albert camus (1913-1960)

  • a happy death (1936-38)
  • the fall (1956)
  • the first man (1995)
  • the plague (1947)
  • the stranger (1942)

chuck klosterman

  • downtown owl: a novel (2008)
  • eating the dinosaur (2009)
  • fargo rock city: a heavy metal odyssey... (2001)
  • HYPERtheticals: 50 Qs for insane conversations (2010)
  • i wear the black hat: grappling w/ villains (2013)
  • IV: a decade of curious people & dangerous ideas (2006)
  • killing yourself to live: 85% of a true story (2005)
  • sex, drugs & cocoa puffs: low culture manifesto (2003)
  • the visible man (2011)

charles bukowski (1920-1994)

  • factotum (1975)
  • ham on rye (1982)
  • hollywood (1989)
  • hot water music (stories) (1983)
  • notes of a dirty old man (stories) (1969)
  • people poems (1991)
  • poems written b4 jumping out of an 8-story window (1968)
  • portions from a wine-stained notebooks (stories/essays) (2008)
  • post office (1971)
  • pulp (1994)
  • the last night of the earth (poems) (1992)
  • the pleasures of the damned (poems) (2007)
  • what matters most is how well you walk thru the fire (1999)
  • women (1978)
  • u get so alone at times that it just makes sense (poems) (1986)

cormac mccarthy (1933-present)

  • all the pretty horses (1992)
  • blood meridian (1985)
  • child of god (1973)
  • cities of the plain (1998)
  • no country for old men (2005)
  • outer dark (1968)
  • suttree (1979)
  • the crossing (1994)
  • the orchard keeper (1965)
  • the road (2006)

david foster wallace (1962-2008)

  • a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again (essays) (1997)
  • both flesh and not (essays) (2012)
  • brief interviews w/ hideous men (short stories) (1999)
  • consider the lobster & other essays (2005)
  • girl with curious hair (1989)
  • infinite jest (1996)
  • oblivion: stories (short stories) (2004)
  • signifying rappers: rap & race in the urban present (1990)
  • the broom of the system (1987)
  • the david foster wallace reader (2015)
  • the pale king (2011)

don delillo (1936-present)

  • amazons (1980)
  • americana (1971)
  • cosmopolis (2003)
  • end zone (1972)
  • falling man (2007)
  • great jones street (1973)
  • libra (1988)
  • mao ii (1991)
  • players (1977)
  • point omega (2010)
  • ratner's star (1976)
  • running dog (1978)
  • the body artist (2001)
  • the names (1982)
  • underworld (1997)
  • white noise (1985)

ernest hemingway (1899-1961)

  • a farewell to arms (1929)
  • a moveable feast (1964)
  • across the river & into the trees (1950)
  • complete poems (1979)
  • fiesta: the sun also rises (1926)
  • for whom the bell tolls (1940)
  • in our time (stories) (1925)
  • islands in the stream (1970)
  • men without women (stories) (1927)
  • the garden of eden (1986)
  • the nick adams stories (1972)
  • the old man and the sea (1952)
  • the torrents of spring (1926)
  • to have and have not (1937)
  • true at first light (1999)

f. scott fitzgerald (1896-1940)

  • tales of the jazz age (stories) (1922)
  • tender is the night (1934)
  • the beautiful and the damned (1922
  • the great gatsby (1925)
  • the love of the last tycoon (1941)
  • the short stories of f. scott fitzgerald (1989)
  • this side of paradise (1920)

flannery o'connor

  • a good man is hard to find (stories) (1955)
  • everything that rises must converge (stories) (1965)
  • the complete stories (stories) (1971)
  • the violent bear it away (1960)
  • wise blood (1952)

frank o'hara (1926-1966)

  • a city winter & other poems (1951)
  • city poet: the life & times of frank o'hara (1993)
  • in memory of my feelings (1967)
  • love poems (1965)
  • lunch poems (1964)
  • meditations in an emergency (1967)
  • odes (1960)
  • oranges: 12 pastorals (1953)
  • poems retrieved (1977)
  • second avenue (1960)
  • standing still & walking in new york (1975)
  • the collected poems of frank o'hara (1971)

franz kafka (1883-1924) (selected works)

  • america (1938)
  • dearest father: stories & other writings (1954)
  • description of a struggle (stories) (1958)
  • parables and paradoxes (stories) (1961)
  • the castle (1930)
  • the complete stories (1971)
  • the diaries of franz kafka (1963)
  • the penal colony: stories & short pieces (1948)
  • the sons (stories) (1989)
  • the trial (1937)

fyodor dostoyevsky (1821-1881) (selected works)

  • crime and punishment (1866)
  • notes from underground (1864)
  • the brothers karamazov (1880)
  • the idiot (1869)

gabriel garcia marquez (1927-2014)

