Wayne Thomas Spies version 3.1

 Recommendations from Wayne’s library

I love reading. I love books. I love bookstores. One of my favorite places is the Book Barn in Niantic, Connecticut. It’s not uncommon for me to back up the car and just say “Fill ’er up!”
I recommend that my students read a book per week. Almost no one does. But, if they did, here are a few things from my library that I would recommend (the list is far from complete).
Let’s start out with the Western Canon — the books you need to read to understand Western Civilization. This list is incomplete, obviously, and some of it is debateable. In particular, I have left out poetry (which is inexcusable on my part), and I have excluded many more current works that, although brilliantly written, simply don’t appear in common culture. This may be because I don’t appreciate contemporary literature, or it may be because it simply hasn’t been around long enough to have influenced much.

Western Canon

Adler, Mortimer J., Seymour Cain, William Ernest Hocking, Great Ideas Program (10 volume set), The, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.

Alighieri, Dante, Divine Comedy, The, Simon & Brown

Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim, NYRB Classics

Amis, Martin, Money: A Suicide Note, Viking Penguin Inc.

Aristotle, Ethics

Aurelius, Marcus, Meditations, Modern Library

Austen, Jane, Emma, Dover Publications

Bellow, Saul, Henderson the Rain King, Penguin Classics

Brockman, John, This Will Make You Smarter, Harper Perennial

Bunnin, Brad & Beren, Peter, Writer’s Legal Companion: The Complete Handbook For The Working Writer, The, Basic Books

Camus, Albert, Plague, The

Camus, Albert, Rebel, The

Carroll, Lewis, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, W. W. Norton & Company

Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote, Harper Perennial

Chaucer, Geoffrey, Canterbury Tales, The

Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles, Tale of Two Cities, A, Everyman’s Library

Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield, Simon & Brown

Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations, Doubleday

Dos Passos, John, U.S.A. (trilogy), Library of America

Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich, Crime and Punishment

Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich, Brothers Karamazov, The

Dumas, Alexandre, Count of Monte Cristo, The, Penguin Classics

Faulkner, William, Absalom, Absalom!, Modern Library

Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying, W. W. Norton & Company

Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories, Scribner

Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary

Golding, William, Lord of the Flies, Perigee Books

Greene, Graham, End of the Affair, The, Penguin Classics

Hawkes, John, Cannibal, The, New Directions

Heider, John, Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age, The, Humanics Pub Group

Heilbroner, Robert L., Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, The, Touchstone

Heller, Martha, CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership, The, Bibliomotion, Inc

Hemingway, Ernest, Farewell to Arms, A, Scribner

Hernandez, Daisy, Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism, SealPress

Hirschheim, R., H. K. Klein, & K. Lyytinen (Eds.), Information Systems Development and Data Modeling: Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations, Cambridge University Press

Holmes, Richard, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage

Homer, Illiad, The

Homer, Odessey, The

Joyce, James, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, Dover Publications

Joyce, James, Finnegans Wake, Wordsworth

Kafka, Franz, Castle, The

Kerouac, Jack, On the Road: The Original Scroll, Penguin Classics

Kundera, Milan, Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The

Le Carre, John, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grand Central Publishing

Lippmann, Walter, Preface to Morals, A, Transaction Publishers

London, Jack, Call of the Wild, The, Intervisual Books

Machiavelli, Niccolo, Prince, The, Simon & Brown

Mailer, Norman, Advertisements for Myself, Harvard University Press

Márquez, Gabriel García (Colombia), Love in the Time of Cholera, Vintage

Melville, Herman, Bartleby the Scrivene: A Story of Wall Street, SMK Books

Milton, John, Aeropagitica

Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Ovid, Metmorphoses

Plato, Dialogues

Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity’s Rainbow, Jonathan Cape

Roth, Philip, American Pastoral

Salinger, J. D., Nine Stories, Back Bay Books

Shakespeare, William, Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Shakespeare, William, As You Like IT

Shakespeare, William, Hamlet

Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar

Shakespeare, William, King Lear

Shakespeare, William, Macbeth

Shakespeare, William, Othello

Shakespeare, William, Romeo & Juliet

Shakespeare, William, Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare, William, Merchant of Venice, The

Shakespeare, William, Sonnets, The

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, Intervisual Books

Smith, Adam, Wealth of Nations, The, Simon & Brown

Sophocles, Ajax

Sophocles, Antigone

Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men, Fontal Lobe Publishing

Steinbeck, John, Grapes of Wrath, The, Viking Press

Sterne, Laurence, Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The, Oxford University Press

