Some books are clear streams of narrative that carry us easily along. Others are springs that inspire or refresh us; others still are lakes of calm and seductive capacities, or oceans that lure us to imaginative depths. But some books are composed with such exotic, even esoteric eloquence that they strike our readerly senses with the beauty, violence, and controlled intensity of a waterfall. We admire such writing before we understand it, and treasure it even when its language seems to keep its secrets.

I love lists and I always love a good book recommendation. While some of the books listed were classics, some were quite old or talked about things that didn’t interest me. But might work for others.

I loved the reviews for each section and while some of the text (like the one quoted above) would have worked for many-a-book-review, to use distinct ones for 1000 reviews is quite a feat.

The short synopsis under each title was sometimes enough to make me want to read the book or avoid it completely.

1,000 Books Checklist
A
☐ Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
☐ Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott
☐ Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
☐ My Dog Tulip, J. R. Ackerley
☐ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
☐ The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
☐ Watership Down, Richard Adams
☐ Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
☐ The Oresteia, Aeschylus
☐ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
☐ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee
☐ Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
☐ The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander
☐ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
☐ Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich
☐ The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
☐ Skellig, David Almond
☐ A Coffin for Dimitrios, Eric Ambler
☐ Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
☐ Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen
☐ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
☐ The Arabian Nights
☐ The Clouds, Aristophanes
☐ Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
☐ Old Herbaceous, Reginald Arkell
☐ Study Is Hard Work, William H. Armstrong
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
☐ Foundation
☐ Foundation and Empire
☐ Second Foundation
☐ Instead of a Letter, Diana Athill
☐ Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
☐ Aubrey’s Brief Lives, John Aubrey
☐ Confessions, Saint Augustine
☐ Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
• Jane Austen:
☐ Emma
☐ Mansfield Park

☐ Northanger Abbey
☐ Persuasion
☐ Pride and Prejudice
☐ Sense and Sensibility
B
☐ Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
☐ The Baburnama, Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur
☐ The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
☐ The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn
☐ The Birthday Boys, Beryl Bainbridge
☐ The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker
☐ Growing Up, Russell Baker
☐ Collected Essays, James Baldwin
☐ Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball
☐ The Drowned World, J. G. Ballard
• Honoré De Balzac:
☐ Lost Illusions
☐ Père Goriot
☐ The Wild Ass’s Skin
☐ The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks
☐ The Journal of a Disappointed Man, W. N. P. Barbellion
☐ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich
The Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker
☐ Regeneration
☐ The Eye in the Door
☐ The Ghost Road
☐ Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
☐ Peter and Wendy, J. M. Barrie
☐ The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
☐ The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Matsuo Bashō
☐ Samuel Johnson, W. Jackson Bate
☐ The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
☐ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
☐ The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter
☐ Vacuum Diagrams, Stephen Baxter
Simone De Beauvoir:
☐ The Coming of Age
☐ Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
☐ The Second Sex
☐ Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
☐ Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Ilene Beckerman
Samuel Beckett:
☐ Company

☐ Molloy
☐ Waiting for Godot
☐ The Hills is Lonely, Lillian Beckwith
☐ The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
☐ Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans
☐ The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
☐ No Picnic on Mount Kenya, Felice Benuzzi
☐ Beowulf
☐ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
☐ A Fortunate Man, John Berger
☐ The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz, Hector Berlioz
☐ The Diary of a Country Priest, Georges Bernanos
☐ All the President’s Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
☐ The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
☐ The Outermost House, Henry Beston
☐ Bhagavad Gita
☐ The Bible
☐ The Book of Job
☐ American Prometheus, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
☐ The Complete Poems, 1927–1979, Elizabeth Bishop
☐ Friday Night Lights, H. G. Bissinger
☐ The Emperor’s Last Island, Julia Blackburn
☐ Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake
☐ The Wilder Shores of Love, Lesley Blanch
☐ Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret., Judy Blume
☐ Akenfield, Ronald Blythe
☐ The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
☐ 2666, Roberto Bolaño
☐ The Book of Common Prayer
☐ Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
☐ The Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell
☐ The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
☐ The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
☐ The Ascent of Rum Doodle, W. E. Bowman
☐ Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
☐ The Chaneysville Incident, David Bradley
☐ A Bullet in the Ballet, Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon
America in the King Years, Taylor Branch
☐ Parting the Waters
☐ Pillar of Fire
☐ At Canaan’s Edge
☐ How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand
☐ The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Fernand Braudel
☐ Navigator of the Flood, Mario Brelich
☐ The Physiology of Taste, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
☐ Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
☐ Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
☐ The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
☐ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Margaret Wise Brown:
☐ Goodnight Moon
☐ Little Fur Family
☐ The Major Works, Sir Thomas Browne
☐ The Story of Babar, Jean de Brunhoff
☐ A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
☐ The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
☐ The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
☐ Bulfinch’s Mythology, Thomas Bulfinch
☐ The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
☐ The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt
☐ A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
☐ Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke
Frances Hodgson Burnett:
☐ A Little Princess
☐ The Secret Garden
☐ The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
☐ Independent Spirit, Hubert Butler
☐ The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
☐ The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
☐ Possession, A. S. Byatt
C
☐ The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
☐ Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
☐ Memorial, Ferdinando Camon
The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell
☐ Primitive Mythology
☐ Occidental Mythology
☐ Oriental Mythology
☐ Creative Mythology
Albert Camus:
☐ The First Man
☐ The Plague
☐ Slightly Out of Focus, Robert Capa
☐ In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