  • 100 years of solitude (1967)
  • in evil hour (1962)
  • love in the time of cholera (1985)
  • of love and other demons (1994)
  • the autumn of the patriarch (1975)
  • the general in his labyrinth (1989)

bernard shaw (1856-1950) (selected works)

  • fanny's first play (1911)
  • heartbreak house (1919)
  • mrs warren's profession (1893)
  • pygmalion (1912-13)
  • saint joan (1923)
  • the black girl in search of god (stories) (1932)
  • the man of destiny (1895)
  • the pilanderer (1893)
  • widowers' houses (1892)

george orwell (1903-1950)

  • a clergyman's daughter (1935)
  • animal farm (1945)
  • burmese days (1934)
  • coming up for air (1939)
  • keep the aspidistra flying (1936)
  • nineteen eighty-four (1949)

haruki murakami (1949-present)

  • 1Q84 (2009-10)
  • a wild sheep chase (1982)
  • after dark (2004)__
  • after the quake (stories) (2002)
  • birthday stories (2002)
  • blind willow, sleeping woman (stories) (2009)
  • colorless tsukuru tazaki & his years of pilgrimage (2013)
  • dance dance dance (1988)
  • hard-boiled wonderland & the end of the world (1985)
  • hear the wind sing (1979)
  • kafka on the shore (2002)
  • men without women (stories) (2014)
  • norweigan wood (1987)
  • pinball, 1973 (1980)
  • south of the border, west of the sun (1992)
  • sputnik sweetheart (1999)
  • the elephant vanishes (stories) (2005)
  • the strange library (illustrated children's novella) (2005)
  • the wind-up bird chronicle (1994-5)
  • what i talk about when i talk about running (2008)

hermann hesse (1877-1962) (selected works)

  • der steppenwolf (1927)
  • freunde (novella) (1908)
  • gertrud (1910)
  • journey to the east (1932)
  • klingsor's last summer (1920)
  • magister ludi: the glass bead game (1943)
  • narcissus and goldmund (1930)
  • siddhartha (1922)
  • strange news from another star (stories) (1919)

j.d. salinger (1919-2010)

  • franny and zooey (1961)
  • nine stories (stories) (1953)
  • raise high the roof beam, carpenters & seymour... (1963)
  • the catcher in the rye (1951)
  • three early stories (2014)

jack kerouac (1922-1969)

  • and the hippos were boiled in their tanks (1945)
  • big sur (1962)
  • book of dreams (1960)
  • book of haikus (2003)
  • desolation angels (1965)
  • doctor sax (1959)
  • lonesome traveler (stories) (1960)
  • maggie cassidy (1959)
  • mexico city blues (poems) (1959)
  • on the road (1957)
  • orphesus emerged (novella) (1944-45)
  • pic (novella) (1971)
  • satori in paris (novella) (1985)
  • scattered poems (1971)
  • the dharma bums (1958)
  • the haunted life & other writings (1945)
  • the sea is my brother (1942)
  • the subterraneans (novella) (1958)
  • the town and the city (1946-49)
  • tristessa (novella) (1960)
  • vanity of duluoz (1968)
  • visions of cody (1960)
  • visions of gerard (1963)

james joyce (1882-1941)

  • a portrait of the artist as a young man (1916)
  • collected poems (1936)
  • dubliners (stories) (1914)
  • finnegans wake (1939)
  • stephen hero (1944)
  • ulysses (1922)

jane austen (1775-1817)

  • emma (1815)
  • lady susan (short fiction) (1805)
  • mansfield park (1814)
  • northanger abbey (1818)
  • persausion (1818)
  • pride and prejudice (1813)
  • sense and sensibility (1811)

jhumpa lahiri (1967-present)

  • interpreter of maladies (stories) (1999)
  • lowland (2013)
  • the namesake (2003)
  • unaccustomed earth (stories) (2008)

john steinbeck (1902-1968) (selected works)

  • cannery row (1945)
  • east of eden (1952)
  • of mice and men (1937)
  • the grapes of wrath (1939)
  • the moon is down (1942)
  • the pearl (1947)
  • the winter of our discontent (1961)
  • tortilla flat (1935)

jonathan franzen (1959-present)

  • farther away (2012) (essays)
  • freedom: a novel (2010)
  • how to be alone (2002) (essays)
  • purity (2015)
  • strong motion (1992)
  • the corrections (2001)
  • the discomfort zone (2006) (memoir)
  • the twenty-seventh city (1988)

kurt vonnegut (1922-2007)

