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To the Lake,
Kapka Kassabova
What is Life,
Erwin Schrodinger
Enneads,
Plotinus
Favorites
Never Let Me Go,
Kazuo Ishiguro
A Stranger in This World,
Kevin Canty
Annihilation,
Jeff VanderMeer
Cancer Ward,
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Old School,
Tobias Wolff
Facing the Music,
Larry Brown
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
Hunter S. Thompson
Post Office,
Charles Bukowski
The Goldfinch,
Donna Tartt
The Chosen,
Chaim Potok
Classics
The Oresteia,
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound,
Aeschylus
Birds,
Aristophanes
The Clouds,
Aristophanes
Nicomachean Ethics,
Aristotle
Physics,
Aristotle
Metaphysics,
Aristotle
On the Soul,
Aristotle
Poetics,
Aristotle
Politics,
Aristotle
Meditations,
Marcus Aurelius
Discourses,
Epictetus
The Bacchae,
Euripides
Medea,
Euripides
The Histories,
Herodotus
The Iliad,
Homer
The Odyssey,
Homer
On the Nature of Things,
Titus Lucretius Carus
Apology,
Plato
Crito,
Plato
Gorgias,
Plato
Meno,
Plato
Phaedo,
Plato
Phaedrus,
Plato
The Republic,
Plato
The Sophist,
Plato
Timaeus,
Plato
Symposium,
Plato
Theaetetus,
Plato
Romeo and Juliet,
William Shakespeare
Henry V,
William Shakespeare
Hamlet,
William Shakespeare
Othello,
William Shakespeare
King Lear,
William Shakespeare
Macbeth,
William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew,
William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing,
William Shakespeare
As You Like It,
William Shakespeare
Ajax,
Sophocles
Oedipus the King,
Sophocles
Oedipus at Kolonos,
Sophocles
Philoktetes,
Sophocles
Antigone,
Sophocles
Annals of Imperial Rome,
Tacitus
The Peloponnesian War,
Thucydides
Beowulf,
Unknown
The Aeneid,
Virgil
Fiction
Watership Down,
Richard Adams
The Outlander,
Gil Adamson
Indian Killer,
Sherman Alexie
The Evil B. B. Chow and Other Stories,
Steve Almond
My Life in Heavy Metal,
Steve Almond
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America,
Steve Almond
Perhaps Women,
Sherwood Anderson
Nemesis,
Isaac Asimov
The Handmaid's Tale,
Margaret Atwood
Beware of God,
Shalom Auslander
Foreskin's Lament,
Shalom Auslander
Jonathan Livingston Seagull,
Richard Bach
Foregone,
Russell Banks
A Permanent Member of the Family,
Russell Banks
Lost Memory of Skin,
Russell Banks
The Sweet Hereafter,
Russell Banks
Cloudsplitter,
Russell Banks
The Reserve,
Russell Banks
Continental Drift,
Russell Banks
Trailer Park,
Russell Banks
Rule of the Bone,
Russell Banks
Affliction,
Russell Banks
The Hermit's Story,
Rick Bass
Eon,
Greg Bear
The Doctor's House,
Ann Beattie
Henderson the Rain King,
Saul Bellow
More Die of Heartbreak,
Saul Bellow
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake,
Aimee Bender
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,
John Berendt
Civil War Stories,
Ambrose Bierce
A Man for All Seasons,
Robert Bolt
The Wettest County in the World (also published as Lawless),
Matt Bondurant
Drop City,
T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Martian Chronicles,
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451,
Ray Douglas Bradbury
The Da Vinci Code,
Dan Brown
A Miracle of Catfish,
Larry Brown
Big Bad Love,
Larry Brown
Billy Ray's Farm,
Larry Brown
Dirty Work,
Larry Brown
Facing the Music,
Larry Brown
Father and Son,
Larry Brown
Fay,
Larry Brown
Joe,
Larry Brown
The Good Earth,
Pearl S. Buck
Factotum,
Charles Bukowski
Post Office,
Charles Bukowski
Ham on Rye,
Charles Bukowski
Women,
Charles Bukowski
The Captain,
Charles Bukowski
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town: Stories,
