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The 21st Century’s 20 Greatest Novels
The 21st Century’s 20 Greatest Novels
Source: BBC
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- NW: A Novel by Zadie Smith
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano
- The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Source: BBC
The Bigger Read List (160 Books)
The Bigger Read List (160 Books)Created by by English PEN1. I Ching by China
2. The Odyssey by Homer
3. The Iliad by Homer
4. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
5. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
6. The Art of War by Sun Zi
7. The Aeneid by Virgil
8. Mahabharata by Vyasa
9. Confessions by Augustine
10. The Quran by Various Authors
11. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
12. Le Roman de la Rose by Guillaume (de Lorris)
13. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
14. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
15. The Tootinameh; Or, Tales of a Parrot by India, Iran
16. The Lusiad by Luís Vaz Camões
17. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
18. Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en
19. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
20. The Bible by Christian Church
21. Pensées by Blaise Pascal
22. Dangerous Liaison by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
23. Letters from an American Farmer by J. Crevecoeur
24. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
26. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
27. The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
28. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
29. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
30. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
31. Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Anderson
32. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
34. The Human Comedy by Honoré de Balzac
35. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
36. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
37. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
38. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
39. Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
40. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
41. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
42. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
43. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
44. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
45. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
46. Bouvard et Pécuchet by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
47. The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Life by Eça de Queirós
48. The Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
49. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
50. The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov
51. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
52. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
53. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
54. The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
55. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
56. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
57. The Wanderer by Henri Alain-Fournier
58. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
59. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
60. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
61. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
62. The Trial by Franz Kafka
63. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
64. Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
65. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
66. The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
67. Journey to the End of The Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
68. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
69. Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges
70. Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Xun Lu
71. Journey by Moonlight
72. The Book of Songs by China
73. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga
74. The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
75. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
76. Embers by Sandor Marai
77. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
78. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
79. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year by Carlo Levi
80. Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi
81. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
82. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
83. The Stranger by Albert Camus
84. The Plague by Albert Camus
85. The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
86. The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas by Thor Heyerdahl
87. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
88. The Skeleton by Amrita Pritam
89. Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima
90. And where Were You, Adam? by Heinrich Böll
91. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
92. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
93. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
94. Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal
95. Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
96. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
97. Jealousy: A Novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet
98. Teahouse by by She Lao
99. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
100. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
101. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
102. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
103. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
104. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
105. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
106. Words by Jean Paul Sartre
107. Quotations from Chairman Mao by Mao
108. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
109. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
