony
- Empson, William
- White, T. H.
- Taylor, A. J. P.
- Plaidy, Jean
- MacNeice, Louis
- Auden, W. H.
- Du Maurier, Daphne
- Hart, H. L. A.
- Fleming, Ian
- Lowry, Malcolm
- Berlin, Isaiah
- Cooper, William
- O'Brien, Flann
- Peake, Mervyn
- Schumacher, E. F. (Ernst)
- Golding, William
- MacLean, Fitzroy
- Prince, F. T.
- Sansom, William
- Johnson, Pamela Hansford
- Philby, Kim
- Dennis, Nigel
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Fuller, Roy
- Wilson, Angus
- Thomas, R. S.
- Thomas, Dylan
- MacInnes, Colin
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Cohn, Norman
- Manning, Olivia
- Medawar, Peter B.
- Ewart, Gavin
- Burgess, Anthony
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Spark, Muriel
- Kermode, Frank
- Lessing, Doris
- Murdoch, Iris
- Plunkett, James
- Douglas, Keith
- Scott, Paul
- Comfort, Alex
- Douglas, Mary
- Davie, Donald
- Larkin, Philip
- Braine, John
- Banham, Reyner
- Amis, Kingsley
- Thompson, E. P.
- Aldiss, Brian
- Gellner, Ernest
- Berger, John
- Donleavy, J. P.
- Jennings, Elizabeth
- Fowles, John
- Laing, R. D.
- Johnson, Paul
- Kinsella, Thomas
- Sillitoe, Alan
- Trevor, William
- Deighton, Len
- Montague, John
- Arden, John
- Wright, Martin
- Hughes, Ted
- Pinter, Harold
- Ballard, J. G.
- Le Carre, John
- Penrose, Roger
- Hill, Geoffrey
- O'Brien, Edna
- Bradbury, Malcolm
- Frayn, Michael
- Orton, Joe
- Bond, Edward
- Gray, Alasdair
- Keegan, John
- Lodge, David
- Farrell, J. G.
- Roberts, Keith
- Byatt, A. S.
- Stoppard, Tom
- Churchill, Caryl
- Heaney, Seamus
- Nye, Robert
- Caudwell, Sarah
- Skinner, Quentin
- Hawking, Stephen
- Sheldrake, Rupert
- Kennedy, Paul
- Amis, Martin
- Atkinson, Kate
- Muldoon, Paul
- Adams, Douglas
- Moore, Alan
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Smith, Zadie
English (North America)
- The Last Whole Earth Catalog
- Schiffmann, Erich
- Riis, Jacob
- Washington, Booker T.
- Baum, L. Frank
- Veblen, Thorstein
- Tarbell, Ida
- Chesnutt, Charles W.
- Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Dewey, John
- Addams, Jane
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Cahan, Abraham
- Turner, Frederick Jackson
- Wharton, Edith
- Santayana, George
- Babbitt, Irving
- Steffens, Lincoln
- Morgan, Thomas Hunt
- Wald, Lillian
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- Millikan, Robert
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Croly, Herbert
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington
- Tarkington, Booth
- Hamilton, Alice
- Strunk, William and E. B. White
- Berkman, Alexander
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Post, Emily
- Stickney, Trumbull
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Stein, Gertrude
- Frost, Robert
- Grey, Zane
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- London, Jack
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Cather, Willa
- Rombauer, Irma
- Watson, John
- Sinclair, Upton
- Lindsay, Vachel
- Reitman, Ben L.
- Stevens, Wallace
- Sanger, Margaret
- Steichen, Edward
- Mencken, H. L.
- Keller, Helen
- Griffin, Frank Loxley
- Schumpeter, Joseph
- Williams, William Carlos
- Wylie, Elinor
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Pound, Ezra
- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- Polanyi, Karl
- Tillich, Paul
- Reed, John
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Bogan, Louise
- Moore, Marianne
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Carnegie, Dale
- Chandler, Raymond
- Dobie, J. Frank
- Ransom, John Crowe
- Aiken, Conrad
- Lippmann, Walter
- Richter, Conrad
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Miller, Henry
- Ueland, Brenda
- Bernays, Edward L.
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Niebuhr, Reinhold
- Buck, Pearl S.
- Cain, James M.
- Marquand, John P.
- Acheson, Dean
- Kinsey, Alfred C.
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Thurber, James
- cummings, e. e.