  • bluebeard, the autobiography of rabo karabekian (1987)
  • breakfast of champions (1973)
  • canary in a cathouse (stories) (1961)
  • cat's cradle (1963)
  • deadeye dick (1982)
  • galapagos: a novel (1985)
  • god bless you, dr. kevorkian (1999)
  • god bless you, mr. rosewater (1965)
  • hocus pocus (1990)
  • if this isn't nice, what is?: advice to the young (2013)
  • jailbird (1979)
  • mother night (1961)
  • player piano (1952)
  • slapstick (1976)
  • slaughter-house five (1969)
  • the sirens of titan (1959)
  • timequake (1997)
  • welcome to the monkey house (stories) (1968)

leo tolstoy (1828-1910) (selected works)

  • anna karenina (1877)
  • family happiness (novella) (1859)
  • the death of ivan ilyich (novella) (1886)
  • the forged coupon (novella) (1911)
  • war and peace (1869)

malcolm gladwell (1963-present)

  • blink (2005)
  • david and goliath (2013)
  • outliers (2008)
  • the tipping point (2000)
  • what the dog saw: and other adventures (2009)

mark twain (1835-1910) (selected works)

  • adventures of huckleberry finn (1884)
  • the adventures of tom sawyer (1876)
  • the gilded age: a tale of today (1873)
  • the prince and the pauper (1881)
  • tom sawyer abroad (1894)
  • tom sawyer, detective (1896)

milan kundera (1929-present)

  • identity (1998)
  • ignorance (2000)
  • immortality (1988)
  • laughable loves (short stories) (1969)
  • life is elsewhere (1973)
  • slowness (1995)
  • the book of laughter and forgetting (1978)
  • the farewell waltz (1972)
  • the festival of insignificance (2015)
  • the joke (1967)
  • the unbearable lightness of being (1984)

miranda july (1974-present)

  • corpse tale (2009)
  • it chooses you (2011)
  • learning to love you more (2007)
  • no one belongs here more than you: stories (2007)
  • the boy from lam kien (2005)
  • the dead bones (2005)
  • the first bad man: a novel (2015)

oscar wilde (1854-1900) (selected works)

  • a woman of no importance (1893)
  • an ideal husband (1898)
  • de profundis (1897) (epistle)
  • house of pomegranates (1891)
  • lady windermere's fan (1892)
  • poems (1881)
  • the importance of being earnest (1989)
  • the picture of dorian gray (1890)

paul auster (1947-present)

  • auggie wren's christmas story (1990)
  • facing the music (poems) (1980)
  • in the country of last things (1987)
  • invisible (2009)
  • leviathan (1992)
  • man in the dark (2008)
  • moon palace (1989)
  • mr. vertigo (1994)
  • oracle night (2003)
  • report for the interior (essay) (2013)
  • squeeze play (1982)
  • sunset park (2010)
  • the art of hunger (essay) (1992)
  • the book of illusions (2002)
  • the brooklyn follies (2005)
  • the invention of solitude (essay) (1982)
  • the music of chance (1990)
  • the new york trilogy (1987)
  • the red notebook (essay) (1995)
  • timbuktu (1999)
  • travels in the scriptorium (2006)
  • unearth (poems) (1974)

raymond carver (1938-1988)

  • all of us: the collected poems (1996)
  • cathedral (1981)
  • furious seasons (1977)
  • in a marine light: selected poems (1988)
  • short cuts: selected stories (1993)
  • what we talk about when we talk about love (1981)
  • where i'm calling from: new & selected stories (1988)
  • will you be quiet, please? (1976)

richard wright (1908-1960)

  • a father's law (2008)
  • black boy (1945)
  • eight men (1961)
  • lawd today (1963)
  • native son (1940)
  • rite of passage (1994)
  • savage holiday (1954)
  • the long dream (1958)
  • the man who was almost a man (1939)
  • the outsider (1953)
  • uncle tom's children (1938)

sandra cisneros (1954-present)

  • bad boys (1980)
  • caramelo, or, puro cuento (2002)
  • emergency tacos: seven poets con picante (2007)
  • hairs = pelitos (1994)
  • have you seen marie? (2012)
  • loose woman: poems (1994)
  • my wicked, wicked ways (1987)
  • the house on mango street (1984)
  • vintage cisneros (2004)
  • woman hollering creek & other stories (1991)

shusaku endo (selected works)

  • deep river (1993)
  • foreign studies (1965)
  • kiku's prayer (1982)
  • silence (1966)
  • stained glass elegies (1959)
  • when i whistle (1974)
  • wonderful fool (1959)

tennessee williams (1911-1983) (selected works)

  • a house not meant to stand (1982)
  • a streetcar named desire (1947)
  • camino real (1953)
  • cat on a hot tin roof (1955)
  • orpheus descending (1957)
  • period of adjustment (1960)
  • suddenly, last summer (1958)
  • summer and smoke (1948)
  • sweet bird of youth (1959)
  • the glass menagerie (1944)
  • the rose tattoo (1951)

thomas pynchon (1937-present)