☐ Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
☐ Eyewitness to History, John Carey
☐ True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
☐ The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, Thad Carhart
☐ Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, Eric Carle
Robert A. Caro:
☐ The Power Broker
☐ The Years of Lyndon Johnson
☐ The Path to Power
☐ Means of Ascent
☐ Master of the Senate
☐ The Passage of Power
☐ A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
☐ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
☐ Through the Looking-Glass
☐ Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
☐ The Horse’s Mouth, Joyce Cary
☐ History of My Life, Giacomo Casanova
☐ Spartina, John Casey
☐ The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione
☐ O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
☐ The Poems of Catullus, Gaius Valerius Catullus
☐ Melbourne, David Cecil
☐ Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
☐ The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Benvenuto Cellini
☐ Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
☐ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
☐ Clémentine in the Kitchen, Samuel Chamberlain
☐ Products of the Perfected Civilization, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort
☐ The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
☐ Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast
☐ The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
☐ The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
☐ Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave, Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire
☐ The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
Anton Chekhov:
☐ The Cherry Orchard
☐ The Seagull
☐ Stories
☐ Three Sisters
☐ Uncle Vanya
☐ Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow

☐ The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard
☐ The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton
☐ The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
☐ The Awakening, Kate Chopin
☐ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
☐ Their Finest Hour, Winston Churchill
☐ The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
☐ Rome and a Villa, Eleanor Clark
☐ Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
☐ Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
☐ A Classical Education, Richard Cobb
☐ Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee
☐ Earthly Paradise, Colette
☐ Sailing Alone Around the Room, Billy Collins
☐ Carrying the Fire, Michael Collins
☐ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
☐ The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
☐ The Worm Forgives the Plough, John Stewart Collis
☐ Memoirs of a Medieval Woman, Louise Collis
☐ The Fringes of Power, John Colville
☐ The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
☐ Son of the Morning Star, Evan S. Connell
☐ Enemies of Promise, Cyril Connolly
Joseph Conrad:
☐ Heart of Darkness
☐ A Personal Record
☐ The Road from Coorain, Jill Ker Conway
☐ Memories of the Great and the Good, Alistair Cooke
☐ Talleyrand, Duff Cooper
☐ The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
☐ Torregreca, Ann Cornelisen
☐ Cronopios and Famas, Julio Cortázar
☐ Conversations with Glenn Gould, Jonathan Cott
☐ Stravinsky, Robert Craft
☐ The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
☐ The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
☐ The Moving Toyshop, Edmund Crispin
☐ Little, Big, John Crowley
☐ Complete Poems, 1904–1962, E. E. Cummings
☐ Rebellion in the Backlands, Euclides da Cunha
☐ The Hours, Michael Cunningham
☐ The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, Will Cuppy
☐ Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Lorenzo Da Ponte
☐ Matilda, Roald Dahl
☐ In Xanadu, William Dalrymple
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
☐ Inferno
☐ Purgatorio
☐ Paradiso
☐ The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat
☐ The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin
☐ The Geography of the Imagination, Guy Davenport
☐ Tracks, Robyn Davidson
The Deptford Trilogy, Robertson Davies
☐ Fifth Business
☐ The Manticore
☐ World of Wonders
☐ The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
☐ The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day
☐ How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton
☐ The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle
☐ The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth, Roy Andries de Groot
☐ Microbe Hunters, Paul de Kruif
☐ Giants and Heroes, Dianne Tittle de Laet
☐ Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
☐ Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield
☐ Nova, Samuel R. Delany
☐ Great Books, David Denby
☐ Clear Light of Day, Anita Desai
☐ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Philip K. Dick:
☐ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
☐ The Man in the High Castle
☐ The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Charles Dickens:
☐ Bleak House
☐ A Christmas Carol
☐ David Copperfield
☐ Dombey and Son
☐ Great Expectations
☐ The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
☐ A Tale of Two Cities
☐ Oliver Twist