- Wiener, Norbert
- Toomer, Jean
- Tyng, Sewell
- W., Bill (Bill Wilson)
- Wilson, Edmund
- Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Fuller, R. Buckminster
- Mumford, Lewis
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Mayer, Edwin Justus
- Powell, Dawn
- Dos Passos, John
- Smith, Betty
- Wittfogel, Karl
- Wheelwright, John B.
- Faulkner, William
- Smith, Lillian
- Wilder, Thornton
- Burke, Kenneth
- Rey, H. A.
- Marcuse, Herbert
- Wasson, R. Gordon
- Crane, Hart
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Strauss, Leo
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Tate, Allen
- White, E. B.
- Adams, Léonie
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Tolson, M. B.
- Dobzhansky, Theodosius
- Chambers, Whittaker
- Mead, Margaret
- Hughes, Langston
- Steinbeck, John
- Rogers, Carl R.
- MacLean, Norman
- Von Neumann, John
- Nin, Anaïs
- Cozzens, James Gould
- Billington, Ray Allen
- Denby, Edwin
- Caldwell, Erskine
- Bettelheim, Bruno
- Boyle, Kay
- Spock, Benjamin
- Eberhart, Richard
- West, Nathanael
- Liebling, A. J.
- Gerschenkron, Alexander
- Farrell, James T.
- Lonergan, Bernard
- Skinner, B. F.
- Seuss, Dr. (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
- O'Hara, John
- Trilling, Lionel
- McWilliams, Carey
- Rand, Ayn
- Rexroth, Kenneth
- Burnham, James
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Horton, Myles
- Freire, Paulo and Myles Horton
- Koninck, Charles de
- Arendt, Hannah
- Hellman, Lillian
- Roth, Henry
- Carson, Rachel
- Heinlein, Robert
- Wright, Richard
- Roethke, Theodore
- Maslow, Abraham
- Fisher, M. F. K.
- Mitchell, Joseph
- Peterson, Roger Tory
- Gellhorn, Martha
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Agee, James
- Algren, Nelson
- Himes, Chester
- Stegner, Wallace
- Greenberg, Clement
- May, Rollo
- Gombrich, E. H.
- Welty, Eudora
- Riesman, David
- Drucker, Peter F.
- Brown, Margaret Wise
- Weaver, Richard
- Olson, Charles
- Fitzgerald, Robert
- Morris, Wright
- Bowles, Paul
- Scitovsky, Tibor
- Goodman, Paul
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Borkin, Joseph
- Williams, Tennessee
- Taylor, Angus
- Abrams, M. H.
- Cheever, John
- McCarthy, Mary
- Tuchman, Barbara
- Frye, Northrop
- Sarton, May
- Brower, David
- Friedman, Milton
- Olsen, Tillie
- Terkel, Studs
- Schwartz, Delmore
- Hayden, Robert
- Rukeyser, Muriel
- Leopold, Aldo
- Thomas, Lewis
- Nixon, Richard
- Davies, Robertson
- Nisbet, Robert
- Carleton, Jetta
- Brown, Norman O.
- Bach, George R. and Herb Goldberg
- Schulberg, Budd
- Kees, Weldon
- Jarrell, Randall
- Berryman, John
- Garrigue, Jean
- Malamud, Bernard
- Hersey, John
- Ellison, Ralph
- Burroughs, William S.
- Boorstin, Daniel
- Dahl, Robert
- Hirschman, Albert
- Masters, William H. and Virginia E. Johnson
- Samuelson, Paul
- Wouk, Herman
- Merton, Thomas
- Stafford, Jean
- White, Theodore H.
- Bellow, Saul
- Miller, Arthur
- Mills, C. Wright
- Keats, Ezra Jack
- Percy, Walker
- Banfield, Edward C.
- Simon, Herbert
- Jacobs, Jane
- Beck, Charlotte Joko
- Kennedy, John F.
- McCullers, Carson
- Lowell, Robert
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- O'Connor, Edwin
- Feynman, Richard
- Bell, Daniel
- Salinger, J. D.
