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The Editors of the Salem Press, Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed [2015]

637 entries: 569 monographical, 68 otherwise

Unranked—arranged alphabetically by work

This book, like Masterpieces of World Literature, is a product of Frank Magill's publishing house, Salem Press. Comparing the two lists, one immediately sees many of the same works in both. But the two books are sufficiently distinct to warrant the inclusion of two lists instead of a combination. Initially at Greater Books we included the previous edition of this work, Recommended Reading: 500 Classics Reviewed [1995], because the current edition was published after much of the initial work on this site was completed. As the titles indicate, the newer work is an expansion of the earlier; all of the "500 classics" listed in 1995 are included in the latter volume with the exception of Toni Morrison's Beloved, certainly a noteworthy exclusion, but one which I cannot but guess is a mistake, as this volume is marked by several peculiarities suggesting the lack of proofreading. For example, the number of entries in the book itself is not 600, but 605. The final tally here (637) is due to several of the 605 entries actually listing multiple works, most notably "The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes," which results in nine monographical works, the four novels and the five story collections that comprise the canonical Holmes.

  1. William Faulkner

    2. Absalom, Absalom!
    1936—English

  2. John Dryden

    3. Absalom and Achitophel
    originally published in two volumes, 1681 and 1682; authorship of second is disputed—English

  3. George Eliot

    4. Adam Bede
    1859—English

  4. Percy Bysshe Shelley

    5. Adonais: An Elegy Upon the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc.
    1821—English

  5. Saul Bellow

    6. The Adventures of Augie March
    1953—English

    Mark Twain
  6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    7. 1884—English

  7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    8. 1876—English

  8. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

    9. Aeneid
    First Century B C—Latin

  9. Edith Wharton

    10. The Age of Innocence
    1920—English

  10. Ben Jonson

    11. The Alchemist
    1610—English

    Lawrence Durrell
  11. Justine

    12. 1957—English

  12. Balthazar

    13. 1958—English

  13. Mountolive

    14. 1958—English

  14. Clea

    15. 1960—English

  15. Lewis Carroll

    16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    1865—English

  16. Maya Angelou

    17. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
    1986—English

  17. Erich Maria Remarque

    18. Im Westen Nichts Neues
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    originally published Dec. 1928 in Vossische Zeitung—German

  18. Robert Penn Warren

    19. All the King's Men
    1946—English

  19. William Shakespeare

    20. All's Well That Ends Well
    ca. 1606-08—English

  20. Henry James

    21. The Ambassadors
    originally published serially 1903 in the North American Review—English

  21. Theodore Dreiser

    22. An American Tragedy
    1925—English

  22. Euripides

    23. Andromache
    ca. 428-25 B.C—Greek

  23. Jean Racine
    Andromaque
    1667—French

    • Wallace Stevens

    24. 'Anecdote of the Jar'
    originally published in Poetry, Oct. 1919; included in Harmonium, 1923—English

  24. Frank McCourt

    25. Angela's Ashes
    1996—English

  25. Wallace Stegner

    26. Angle of Repose
    1971—English

  26. George Orwell

    27. Animal Farm
    1945—English

  27. Eugene O'Neill

    28. Anna Christie
    1921—English

  28. Leo Tolstoy

    29. Anna Karenina
    published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877—Russian

  29. L M Montgomery

    30. Anne of Green Gables
    1908—English

  30. Sophocles

    31. Antigone
    ca. 441 B.C—Greek

  31. William Shakespeare

    32. Antony and Cleopatra
    ca. 1606-08—English

  32. John O'Hara

    33. Appointment in Samarra
    1934—English

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  33. Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah

    34. The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
    Ninth-Fifteenth centuries—Arabic

  34. John Milton

    35. Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England
    1644—English

  35. Jules Verne

    36. Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours
    Around the World in Eighty Days
    1873—French

  36. Sinclair Lewis

    37. Arrowsmith
    1925—English

  37. William Faulkner

    38. As I Lay Dying
    1930—English

  38. William Shakespeare

    39. As You Like It
    1603—English

  39. T S Eliot

    40. Ash Wednesday
    1930—English

  40. Bernard Malamud

    41. The Assistant
    1957—English

  41. Ayn Rand

    42. Atlas Shrugged
    1957—English

  42. Ian McEwan

    43. Atonement
    2001—English

  43. Kate Chopin

    44. The Awakening
    1899—English

  44. Sinclair Lewis

    45. Babbitt
    1922—English

  45. Euripides

    46. Bakchai
    The Bacchae
    405 B.C—Greek

  46. Carson McCullers

    47. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
    1951—English

  47. Pär Lagerkvist

    48. Barrabas
    1950—Swedish

  48. Anthony Trollope

    49. Barchester Towers
    1857—English

  49. Ellen Glasgow

    50. Barren Ground
    1925—English

  50. Ben Jonson
    Bartholomew Fayre
    1614—English

    • Herman Melville

    51. 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'
    originally published serially Nov.-Dec. 1853 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art; included in Piazza Tales, 1856—English

  51. Barbara Kingsolver

    52. The Bean Trees
    1988—English

  52. John Gay

    53. The Beggar's Opera
    1728—English

  53. Sylvia Plath

    54. The Bell Jar
    1963—English

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  54. Beowulf

    55. ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English

    Christopher Isherwood
  55. Mr. Norris Changes Trains

    56. 1936—English

  56. Goodbye to Berlin

    57. 1939—English

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  57. The Bible

    58. —Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek

  58. Herman Melville

    59. Billy Budd, Foretopman
    Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
    1924—English

  59. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    60. Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
    originally published in two volumes, 1817—English

  60. Aristophanes

    61. Ornithes
    The Birds
    414 B.C—Greek

  61. Richard Wright

    62. Black Boy
    originally published in two volumes: Black Boy, 1945; American Hunger, published in part serially, in its entirety, 1977—English

  62. Charles Dickens

    63. Bleak House
    originally published serially Mar. 1852-Sep. 1853—English

  63. Cormac McCarthy
    Blood Merdian or The Evening Redness in the West
    1985—English

    • Stephan Crane

    64. 'The Blue Hotel'
    originally published serially Nov.-Dec. 1898 in Collier's Weekly; included in The Monster and Other Stories, 1899—English

  64. Tom Wolfe

    65. The Bonfire of the Vanities
    originally published serially Jul. 1984-Aug. 1985 in Rolling Stone; revised 1987—English

  65. Markus Zusak

    66. The Book Thief
    2005—English

  66. Henry James

    67. The Bostonians
    originally published serially in the Century Magazine, 1885-86—English

  67. James Boswell

    68. London Journal
    written 1762-63—English

  68. Aldous Huxley
    Brave New World
    1932—English

    • Stephan Crane

    69. 'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky'
    originally published 1898 in McClure's; included in The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, 1898—English

  69. Evelyn Waugh

    70. Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
    1945—English

  70. Stephen Hawking

    71. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
    1988; expanded 1996; abridged and edited version co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow entitled A Briefer History of Time published 2005—English

  71. Junot Díaz

    72. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    2007—English

  72. Graham Greene

    73. Brighton Rock
    1938—English

  73. David James Duncan

    74. The Brothers K
    1992—English

  74. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    75. Brat'â Karamazovy
    The Brothers Karamazov
    originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  75. Dee Brown