Charles Bukowski
A Clockwork Orange,
Anthony Burgess
Naked Lunch,
William S. Burroughs
Junkie,
William S. Burroughs
Queer,
William S. Burroughs
Cities of the Red Night,
William S. Burroughs
Erewhon,
Samuel Butler
Tobacco Road,
Erskine Caldwell
The Stranger,
Albert Camus
The Underworld,
Kevin Canty
Where the Money Went: Stories,
Kevin Canty
Into the Great Wide Open,
Kevin Canty
Nine Below Zero,
Kevin Canty
Honeymoon,
Kevin Canty
Winslow in Love,
Kevin Canty
A Stranger in this World: Stories,
Kevin Canty
Apaches,
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Gangster,
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Sleepers,
Lorenzo Carcaterra
The Signal,
Ron Carlson
Madonna Red,
James Carroll
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman,
Angela Carter
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories,
Raymond Carver
Where I'm Calling From,
Raymond Carver
Fires,
Raymond Carver
Spartina,
John Casey
My Antonia,
Willa Cather
Falconer,
John Cheever
The Complete Short Novels,
Anton Chekhov
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895,
Anton Chekhov
The Alchemist,
Paul Coelho
Heart of Darkness,
Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer,
Joseph Conrad
The Red Badge of Courage,
Stephen Crane
The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane,
Stephen Crane
A Feast of Snakes,
Harry Crews
Florida Frenzy: Essays,
Harry Crews
The Mulching of America,
Harry Crews
The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac,
Kris D'Agostino
The Farming of Bones,
Edwidge Danticat
White Noise,
Don DeLillo
Paris Trout,
Pete Dexter
Drown: Stories,
Junot Diaz
This is How You Lose Her,
Junot Diaz
City of God,
E. L. Doctorow
All the Light We Cannot See,
Anthony Doerr
The Shell Collector: Stories,
Anthony Doerr
Crime and Punishment,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
My Only Sunshine,
Lou Dischler
Adultery and Other Choices,
Andre Dubus
Selected Stories,
Andre Dubus
Dancing After Hours: Stories,
Andre Dubus
The Cage Keeper and Other Stories,
Andre Dubus
So Much a Part of You,
Polly Dugan
The French Broad,
Wilma Dykeman
Walking Across Egypt,
Clyde Edgerton
A Visit from the Goon Squad,
Jennifer Egan
What is the What,
Dave Eggers
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg,
Deborah Eisenberg
Silas Marner,
George Eliot
Selected Poems,
T. S. Eliot
Invisible Man,
Ralph Ellison
Ask the Dust,
John Fante
April Morning,
Howard Fast
The Sound and the Fury,
William Cuthbert Faulkner
The Great Gatsby,
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gone Girl,
Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects,
Gillian Flynn
The Ticking Is the Bomb,
Nick Flynn
Everything Is Illuminated,
Jonathan Safran Foer
Independence Day,
Richard Ford
The Sportswriter,
Richard Ford
Women with Men,
Richard Ford
Wildlife,
Richard Ford
Rock Springs,
Richard Ford
Canada,
Richard Ford
Palo Alto,
James Franco
Cold Mountain,
Charles Frazier
Nightwoods,
Charles Frazier
The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2003,
Laura Furman (ed.)
Food: A Love Story,
Jim Gaffigan
Bad Behavior,
Mary Gaitskill
The Tesseract,
Alex Garland
The Beach,
Alex Garland
Strangers to Temptation,
Scott Gould
Swimming to Cambodia,
Spalding Gray
Monster in a Box,
Spalding Gray
Lord of the Flies,
William Golding
Autobiography of a Face,
Lucy Grealy
The Secret River,
Kate Grenville
The Idea of Perfection,
Kate Grenville
The Lieutenant,
Kate Grenville
Black Like Me,
John Howard Griffin
Follow Me: Stories,
Paul Griner
New Stories from the South: 2006,
Allan Gurganus (ed.)
