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General
Classics
 * Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
 * Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice 
 * Emily Bronde - Wuthering Heights
 * Lewis Carroll - Alice's adventures in wonderland
 * Joseph Conrad - The heart of darkness
 * Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
 * Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky - The brothers Karamazov
 * George Eliot - Middlemarch
 * Gustave Falubert - Madame Bovary
 * Nikolay Gogol - Dead Souls
 * Thomas Hardy - Tess of D'Urbervilles
 * Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
 * Mikhail Lermontov - A hero of our time
 * Herman Melville - Moby Dick
 * Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
 * Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
 * Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
 * J.R.R Tolkien - The Lord of The Rings
 * Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
 * Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and sons
 * Mark Twain - The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 * Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Gray
 * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The complete Sherlock Holmes
 * Voltaire - Candide
 * Emile Zola - L'assommoir (the dram shop)
 * Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
 * John Milton - Paradise Lost

Modern Classics
 * Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
 * Joseph Heller - Catch 22
 * William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
 * Albert Camus - The stranger
 * John Fowles - The magus
 * Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
 * John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
 * George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-four (1984)
 * Virginia Woolf - To the lighthouse
 * Yukio Mishima - The temple of the golden pavillion
 * Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
 * Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One hundred years of solitude 
 * Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
 * Jack Kerouac - On the road
 * Jean Paul Sartre - Nausea
 * Jose Saramago - Blindness
 * Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
 * Alan Moor - Watchmen
 * Toni Morrison - Beloved
 * John Updike - Brazil
 * Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being
 * Aldous Huxley - Brave new world
 * James Joyce - Ulysses
 * David Herbert Richards Lawrence - Sons and lovers
 * Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
 * André Gide - The Immoralist
 * P.G. Wodehouse - Life with Jeeves
 * Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse five

Theater/drama

Classical through medieval: Renaissance Restoration, romanticism and realism
 * Sophocles - The three Theban plays
 * Aeschylus - The Oresteia
 * Euripides - Electra and other plays
 * Menander - Plays and fragments
 * Plautus - The pot of gold and other plays
 * Seneca - Four tragedies and Octavia
 * Terence - The comedies
 * Kalidasa - The loom of time
 * Hrotsvitha - The plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim
 * Various - Japanese nô dramas (translated by Royall Tyler)
 * Various - Chûshingura (translated by Donald Keene)
 * Anonymous - Everyman and other miracle and morality plays
 * Various - York mystery plays
 * William Shakespeare - Complete works
 * Thomas Kyd - The Spanish tragedy
 * Christopher Marlowe - The complete plays
 * Ben Jonson - Volpone and other plays
 * John Webster - The duchess of Malfi and other plays
 * Lope de Vega - Three major plays
 * Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Life is a dream
 * Molière - The misanthrope, Tartuffe and other plays
 * Pierre Corneille - Le Cid
 * Jean Racine - Phèdre
 * John Wilmot - The farce of Sodom or The quintessence of debauchery
 * William Wycherley - The country wife
 * William Congreve - The way of the world and other plays
 * Aphra Behn - The rover and other plays
 * John Gay - The beggar's opera
 * Beaumarchais - The Figaro trilogy
 * Carlo Goldoni - A servant to two masters
 * Richard Brinsley Sheridan  The school for scandal
 * Friedrich Schiller - The robbers and Wallenstein
 * Büchner - The complete plays
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
 * Shelley - The Cenci
 * Lord Byron - Six plays
 * Feydeau - Plays: one and Plays: two
 * Sir W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan - The complete annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
 * Oscar Wilde - The importance of being earnest and other plays
 * George Bernard Shaw - Plays by George Bernard Shaw
 * G.B. Shaw - Pygmalion
 * J.M.Synge - The playboy of the western world
 * Henrik Ibsen - Four major plays
 * August Strindberg - Five major plays
 * W.B.Yeats - The collected works of W.B. Yeats
 * Edmond Rosland - Cyrano de Bergerac 

