THE ULTIMATE LIST

A LIST OF ALL THE BOOKS I'VE EVER READ (as far as I can remember, at least)

Literature

~ Beowulf

~ Cædmon's Hymm - Cædmon

~ The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

~ Utopia - Sir Thomas More

~ The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spencer

~ An Apology for Poetry - Philip Sidney

~ A Defense for Poetry - Philip Sidney

~ Shakespeare:

All's Well That Ends Well

As You Like It

Cymbeline

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merchant of Venice

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Troilus and Cressida

Twelfth Night

Winter's Tale

Antony and Cleopatra

Julius Caesar

Hamlet

King Lear

Macbeth

Othello

Romeo and Juliet

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Henry V

Richard III

The Sonnets

The Rape of Lucrece

Venus and Adonis

Funeral Elegy by W.S.

~ Ben Johnson

The Alchemist

Volpone

Epicoence, or The Silent Woman

Bartholomew Fair

The Devil is an Ass

~ Christopher Marlowe

Tamburlaine

The Spanish Tragedy (written with Thomas Kyd)

The Jew of Malta

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

~ Cornelia - Thomas Kyd

~ Thomas Middleton

The Changeling

Women Beware Women

The Revenger's Tragedy

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

~ The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster

~ John Milton

Areopagitica

Paradise Lost

~ The Way of the World - William Congreve

~ Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson

~ The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole

~ The Mysteries of Uldopho - Ann Radcliff

~ The Monk - Matthew Lewis

~ Jane Austen

Juvenillia - Volumes I, II, and III

Sense and Sensibility

Pride and Prejudice

Emma

Northanger Abbey

Mansfield Park

Persuasion

Lady Susan

~ Waverly - Walter Scott

~ Ivanhoe - Walter Scott

~ Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

~ Vampyre - John William Polidori

~ Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Nicholas Nickleby

~ Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

~ Catherine - William Makepeace Thackeray

~ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

~ Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

~ George Eliot

Middlemarch

Silas Marner

Adam Bede

~ Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

~ The Purcell Papers - Sheridan Le Fanu

~ In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu

~ Camilla - Sheridan Le Fanu

~ Dracula - Bram Stoker

~ The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells

~ The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

~ The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

~ The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

Treasure Island

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

~ James Joyce

Ulysses

The Dubliners

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

~ To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

~ Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

~ A Room With a View - E.M. Forster

~ Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

~ The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley

~ The Borrowers - Mary Norton

~ The Secret Garden - Francis Hodgon Burnett

~ And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

~ Animal Farm - George Orwell

~ 1984 - George Orwell

~ The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

~ The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

~ Lord of the Flies - William Golding

~ A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

~ Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Witches

Matilda

James and the Giant Peach

~ 2oo1: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke

~ Watchmen - Alan Moore

~ The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling

~ Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Anna Karenina

The Death of Ivan Ilych

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes From the Underground

Crime and Punishment

The Idiot

The Brothers Karamazov

~ Short Stories - Anton Chekhov

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

~ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

~ Short Stories - Nikolai Gogol

~ Candide - Voltaire

~ The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Collected Essays

~ Walden - Henry David Thoreau

~ Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

~ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass

~ The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

~ Short Stories - Herman Melville

~ Mark Twain

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Autobiography of Mark Twain

~ The Rise of Silas Lapham - William Dean Howells

~ Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady

Daisy Miller

The Turn of the Screw

~ Margaret Flemming - James Herne

~ Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Ethan Fromme

The Age of Innocence

~ Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane

~ The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

~ Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser

~ The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

The Great Gatsby

Tender is the Night

~ Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Sun Also Rises

A Farewell to Arms

The Old Man and the Sea

~ William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

As I Lay Dying

Absalom, Absalom!