    76. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
    1970—English

  76. Jack London

    77. The Call of the Wild
    originally published serially 1903 in the Saturday Evening Post—English

  77. George Bernard Shaw

    78. Candida
    published in 1898 as part of Plays Pleasant; originally performed 1903—English

  78. Voltaire

    79. Candide, ou L'Optimisme
    1759—French

  79. Geoffrey Chaucer

    80. Canterbury Tales
    1478—English

  80. Ezra Pound

    81. Cantos
    published in part in Poetry, Jun.-Aug. 1917; the Criterion, Jul. 1923; the Transatlantic Review, Jan. 1924; and in the following volumes: The Fourth Canto, 1919; A Draft of XVI Cantos, 1925; A Draft of Cantos 17-27, 1928; A Draft of XXX Cantos, 1930; Eleven New Cantos XXXI-XLI, 1934; The Fifth Decad of Cantos, 1937; Cantos LII-LXXI, 1940; The Pisan Cantos, 1948; Seventy Cantos, 1950; Section: Rock-Drill, 85-95 de los Cantares, 1955; Thrones: 96-109 de los Cantares, 1959; Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII, 1968; in its entirety, revised and expanded, 1987—English

  81. Rudyard Kipling
    Captains Courageous
    originally published serially 1896-97 in McClure's—English

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    82. 'The Cask of Amontillado'
    originally published Nov. 1846 in Godey's Lady Book—English

  82. Franz Kafka

    83. Das Schloss
    The Castle
    1926—German

  83. Tennessee Williams

    84. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    1955—English

  84. Joseph Heller

    85. Catch-22
    1961—English

  85. J D Salinger

    86. Catcher in the Rye
    1951—English

  86. Kurt Vonnegut
    Cat's Cradle
    1963—English

    • Mark Twin

    'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'
    originally entitled 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog', published Nov. 1865 in the Saturday Press; retitled and revised for inclusion in the Californian, Dec. 1865—English

    • E M Forster

    87. 'The Celestial Omnibus'
    —English

  87. John Updike

    88. The Centaur
    published in part in Esquire and the New Yorker; in its entirety, 1963—English

  88. E B White

    89. Charlotte's Web
    1952—English

  89. Stendhal

    90. Le Chartreuse de Parme
    The Charterhouse of Parma
    1839—French

  90. Anton Chekhov

    91. Višhnëvyj Sad
    The Cherry Orchard
    1904—Russian

  91. Lord Byron

    92. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
    1812-18—English

  92. Arthur C Clarke

    93. Childhood's End
    1953—English

  93. Chaim Potok

    94. The Chosen
    1967—English

  94. Charles Dickens

    95. A Christmas Carol
    1843—English

    C S Lewis
  95. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

    96. 1950—English

  96. Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

    97. 1951—English

  97. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

    98. 1952—English

  98. The Silver Chair

    99. 1953—English

  99. The Horse and His Boy

    100. 1954—English

  100. The Magician's Nephew

    101. 1955—English

  101. The Last Battle

    102. 1956—English

  102. Pierre Corneille
    Le Cid
    1637—French

    • Henry David Thoreau

    103. 'Civil Disobedience'
    originally published 1849 as part of Aesthetic Papers—English

  103. Samuel Richardson
    Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
    1748—English

    • Ernest Hemingway

    104. 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'
    originally published 1933 in Scribner's; included in Winner Take Nothing, 1933—English

  104. Anthony Burgess

    105. A Clockwork Orange
    1962—English

  105. Alice Walker

    106. The Color Purple
    1982—English

  106. William Shakespeare

    107. The Comedy of Errors
    1594—English

    Arthur Conan Doyle
  107. A Study in Scarlet

    108. originally published 1887 in Beeton's Christmas Annual—English

  108. The Sign of the Four

    109. originally published Feb. 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly—English

  109. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    110. 1892; stories originally published Jul. 1891-Jun. 1892 in the Strand—English

  110. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    111. 1894; stories originally published 1892-3 in the Strand—English

  111. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    112. 1902; originally published serially Aug. 1901-Apr. 1902 in the Strand—English

  112. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    113. 1905; stories originally published 1903-4 in the Strand—English

  113. The Valley of Fear

    114. 1915; originally published serially Sep. 1914-Feb. 1915 in the Strand—English

  114. His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes

    115. 1917; stories originally published Sep. 1908-Dec. 1913 in the Strand; except one published Sep. 1917 in Collier's Weekly—English

  115. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

    116. 1927; stories originally published Oct. 1921-Apr. 1927 in the Strand—English

  116. John Kennedy Toole

    117. A Confederacy of Dunces
    written early 1960's; published 1980—English

  117. Augustine of Hippo

    118. Confessionum Libri Tredecim
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    written 397-98—Latin

  118. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    119. Les Confessions
    1782—French

  119. Mark Twain

    120. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    1889—English

  120. Boethius

    121. Consolatio Philosophiae
    The Consolation of Philosophy
    written ca. 524—Latin

  121. Alexandre Dumas

    122. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
    originally published serially Aug. 1844-Jan. 1846 in Journal des Débats—French

  122. André Gide

    123. Les Faux-Monnayeurs
    originally published 1925 in Nouvelle Revue Française—French

  123. Sarah Orne Jewett

    124. The Country of the Pointed Firs
    originally published serially 1896 in the Atlantic Monthly—English

  124. William Wycherley

    125. The Country Wife
    1675—English

  125. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    126. Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
    Crime and Punishment
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  126. Immanuel Kant

    127. Kritik der Reinen Vernunft
    Critique of Pure Reason
    1781; revised 1787—German

  127. Arthur Miller

    128. The Crucible
    1953—English

  128. Alan Paton

    129. Cry, the Beloved Country
    1948—English

  129. Thomas Pynchon

    130. The Crying of Lot 49
    1966—English

  130. Abraham Verghese

    131. Cutting for Stone
    2009—English

  131. Edmond Rostand

    132. Cyrano de Bergerac
    1897—French

  132. Henry James

    133. Daisy Miller
    originally published serially Jun.-Jul. 1878 in Cornhill Magazine—English

  133. Ray Bradbury
    Dandelion Wine
    published in part, Jun. 1953, in Gourmet; in its entirety, 1957—English

    • William Saroyan

    134. 'The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze'
    originally published 1934 in Story—English

  134. Charles Dickens

    135. The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)
    originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850—English

  135. Nikolai Gogol

    136. Mërtvyâ Duši
    Dead Souls
    1842—Russian

  136. Willa Cather

    137. Death Comes for the Archbishop
    1927—English

  137. James Agee

    138. A Death in the Family
    1957—English

  138. Thomas Mann

    139. Der Tod in Venedig
    Death in Venice
    1911—German

  139. Arthur Miller

    140. Death of a Salesman
    1949—English

  140. Leo Tolstoy

    141. Smert' Ivana Il'icha
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich
    1886—Russian

  141. Giovanni Boccaccio

    142. Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto
    ca. 1351-53—Italian

  142. James Fenimore Cooper

    143. The Deerslayer: or, The First Warpath
    1841—English

  143. Herman Hesse

    144. Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    originally entitled Demian: Die Geschichte Einer Jugend, published 1919 under the pseudonym, Emil Sinclair—German