- Duncan, Robert
- Swenson, May
- Bradbury, Ray
- Szasz, Thomas
- Bukowski, Charles
- Clampitt, Amy
- Leary, Timothy
- Arrow, Kenneth
- Schelling, Thomas
- Wilbur, Richard
- Jones, James
- Haley, Alex
- Moore, Brian
- Rawls, John
- Friedan, Betty
- Moss, Howard
- Kerouac, Jack
- Goffman, Erving
- Kuhn, Thomas
- Gaddis, William
- Anderson, Jack
- Paley, Grace
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
- Geertz, Clifford
- Hecht, Anthony
- Jaynes, Julian
- Purdy, James
- Okada, John
- Schuyler, James
- Dickey, James
- Heller, Joseph
- Mailer, Norman
- Berger, Thomas
- Fussell, Paul
- Gass, William H.
- Yamauchi, Wakako
- Metalious, Grace
- Capote, Truman
- Baldwin, James
- Southern, Terry
- Bowers, Edgar
- Hawkes, John
- Hoban, Russell
- Justice, Donald
- Koch, Kenneth
- Salter, James
- Vidal, Gore
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Spicer, Jack
- X, Malcolm
- Styron, William
- Buckley, William F.
- Ammons, A. R.
- Hillman, James
- Lee, Harper
- Stern, Fritz
- O'Hara, Frank
- Yates, Richard
- Merrill, James
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Knowles, John
- Illich, Ivan
- Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
- Ashbery, John
- Davenport, Guy
- Kinnell, Galway
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Meaker, Marijane
- Merwin, W. S.
- Slater, Philip E.
- Wright, James
- Abbey, Edward
- Albee, Edward
- Angelou, Maya
- Chomsky, Noam
- Daly, Mary
- Feldman, Irving
- Hall, Donald
- Kennedy, William
- Kennedy, William
- Levine, Philip
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Pirsig, Robert
- Sendak, Maurice
- Toffler, Alvin
- Watson, James D.
- Dick, Philip K.
- Berger, Peter
- Coles, Robert
- Feinman, Alvin
- Hoelldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson
- Hollander, John
- Howard, Richard
- LeGuin, Ursula K.
- Rich, Adrienne
- Wilson, Edward O.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Exley, Frederick
- Anger, Kenneth
- Barth, John
- Bloom, Harold
- Murphy, Michael
- Snyder, Gary
- Sowell, Thomas
- Bloom, Allan
- Elkin, Stanley
- Brodkey, Harold
- Abish, Walter
- Doctorow, E. L.
- Dworkin, Ronald
- Macpherson, Jay
- Morrison, Toni
- Munro, Alice
- Wolfe, Tom
- Barthelme, Donald
- Castaneda, Carlos
- Richler, Mordecai
- Rorty, Richard
- Coover, Robert
- Grossman, Allen
- Leavitt, Helen
- Plath, Sylvia
- Lasch, Christopher
- Updike, John
- McCarthy, Cormac
- McCullough, David
- Roth, Philip
- Sacks, Oliver
- Gardner, John
- Kosinski, Jerzy
- Sontag, Susan
- Didion, Joan
- Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka)
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Rechy, John
- Strand, Mark
- Karp, Walter
- Sagan, Carl
- Agee, Philip
- Applewhite, James
- Ayensu, Edward S. and Robert A. DeFilipps
- Brownmiller, Susan
- Caro, Robert
- Malcolm, Janet
- Oliver, Mary
- Walzer, Michael
- Wright, Charles
- Wright, Jay
- Kopkind, Andrew
- Kofsky, Frank
- Cleaver, Eldridge
- Kesey, Ken
- Alexander, Christopher
- DeLillo, Don
- Hacking, Ian
- Hine, Daryl
- Sheehan, Neil
- Wanniski, Jude
- Anaya, Rudolfo
- Krol, Ed
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Rhodes, Richard
- Stone, Robert
- Wambaugh, Joseph
- Wolff, Geoffrey
- Toole, John Kennedy
- Thompson, Hunter S.
- Blume, Judy
- Georgakas, Dan
- MacLachlan, Patricia
- Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Reed, Ishmael
- Simic, Charles
- Carver, Raymond
- Nozick, Robert
- Atwood, Margaret
- Bouton, Jim
- Capra, Fritjof
- Gilder, George
- Nash, Roderick
- Pekar, Harvey
- Theroux, Alexander
- Boston Women's Health Book Collective
- Disch, Thomas M.
- Herr, Michael
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Rabe, David
- White, Edmund
- Brodsky, Joseph
- McCourt, James
- Theroux, Paul
- Tyler, Anne
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Crowley, John
- Delany, Samuel R.