☐ Poems, Emily Dickinson
☐ The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
☐ Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
☐ Winter’s Tales, Isak Dinesen
☐ Bound to Please, Michael Dirda
☐ Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
☐ This House of Sky, Ivan Doig
☐ Poems and Sermons, John Donne
U.S.A., John Dos Passos
☐ The 42nd Parallel
☐ 1919
☐ The Big Money
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
☐ The Brothers Karamazov
☐ Crime and Punishment
☐ Notes from Underground
☐ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass
☐ Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
☐ The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois
☐ Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
☐ “Bequest of Wings,” Annis Duff
☐ The World As I Found It, Bruce Duffy
Alexandre Dumas:
☐ The Count of Monte Cristo
☐ The Three Musketeers
☐ The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, Ross E. Dunn
☐ The Game of Kings, Dorothy Dunnett
☐ My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
☐ Justine
☐ Balthazar
☐ Mountolive
☐ Clea
☐ Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson
E
☐ The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
☐ The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison
☐ Bright Air, Brilliant Fire, Gerald M. Edelman
☐ The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, G. B. Edwards
☐ A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
☐ Travels with Lizbeth, Lars Eighner
☐ The Immense Journey, Loren Eiseley

☐ Middlemarch, George Eliot
☐ Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
☐ Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis
☐ Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
☐ Essays and Lectures, Ralph Waldo Emerson
☐ Crazy Salad, Nora Ephron
☐ The Epic of Gilgamesh
☐ Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus
☐ The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
Euripides:
☐ Alcestis
☐ The Bacchae
☐ Medea
☐ The Trojan Women
☐ A Fan’s Notes, Frederick Exley
F
☐ The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
☐ The Chemical History of a Candle, Michael Faraday
William Faulkner:
☐ Absalom, Absalom!
☐ As I Lay Dying
☐ Light in August
☐ The Sound and the Fury
☐ A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante
☐ My Brilliant Friend
☐ The Story of a New Name
☐ The Story of the Lost Child
☐ Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
☐ Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris
☐ QED, Richard P. Feynman
☐ The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, Henry Fielding
☐ Time and Again, Jack Finney
☐ The Art of Eating, M. F. K. Fisher
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
☐ The Great Gatsby
☐ Tender Is the Night
☐ Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
☐ Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
Gustave Flaubert:
☐ Madame Bovary
☐ Sentimental Education
☐ From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming

☐ Brazilian Adventure, Peter Fleming
☐ Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
☐ The Civil War, Shelby Foote
☐ Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
☐ The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
☐ Independence Day, Richard Ford
☐ Flour Water Salt Yeast, Ken Forkish
☐ A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
☐ The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
☐ A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, H. W. Fowler
☐ The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
☐ The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
☐ My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin
☐ Flashman, George MacDonald Fraser
☐ My Father’s Fortune, Michael Frayn
☐ The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
☐ The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
☐ The Poetry of Robert Frost, Robert Frost
☐ Critical Path, R. Buckminster Fuller
G
☐ The Recognitions, William Gaddis
☐ A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
☐ The Great Crash, 1929, John Kenneth Galbraith
☐ One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
☐ The Spare Room, Helen Garner
☐ Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
☐ The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
☐ The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
☐ Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
☐ A Mass for the Dead, William Gibson
☐ Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
☐ Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg
☐ The Little Virtues, Natalia Ginzburg
☐ Passing the Time in Ballymenone, Henry Glassie
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:
☐ Faust
☐ Italian Journey
☐ The Sorrows of Young Werther
☐ Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
☐ Lord of the Flies, William Golding
☐ Darwin’s Dreampond, Tijs Goldschmidt
☐ Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov

☐ The Goncourt Journal, Edmond de Goncourt
☐ There Is a World Elsewhere, F. González-Crussi
☐ The Panda’s Thumb, Stephen Jay Gould
☐ Personal History, Katharine Graham
☐ The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
☐ Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant
☐ The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
☐ Good-Bye to All That, Robert Graves
☐ Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy
☐ The Dead of the House, Hannah Green
Graham Greene:
☐ The End of the Affair
☐ The Power and the Glory
☐ The Third Man
☐ Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
☐ The Firm, John Grisham
☐ Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman
☐ Time and the Art of Living, Robert Grudin
☐ The Little World of Don Camillo, Giovanni Guareschi
H, I
☐ Hiroshima Diary, Michihiko Hachiya
☐ I Was a Stranger, Sir John Winthrop Hackett
☐ The All of It, Jeannette Haien
☐ The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam
☐ String Too Short to Be Saved, Donald Hall
☐ A Drinking Life, Pete Hamill
☐ The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
☐ A Romantic Education, Patricia Hampl
☐ Hunger, Knut Hamsun
☐ A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Peter Handke
☐ 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
☐ Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick
☐ Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
☐ The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
☐ Forests, Robert Pogue Harrison
☐ Act One, Moss Hart
☐ The Essential Haiku, Robert Hass
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
☐ The Scarlet Letter
☐ Tales and Sketches
☐ Adam’s Task, Vicki Hearne
☐ Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon
☐ Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller:
☐ Catch-22
☐ Something Happened
Ernest Hemingway:
☐ A Farewell to Arms
☐ The Old Man and the Sea
☐ In Our Time
☐ Dune, Frank Herbert
☐ Histories, Herodotus
☐ Dispatches, Michael Herr
☐ Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel
☐ All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
☐ My Past and Thoughts, Alexander Herzen
☐ The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse
☐ An Infamous Army, Georgette Heyer
☐ Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl
☐ The Destruction of Lord Raglan, Christopher Hibbert
☐ The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
☐ Goodbye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton
☐ A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes
☐ The Mouse and His Child, Russell Hoban
☐ Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges
☐ Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Eric Hodgins
☐ Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas R. Hofstadter
☐ The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
☐ One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji, Katsushika Hokusai
☐ Holmes-Laski Letters, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
☐ Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, Richard Holmes
☐ Footsteps, Richard Holmes
Homer:
☐ The Iliad
☐ The Odyssey
☐ The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins
☐ The Odes of Horace, Horace
☐ Great River, Paul Horgan
☐ Ten Years in the Tub, Nick Hornby
☐ Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
☐ We Die Alone, David Howarth
☐ World of Our Fathers, Irving Howe
☐ A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
☐ The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes
☐ Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
☐ The Autumn of the Middle Ages, Johan Huizinga
☐ Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

☐ Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
☐ In the Vineyard of the Text, Ivan Illich
☐ The World According to Garp, John Irving
☐ The Berlin Stories, Christopher Isherwood
☐ The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
J
☐ The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
☐ Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson
☐ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
☐ Beyond a Boundary, C. L. R. James
☐ Cultural Amnesia, Clive James
Henry James:
☐ The Aspern Papers
☐ The Portrait of a Lady
☐ The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James, M. R. James
☐ A Taste for Death, P. D. James
William James:
☐ The Selected Letters of William James
☐ The Varieties of Religious Experience
☐ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes
☐ Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
☐ Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson
☐ A Johnson Reader, Samuel Johnson
☐ A False Spring, Pat Jordan
James Joyce:
☐ Dubliners
☐ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
☐ Ulysses
☐ Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C. G. Jung
☐ The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
K
Franz Kafka:
☐ The Complete Stories
☐ The Trial
☐ The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn
☐ When French Women Cook, Madeleine Kamman
☐ Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor
☐ The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr
☐ The Perfect Stranger, P. J. Kavanagh
☐ Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, Yasunari Kawabata
☐ The Greek Passion, Nikos Kazantzakis