110. Count Julian by Juan Goytisolo
111. 5327 by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
112. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
113. La Saga/ Fuga de J. B./ The Saga/ Escape of J.B. by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
114. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
115. The Burn: A Novel in Three Books : (late Sixties — early Seventies) by Vassily Aksyonov
116. Fateless by Imre Kertész
117. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš
118. The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare
119. Life, a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
120. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
121. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
122. The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
123. If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
124. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
125. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
126. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
127. Another Country by Karel Schoeman
128. The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain by Han Shan
129. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
130. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
131. The Stone Raft by José Saramago
132. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
133. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
134. The Sorrow Of War by Bao Ninh
135. The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
136. Soul Mountain by Xingjian Gao
137. Édes Anna by Dezső Kosztolányi
138. Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
139. The Emigrants by Winfried Georg Sebald
140. Smilla’s Sense of Snow: A Novel by Peter Høeg
141. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
142. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
143. I Will Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer
144. The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
145. Identity: A Novel by Milan Kundera
146. The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
147. Somersault by Kenzaburō Ōe
148. The Royal Physician’s Visit: A Novel by Per Olov Enquist
149. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
150. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
151. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
152. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
153. The Half Brother: A Novel by Lars Saabye Christensen
154. Antiworlds by Andrey Voznesensky
155. My City: A Hong Kong Story by Xi Xi
156. Happy Moscow by Andrey Platonov
157. Soul and Other Stories by Andrey Platonov
158. The Dog Star by Agneta Pleijel
159. The Garlic Ballads: A Novel by Yan Mo
160. The Return and Other Stories by Andrey Platonov
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2. The Odyssey by Homer
3. The Iliad by Homer
4. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
5. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
6. The Art of War by Sun Zi
7. The Aeneid by Virgil
8. Mahabharata by Vyasa
9. Confessions by Augustine
10. The Quran by Various Authors
11. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
12. Le Roman de la Rose by Guillaume (de Lorris)
13. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
14. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
15. The Tootinameh; Or, Tales of a Parrot by India, Iran
16. The Lusiad by Luís Vaz Camões
17. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
18. Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en
19. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
20. The Bible by Christian Church
21. Pensées by Blaise Pascal
22. Dangerous Liaison by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
23. Letters from an American Farmer by J. Crevecoeur
24. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
26. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
27. The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
28. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
29. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
30. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
31. Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Anderson
32. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
34. The Human Comedy by Honoré de Balzac
35. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
36. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
37. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
38. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
39. Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
40. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
41. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
42. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
43. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
44. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
45. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
46. Bouvard et Pécuchet by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
47. The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Life by Eça de Queirós
48. The Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
49. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
50. The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov
51. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
52. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
53. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
54. The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
55. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
56. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
57. The Wanderer by Henri Alain-Fournier
58. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
59. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
60. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
61. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
62. The Trial by Franz Kafka
63. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
64. Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
65. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
66. The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
67. Journey to the End of The Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
68. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
69. Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges
70. Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Xun Lu
71. Journey by Moonlight
72. The Book of Songs by China
73. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga
74. The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
75. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
76. Embers by Sandor Marai
77. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
78. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
79. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year by Carlo Levi
80. Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi
81. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
82. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
83. The Stranger by Albert Camus
84. The Plague by Albert Camus
85. The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
86. The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas by Thor Heyerdahl
87. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
88. The Skeleton by Amrita Pritam
89. Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima
90. And where Were You, Adam? by Heinrich Böll
91. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
92. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
93. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
94. Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal
95. Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
96. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
97. Jealousy: A Novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet
98. Teahouse by by She Lao
99. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
100. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
101. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
102. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
103. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
104. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
105. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
106. Words by Jean Paul Sartre
107. Quotations from Chairman Mao by Mao
108. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
109. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
110. Count Julian by Juan Goytisolo
111. 5327 by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
112. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
113. La Saga/ Fuga de J. B./ The Saga/ Escape of J.B. by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
114. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
115. The Burn: A Novel in Three Books : (late Sixties — early Seventies) by Vassily Aksyonov
116. Fateless by Imre Kertész
117. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš
118. The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare
119. Life, a User’s Manual by Georges Perec
120. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
121. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
122. The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
123. If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
124. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
125. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
126. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
127. Another Country by Karel Schoeman
128. The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain by Han Shan
129. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
130. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
131. The Stone Raft by José Saramago
132. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
133. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
134. The Sorrow Of War by Bao Ninh
135. The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
136. Soul Mountain by Xingjian Gao
137. Édes Anna by Dezső Kosztolányi
138. Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
139. The Emigrants by Winfried Georg Sebald
140. Smilla’s Sense of Snow: A Novel by Peter Høeg
141. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
142. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
143. I Will Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer
144. The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
145. Identity: A Novel by Milan Kundera
146. The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
147. Somersault by Kenzaburō Ōe
148. The Royal Physician’s Visit: A Novel by Per Olov Enquist
149. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
150. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
151. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
152. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
153. The Half Brother: A Novel by Lars Saabye Christensen
154. Antiworlds by Andrey Voznesensky
155. My City: A Hong Kong Story by Xi Xi
156. Happy Moscow by Andrey Platonov
157. Soul and Other Stories by Andrey Platonov
158. The Dog Star by Agneta Pleijel
159. The Garlic Ballads: A Novel by Yan Mo
160. The Return and Other Stories by Andrey Platonov
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100 Best Novel
100 Best Novels
List Muse
List Muse
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- Germinal by Emile Zola
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Creation by Gore Vidal
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Bostonians by Henry James
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Red Sorghum: A Novel of China by Mo Yan
- The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
- The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
- The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
- Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
- Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Live and Remember by Valentin Rasputin
- The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
- Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
