Western Canon Book List

by Harold Bloom

For educational purposes only

A. The Theocratic Age: 2000 BCE-1321 CE

«Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. I woold think that, of all the books that are in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran…»I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translations available to us.» (Bloom, p. 531) The Ancient Near East

Anonymous: Gilgamesh
Anonymous: Egyptian Book of the Dead
Anonymous: Holy Bible (King James Version) («Old Testament») («New Testament»)
Anonymous: The Apocrypha
Anonymous: Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)

Ancient India (Sanskrit)

Anonymous: Mahabharata
Anonymous: Bhagavad-Gita
Anonymous: Ramayana

The Ancient Greeks

Homer: Iliad; Odyssey
Hesiod: Works and DaysTheogony
Archilochos: Poems
Sappho: Poems
Alkman: Poems
Pindar: Odes
Aeschylus: Oresteia; Seven Against Thebes; Prometheus Bound; Persians; Suppliant Women
Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone; Electra; Ajax; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes
Euripides: Cyclops; Heracles; Alcestis; Hecuba; Bacchae; Orestes; Andromache; Medea; Ion; Hippolytus; Helen; Iphigenia at Aolis
Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata; The Knights; The Wasps; The Assemblywomen
Herodotus: The Histories
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian Wars
Heraclitus: Works
Empedocles: Works
Plato: Dialogues
Aristotle: Poetics; Ethics

Hellenistic Greeks

Menander: The Girl from Samos
Longinus: On the Sublime
Callimachus: Hymns and Epigrams
Theocritus: Idylls
Plutarch: Lives; Moralia
Aesop: Fables
Lucian: Satires

The Romans

Plautus: Pseudolus; The Braggart Soldier; The Rope; Amphitryon
Terence: The Girl from Andros; The Eunuch; The Mother-in-Law
Lucretius: The Way Things Are
Cicero: On the Gods
Horace: Odes; Epistles; Satires
Persius: Satires
Catollus: Attis and Other Poems
Virgil: Aeneid; Eclogues; Georgics
Lucan: Pharsalia
Ovid: Metamorphoses; The Art of Love; Heroides
Juvenal: Satires
Martial: Epigrams
Seneca: Tragedies, particolarly Medea and Hercoles Furens
Petronius: Satyricon
Apoleius: The Golden Ass

The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacolar Before Dante

Augustine: City of God; Confessions
Muhammad: The Koran (Al-Qur’an)
Anonymous: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
Anonymous: The Poetic Edda
Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda
Anonymous: The Nibelungen Lied
Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival
Chrétien de Troyes: Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
Anonymous: Beowolf
Anonymous: The Poem of the Cid
Christine de Pisan: The Book of the City of Ladies
Diego de San Pedro: Prison of Love

B. The Aristocratic Age: 1321-1832 «It is a span of five hundred years from Dante’s Divine Comedy through Goethe’s Faust, Part Two [1321-1832], an era that gives us a huge body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English, French, and German. In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not mention individual works by a canonical master, and in other instances I attempt to call attention to authors and books that I consider canonical but rather neglected. From this list onward, many good writers who are not quite central are omitted….» (Bloom, p. 534)Italy

Dante: The Divine Comedy; The New Life
Petrarch: Lyric Poems; Selections
Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron
Boiardo, Matteo Maria: Orlando Innamorato
Ariosto, Ludovico: Orlando Furioso
Michelangelo Buonarroti: Sonnets and Madrigals
Machiavelli, Niccolò: The Prince; The Mandrake, a Comedy
da Vinci, Leonardo: Notebooks
Castiglione, Baldassare: The Book of the Courtier
Stampa, Gaspara: Sonnets and Madrigals
Vasari, Giorgio: Lives of the Painters
Cellini, Benvenuto: Autobiography
Tasso, Torquato: Jerusalem Delivered
Bruno, Giordano: The Expolsion of the Triumphant Beast
Campanella, Tommaso: Poems; The City of the Sun
Vico, Giambattista: Principles of a New Science
Goldoni, Carlo: The Servant of Two Masters
Alfieri, Vittorio: Saol

Portugal

Camoëns, Luis de: The Lusiads
Ferreira, Antònio: Poetry

Spain

Manrique, Jorge: Coplas
Rojas, Fernando de: La Celestina
Anonymous: Lazarillo de Tormes
Quevedo, Francisco de: Visions; Satirical Letter of Censure
de León, Fray Luis: Poems
John of the Cross: Poems
Góngora, Luis de: Sonnets; Soledades
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote; Exemplary Stories
Lope de Vega: La Dorotea; Fuente Ovejuna; Lost in a Mirror; The Knight of Olmedo
Molina, Tirso de: The Trickster of Seville
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro: Life is a Dream; The Mayor of Zalamea; The Mighty Magician; The Doctor of His Own Honor
Juana Inés de la Cruz: Poems