- Irving, John
- Jong, Erica
- Keillor, Garrison
- McGinniss, Joe
- Olds, Sharon
- Anzaldua, Gloria
- Anand, Margot
- Corn, Alfred
- Griffin, Susan
- Shepard, Sam
- Crase, Douglas
- Ford, Richard
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Walker, Alice
- Dillard, Annie
- Firestone, Shulamith
- McClatchy, J. D.
- McCoy, Alfred
- Wolff, Tobias
- Wilson, August
- Davis, Mike
- Galdikas, Biruté M. F.
- Hawken, Paul
- MacKinnon, Catharine
- Starr, Kenneth W.
- Auster, Paul
- Hogan, Linda
- King, Stephen
- Mackey, Nathaniel
- Mamet, David
- Prose, Francine
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan
- Cameron, Julia
- Gibson, William
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Spiegelman, Art
- Reisner, Marc
- Allison, Dorothy
- Arora, David
- Chernow, Ron
- Johnson, Denis
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Russo, Richard
- Valentine, Douglas
- Wilcox, James
- Alvarez, Julia
- Hirsch, Edward
- Naylor, Gloria
- Smith, Anna Deveare
- Bryson, Bill
- Anonymous
- Gray, John
- La Place, Viana
- Starhawk (Miriam Simos)
- Shilts, Randy
- Behe, Michael J.
- Dove, Rita
- Fukuyama, Francis
- hooks, bell
- Mistry, Rohinton
- West, Cornel
- Wrede, Patricia C.
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Erdrich, Louise
- Gleick, James
- Goldman, Francisco
- Lamott, Anne
- Moore, Terry
- Moss, Thylias
- Kotlowitz, Alex
- Williams, Terry Tempest
- Kushner, Tony
- Abram, David
- Baker, Nicholson
- Lee, Li-Young
- Ball, Edward
- Stephenson, Neal
- McCloud, Scott
- Wallace, David Foster
- Letham, Jonathan
- Smoking and Health (The Surgeon General's Report)
- Lee, Chang-rae
- Klein, Naomi
- The Pentagon Papers
- Mack, David
- The Presidential Transcripts
English (West Indies)
English (Africa)
- Paton, Alan
- Tutuola, Amos
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Achebe, Chinua
- Okara, Gabriel
- Fugard, Athol
- Okigbo, Christopher
- Soyinka, Wole
- Clark (-Bekederemo), John Pepper
- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
- Armah, Ayi K.
- Coetzee, J. M.
- Saro-Wiwa, Ken
- Emecheta, Buchi
English (Indian subcontinent)
English (Australia, New Zealand)
- Franklin, Miles (Stella)
- Mansfield, Katherine
- Shute, Nevil
- Stead, Christina
- Hope, A. D.
- Ashton-Warner, Sylvia
- Wilmot, Chester
- White, Patrick
- Wright, Judith
- Hazzard, Shirley
- Malouf, David
- Keneally, Thomas
- Murray, Les A.
- Carey, Peter
- Hart, Kevin
Greek
Eastern Christian
Latin
Italian
- Pareto, Vilfredo
- Svevo, Italo
- D'Annunzio, Gabriele
- Croce, Benedetto
- Pirandello, Luigi
- Montessori, Maria
- Deledda, Grazia
- Saba, Umberto
- Campana, Dino
- Ungaretti, Giuseppe
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi, prince of
- Montale, Eugenio
- Quasimodo, Salvatore
- Levi, Carlo
- Buzzati, Dino
- Moravia, Alberto
- Pavese, Cesare
- Vittorini, Elio
- Landolfi, Tommaso
- Bobbio, Norberto
- Bassani, Giorgio
- Ginzburg, Natalia
- Morante, Elsa
- Levi, Primo
- Sciascia, Leonardo
- Zanzotto, Andrea
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Calvino, Italo
- Fo, Dario
- Porta, Antonio
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
- Unamuno, Miguel de
- Cunha, Euclides da
- Benavente, Jacinto
- Dário, Rubén
- Baroja, Pio
- Azuela, Mariano
- Machado, Antonio
- Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Ortega y Gasset, José
- Pessoa, Fernando
- Gómez de la Serna, Ramón
- Mistral, Gabriela
- Salinas, Pedro
- Vallejo, César
- Ribá, Carles
- Guillén, Jorge
- Foix, J. V.