- The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- No One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
- That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
- Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
- The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
- The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
- Lanark by Alasdair Gray
- Old Man Goriot by Honore de Balzac
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens
- G. by John Berger
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
- In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
- The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
- The President by Miguel Angel Asturias
The 100 Best British History Books
The 100 Best British History Books
- Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900–1300 by Susan Reynolds
- Robin Hood by J. C. Holt
- The Feudal Kingdom of England, 1042–1216 by Frank Barlow
- The Later Middle Ages, 1272–1485 by George Holmes
- Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 by Rodney Hilton
- Robert Bruce: And the Community of the Realm of Scotland by G.W.S. Barrow
- The First European Revolution: c. 970–1215 by R. I. Moore
- Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages by Walter Ullmann
- The Making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern
- On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State by Charles Tilly
- The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750 by James D. Tracy
- The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450–1660 by Steven G. Ellis
- Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain, 1470–1750by Keith Wrightson
- Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830by John H. Elliott
- A People’s History of England by A. L. Morton
- The Population History of England 1541–1871 by E. A. Wrigley
- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance by Quentin Skinner
- A History of the Scottish People, 1560–1830 by T. C. Smout
- Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
- The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
- The Fall of the British Monarchies 1637–1642 by Conrad Russell
- The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783 by John Brewer
- The World We Have Lost by Peter Laslett
- British Imperialism: 1688–2015 by P.J. Cain
- A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan I. Israel
- The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700–1850 by Joel Mokyr
- The First Industrial Nation: The Economic History of Britain 1700–1914 by Peter Mathias
- The Origins of Modern English Society by Harold Perkin
- Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England by J. M. Neeson
- Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America by Kenneth Morgan
- The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776–1848 by Robin Blackburn
- Two Nations and the Educational Structure 1780–1870 by Brian Simon
- Clanship to Crofters War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands by Tom Devine
- The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
- The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose
- Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 by Peter Thorsheim
- The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture by Bruce Haley
- Plenty and Want: A Social History of Food in England from 1815 to the Present Day by John Burnett
- Colonial Empires and Armies 1815–1960 by Victor Kiernan
- Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain by Catherine Hall
- Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine
- Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England by Patrick Joyce
- The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850–1940 by Daniel Headrick
- 1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement by John Saville
- Victorian Feminists by Barbara Caine
- Colonialism and Development: Britain and its Tropical Colonies, 1850–1960 by Michael A. Havinden
- Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire by Lance E. Davis
- Imperialism and Popular Culture by John M. MacKenzie
- Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India by David Arnold
- Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis
- The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire by John Newsinger
- Black ’47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory by Cormac O Grada
- Crime and Society in England: 1750–1900 by Clive Emsley
- Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism by Ronald Robinson
- The British Imperial Century, 1815–1914 by Timothy H. Parsons
- That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History by J. W. Burrow
- The Wilde Century by Alan Sinfield
- Hidden From History: 300 Years of Women’s Oppression and the Fight Against It by Sheila Rowbotham
- The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938 by Thomas C. Holt
- The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi
- Hope and Glory: Britain 1900–2000 by Peter Clarke
- The Age of Extremes: 1914–1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
- An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain by John Sheail
- Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century by Ritchie Ovendale
- Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 by Anthony Seldon
- The Strange Death of Liberal England: 1910–1914 by George Dangerfield
- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
- The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
- The Great War: 1914–1918 by Marc Ferro
- English History 1914–1945 by A.J.P. Taylor
- A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–23 by Diarmaid Ferriter
- Imperialism and the British Labour Movement, 1914–1964 by Partha Sarathi Gupta
- British Unemployment 1919–1939 by W. R. Garside
- Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970 by David Edgerton
- From Versailles to Pearl Harbor: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia by Margaret Lamb
- The People’s War: Britain 1939–1945 by Angus Calder
- Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