☐ Letters of John Keats, John Keats
☐ The Face of Battle, John Keegan
☐ The Secret of the Old Clock, Carolyn Keene
☐ A Dresser of Sycamore Trees, Garret Keizer
☐ The Story of My Life, Helen Keller
☐ Part of Our Time, Murray Kempton
☐ A Boy at the Hogarth Press, Richard Kennedy
☐ Talking Like the Rain, X. J. Kennedy
☐ The Pound Era, Hugh Kenner
☐ On the Road, Jack Kerouac
☐ The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard, Søren Kierkegaard
☐ Kilvert’s Diary, Francis Kilvert
☐ Why We Can’t Wait, Martin Luther King Jr.
Stephen King:
☐ Carrie
☐ 11/22/1963
☐ The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
☐ Just So Stories for Little Children, Rudyard Kipling
☐ Old House of Fear, Russell Kirk
☐ Death of My Aunt, C. H. B. Kitchin
☐ The Oldest Dead White European Males, Bernard Knox
☐ From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg
☐ Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
☐ A Hole Is to Dig, Ruth Krauss
☐ The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn
☐ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
☐ Angels in America, Tony Kushner
L
☐ Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
☐ The Princess of Clèves, Madame de Lafayette
☐ The Dwarf, Pär Lagerkvist
☐ Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
☐ Notes on a Cowardly Lion, John Lahr
☐ The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
☐ Endurance, Alfred Lansing
☐ Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
☐ Gardening for Love, Elizabeth Lawrence
☐ Independent People, Halldór Laxness
☐ The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, John le Carré
☐ A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
☐ To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
☐ Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee

☐ Another Self, James Lees-Milne
☐ Two Sought Adventure, Fritz Leiber
☐ The Cyberiad, Stanislaw Lem
☐ Book of Ages, Jill Lepore
☐ A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
☐ Friends in High Places, Donna Leon
☐ LaBrava, Elmore Leonard
☐ Zibaldone, Giacomo Leopardi
Doris Lessing:
☐ The Grass Is Singing
☐ The Golden Notebook
☐ Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
☐ The Gentleman in Trollope, Shirley Robin Letwin
☐ Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi
☐ If This Is a Man, Primo Levi
☐ Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin
☐ Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss
C. S. Lewis:
☐ A Grief Observed
☐ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
☐ The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
☐ Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis
☐ Voices of the Old Sea, Norman Lewis
☐ Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
☐ Between Meals, A. J. Liebling
☐ Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
☐ Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, Abraham Lincoln
☐ Venice for Pleasure, J. G. Links
☐ Complete Stories, Clarice Lispector
☐ The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting
☐ The Call of the Wild, Jack London
☐ The Art of the Personal Essay, Phillip Lopate
☐ Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez
☐ Man Meets Dog, Konrad Lorenz
☐ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, H. P. Lovecraft
☐ Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace
☐ Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
☐ The Way Things Are, Lucretius
☐ The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
☐ The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli
☐ Five Days in London, John Lukacs
☐ Adventures on the Wine Route, Kermit Lynch
☐ The Undertaking, Thomas Lynch

☐ The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters, George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis
M
☐ Leo Africanus, Amin Maalouf
☐ The Towers of Trebizond, Rose Macaulay
☐ Anybody Can Do Anything, Betty MacDonald
☐ Epitaph of a Small Winner, Joaquim María Machado de Assis
☐ The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
☐ Whisky Galore, Compton Mackenzie
☐ Eastern Approaches, Fitzroy Maclean
☐ Confessions of a Philosopher, Bryan Magee
Norman Mailer:
☐ The Armies of the Night
☐ The Executioner’s Song
☐ Kaputt, Curzio Malaparte
☐ In the Freud Archives, Janet Malcolm
☐ A Book of One’s Own, Thomas Mallon
☐ The Voices of Silence, André Malraux
☐ Goodbye, Darkness, William Manchester
☐ Hope Against Hope, Nadezhda Mandelstam
☐ Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso
☐ The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
☐ A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel
☐ Mystery Train, Greil Marcus
☐ The Infatuations, Javier Marías
☐ West with the Night, Beryl Markham
☐ the lives and times of archy and mehitabel, Don Marquis
☐ The Roots of Civilization, Alexander Marshack
☐ Life of Pi, Yann Martel
☐ A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
☐ The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx
☐ Nicholas and Alexandra, Robert K. Massie
☐ Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin
☐ A Genius in the Family, Hiram Percy Maxim
☐ Ring of Bright Water, Gavin Maxwell
☐ A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
☐ The Road, Cormac McCarthy
☐ Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
☐ Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
☐ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
☐ Truman, David McCullough
☐ Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
☐ Plagues and Peoples, William H. McNeill