20th century: Contemporary
 * Eugene O'neill - Long day's journey into tonight
 * Anton Chekhov - The plays of Anton Chekhov
 * Luigi Pirandello - Six characters in search of an author and other plays
 * Maurice Maeterlinck - The blue bird: a fairy play in five acts
 * Arthur Schnitzler - Four major plays
 * J.M. Barrie - Peter pan and other plays
 * Thornton Wilder - Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth and The matchmaker.
 * Bertolt Brecht - The threepenny opera, Mother courage and her children and Life of Galileo
 * Federico Garcia Lorca - Blood Wedding, Yerma and The house of Bernarda Alba
 * Sean O'Casey - Plays
 * Nöel Coward - The vortex
 * Sophie Treadwell - Machinal
 * R.C. Sheriff - Journey's end
 * Tennessee Williams - A streetcar named desire and The glass menagerie
 * Samuel Beckett - The complete dramatic works
 * Peter Weiss - The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
 * Jean Anouilh - Five plays
 * Jean Giraudoux - The madwoman of Chaillot
 * Harold Pinter - The homecoming, The birthday party and The room
 * Jean-Paul Sartre - No exit and three other plays
 * Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The visit
 * Joe Orton - The complete plays
 * Arthur Miller - The portable Arthur Miller
 * Edward Albee - WHo's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 * Edward Albee - The american dream and The zoo story
 * Jean Genet - The balcony
 * Wole Soyinka - Death and the king's horseman
 * Lorraine Hansberry - A raisin in the sun
 * Sam Shepard - Seven plays
 * David Mamet - Oleanna, Speed-the-plow and Glengarry Glen Ross
 * Tony Kushner - Angels in America
 * August Wilson - Three plays
 * Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead and Arcadia
 * Caryl Churchill - Cloud nine and Top girls
 * Sarah Kane - Complete plays
 * Bernard-Marie Koltes - Roberto Zucco
 * Edward Bond - Lear
 * David Gieselmann - Mr Kolpert
 * Yasmina Reza - Art and The god of carnage
 * Vassily Sigarev - Black Milk
 * Alan Bennet - The complete talking heads
 * Paula Vogel - The mammary plays
 * David Hare - Racing Demon and The absence of war
 * David Edgar - Pentecost
 * Mark Ravenhill - Plays
 * Joe Penhall - Blue/Orange
 * Peter Morris - The age of consent and Gaudeamus
 * Sarah Ruhl - Eurydice
 * Suzan-Lori Parks - Topdog/Underdog 
 * Adam Rapp - Stone cold dead serious
 * Doug Wright - I am my own wife and Quills

American
Great Short Story Authors and Collections Poets and Poetry Collections Plays and Playwrights Others
 * Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales
 * Edgar Allan Poe - Collected Works
 * Mark Twain - Collected Short Stories
 * Herman Melville - Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales
 * Stephen Crane - Maggie and other Stories
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald - Flappers and Philosophers
 * Ernest Hemingway - Collected Short Works
 * Sherwood Anderson - Death in the Woods and other Stories
 * Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From
 * John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
 * H. P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)
 * Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
 * Emily Dickinson - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
 * T.S. Eliot - Collected Poems
 * Ezra Pound - Personae: Collected Shorter Poems
 * Wallace Stevens - Harmonium
 * Robinson Jeffers - Selected Poems
 * Robert Frost - Collected Poems
 * Hart Crane - The Bridge
 * Williams Carlos Williams - Collected Poems Vol.1 & 2
 * John Ashbery - Collected Poems 1956-1987
 * Frank O'Hara - Collected Poems
 * Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems
 * John Berryman - The Dream Songs
 * Charles Olson - The Maximus Poems
 * Eugene O'Neill - Complete Plays (Library of America)
 * Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
 * Thornton Wilder - Our Town
 * Tennessee Williams - Plays 1937 - 1955 (Library of America)
 * Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
 * Edward Albee - The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
 * Sam Shepard - Buried Child
 * August Wilson - Fences
 * Tony Kushner - Angels in America
 * Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
 * Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
 * Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 * Henry James - The American
 * Henry James - The Turn of the Screw and other short novels
 * Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
 * Kate Chopin - The Awakening
 * Jack London - The Call of the Wild
 * Gertrude Stein - Three Lives
 * Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
 * Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
 * Willa Cather - My Ántonia
 * Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
 * Sinclair Lewis - Main Street
 * Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt
 * Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
 * Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
 * Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bells Toll
 * William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
 * William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
 * Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
 * John O'Hara - Appointment in Samarra
 * Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
 * John Steinbeck - East of Eden
 * John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
 * Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
 * Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
 * Richard Wright - Native Son
 * Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
 * Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451
 * J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
 * Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
 * William Gaddis - The Recognitions
 * Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
 * Jack Kerouac - On the Road
 * William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
 * John Updike - Rabbit,Run
 * Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Joseph Heller - Catch-22
 * John Barth - The Sot-Weed Factor
 * Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 * Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
 * Saul Bellow - Herzog
 * Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
 * Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
 * Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
 * Thomas Pynchon - V.
 * William Gibson - Pattern Recognition
 * Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
 * Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
 * Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
 * Philip Roth - American Pastoral
 * Cormac McCarthy - The Road
 * John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
 * Don Delillo - Libra
 * Don Delillo - Underworld
 * David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest



Slave Narratives Reconstruction Era Harlem Renaissance Civil Rights Era Contemporary
 * Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative
 * Solomon Northrup - Twelve Years a Slave
 * Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
 * - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
 * - Narrative of Sojourner Truth
 * W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk
 * - The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
 * Booker T.Washington - Up From Slavery
 * Langston Hughes - Not Without Laughter
 * Jean Toomer - Cane
 * George S. Schugler - Black No More
 * Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
 * Claude McKay - Home to Harlem
 * Nella Larsen - Quicksand and Passing
 * - The Walls of Jericho
 * - The Blacker and the Berry
 * James Baldwin - Go Tell it on the Mountain
 * Richard Wright - Native Son
 * Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
 * - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
 * Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
 * Gwendolyn Brooks - Selected Poems
 * Chester Himes - If he Hollers Let Him Go
 * Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
 * Charles Mingus - Beneath the Underdog
 * Alice Walker - The Color Purple
 * Toni Morrison - Beloved
 * Walter Mosley - Killing Johnny Fry
 * Alex haley - Roots
 * Amiri Baraka - Somebody Blew Up America
 * Terry McMillan - Waiting to Exhale
 * Gloria Naylor - Linden Hills
 * Ismael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo
 * - Kindre D
 * Edward P. Jones - The Known World

Australian
(includes some non-fiction as well)

Horror
Classic Horror 20th Century Horror New Horror
 * Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
 * Bram Stoker - Dracula
 * Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
 * Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
 * Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 * Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Stories and Poems
 * Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow
 * Matthew Lewis - The Monk
 * Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
 * Ambrose Bierce - Ghost, and Other Stories
 * Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
 * Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
 * Clive Barker - Books of Blood
 * Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
 * Stephen King - It, Pet Sematary
 * Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
 * Dan Simmons - Song of Kali
 * Algernon Blackwood - Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
 * M.R. James - Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories
 * Mervyn Peake - Boy in Darkness
 * William Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
 * H. P. Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror
 * Peter Straub - Shadowland
 * Laird Barron - Occultation
 * Joe R. Lansdale - The Best of Joe R. Lansdale
 * Will Elliot - The Pilo Family Circus
 * Edward Lee - Bullet Through Your Face
 * Tim Curran - The Devil Next Door
 * Dave Brockie - Whargoul
 * Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box
 * China Mieville - King Rat
 * Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