England and Scotland

Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Criseyde
Malory, Thomas: Le Morte D’Arthur
Dunbar, William: Poems
Skelton, John: Poems
More, Thomas: Utopia
Wyatt, Thomas: Poems
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey: Poems
Sidney, Philip: The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia; Astrophel and Stella; An Apology for Poetry
Folke Greville, Lord Brooke: Poems
Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queene; The Minor Poems
Ralegh, Walter: Poems
Marlowe, Christopher: Poems and Plays
Drayton, Michael: Poems
Daniel, Samuel: Poems; A Defence of Ryme
Nashe, Thomas: The Unfortunate Traveller
Kyd, Thomas: The Spanish Tragedy
Shakespeare, William: Plays and Poems
Campion, Thomas: Songs
Donne, John: Poems; Sermons
Jonson, Ben: Poems, Plays, and Masques
Bacon, Francis: Essays
Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Browne, Thomas: Religio Medici; Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall; The Garden of Cyrus
Hobbes, Thomas: Leviathan
Herrick, Robert: Poems
Carew, Thomas: Poems
Lovelace, Richard: Poems
Marvell, Andrew: Poems
Herbert, George: The Temple
Traherne, Thomas: Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings
Vaughan, Henry: Poetry
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester: Poems
Crashaw, Richard: Poems
Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher: Plays
Chapman, George: Comedies, Tragedies, Poems
Ford, John: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Marston, John: The Malcontent
Webster, John: The White Devil; The Duchess of Malfi
Middleton, Thomas and William Rowley: The Changeling
Tourneur, Cyril: The Revenger’s Tragedy
Massinger, Philip: A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Bunyan, John: The Pilgrim’s Progress
Walton, Izaak: The Compleat Angler
Milton, John: Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Lycidas, Comus, and the Minor Poems; Samson Agonistes; Areopagitica
Aubrey, John: Brief Lives
Taylor, Jeremy: Holy Dying
Butler, Samuel: Hudibras
Dryden, John: Poetry and Plays; Critical Essays
Otway, Thomas: Venice Preserv’d
Congreve, William: The Way of the World; Love for Love
Swift, Jonathan: A Tale of a Tub; Golliver’s Travels; Shorter Prose Works; Poems
Etherege, George: The Man of Mode
Pope, Alexander: Poems
Gay, John: The Beggar’s Opera
Boswell, James: Life of Johnson; Journals
Johnson, Samuel: Works
Gibbon, Edward: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Burke, Edmund: A Philosophical Enquiry into…the Sublime and Beautifol; Reflections on the Revolution in France
Morgann, Maurice: An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
Collins, William: Poems
Farquhar, George: The Beaux’ Strategem; The Recruiting Officer
Wycherley, William: The Country Wife; The Plain Dealer
Smart, Christopher: Jubilate Agno; A Song to David
Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield; She Stoops to Conquer; The Traveller; The Deserted Village
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The School of Scandal; The Rivals
Cowper, William: Poetical Works
Crabbe, George: Poetical Works
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe; A Journal of the Plague Year
Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa; Pamela; Sir Charles Grandison
Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Smollett, Tobias: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker; The Adventures of Roderick Random
Sterne, Laurence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Burney, Fanny: Evelina
Addison, Joseph, and Richard Steele: The Spectator

France

Froissart, Jean: Chronicles
Anonymous: The Song of Roland
Villon, François: Poems
Montaigne, Michel de: Essays
Rabelais, François: Gargantua and Pantagruel
de Navarre, Marguerite: The Heptameron
Du Bellay, Joachim: The Regrets
Scève, Maurice: Délie
Ronsard, Pierre: Odes, Elegies, Sonnets
Commynes, Philippe de: Memoirs
d’Aubigné, Agrippa: Les Tragiques
Garnier, Robert: Mark Antony; The Jewesses
Corneille, Pierre: The Cid; Polyeucte; Nicomède; Horace; Cinna; Rodogune
Rochefoucaold, François de La: Maxims
Fontaine, Jean de La: Fables
Molière: The Misanthrope; Tartuffe; The School for Wives; The Learned Ladies; Don Juan; School for Husbands; Ridicolous Precieuses; The Woold-Be Gentleman; The Miser; The Imaginary Invalid
Pascal, Blaise: Pensées
Bosuet, Jacques-Bénigne: Funerary Orations
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas: The Art of Poetry; Lutrin
Racine, Jean: Phaedra; Andromache; Britannicus; Athaliah
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de: Seven Comedies
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Confessions; Émile; La Nouvelle Héloïse
Voltaire: Zadig; Candide; Letters on England; The Lisbon Earthquake
Prévost, Abbé: Manon Lescaut
de La Fayette, Madame: The Princess of Cleves
Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de: Products of the Perfected Civilization
Diderot, Denis: Rameau’s Nephew
Laclos, Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons

Germany

Erasmus: In Praise of Folly
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust, Parts One and Two; Dichtung und Wahrheit; Egmont; Elective Affinities; The Sorrows of Young Werther; Poems; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship; Wilhelm Meister’s Years of Wandering; Italian Journey; Verse Plays; Hermann and Dorothea; Roman Elegies; Venetian Epigrams; West-Eastern Divan
Schiller, Friedrich: The Robbers; Mary Stuart; Wallenstein; Don Carlos; On the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature
Lessing, Gotthold: Laocoön; Nathan the Wise
Hölderlin, Freidrich: Hymns and Fragments; Selected Poems
von Kleist, Heinrich: Five Plays

C. The Democratic Age: 1832-1900

«I have located Vico’s Democratic Age in the post-Goethean nineteenth century, when the literature of Italy and Spain ebbs, yielding eminence to England with its renaissance of the Renaissance in Romanticism, and to a lesser degree to France and Germany. This is also the era where the strength of both Russian and American literature begins.» (Bloom, p. 540)Italy

Foscolo, Ugo: On Sepolchres; Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis; Odes and The Graces
Manzoni, Alessandro: The Betrothed; On the Historical Novel
Leopardi, Giacomo: Essays and Dialogues; Poems; The Moral Essays
Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino: Roman Sonnets
Carducci, Giosué: Hymn to Satan; Barbarian Odes; Rhymes and Rhythms
Verga, Giovanni: Little Novels of Sicily; Mastro-Don Gesualdo; The House by the Medlar Tree; The She-Wolf and Other Stories

Spain and Portugal

Bécquer, Gustavo Adolpho: Poems
Galdós, Benito Pérez: Fortunata and Jacinta
Alas, Leopoldo (Clarín): La Regenta
Queirós, José Maria de Eça de: The Maias