☐ Oranges, John McPhee
☐ The Rainbabies, Laura Krauss Melmed
Herman Melville:
☐ Moby-Dick
☐ The Piazza Tales
☐ The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand
☐ A Mencken Chrestomathy, H. L. Mencken
☐ On the Shoulders of Giants, Robert K. Merton
☐ The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton
☐ The First Day on the Somme, Martin Middlebrook
☐ Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill
☐ Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
☐ Black Spring, Henry Miller
☐ A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr.
The World of Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne
☐ Winnie-the-Pooh
☐ The House at Pooh Corner
☐ Paradise Lost, John Milton
☐ Little Bear, Else Holmelund Minarik
☐ A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
☐ Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell
☐ Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
☐ Hons and Rebels, Jessica Mitford
☐ The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
☐ House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
☐ Essays, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
☐ Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery
☐ Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
☐ Judgment Night, C. L. Moore
☐ History: A Novel, Elsa Morante
The Bookshop Novels, Christopher Morley
☐ Parnassus on Wheels
☐ The Haunted Bookshop
☐ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
☐ Pax Britannica, Jan Morris
☐ Beloved, Toni Morrison
☐ Ill Met by Moonlight, W. Stanley Moss
☐ My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir
☐ The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
☐ The Hunger Angel, Herta Mùller
☐ Selected Stories, 1968–1994, Alice Munro
☐ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
☐ The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki Shikibu

☐ The Sea, the Sea, Iris Murdoch
☐ The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
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Vladimir Nabokov:
☐ Lolita
☐ Speak, Memory
☐ Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
☐ A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul
☐ A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
☐ The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor
☐ A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby
☐ The Reckoning, Charles Nicholl
☐ Merry Hall, Beverley Nichols
☐ Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson
☐ The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche
☐ Ringworld, Larry Niven
☐ The 9/11 Commission Report
☐ Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
☐ Dakota, Kathleen Norris
O
☐ Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama
☐ Master and Commander, Patrick O’Brian
☐ The Little Red Chairs, Edna O’Brien
☐ At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
☐ Mrs. Adams in Winter, Michael O’Brien
☐ The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
Flannery O’Connor:
☐ The Complete Stories
☐ The Habit of Being
☐ Collected Stories, Frank O’Connor
☐ Are You Somebody?, Nuala O’Faolain
☐ Into the Heart of Borneo, Redmond O’Hanlon
☐ The Book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura
☐ The Famished Road, Ben Okri
☐ Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen
☐ Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill
☐ The Origins of European Thought About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate, R. B. Onians
☐ War in Val D’Orcia, Iris Origo
George Orwell:
☐ 1984
The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters:

☐ An Age Like This
☐ My Country Right or Left
☐ As I Please
☐ In Front of Your Nose
☐ Metamorphoses, Ovid
P, Q
☐ The Village of Waiting, George Packer
☐ The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
☐ The Cosmic Code, Heinz R. Pagels
Memoirs of a Provençal Childhood, Marcel Pagnol
☐ My Father’s Glory
☐ My Mother’s Castle
☐ The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
☐ France and England in North America, Francis Parkman
☐ Pensées, Blaise Pascal
☐ Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
☐ Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
☐ Kiss the Girls, James Patterson
☐ Medieval in LA: A Fiction, Jim Paul
The Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake
☐ Titus Groan
☐ Gormenghast
☐ Titus Alon
☐ Book Lust, Nancy Pearl
☐ The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys
☐ Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
☐ Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman, S. J. Perelman
☐ A Reader’s Delight, Noel Perrin
☐ Giving Up the Gun, Noel Perrin
☐ The Beast in the Nursery, Adam Phillips
☐ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
☐ The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan
☐ Collected Dialogues, Plato
☐ The Bogey Man, George Plimpton
☐ Letters of Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Younger
☐ Plutarch’s Lives, Plutarch
☐ Poetry and Tales, Edgar Allan Poe
☐ The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo
☐ The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Anne Porter