Stevenson, Robert Louis, Kidnaped, Empire Books

Stevenson, Robert Louis, Master of Ballantrae, The, Dover Publications

Stoker, Bram, Dracula, Dover Publications

Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels

Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina

Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich, War and Peace

Twain, Mark, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A, Heritage Press

Virgil, Aeneid, The

Wilde, Oscar, Picture of Dorian Gray, The, Intervisual Books

Mythology

Campbell, Joseph, Myths to Live By, Penguin Books

Campbell, Joseph, Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) , The, New World Library

Campbell, Joseph, Masks of God (4-volume set), The, Viking Press

Campbell, Joseph, Power of Myth, The, Anchor

Crossen, Kendra, Interpretation of Fairy Tales, The, Shambhala

Frazer, James George, Golden Bough, The, Acheron Press

Otto, Walter, Dionysus: Myth and Cult, Indiana University Press

Radin, Paul, Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology, The, Schocken

Wasson, R. Gordon, A. Albert Hoffmann, Carl A. P. Ruck, Huston Smith, & Peter Webster, Road to Eleusis, The, North Atlantic Books

Ancient Greece

Aeschylus, Oresteia, The, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Æsop, Fables

Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Aristophanes, Assemblywomen, The

Aristophanes, Birds, The

Aristophanes, Clouds, The

Aristophanes, Frogs, The

Aristophanes, Knights, The

Aristophanes, Wasps, The

Aristotle, Poetics

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, The, Hackett Classics

Euripides, Alcestis

Euripides, Andromache

Euripides, Cyclops

Euripides, Electra

Euripides, Hecuba

Euripides, Helen

Euripides, Heracles

Euripides, Hippolytus

Euripides, Ion

Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis

Euripides, Medea

Euripides, Orestes

Euripides, Bacchae, The

Euripides, Trojan Women, The

Graves, Robert, Greek Myths, The, Penguin Classics

Herodotus, Histories, The

Herodotus, Peloponnesian Wars, The

Herodotus, Thucydides

Hesiod, Alkman

Hesiod, Archilochos

Hesiod, Sappho

Hesiod, Theogony

Longinus, On the Sublime

Lucian, Satires

Menander, Girl from Samos, The

Pindar, Aeschylus

Pindar, Odes

Pindar, Oresteia

Pindar, Persians

Pindar, Prometheus Bound

Pindar, Seven Against Thebes

Pindar, Suppliant Women

Plato, Republic

Plato, Timeaus

Plutarch, Lives

Plutarch, Moralia

Sophocles, Electra

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Sophocles, Oedipus the King

Sophocles, Philoctetes

Sophocles, Women of Trachis

Theocritus, Idylls

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, The

British Literature

Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women

Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, Penguin Classics Hardcover

Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility, Penguin Classics Hardcover

Blake, William, Selected Works

Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre, Wilder Publications

Buchan, John, Thirty-Nine Steps, The

Burgess, Anthony, Clockwork Orange, A, W. W. Norton & Company

Butler, Samuel, Way of All Flesh, The, Kessinger Publishing

Carroll, Lewis, Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems, Penguin Classics

Carroll, Lewis, Through the Looking Glass

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Biographia Literaria

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Christabel

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Kubla Khan

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Ancient Mariner, The

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Writings on Shakespeare, Routledge

