early years:

• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Medea
• three Oedipus plays
• Aeneid
• One Thousand and One Nights

√*Beowulf

• The Tale of Genji
• The Divine Comedy
• The Decameron
• The Canterbury Tales

√*The Bible

• The Apocrypha

classics:

• Don Quixote (y en español)
• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• A Midsummers Night's Dream
• The Tempest
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Love's Labour Lost
• Romeo and Juliet
• Othello
• Gulliver's Travels
• Faust
• Mansfield Park
• Sense and Sensibility

√*Emma

• Le Père Goriot
• Pensées (et en français)
• Le petit prince (et en français)
• Dead Souls

√*Wuthering Heights

• The Great Gatsby

√*Jane Eyre

• Moby-Dick
• Madame Bovary
• Great Expectations
• War and Peace
• Anna Karenina
• Heart of Darkness
• Crime and Punishment
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Middlemarch

√*The Hunchback of Notre Dame

modern classics:

• In Search of Lost Time
• Ulysses
• The Magic Mountain
• The Trial
• Metamorphosis
• Mrs. Dalloway
• To the Lighthouse
• The Sound and the Fury
• The Stranger
• The Fountainhead
• Nineteen-Eighty-Four
• The Catcher in the Rye
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Sun Also Rises
• The Invisible Man
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Lolita
• Pedro Páramo
• Things Fall Apart
• Rabbit, Run
• The Golden Notebook
• The Bell Jar
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Slaughterhouse-Five

modern/contemporary:

• Midnight's Children
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Beloved
• The Windup Bird Chronicle
• American Pastoral
• The God of Small Things
• Disgrace
• White Teeth
• Atonement
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay
• Everything is Illuminated
• Middlesex
• The Color Purple
• The Kite Runner
• The Known World
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Gilead
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• 2666
• Swamplandia
• Fortress of Solitude

short stories

classics:

• Edgar Allan Poe
• Anton Chekhov
• Ernest Hemingway
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Kafka
• Isaac Babel
• John Updike
• Katherine Mansfield
• Eudora Welty
• Ray Bradbury

contemporary:

• Flannery O'Connor
• Raymond Carver
• Donald Barthelme
• Tim O'Brien
• George Saunders
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Junot Diaz
• Z.Z. Packer
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Denis Johnson
• Lydia Davis
• Amy Hempel
• Alice Munro

collections:

• In Our Time
• A Good Man is Hard to Find
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
• Jesus' Son
• Interpreter of Maladies

plays:

• everything Shakespeare
• Hedda Gabler
• A Doll's House
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• The Cherry Orchard
• Uncle Vanya
• Pygmalion
• Our Town
• Death of a Salesman
• The Crucible
• Waiting for Godot
• Twelve Angry Men
• A Streetcar Named Desire

√*The Glass Menagerie

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• No Exit
• Inherit the Wind
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
• The Iceman Cometh
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
• Betrayal

poetry:

• Shakespeare's Sonnets

√*Paradise Lost

• Paradise Regained
• The Complete Poems by Keats
• Leaves of Grass
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
• The Poetry of Robert Frost
• The Collective Poems of Emily Dickinson
• The Wasteland and Other Poems
• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
• E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems
• Howl and Other Poems
• Ariel by Plath
• The Complete Poems by Bishop
• Opened Ground: Selected Poems by Heaney

popular fiction/fantasy:

• Wheel of Time series
• His Dark Materials

√*Kingkiller Chronicles

• Mistborn Trilogy
• Game of Thrones series
• anything by Nicholas Sparks
• anything by John Grisham
• The Da Vinci Code
• Bonfire of the Vanities
• Fear of Flying
• anything by Bernard Cornwell
• The Year of Magical Thinking
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Freakonomics
• Eat, Pray, Love
• Outliers
• The Tipping Point
• The Alchemist
• The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo series
• Artemis Fowl

novels:

