Literary List
The following is a list of everything I've ever read*, for my own catalogueing purposes, which will be updated as nessecary. In other words, unless you're undyingly curious to see what I've read, ignore this.
FICTION
A
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Aesop's Fables, Aesop
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
B
Bacchae, Euripides
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
The Boarding-School Girl, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
C
Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
Candide, Voltaire
The Captain's Daughter, Alexander Pushkin
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
The Charm School, Alice Duer Miller
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Clouds, Aristophanes
(IN PROGRESS) A Cocktail Continentale, Bruce Reynolds
Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
D
Dead Souls (Part I), Nikolai Gogol
The Diamond Age Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson
A Disgraceful Affair, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Selections), Dante Alighieri
The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Duel, Anton Chekhov
E
The Enchanter, Vladimir Nabokov
Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin
F
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Fathers and Children, Ivan Turgenev
Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger
The Frogs, Aristophanes
G
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Gunseller, Hugh Laurie
H
Hadji Murad, Leo Tolstoy
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
A Happy Death, Albert Camus
(IN PROGRESS) Hapworth 16, 1924, J. D. Salinger
Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
Hunger, Knut Hamsun
I
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
I Served the King of England, Bohumil Hrabal
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevksy
If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
Invitation to a Beheading, Vladimir Nabokov
J
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
K
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
L
Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
M
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
N
Nathan the Wise, Gotthold Lessing
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
Netochka Nezvanova, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger
No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre
No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
O
Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
Older than Adam, Charoline Snowden Whitmarsh
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Othello, William Shakespeare
The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol
P
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Philosophy in the Bedroom, Marquis de Sade
The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Plague, Albert Camus
Post-Mortem, Patricia Cornwell
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Q
The Quest for the Sacred Slipper, Sax Rohmer
R
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction, J. D. Salinger
Redwall, Brian Jacques
The Restraunt at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
S
Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell
Short Stories (Selections), Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sketchbook (Selections), Washington Irving
The Sluts, Dennis Cooper
So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish, Douglas Adams
Soul (Selections), Andrey Platonov
The Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, Bruno Schulz
A Study In Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
T
Tales of Secret Egypt, Sax Rohmer
The Tempest, William Shakespeare
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, Danilo Kis
U
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
(IN PROGRESS) The Unfortunates, B. S. Johnson
V
Venus in Furs, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
W
The Walking Drum, Louis L'Amour
Wings and Webs, Charoline Snowden Whitmarsh
NON-FICTION
A
Apology, Plato Analects (Selections), Confucious
B
(IN PROGRESS) A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
C
Civilization and Its Discontents (Selections), Sigmund Freud
Correspondence with Bentley, Isaac Newton
D
Democracy in America (Selections), Alexis de Tocqueville
The Dinosaur Heresies, Robert T. Bakker
E
The Enlightenment, Roy Porter
Emile (Selections), Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Existentialism is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre
G
The Gay Science (Selections), Friedrich Nietzsche
I
Introducing the Existentialists: Imaginary Interviews with Sartre, Heidegger and Camus, Robert C. Solomon
It Chooses You, Miranda July
L
Letters on England (Selections), Voltaire
M
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Volumes 1 & 2), Art Spiegelman
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
N
Nicomachean Ethics (Selections), Aristotle
Notes of a Native Son (Selections), James Baldwin
O
On Miracles, David Hume
P
Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism, Martha Nussbaum
Philosophical Writings (Selections), Moses Mendelssohn
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction, Samir Okasha
The Pilgrim Continues His Way, Anonymous
The Possessed, Elif Batuman
A Presocratics Reader (Selections), Translated by Richard D. McKirahan
The Prince, Machiavelli
R
The Republic (Selections), Plato
T
That Individual, Soren Kirekegaard
Through the Magic Door, Arthur Conan Doyle
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Selections), Friedrich Nietzsche
Treatise on Tolerance (Selections), Voltaire
Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Tolerance, John Locke
S
The Sketchbook (Selections), Washington Irving
U
Utopia, Thomas More
V
Valient Women in War and Exile, Compiled by Sally Hayton-Keeva
W
The Wanderer and His Shadow (Selections), Friedrich Nietzsche
The Way of a Pilgrim, Anonymous
The Whale: In Search of Giants of the Sea, Philip Hoare
What is Enlightenment?, Immanuel Kant
Z
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintence, Robert M. Pirsig
POETRY F (IN PROGRESS) Faust, Goethe N 19 Varieties of Gazelle, Naomi Shihab Nye P Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing, Samuel Hoffenstein W The Works of Lord Alfred Tennyson (SELECTIONS), Lord Alfred Tennyson Y Year In, You're Out, Samuel Hoffenstein TO BE READ -Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh -The Alhambra, Washington Irving -Stardust, Neil Gaiman -Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy -1984, George Orwell -Frankenstein, Mary Shelley -Emma, Jane Austen ~To Be Read to Complete the Alphabetical List:~ -The Valley of Fear, A. C. Doyle WISHLIST -A nice copy of A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, Washington Irving -These Old Shades, by Georgette Heyer -Any more of the Summer House Series by Charoline Snowden Whitmarsh Guild
*For Honesty's sake, I'll blissfully ignore the ones that I sort of read, or totally didn't read but was supposed to for various classes, or to maintain my geek status.