- The Economic History of Britain since 1700: Volume 3: 1939–1992 by Roderick Floud
- The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945–1967 by David French
- The Ambiguities of Power: British Foreign Policy Since 1945 by Mark Curtis
- The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence by Richard J. Aldrich
- Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention by A. W. Brian Simpson
- Britain since 1945: The People’s Peace by Kenneth O. Morgan
- No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain by Paul Addison
- Britain and the Cold War by Sean Greenwood
- The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience by Stephen A. Marglin
- States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s by Eric Helleiner
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
- Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds
- Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
- From Beveridge to Blair: The First Fifty Years of Britain’s Welfare State by Margaret Jones
- Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland by David McKittrick
- A Short History of the Labour Party by Henry Pelling
- Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain by Dennis Dworkin
- A History of British Trade Unionism, 1700–1998 by W. Hamish Fraser
- When Was Wales?: A History of the Welsh by Gwyn A. Williams
- The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class by Selina Todd
- London: A Social History by Roy Porter
- Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualitiesby Jeffrey Weeks
The 100 Best Books About Middle East History & Politics
The 100 Best Books About Middle East History & Politics
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- A History of the Modern Middle East by William L. Cleveland
- Orientalism by Edward W. Said
- The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East by Juan Cole
- Resurrecting Empire by Rashid Khalidi
- Colonising Egypt by Timothy Mitchell
- A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
- The Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal El Saadawi
- From Deep State to Islamic State by Jean-Pierre Filiu
- Islam and the Arab Awakening by Tariq Ramadan
- The Modern Middle East by James L. Gelvin
- The Venture of Islam by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
- Being Arab by Samir Kassir
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
- Beware of Small States by David Hirst
- The Mantle of the Prophet by Roy Mottahedeh
- A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962 by Alistair Horne
- The Old Social Classes & The Revolutionary Movement In Iraq by Hanna Batatu
- When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World by Hugh Kennedy
- A History of Islamic Societies by Ira M. Lapidus
- State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East by Roger Owen
- Over-Stating the Arab State by Nazih N. Ayubi
- Iran: A People Interrupted by Hamid Dabashi
- No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal
- A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
- A History of Saudi Arabia by Madawi al-Rasheed
- Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab
- The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History by Ibn Khaldun
- Forgotten Voices: Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
- Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism by Zachary Lockman
- Greek Thought, Arabic Culture by Dimitri Gutas
- Beyond the Green Zone by Dahr Jamail
- Turkey: A Modern History by Erik J. Zurcher
- Water on Sand: Environmental Histories Of The Middle East And North Africa by Alan Mikhail
- A Political Economy of the Middle East by Melani Cammett
- Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman by Montgomery Watt
- The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600–1800 by Jonathan P. Berkey
- The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global by Fawaz A. Gerges
- The People’s Spring: The Future of the Arab Revolution by Samir Amin
- Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel
- The Modern History of Iraq by Phebe Marr
- This Time We Went Too Far: Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion by Norman G. Finkelstein
- Quicksand: America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East by Geoffrey Wawro
- Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed by John Phillips
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer
- Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising by Jonathan Littell
- Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949–1993 by Yezid Sayigh
- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
- Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
- Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield
- Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt by Paolo Verme
- The Society of the Muslim Brothers by Richard P. Mitchell
- Arab Politics: Search for Legitimacy by Michael C. Hudson
- Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution by Nikki R. Keddie
- Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria by Lisa Wedeen
- Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam by Jason Burke
- Drone Warfare by Medea Benjamin
- The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
- Good Muslim, Bad Muslim by Mahmood Mamdani
- On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines — and Future by Karen Elliott House
- Bad News from Israel by Mike Berry
- Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba
- Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think by John L. Esposito
- Beyond Islam by Sami Zubaida
- The Road to Iraq by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
- Defending the Holy Land by Zeev Maoz
- A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered by Kamal S. Salibi
- Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
- Islam, Charity, and Activism: Middle-Class Networks and Social Welfare in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen by Janine A. Clark