• La Place de l'Étoile
• Rue des boutiques obscures
• Les boulevards de ceinture
• Austerlitz
• Consider the Lobster
• Oblivion
• On Beauty - Smith
• The Last Samurai
• Remainder
• Indecision
• Then We Came to the End
• The Corrections
• Tree of Smoke
• Inherent Vice
• The Royal Family
• Rising Up and Down
• Europe Central
• The Road
• This is Not a Novel
• Pastoralia
• In Persuasion Nation
• Don't Cry
• Magic for Beginners
• A Sentimental Education
• Absalom, Absalom!
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Blinded
• The Book of Disquiet
• Buddenbrooks
• The Castle
• Children of Gebelawi
• Complete Poem- leopardi
• Confessions of Zeno
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
• The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
• Essays- Montaigne
• Fairy Tales- Andersen
• Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Gypsy Ballads- Lorca
• History- Morante
• Hunger- Hamsun
• The Idiot
• Independent People
• Invisible Man
• Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
• The Life and Opinion of Tristram Shandy
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Mahabharata
• The Man Without Qualities
• The Mathnawi
• Memoirs of Hadrian
• Metamorphoses- ovid
• Midnight's Children
• Njaal's Saga
• Nostromo
• Old Goriot
• The Orchard
• Pippi Longstocking
• Poems- celan
• The Possessed
• The Ramayana
• Recognition of Sakuntala
• The Red and the Black
• Remembrance of Things Past
• Season of Migration to the North
• Sons and Lovers
• The Sound and the Fury
• The Sound of the Mountain
• Things Fall Apart
• The Tin Drum
• To the Lighthouse
• The Trial
• Molloy trilogy
• Zorba the Greek
• Ivanhoe
• Picture of Dorian Grey
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Brave New World
• Darkness at Noon
• Under the Volcano
• The Way of All Flesh
• An American Tragedy
• Henderson the Rain King
• USA trilogy
• Winesburg, Ohio
• The Wings of the Dove
• The Ambassadors
• Tender is the Night
• Stud's Lonigan trilogy
• The Good Soldier
• The Golden Bowl
• Sister Carrie
• As I Lay Dying
• All the King's Men
• Howard's End
• The Heart of the Matter
• Deliverance
• A Dance to the Music of Time
• Point Counter Point
• The Secret Agent
• Women In Love
• The Naked and the Dead
• On the Road
• The Maltese Falcon
• Parade's End
• The Age of Innocence
• Zuleika Dobson
• From Here to Eternity
• The Wapshot Chronicles
• Of Human Bondage
• Main Street
• The House of Mirth
• THe Alexandria Quartet
• A High Wind in Jamaica
• A Farewell to Arms
• Scoop
• Finnegan's Wake
• Kim
• A Room with a View
• Brideshead Revisited
• Angle of Repose
• A Bend in the River
• Lord Jim
• The Old Wives Tale
• Tobacco Road
• Ironweed
• The Magus
• Under the Net
• Sophie's Choice
• The Sheltering Sky
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• The Ginger Man
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Adventures of Augie March
• All the King's Men
• American Pastoral
• An American Tragedy

√*Animal Farm

• Appointment in Samarra
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
• The Assistant
• At-Swim-Two-Birds
• Atonement
• The Berlin Stories
• The Big Sleep
• The Blind Assassin
• Blood Meridian
• Brideshead Revisited
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Call It Sleep
• Catch-22
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Confessions of Nat Turner
• The Corrections
• The Crying of Lot 49
• A Dance to the Music of Time
• The Day of the Locust
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
• A Death in the Family
• The Death of the Heart
• Deliverance
• Dog Soldiers
• Falconer
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• The Golden Notebook
• Go Tell it On the Mountain

√*Gone With the Wind

• The Grapes of Wrath
• Gravity's Rainbow
• A Handful of Dust
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• Herzog
• Housekeeping
• A House for Mr. Bizwas
• I, Claudius
• Infinite Jest
• Light in August

√*Lord of the Flies √*The Lord of the Rings

• The Moviegoer
• Loving
• Lucky Jim
• The Man Who Loved Children
• Money
• Naked Lunch
• Native Son
• Neuromancer
• Never Let Me Go
• On the Road
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The Painted Bird
• Pale Fire
• A Passage to India
• Play It As It Lays
• Portney's Complaint
• Possesion
• The Power and the Glory
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Ragtime
• The Recognitions
• Red Harvest
• Revolutionary Road
• The Sheltering Sky
• Snow Crash
• The Sot-weed Factor
• The Sportswriter
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• To the Lighthouse
• Tropic of Cancer
• Ubik
• Under the Net
• Under the Volcano
• Watchmen
• White Noise
• Wide Sargasso Sea
• Atlas Shrugged
• Battlefield Earth
• Mission Earth
• Fear
• Dune
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• A Town Like Alice
• Shane
• Trustee from the Tool Room
• A Prayer for Owen Meany
• The Stand
• The Worm Ouroboros
• Moonheart
• Wise Blood
• Fifth Business
• Someplace to Be Flying
• Yarrow
• At the Mountains of Madness
• One Lonely Night
• Memory and Dream
• Trader
• On the Beach
• Greenmantle
• The Little Country
• The Recognitions
• Starship Troopers
• The World According to Garp
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• The Haunting of Hill House
• Tropic of Cancer
• The Woodwife
• The Door Into Summer
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