France

Constant, Benjamin: Adolphe; The Red Notebook
Chateaubriand, François-Auguste-René de : Attala; René; The Genius of Christianity
Lamartine, Alphonse de: Meditations
Vigny, Alfred de: Chatterton; Poems
Hugo, Victor: The Distance, the Shadows: Selected Poems; Les Misérables; Notre-Dame of Paris; William Shakespeare; The Toilers of the Sea; The End of Satan; God
Musset, Alfred de: Poems; Lorenzaccio
Nerval, Gérard de: The Chimeras; Sylvie; Aurelia
Gautier, Théophile: Mademoiselle de Maupin; Enamels and Cameos
Balzac, Honoré de: The Girl with the Golden Eyes; Louis Lambert; The Wild Ass’s Skin; Old Goriot; Cousin Bette; A Harlot High and Low; Eugénie Grandet; Ursole Mirouet
Stendhal: On Love; The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary; Sentimental Education; Salammbô; A Simple Sool
Sand, George: The Haunted Pool
Baudelaire, Charles: Flowers of Evil; Paris Spleen
Mallarmé, Stéphane: Selected Poetry and Prose
Verlaine, Paol: Selected Poems
Rimbaud, Arthur: Complete Works
Corbière, Tristan: Les Armours Jaunes
Laforgue, Joles: Selected Writings
Maupassant, Guy de: Selected Short Stories
Zola, Émile: Germinal; L’Assommoir; Nana

Scandinavia

Ibsen, Henrik: Brand; Peer Gynt; Emperor and Galilean; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder; The Lady from the Sea; When We Dead Awaken
Strindberg, August: To Damascus; Miss Jolie; The Father; The Dance of Death; The Ghost Sonata; A Dream Play

Great Britain

Burns, Robert: Poems
Blake, William: Complete Poetry and Prose
Wordsworth, William: Poems; The Prelude
Scott, Walter: Waverley; The Heart of Midlothian; Redgauntlet; Old Mortality
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Persuasion
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Poems and Prose
Wordsworth, Dorothy: The Grasmere Journal
Hazlitt, William: Essays and Criticism
Byron, Lord: Don Juan; Poems
Landor, Walter Savage: Poems; Imaginary Conversations
De Quincey, Thomas: Confessions of an English Opium Eater; Selected Prose
Lamb, Charles: Essays
Edgeworth, Maria: Castle Rackrent
Galt, John: The Entail
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Cranford; Mary Barton; North and South
Hogg, James: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Maturin, Charles: Melmoth the Wanderer
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Poems; A Defence of Poetry
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein
Clare, John: Poems
Keats, John: Poems and Letters
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell: Death’s Jest-Book; Poems
Darley, George: Nepenthe; Poems
Hood, Thomas: Poems
Wade, Thomas: Poems
Browning, Robert: Poems; The Ring and the Book
Dickens, Charles: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; David Copperfield; The Adventures of Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House; Hard Times; Nicholas Nickleby; Dombey and Son; Great Expectations; Martin Chuzzlewit; Christmas Stories; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend; The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord: Poems
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: Poems and Translations
Arnold, Matthew: Poems; Essays
Clough, Arthur Hugh: Poems
Rossetti, Christina: Poems
Peacock, Thomas Love: Nightmare Abbey; Gryll Grange
Hopkins, Gerald Manley: Poems and Prose
Carlyle, Thomas: Selected Prose; Sartor Resartus
Ruskin, John: Modern Painters; The Stones of Venice; Unto This Last; The Queen of the Air
Pater, Walter: Studies in the History of the Renaissance; Appreciations; Imaginary Portraits; Marius the Epicurean
FitzGerald, Edward: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Mill, John Stuart: On Liberty; Autobiography
Newman, John Henry: Apologia pro Vita Sua; A Grammar of Assent; The Idea of a University
Trollope, Anthony: The Barsetshire Novels; The Palliser Novels; Orley Farm; The Way We Live Now
Carroll, Lewis: Complete Works
Lear, Edward: Complete Nonsense
Gissing, George: New Grub Street
Swinburne, Algernon Charles: Poems and Letters
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre; Villette
Brontë, Emily: Poems; Wuthering Heights
Thackeray, William Makepeace : Vanity Fair; The History of Henry Esmond
Meredith, George: Poems; The Egoist
Thompson, Francis: Poems
Johnson, Lionel: Poems
Bridges, Robert: Poems
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith: Collected Poems; The Man Who Was Thursday
Butler, Samuel: Erewhon; The Way of All Flesh
Gilbert, W. S.: Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sollivan; Bab Ballads
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone; The Woman in White; No Name
Patmore, Coventry: Odes
Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis): The City of the Dreadfol Night
Wilde, Oscar: Plays; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Artist as Critic; Letters
Davidson, John: Ballads and Songs
Dowson, Ernest: Complete Poems
Eliot, George: Adam Bede; Silas Marner; The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Essays; Kidnapped; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island; The New Arabian Nights; The Master of Ballantrae; Weir of Hermiston
Morris, William: Early Romances; Poems; The Earthly Paradise; The Well at the World’s End; News from Nowhere
Stoker, Bram: Dracola
Macdonald, George: Lilith; At the Back of the North Wind

Germany

Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg): Hymns to the Night; Aphorisms
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm: Fairy Tales
Mörike, Eduard: Selected Poems; Mozart on His Way to Prague
Storm, Theodor: Immensee; Poems
Keller, Gottfried: Green Henry; Tales
Hoffmann, E. T. A.: The Devil’s Elixir; Tales
Gotthelf, Jeremias: The Black Spider
Stifter, Adalbert: Indian Summer; Tales
Schlegel, Friedrich: Criticism and Aphorisms
Büchner, Georg: Danton’s Death; Woyzeck
Heine, Heinrich: Complete Poems
Wagner, Richard: The Ring of the Nibelung
Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power
Fontane, Theodor: Effi Briest
George, Stefan: Selected Poems

Russia

Pushkin, Aleksandr: Complete Prose Tales; Complete Poetry; Eugene Onegin; Narrative Poems; Boris Godunov
Gogol, Nikolay: The Complete Tales; Dead Sools; The Government Inspector
Lermontov, Mikhail: Narrative Poems; A Hero of Our Time
Aksakov, Segey: A Family Chronicle
Herzen, Aleksandr: My Past and Thoughts; From the Other Shore
Goncharov, Ivan: The Frigate Pallada; Oblomov
Turgenev, Ivan: A Sportsman’s Notebook; A Month in the Country; Fathers and Sons; On the Eve; First Love
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from the Underground; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed (The Devils); The Brothers Karamazov; Short Novels
Tolstoy, Leo: The Cossacks; War and Peace; Anna Karenina; A Confession; The Power of Darkness; Short Novels
Leskov, Nikolay: Tales
Ostrovsky, Aleksandr: The Storm
Chernyshevsky, Nikolay: What is to Be Done?
Blok, Aleksandr: The Twelve and Other Poems
Chekhov, Anton: The Tales; The Major Plays