Collins, Wilkie, Moonstone, The

Dickens, Charles, Hard Times

Dickens, Charles, Little Dorrit

Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist, Random House

Dickens, Charles, Our Mutual Friend

Dickens, Charles, Pickwick Papers

Dickens, Charles, Old Curiosity Shop, The

Disraeli, Benjamin, Sybil

Donne, John, Selected Works

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sign of Four, The

Eliot, George, Adam Bede, A. L. Burt Co

Eliot, George, Daniel Deronda, Penguin Classics

Eliot, George, Middlemarch (fiction), Barnes & Noble

Eliot, George, Silas Marner, Longmans Green and Co,

Fitzgerald, Penelope, Beginning of Spring, The

Forster, E. M., Room with a View, A, Everyman’s Library

Forster, E. M., Aspects of the Novel, Teach Yourself Books

Forster, E. M., Howards End, Penguin Books

Gibbons, Stella, Cold Comfort Farm

Gissing, George, New Grub Street

Grahame, Kenneth, Wind in the Willows, The

Green, Henry, Loving, Hogarth Press

Hardy, G. H., Mathematician’s Apology, A, Cambridge University Press

Hardy, Thomas, Jude the Obscure

Hughes, Richard, High Wind in Jamaica, A, NYRB Classics

Huxley, Aldous, Point Counter Point, Amereon Ltd

Isherwood, Christopher, Single Man, A

Ishiguro, Kazuo, Artist of the Floating World, An

James, Henry, Portrait of a Ldy

Jerome, Jerome K, Three Men in a Boat

Lessing, Doris, Golden Notebook, The

Macdonald, George, At the Back of the North Wind, Everyman’s Library

Macdonald, George, Lilith, A Romance, Borgo Press

Milton, John, Lycidas

Milton, John, On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity

Milton, John, Paradise Lost

Milton, John, Sonnets

Morris, William, News from Nowhere, Oxford University Press

Morris, William, Early Romance, The, Adamant Media Corporation

Naipaul, V. S., House for Mr Biswas, A, Vintage

O’Neill, Eugene, Lazarus Laughed, Boni & Liveright

O’Neill, Eugene, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Yale University Press

O’Neill, Eugene, Mourning Becomes Electra

O’Neill, Eugene, Iceman Cometh, The, Jonathan Cape

Orwell, George, 1984, Plume

Orwell, George, Animal Farm, Everyman’s Library

Peacock, Thomas Love, Nightmare Abbey

Powell, Anthony, Dance to the Music of Time (4 volumes), A, University of Chicago Press

Richardson, Samuel, Clarissa

Rolfe, Frederick, Hadrian the Seventh

Rushdie, Salman, Midnight’s Children, Jonathan Cape

Stevenson, Robert Louis, New Arabian Nights, The, Thomas Nelson

Stevenson, Robert Louis, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The, Dover Publications

Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island, Dover Publications

Stevenson, Robert Louis, Weir of Hermiston, Nabu Press

Taylor, Elizabeth, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

Thackery, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair

Trollope, Anthony, Autobiography

Trollope, Anthony, Eustace Diamonds, The

Trollope, Anthony, Last Chronicle of Barset, The

Trollope, Anthony, Warden, The

Trollope, Anthony, Way We Live Now, The, Wordsworth Editions

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Lolly Willowes

Waugh, Evelyn, Handful of Dust, A, Back Bay Books

Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited, Back Bay Books

Waugh, Evelyn, Scoop, Back Bay Books

Wells, H. G., History of Mr Polly, The

Wodehouse, P. G., Joy in the Morning

Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway

Woolf, Virginia, Orlando

Woolf, Virginia, Orlando

Wordsworth, William, Preface to The Lyrical Ballads

British Poetry

Morris, William, Earthly Paradise, The, Ulan Press

Morris, William, Well at the World’s End, The, Aegypan

Wordsworth, William, Selected Shorter Poems

Wordsworth, William, Prelude, The

Yeats, William Butler, Collected Plays

Yeats, William Butler, Collected Poems

Canadian Literature

Davies, Robertson, Deptford Trilogy, The, Penguin Books

Davies, Robertson, Rebel Angels, The, Penguin Books

Gallant, Mavis, Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant, The, McClelland & Stewart

Levine, Norman, Canada Made Me, Porcupine’s Quill

Munro, Alice, Love of a Good Woman, The, Penguin Canada

Ondaatje, Michael, In the Skin of a Lion, Vintage Canada

Richter, Mordecai, St. Urbain’s Horseman, McClelland & Stewart

Chinese Literature

Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber, Penguin Books

Chang, Eileen (Ailing Zhang), Love in a Fallen City, NYRB Classics

Ch’eng-en, Wu, Journey to the West (4 volumes), Foreign Languages Press

Confucius, Analects, The

Hsun, Lu, Selected Stories, W. W. Norton & Company

Kuan-chung, Luo, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The, Tuttle Publishing

Ts’ao Hsueh-ch’in, Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone) (5 volumes), The, Penguin Classics

Danish Literature

Andersen, Hans Christian, Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The, W. W. Norton & Company