- The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922 by Donald Quataert
- Middle East Authoritarianisms: Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran by Steven Heydemann
- A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall
- Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied by Toby Dodge
- Suez: Britain’s End of Empire in the Middle East by Keith Kyle
- Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair by Adeed Dawisha
- Egypt: The Moment of Change by Rabab El-Mahdi
- Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation by Steven C. Caton
- France, the United States, and the Algerian War by Irwin M. Wall
- The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830–1980 by Lisa Anderson
- All in the Family by Michael Herb
- A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq by Hans von Sponeck
- The Coup by Ervand Abrahamian
- The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited by Benny Morris
- The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal
- Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak by Tarek Osman
- Remaking Women by Lila Abu-Lughod
- Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity by Afsaneh Najmabadi
- Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That is Challenging the West by Hugh Miles
- The Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change by Mari Luomi
- The Rise of Colleges by George Makdisi
- The Middle East in International Relations by Fred Halliday
- Cairo: The City Victorious by Max Rodenbeck
- The Egypt of Nasser and Sadat: The Political Economy of Two Regimes by John Waterbury
- Hell in the Holy Land: World War One in the Middle East by David R. Woodward
- Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert A. Pape
- Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution by Thomas Pierret
- The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky
- Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya by Annick Cojean
- Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945 by Melani McAlister
- An Introduction to Arabic Literature by Roger Allen
- Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89 by Rodric Braithwaite
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Great Books of the Western World
Great Books of the Western World By Great Books Foundation
- The Odyssey — Homer
- The Iliad — Homer
- The Persians — Aeschylus
- The Suppliants — Aeschylus
- Seven Against Thebes — Aeschylus
- Oresteia — Aeschylus
- Ajax — Sophocles
- The History of the Peloponnesian War — Thucydides
- Antigone — Sophocles
- Oedipus the King — Sophocles
- The Histories of Herodotus — Herodotus
- Prometheus Bound — Aeschylus
- Women of Trachis — Sophocles
- Philoctetes — Sophocles
- Electra — Sophocles
- Oedipus at Colonus — Sophocles
- Corpus Aristotelicum — Aristotle
- The Republic — Plato
- The Complete Works of Plato — Plato
- Hippocratic Corpus — Hippocrates
- Euclid’s Elements — Euclid
- De Rerum Natura — Lucretius
- The Aeneid — Virgil
- Annals — Cornelius Tacitus
- Parallel Lives — Plutarch
- Almagest — Ptolemy
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- Enneads — Plotinus
- Confessions — Augustine
- Summa Theologica — Thomas Aquinas
- The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
- The Praise of Folly — Erasmus
- Gargantua and Pantagruel — Francois Rabelais
- The Prince — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Institutes of the Christian Religion — John Calvin
- On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres — Nicolaus Copernicus
- Essays — Michel de Montaigne
- The Sonnets — William Shakespeare
- Epitome of Copernican Astronomy — Johannes Kepler
- The Harmony of the Worlds — Johannes Kepler
- First Folio — William Shakespeare
- Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes
- The Critique of the School for Wives — Molière
- The School for Wives — Molière
- Tartuffe — Molière
- The Miser — Molière
- The Would-Be Gentleman — Molière
- Bérénice — Jean Racine
- The Would-Be Invalid — Molière
- Phèdre — Jean Racine
- Candide — Voltaire
- Rameau’s Nephew — Denis Diderot
- Emma — Jane Austen
- Don Juan — Molière
- Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville
- Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard
- Cousin Bette — Honoré de Balzac
- Little Dorrit — Charles Dickens
- Middlemarch — George Eliot
- A Doll’s House — Henrik Ibsen
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
- The Wild Duck — Henrik Ibsen
- Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Unconscious — Sigmund Freud
- The Golden Bough — James George Frazer
- The Principles of Psychology — William James
- Hedda Gabler — Henrik Ibsen
- The Master Builder — Henrik Ibsen
- Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety — Sigmund Freud
- Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
- Uncle Vanya — Anton Chekhov
- The Interpretation of Dreams — Sigmund Freud
- The Theory of the Leisure Class — Thorstein Veblen
- An Introduction to Metaphysics — Henri Bergson
- The Beast in the Jungle — Henry James
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality — Sigmund Freud
- Science and Hypothesis — Henri Poincaré
- Pragmatism — William James
- The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy — Sigmund Freud
- An Introduction to Mathematics — Alfred North Whitehead
- The Problems of Philosophy — Bertrand Russell
- Death in Venice — Thomas Mann
- Selected Papers on Hysteria — Sigmund Freud
- In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust
- The Prussian Officer — D. H. Lawrence
- On Narcissism — Sigmund Freud
- Instincts and Their Vicissitudes — Sigmund Freud
- The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce
- Relativity — Albert Einstein
- The Waning of the Middle Ages — Johan Huizinga
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle — Sigmund Freud
- Six Characters in Search of an Author — Luigi Pirandello
- The Acquisitive Society — R. H. Tawney
- The Waste Land — T. S. Eliot
- Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego — Sigmund Freud
- Saint Joan — George Bernard Shaw