☐ The World of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
☐ The Wicked Pavilion, Dawn Powell
☐ Heisenberg’s War, Thomas Powers
☐ A Glastonbury Romance, John Cowper Powys
☐ The House of Life, Mario Praz
☐ History of the Conquest of Mexico, William H. Prescott
☐ A Palpable God, Reynolds Price
☐ Clockers, Richard Price
Marcel Proust:
In Search of Lost Time:
☐ Swann’s Way
☐ Within a Budding Grove
☐ The Guermantes Way
☐ Sodom and Gomorrah
☐ The Captive
☐ The Fugitive
☐ Time Regained
☐ The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
☐ Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin
☐ Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
☐ Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
☐ The Qur’an
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☐ Old Glory, Jonathan Raban
☐ Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
☐ Sparkle and Spin, Ann Rand and Paul Rand
☐ Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
☐ Citizen, Claudia Rankine
☐ Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
☐ The List of Books, Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish
☐ Period Piece, Gwen Raverat
☐ The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz
☐ Village School, Miss Read
☐ Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed
☐ Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl
☐ All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
☐ Lenin’s Tomb, David Remnick
☐ A Judgement in Stone, Ruth Rendell

☐ Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
☐ Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
☐ Selected Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke
☐ Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud
☐ Midnight in Sicily, Peter Robb
☐ Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
☐ Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez
☐ The Tuscan Year, Elizabeth Romer
☐ The Walls Came Tumbling Down, Henriette Roosenburg
☐ Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum
☐ Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
Philip Roth:
☐ American Pastoral
☐ The Ghost Writer
☐ The Medical Detectives, Berton Roueché
☐ Classic Crimes, W. N. Roughead
☐ The Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
☐ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling
☐ The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
☐ Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon
☐ Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
☐ The Stones of Venice, John Ruskin
☐ The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan
☐ Home, Witold Rybczynski
S
☐ Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini
☐ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
☐ All Passion Spent, Vita Sackville-West
☐ The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
☐ The Sagas of Icelanders
☐ The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
☐ Memoirs, Duc de Saint-Simon
☐ The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
☐ Light Years, James Salter
☐ Lost in Place, Mark Salzman
☐ Poems, Sappho
☐ No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre
☐ The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, Siegfried Sassoon
☐ The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
☐ Landscape and Memory, Simon Schama
☐ Saint-Exupéry, Stacy Schiff
☐ Forms of Devotion, Diane Schoemperlen

☐ The Last of the Just, André Schwarz-Bart
☐ The Emigrants, W. G. Sebald
☐ Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
☐ The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
☐ The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
William Shakespeare:
☐ Hamlet
☐ Henry IV, Part 1
☐ Henry IV, Part 2
☐ Henry V
☐ Julius Caesar
☐ King Lear
☐ Macbeth
☐ A Midsummer Night’s Dream
☐ Othello
☐ Richard II
☐ Romeo and Juliet
☐ The Sonnets
☐ The Tempest
☐ Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
☐ Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 1874–1950, George Bernard Shaw
☐ Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
☐ The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
☐ Berlin Diary, William L. Shirer
☐ The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, Sei Shōnagon
☐ Bread and Wine, Ignazio Silone
☐ City, Clifford D. Simak
☐ Maigret and the Man on the Bench, Georges Simenon
☐ The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer
☐ The Three Golden Keys, Peter Sís
☐ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
☐ Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum
☐ Artful, Ali Smith
☐ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
☐ I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
☐ Polar Star, Martin Cruz Smith
☐ A Simple Plan, Scott Smith
☐ Topper, Thorne Smith
☐ White Teeth, Zadie Smith
☐ The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett
☐ Longitude, Dava Sobel
☐ River of Shadows, Rebecca Solnit
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
☐ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

☐ The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Sophocles:
☐ Antigone
☐ Oedipus at Colonus
☐ Oedipus the King
☐ Aké, Wole Soyinka
☐ Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
☐ The Complete Maus, Art Spiegelman
☐ Corinne, or Italy, Madame de Staël
☐ The Valleys of the Assassins, Freya Stark
☐ Japanese Inn, Oliver Statler
☐ The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
☐ A Woman, a Man, and Two Kingdoms, Francis Steegmuller
☐ Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
☐ Abel’s Island, William Steig
☐ The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck:
☐ The Grapes of Wrath
☐ Travels with Charley
☐ After Babel, George Steiner
☐ The Red and the Black, Stendhal
☐ Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson
☐ The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne
Robert Louis Stevenson:
☐ A Child’s Garden of Verses
☐ Kidnapped
☐ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
☐ Treasure Island
☐ Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart
☐ Dracula, Bram Stoker
☐ Fer-de-Lance, Rex Stout
☐ lost boy, lost girl, Peter Straub
☐ Alice James: A Biography, Jean Strouse
☐ Morgan: American Financier, Jean Strouse
☐ Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
☐ The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius
☐ Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo
☐ Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
☐ The Quest for Corvo, A. J. A. Symons
☐ Map: Collected and Last Poems, Wisława Szymborska
T
Histories of Rome, Tacitus
☐ The Histories