  • against the day (2006)
  • bleeding edge (2013)
  • gravity's rainbow (1973)
  • inherent vice (2009)
  • mason & dixon (1997)
  • slow learner (short stories) (1984)
  • the crying of lot 49 (1966)
  • v (1963)
  • vineland (1990)

tim o'brien (1946-present)

  • if i die in a combat zone, box me up & ship me home (1973)
  • in the lake of the woods (1994)
  • july, july (2002)
  • northern lights (1975)
  • the nuclear age (1985)
  • the things they carried (1990)
  • tomcat in love (1998)

toni morrison (1931-present)

  • a mercy (2008)
  • beloved (1987)
  • god help the child (2015)
  • home (2012)
  • jazz (1992)
  • love (2003)
  • paradise (1997)
  • song of solomon (1977)
  • sula (1973)
  • tar baby (1981)
  • the bluest eye (1970)

t.s. eliot (1888-1965) (selected works)

  • prufrock & other observations (poems) (1917)
  • the hollow men (1925)
  • the waste land (1922)

virginia woolf (1882-1941)

  • a haunted house & other short stories (1944)
  • a room of one's own (1929)
  • between the acts (1941)
  • granite & rainbow (diary) (1958)
  • jacob's room (1922)
  • kew gardens (stories) (1919)
  • moments of being (1976)
  • monday or tuesday (stories) (1921)
  • mrs dalloway (1925)
  • night & day (1919)
  • on being iii (1930)
  • orlando: a biography (1928)
  • roger fry: a biography (1940)
  • the voyage out (1915)
  • the waves (1931)
  • the years (1937)
  • three guineas (1938)
  • to the lighthouse (1927)

vladimir nabokov (1899-1977) (selected works)

  • details of a sunset & other stories (1976)
  • lolita (1955)_
  • nine stories (1947)
  • pale fire (1962)
  • pnin (1957)
  • transparent things (1972)

william faulkner (1897-1962)

  • a fable (1954)
  • absalom, absalom! (1936)
  • as i lay dying (1930)
  • go down, moses & other stories (1942)
  • intruder in the dust (19468)
  • light in august (1932)
  • mosquitoes (1927)
  • pylon (1935)
  • requiem for a nun (1951)
  • sanctuary (1931)
  • sartoris (1929)
  • soliders' pay (1926)
  • the hamlet (1940)
  • the mansion (1959)
  • the rivers (1962)
  • the sound and the fury (1929)
  • the town (1957)
  • the unvanquished (1938)
  • the wild palms (1939)

william shakespeare (1564-1616)

  • a midsummer night's dream (1595)
  • all's well that end's well (1604-05)
  • antony and cleopatra (1606)
  • as you like it (1599-1600)
  • cardenio (1612-13)
  • coriolanus (1608)
  • cymbeline (1610)
  • edward iii (1592-93)
  • hamlet (1599-1601)
  • henry v (1599)
  • henry vi (1591-1598)
  • henry viii (1612-13)
  • julius caesar (1599)
  • king john (1596)
  • king lear (1605-06)
  • love's labour's lost (1594-95)
  • macbeth (1606)
  • measure for measure (1603-04)
  • much ado about nothing (1598-99)
  • othello (1603-04)
  • pericles, prince of tyre (1607-08)
  • richard ii (1595)
  • richard iii (1592-93)
  • romeo and juliet (1595)
  • sir thomas more (1592-95)
  • the comedy of errors (1594)
  • the merchant of venice (1596-97)
  • the merry wives of windsor (1597)
  • the taming of the shrew (1590-91)
  • the tempest (1610-11)
  • the two gentlemen of verona (1589-91)
  • the two noble kinsmen (1613-14)
  • the winter's tale (1609-1611)
  • timon of athens (1605-06)
  • titus andronicus (1591-92)
  • troilus and cressida (1600-1602)
  • twelfth night (1601)

zadie smith (1975-present)

  • changing my mind: occasional essays (2009)
  • nw (2012)
  • __on beauty (2005)
  • swing time (2016)
  • the autograph man (2002)
  • the book of other people (2008)
  • the embassy of cambodia (novella) (2013)
  • white teeth (2000)

kay redfield jamison (1990-present)

  • an unquiet mind: a memoir of moods & madness (1995)
  • exuberance: the passion for life (2004)
  • manic-depressive illness (1990)
  • night falls fast: understanding suicide (1999)
  • nothing was the same: a memoir (2009)
  • robert lowell: setting the river on fire (2017)
  • touched with fire: manic-depressive illness & the artistic temperament (1993)
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