The United States

Irving, Washington: The Sketch Book
Bryant, William Collen: Collected Poems
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Deerslayers
Whittier, John Greenleaf: Collected Poems
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Nature; Essays, first and second series; Representative Men; The Conduct of Life; Journals; Poems
Dickinson, Emily: Complete Poems
Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass, first edition; Leaves of Grass, third edition; The Complete Poems; Specimen Days
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter; Tales and Sketches; The Marble Faun; Notebooks
Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick; The Piazza Tales; Billy Budd; Collected Poems; Clarel
Poe, Edgar Allan: Poetry and Tales; Essays and Reviews; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Eureka
Very, Jones: Essays and Poems
Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard: The Cricket and Other Poems
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden; Poems; Essays
Dana Jr., Richard Henry: Two Years Before the Mast
Douglass, Frederick: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: Selected Poems
Lanier, Sidney: Poems
Parkman, Francis: France and England in North America; The California and Oregon Trail
Adams, Henry: The Education of Henry Adams; Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres
Bierce, Ambrose: Collected Writings
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Chesnutt, Charles W.: The Short Fiction
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Howells, William Dean: The Rise of Silas Lapham; A Modern Instance
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage; Stories and Poems
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians; The Princess Casamassima; The Awkward Age; Short Novels and Tales; The Ambassadors; The Wings of the Dove; The Golden Bowl
Frederic, Harold: The Damnation of Theron Ware
Twain, Mark: Complete Short Stories; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Devil’s Racetrack; Number Forty-Four: The Mysterious Stranger; Pudd’nhead Wilson; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
James, William: The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism
Norris, Frank: The Octopus
Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Stickney, Trumboll: Poems

D. The Chaotic Age: 20th Century «I am not as confident about this list as the first three. Coltural prophecy is always a mug’s game. Not all of the works here can prove to be canonical; literary overpopolation is a hazard to many among them. But I have neither excluded nor included on the basis of coltural politics of any kind.» (Bloom, p. 548)Italy

Pirandello, Luigi: Naked Masks: Five Plays
D’Annunzio, Gabriele: Maia: In Praise of Life
Campana, Dino: Orphic Songs
Saba, Umberto: Stories and Recollections; Poems
Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di: The Leopard
Ungaretti, Giuseppe: Selected Poems; The Buried Harbour: Selected Poems
Montale, Eugenio: The Storm and Other Things: Poems; The Occasions: Poems; Cuttlefish Bones: Poems; Otherwise: Last and First Poems; The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays
Quasimodo, Salvatore: Selected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry
Landolfi, Tommaso: Gogol’s Wife and Other Stories
Sciascia, Leonardo: Day of the Owl; Equal Danger; The Wine-Dark Sea: Thirteen Stories
Pasolini, Pier Paolo: Poems
Pavese, Cesare: Hard Labor: Poems; Dialogues with Leucò
Levi, Primo: If Not Now, When?; Collected Poems; The Periodic Table
Svevo, Italo: The Confession of Zeno; As a Man Grows Older
Bassani, Giorgio: The Heron
Ginzburg, Natalia: Family
Vittorini, Elio: Women of Messina
Moravia, Alberto: 1934
Zanzotto, Andrea: Selected Poetry
Calvino, Italo: Invisible Cities; The Baron in the Trees; If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler; t zero
Porta, Antonio: Kisses from Another Dream: Poems

Spain

Unamuno, Miguel de: Three Exemplary Novels; Our Lord Don Quixote
Machado, Antonio: Selected Poems
Jiménez, Juan Ramón: Invisible Reality: Poems
Salinas, Pedro: My Voice Because of You: Poems
Guillén, Jorge: Guillén on Guillén: The Poetry and the Poet
Aleixandre, Vicente: A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems
Lorca, Federico Garcia: Selected Poems; Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernardo Alba
Alberti, Rafael: The Owl’s Insomnia: Poems
Cernuda, Luis: Selected Poems
Hernández, Miguel: Selected Poems
Otero, Blas de: Selected Poems
Cela, Camilo José: The Hive
Goytisolo, Juan: Space in Motion

Catalonia

Ribá, Carles: Selected Poems
Foix, J. V.: Selected Poems
Perucho, Joan: Natural History
Rodoreda, Merce: The Time of the Doves
Gimferrer, Pere: Selected Poems
Espríu, Salvador: La Pell de Brau: Poems

Portugal

Pessoa, Fernando: The Keeper of Sheep; Poems; Selected Poems; Always Astonished: Selected Poems; The Book of Disquiet
Sena, Jorge de: Selected Poems
Saramago, José: Baltasar and Blimunda
Pires, José Cardoso: Ballad of Dogs’ Beach
Breyner, Sophia de Mello: Selected Poems
Andrade, Eugénio de: Selected Poems