  144. Alexis de Tocqueville

    145. De la Démocratie en Amérique
    Democracy in America
    originally published in two volumes, 1835 and 1840—French

  145. Charles Darwin

    146. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
    1871—English

  146. Eugene O'Neill

    147. Desire Under the Elms
    1924—English

    Plato
  147. Apologia Socratis

    148. The Apology
    early Fourth Century B.C—Greek

  148. Crito

    149. early Fourth Century B.C—Greek

  149. Phaedo
    early Fourth Century B.C—Greek

    • Nikolai Gogol

    150. 'Zapiski Sumasšedšego'
    'The Diary of a Madman'
    1835—Russian

  150. Anne Frank

    151. Het Achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    1947—Dutch

  151. Dante

    152. La Divina Commedia
    The Divine Comedy
    originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian

  152. Christopher Marlowe

    153. The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
    1592—English

  153. Robert Louis Stevenson

    154. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    1886—English

  154. Boris Pasternak

    155. Dóktor Živágo
    Doctor Zhivago
    Italian translation, 1957; original Russian, 1958—Russian

  155. Henrik Ibsen

    156. Et Dukkehjem
    A Doll's House
    1879—Norwegian

  156. Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)

    157. Don Juan
    originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824—English

  157. Miguel de Cervantes

    158. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish

  158. Bram Stoker

    159. Dracula
    1897—English

  159. Cáo Xuěqín (Mengruan) (Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in)

    160. Hóng Lóu Mèng
    The Dream of the Red Chamber; The Story of the Stone
    1791—Chinese

  160. James Joyce

    161. Dubliners
    1914—English

  161. Alexander Pope

    162. The Dunciad
    originally anonymously published 1728; revised through fourth edition, 1743—English

  162. Frank Herbert

    163. Dune
    1965—English

    Ursula K Le Guin
  163. A Wizard of Earthsea

    164. 1968—English

  164. The Tombs of Atuan

    165. 1971—English

  165. The Farthest Shore

    166. 1972—English

  166. John Steinbeck
    East of Eden
    1952—English

    • William Butler Yeats

    167. 'Easter, 1916'
    published separately 1916, in the New Statesman, Oct. 1920, and the Dial, Nov. 1920; included in Michael Robertes and the Dancer, 1920—English

  167. Henry Adams
    The Education of Henry Adams
    1918—English

    • Irwin Shaw

    168. 'The Eighty-Yard Run'
    —English

  168. Euripides

    169. Ēlektra
    Electra
    written ca. 413 B.C—Greek

  169. Jane Austen

    170. Emma
    originally anonymously published 1815—English

  170. Siddhartha Mukherjee

    171. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
    2010—English

  171. Henrik Ibsen
    En Folkefiende
    An Enemy of the People
    1882—Norwegian

    • John Cheever

    172. 'The Enormous Radio'
    originally published May 1947 in the New Yorker; included in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories, 1953—English

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  172. Sha Naqba Imuru

    173. The Epic of Gilgamesh; He Who Saw the Deep
    Eighteenth-Tenth centuries B.C—Sumerian; Akkadian

  173. Peter Shaffer

    174. Equus
    1973—English

  174. Alexander Pope

    175. Essay on Man
    1734—English

  175. Michel de Montaigne
    176. g
    Les Essais
    Essays
    originally published in three volumes: 1580, 1588, and 1595—French

    Francis Bacon
  176. Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed

    177. 1597; expanded 1612; expanded 1625, retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall—English

  177. Nova Atlantis
    1624—English

    • E M Forster

    178. 'The Eternal Moment'
    —English

  178. Edith Wharton

    179. Ethan Frome
    1911—English

  179. Aristotle

    180. Ethika Nikomacheia
    Nicomachean Ethics
    Fourth Century B C—Greek

  180. Baruch Spinoza

    181. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata
    Ethics
    1677—Latin

  181. Alexander Pushkin
    Evgénij Onegin
    Eugene Onegin
    published in part serially 1825-32; in its entirety, 1833; revised 1837—Russian

    • John Keats

    182. 'The Eve of St. Agnes'
    part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

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  182. The Somonyng of Everyman

    183. late Fifteenth Century—English

  183. Jonathan Safran Foer
    Everything Is Illuminated
    2002—English

    • Flannery O'Connor

    184. Everything That Rises Must Converge
    1965; nine stories, mostly previously published in periodicals—English

  184. Edmund Spenser

    185. The Faerie Queene
    originally published in two volumes, 1590 and 1596—English

  185. Ray Bradbury

    186. Fahrenheit 451
    published in part, Feb. 1951, as 'The Fireman' in Galaxy Science Fiction; in its entirety, 1953—English

  186. Albert Camus

    187. La Chute
    The Fall
    1956—French

  187. Ken Follett
    Fall of Giants_
    2010—English

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    188. 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
    originally published Sep. 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine; revised for inclusion in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840—English

  188. Thomas Hardy

    189. Far From the Madding Crowd
    originally anonymously published serially in Cornhill Magazine, Jan.-Dec. 1874; revised 1895 and 1901—English

  189. Ernest Hemingway

    190. A Farewell to Arms
    1929—English

  190. Honoré de Balzac

    191. Le Père Goriot
    Father Goriot
    originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de Paris—French

  191. Ivan Turgenev

    192. Otcy i Deti
    Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
    originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  192. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    193. Faust
    originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832—German

  193. Sǿren Kierkegaard

    194. Frygt og Baeven
    Fear and Trembling
    originally published under the pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, 1843—Danish

  194. Jorge Luis Borges

    195. Ficciones
    originally entitled El Jardín de Senderos que se Bifurcan, published 1941; expanded 1944 and 1956—Spanish

  195. Rohinton Mistry

    196. A Fine Balance
    1995—English
    *Guardian* *Smart* *Recommended*

  196. James Joyce

    197. Finnegans Wake
    1939—English

  197. James Baldwin

    198. The Fire Next Time
    originally published Dec. 1962 as 'Letter From a Region in My Mind', in the Progressive; and Nov. 1963 as 'Down at the Cross', in the New Yorker—English

  198. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    V Kruge Pervom
    In the First Circle
    1968; expanded 1978—Russian

    • John Cheever

    199. 'The Five-Forty-Eight'
    originally published in the New Yorker; included in The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories, 1959—English

  199. Bernard Malamud

    200. The Fixer
    1966—English

  200. Daniel Keyes

    201. Flowers for Algernon
    short story published April 1959 in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; novel published 1966—English

  201. Charles Baudelaire
    Les Fleurs du Mal
    The Flowers of Evil
    1857—French

    • J D Salinger

    202. 'For Esmé—In Love and Squalor'
    originally published Apr. 1950 in the New Yorker; included in Nine Stories, 1953—English

  202. Robert Lowell

    203. For the Union Dead
    1964—English

  203. Ernest Hemingway

    204. For Whom the Bell Tolls
    1940—English

    John Galsworthy
  204. The Man of Property

    205. 1906—English

  205. Indian Summer of a Forsyte

    206. 1918—English

  206. In Chancery

    207. 1920—English

  207. Awakening

    208. 1920—English

  208. To Let

    209. 1921—English

  209. T S Eliot

    210. Four Quartets
    originally published in four volumes: Burnt Norton, in Collected Poems 1909-1935, 1936; East Coker, in the New English Weekly, 1940; The Dry Salvages, in the New English Weekly, 1941; Little Gidding, in the New English Weekly, 1942—English

  210. Mary Shelley

    211. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    originally anonymously published 1818—English

  211. J D Salinger

    212. Franny and Zooey
    1961; 'Franny' originally published Jan. 1955 in the New Yorker; 'Zooey' originally published May 1957 in the New Yorker—English

  212. John Fowles

    213. The French Lieutenant's Woman
    1969—English

  213. Murasaki Shikibu

    214. Genji Monogatari
    The Tale of Genji
    ca. early Eleventh Century—Japanese

  214. Émile Zola

    215. Germinal
    originally published serially in Gil Blas Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885—French

