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)