Fantasy
Epic Fantasy: Urban Fantasy Swords and Sorcery Entry Level Coming of Age Historic Fantasy Mystery Comic Fantasy Weird Mythic Alternate World Old School Miscellaneous
 * J.R.R. Tolkien   -  The Fellowship of the Ring
 * George R.R. Martin -   A Game of Thrones
 * Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself 
 * R.Scott Bakker   -  The Darkness that Comes Before 
 * Steven Erikson -  Gardens of the Moon
 * J.V.Jones   -  A Cavern of Black Ice
 * Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time
 * Paul Kearney   -  Hawkwood's Voyage
 * K.J.Parker   -  Devices and Desires
 * Melanie Rawn -   Dragon Prince
 * Brian Ruckley   -  Winterbirth
 * Tad WIlliams   -  The Dragonbone Chair
 * David Zindell   -  The Lightsone
 * Daniel Abraham -   A Shadow in Summer
 * Chris Wooding   -  The Braided Path
 * Raymond E. Feist   -  The riftwar cycle
 * Greg Keyes   -  The Briar King
 * Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of The Wind
 * Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
 * Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn: The Final Empire
 * Jim Butcher - The Dresden files
 * Neil Gaiman   -  Neverwhere, American Gods, The Anansi Boys
 * Graham Joyce -  The Tooth Fairy
 * R.A.Macavoy   -  Tea with the Black Dragon
 * Jonathan Carroll -   The Land of Laughs
 * Seanan McGuire -  October Daye series
 * Raymond E. Feist -  Magician
 * Fritz Leiber   -  The First Book of Lankhmar
 * Michael Moorcock -   Elric of Melnibone
 * Michael Shea   -  The Incomplete Nifft
 * Jack Vance   -  Tales of the Dying Earth
 * Karl Edward Wagner -  Gods in Darkness
 * C.L.Moore -  Jirel of Joiry
 * Ed Greenwood - Elminster: The Making of a Mage
 * Terry Brooks   -  First King of Shamhara
 * Susan Cooper   -  The Dark is Rising
 * David Eddings   -  Pawn of Prophecy
 * David Eddings   -  The Diamond Throne
 * Raymond E.Feist -   Magician 
 * Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman   -  Dragons of Autumn Twilight
 * Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman   -  Dragon Wing
 * Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman   -  Rose of the Prophet
 * Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman -  Time of the Twins
 * C.S.Lewis - The Lion', 'The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
 * R.A.Salvatore -  Homeland
 * Philip Pullman -  His Dark Materials
 * Guy Gavriel Kay - The Fionavar Tapestry
 * Glen Cook - The Swordbearer
 * Robin Hobb -  Assassin's Apprentice
 * J.V.Jones -  The Baker's Boy
 * Rebecca Bradley -  Lady in Gil
 * David Gemell -  Troy
 * Guy Gavriel Kay -  The Lions of Al-Rassan
 * J.Gregory Keyes -  Newton's Cannon
 * R.A.MacAvoy -  Damiano
 * T.H.White -  The Once and Future king
 * Gene Wolfe -  Latro in the Mist
 * George R.R. Martin - Fevre Dream
 * John M.Ford -  The Dragon Waiting
 * Mary Gentle -  A Secret History
 * Steven Brust -  The Book of Jhereg
 * Jim Butcher -  Storm Front
 * Glen Cook -  Sweet Silver Blues
 * Barry Hughart -  Bridge of Birds
 * Matthew Hughes -  Majestrum
 * Terry Pratchett -  Carpe Jugulum
 * Christopher Moore -  Lamb
 * Peter David -  Sir Apropos of Nothing
 * Mary Gentle -  Grunts
 * William Goldman -  The Princess Bride
 * H.P.Lovecraft -  At the Mountains of Madness
 * William Hope Hodgson -  The House in the Borderland
 * Clark Ashton Smith -  The Emperor of Dreams
 * Jeff Vandermeer -  City of Saints and Madmen
 * China Miéville -  Perdido Street Station
 * Roger Zelazny -  Creatures of Light and Darkness
 * Mickey Zucker Reichert -  The Last of the Renshai
 * Jonh Myers Myers -  Silverlock
 * Steven Brust -  To Reign in Hell
 * Poul Anderson -  The Broken Sword
 * Michael Scott Rogan -  The Anvil of Ice
 * Stephen R. Donaldson -  The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, The Mirror in her Dreams
 * Julian May -  The Many-Coloured Land
 * Stephen R. Lawhead -  The Paradise War
 * Poul Anderson -  Three Heards and Three Lions
 * Roger Zelazny -  The Great Book of Amber
 * Garth Nix - The Old Kingdom
 * George MacDonal -  Phantastes
 * E.R.Eddison -  The Worm Ouroboros
 * Lord Dunsany -  The King of Elfland's Daughter
 * Ernest Bramah -  The Wallet of Kail Lung
 * David Lindsay -  A Voyage to Arcturus
 * Charles G. Finney -  The Circus of Dr.Lao
 * Mikhail Bulgakov -   The Master and Margarita
 * Mervyn Peake -  Titus Groan
 * Paul Edwin Zimmer -  The Lost Prince
 * David Gemell -  Legend
 * C.S.Friedman -  Black Sun Rising
 * K.J.Parker -  Shadow
 * Kate Elliot -  King's Dragon
 * Michael A.Stackpole -  Talion Revenant
 * Matthew Woodring Stover -  Heroes Die
 * Gene Wolfe -  The Shadow of the Torturer
 * Tim Powers -  The Anubis Gates
 * John Marco -  The Jackal of Nar
 * Andrzej Sapkowski -  Blood of Elves
 * Ken Grimwood -  Replay
 * Glen Cook -  Chronicles of the Black Company
 * Patricia A. Mckillip -  The Riddle-Master of Hed
 * Sean Ruselss -  The Initiate Brother
 * Brent Weeks -  The Way of Shadows
 * Jeniffer Fallon -  The Immortal Prince
 * John Crowley -  Little, Big
 * Catherynne M. Valente -  In the Night Garden
 * M. John Harrison -  Viriconium
 * Jack Vance -  Lyonesse
 * Frank & Brian Herbert - The Dune Series
 * Dave Duncan - King's Blades Series
 * David Eddings - Belgariad Trilogy
 * Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality

Essays.jpgs
Classics Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language) Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)
 * Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenko
 * Essays by Francis Bacon
 * The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
 * The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
 * Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
 * A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays by Charles Lamb
 * Walden by Henry David Thoreau
 * The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
 * The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire
 * In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
 * The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde
 * Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson
 * A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
 * The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats [vols. IV and V: Early and Later Essays]
 * Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf810107-L.jpg
 * Selected Essays by D.H. Lawrence
 * Selected Essays by T.S. Eliot
 * Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn
 * Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
 * Essays of E.B. White
 * Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
 * We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
 * Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry by John Simon
 * Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experienceby Aldous Huxley
 * Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
 * Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
 * In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays by Anais Nin
 * Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
 * The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
 * A Jacques Barzun Reader by Jacques Barzun
 * Reflections on Exile by Edward W. Said
 * The Vintage Mencken by H.L. Mencken
 * The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker712170.jpg
 * Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
 * Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
 * Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick
 * The Donald Richie Reader by Donald Richie
 * Dreamer of Dreams by John Simon
 * On Histories and Stories by A.S. Byatt
 * Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings by John Fowles
 * Finding a Form by William H. Gass
 * An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
 * Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
 * Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille
 * Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
 * Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays by Raymond Queneau
 * Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren
 * Selected Bilingual Essays of Lin Yutang
 * Illuminations: Essays by Walter Benjamin568357-L.jpg
 * A Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
 * Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
 * The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
 * Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
 * Myself With Others: Essays by Carlos Fuentes
 * The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
 * The Spirit of Prague by Ivan Klima
 * Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera
 * How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco
 * Anathemas and Admirations by E.M. Cioran
 * Passing By: Selected Essays by Jerzy Kosinski
 * Other People's Trades by Primo Levi
 * Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic
 * Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald

1275260005616.jpgical Philosophy
Pre-socratics: On Socrates: By plato:
 * Various - Early Greek Philosophy
 * Kenneth Sylvan Guthre - The Pythagorean Sourcebook and library
 * Charles H.Kahn - The art and thought of Heraclitus
 * Parmenides of Elea - Fragments
 * David Gallop - Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments
 * John Dillon, Tania Gergel - The Greek sophists
 * Empedocles - The extant Fragments
 * Various links
 * http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics
 * http://www.heraclitusfragments.com
 * http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/
 * I.F.Stone - The trial of Socrates
 * Aristophanes - The clouds
 * Charles H.Kahn - Plato and the Socratic dialogue
 * Karl R. Popper - The open society and its enemies
 * Gail Fine - Plato on knowledge and forms.