  215. Henrik Ibsen
    Gengangere
    Ghosts
    1881—Norwegian

    • O Henry

    216. 'The Gift of the Magi'
    originally entitled 'Gifts of the Magi', published December 1905 in the New York Sunday World; included in The Four Million, 1906—English

  216. J P Donleavy

    217. The Ginger Man
    1955—English

  217. Lois Lowry

    218. The Giver
    1993—English

  218. Tennessee Williams

    219. The Glass Menagerie
    1944—English

  219. James Baldwin

    220. Go Tell It on the Mountain
    1953—English

  220. Arundhati Roy
    The God of Small Things
    1997—English

    • Philip Pullman

    221. Northern Lights
    1995; U S title, The Golden Compass; first of three volumes of His Dark Materials—English

  221. Pearl Buck
    The Good Earth
    1931—English

    • Flannery O'Connor

    222. 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'
    originally published 1953 in Modern Writing I; included in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955—English

  222. Ford Madox Ford

    223. The Good Soldier
    1915—English

  223. Doris Lessing

    224. The Good Terrorist
    1985—English

  224. John Steinbeck

    225. The Grapes of Wrath
    1939—English

  225. Neil Gaiman

    226. The Graveyard Book
    2008—English

  226. Thomas Pynchon

    227. Gravity's Rainbow
    1973—English

  227. Charles Dickens

    228. Great Expectations
    originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year Round—English

  228. F Scott Fitzgerald

    229. The Great Gatsby
    1925—English

  229. Knut Hamsun

    230. Markens Grøde
    Growth of the Soil
    originally published in two volumes, 1917—Norwegian

  230. Jonathan Swift

    231. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships
    Gulliver's Travels
    1726; revised 1735—English

  231. William Shakespeare

    232. Hamlet
    1602—English

  232. Evelyn Waugh

    233. A Handful of Dust
    1934—English

  233. Margaret Atwood

    234. The Handmaid's Tale
    1985—English

  234. Carson McCullers

    235. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    1940—English

  235. Joseph Conrad

    236. Heart of Darkness
    originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood's—English

  236. Henrik Ibsen

    237. Hedda Gabler
    1890—Norwegian

  237. Kathryn Stockett

    238. The Help
    2009—English

    William Shakespeare
  238. The First Part of Henry IV

    239. 1597—English

  239. The Second Part of Henry IV

    240. 1600—English

  240. Henry V

    241. 1599—English

  241. Euripides

    242. Hippolytos
    428 B.C—Greek

  242. Herodotus

    243. Historiē
    History
    Fifth Century B.C—Greek

  243. Douglas Adams

    244. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    1979 novel based on 1978 radio play—English

  244. J R R Tolkien

    245. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    1937—English

  245. Edith Wharton

    246. The House of Mirth
    1905—English

  246. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    247. The House of the Seven Gables
    1851—English

  247. Isabel Allende

    248. La Casa de los Espíritus
    The House of the Spirits
    1982—Spanish

  248. Philip Roth

    249. The Human Stain
    2000—English

  249. Saul Bellow

    250. Humboldt's Gift
    1975—English

  250. Victor Hugo

    251. Notre-Dame de Paris
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    1831—French

  251. Knut Hamsun
    Sult
    Hunger
    published in part, 1888, in Ny Jord; in its entirety, 1890—Norwegian

    • John Keats

    252. 'Hyperion'
    part of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

  252. Maya Angelou

    253. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    1969—English

  253. Eugene O'Neill

    254. The Iceman Cometh
    1946—English

  254. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    255. Idiot
    originally published serially 1868-9 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian

  255. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    256. Idylls of the King
    published in parts, 1859-85—English

  256. Homer

    257. Iliad
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C—Greek

  257. Oscar Wilde

    258. The Importance of Being Earnest
    1895—English

  258. Truman Capote
    In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
    originally published serially Sep.-Oct. 1965 in the New Yorker—English

    • E E Cummings

    259. 'in Just-
    originally published May 1920 in the Dial; included in Tulips and Chimneys, 1923—English

  259. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    260. In Memoriam A H H
    1849—English

  260. Jhumpa Lahiri

    261. Interpreter of Maladies
    1999; nine stories originally published in varied periodicals—English

  261. William Carlos Williams

    262. In the American Grain
    1925—English

  262. Ralph Ellison

    263. Invisible Man
    1952—English

  263. William Kennedy

    264. Ironweed
    1983—English

  264. Walter Scott

    265. Ivanhoe
    originally anonymously published 1819—English

  265. Charlotte Brontë

    266. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
    originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847—English

  266. Henry Fielding

    267. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams
    1742—English

  267. Amy Tan

    268. The Joy Luck Club
    1989—English

  268. Thomas Hardy

    269. Jude the Obscure
    originally published serially Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English

  269. William Shakespeare

    270. Julius Caesar
    1599—English

  270. Upton Sinclair

    271. The Jungle
    originally published serially in Appeal to Reason, Feb.-Nov. 1905—English

    Rudyard Kipling
  271. The Jungle Book

    272. 1894—English

  272. The Second Jungle Book

    273. 1895—English

  273. Robert Louis Stevenson

    274. Kidnapped
    originally published serially May-Jul. 1886 in Young Folks—English

  274. Rudyard Kipling

    275. Kim
    originally published serially Dec. 1900-Oct. 1901 in McClure's and Jan. 1901-Oct. 1901 in Cassell's—English

  275. William Shakespeare
    King Lear
    1606—English

    • Anton Chekhov

    276. 'Poceluj'
    'The Kiss'
    —Russian

  276. Khaled Hosseini

    277. The Kite Runner
    2003—English

  277. Edward P Jones

    278. The Known World
    2003—English

  278. Sigrid Undset
    Kristin Lavransdatter
    originally published in three volumes: Kransen, 1920; Husfrue, 1921; Korset, 1922—Norwegian

    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    279. 'Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream'
    originally published in Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision in a Dream; The Pains of Sleep, 1816—English

  279. D H Lawrence

    280. Lady Chatterley's Lover
    abridged version, 1928; complete work, 1960—English

  280. Oscar Wilde

    281. Lady Windmere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman
    1892—English

  281. James Fenimore Cooper

    282. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
    1826—English

  282. Nikos Kazantzakis

    283. The Last Temptation of Christ
    1953—Greek

  283. Walt Whitman
    Leaves of Grass
    1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892—English

    • William Butler Yeats

    284. 'Leda and the Swan'
    originally published Jun. 1924 in the Dial and Aug. 1924 in To-Morrow; also published as 'Leda' in the first version of A Vision, 1926; included in The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 1924; that book (except the play, The Cat and the Moon) made part of The Tower, 1928—English

  284. Ursula K Le Guin
    The Left Hand of Darkness
    1969—English
    *Bloom* *Harvard* *Recommended*

    • Washington Irving

    285. 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'
    part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848

  285. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

    286. Il Gattopardo
    The Leopard
    1958—Italian

  286. Colum McCann

    287. Let the Great World Spin
    2009—English

  287. James Agee

    288. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
    1941; photography by Walker Evans—English

  288. Pedro Calderón de la Barca

    289. La Vida es Sueño
    Life Is a Dream
    1635—Spanish

  289. Yann Martel

    290. Life of Pi
    2001—English

  290. James Boswell
    The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
    1791—English

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    291. 'Ligeia'
    originally published Sep. 1838 in the American Museum; revised for inclusion in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840; Phantasy Pieces, 1842; Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, 1845; the New York World, Feb. 1845; and the Broadway Journal, Sep. 1845—English