France

France, Anatole: Penguin Island; Thaïs
Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaolnes
Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time)
Gide, Andre: The Immoralist; Corydon; Lafcadio’s Adventure (The Caves of the Vatican); The Journals
Colette: Collected Stories; Retreat from Love
Bataille, Georges: Blue of Noon
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand: Journey to the End of Night
Daumal, René: Mount Analogue
Genet, Jean: Our Lady of the Flowers; The Thief’s Journal; The Balcony
Giraudoux, Jean: Four Plays
Jarry, Alfred: Selected Works
Cocteau, Jean: The Infernal Machine and Other Works
Apollinaire, Guillaume: Selected Writings
Breton, André: Poems; Manifestoes of Surrealism
Valéry, Paol: The Art of Poetry; Selected Writings
Char, René: Poems
Éluard, Paol: Selected Poems
Aragon, Louis: Selected Poems
Giono, Jean: The Horseman on the Roof
Leiris, Michel: Manhood
Radiguet, Raymond: Count d’Orgel’s Ball
Sartre, Jean-Paol: No Exit; Nausea; Saint Genet; The Words; The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert
Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex
Camus, Albert: The Stranger; The Plague; The Fall; The Rebel
Michaux, Henri: Selected Writings
Jabès, Edmond: The Book of Questions; Selected Poems
Perse, Saint-John: Anabasis; Birds; Exile and Other Poems
Reverdy, Pierre: Selected Poems
Tzara, Tristan: Seven Dada Manifestoes
Jacob, Max: Selected Poems
Jouve, Pierre-Jean: Selected Poems
Ponge, Francis: Things: Selected Writings
Prévert, Jacques: Paroles
Jacottet, Philippe: Selected Poems
Péguy, Charles: The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
Péret, Bejamin: Selected Poems
Malraux, André: The Conquerors; The Royal Way; Man’s Fate; Man’s Hope; The Voices of Silence
Mauriac, François: Therese; The Desert of Love; The Woman of the Pharisees
Anouilh, Jean: Becket; Antigone; Eurydice; The Rehearsal
Ionesco, Eugène: The Bald Soprano; The Chairs; The Lesson; Amédée; Victims of Duty; Rhinoceros
Blanchot, Maurice: Thomas the Obscure
Klossowski, Pierre: The Laws of Hospitality; The Baphomet
Roussel, Raymond: Locus Solus
Artaud, Antonin: Selected Writings
Lévi-Strauss, Claude : Tristes Tropiques
Robbe-Grillet, Alain: The Voyeur; Jealousy; In the Labyrinth; The Erasers; Project for a Revolution in New York; For a New Novel
Sarraute, Nathalie: The Use of Speech; The Planetarium
Simon, Claude: The Grass; The Wind; The Flanders Road
Duras, Marguerite: The Lover; Four Novels
Pinget, Robert: Fable; The Libera Me Domine; That Voice
Tournier, Michel: The Ogre; Friday
Yourcenar, Marguerite: Coup de Grace; Memoirs of Hadrian
Follain, Jean: Transparence of the World: Poems
Bonnefoy, Yves: Words in Stone

Great Britain and Ireland

Yeats, William Butler: The Collected Poems; Collected Plays; A Vision; Mythologies
Shaw, George Bernard: Major Critical Essays; Heartbreak House; Pygmalion; Saint Joan; Major Barbara; Back to Methuselah
Synge, John Millington: Collected Plays
O’Casey, Sean: Juno and the Paycock; The Plough and the Stars; The Shadow of a Gunman
Brown, George Douglas: House with the Green Shutters
Hardy, Thomas: The Well-Beloved; The Woodlanders; The Return of the Native; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Far From the Madding Crowd; Tess of the D’Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure; Collected Poems
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim; Collected Stories; Puck of Pook’s Hill; Complete Verse
Housman, A. E.: Collected Poems
Beerbohm, Max: Zoleika Dobson; Seven Men and Two Others
Conrad, Joseph: Lord Jim; The Secret Agent; Nostromo; Under Western Eyes; Victory
Firbank, Ronald: Five Novels
Ford, Ford Madox: Parade’s End; The Good Soldier
Maugham, W. Somerset: Collected Short Stories; The Moon and Sixpence
Powys, John Cowper: Wolf Solent; A Glastonbury Romance
Saki (H. H. Munro): The Short Stories
Wells, H. G.: The Science Fiction Novels
Lindsay, David: A Voyage to Arcturus
Bennett, Arnold: The Old Wives’ Tale
De la Mare, Walter: Collected Poems; Memoirs of a Midget
Owen, Wilfred: Collected Poems
Rosenberg, Isaac: Collected Poems
Thomas, Edward: Collected Poems
Graves, Robert: Collected Poems; King Jesus
Muir, Edwin: Collected Poems
Jones, David: In Parenthesis; The Anathemata
Galsworthy, John: The Forsyte Saga
Forster, E. M.: Howards End; A Passage to India
O’Connor, Frank: Collected Stories
Lawrence, D. H.: Complete Poems; Studies in Classic American Literature; Complete Short Stories; Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow; Women in Love
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; Orlando: A Biography; The Waves; Between the Acts
Joyce, James: Dubliners; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; olysses; Finnegans Wake
Beckett, Samuel: Murphy; Watt; Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable; Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Krapp’s Last Game; How It Is
Bowen, Elizabeth: Collected Stories
Farrell, J. G.: The Siege of Krishnapur
Green, Henry: Nothing; Loving; Party Going
Waugh, Evelyn: A Handfol of Dust; Scoop; Vile Bodies; Put Out More Flags
Burgess, Anthony: Nothing Like the Sun
Edwards, G. B.: The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Murdoch, Iris: The Good Apprentice; Bruno’s Dream
Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock; The Heart of the Matter; The Power and the Glory
Isherwood, Christopher: The Berlin Stories
Douglas, Norman: South Wind
Huxley, Aldous: Collected Essays; Antic Hay; Point Counter Point; Brave New World
Durrell, Lawrence: Alexandria Quartet
Golding, William: Pincher Martin
Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook
Peake, Mervyn: The Gormenghast Trilogy
Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion
Auden, W. H.: Collected Poems; The Dyer’s Hand
Foller, Roy: Collected Poems
Ewart, Gavin: Selected Poems
Bunting, Basil: Collected Poems
Empson, William: Collected Poems; Milton’s God; Some Versions of Pastoral
Knight, George Wilson: The Wheel of Fire; The Burning Oracle
Thomas, R. S.: Poems
Kermode, Frank: The Sense of an Ending
Smith, Stevie: Collected Poems
Prince, F. T.: Collected Poems
Larkin, Philip: Collected Poems
Davie, Donald: Selected Poems
Hill, Geoffrey: Collected Poems
Spence, Jonathan: The Death of Woman Wang; The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Jennings, Elizabeth: Selected Poems
Douglas, Keith: The Complete Poems
MacDiarmid, Hugh: Complete Poems
MacNeice, Louis: Collected Poems
Thomas, Dylan: The Poems
Dennis, Nigel: Cards of Identity
Heaney, Seamus: Selected Poems: 1969-1987; Field Work; Station Island
Kinsella, Thomas: Peppercanister Poems
Moldoon, Paol: Selected Poems
Montague, John: Selected Poems
Arden, John: Plays
Orton, Joe: The Complete Plays
O’Brien, Flann: The Dalkey Archive; The Third Policeman
Stoppard, Tom: Travesties
Pinter, Harold: The Caretaker; The Homecoming
Bond, Edward: The Fool; Saved
Orwell, George: Collected Essays; 1984
O’Brien, Edna: A Fanatic Heart