- García Lorca, Federico
- Aleixandre, Vicente
- Asturias, Miguel Angel
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Buñuel. Luis
- Freyre, Gilberto
- Cernuda, Luis
- Alberti, Rafael
- Drummond de Andrade, Carlos
- Guillén, Nicolás
- Neruda, Pablo
- Carpentier, Alejo
- Dalí, Salvador
- Rosa, João Guimarães
- Rodoreda, Merce
- Hernández, Miguel
- Redol, Alves
- Lezama Lima, José
- Espríu, Salvador
- Cortázar, Julio
- Paz, Octavio
- Cela, Camilo José
- Otero, Blas de
- Arreola, Juan Jose
- Rulfo, Juan
- Mello Breyner, Sophia de
- Sena, Jorge de
- Perucho, Joan
- Freire, Paulo
- Saramago, José
- Andrade, Eugénio de
- Donoso, José
- Pires, José Cardoso
- Lispector, Clarice
- Fuentes, Carlos
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Gutierrez, Gustavo
- Guevara, Ernesto "Che"
- Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
- Goytisolo, Juan de
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Sarduy, Severo
- Galeano, Eduardo
- Pelé
- Arenas, Reinaldo
- Gimferrer, Pere
- Marcos, Subcomandante
- Menchu, Rigoberta
French
- France, Anatole
- Sorel, Georges
- Saussure, Ferdinand de
- Bergson, Henri
- Laforgue, Jules
- Maeterlinck, Maurice
- Rolland, Romain
- Curie, Marie
- Gide, Andre
- Halévy, Élie
- Proust, Marcel
- Valéry, Paul
- Curnonsky
- Jarry, Alfred
- Péguy, Charles
- Colette
- Jacob, Max
- Roussel, Raymond
- Febvre, Lucien
- Apollinaire, Guillaume
- Martin Du Gard, Roger
- Giraudoux, Jean
- Maritain, Jacques
- Bachelard, Gaston
- Mauriac, François
- Alain-Fournier
- Bloch, Marc
- Le Corbusier
- Perse, St.-John
- Jouve, Pierre-Jean
- Reverdy, Pierre
- Cocteau, Jean
- Serge, Victor
- de Gaulle, Charles
- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
- Renoir, Jean
- Éluard, Paul
- Giono, Jean
- Artaud, Antonin
- Tzara, Tristan
- Breton, André
- Piaget, Jean
- Bataille, Georges
- Aragon, Louis
- Péret, Benjamin
- Michaux, Henri
- Ponge, Francis
- Prévert, Jacques
- Sarraute, Nathalie
- Malraux, André
- Leiris, Michel
- Lefebvre, Henri
- Radiguet, Raymond
- Follain, Jean
- Yourcenar, Marguerite
- Beck, Simone
- Sartre, Jean Paul
- Aron, Raymond
- Klossowski, Pierre
- Beckett, Samuel
- Eliade, Mircea
- Char, René
- Blanchot, Maurice
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Daumal, René
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Genet, Jean
- Anouilh, Jean
- Cioran, Emil M.
- Jabès, Edmond
- Ionesco, Eugène
- Camus, Albert
- Caillois, Roger
- Simon, Claude
- Césaire, Aimé
- Duras, Marguerite
- Barthes, Roland
- Hébert, Anne
- Pinget, Robert
- Castoriadis, Cornelius
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain
- Bonnefoy, Yves
- Gorz, André
- Tournier, Michel
- Jacottet, Philippe
- Fanon, Frantz
- Foucault, Michel
- Wiesel, Elie
- Irigaray, Luce
- Derrida, Jacques
- Debord, Guy
- Truffaut, Francois
- Le Clèzio, Jean-Marie Gustave
- Guilbaut, Serge
Germanic
- Mendele Mokher Seforim
- Spitteler, Carl
- Peretz, I. L.
- Freud, Sigmund
- Simmel, Georg
- Lagerlöf, Selma
- Planck, Max
- Sholem Aleichem
- Husserl, Edmund
- Heidenstam, Verner von
- Hamsun, Knut
- Schnitzler, Arthur
- Hauptmann, Gerhart
- Ansky, S.
- Wedekind, Frank
- Weber, Max
- Karlfeldt, Erik Axel
- George, Stefan
- Söderberg, Hjalmar
- Andersen Nexø, Martin
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Loos, Adolf
- Adler, Alfred
- Amundsen, Roald
- Jensen, Johannes V.