  291. William Faulkner

    292. Light in August
    1932—English

  292. John Hawkes
    The Lime Twig
    1961—English

    • William Wordsworth

    293. 'Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798'
    originally published in Lyrical Ballads, 1798—English

  293. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    294. Le Petit Prince
    1943—French

  294. Louisa M Alcott

    295. Little Women
    originally published in two volumes: Little Women, 1868; and Good Wives, 1869—English

  295. Lewis Thomas

    296. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
    1974; 29 essays originally published serially 1971-73 in the New England Journal of Medicine—English

  296. Plutarch

    297. Bìoi Paràllēloi
    Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
    First Century—Greek

  297. Samuel Johnson

    298. Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
    The Lives of the Poets
    published in part, 1744, as An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Strange, Son of the Earl Rivers; published in ten volumes, first-fifth in 1779 and sixth-tenth in 1781, as part of a larger set, The Works of the English Poets; published indepdently in six volumes, retitled The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1781—English

  298. Vladimir Nabokov

    299. Lolita
    1955—English

  299. Larry McMurty

    300. Lonesome Dove
    1985—English

  300. Eugene O'Neill

    301. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    1956—English

  301. Thomas Wolfe

    302. Look Homeward, Angel
    1929—English

  302. Joseph Conrad

    303. Lord Jim
    originally published serially Oct. 1899-Nov. 1900 in Blackwood's Magazine—English

  303. William Golding

    304. Lord of the Flies
    1954—English

  304. J R R Tolkien
    The Lord of the Rings
    published in three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 1954-55—English

    • Shirley Jackson

    305. 'The Lottery'
    originally published Jun. 1948 in the New Yorker—English

  305. Gabriel García Márquez
    El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    1985—Spanish

    • T S Eliot

    'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'
    originally published Jun. 1915 in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; included in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917—English

    • Bret Harte

    306. 'The Luck of Roaring Camp'
    originally published Aug. 1868 in Overland Monthly—English

  306. Aristophanes

    307. Lysistrate
    Lysistrata
    411 B C—Greek

  307. William Shakespeare

    308. Macbeth
    ca. 1607—English

  308. Gustave Flaubert

    309. Madame Bovary
    originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris—French

  309. Stephen Crane

    310. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
    1893; revised 1896—English

  310. Thomas Mann

    311. Der Zauberberg
    The Magic Mountain
    1924—German

  311. John Fowles

    312. The Magus
    1966; revised 1977—English

  312. Sinclair Lewis

    313. Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott
    1920—English

  313. George Bernard Shaw

    314. Major Barbara
    1905—English

  314. Dashiell Hammett

    315. The Maltese Falcon
    1930—English

  315. George Bernard Shaw

    316. Man and Superman
    performed in part, 1905; in its entirety, 1915—English

  316. Lord Byron

    317. Manfred
    1817—English

  317. André Malraux

    318. La Condition Humaine
    Man's Fate
    1933—French

  318. Jane Austen

    319. Mansfield Park
    originally anonymously published 1814—English

  319. Ray Bradbury
    The Martian Chronicles
    1950; stories originally published in varied periodicals: Planet Stories, Maclean's, the Arkham Sampler, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Imagination, Weird Tales, Other Worlds, Super Science Stories, Charm, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; expanded U K edition, entitled Silver Locusts, published 1951; expanded 1974; revised 1997—English

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    320. 'The Masque of the Red Death'
    originally entitled 'The Mask of the Red Death', published May 1842 in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine; retitled and revised for publication in the Broadway Journal, Jul. 1845—English

  320. Mikhail Bulgakov

    321. Mástyer i Margaríta
    The Master and Margarita; published in part, 1966-67, in Moskva; in its entirety, 1973; revised 1989—Russian

  321. Thomas Hardy

    322. The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character
    1886—English

  322. William Shakespeare

    323. Measure for Measure
    1604—English

  323. Carson McCullers

    324. The Member of the Wedding
    1946—English

  324. William Shakespeare

    325. The Merchant of Venice
    ca. 1596-98—English

  325. Ovid

    326. Metamorphoseon
    Metamorphoses
    8—Latin

  326. Franz Kafka

    327. Die Verwandlung
    The Metamorphosis
    originally published 1915 in Die Weißen Blätter—German

  327. Charles Johnson

    328. Middle Passage
    1990—English

  328. George Eliot

    329. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
    originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872—English

  329. Salman Rushdie

    330. Midnight's Children
    1981—English

  330. William Shakespeare

    331. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    ca. 1595-1600—English

  331. George Eliot

    332. The Mill on the Floss
    1860—English

  332. Molière

    333. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire Amoureux
    The Misanthrope
    1666—French

  333. Victor Hugo

    334. Les Misérables
    1862—French

  334. Stephen Jay Gould

    335. The Mismeasure of Man
    1981—English

  335. August Strindberg

    336. Fröken Julie
    Miss Julie
    written 1888—Swedish

  336. Virginia Woolf

    337. Mrs. Dalloway
    published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925—English

  337. Herman Melville

    338. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
    1851—English

  338. Jonathan Swift

    339. A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public
    originally anonymously published 1729—English

  339. Daniel Defoe

    340. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
    1722—English

  340. Wilkie Collins

    341. The Moonstone
    originally published serially 1868 in All the Year Round—English

  341. Thomas Malory

    342. Le Morte d'Arthur
    1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English

  342. William Shakespeare

    343. Much Ado About Nothing
    ca. 1598-99—English

  343. T S Eliot

    344. Murder in the Cathedral
    1935—English

  344. Agatha Christie
    Murder on the Orient Express
    Murder in the Calais Coach
    1934—English

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'
    originally published Apr. 1841 in Graham's Magazine; revised for inclusion in The Prose Romances of Edgar A Poe, 1843—English

    • W H Auden

    345. 'Musée des Beaux Arts'
    originally entitled 'Palais des Beaux Arts', published Spring 1939 in New Writing; retitled for inclusion in Another Time, 1940; included in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, 1966, and Collected Poems, 1976—English

  345. Willa Cather

    346. My Ántonia
    1918—English

  346. Orhan Pamuk

    347. Benim Adım Kırmızı
    My Name Is Red
    1998—Turkish

  347. Anne Radcliffe

    348. The Mysteries of Udolpho
    1794—English

  348. Umberto Eco

    349. Il nome della rosa
    1980—Italian

  349. Frederick Douglass

    350. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
    1845—English

  350. Richard Wright

    351. Native Son
    1940—English

  351. Bernard Malamud

    352. The Natural
    1952—English

  352. Jean-Paul Sartre

    353. La Nausée
    Nausea
    1938—French

  353. Charles Dickens

    354. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
    originally published serially Mar. 1838-Sep. 1839 under the pseudonym, Boz—English

  354. Elie Wiesel

    355. Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
    Night
    1954; abridged French translation, entitled La Nuit, published 1958; alternate abridged version, in English, entitled Night, published 1960—Yiddish

  355. George Orwell

    356. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    1949—English

  356. Jean-Paul Sartre

    357. Huis Clos
    No Exit
    1944—French

  357. Jane Austen

    358. Northanger Abbey
    originally anonymously published 1817—English

  358. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    359. Zapaski iz Podpol'â
    Notes From Underground
    1864—Russian

  359. Willa Cather
    O Pioneers!
    1913—English

    • Ambrose Bierce

    360. 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'
    originally published Jul. 1890 in the San Francisco Examiner; included in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891—English

  360. Frank Norris
    The Octopus: A Story of California
    1901—English

    • William Wordsworth

    'Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood'
    originally entitled 'Ode', published in Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807; retitled and revised for inclusion in Poems, 1815; revised for inclusion in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, 1820—English