√*Fahrenheit 451

• Arrowsmith
• Watership Down
• The Hunt for Red October
• Guilty Pleasures
• The Puppet Masters
• It
• V.
• Doublestar
• Citizen of the Galaxy
• Light in August
• Sometimes a Great Notion

√*My Antonia

• Mulengro
• Suttree
• Mythago Wood
• Illusions
• The Cunning Man
• The Satanic Verses
• Of Mice and Men
• Song of Solomon
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Portrait of a Lady
• Schindler's List
• The Jungle
• Lady Chatterley's Lover
• In Cold Blood
• Franny and Zooey
• Jazz
• A Passage to India
• Ethan Frome
• Tender is the Night
• Orlando
• Cat's Cradle
• A Separate Flag
• The Wings of the Dove
• Rebecca
• Look Homeward Angel
• In Our Time
• The Autobiography of Alice B Tokias
• O Pioneers!
• The War of the Worlds
• Lord Jim
• The Bostonians
• An American Tragedy
• The Wind in the Willows
• This Side of Paradise
• Babbitt
• The Beautiful and the Damned
• Where Angels Fear to Tread

memoirs:

• The Year of Magical Thinking
• Chronicles: Volume 1
• Un Pedigree

nonfiction:

• The Education of Henry Adams
• The Virtue of Selfishness
• The God Delusion
• The Varieties of Religious Experience
• Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
• Up From Slavery
• Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
• A Room of One's Own
• 101 Things To Do Until The Revolution
• Silent Spring
• Selected Essays- Eliot
• The God of the Machine
• The Double Helix
• Speak, Memory
• The American Language
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
• The Lives of a Cell
• The Frontier in American History
• Black Boy
• Aspects of the Novel
• Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
• The Ultimate Resource
• Economics in One Lesson
• Send in the Waco Killers
• More Guns, Less Crime
• Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal
• Fingerprints of the Gods
• Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being
• Free to Choose
• The Civil War
• The Guns of August
• The Proper Study of Mankind
• The Nature and Destiny of Man
• Notes of a Native Son
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
• The ELements of Style
• An American Dilemma
• Principia Mathematica
• The Mismeasure of Man
• The Mirror and the Lamp
• The Art of the Soluble
• The Ants
• A Theory of Justice
• Art and Illusion
• The Making of the English Working Class
• The Souls of Black Folk
• Principia Ethic
• Philosophy and Civilization
• On Growth and Form
• Ideas and Opinions
• The Age of Jackson
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
• The Road to Serfdom
• Freedom in Chains
• America's Great Depression
• The Roosevelt Myth
• The True Believer
• Vindicating the Founders
• The Declaration of Independence
• Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
• Death by Government
• Longitude
• Ordinarily Sacred
• The Art of Memory
• Dumbing Us Down
• The Golden Bough
• Undaunted Courage
• A Modern Prophet
• The Flute of God
• Real Presences
• Out of Africa
• Black Lam and Grey Falcon
• Autobiographies -Yeats
• Science and Civilization in China
• Goodbye to All That
• Homage to Catalonia
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain
• Children of Crisis
• A Study of History
• The Affluent Society
• Present At the Creation
• The Great Bridge
• Patriotic Gore
• Samuel Johnson
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• The Right Stuff
• Eminent Victorians
• Working
• Darkness Visible
• The Liberal Imagination
• The Second World War
• Jefferson and His Time
• In The American Grain
• Ways of Seeing
• The Shadow University
• Property Matters
• Storming Heaven
• The Texan
• How to Lie with Statistics
• But is it True
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
• Anatomy of Criticism
• THe Mainspring of Human Progress
• Modern Times
• Men to Match My Mountains
• American Gay
• The Sense of an Ending
• The Gnostic Gospels
• Eros the Bittersweet
• Cadillac Desert
• The House of Morgan
• The Sweet Science
• The Open Society and its Enemies
• Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
• A Preface to Morals
• The Gate of Heavenly Peace
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow
• The Rise of the West
• James Joyce
• Florence Nightingale
• THe Great War and Modern Memory
• The City in History
• Battle Cry of Freedom
• Why We Can't Wait
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
• Studies in Iconology
• The Face of Battle
• The Strange Death of Liberal England
• Vermeer
• The Western Canon
• The White Goddess
• Healing Our World
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Sexual Personae
• Think and Grow Rich
• A Life of One's Own
• Doors of Perception
• The Discovery of Freedom
• More Liberty Means Less Government
• Libertarianism: A Primer
• Beyond Liberal and Conservative
• A Conflict of Visions
• Parliament of Whores
• Separating School and State
• The Future and its Enemies
• The Elements of Style
• Orientalism
• Ecoterror
• Why Government Doesn't Work
• Out of the Crisis
• A Bright Shining Lie
• West WIth the Night
• This Boy's Life
• A Mathematician's Apology
• Six Easy Pieces
• Shadow and Act
• The Power Broker
• The American Political Tradition
• The Contours of American History
• THe Promise of American Life
• In Cold Blood
• The Journalist and the Murderer
• The Taming of Chance
• Operating Instructions
• Melbourne
• Not Out of Africa
• The End of Racism
• Behind the Mask
• In A Dark Wood
• Private Parts
• The Telephone Book
• The Minuteman
• Waking and Dreaming
• The Greatest Story Never Told
• Radical Son
• Under the Sign of Saturn
• A Feeling for Books
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• The Job
• Silent Interviews
• Slats Grobink and Some Other Friends
• Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics
• Reverse Angle
• Placing Movies
• Right From the Beginning

