P O E T R Y

Epic Poems

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh (Translation by Sophus Helle)
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Translation by Robert/Jean Hollander)
  • Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the Gawain Poet (Translations by JRR Tolkien, Neilson)

Single Poems

  • "The Lady of Shalott" / “Tithonus” by Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath
  • "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
  • "Prometheus" by Lord Byron
  • "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann

Collections of Poems

  • Ariel and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
  • Brute: Poems by Emily Skaja
  • Night Skies with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
  • Anything by Tennyson, Keats, Rimbaud, Sexton, Plath, Baudelaire, Milton, Whitman, Keats, Du Fu, K-Ming Chang.

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F I C T I O N

Western

  • Sound and the Fury / Light in August / Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  • The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
  • To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Alienist by Caleb Carr
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
  • Crime and Punishment / Notes from Underground / The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Plague by Albert Camus
  • Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
  • Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Armadale / The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  • North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  • Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
  • Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Alexander Trilogy / The King Must Die & The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
  • Circe by Madeline Miller
  • The Price of Salt (Carol) by Patricia Highsmith
  • Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

Eastern

  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryuunosuke Akutagawa
  • The Makioka Sisters / Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Star / Frolic of the Beasts / Thirst for Love / Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
  • The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
  • Journey to the West / The Monkey King by Wu Cheng'en
  • The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
  • Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang
  • Notes from a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojing
  • Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
  • Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

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N O N F I C T I O N

Psychology/Philosophy

  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
  • Myths to Live By / The Power of Myth / The Hero With a Thousand Faces / Reflections on the Art of Living by Joseph Campbell
  • Values of Art by Malcolm Budd
  • Think / Being Good by Simon Blackburn
  • The Mechanical Mind by Tim Crane
  • The Heart of the Buddhist Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Dao De Jing by Lao Zhi
  • Man’s War Against Nature by Rachel Carson
  • The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
  • Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind (Thinking Art)

by Jonathan Gilmore (Author)

Art/Humanities

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