French Literature

Balzac, Honoré de, Cousin Bette, FQ Books

Balzac, Honoré de, Eugenie Grandet

Balzac, Honoré de, Père Goriot, Oxford University Press

Dumas, Alexandre, Man in the Iron Mask, The, Folio Society

Dumas, Alexandre, Three Musketeers, The, Everyman’s Library

Hughes, Robert, Shock of the New, The, Knopf

Hugo, Victor, Les Miserables, Penguin Classics Hardcover

Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), Misanthrope and Other Plays, The, Signet Classics

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, Selected Essays, Walter J. Black, Inc

Pascal, Blaise, Thoughts (Pensees)

Proust, Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past

Rabelais, François, Gargantua and Pantagruel

Stendhal (Henri Marie Beyle), Red and the Black, The, Penguin Classics

Voltaire, Candide, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

German Literature

Göethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust

Grimm, Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, Annotated Brothers Grimm, The, W. W. Norton & Company

Hesse, Hermann, Demian, Dover Publications

Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha, Dover Publications

Hesse, Hermann, Steppenwolf, Picador

Kafka, Franz, Trial, The

Mann, Thomas, Magic Mountain, The

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Beyond Good and Evil

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Genealogy of Morals, The

Indian Literature

Anonymous, Bhagavad Gita, The, Penguin Classics

Anonymous, Mahabharata, The, Penguin Classics

Anonymous, Plum in the Golden Vase (Ching P’ing Mei) (5 volumes), The, Princeton University Press

Kalidasa, Cloud Messenger, The, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Kalidasa, Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play In Seven Acts, The, Oxford University Press

Iranian Literature

Ferdowsi, Abolqasem, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, The, Penguin Classics

Khayyám, Omar, Rubáiyt, The, Penguin Books

Rushdie, Salman, Satanic Verses, The, Jonathan Cape

Irish Literature

Beckett, Samuel, Endgame

Beckett, Samuel, Krapp’s Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces, Grove Press

Beckett, Samuel, Murphy

Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot

Joyce, James, Ulysses, Vintage

McGahern, John, Amongst Women

O’Flaherty, Liam, Famine, Merlin Publishing

O’Brien, Flann, At Swim-Two-Birds

Shaw, George Bernard, Selected Plays and Prefaces

Sterne, Laurence, Tristram Shandy

Italian Literature

di Giuseppe, Lampedusa, Leopard, The, William Collins Sons Company and Pantheon

Japanese Literature

Basho, Matsuo, Narrow Road to the Deep North, The, Penguin Classics

Junichiro, Tanizaki, Makioka Sisters, The, Vintage

Lady Murasaki, Tale of Genji, The, Penguin Classics

Shonagon, Sei, Pillow-Book, The, Penguin Classics

Soseki, Natsume, Kokoro, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Yasunari, Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness, Vintage

Yukio, Mishima, Confessions of a Mask, New Directions

Yukio, Mishima, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The, Vintage

Latin American Literature

Allende, Isabel (Chile), House of the Spirits, The, Atria Books

Borges, Jorge Luis (Argentina), Dreamtigers, Souvenir Press Ltd

Borges, Jorge Luis (Argentina), Labyrinths, Modern Library

Coelho, Paulo (Brazil), Alchemist, The, HarperOne

Cortázar, Julio (Argentina), All Fires the Fire, Marion Boyars Publishers

Cortázar, Julio (Argentina), Blow-up and Other Stories, Pantheon Books

Cortázar, Julio (Argentina), Hopscotch, Pantheon

Donoso, José (Chile), Obscene Bird of Night, The, David R Godine

Esquivel, Laura (México), Like Water for Chocolate, Anchor

Fuentes, Carlos (México), Change of Skin, A, Andre Deutsch

Fuentes, Carlos (México), Terra Nostra, Dalkey Archive Press

Fuentes, Carlos (México), Death of Artemio Cruz, The, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Llosa, Mario Vargas (Peru), Time of the Hero, The, Faber & Faber

Llosa, Mario Vargas (Peru), War of the End of the World, The, Picador

Márquez, Gabriel García (Colombia), One Hundred Years of Solitude, Harper

Paz, Octavio (México), Labyrinth of Solitude, The, Grove Press

Norwegian Literature

Ibsen, Henrik, Doll’s House, A

Ibsen, Henrik, Brand

Ibsen, Henrik, Emperor and Galilea

Ibsen, Henrik, Enemy of the People

Ibsen, Henrik, Ghosts

Ibsen, Henrik, Hedda Gabler

Ibsen, Henrik, Peer Gynt

Ibsen, Henrik, Rosmersholm

Ibsen, Henrik, Master Builder, The

Ibsen, Henrik, Wild Duck, The

Russian Literature

Chekhov, Anton, Selected Short Stories

Chekhov, Anton, Cherry Orchard, The

Chekhov, Anton, Three Sisters

Chekhov, Anton, Uncle Vanya

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich, Dead Souls, Empire Books