    John Keats
    • 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

    originally anonymously published Jan. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • 'Ode to a Nightingale'

    originally published Jul. 1820 in Annals of the Fine Arts; included in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, 1820—English

    • Sappho

    361. 'Hymn to Aphrodite'
    lone complete poem among the fragments of the author's work; late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B C—Greek

  361. Homer

    362. Odýsseia
    The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C—Greek

    Sophocles
  362. Oidipous epi Kolōnō

    363. Oedipus at Colonus
    401 B C—Greek

  363. Oidipous Tyrannos

    364. Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
    ca. 429 B.C—Greek

  364. W Somerset Maugham

    365. Of Human Bondage
    1915—English

  365. John Steinbeck

    366. Of Mice and Men
    1937—English

  366. Kawabata Yasunari

    367. Koto
    The Old Capital
    1962—Japanese

  367. Ernest Hemingway

    368. The Old Man and the Sea
    1952—English

  368. Elizabeth Strout

    369. Olive Kitteridge
    2008—English

  369. Charles Dickens

    370. Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress
    originally published under the pseudonym, Boz, serially Feb. 1837-April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany—English

  370. John Stuart Mill

    371. On Liberty
    1859—English

  371. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

    372. On Death and Dying
    1969—English

  372. Titus Lucretius Carus

    373. De Rerum Natura
    On the Nature of Things
    First Century B.C—Latin

  373. Charles Darwin

    374. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
    1859—English

  374. Jack Kerouac

    375. On the Road
    published in part as 'The Mexican Girl', the Paris Review; 'Jazz of the Beat Generation', New World Writing; and 'A Billowy Trip in the World', New Dimensions; in its entirety, 1957; alternate version, 2007—English

  375. T H White

    376. The Once and Future King
    published in five volumes, 1938-71—English

  376. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    377. Odîn den' Ivána Denîsoviča
    A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    originally published Nov. 1962 in Nóvyj Mîr—Russian

  377. Ken Kesey

    378. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    1962—English

  378. Gabriel García Márquez
    Cien Anõs de Soledad
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    1967—Spanish

    • Stephan Crane

    'The Open Boat'
    originally published Jun. 1897 in Scribner's; included in The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, 1898—English

    • Saki

    379. 'The Open Window'
    originally published in the Westminster Gazette; part of Beasts and Super-Beasts, 1914—English

  379. Aeschylus

    380. Oresteia
    The House of Atreus
    458 B C—Greek

  380. Adam Johnson

    381. The Orphan Master's Son
    2012—English

  381. William Shakespeare

    382. Othello
    ca. 1604—English

  382. Thornton Wilder

    383. Our Town
    1938—English

  383. Isak Dinesen
    Out of Africa
    originally published under the author's given name, Karen Blixen, 1937; Danish version entitled Den Afrikanske Farm published the same year—English

    • Bret Harte

    384. 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat'
    originally published Jan. 1869 in Overland Monthly—English

  384. Colin Wilson
    The Outsider
    1956—English

    • Nikolai Gogol

    'Šinel''
    'The Overcoat'
    1842—Russian

    • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    385. 'Ozymandias'
    originally published Jan. 1818 in the Examiner; included in Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems, 1818—English

  385. Vladimir Nabokov

    386. Pale Fire
    1962—English

  386. Katherine Anne Porter

    387. Pale Horse, Pale Rider
    1939—English

  387. Samuel Richardson

    388. Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
    1740; later revised—English

    John Milton
  388. Paradise Lost

    389. 1667; revised 1674—English

  389. Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes

    390. 1671—English

  390. E M Forster

    391. A Passage to India
    1924—English

  391. William Carlos Williams
    Paterson
    published in five volumes: 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958—English

    • Willa Cather

    392. 'Paul's Case'
    originally published 1905 in McClure's—English

    --
  392. Pearl

    393. probably the same author as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (the "Pearl poet" or "Gawain poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English

  393. Henrik Ibsen

    394. Peer Gynt
    1867—Norwegian

  394. Blaise Pascal
    Pensées
    Thoughts
    1669—French

    • J D Salinger

    395. 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'
    originally Jan. 1948 published in the New Yorker; included in Nine Stories, 1953—English

  395. J M Barrie

    396. Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
    1904—English

  396. Jean Racine

    397. Phèdre
    1677—French

  397. Gaston Leroux

    398. Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
    The Phantom of the Opera
    originally published serially 1909-10—French

  398. Charles Dickens

    399. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
    The Pickwick Papers
    originally published serially Apr. 1836-Nov. 1837 under the pseudonym, Boz—English

  399. Oscar Wilde

    400. The Picture of Dorian Grey
    originally published Jul. 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; revised and expanded 1891; alternate earlier version published 2011—English

  400. William Carlos Williams

    401. Pictures From Brueghel
    1962—English

  401. John Bunyan
    The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
    1678—English

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    402. 'The Pit and the Pendulum'
    originally published 1842 in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, May 1845—English

  402. Albert Camus

    403. La Peste
    The Plague
    1947—French

  403. John Millington Synge

    404. The Playboy of the Western World
    1907—English

  404. Vladimir Nabokov

    405. Pnin
    1957—English

  405. Aristotle

    406. Peri Poiêtikês
    De Poetica; Poetics
    Fourth Century B.C—Greek

  406. Emily Dickinson

    407. The Poems of Emily Dickinson
    1890—English

  407. James Joyce

    408. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the Egoist—English

  408. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    409. Besy
    Demons; The Devils; The Possessed
    1872—Russian

  409. James M Cain

    410. The Postman Always Rings Twice
    1934—English

  410. William James

    411. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
    1907—English

  411. Desiderius Erasmus

    412. Stultitiae Laus
    In Praise of Folly
    1511; later revised—Latin

  412. John Irving

    413. A Prayer for Owen Meaney
    1989—English

  413. William Wordsworth

    414. The Prelude or, Growth of the Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
    1850; earlier versions written 1799 and 1805—English

  414. Jane Austen

    415. Pride and Prejudice
    originally anonymously published 1813—English

  415. Muriel Spark

    416. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    1961—English

  416. Niccolò Machiavelli

    417. Il Principe
    The Prince
    1532—Italian

  417. Mark Twain

    418. The Prince and the Pauper
    1881—English

  418. William Goldman

    419. The Princess Bride
    1973—English

  419. Noël Coward

    420. Private Lives
    1930—English

  420. Aeschylus

    421. Promētheus Desmōtēs
    Prometheus Bound
    disputed authorship; Fifth Century B C—Greek

  421. Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Prometheus Unbound
    1820—English

    • D H Lawrence

    'The Prussian Officer'
    included in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, 1914—English

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    422. 'The Purloined Letter'
    originally published 1844 in the The Gift for 1845; included in Tales, 1845—English

  422. George Bernard Shaw

    423. Pygmalion
    1913—English

  423. Lorraine Hansberry

    424. A Raisin in the Sun
    1959—English

  424. Alexander Pope

    425. The Rape of the Lock
    originally anonymously published in Linot's Miscellany 1712; expanded 1714 and 1717—English

  425. Samuel Johnson

    426. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
    The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
    1759—English

  426. Daphne du Maurier

    427. Rebecca
    1938—English

  427. Albert Camus

    428. L'Homme Révolté
    The Rebel
    1951—French

  428. Stendhal

    429. Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle
    The Red and the Black
    1830—French

  429. Stephen Crane

    430. The Red Badge of Courage
    published in part serially Dec. 1894 in the Philadelphia Press; in its entirety, 1895—English