FICTION
A
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Aesop's Fables, Aesop
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
B
Bacchae, Euripides
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
The Boarding-School Girl, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
C
Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
Candide, Voltaire
The Captain's Daughter, Alexander Pushkin
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
The Charm School, Alice Duer Miller
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Clouds, Aristophanes
(IN PROGRESS) A Cocktail Continentale, Bruce Reynolds
Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
D
Dead Souls (Part I), Nikolai Gogol
The Diamond Age Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson
A Disgraceful Affair, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Selections), Dante Alighieri
The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Duel, Anton Chekhov
E
The Enchanter, Vladimir Nabokov
Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin
F
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Fathers and Children, Ivan Turgenev
Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger
The Frogs, Aristophanes
G
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Gunseller, Hugh Laurie
H
Hadji Murad, Leo Tolstoy
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
A Happy Death, Albert Camus
(IN PROGRESS) Hapworth 16, 1924, J. D. Salinger
Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
Hunger, Knut Hamsun
I
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
I Served the King of England, Bohumil Hrabal
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevksy
If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
Invitation to a Beheading, Vladimir Nabokov
J
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
K
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
L
Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
M
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
N
Nathan the Wise, Gotthold Lessing
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
Netochka Nezvanova, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger
No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre
No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
O
Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
Older than Adam, Charoline Snowden Whitmarsh
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Othello, William Shakespeare
The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol
P
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Philosophy in the Bedroom, Marquis de Sade
The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Plague, Albert Camus
Post-Mortem, Patricia Cornwell
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Q
The Quest for the Sacred Slipper, Sax Rohmer
R
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction, J. D. Salinger
Redwall, Brian Jacques
The Restraunt at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
S
Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell
Short Stories (Selections), Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sketchbook (Selections), Washington Irving
The Sluts, Dennis Cooper
So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish, Douglas Adams
Soul (Selections), Andrey Platonov
The Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, Bruno Schulz
A Study In Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
T
Tales of Secret Egypt, Sax Rohmer
The Tempest, William Shakespeare
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, Danilo Kis
U
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
(IN PROGRESS) The Unfortunates, B. S. Johnson
V
Venus in Furs, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
W
The Walking Drum, Louis L'Amour
Wings and Webs, Charoline Snowden Whitmarsh
NON-FICTION
A
Apology, Plato Analects (Selections), Confucious
B
(IN PROGRESS) A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
C
Civilization and Its Discontents (Selections), Sigmund Freud
Correspondence with Bentley, Isaac Newton
D
Democracy in America (Selections), Alexis de Tocqueville
The Dinosaur Heresies, Robert T. Bakker
E
The Enlightenment, Roy Porter
Emile (Selections), Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Existentialism is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre
G
The Gay Science (Selections), Friedrich Nietzsche
I
Introducing the Existentialists: Imaginary Interviews with Sartre, Heidegger and Camus, Robert C. Solomon
It Chooses You, Miranda July
L
Letters on England (Selections), Voltaire
M
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Volumes 1 & 2), Art Spiegelman
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
N
Nicomachean Ethics (Selections), Aristotle
Notes of a Native Son (Selections), James Baldwin
O
On Miracles, David Hume
P
Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism, Martha Nussbaum
Philosophical Writings (Selections), Moses Mendelssohn
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction, Samir Okasha
The Pilgrim Continues His Way, Anonymous
The Possessed, Elif Batuman
A Presocratics Reader (Selections), Translated by Richard D. McKirahan
The Prince, Machiavelli
R
The Republic (Selections), Plato
T
That Individual, Soren Kirekegaard
Through the Magic Door, Arthur Conan Doyle
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Selections), Friedrich Nietzsche
Treatise on Tolerance (Selections), Voltaire
Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Tolerance, John Locke
S
The Sketchbook (Selections), Washington Irving
U
Utopia, Thomas More
V
Valient Women in War and Exile, Compiled by Sally Hayton-Keeva
W
The Wanderer and His Shadow (Selections), Friedrich Nietzsche
The Way of a Pilgrim, Anonymous
The Whale: In Search of Giants of the Sea, Philip Hoare
What is Enlightenment?, Immanuel Kant
Z
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintence, Robert M. Pirsig
POETRY F (IN PROGRESS) Faust, Goethe N 19 Varieties of Gazelle, Naomi Shihab Nye P Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing, Samuel Hoffenstein W The Works of Lord Alfred Tennyson (SELECTIONS), Lord Alfred Tennyson Y Year In, You're Out, Samuel Hoffenstein TO BE READ -Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh -The Alhambra, Washington Irving -Stardust, Neil Gaiman -Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy -1984, George Orwell -Frankenstein, Mary Shelley -Emma, Jane Austen ~To Be Read to Complete the Alphabetical List:~ -The Valley of Fear, A. C. Doyle WISHLIST -A nice copy of A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, Washington Irving -These Old Shades, by Georgette Heyer -Any more of the Summer House Series by Charoline Snowden Whitmarsh Guild
*For Honesty's sake, I'll blissfully ignore the ones that I sort of read, or totally didn't read but was supposed to for various classes, or to maintain my geek status.