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1.        Biblical Authors

(c.900 b.c.– c.100 a.d.)        

The Bible

2.       Homer

(8th century b.c.)

The Iliad (Lattimore trans., U. of Chicago)

3.       Homer

(8th century b.c.)

The Odyssey (Fitzgerald trans., Vintage)

4.      Lao Tzu

(6th century b.c.)

Tao Te Ching

5.       Aeschylus

(c.525-456 b.c.)

Greek Tragedies (3 vols, U. of Chicago ed.)

6.      Sophocles

(c.496-406 b.c.)

(see Aeschulus)

7.       Euripides

(c.485-406 b.c.)

(see Aeschulus)

8.      Thucydides

(c.460-c.400)

The Peloponnesian War

9.      Plato

(c.429-347 b.c.)

The Republic (Larson trans., Harlan Davidson)

10.    Aristotle

(384-322 b.c.)

Nicomachean Ethics

11.     Virgil

(70-19 b.c.)

The Aeneid (Knox/Fagles trans.)

12.    Ovid

(43 b.c.-17 a.d.)

Metamorphoses (Mandelbaum trans.)

13.    Augustine

(354-430)

Confessions

14.     (anonymous)

(13th cent.)

Njal’s Saga

15.    Jelaluddin Rumi

(1207- 1273)

The Essential Rumi

16.    Dante

(1265-1321)

The Divine Comedy (3 vols., Everyman’s Lib. 3-in-1)

17.    Giovanni Boccaccio

(1313-1375)

The Decameron

18.    Geoffrey Chaucer

(c.1343-1400)

The Canterbury Tales  (Penguin, Cogill trans.)

19.    Niccolò Machiavelli

(1469-1527)

The Prince

20.   Thomas More

(1478-1535)

Utopia

21.    François Rabelais

(c.1495-1553)

Gargantua and Pantagruel

22.   Miguel de Cervantes

(1547-1616)

Don Quixote  (Harper, Grossman trans.)

23.   William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

The Riverside Shakespeare

24.   John Milton

(1608-1674)

Paradise Lost

25.   Jonathan Swift

(1667-1745)

Gulliver’s Travels

26.   Voltaire

(1694-1778)

Candide

27.   Henry Fielding

(1707-1754)

Tom Jones

28.   Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(1712-1778)

The Confessions

29.   Laurence Sterne

(1713-1768)

Tristram Shandy

30.   Johann von Goethe

(1749-1832)

Faust (Part I)   (Oxford World's Classic)

31.    Mary Wollstonecraft

(1759-1797)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

32.   Jane Austen

(1775-1817)

Pride and Prejudice

33.   Stendhal

(1783-1842)

The Red and the Black

34.   Mary Shelley

(1797-1851)

Frankenstein

35.   John Stuart Mill

(1806-1873)

On Liberty

36.   Charles Dickens

(1812-1870)

David Copperfield

37.   Charles Dickens

(1812-1870)

Bleak House

38.   Charlotte Brontë

(1816-1855)

Jane Eyre

39.   Henry David Thoreau

(1817-1862)

Walden

40.  Emily Brontë

(1818-1848)

Wuthering Heights

41.    Ivan Turgenev

(1818-1883)

Fathers and Sons

42.   George Eliot

(1819-1880)

Middlemarch

43.   Herman Melville

(1819-1891)

Moby Dick

44.  Walt Whitman

(1819-1892)

Leaves of Grass

45.   Gustave Flaubert

(1821-1880)

Madame Bovary

46.  Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821-1881)

Crime and Punishment **

47.   Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821-1881)

The Brothers Karamazov **

48.  Henrik Ibsen

(1828-1906)

Four Major Plays (Vol. 1, Signet)

49.  Leo Tolstoy

(1828-1910)

War and Peace **

**  for all four Dostoevsky and Tolstoy books :  get the  Pevear and Volokhonsky  translations

50.   Leo Tolstoy

(1828-1910)

Anna Karenina **

51.    Mark Twain

(1835-1910)

Huckleberry Finn

52.   Thomas Hardy

(1840-1928)

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

53.   William James

(1842-1910)

Varieties of Religious Experience

54.   Henry James

(1843-1916)

The Portrait of a Lady

55.   Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844-1900)

The Basic Writings of Nietzsche (RH Modern Lib)

56.   Sigmund Freud

(1856-1939)

Civilization and Its Discontents

57.   Joseph Conrad

(1857-1924)

Heart of Darkness

58.   Knut Hamsun

(1859-1952)

Hunger

59.   Anton Chekhov

(1860-1904)

Plays

60.  André Gide

(1869-1951)

The Immoralist

61.    Marcel Proust

(1871-1922)

Swann’s Way

62.   Rainer Maria Rilke

(1875-1926)

Letters to a Young Poet

63.   Thomas Mann

(1875-1955)

Death in Venice

64.  Thomas Mann

(1875-1955)

The Magic Mountain

65.   E.M. Forster

(1879-1970)

Howard's End

66.  James Joyce

(1882-1941)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

67.   James Joyce

(1882-1941)

Ulysses

68.  Virginia Woolf

(1882-1941)

To the Lighthouse

69.  Franz Kafka

(1883-1924)

The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics ed.)

70.   Isak Dinesen

(1885-1962)

Seven Gothic Tales

71.    D.H. Lawrence

(1885-1930)

Women in Love

72.   Mikhail Bulgakov

(1891-1940)

The Master and Margarita (** Pevear and Vol  trans)

73.   F. Scott Fitzgerald

(1896-1940)

The Great Gatsby

74.   William Faulkner

(1897-1962)

Light in August

75.   Ernest Hemingway

(1899-1961)

For Whom the Bell Tolls

76.   Vladimir Nabokov

(1899-1977)

Lolita

77.   Jorge Luis Borges

(1899-1986)

Collected Fictions

78.   Marguerite Yourcenar

(1903-1987)

Memoirs of Hadrian

79.   Samuel Beckett

(1906-1989)

Endgame

80.  Albert Camus

(1913-1960)

The Plague

81.    Robertson Davies

(1913-1995)

The Cornish Trilogy

82.   Ralph Ellison

(1914-1994)

Invisible Man

83.   Iris Murdoch

(1919-1999)

The Sea, the Sea

84.  Jose Saramago

(1922-2010)

Blindness

85.   Italo Calvino

(1923-1985)

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler

86.  Nadine Gordimer

(1923- )

Jump (Short Stories)

87.   Flannery O’Connor

(1925-1964)

The Complete Stories

88.  John Fowles

(1926- )

The Magus

89.  Gabriel García Márquez

(1928- )

One Hundred Years of Solitude

90.  Milan Kundera

(1929- )

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

91.    Chinua Achebe

(1930- )

Things Fall Apart

92.   Toni Morrison

(1931- )

The Bluest Eye

93.   Tom Stoppard

(1937- )

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

94.  Margaret Atwood

(1939- )

The Blind Assassin

                        Isabel Allende     (1942- The House of the Spirits    (rec matt reeve)

95.   Salman Rushdie

(1947- )

Midnight’s Children

96.   Ian McEwan

(1948- )

Atonement

97.   Louise Erdrich

(1954- )

Love Medicine

98.  Kazuo Ishiguro

(1954- )

The Remains of the Day

99.        Czeslaw Milosz, ed.

(1911- )

A Book of Luminous things

100.    Bly, Hillman and Meade, eds.

(1926- )

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart

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