  430. John Steinbeck

    431. The Red Pony
    originally published in part serially 1933-36; in its entirety, 1937—English

  431. Anita Diamant

    432. The Red Tent
    1997—English

  432. Marcel Proust

    433. À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
    In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
    originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27—French

  433. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    434. Representative Men: Seven Lectures
    1850—English

  434. Plato

    435. Politeia
    The Republic
    early Fourth Century B.C—Greek

  435. Thomas Hardy

    436. The Return of the Native
    originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1878 in Belgravia, the Magazine of Fashion and Amusement—English

    William Shakespeare
  436. Richard II

    437. 1597—English

  437. Richard III

    438. ca. 1592-7—English

  438. Thomas Paine
    The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
    originally published in two volumes, 1791 and 1792—English

    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    439. 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'
    originally published in Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798; revised for inclusion in Sibylline Leaves, 1817—English

  439. Robert Browning
    The Ring and the Book
    published in four volumes, 1868-69—English

    • Washington Irving

    440. 'Rip Van Winkle'
    part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848

  440. William Dean Howells
    The Rise of Silas Lapham
    1885—English

    • Robert Frost

    441. 'The Road Not Taken'
    originally published Aug. 1915 in the Atlantic Monthly; part of Mountain Interval, 1916—seaEnglish
    *Van Doren* *Fadiman* *Recommended*

  441. Daniel Defoe
    The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
    originally anonymously published 1719—English

    • D H Lawrence

    442. 'The Rocking-Horse Winner'
    originally published Jul. 1926 in Harper's Bazaar; included in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories, 1928—English

  442. William Shakespeare

    443. Romeo and Juliet
    ca. 1591-97—English

  443. E M Forster
    A Room With a View
    1908—English

    • William Faulkner

    444. 'A Rose for Emily'
    originally published Apr. 1930 in Forum—English

  444. Tom Stoppard

    445. Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    1966—English

  445. Omar Khayyam
    The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
    ca. Eleventh-Twelfth centuries; compiled by Edward FitzGerald in five editions, 1859, 1868, 1872, 1879, and 1889—Persian

    • William Butler Yeats

    446. 'Sailing to Byzantium'
    part of October Blast, 1927; published Spring 1928 in the Exile; October Blast made part of The Tower, 1928—English

  446. George Bernard Shaw
    Saint Joan
    1923—English

    • John Milton

    447. 'Samson Agonistes'
    part of Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes, 1671; *Recommended* lists both Paradise Regained and this poem separately—English

  447. William Faulkner

    448. Sanctuary
    1931—English

  448. Salman Rushdie

    449. The Satanic Verses
    1988—English

  449. Petronius

    450. Satyricon
    late First Century—Latin

  450. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    451. The Scarlet Letter
    1850—English

  451. Thomas Keneally

    452. Schindler's Ark
    1982; some later editions entitled Schindler's List—English
    --

  452. The Seafarer

    453. written ca. Tenth century—English

  453. Anton Chekhov

    454. Čajka
    The Seagull
    1896—Russian

  454. Jack London

    455. The Sea-Wolf
    1904—English

  455. Frances Hodgson Burnett
    The Secret Garden
    originally published serially 1910-11 in the American Magazine—English

    • Joseph Conrad

    456. 'The Secret Sharer'
    originally published 1910 in Harper's; included in Twixt Land and Sea, 1912—English

  456. Saul Bellow

    457. Seize the Day
    1956—English

  457. Jane Austen

    458. Sense and Sensibility
    originally published under the pseudonym, A Lady, 1811—English

  458. Gustave Flaubert

    459. L'Éducation Sentimentale
    1869—French

  459. John Knowles

    460. A Separate Peace
    1959—English

  460. Isak Dinesen

    461. Seven Gothic Tales
    1934; Danish version entitled Syv Fantastiske Fortaellinger published 1935—English

  461. Oliver Goldsmith

    462. She Stoops to Conquer
    1773—English

  462. Katherine Anne Porter

    463. Ship of Fools
    1962—English

  463. Sǿren Kierkegaard

    464. Sygdommen til Dǿden
    The Sickness Unto Death
    originally published under the pseudonym, Anti-Climacus, 1849—Danish

  464. Herman Hesse
    Siddhartha
    1922—German

    • Vladimir Nabokov

    465. 'Signs and Symbols'
    originally entitled 'Symbols and Signs', published May 1958 in the New Yorker; retitled for inclusion in Nabokov's Dozen, 1948—French

  465. George Eliot

    466. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
    1861—English

  466. Mikhail Sholokhov

    467. Tihij Don
    originally published in four volumes: first-third (English title: And Quiet Flows the Don) serially 1928-32 in Oktâbr' (October); fourth (English title: The Don Flows Home to Sea) serially 1937-40 in Novyj Mir (The New World)—Russian

  467. Rachel Carson
    Silent Spring
    originally published Jun. 1962 in the New Yorker—English

    • Gustave Flaubert

    468. 'Un Cœur Simple'
    part of Trois Contes, 1877—French

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  468. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    469. probably the same author as Pearl (the "Gawain poet" or "Pearl poet"); late Fourteenth Century—English

  469. Theodore Dreiser

    470. Sister Carrie
    1900—English

  470. Luigi Pirandello

    471. Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore
    Six Characters in Search of an Author
    1921—Italian

  471. Kurt Vonnegut

    472. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
    1969—English

  472. Ken Kesey

    473. Sometimes a Great Notion
    1964—English

  473. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    474. The Song of Hiawatha
    1855—English

  474. William Blake

    475. Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
    published in part, 1789, as Songs of Innocence; in its entirety, 1794—English

  475. William Shakespeare

    476. Sonnets
    1609; two sonnets originally published in The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599—English

  476. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    477. Sonnets From the Portuguese
    1850—English

  477. Rainer Maria Rilke

    478. Die Sonette an Orpheus
    The Sonnets to Orpheus
    1923—German

  478. D H Lawrence

    479. Sons and Lovers
    1913—English

  479. William Styron

    480. Sophie's Choice
    1979—English

  480. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    481. Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers
    The Sorrows of Young Werther
    1774; revised 1787—German

  481. John Barth

    482. The Sot-Weed Factor
    1960—English

  482. William Faulkner

    483. The Sound and the Fury
    1929—English

  483. Thomas Kyd

    484. The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo Is Mad Again
    ca. 1587—English

  484. Mishima Yukio

    485. Haru no Yuki
    Spring Snow
    1969—Japanese

  485. Herman Hesse

    486. Der Steppenwolf
    1927—German

  486. William Trevor

    487. The Story of Lucy Gault
    2002—English

  487. Eugene O'Neill

    488. Strange Interlude
    1928—English

  488. Albert Camus

    489. L'Étranger
    The Stranger
    1942—French

  489. Robert A Heinlen

    490. Stranger in a Strange Land
    1961; alternate version published 1991—English

  490. Tennessee Williams

    491. A Streetcar Named Desire
    1947—English

  491. Thomas Aquinas

    492. Summa Theologiae
    Summa Theologica
    written 1265-74—Latin

  492. Ernest Hemingway
    The Sun Also Rises
    1926—English

    • John Cheever

    493. 'The Swimmer'
    originally published Jul. 1864 in the New Yorker; included in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, 1964—English