☐ The Annals
☐ Fame and Obscurity, Gay Talese
☐ This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
☐ The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
☐ Tao Te Ching
☐ The Secret History, Donna Tartt
☐ The Surprise of Cremona, Edith Templeton
☐ The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
☐ Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
☐ How to Tell When You’re Tired, Reg Theriault
☐ The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux
☐ Arabian Sands, Wilfred Thesiger
☐ Religion and the Decline of Magic, Keith Thomas
☐ The Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas
☐ On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
☐ Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson
☐ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
☐ Eloise, Kay Thompson
☐ Walden, Henry David Thoreau
☐ The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
☐ The Thurber Carnival, James Thurber
☐ Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman
☐ Célestine, Gillian Tindall
☐ Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, James Tiptree Jr.
☐ Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
J. R. R. Tolkien:
☐ The Hobbit
☐ The Lord of the Rings
Leo Tolstoy:
☐ Anna Karenina
☐ The Death of Ivan Ilyich
☐ War and Peace
☐ The Sea and the Jungle, H. M. Tomlinson
☐ Small Talk at Wreyland, Cecil Torr
☐ The Great Good Thing, Roderick Townley
☐ Centuries of Meditations, Thomas Traherne
☐ Garibaldi and the Thousand, George Macaulay Trevelyan
☐ The Collected Stories, William Trevor
☐ Hermit of Peking, Hugh Trevor-Roper
☐ The Warden, Anthony Trollope
☐ Within the Context of No Context, George W. S. Trow
☐ The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman
☐ Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow

Mark Twain:
☐ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
☐ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
☐ Letters from the Earth
☐ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
U, V
☐ Life in Code, Ellen Ullman
☐ Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset
☐ The Maples Stories, John Updike
☐ The Dying Earth, Jack Vance
☐ The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh
☐ Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari
☐ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
☐ Burr: A Novel, Gore Vidal
☐ The Aeneid, Virgil
☐ Candide, or Optimism, Voltaire
☐ Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Elizabeth von Arnim
☐ Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
☐ Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
W
☐ Holy Land, D. J. Waldie
☐ The Color Purple, Alice Walker
☐ The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton
☐ Among Others, Jo Walton
☐ The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner
☐ The Element of Lavishness, Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell
☐ Beautiful Swimmers, William W. Warner
☐ All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
☐ Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington
☐ The Double Helix, James D. Watson
☐ The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
☐ A Coffin for King Charles, C. V. Wedgwood
☐ Simone Weil: An Anthology, Simone Weil
☐ The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
☐ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty
☐ Boggs: A Comedy of Values, Lawrence Weschler
☐ Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Rebecca West
☐ The Hot Rock, Donald E. Westlake
☐ The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
☐ Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
☐ The Once and Future King, T. H. White

☐ The Making of the President 1960, Theodore H. White
☐ The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
☐ Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
☐ Night, Elie Wiesel
☐ Kaddish, Leon Wieseltier
☐ Collected Poems 1943–2004, Richard Wilbur
☐ The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
☐ Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
☐ The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
☐ Stoner, John Williams
☐ A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
☐ Tarka the Otter, Henry Williamson
☐ Lincoln at Gettysburg, Garry Wills
☐ Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams, Lynne Withey
☐ Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Edmund Wilson
☐ Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson
☐ April 1865, Jay Winik
☐ Pigs Have Wings, P. G. Wodehouse
☐ Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
☐ The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
Virginia Woolf:
☐ The Common Reader
☐ A Moment’s Liberty
☐ Orlando
☐ To the Lighthouse
☐ The Prelude and Other Poetry, William Wordsworth
☐ Native Son, Richard Wright
☐ The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf
☐ The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
The Zoom Trilogy, Tim Wynne-Jones
☐ Zoom at Sea
☐ Zoom Away
☐ Zoom Upstream
X, Y, Z
☐ The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
☐ Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
☐ Swallowing Clouds, A. Zee
☐ Within This Wilderness, Feenie Ziner
☐ Germinal, Émile Zola
☐ A Part of Myself, Carl Zuckmayer