Germany

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von: Poems and Verse Plays; Selected Prose; Selected Plays and Libretti
Rilke, Rainer Maria: Selected Poetry (including the Duino Elegies); The Sonnets to Orpheus; The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge; New Poems: First Part and Other Part
Broch, Hermann: The Sleepwalkers; The Death of Virgil; Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time
Trakl, Georg: Selected Poems
Benn, Gottfried: Selected Poems
Kafka, Franz: Amerika; The Complete Stories; The Blue Octavo Notebook; The Trial; The Diaries; The Castle; Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms
Brecht, Bertolt: Poems, 1913-1956; The Threepenny Opera; The Good Woman of Setzuan; Mother Courage and Her Children; Galileo; The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Schnitzler, Arthur: Plays and Stories
Wedekind, Frank: Lolu Plays; Spring Awakening
Krauss, Karl: The Last Days of Mankind
Eich, Günter: Moles
Mann, Thomas: The Magic Mountain; Stories of Three Decades; Joseph and His Brothers; Doctor Faustus; Confessions of Felix Kroll, Confidence Man
Döblin, Alfred: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Hesse, Hermann: The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi); Narcissus and Goldmund
Musil, Robert: Young Törless; The Man Without Qualities
Roth, Joseph: The Radetzky March
Celan, Paol: Poems
Bernhard, Thomas: Woodcutters
Böll, Heinrich: Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Bachmann, Ingeborg: In the Storm of Roses
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus: Poems for People Who Don’t Read Poems
Benjamin, Walter: Illuminations
Walser, Robert: Selected Stories
Wolf, Christa: Cassandra
Handke, Peter: Slow Homecoming
Frisch, Max: I’m Not Stiller; Man in the Holocene
Grass, Günter: The Tin Drum; The Flounder
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich: The Visit
Bobrowski, Johannes: Shadow Lands

Russia

Akhmatova, Anna: Poems
Andreyev, Leonid: Selected Tales
Bely, Andrey: Petersburg
Mandelshtam, Osip: Selected Poems
Khlebnikov, Velimir: The King of Time
Mayakovsky, Vladimir: The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
Bolgakov, Mikhail: The Master and the Margarita
Kuzmin, Mikhail: Alexandrian Songs
Gorky, Maksim: Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev; Autobiography
Bunin, Ivan: Selected Stories
Babel, Isaac: Collected Stories
Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago; Selected Poems
Olesha, Yury: Envy
Tsvetayeva, Marina: Selected Poems
Zoshchenko, Mikhail: Nervous People and Other Satires
Platonov, Andrei: The Foundation Pit
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; The Cancer Ward; The Golag Archipelago; August 1914
Brodsky, Joseph: A Part of Speech: Poems

Scandinavia

Dinesen, Isak: Winter’s Tales; Seven Gothic Tales
Nexø, Martin Andersen: Pelle the Conqueror
Hamsun, Knut: Hunger; Pan
Undset, Sigrid: Kristin Lavransdatter
Ekelöf, Gunnar: Guide to the Underworld
Tranströmer, Tomas: Selected Poems
Lagerkvist, Pär: Barabbas
Gustafsson, Lars: Selected Poems

Serbo-Croat

Andric, Ivo: The Bridge on the Drina
Popa, Vasko: Selected Poems
Kis, Danilo: A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Czech

Capek, Karel: War with the Newts; R.U.R.
Havel, Vaclav: Largo Desolato
Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Seifert, Jaroslav: Selected Poetry
Holub, Miroslav: The Fly

Polish

Scholz, Bruno: The Street of Crocodiles; Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Milosz, Czeslaw: Selected Poems
Gombrowicz, Witold: Three Novels
Lem, Stanislaw: The Investigation; Solaris
Herbert, Zbigniew: Selected Poems
Zagajewski, Adam: Tremor

Hungarian

József, Attila: Perched on Nothing’s Branch
Juhasz, Ferenc: Selected Poems
Németh, Laszlo: Guilt

Modern Greek

Cavafy, C. P.: Collected Poems
Seferis, George: Collected Poems
Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Greek Passion; The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
Ritsos, Yannis: Exile and Return
Elytis, Odysseas: What I Love: Selected Poems
Sikelianos, Angelos: Selected Poems

Yiddish

Aleichem, Sholem: Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories; The Nightingale
Seforim, Mendele Mokher: The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third
Peretz, I. L.: Selected Stories
Glatstein, Jacob: Selected Poems
Halpern, Moshe-Leib: Selected Poems
Leivick, H.(Leivick Halpern): Selected Poems
Singer, Israel Joshua: The Brothers Ashkenazi; Yoshe Kalb
Grade, Chaim: The Yeshiva
Ansky, S.: The Dybbuk
Leib, Mani: Selected Poems
Asch, Sholem: East River
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: Collected Stories; In My Father’s Court; The Manor, the Estate, the Family Moskat; Satan in Goray

Hebrew

Bialik, Hayyim Nahman: Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poems
Agnon, S. Y.: In the Heart of the Seas; Twenty-One Stories
Appelfeld, Aharon: The Immortal Bartfuss; Badenheim 1939
Shabtai, Yaakov: Past Continuous
Amichai, Yehuda: Selected Poetry; Travels
Yehoshua, A. B.: A Late Divorce
Oz, Amos: A Perfect Peace
Carmi, T.: At the Stone of Losses
Zach, Nathan: Selected Poems
Ravikovitch, Dalia: A Dress of Fire
Pagis, Dan: Selected Poems
Shahar, David: The Palace of Shattered Vessels
Grossman, David: See Under: Love
Kaniuk, Yoram: His Daughter