Bound for Glory,
Woody Guthrie
A Real Good War,
Sam Halpert
Hunger,
Knut Hamsun
Airships,
Barry Hannah
Legends of the Fall,
Jim Harrison
The Beast God Forgot to Invent,
Jim Harrison
The Scarlet Letter,
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22,
Joseph Heller
Green Hills of Africa,
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea,
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls,
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms,
Ernest Hemingway
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel,
Amy Hempel
Stranger in a Strange Land,
Robert A. Heinlein
Lost Horizon,
James Hilton
Smilla's Sense of Snow,
Peter Hoeg
High Fidelity,
Nick Hornby
Fireman's Fair,
Josephine Humphreys
Nowhere Else on Earth,
Josephine Humphreys
Rich in Love,
Josephine Humphreys
Dreams of Sleep,
Josephine Humphreys
Brave New World,
Aldous Huxley
A Prayer for Owen Meany,
John Irving
Last Night at Twisted River,
John Irving
Never Let Me Go,
Kazuo Ishiguro
A Pale View of Hills,
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lottery and other Stories,
Shirley Jackson
Jesus' Son,
Denis Johnson
Tree of Smoke,
Denis Johnson
Dubliners,
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
James Joyce
Pu-239: a Novella and Stories,
Ken Kalfus
Love Me,
Garrison Keillor
The Book of Guys: Stories,
Garrison Keillor
Legs,
William Kennedy
Demon Box,
Ken Kesey
Sometimes a Great Notion,
Ken Kesey
Flowers for Algernon,
Daniel Keyes
Captains Courageous,
Rudyard Kipling
Redeployment,
Phil Klay
My Struggle, Book 1,
Karl Ove Knausgaard
A Separate Peace,
John Knowles
Bird by Bird,
Anne Lamott
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
Stieg Larsson
Aaron's Rod,
D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover,
D. H. Lawrence
Independent People,
Halldor Laxness
The Fish Can Sing,
Halldor Laxness
Disquiet,
Julia Leigh
A Wrinkle in Time,
Madeleine L'Engle
A Wind in the Door,
Madeleine L'Engle
Survival in Auschwitz,
Primo Levi
The Screwtape Letters,
C. S. Lewis
Main Street,
Sinclair Lewis
The Job,
Sinclair Lewis
White Fang,
Jack London
The Call of the Wild,
Jack London
Evangeline,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Falling Boy,
David Long
God's Grace,
Bernard Malamud
The Assistant,
Bernard Malamud
Pictures of Fidelman,
Bernard Malamud
The Tenants,
Bernard Malamud
The Magic Barrel: Stories,
Bernard Malamud
The Fixer,
Bernard Malamud
The Natural,
Bernard Malamud
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,
Hilary Mantel
Matterhorn,
Karl Marlantes
One Hundred Years of Solitude,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life of Pi,
Yann Martel
In Paradise,
Peter Matthiessen
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,
Peter Matthiessen
The Orchard Keeper,
Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men,
Cormac McCarthy
The Road,
Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark,
Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing,
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian,
Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses,
Cormac McCarthy
Tularosa,
Michael McGarrity
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,
Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,
Carson McCullers
Charming Billy,
Alice McDermott
On Chesil Beach,
Ian McEwan
Lake Overturn,
Vestal McIntyre
The Fear of Everything: Stories,
John McNally
Moby Dick,
Herman Melville
The Best American Short Stories, 2004,
Lorrie Moore (ed.)
Travelers Rest,
Keith Lee Morris
Call it What You Want,
Keith Lee Morris
The Dart League King,
Keith Lee Morris
The Greyhound God,
Keith Lee Morris
The Best Seats in the House and Other Stories,
Keith Lee Morris
The Best American Short Stories, 2003,
Walter Mosley (ed.)