  493. Charles Dickens

    494. A Tale of Two Cities
    originally published serially Apr.-Nov. 1859 in All the Year Round—English

  494. Patricia Highsmith

    495. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    1955—English

  495. Christopher Marlowe

    496. Tamburlaine the Great
    1590—English

  496. William Shakespeare

    497. The Taming of the Shrew
    ca. 1592-94—English

  497. Lăozĭ (Lao-tzu) (Laocius)

    498. Dàodéjĭng
    Tao te Ching
    ca. Sixth Century B.C—Chinese

  498. Molière
    Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur
    1664—French

    • Edgar Allan Poe

    499. 'The Tell-Tale Heart'
    originally published Jan. 1843 in the Pioneer; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, Aug. 1845—English

  499. William Shakespeare

    500. The Tempest
    1611—English

  500. John Reed

    501. Ten Days That Shook the World
    1919—English

  501. F Scott Fitzgerald

    502. Tender Is the Night
    originally published serially Jan.-Apr. 1934 in Scribner's Magazine—English

  502. Thomas Hardy

    503. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
    published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the Graphic—English

  503. Zora Neale Hurston

    504. Their Eyes Were Watching God
    1937—English

  504. Chinua Achebe

    505. Things Fall Apart
    1958—English

  505. Tim O'Brien

    506. The Things They Carried
    1990—English

    Sean O'Casey
  506. Juno and the Paycock

    507. 1924—English

  507. The Plough and the Stars

    508. 1926—English

  508. The Silver Tassie

    509. 1929—English

  509. Anton Chekhov

    510. Tri Sestry
    Three Sisters
    1901—Russian

  510. Lewis Carroll

    511. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
    1871—English

  511. Friedrich Nietzsche

    512. Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
    Thus Spake Zarathustra
    originally published in four volumes, 1883-85—German

  512. H G Wells

    513. The Time Machine
    1895—English

  513. Günter Grass

    514. Die Blechtrommel
    The Tin Drum
    1959—German

  514. Harper Lee

    515. To Kill a Mockingbird
    1960—English

  515. Virginia Woolf

    516. To the Lighthouse
    1927 —English

  516. Henry Fielding

    517. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    1749—English

  517. Robert Louis Stevenson

    518. Treasure Island
    originally entitled Treasure Island or, The Mutiny of the Hispaniola, published serially 1891-92 in Young Folks under the pseudonym, Captain George North—English

  518. Betty Smith

    519. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    1943—English

    Franz Kafka
  519. Der Prozess

    520. The Trial
    1925—German

  520. Laurence Sterne

    521. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
    originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67—English

  521. Euripides

    522. Trōiades
    The Trojan Woman
    415 B.C—Greek

  522. Henry Miller

    523. Tropic of Capricorn
    1938—English

  523. Henry James

    524. The Turn of the Screw
    originally published in The Two Magics, with a second novella, Covering End, 1898—English

  524. William Shakespeare

    525. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
    1602—English

  525. Jules Verne

    526. Vingt Mille Lieues Souls les Mers
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    1870—French

  526. Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

    527. Two Years Before the Mast
    1840; revised and expanded 1869—English

  527. James Joyce

    528. Ulysses
    published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922—English

  528. Milan Kundera

    529. Nesnesitelná Lehkost Bytí
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    1984; originally published in its French translation, L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'Être; the original Czech, 1985—Czech

  529. Harriet Beecher Stowe

    530. Uncle Tom's Cabin
    1852—English

  530. Anton Chekhov

    531. Dâdâ Vanâ
    Uncle Vanya
    1897—Russian

  531. Dylan Thomas

    532. Under Milk Wood
    1953—English

  532. Malcolm Lowry

    533. Under the Volcano
    1947—English

    John Dos Passos
  533. The 42nd Parallel

    534. 1930—English

  534. 1919

    535. 1932—English

  535. The Big Money

    536. 1936—English

  536. Thomas More
    Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
    Utopia
    1516—Latin

    • John Donne

    537. 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'
    written ca. 1611-12; part of Poems With Elegies on the Authors Death [1633]—English

  537. William Makepeace Thackeray

    538. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
    originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848—English

  538. William James

    539. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902
    1902; edited lectures—English

  539. Oliver Goldsmith

    540. The Vicar of Wakefield
    1766—English

  540. Mary Wollstonecraft

    541. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    1792—English

  541. Jennifer Egan

    542. A Visit from the Goon Squad
    2010—English

  542. Ben Jonson

    543. Volpone
    1606—English

  543. Samuel Beckett

    544. En Attendant Godot
    Waiting for Godot
    1953—French

  544. Henry David Thoreau
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    1854—English

    • Jean-Paul Sartre

    545. 'Le Mur'
    'The Wall'
    part of Le Mur, 1939—French

    --
  545. The Wanderer

    546. written ca. Fifth-Tenth centuries—English

  546. John Cheever

    547. The Wapshot Chronicle
    1957—English

  547. Leo Tolstoy

    548. Voyna i Mir"
    War and Peace
    originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869—Russian

  548. H G Wells

    549. The War of the Worlds
    originally published serially 1897 in Pearson's Magazine—English

  549. Henry James
    Washington Square
    originally published serially 1880 in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine—English

    • T S Eliot

    550. 'The Waste Land'
    originally published Oct. 1922 in the Criterion—English

  550. Richard Adams

    551. Watership Down
    1972—English

  551. Virginia Woolf

    552. The Waves
    1931—English

  552. Samuel Butler

    553. The Way of All Flesh
    1903; written 1873-74—English

  553. William Congreve

    554. The Way of the World
    1700—English

  554. Dave Eggers

    555. What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentinno Achak Deng
    2006—English=

  555. Robertson Davies

    556. What's Bred in the Bone
    1985—English

  556. Edward Albee

    557. Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?
    1962—English

  557. William Butler Yeats

    558. The Wild Swans at Coole
    originally entitled The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, published 1917; includes the play, At the Hawk's Well; retitled and expanded 1919 to include Nine Poems [1918] and additional poems; At the Hawk's Well later included in Four Plays for Dancers, 1921—English

  558. Kenneth Grahame

    559. The Wind in the Willows
    1908—English

  559. Sherwood Anderson

    560. Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life
    1919; twenty-two stories, ten of which originally published in periodicals: 'The Book of the Grotesque', Feb. 1916 in Masses; 'Hands', Mar. 1916 in Masses; 'Paper Pills' (originally entitled 'The Philosopher'), Jun.-Jul. 1916 in the Little Review, ; 'The Strength of God', Aug. 1916 in Masses; 'Queer', Dec. 1916 in Seven Arts; 'The Untold Lie', Jan. 17 in Seven Arts; 'Mother', Mar. 1917 in Seven Arts; 'The Thinker', Sep. 1917 in Seven Arts; 'The Man of Ideas', Jun. 1918 in the Little Review; 'An Awakening', Dec. 1918 in the Little Review—English

  560. A A Milne

    561. Winnie-the-Pooh
    published in part serially 1924-25; in its entirety, 1926—English

  561. William Shakespeare

    562. The Winter's Tale
    ca. 1611—English

  562. Abe Kobo

    563. Suna no Onna
    The Woman in the Dunes
    1962—Japanese

  563. Maxine Hong Kingston

    564. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
    1976—English

  564. D H Lawrence

    565. Women in Love
    1920—English

  565. L Frank Baum

    566. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    1900—English
    *Learning* *Graphic* *Recommended*

  566. Madeleine L'Engle

    567. A Wrinkle in Time
    1962—English

  567. Emily Brontë
    Wuthering Heights
    originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850—English

    • Isaac Bashevis Singer

    568. 'Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy'
    —Yiddish

  568. Thomas Wolfe

    569. You Can't Go Home Again
    1940—English

  569. Nikos Kazantzakis

    570. Zorba the Greek
    1946—Greek