authors:

• Soren Kierkegaard
• Sully Prudhomme
• Christian Mommsen
• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
• José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
• Frédéric Mistral
• Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Giosue Carducci
• Rudyard Kipling
• Rudolf Eucken
• Selma Lagerlöf
• Paul Heyse
• Count Maurice Maeterlinck
• Gerhart Hauptmann
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Romain Rolland
• Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
• Karl Gjellerup
• Henrik Pontoppidan
• Carl Spitteler
• Knut Hamsun
• Anatole France
• Jacinto Benevente
• William Butler Yeats
• Wladyslaw Reymont
• George Bernard Shaw
• Grazia Deledda
• Henri Bergson
• Sigrid Undset
• Thomas Mann
• Sinclair Lewis
• Eric Karlfeldt
• John Galsworthy
• Ivan Bunin
• Luigi Pirandello
• Eugene O'Neill
• Roger Martin du Gard
• Pearl Buck
• Frans Silanpää
• Johannes Jensen
• Gabriela Mistral
• Hermann Hesse
• André Gide
• Thomas Eliot
• William Faulkner
• Earl Russell
• Pär Lagerkvist
• François Mauriac
• Winston Churchill
• Ernest Hemingway
• Halldór Laxness
• Juan Jiménez
• ALbert Camus
• Boris Pasternak
• Salvatore Quasimodo
• Saint-John Perse
• Ivo Andric
• John Steinbeck
• Giorgos Seferis
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Mikhail Sholokhov
• Nelly Sachs
• Shmuel Agnon
• Miguel Asturias
• Yasunari Kawabata
• Samuel Beckett
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Pablo Neruda
• Heinrich Böll
• Patrick White
• Harry Martinson
• Eyvind Johnson
• Eugenio Montale
• Saul Bellow
• Vicente Aleixandre
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Odysseus Elytis
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Elias Canetti
• Gabriel Márquez
• William Golding
• Jaroslav Seifert
• Claude Simon
• Wole Soyinka
• Joseph Brodsky
• Naguib Mahfouz
• Camilo José Cela
• Octavio Paz
• Nadine Gordimer
• Derek Walcott
• Toni Morrison
• Kenzaburo Oe
• Seamus Heaney
• Wislawa Szymborska
• Dario Fo
• José Saramago
• Günter Grass
• Gao Xingjian
• Vidiadhar Naipaul
• Imre Kertész
• John Coetsee
• Elfriede Jelinek
• Harold Pinter
• Orhan Pamuk
• Doris Lessing
• Jean-Marie Le Clézio
• Herta Müller
• Mario Vargas Llosa
• Tomas Transtömer
• Alice Munro