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man)

The Hamlet

Go Down, Moses

Light in August

~ A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

~ Arthur Miller

All My Sons

Death of a Salesman

The Crucible

~ John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

East of Eden

The Grapes of Wrath

~ Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust - Nathaniel West

~ Moloch, or The Gentile World - Henry Miller

~ Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth

~ To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

~ Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow

~ J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Franny and Zooey

Nine Stories

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction

~ The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

~ Jack Kerouac

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (with William S. Burroughs)

The Town and the City

On the Road

Visions of Cody

Doctor Sax

The Subterraneans

Desolation Angels

The Dharma Bums

Lonesome Traveler

Big Sur

Atop and Underwood: Early Writings

~ William S. Burroughs

Junky

Naked Lunch

~ The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer

~ Barbary Shore - Norman Mailer

~ Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

~ Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

~ The Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

~ Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

~ Native Son - Richard Wright

~ What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver

~ Tony Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Song of Solomon

Beloved

Love

~ The Road - Cormac McCarthy

~ Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko

~ The House of Earth - Pearl S. Buck

~ Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

~ Ray Bradbury

The Homecoming

Dandelion Wine

The Martian Chronicles

The Illustrated Man

The October Country

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Fahrenheit 451

~ Issac Asimov

The Stars, Like Dust --

Foundation

I, Robot

Nightfall, and Other Stories

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

~ The Cider House Rules - John Irving

~ Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving

~ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving

~ The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson

~ White Fang - John London

~ The Call of the Wild - John London

~ Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver

~ The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

~ Epic of Gilgamsh

~ Lament for Ur

~ The Iliad - Homer

~ The Odyssey - Homer

~ The Odes - Pindar

~ The Snow Leopard - Peter Mathiassen

Philosophy
~ Negative Dialectics - Theodor Adorno
~ The Divine Comedy - Dante
~ Althusser: A Critical Reader - Louis Althusser
~ Anaxagoras
~ Anaximander
~ The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt
~ Metaphysics - Aristotle
~ Ethics - Aristotle
~ Mythologies - Roland Barthes

~ Selected Writings: Volumes 1-4 - Walter Benjamin

~ A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - Edmund Burke

~ Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

The Stranger

The Plague

Exile and the Kingdom

~ The Responsibility of Intellectuals - Noam Chomsky

~ The Resistance to Theory - Paul de Man

~ Speech and Phenomena: and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs - Jacques Derrida

~ Writing and Difference - Jacques Derrida

~ Positions - Jacques Derrida

~ Discourse on the Method - Rene Descartes

~ Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

~ The History of Sexuality - Michel Foucault

~ The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud

~ An Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud

~ Hans-Georg-Gadamer

Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies

Philosophical Hermeneutics

Truth and Method

~ Knowledge and Human Interests - Jurgen Habermas

~ Theory and Practice - Jurgen Habermas

~ Martin Heidegger

Discourse on Thinking

The Principle of Reason

An Introduction to Metaphysics

Being and Time

~ Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes

~ Treatise on Human Nature - Thomas Hobbes

~ Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects - David Hume

~ The Essential Husserl - Edmund Husserl

~ Franz Kafka

The Complete Stories

The Metamorphosis

The Trial

~ Either/Or - Soren Kierkegaard

~ Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard

~ Ecrits - Jacques Lacan

~ The Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis - Jacques Lacan

~ The Savage Mind - Claude Levi-Strauss

~ Mythologies I-IV - Claude Levi-Strauss

~ Two Treatises of Government - John Locke

~ An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke

~ The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

~ Wage-labor, and Capital - Karl Marx

~ Capital - Karl Marx

~ Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx

~ Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

~ Sense and Non-Sense - Maurice Merlaeau-Ponty

~ On Liberty - John Stuart Mill

~ Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Human, All Too Human

On the Genealogy of Morality

Ecce Homo

The Birth of Tragedy

~ Pensees - Blaise Pascal

~ The Republic - Plato

~ The Dialogues - Plato

~ John Rawls

A Theory of Justice

Justice as Fairness

The Law of Peoples

~ Conflict and Truth - Paul Ricoeur

~ Time and Narrative - Paul Ricoeur

~ Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea

Being and Nothingness

Truth and Existence

Existentialism and Human Emotion

Critique of Dialectical Reason

~ Ferdinand de Saussure

Course on General Linguistics

Writings in General Linguistics

~ Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Writings - Friedrich Schleiermacher

~ Peter Singer

Animal Liberation

In Defense of Animals

Practical Ethics

A Companion to Ethics

How Are We To Live?

Writings on an Ethical Life

One World: The Ethics of Globalisation

~ Candide - Voltaire

~ Just and Unjust Wars - Michael Walzer

~ Cornel West

Race Matters

Democracy Matters

~ Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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