Half a Life,
V. S. Naipaul
Black Elk Speaks,
as told through John G. Neihardt
Bone,
Fae Myenne Ng
The Refugees,
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer,
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Flannery O'Connor the Complete Stories,
Flannery O'Connor
Master and Commander,
Patrick O'Brian
Tomcat in Love,
Tim O'Brien
Northern Lights,
Tim O'Brien
Going After Cacciato,
Tim O'Brien
The Nuclear Age,
Tim O'Brien
In the Lake of the Woods,
Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried,
Tim O'Brien
July, July,
Tim O'Brien
The English Patient,
Michael Onadaatje
Burmese Days,
George Orwell
Animal Farm,
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four,
George Orwell
Fight Club,
Chuck Palahniuk
Choke,
Chuck Palahniuk
Bel Canto,
Ann Patchett
Truth and Beauty,
Ann Patchett
Refresh, Refresh,
Benjamin Percy
The Wilding,
Benjamin Percy
The Second Coming,
Walker Percy
The Moviegoer,
Walker Percy
Bad Haircut: Stories,
Tom Perrotta
Joe College,
Tom Perrotta
Little Children,
Tom Perrotta
The Abstinence Teacher,
Tom Perrotta
Election,
Tom Perrotta
The Leftovers,
Tom Perrotta
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
Robert M. Pirsig
Knockemstiff,
Donald Ray Pollock
My Name is Asher Lev,
Chaim Potok
The Gift of Asher Lev,
Chaim Potok
The Chosen,
Chaim Potok
The Promise,
Chaim Potok
The Book of Lights,
Chaim Potok
Accordion Crimes,
E. Annie Proulx
The Shipping News,
E. Annie Proulx
That Old Ace in the Hole,
E. Annie Proulx
The Fountainhead,
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,
Ayn Rand
The Cove,
Ron Rash
Serena,
Ron Rash
One Foot in Eden,
Ron Rash
Saints at the River,
Ron Rash
The World Made Straight,
Ron Rash
Casualties: Stories,
Ron Rash
New Stories from the South: 2005,
Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
New Stories from the South: 2004,
Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
New Stories from the South: 2003,
Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
New Stories from the South: 2001,
Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
New Stories from the South: 1995,
Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
Rain Dragon,
Jon Raymond
Livability,
Jon Raymond
Cannibals in Love,
Mike Roberts
Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory,
Ben Robertson
The Mathematician's Shiva,
Stuart Rojstaczer
American Pastoral,
Philip Roth
The Counterlife,
Philip Roth
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,
Karen Russell
Vampires in the Lemon Grove,
Karen Russell
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son,
Kent Russell
Chances Are,
Richard Russo
The Destiny Thief,
Richard Russo
That Old Cape Magic,
Richard Russo
Bridge of Sighs,
Richard Russo
Straight Man,
Richard Russo
Mohawk,
Richard Russo
The Whore's Child and Other Stories,
Richard Russo
Empire Falls,
Richard Russo
The Risk Pool,
Richard Russo
Nobody's Fool,
Richard Russo
Everybody's Fool,
Richard Russo
Elsewhere: A Memoir,
Richard Russo
Trajectory,
Richard Russo
Nine Stories,
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye,
J. D. Salinger
The Best of Me,
David Sedaris
Calypso,
David Sedaris
Theft by Finding,
David Sedaris
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls,
David Sedaris
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk,
David Sedaris
Holidays on Ice,
David Sedaris
When You Are Engulged in Flames,
David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day,
David Sedaris
Barrel Fever,
David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,
David Sedaris
Naked,
David Sedaris
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules,
David Sedaris, ed.
The Killer Angels,
Michael Shaara
To the Last Man,
Jeff Shaara
The Last Full Measure,
Jeff Shaara
Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories,
Jim Shepard
Project X,
Jim Shepard
Like You'd Understand, Anyway,
Jim Shepard
You Think That's Bad,
Jim Shepard
Larry's Party
Carol Shields
Unless,
Carol Shields
Stray Decorum,
George Singleton
Novel: A Novel,
George Singleton
The Baptism of Billy Bean: A Novel,
Roger Alan Skipper
Gorky Park,
Martin Cruz Smith
Cancer Ward,
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle,
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
"We Never Make Mistakes": Two Short Novels,
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
An Incident at Krechetovka Station,
Matryona's House,
Dear John,
Nicholas Sparks
The Big Rock Candy Mountain,
Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose,
Wallace Stegner
Working Days, the Journals of `The Grapes of Wrath', 1938-1941,
John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley,
John Steinbeck
The Long Valley,
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row,
John Steinbeck
The Moon is Down,
John Steinbeck
To a God Unknown,
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath,
John Steinbeck