- The Ego and the Id — Sigmund Freud
- A Lost Lady — Willa Cather
- Science and the Modern World — Alfred North Whitehead
- The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
- What Is Life? — Erwin Schrödinger
- Civilization and Its Discontents — Sigmund Freud
- What Is Metaphysics? — Martin Heidegger
- A Rose for Emily — William Faulkner
- Mourning Becomes Electra — Eugene O’Neill
- New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis — Sigmund Freud
- Physics and Philosophy — Werner Heisenberg
- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber — Ernest Hemingway
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money — John Maynard Keynes
- Genetics and the Origin of Species — Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Experience in Education — John Dewey
- Mother Courage and Her Children — Bertolt Brecht
- A Mathematician’s Apology — G. H. Hardy
- Animal Farm — George Orwell
- The Expanding Universe — Arthur Eddington
- Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers — Max Planck
- Repression — Sigmund Freud
- The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis — Sigmund Freud
- Thoughts for the Times on War and Death — Sigmund Freud
- Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature — Niels Bohr
- A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis — Sigmund Freud
- The Word of God and the Word of Man — Karl Barth
- Observations on “Wild” Psycho-Analysis — Sigmund Freud
- Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett
- Philosophical Investigations — Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Essays in Sociology — Max Weber
- The Nature of Life — C. H. Waddington
- Structural Anthropology — Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology — Niels Bohr
50 Books on Type and Typography
- 30 Years of Swiss Typographic Discourse in the Typografische Monatsblätter by Roland Früh
- Adrian Frutiger — Typefaces: The Complete Works by Philipp Stamm
- American Typeplay by Gail Anderson
- An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
- The Anatomy of Type by Stephen Coles
- Bauhaus: Drucksachen, Typografie, Reklame by Gerd Fleischmann
- Design: Type by Paul Burgess
- Dimensional Typography by J. Abbott Miller
- The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
- An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
- FontBook: Digital Typeface Compendium by Mai-Linh Thi Truong
- Fonts & Logos by Doyald Young
- Helvetica and the New York City Subway System by Paul Shaw
- I Love Type 06 by Viction Workshop
- Just My Type by Simon Garfield
- Logotype by Michael Evamy
- Max Bill: Typography, Advertising, Book Design by Christoph Bignens
- Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History by Robin Kinross
- New Modernist Type by Gail Anderson
- New Ornamental Type by Gail Anderson
- New Vintage Type by Gail Anderson
- Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter by Nicola Simpson
- Pioneers of Modern Typography by Herbert Spencer
- Révolution typographique by Jacques Damase
- Rhyme & Reason: A Typographic Novel by Erik Spiekermann
- Rookledge’s International Typefinder by Gordon Rookledge
- Shadow Type by Louise Fili
- Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann
- Teaching Type to Talk by Alan Peckolick
- The Ten Commandments of Typography by Paul Felton
- Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
- Type, Form & Function by Jason Tselentis
- Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1628–1900 by Alston Purvis
- Type Matters! by Ben Casey
- Types We Can Make by ECAL/University of Art & Design Lausanne
- Typewise by Delphine Hirasuna
- Typoésie by Jérôme Peignot
- Typographers on Type by Ruari McLean
- Typographica by Rick Poynor
- The Typographic Desk Reference by Theodore Rosendorf
- Typographic Design: Form and Communication, 5th Edition by Philip B. Meggs
- Typographic Universe by Gail Anderson
- Typographie by Walter Marti
- Typography Now: The Next Wave by Edward Booth-Clibborn
- Typography Now Two: Implosion by Rick Poynor
- Typography Referenced by Allan Haley
- Typography Sketchbooks by Lita Talarico
- Typoholic by Viction Workshop
- Typology + by Ulrike Wietzorrek
- The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909–1923by Johanna Drucker
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Book Riot’s Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books
Book Riot’s Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Iliad by Homer
- Oedipus the King by Sophocles
- Beowulf by Unknown
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Bible by Christian Church
- Candide by Voltaire
- Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
- Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Rabbit, Run by John Updike
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor by Flannery O’Connor
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Stand by Stephen King
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Fifty Shades of Grey: by E L James
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Thomas Aquinas College - The Curriculu
Thomas Aquinas College — The CurriculumFreshman Year Seminar
Homer Iliad, Odyssey Plato Ion, Republic, Symposium Aeschylus Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides Sophocles Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone Herodotus Histories Aristotle Poetics, Rhetoric Plutarch Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Alcibiades, Aristides, Alexander) Euripides Hippolytus Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War Aristophanes The Birds, The Clouds
Language
Wheelock Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors Nesfield Aids to the Study and Composition of English
Mathematics
Euclid Elements
Laboratory
Aristotle Parts of Animals DeKoninck The Lifeless World of Biology Fabre Souvenirs Entomologiques Galen On the Natural Faculties Harvey On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, On Animal Generation Linnaeus Systema Naturae Pascal On the Equilibrium of Liquids Archimedes On Floating Bodies Mendel Plant Hybridization various authors Scientific papers of Driesch, Gould, Marler, Tinbergen, Goethe, Virchow, von Frisch, et alia Measurements Manual
Philosophy
Plato Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo Porphyry On the Predicaments (Isagoge) Aristotle Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics St. Thomas Aquinas Proem to the Posterior Analytics
Theology
The Holy Bible
Sophomore YearSeminar
Vergil Aeneid Lucretius On the Nature of Things Cicero Offices Livy Ab Urbe Conditia Plutarch Lives(Marcellus, Tiberius & Caius Gracchus, Marius, Sylla, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Brutus) Tacitus Annals Epictetus Manual St. Augustine Confessions, On the Teacher Boethius Consolation of Philosophy Dante Divine Comedy Chaucer Canterbury Tales Spenser Faerie Queen St. Thomas Aquinas On the Teacher
Language
Wheelock Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors Martin of Denmark Tractus De Modis Significandi Horace, Cicero Selections St. Thomas Aquinas Selections
Canon of the Mass
Mathematics
Plato Timaeus Ptolemy Almagest Copernicus Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Apollonius On Conic Sections Kepler Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Astronomia Nova Archimedes On Conoids and Spheroids
Laboratory
Aristotle On Generation and Corruption St. Thomas Aquinas On the Principles of Nature, On the Combination of the Elements Lavoisier Elements of Chemistry Avogadro Masses and Proportions of Elementary Molecules Dalton Proportion of Gases in the Atmosphere Gay-Lussac Combination of Gaseous Substances Pascal Treatise on the Weight of the Mass of the Air various authors Scientific papers of Berthollet, Couper, Lavoisier, Mendeleev, Richter, Wollaston, Cannizzaro, et alia Atomic Theory Manual
Philosophy
Pre-Socratic Philosophers Fragments Aristotle Physics On the Soul Theology St. Augustine On Christian Doctrine,On the Spirit and the Letter, On Nature and Grace, On the Gift of Perseverance, On the Predestination of the Saints, City of God St. Athanasius On the Incarnation Gaunilo On Behalf of the Fool St. Anselm Proslogion, Reply to Gaunilo St. John Damascene An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
Junior Year Seminar
Cervantes Don Quixote St. Thomas Aquinas On Kingship, Summa Theologiae Machiavelli The Prince, Discourses Bacon The Great Instauration, Novum Organum Shakespeare Julius Caesar, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth: Part One, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Sonnets Montaigne Essays Descartes Discourse on Method, Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind Pascal Pensées Hobbes Leviathan Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Second Essay on Civil Government Berkeley Treatise Concerning Human Understanding Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Swift Gulliver’s Travels Milton Paradise Lost Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Corneille Le Cid Racine Phaedre Rousseau Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Spinoza Theologico-Political Treatise various authors Articles of Confederation Declaration of Independence U.S. Constitution Hamilton, Madison, Jay Federalist Papers Smith Wealth of Nations Kant Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals Leibniz Discourse on Metaphysics
Music
Plato Timaeus Boethius On Music Mozart Sonatas Gustin Tonality
Mathematics
Viete Standard Enumeration of Geometric Results, Introduction to the Analytic Art Descartes Geometry Archimedes Quadrature of the Parabola Griffin Mathematical Analysis various authors Mathematical works of Hippocrates, Archimedes, Cavalieri, Pascal, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Newton, Berkeley, Bolzano, et alia
Laboratory
Descartes Principles of Philosophy Galileo Two New Sciences Newton Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Philosophy
Aristotle Nicom. Ethics Politics
Theology
St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae:
On Sacred Doctrine On God On Law
Senior Year Seminar
Tolstoy War and Peace Goethe Faust Hegel Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy of History Flaubert Three Tales Feuerbach Essence of Christianity J. S. Mill Utilitarianism Marx Capital, Communist Manifesto, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, German Ideology Melville Billy Budd Willa Cather My Antonia Engels Quantity and Quality, Negation of the Negation Darwin Origin of Species Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil, Use and Abuse of History Twain Huckleberry Finn Austen Emma Freud General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Jung Analytical Psychology Newman Development of Christian Doctrine Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments Ibsen A Doll’s House Dostoyevski Brothers Karamazov Eliot Ash Wednesday, Journey of the Magi, The Waste Land St. Pius X Pascendi Dominici Gregis Leo XIII Aeterni Patris, Rerum Novarum Pius XI Quadragesimo Anno Pius XII Humani Generis Vatican II Lumen Gentium Plato Phaedrus Vico The New Science Tocqueville Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the French Revolution Husserl The Idea of Phenomenology Lincoln and Douglas Debates Flannery O’Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill St. Thomas Aquinas The Division and Method of the Sciences
Mathematics
Pascal Generation of Conic Sections Taylor Integral Calculus Dedekind Essay on the Theory of Numbers Lobachevski Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels
Laboratory
Einstein Relativity: The Special and General Theory Huygens Treatise on Light Newton Optiks Maxwell A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism Gilbert De Magnete Ampere Papers various authors Mechanics, Waves, and Optics ManualElectricity and Magnetism Manual
Philosophy
Aristotle Physics, Metaphysics St. Thomas Aquinas On Being and Essence
Theology
St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae: On the Trinity, On the Sacraments, On the Passion of Christ
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