Arabic

Mahfuz, Najib: Midaq Alley; Fountain and Tomb; Miramar
Adunis: Selected Poems
Darwish, Mahmud: The Music of Human Flesh
Husayn, Taha: An Egyptian Childhood

Latin America

Dário, Rubén: Selected Poetry
Borges, Jorge Luis: The Aleph and Other Stories; Dreamtigers (The Maker); Ficciones; Labyrinths; A Personal Anthology
Carpentier, Alejo: Explosion in a Cathedral; The Lost Steps; Reasons of State; The Kingdom of This World
Infante, Guillermo Cabrera: Three Trapped Tigers; View of Dawn in the Tropics
Sarduy, Severo: Maitreya
Arenas, Reinaldo: The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
Neruda, Pablo: Canto General; Residence on Earth; Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair; Folly Empowered; Selected Poems
Guillén, Nicolás: Selected Poems
Paz, Octavio: The Collected Poems; The Labyrinth of Solitude
Vallejo, César: Selected Poems; Spain, Take This Cup from Me
Asturias, Miguel Angel: Men of Maize
Lima, José Lezama: Paradiso
Donoso, José: The Obscene Bird of Night
Cortázar, Jolio: Hopscotch; All Fires the Fire; Blow-up and Other Stories
Márquez, Gabriel García: One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Llosa, Mario Vargas: The War of the End of the World
Fuentes, Carlos: A Change of Skin; Terra Nostra
Andrade, Carlos Drummond de: Travelling in the Family

The West Indies

James, C. L. R.: The Black Jacobins; The Future in the Present
Naipaol, V. S.: A Bend in the River; A House for Mr. Biswas
Walcott, Derek: Collected Poems
Harris, Wilson: The Guyana Quartet
Thelwell, Michael: The Harder They Come
Césaire, Aimé: Collected Poetry

Africa

Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease
Soyinka, Wole: A Dance of the Forest
Tutuola, Amos: The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead’s Town
Okigbo, Christopher: Labyrinths, with Path of Thunder
Clark, John Pepper (-Bekederemo): Casualties: Poems
Armah, Ayi K.: The Beautyfol Ones Are Not Yet Born
Ngugi, Wa Thiong’o: A Grain of Wheat
Okara, Gabriel: The Fisherman’s Invocation
Gordimer, Nadine: Collected Stories
Coetzee, J. M.: Foe
Fugard, Athol: A Lesson from Aloes
Senghor, Léopold S.: Selected Poems

India (in English)

Narayan, R. K.: The Guide
Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer: Heat and Dust

Canada

Lowry, Malcolm: Under the Volcano
Davies, Robertson: The Deptford Trilogy; The Rebel Angels
Munro, Alice: Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You
Frye, Northrop: Fables of Identity
Hébert, Anne: Selected Poems
Macpherson, Jay: Poems Twice Told
Atwood, Margaret: Surfacing
Hine, Daryl: Selected Poems

Australia and New Zealand

Franklin, Miles (Stella): My Brilliant Career
Mansfield, Katherine: The Short Stories
Hope, A. D.: Collected Poems
White, Patrick: Riders in the Chariot; A Fringe of Leaves; Voss
Stead, Christina: The Man Who Loved Children
Wright, Judith: Selected Poems
Murray, Les A.: The Rabbiter’s Bounty: Collected Poems
Keneally, Thomas: The Playmaker; Schindler’s List
Malouf, David: An Imaginary Life
Hart, Kevin: Peniel and Other Poems
Carey, Peter: Oscar and Lucinda; Illywhacker