Nabokov, Vladimir, Pale Fire, Everyman’s Library

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander Isayevich, Cancer Ward

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander Isayevich, First Circle, The

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich, Fathers and Sons, Empire Books

Science Fiction

Asimov, Isaac, I, Robot, Spectra

Banks, Iain M., Consider Phlebas, Orbit

Bradbury, Ray, Martian Chronicles, The, Doubleday

Doctorow, Cory, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Tor Books

Emschwiller, Carol, Mount, The, Small Beer Press

Fowler, Karen Joy, Sarah Canary, Plume

Gibson, William, Neuromancer, Ace

Gibson, William, Pattern Recognition, Berkley

Haldeman, Joe, Forever War, The, St. Martin’s Griffin

Herbert, Frank, Dune, Chilton Books

LeGuin, Ursula, Dispossessed, The, William Morrow Paperbacks

Lovecraft, H. P., At the Mountains of Madness, Modern Library

MacLeod, Ken, Newton’s Wake, Tor Science Fiction

Mieville, China, Perdido Street Station, Del Rey

Nagata, Linda, Bohr Maker, The, Mythic Island Press

Narayan, R. K., English Teacher, The, University of Chicago Press

Niven, Larry & Jerry Pournelle, Mote in God’s Eye, The, Pocket Books

Piercy, Marge, He, She, and It, Fawcett

Pohl, Frederik, Gateway, St. Martin’s Press

Russell, Eric Frank, Men, Martians, and Machines, Crown

Russell, Mary Doria, Children of God, Ballantine Books

Russell, Mary Doria, Sparrow, The, Ballantine Books

Simmons, Dan, Hyperion, Doubleday

Stephenson, Neal, Cryptonomicon, Avon

Stross, Charles, Glasshouse, Ace

Weir, Andy, Martian, The, Random House

Wells, H. G., Island of Dr. Moreau, The, Dover Publications

Wells, H. G., Time Machine, The, W. W. Norton & Company

Authoritariansim

Butler, Octavia, Kindred, Beacon Press

Butler, Octavia B., Parable of the Sower, Grand Central Publishing

Camus, Albert, Stranger, The

Kadohata, Cynthia, In the Heart of the Valley of Love, University of California Press

Milosz, Czesław, Captive Mind, The

Munyol, Yi, Our Twisted Hero, Hachette Books

Orwell, George, Burmese Days

Orwell, George, Homage to Catalonia, Benediction Classics

Pomerantsev, Peter, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible

Philosophy

Hofstadter, Richard, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Vintage

Humble, Jez, Molesky, Joanne, & O’Reilly, Barry, Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale, O’Reilly Media

James, William, Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth

James, William, Pragmatism

Jones, Kathleen B., Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt, Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt

Locke, John, Second Treatise of Government

Marx, Karl, Communist Manifesto, The

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Confessions

American Literature

Adams, Henry, Education of Henry Adams, The, University of Virginia Press

Anderson, Sherwood, Death in the Woods and Other Stories, Benediction Classics

Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio, Simon & Brown

Beerbohm, Max, Zuleika Dobson, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Bellow, Saul, Herzog, Penguin Classics

Bellow, Saul, Humboldt’s Gift, Penguin Classics

Bellow, Saul, Seize the Day, Penguin Classics

Bellow, Saul, Adventures of Augie March, The, Penguin Classics

Bennett, Arnold, Old Wives’ Tale, The, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Bowen, Elizabeth, Death of the Heart, The, Anchor

Bowen, Elizabeth, Heat of the Day, The, Alfred A. Knopf

Bowles, Paul, Sheltering Sky, The, Signet Books

Cain, James M., Postman Always Rings Twice, The, Grosset

Caldwell, Erskine, Tobacco Road, University of Georgia Press

Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood, Vintage

Cather, Willa, Lost Lady, A, Wilder Publications

Cather, Willa, Death Comes for the Archbishop, University of Nebraska Press

Cather, Willa, My Ántonia, Simon & Brown

Cather, Willa, Professor’s House, The, Wilder Publications

Chandler, Raymond, Big Sleep, The, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Cheever, John, Bullet Park, Vintage