(Note made by Isabelle: later translations are usually more accessible. I AM not a fan of Jowett. Since she composed this list I thought it necessary to add this) On Aristotle By Aristotle
 * Early Works:
 * Apology
 * Crito
 * Euthyphro (holiness, the Euthyphro dilemma)
 * Ion
 * Laches (courage)
 * Protagoras (the teachability of virtue)
 * Gorgias (rethoric vs. philosophy)
 * Meno (virtue, Meno's paradox)
 * Middle Works
 * Parmenides - Forms
 * Phaedo (the death of socrates, the afterlife)
 * Phaedrus (love and rethoric)
 * Republic (politics, the state and the soul)
 * Symposium (true love, the 'Ladder of Love')
 * Theaetetus (knowledge)
 * Later Works
 * Critias (Atlantis)
 * Sophist (more on Forms)
 * Timaeus (the purpose of the universe)
 * David M.Balme - Aristotle on Nature and Living Things: Philosophical and Historical Studies
 * Cristopher Shields - Aristotle
 * David Furley - From Aristotle to Augustine

(Another note by Isabelle: Oxford translations are best) Cynicism Epicureanism  Stoicism
 * The Nicomachean Ethics (virtue ethics, leads into Politics)
 * Rethoric
 * Metaphysics
 * Poetics
 * Politics
 * Farrand Sayre - Diogenes of Sinope: A study of Greek cynicism
 * R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé -The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy 
 * James Warren - The Cambridge's companion to Epicureanism
 * Eugene O'connor - The essential Epicurus
 * Lucretius - The nature of things

(Isabella specified Penguin Classics) Skepticism
 * Seneca - Letters from a stoic
 * Epictetus - Discourses and selected writings
 * Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
 * Norman Maccoll - The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus
 * Sextus Empiricus - Outlines of Pyrrhonism
 * Richard T. Wallis - Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
 * John Gregory - The neoplatonists
 * Plotinus - The enneads

Travel_literature.jpgl Literature
General Europe Asia Africa The Americas Anthologies
 * From the Meadows of Gold by Mas'udi
 * The Travels of Ibn Battutah
 * Voyages and Discoveries by Richard Hakluyt
 * The Journals of Captain James Cook
 * South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
 * The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
 * Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh
 * Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinsk
 * The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier
 * Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill
 * Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
 * Guide to Greece by Pausanias
 * Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan
 * A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
 * A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
 * Letters From England by Voltaire
 * Italian Journey: 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine
 * Letters from Russia by Adolphe De Custine
 * Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov
 * The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
 * D. H. Lawrence and Italy by D.H. Lawrence
 * Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca WestThe_Colossus_of_Maroussi.jpg
 * Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
 * A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
 * The Silent Traveler in London by Chiang Lee
 * Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson
 * The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
 * Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
 * In Siberia by Colin Thubron
 * The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
 * Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
 * The Travels of Marco Polo
 * The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
 * An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi
 * Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
 * Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird
 * The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
 * A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina by Richard Burton
 * Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan by Lafcadio HearnThe_Snow_Leopard.jpg
 * The Southern Gates of Arabia by Freya Stark
 * A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
 * A Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
 * Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd
 * Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley
 * Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
 * A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
 * The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
 * Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
 * The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
 * The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
 * Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
 * The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
 * City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
 * Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue by Paul Bowles
 * Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo ParkGreen_Hills_of_Africa.jpg
 * Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
 * Source of the Nile by Richard Burton
 * The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
 * Travels in the Congo by Andre Gide
 * Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
 * Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
 * Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
 * The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti
 * North of South by Shiva Naipaul
 * African Laughter by Doris Lessing
 * Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
 * Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America by Alexander von Humboldt
 * History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean de Lery
 * The Journals of Lewis and Clark
 * The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
 * American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens
 * A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
 * Travels in Alaska by John MuirKon-Tiki.jpg
 * Roughing It by Mark Twain
 * Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
 * Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins
 * Here is New York by E.B. White
 * Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
 * Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
 * The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
 * In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
 * An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
 * I See by My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle
 * Coming into the Country by John McPhee
 * Into the Wild by Bill Bryson
 * A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
 * The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
 * A Book of Traveller's Tales by Eric Newby
 * Travel Writing 1700-1830
 * Colonial American Travel Narratives
 * Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
 * Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
 * Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
 * Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
 * Americans in Paris