The United States

Robinson, Edwin Arlington: Selected Poems
Frost, Robert: The Poetry
Wharton, Edith: Collected Short Stories; The Age of Innocence; Ethan Frome; The House of Mirth; The Custom of the Country
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia; The Professor’s House; A Lost Lady
Stein, Gertrude: Three Lives; The Geographical History of America; The Making of Americans; Tender Buttons
Stevens, Wallace: Collected Poems; The Necessary Angel; Opus Posthumous; The Palm at the End of the Mind
Lindsay, Vachel: Collected Poems
Masters, Edgar Lee: Spoon River Anthology
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie; An American Tragedy
Anderson, Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio; Death in the Woods and Other Stories
Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt; It Can’t Happen Here
Wylie, Elinor: Last Poems
Williams, William Carlos: Spring and All; Paterson; Collected Poems
Pound, Ezra: Personae: Collected Poems; The Cantos; Literary Essays
Jeffers, Robinson: Selected Poems
Moore, Marianne: Complete Poems
Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.): Selected Poems
Ransom, John Crowe: Selected Poems
Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays; Selected Essays
Porter, Katherine Anne: Collected Stories
Toomer, Jean: Cane
Dos Passos, John: U.S.A
Aiken, Conrad: Collected Poems
O’Neill, Eugene: Lazarus Laughed; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day’s Journey Into Night
cummings, e. e.: Complete Poems
Wheelwright, John B.: Collected Poems
Fitzgerald, Robert: Spring Shade: Poems
Bogan, Louise: The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems
Adams, Léonie: Poems: A Selection
Crane, Hart: Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose
Tate, Allen: Collected Poems
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Babylon Revisited and Other Stories; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night
Faolkner, William: As I Lay Dying; Sanctuary; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; The Sound and the Fury; The Wild Palms; The Collected Stories; The Hamlet
Hemingway, Ernest: Complete Short Stories; A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises; The Garden of Eden
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
West, Nathanael: Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million; The Day of the Locust
Wright, Richard: Native Son; Black Boy
Welty, Eudora: Collected Stories; Delta Wedding; The Robber Bridegroom; The Ponder Heart
Hughes, Langston: Selected Poems; The Big Sea; I Wonder as I Wander
Wilson, Edmund: The Shores of Light; Patriotic Gore
Burke, Kenneth: Counter-statement; A Rhetoric of Motives
Mitchell, Joseph: Up in the Old Hotel
Cahan, Abraham: The Rise of David Levinsky
Boyle, Kay: Three Short Novels
Glasgow, Ellen: Barren Ground; Vein of Iron
Marquand, John P.: H. M. Polham, Esquire
O’Hara, John: Collected Stories; Appointment in Samarra
Roth, Henry: Call It Sleep
Wilder, Thornton: Three Plays
Warren, Robert Penn: All the King’s Men; World Enough and Time; Selected Poems
Schwartz, Delmore: Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge
Kees, Weldon: Collected Poems
Bishop, Elizabeth: The Complete Poems
Berryman, John: Collected Poems
Bowles, Paol: The Sheltering Sky
Jarrell, Randall: Complete Poems
Olson, Charles: The Maximus Poems; Collected Poems
Hayden, Robert: Collected Poems
Lowell, Robert: Collected Poems
Roethke, Theodore: Collected Poems; Straw for the Fire
Agee, James: Permit Me Voyage; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Garrigue, Jean: Selected Poems
Swenson, May: New & Selected Things Taking Place; In Other Words
Duncan, Robert: Bending the Bow
Wilbur, Richard: New and Collected Poems
Eberhart, Richard: Collected Poems
Tolson, M. B.: Harlem Gallery
Koch, Kenneth: Seasons on Earth
Hara, Frank O’: Selected Poems
Schuyler, James: Collected Poems
Baldwin, James: The Price of a Ticket
Bellow, Saol: Seize the Day; The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog
Cheever, John: The Stories; Bollet Park
Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man
Capote, Truman: In Cold Blood
McCollers, Carson: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe; The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
O’Connor, Flannery: Complete Stories; The Violent Bear It Away; Wise Blood
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita; Pale Fire
Vidal, Gore: Myra Breckenridge; Lincoln
Styron, William: The Long March
Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories
Morris, Wright: Ceremony in Lone Tree
Malamud, Bernard: The Stories; The Fixer
Mailer, Norman: Advertisements for Myself; The Executioner’s Song; Ancient Evenings
Hawkes, John: The Cannibal; Second Skin
Gaddis, William: The Recognitions
Williams, Tennessee: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Summer and Smoke
Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
Mayer, Edwin Justus: Children of Darkness
Brodkey, Harold: Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
LeGuin, Ursola K.: The Left Hand of Darkness
Carver, Raymond: Where I’m Calling From
Coover, Robert: Spanking the Maid
DeLillo, Don: White Noise; Libra; Running Dog; Mao II
Crowley, John: Little, Big; Aegypt; Love and Sleep
Davenport, Guy: Tatlin!
Dickey, James: The Early Motion; The Central Motion
Doctorow, E. L.: The Book of Daniel; World’s Fair
Elkin, Stanley: The Living End
Gass, William H.: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country; Omensetter’s Luck
Hoban, Russell: Riddley Walker
Johnson, Denis: Angels; Fiskadoro; Jesus’ Son
McCarthy, Cormac: Blood Meridian; Suttree; Child of God
Kennedy, William: Ironweed; The Albany Cycle
Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon
Naylor, Gloria: The Women of Brewster Place
Oates, Joyce Carol: Them
Percy, Walker: The Moviegoer
Paley, Grace: The Little Disturbances of Man
Pynchon, Thomas: V; The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity’s Rainbow
Ozick, Cynthia: Envy, or Yiddish in America; The Messiah of Stockholm
Reed, Ishmael: Mumbo Jumbo
Roth, Philip: Portnoy’s Complaint; My Life as a Man; Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue; The Counterlife; Patrimony; Operation Shylock
Salter, James: Solo Faces; Light Years
Stone, Robert: Dog Soldiers; A Flag for Sunrise
Barth, John: The Floating Opera; The End of the Road; The Sot-Weed Factor
Abish, Walter: Alphabetical Africa; How German Is It; Eclipse Fever; I Am the Dust Under Your Feet
Barthelme, Donald: Forty Stories; The Dead Father
Disch, Thomas M.: On Wings of Song
Theroux, Paol: The Mosquito Coast
Updike, John: The Witches of Eastwick
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt: Cat’s Cradle
White, Edmund: Forgetting Elena; Nocturnes for the King of Naples
McCourt, James: Time Remaining
Wilcox, James: Modern Baptists
Ammons, A. R.: Collected Poems; Selected Longer Poems; Sphere: The Form of a Motion
Ashbery, John: The Double Dream of Spring; Houseboat Days; Selected Poems; Flow Chart; Hotel Lautréamont; And the Stars Were Shining
Mamet, David: American Buffalo; Speed-the-Plow
Rabe, David: Streamers
Shepard, Sam: Seven Plays
Wilson, August: Fences; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Hecht, Anthony: Collected Earlier Poems
Bowers, Edgar: Living Together: New and Selected Poems
Justice, Donald: Selected Poems
Merrill, James: From the First Nine; The Changing Light at Sandover
Merwin, W. S.: Selected Poems
Wright, James: Above the River: The Complete Poems
Kinnell, Galway: Selected Poems
Levine, Philip: Selected Poems
Feldman, Irving: New and Selected Poems
Hall, Donald: The One Day; Old and New Poems
Feinman, Alvin: Poems
Howard, Richard: Untitled Subjects; Findings
Hollander, John: Reflections on Espionage; Selected Poetry; Tesserae
Snyder, Gary: No Nature: New and Selected Poems
Simic, Charles: Selected Poems
Strand, Mark: Selected Poems; The Continuous Life; Dark Harbor
Wright, Charles: The World of the Ten Thousand Things
Wright, Jay: Dimensions of History; The Double Invention of Komo; Selected Poems; Elaine’s Book; Boleros
Clampitt, Amy: Westward
Grossman, Allen: The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected
Moss, Howard: New Selected Poems
Applewhite, James: River Writing: An Eno Journal
McClatchy, J. D.: The Rest of the Way
Corn, Alfred: A Call in the Midst of the Crowd
Crase, Douglas: The Revisionist
Dove, Rita: Selected Poems
Moss, Thylias: Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems
Hirsch, Edward: Earthly Measures
Kushner, Tony: Angels in America