Cheever, John, Stories of John Cheever, The, Vintage

Cheever, John, Wapshot Chronicles, The, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, Dover Publications

Conrad, Joseph, Lord Jim, Empire Books

Conrad, Joseph, Nostromo, Oxford University Press

Conrad, Joseph, Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, The, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Crane, Stephen, Red Badge of Courage, The, Wisehouse Classics

Croly, Herbert, Promise of American Life, The, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Crowley, John, Little, Big, William Morrow Paperbacks

DeLillo, Don, Underworld, Scribner

Dickey, James, Deliverance, Delta

Dillard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Doctorow, E. L., Ragtime, Random House Trade Paperbacks

Doctorow, E. L., Book of Daniel: A Novel, The, Random House Trade Paperbacks

Donleavy, J. P., Ginger Man, The, Delacorte

Dreiser, Theodore, American Tragedy, An, Signet Classics

Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie, Dover Publications

Durell, Lawrence, Alexandria Quartet, The, Faber & Faber

Ellison, Ralph, Shadow and Act, Vintage

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Selected Works

Farrell, James T., Studs Lonigan Trilogy, The, Library of America

Faulkner, William, Light in August, Vintage International/Random House

Faulkner, William, Sanctuary, Vintage

Faulkner, William, Collected Stories of William Faulkner, The, Perfection Learning

Faulkner, William, Hamlet, The, Vintage

Faulkner, William, Sound and the Fury, The, Vintage

Faulkner, William, Wild Palms, The, Vintage

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Tender Is the Night, Charles Scribner’s Sons

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Great Gatsby, The, Scribner

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, This Side of Paradise, Scribner

Ford, Ford Madox, Parade’s End, Vintage

Ford, Ford Madox, Good Soldier, The, Barnes & Noble

Fowles, John, Magus, The, Back Bay Books

Gaddis, William, Recognitions, The, Dalkey Archive Press

Greene, Graham, Heart of the Matter, The, Penguin Classics

Greene, Graham, Quiet American, The, Penguin Classics

Hammett, Dashiell, Maltese Falcon, The, Amereon Ltd

Hawkes, John, Second Skin, New Directions

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Scarlet Letter, The, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Hemingway, Ernest, Complete Short Stories, Charles Scribner’s Sons

Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway, Ernest, Short Stories

Hemingway, Ernest, Garden of Eden, The, Scribner

Hemingway, Ernest, Old Man and the Sea, The

Hemingway, Ernest, Sun Also Rises, The, Charles Scribner’s Sons

Hemingway, Ernest, To Have and Have Not

Hughes, Langston, Big Sea: An Autobiography, The, Hill and Wang

Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper

James, Henry, Ambassadors, The, Empire Books

James, Henry, Golden Bowl, The, Everyman’s Library

James, Henry, Wings of the Dove, The, Penguin Classics

Jones, James, From Here to Eternity, Scribners

Kennedy, William, Ironweed, Penguin Books

Kipling, Rudyard, Kim, Simon & Brown

Koestler, Arthur, Darkness at Noon, Scribner

Lamott, Anne, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anchor

Lamott, Anne, Operating Instructions, Riverhead Hardcover

Lawrence, D. H., Sons and Lovers, The Easton Press

Lawrence, D. H., Rainbow, The, Empire Books

Lawrence, D. H., Women in Love, Random House

Lewis, Sinclair, Babbitt, Empire Books

Lewis, Sinclair, It Can’t Happen Here, Signet Classics

Lewis, Sinclair, Main Street, Empire Books

Loos, Anita, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Lowry, Malcolm, Under the Volcano, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Mailer, Norman, Executioner’s Song, The, Grand Central Publishing

Mailer, Norman, Naked and the Dead, The, Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Malamud, Bernard, Fixer, The, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Malamud, Bernard, Stories, The, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Mamet, David, American Buffalo, Grove Press

Mamet, David, Speed-the-Plow, Grove Press

Masters, Edgar Lee, Spoon River Anthology, Signet Classics

Maugham, W Somerset, Of Human Bondage, Wilder Publications

McCarthy, Cormac, Child of God, Vintage

McCullers, Carson, Ballad of the Sad Café, The, Mariner Books

McCullers, Carson, Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The, Mariner Books

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