Dog Soldiers,
Robert Stone
Bear and His Daughter,
Robert Stone
The Door,
Magda Szabo
The Goldfinch,
Donna Tartt
The Secret History,
Donna Tartt
The Mosquito Coast,
Paul Theroux
Generation of Swine,
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
Hunter S. Thompson
The Hobbit,
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings,
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion,
J. R. R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina,
Leo Tolstoy
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned,
Wells Tower
Dragonfish,
Vu Tran
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson,
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,
Mark Twain
Annihilation,
Jeff VanderMeer
Authority,
Jeff VanderMeer
Acceptance,
Jeff VanderMeer
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea,
Jules Verne
Cat's Cradle,
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five,
Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,
Kurt Vonnegut
Night Rider,
Robert Penn Warren
The War of the Worlds,
H. G. Wells
The First Men in the Moon,
H. G. Wells
The Robber Bridegroom,
Eudora Welty
The Ponder Heart,
Eudora Welty
The Bridge of San Luis Rey,
Thornton Wilder
Right Ho, Jeves,
P. G. Wodehouse
A Man in Full,
Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities,
Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,
Tom Wolfe
From Bauhaus to Our House,
Tom Wolfe
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,
Tom Wolfe
In Pharaoh's Army,
Tobias Wolff
The Barracks Thief,
Tobias Wolff
Old School,
Tobias Wolff
The Night in Question: Stories,
Tobias Wolff
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: Stories,
Tobias Wolff
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon,
Richard Zimler
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,
Paul Zindel
Non-Fiction (very incomplete list)
Desert Solitaire,
Edward Abbey
The Elephant Whisperer,
Lawrence Anthony
Ogallala Blue,
William Ashworth
Beyond Control,
James F. Barnett, Jr.
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America,
John M. Barry
Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story,
John Bloom
The Water Hustlers,
Robert H. Boyle, John Graves, T. H. Watkins
Nomadland,
Jessica Bruder
At Home: A Short History of Private Life,
Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything,
Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island,
Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods,
Bill Bryson
The Road to Little Dribbling,
Bill Bryson
The Body,
Bill Bryson
The Shallows,
Nicholas Carr
The Secret Knowledge of Water,
Craig Childs
Almost Midnight,
Michael W. Cuneo
Cherokee Place Names,
John Currahee
Daily Rituals,
Mason Currey
The Big Thirst,
Charles Fishman
No Time Like the Future,
Michael J. Fox
On the Rez,
Ian Frazier
Great Plains,
Ian Frazier
Better,
Atul Gawande
Killers of the Flower Moon,
David Grann
Empire of the Summer Moon,
S. C. Gwynne
The Island of Lost Maps,
Miles Harvey
A Year in the Maine Woods,
Bernd Heinrich
A Naturalist at Large,
Bernd Heinrich
Mind of the Raven,
Bernd Heinrich
King Leopold's Ghost,
Adam Hochschild
Odd Type Writers,
Celia Blue Johnson
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments,
George Johnson
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Imitation of Christ,
Thomas à Kempis
The Soul of a New Machine,
Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains,
Tracy Kidder
Cod,
Mark Kurlansky
Salt,
Mark Kurlansky
Scale Invariance,
Annick Lesne & Michel Lagües
The Girl with Seven Names,
Hyeonseo Lee
Freakonomics,
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Winters of the World,
Edited by Brian S. John
Lord of Publishing: A Memoir,
Sterling Lord
H is for Hawk,
Helen Macdonald
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940,
William Manchester
1491,
Charles C. Mann
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created,
Charles C. Mann
Born to Run,
Christopher McDougall
The Control of Nature,
John McPhee
The Pine Barrens,
John McPhee
The Curve of Binding Enery,
John McPhee
Deep Work,
Cal Newport
Lanterns on the Levee,
William Alexander Percy
Hamlet's Blackberry,
William Powers
A Deadly Wandering,
Matt Richtel
The Pine Barrens of New Jersey,
Karen F. Riley
Red Hills and Cotton,
Ben Robertson
Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East,
Vicki Rozema
Wicked River,
Lee Sandlin
The Distancers,
Lee Sandlin
The Intellectual Life,
A. G. Sertillanges
The Monster of Florence,
Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes,
Curt Stager
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hillbilly Elegy,
J. D. Vance
How Old is the Universe?,
David A. Weintraub
The Goshawk,
T. H. White
Outposts,
Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman,
Simon Winchester
On Writing Well,
William Zinsser
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