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
- Krauss, Karl
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Mann, Thomas
- Jung, Carl Gustav
- Schweitzer, Albert
- Hesse, Hermann
- Leino, Eino, Finnish
- Döblin, Alfred
- Buber, Martin
- Klee, Paul
- Einstein, Albert
- Mahler-Werfel, Alma
- Musil, Robert, Edler von
- Spengler, Oswald
- Asch, Sholem
- Zweig, Stefan
- Mises, Ludwig von
- Undset, Sigrid
- Kafka, Franz
- Leib, Mani
- Jaspers, Karl
- Bohr, Niels
- Lukács, Georg
- Halpern, Moshe-Leib
- Broch, Hermann
- Benn, Gottfried
- Barth, Karl
- Frisch, Karl von
- Trakl, Georg
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Leivick, H. (Leivick Halpern)
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Hitler, Adolf
- Heidegger, Martin
- Lissitzky, El
- Werfel, Franz
- Sachs, Nelly
- Lagerkvist, Pär
- Benjamin, Walter
- Singer, Israel Joshua
- Roth, Joseph
- Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor Adorno
- Glatstein, Jacob
- Reich, Wilhelm
- Vesaas, Tarjei
- Elias, Norbert
- Brecht, Bertolt
- Remarque, Erich Maria
- Myrdal, Gunnar
- Hayek, Friedrich von
- Neumann, Franz
- Johnson, Eyvind
- Fromm, Erich
- Heisenberg, Werner
- Erikson, Erik
- Halldór Laxness
- Adorno, Theodor
- Lorenz, Konrad
- Martinson, Harry
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Canetti, Elias
- Frankl, Victor
- Ekelöf, Gunnar
- Eich, Günter
- Tinbergen, Niko
- Lindgren, Astrid
- Grade, Chaim
- Frisch, Max
- Harrer, Heinrich
- Næss, Arne
- Schmidt, Arno
- Bobrowski, Johannes
- Böll, Heinrich
- Celan, Paul
- Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
- Bracher, Karl Dietrich
- Miller, Alice
- Bachmann, Ingeborg
- Grass, Günter
- Walser, Robert
- Küng, Hans
- Pannenberg, Wolfhart
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Wolf, Christa
- Frank, Anne
- Tranströmer, Tomas
- Bernhard, Thomas
- Kunze, Reiner
- Gustafsson, Lars
- Handke, Peter
- Jelinek, Elfriede
- Sloterdijk, Peter
- Süskind, Patrick
- Müller, Herta
Slavic, Other European
- Pobedonostsev, Konstantin
- Kropotkin, Peter
- Pavlov, Ivan
- Stanislavski, Konstantin
- Reymont, Wladyslaw
- Gorky, Maksim
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
- Kuprin, Alexander Ivanovich
- Bunin, Ivan
- Andreyev, Leonid
- Kuzmin, Mikhail
- Blok, Aleksandr
- Bely, Andrey
- Sukhanov, N. N.
- Hasek, Jaroslav
- Zamyatin, Yevgeny Ivanovich
- Khlebnikov, Velimir
- Chaianov, A. V. (Chayanov)
- Sillanpää, Frans Eemil
- Akhmatova, Anna
- Capek, Karel
- Pasternak, Boris
- Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich
- Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanova
- Schulz, Bruno
- Paustovsky, Konstantin
- Andric, Ivo
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich
- Babel, Isaac Emmanuelovich
- Zoshchenko, Mikhail
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Platonov, Andrei
- Olesha, Yury
- Németh, Laszlo
- Seifert, Jaroslav
- Gombrowicz, Witold
- József, Attila
- Sholokhov, Mikhail
- Lysohorsky, Ondra
- Djilas, Milovan
- Milosz, Czeslaw
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich
- Lem, Stanislaw
- Popa, Vasko
- Holub, Miroslav
- Szymborska, Wislawa
- Herbert, Zbigniew
- Skvorecky, Josef
- Lustig, Arnost
- Kolakowski, Leszek
- Juhasz, Ferenc
- Kertész, Imre
- Kundera, Milan
- Mrozek, Slawomir
- Kapuscinski, Ryszard
- Kis, Danilo
- Havel, Vaclav
- Zagajewski, Adam
Various, Western
21st C
English (British Isles)
English (North America)
Anthologies and Auxiliary Reading
Anthologies, 20th Century
English (North America)
English-Language (Various Nationalities)
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
Germanic
Slavic, Other European
Anthologies, 20th Century, Various Nationalities
Anthologies
English (North America)
English-Language (Various Nationalities)
Greek
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
French
Germanic
Slavic, Other European
Anthologies, Various Nationalities
Auxiliary Reading, Modern
- Adamic, Louis. Dynamite: A Century of Class Violence in America, 1830-1930
- Ariès, Philippe. The Hour of Our Death
- Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: Representation of Reality in Western Literature
- Bate, W. Jackson. Samuel Johnson
- Bazin, Andre. Orson Welles: A Critical View
- Blake, Robert. Disraeli
- Boyer, Richard O.. Labor's Untold Story
- Braverman, Harry. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
- Brodie, Fawn M.. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
- Bryson, Bill. Made in America
- Charters, Samuel. The Country Blues
- Chase, Allan. The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism
- Chomsky, Noam. The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians
- Cockburn, Andrew. The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine
- Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror
- Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
- David, Elizabeth. French Provincial Cooking
- Dower, John. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
- Edel, Leon. Henry James
- Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde
- Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce
- Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
- Foote, Shelby. The Civil War
- Fowler, Henry Watson. Modern English Usage
- Freeman, Douglas Southall. R. E. Lee
- Fry, Roger. Cezanne: A Study of His Development
- Gay, Peter. Freud
- Genovese, Eugene D.. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
- Giedion, Siegfried. Mechanization Takes Command
- Heilbut, Anthony. The Gospel Sound
- Hersh, Seymour. The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
- Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform
- Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition
- Innis, Harold A.. The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History
- Kael, Pauline. For Keeps
- Kirk, Russell. The Conservative Mind
- Le Sueur, Meridel. North Star Country
- Leach, Bernard. A Potter's Book
- Lefebvre, Georges. The Coming of the French Revolution
- Lehman, Godfrey. We the Jury: The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms
- Linebaugh, Peter. The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
- Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time
- Manchester, William. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
- Marek, George R.. The Eagles Die: Franz Joseph, Elisabeth, and Their Austria
- Marsh, Dave. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made
- Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden
- McPherson, James M.. Battle Cry of Freedom
- Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Oxford History of the American People
- Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- Namier, Lewis. The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III
- Oliver, Paul. Blues Fell This Morning
- The Oxford English Dictionary
- Palmer, Robert. Deep Blues
- Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920
- Pipes, Richard. The Russian Revolution
- Ramsey, Charles George. Architectural Graphic Standards
- Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Movie Wars
- Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.. The Age of Jackson
- Smith, Page. A People's History of the United States
- Sunset Western Garden Book
- Thomson, David. A Biographical Dictionary of Film
- Wharton, Edith. The Decoration of Houses
- Williams, William Appleman. The Contours of American History
- Woodham-Smith, Cecil. Florence Nightingale
- Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow
- Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
- Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States
- Zweig, Stefan. Balzac
Auxiliary Reading, All Periods
- Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book
- Asimov, Isaac. Asimov on Numbers
- Barnes, Harry Elmer. A History of Historical Writing
- Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture
- Bland, David Farrant. History of Book Illustration
- Brown, Norman O.. Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
- Carr, E. H.. What is History?
- Clark, Kenneth. Civilisation
- Durant, Will and Ariel. The Story of Philosophy
- Durant, Will and Ariel. The Story of Civilization
- Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade
- Enclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.
- Faure, Élie. History of Art
- Gombrich, E. H.. The Story of Art
- Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man
- Green, John Richard. A Short History of the English People
- Gustin, Molly. Tonality
- Hauser, Arnold. The Social History of Art
- Herter, George Leonard. Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices
- Hume, David. History of England
- Keegan, John. The Face of Battle
- Lewes, George Henry. The History of Philosophy
- Lynton, Norbert. Story of Modern Art
- McNeill, William H.. The Rise of the West
- Mirsky, D. S., Prince. A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900
- Mumford, Lewis. The City in History
- The New Palgrave: The World of Economics
- Panofsky, Erwin. Perspective as Symbolic Form
- Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition
- Propp, V. I.. Morphology of the Folktale
- Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach
- Rougemont, Denis de. Love in the Western World
- Russell, Bertrand. History of Western Philosophy
- Singer, Charles. A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900
- Stumpf, Samuel. Socrates to Sartre: A History of Philosophy
- Toynbee, Arnold. Civilization on Trial
- Toynbee, Arnold. A Study of History
- Troeltsch, Ernst. The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged