so, i found a book list of a friend of mine. now i feel very unread.
- Abe, Kobo - The Woman in the Dunes
- Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
- Adams, Henry - The Education of Henry Adams
- Addams, Jane - Twenty Years at Hull House
- Aeschylus - The Oresteia; Prometheus Bound
- Agee, James - A Death in the Family
- Agee, James and Walker Evans - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Albee, Edward - Three Tall Women; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
- Alger, Horatio - Ragged Dick, or Street Life in New York
- Alighiere, Dante - The Divine Comedy
- Allende, Isabel - The House of the Spirits; Paula
- Allison, Dorothy -Bastard Out of Carolina
- Alvarez, Julia - In the Time of Butterflies
- Alvarez, Walter - T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
- Ambrose, Stephen E. - Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
- Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio
- Angelou, Maya - All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Ansay, Manette A. - Sister
- Aquinas, Thomas - Summa Theologica
- Aristophanes - The Birds; The Clouds; Lysistrata
- Aristotle - Ethics (Ethica Nicomahcea) ; Poetics; Politics
- Arnim, Elizabeth von - Enchanted April
- Aronson, Marc - Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde
- Asinof, Eliot - Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
- Atkin, S. Beth - Voices from the Streets: Young Former Gang Members Tell Their Stories
- Atwood, Margaret - Alias Grace; Handmaid's Tale
- Auden, W.H. - Collected Poems; "Musee des Beaux Arts "
- St. Augustine - The Confessions
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations
- Austen, Jane - Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
- Baker, Russell - Growing Up
- Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain; The Fire Next Time
- Balzac, Honore de - Cousin Bette; Eugene Grandet; Pere Goriot
- Barrie, James M. - Peter Pan
- Barth, John - The Sot-Weed Factor
- Barton, Bruce - The Man Nobody Knows
- Basho, Matsuo - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Baudelaire, Charles - The Flowers of Evil
- Beard, Charles A. - An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
- Beaumont, William - Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion
- Beck, Martha - Expecting Adam
- Becker, Ernest - Denial of Death
- Beckett, Samuel - Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape; Waiting for Godot
- Bellamy, Edward-Looking Backward
- Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog; Humboldt's Gift; Seize the Day
- Bernstein, Leonard - Joy of Music; West Side Story
- Bierce, Ambrose - "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
- Blackstone, Harry, Jr. - Blackstone Book of Magic and Illusion
- Blais, Madeleine - In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle
- Blake, William - Selected Works; Songs of Innocence and Experience
- Boccaccio, Giovanni - The Decameron
- Bodanis, David - Secret Family
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus - The Consolation of Philosophy
- ten Boom, Corrie - The Hiding Place
- Boorstin, Jon - Making Movies Work: Thinking Like a Filmmaker
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Dreamtigers; Ficciones; Labyrinths
- Boswell, James - Boswell's London Journal: 1762-1763; The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Tortilla Curtain
- Bradbury, Ray - Dandelion Wine; Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles
- Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Brown, Dee - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Browning, Elisabeth Barrett - Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Browning, Robert - The Ring and the Book
- Brumberg, Joan - Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
- Bunyan, John - Pilgrim's Progress
- Butler, Octavia - Parable of the Sower
- Butler, Robert N. - Why Survive Being Old in America
- Butler, Robert Olen - Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- Butler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh
- Byatt, A.S. - Babel Tower
- Cain, James M. - The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro - Life is a Dream
- Camus, Albert - The Fall; The Plague; The Rebel; The Stranger
- Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
- Cardozo, Benjamin - The Nature of the Judicial Process
- Carnegie, Dale - How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Carson, Rachel - Silent Spring
- Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass
- Cash, Wilbur J. - The Mind of the South
- Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Antonia; O Pioneers!; "Paul's Case"
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de - Don Quixote de la Mancha
- Chang, Iris - Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
- Chang, Jung - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
- Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
- Cheever, John - "The Enormous Radio"; "The Five-Forty-Eight"; "The Swimmer"
- Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard; "The Kiss"; The Seagull; The Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya
- Cheng, Nien - Life and Death in Shanghai
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
- Christie, Agatha - Mousetrap
- Cisneros, Sandra - House on Mango Street
- Claiborne, Craig - The New York Times Cook Book
- Clark, Kenneth - Civilization
- Cleary, Beverly - My Own Two Feet: A Memoir
- Cohen, Leah Hager - Heat Lightning
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Biographia Literaria; Christabel; "Kubla Khan"; "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; Writings on Shakespeare
- Coles, Robert - Children of Crisis
- Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone
- Conroy, Pat - Beach Music
- Cook, Blanch Wiesen - Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1
- Cooke, Mervyn - Chronicle of Jazz
- Copland, Aaron - What to Listen for in Music
- Coward, Noel - Blithe Spirit; Private Lives
- Confucius - The Analects
- Congreve, William - The Way of the World
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; Nostromo; "The Secret Sharer"
- Cooper, James F. - The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans
- Corneille, Pierre - The Cid
- Crane, Stephen - "The Blue Hotel"; "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; "The Open Boat"; The Red Badge of Courage
- Cumming, Robert - Annotated Art
- Cunningham, Michael - Hours
- Curie, Eve - Madame Curie: A Biography
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. - Two Years Before the Mast
- Danticat, Edwidge - Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Darwin, Charles - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex; The Origin of Species; The Voyage of the Beagle
- Davis, David Brion - Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
- Davies, Roberston - What's Bred in the Bone
- Day, David - Search for King Arthur
- Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe
- Descartes, Rene - Discourse on Method
- Dexter, Pete - Paper boy
- Diamond, Jared - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Dickens, Charles - Bleak House; "A Christmas Carol"; David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; Nicholas Nickleby; The Old Curiosity Shop; Oliver Twist; Our Mutual Friend; Pickwick Papers; A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickinson, Emily - Collected Poems
- Dillard, Annie - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Dineson, Isak - Seven Gothic Tales; Out of Africa
- Dixon, Thomas - The Clansman
- Donne, John - "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; Selected Works
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich - The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; The Possessed
- Dorris, Michael - Broken Cord
- Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie
- Dryden, John - Absalom and Achitophel
- DuBois, W.E.B.-The Souls of Black Folk
- Dubos, Rene Jules - So Human an Animal
- Durant, Will - Rousseau and Revolution
- Durrell, Lawrence - The Alexandria Quartet
- Edelman, Bernard - Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
- Edelman, Marion W. - Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
- Eliot, George - Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch; Silas Marner
- Eliot, T.S. - Collected Plays; "Ash Wednesday"; "Four Quartets"; "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; "The Waste Land"
- Elkin, Stanley - Mrs. Ted Bliss
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Emecheta, Buchi - Bride Price
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Works
- Epictetus and Sharon Labell - Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
- Erasmus, Desiderius - The Praise of Folly
- Erikson, Erik H. - Gandhi's Truth
- Euripides - Alcestis; Andromache; The Bacchae; Electra; Hippolytus; Medea; The Trojan Women;
- Faludi, Susan - Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women
- Farmer, Fannie - The Boston Cooking School Cookbook
- Farrell, James T. - Studs Lonigan
- Fast, Howard - April Morning
- Faulkner, William - Absalom, Absalom; As I Lay Dying; Bear; Light in August; Reivers; "A Rose for Emily"; Sanctuary; The Sound and the Fury
- Feynman, Richard - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
- Fielding, Henry - Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
- Finn, David - How to Look at Sculpture
- Finney, Jack - Time and Again
- Firdausi - Shah Nameh
- Fitzgerald, Edward - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Fitzgerald, Francis - Fire in the Lake
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott -
- Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education; "A Simple Heart"
- Flexner, Abraham - Medical Education in the United States and Canada
- Ford, Ford Madox - "The Celestial Omnibus"; The Good Soldier
- Ford, Michael Thomas - Voices of AIDS
- Ford, Richard - Independence Day
- Forster, E. M. - "The Eternal Moment"; A Passage to India
- Fouts, Roger - Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me about Who We Are
- Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman; The Magus
- Frankl, Viktor E. - Man's Search for Meaning
- Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain
- Freedman, Samuel G. - Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
- Fremon, Celeste - Father Greg & the Homeboys
- Friedan, Betty - The Feminine Mystique
- Frost, Robert - Collected Poems
- Fugard, Athol - Master Harold and the Boys
- Gage, Nicholas - Eleni
- Gaines, Ernest - Gathering of Old Men; Lesson before Dying
- Galbraith, John K. - The Affluent Society
- Galilei, Galileo - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Galsworth, John - The Forsythe Saga
- Galvin, James - Meadow
- Gardner, John - Grendel
- Garfunkel, Trudy - On Wings of Joy: the Story of Ballet
- Gay, John - The Beggar's Opera
- Gibbons, Kaye - Charms for the Easy Life; Ellen Foster
- Gide, Andre - The Counterfeiters
- Gilmore, Mikal - Shot in the Heart
- Ginzburg, Eugenia - Within the Whirlwind
- Glasgow, Ellen - Barren Ground
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust; The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich - Dead Souls; "The Diary of a Madman"; "The Overcoat"
- Golberg, Vicki - Power of Photographs: How Photography Changed Our Lives
-Goldsmith, Oliver - She Stoops to Conquer; The Vicar of Wakefield
- Gombrich, E.H. - Story of Art
- Gould, Stephen Jay - Mismeasure of a Man
- Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows
- Grass, Gunter - The Tin Drum
- Grau, Shirley Ann - Keepers of the House
- Green, Bill - Water, Ice, and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
- Greene, Melissa - Praying for Sheetrock
- Guterson, David - East of hte Mountains; Snow Falling on Cedars
- Hafner, Katie - Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
- Haley, Alex - Roots
- Hamilton, Madison and Jay - The Federalist Papers
- Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
- Hamilton, Jane - Book of Ruth
- Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon
- Hamsun, Knut - Growth of the Soil, Hunger
- Hanff, Helene - 84 Charring Cross Road
- Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
- Hardy, Thomas - Far from the Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Return of the Native; Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Harrison, Kathryn - Poison
- Harte, Bret - "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
- Hawking, Stephen - Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter; Selected Tales
- Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
- Hellman, Lillian - Little Foxes
- Helprin, Mark - Memoir from Antproof Case
- Hemingway, Ernest - "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"; A Farewell to Arms;
- Henry, O. - "The Gift of the Magi"
- Herbert, Frank - Dune
- Herodotus - The Histories
- Hersey, John - Hiroshima
- Hesse, Hermann - Demian; Siddartha; Steppenwolf
- Hijuelos, Oscar - Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Hobbes, Thomas - Leviathan
- Hochschild, Adam - King Leopold's Ghost
- Hockenberry, John - Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
- Hofstadter, Douglas - Godel, Escher, Bach
- Hofstadter, Richard - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- Holldobler, Bert - Ants
- Holmes, Oliver W. - The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
- Homer - The Illiad; The Odyssey
- Howells, William Dean - The Rise of Silas Lapham
- Hsun, Lu - Collected Short Stories
- Hubbell, Sue - Country Year: Living the Questions
- Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Les Miserables
- Hui-neng - The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
- Hume, David - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Humes, Edward - No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
-
- Ibsen, Henrick - A Doll's House; An Enemy of the People; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; Peer Gynt
- Irving, Washington - "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"; "Rip Van Winkle"
- Isherwood, Christopher - The Berlin Stories
- Jackson, Shirley - "The Lottery"
- Jacobs, Jane - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- James, Henry - The Ambassadors; The Bostonians; Daisy Miller; The Turn of the Screw; Washington Square
- James, William - four essays from the Meaning of Truth; Pragmatism; The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Jefferson, Thomas et al. - Basic Documents in American History
- Jewett, Sarah Orne - The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Jiang, Ji-Li - Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
- Johnson, Charles - Middle Passage
- Johnson, Samuel - Lives of the Poets; Rasselas
- Jonas, Gerald - Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement
- Jones, K. Maurice - Say It Loud! The Story of Rap Music
- Jones, Howard M. - O Strange New World
- Jonson, Ben - The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair; Volpone
- Joyce, James - Dubliners; Finnegans Wake; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
- Junichiro, Tanizaki - The Makioka Sisters
- Junger, Sebastian - Perfect Storm
- Kafka, Franz - The Castle; The Metamorphosis; The Trial
- Kalidasa - The Cloud Messenger and Sakuntala
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason
- Karnos, David D. - Falling in Love with Wisdom: Philosophers Talk about Their Calling
- Karr, Mary - Liars' Club
- Kawabata, Yasunari - The Old Capital
- Kazantzakis, Nikos - The Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba the Greek
- Keats, John - "The Eve of St. Agnes"; "Hyperion"; "Ode on a Grecian Urn"; "Ode to a Nightingale"
- Keller, Helen - Story of My Life
- Kendall, Elizabeth - Where She Danced
- Keneally, Thomas - Schindler's List
- Kennedy, William - Ironweed
- Kerner, Mary - Barefoot to Balanchine: How to Watch Dance
- Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
- Kesey, Ken - One Flew over the Cukoo's Nest
- Khanga, Yelena - Soul to Soul: A Black Russian-American Family, 1865-1992
- Khayyam, Omar - The Rubaiyat
- Kidder, Tracy - Soul of a New Machine
- Kierkegaard, Soren - Fear and Trembling; The Sickness unto Death
- King, Laurie R. - Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, on the Segregation of the Queen
- Kingsolver, Barbara - Poisonwood Bible
- Kipling, Rudyard - Captains Courageous; Kim; The Jungle Book
- Kluger, Richard - Ashes to Ashes
- Knowles, John - A Separate Peace
- Kolb, Rocky - Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe
- Kosinski, Jerzy - Painted Bird
- Kotlowitz, Alex - Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
- Kozol, Jonathan - Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
- Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air
- Kuan-chung, Luo - The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Kuhn, Thomas - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Kushner, Tony - Angels in America; Perestroika
- Kyd, Thomas - The Spanish Tragedy
- Lagerkvist, Par - Barabbas
- Lampedusa, Guiseppe di - The Leopard
- Lao-tzu - Tao Te Ching
- Larson, Jonathan - Rent
- Lawrence, D.H. - Lady Chatterly's Lover; "The Prussian Officer"; "The Rocking-Horse Winner"; Sons and Lovers; Women in Love
-
- LeGuin, Ursula - Left Hand of Darkness
- L'Engle, Madeleine - Two Part Invention
- Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook; The Good Terrorist
- Levi, Primo - Periodic Table
- Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark - History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark
- Lewis, Sinclair - Arrowsmith; Babbitt, Main Street
- Locke, John - Second Treatise on Government
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild; The Sea Wolf
- Longfellow, Henry W. - The Song of Hiawatha
- Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; Don Juan; Manfred
- Lowell, Robert - For the Union Dead
- Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano
- Lucas, J. Anthony - Common Ground
- Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
- Lurie, Alison - Foreign Affairs
- Lynd, Robert - Middletown
- McBride, James - Color of Water: A Black man's Tribute to His White Mother
- McCarthy, Cormac - All the Pretty Horses; Blood Meridian
- McCloud, Scott - Understanding Comics
- McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes
- McCullers, Carson - The Ballad of the Sad Café; The Member of the Wedding
- McCullough, David G. - Truman
- Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince
- McKinley, Robin - Beauty
- McMurtry, Larry - Lonesome Dove
- McPhee, John - Annals of the Former World; In Suspect Terrain
- McPherson, James - Elbow Room
- Mahan, Alfred T. - The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783
- Maharidge, Dale - And Their Children after Them
- Mailer, Norman - Armies of the Night; Executioner's Song
- Malamud, Bernard - The Assistant; The Fixer; The Natural
- Malan, Rian - My Traitor's Heart
- Malcolm X - Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Mallon, Thomas - Henry and Clara
- Malory, Thomas, Sir - Le Morte d'Arthur
- Malraux, Andre - Man's Fate
- Manchester, William - Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
- Mann, Horace - Reports
- Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice; The Magic Mountain
- Markandaya, Kamala - Nectar in a Sieve
- Marlowe, Christopher - Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
- Mason, Bobbi Ann - In Country
- Massie, Robert K. - Nicholas and Alexandra
- Mathabane, Mark - Kaffir Boy
- Matthiessen, Peter - Killing Mr. Watson
- Maugham, W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage
- Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca
- Mehta, Ved - Sound-Shadows of the New World
- Melville, Herman - "Bartelby the Scrivener"; Billy Budd, Foretopman; Mobey Dick
- Mencius - The Book of Mencius
- Mencken, H.L. - Prejudices
- Metalious, Grace - Peyton Place
- Mill, John Stuart - On Liberty; The Subjection of Women
- Miller, Arthur - The Crucible; Death of a Salesman
- Miller, Henry - Tropic of Capricorn
- Millhauser, Stephen - Martin Dressler
- Milton, John - Areopagitica; Lycidas; On the Morning of Christ's Nativity; Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; Sonnets
- Mishima, Yukio - Spring Snow
- Moliere - The Misanthrope; Tartuffe
- Momaday, N. Scott - House Made of Dawn
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de - Essays
- Moody, Ann - Coming of Age in Missisippi
- Mora, Pat - House of Houses
- More, Thomas, Sir - Utopia
- Mori, Kyoko - Shizuko's Daughter
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- Muhammad - The Koran
- Murasaki, Lady - The Tale of Genji
- Murray, Albert - Stomping the Blues
- Myrdal, Gunnar - An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita; Memory; Pale Fire; Pnin; "Signs and Symbols"; Speak
- Narayan, R.K. - The English Teacher; The Vendor of Sweets
- Nietsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; Thus Spake Zarathustra; other works
- Nordstrom, Ursula - Dear Genius
- O'Brien, Tim - Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
- O'Conner, Flannery - "A Good Man is Hard to Find" "Everything that Rises Must Converge"
- O'Connor - Edge of Sadness
- O'Gorman, James F. - ABC of Architecture
- O'Hara, John - Appointment in Samarra
- O'Neill, Eugene - Anna Christie; Desire Under the Elms; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey into Night; Mourning Becomes Electra; Strange Interlude
- O'Toole, John K. - Confederacy of Dunces
- Oats, Joyce Carol - We Were the Mulvaney's
- Occiogrosso, Peter - Joy of Sects: A Spirit Guide to the World's Religious Traditions
- Orwell, George - 1984; Animal Farm; Burmese Days
- Ovid - The Metamorphoses
- Paine, Thomas - Common Sense, Addressed to the Inhabitants of America; Rights of Man
- Pascal, Blaise - Pensees
- Passos, John Dos - U.S.A.
- Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
- Paton, Alan - Cry, the Beloved Country
- Paulos, John Allen - Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
- Penn, W.S. - Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art
- Petroski, Henry - Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
- Phillips, Jayne Anne - Shelter
- Pipher, Mary - Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolsecent Girls
- Pirandello, Luigi - Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
- Plato - The Dialogues of Plato; The Republic
- Plutarch - The Lives of the Noble Romans
- Poe, Edgar Allan - "The Cask of Amontillado"; "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "Ligeia"; "The Masque of the Red Death"; "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; "
- Pope, Alexander - "The Dunciad"; "Essay on Man"; "The Rape of the Lock"
- Porter, Katherine Anne - Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; Ship of fools
- Post, Emily - Etiquette: the Blue Book of Social Usage
- Potok, Chaim - Chosen
- Pound, Ezra - The Cantos
- Power, Susan - Grass Dancer
- Proulx, E. Annie - Accordion Crimes; Shipping News
- Proust, Marcel - Remembrance of Things Past
- Pushkin, Alexander - Eugene Onegin
- Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity's Rainbow; Mason & Dixon
- Quindlen, Anna - One True Thing
- Rabelais, Francois - Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Racine, Jean Baptiste - Andromahce; Phedra
- Radcliffe, Ann, Mrs. - The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged
- Ratushinskaya, Irina - Grey is the Color of Hope
- Rawlings, Marjorie - Cross Creek
- Real, Terrence - I Don't Want to Talk about It
- Reed, John - Ten Days that Shook the World
- Regis, Ed - Virus Ground Zero: Stalking the Killer Viruses with the Centers for Disease Control
- Remarque, Reich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
- Remnick, David - Lenin's Tomb
- Rhodes, Richard - Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Richardson, Samuel - Clarissa; Pamela
- Riesman, David - The Lonely Crowd
- Rilke, Ranier Maria - Sonnets to Orpheus
- Robertson, James I. - Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
- Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
- Rodriguez, Luis - Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.
- Rodriguez, Richard - Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
- Rosenberg, Tina - Haunted Land
- Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Roth, Philip - American Pastoral
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - The Confessions
- Rushdie, Salman - Moor's Last Sigh
- Rybczynski, Witold - Most Beautiful House in the World
- Sacks, Oliver - A Leg to Stand on; The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Sagan, Carl - Dragons of Eden
- Saki-"The Open Window"
- Salinger, J.D. -
- Sappho-"Ode to Aphrodite"
- Saroyan, William - "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
- Sartre, Jean-Paul - Nausea; No Exit; "The Wall"
- Schorske, Carl E. - Fin de Siecle Vienna
- Schumacher, Julie - Body is Water
- SeiShonagon - The Pillow-Book
- Shaara, Michael - Killer Angels
- Shaffer, Peter - Equus
- Shakespeare, William - All's Well that Ends Well; Antony and Cleopatra; As You Like It; The Comedy of Errors; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Henry the Fourth, Part One; Henry the Fourth, Par Two; Henry the Fifth; Julius Caesar; King Lear; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; The Merchant of Venice; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado about Nothing; Othello; Richard The Second; Richard the Third; Romeo and Juliet; Sonnets; The Taming of the Shrew; the Tempest; Twelfth Night; The Winter's Tale
- Shaw, George Bernard - Candida; Major Barbara; Man and Superman; Pygmalion; Saint Joan
- Shaw, Irwin - "The Eighty-Yard Run"
- Sheehan, Neil - Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- Sheehan, Susan - Is There No Place on Earth for Me
- Shelley, Mary Godwin - Frankenstein
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe - "Adonais"; "Ozymandias"; "Prometheus Unbound"
- Sherman, Robert - Complete Idiot's Guide to Music
- Shields, Carol - Stone Diaries
- Shipler, David K. - Arab and Jew
- Sholokov, Mikhail - The Silent Don
- Simon, David - Comer: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Sinclair, April - Coffee Will Make You Black
- Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
- Singer, Chirstopher - African Exodus
- Singh, Simon - Fermat's Enigma
- Smiley, Jane - Thousand Acres
-
- Smith, Scott B. - Simple Plan
- Sobel, Dava - Longitude
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander - Cancer Ward; The First Circle; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Sophocles - Antigone; Oedipus at Colonus; Oedipus Rex (Oedipus Tyrannus)
- Soseki, Natsume - Kokoro
- Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queene
- Spiegelman, Art - Maus and Maus II
- Spinoza, Benedictus de - Ethics
- Spock, Benjamin, M.D. - The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
- Stafford, Jean - Collected Stories
- Starr, Paul - Social Transformation of American Medicine
- Steele, Shelby - Content of Our Character
- Steffens, Lincoln - The Shame of the Cities
- Stegner, Wallace - Angle of Repose
- Steinbeck, John - East of Eden; The Grapes of Wrath;
- Stendhal-The Charterhouse of Parma; The Red and the Black
- Sterne, Laurence - Tristram Shandy
- Stevenson, Robert L. - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Kidnapped; Treasure Island
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula
- Stoppard, Tom - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Strickland, Carol - Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History
- Strindberg, August - Miss Julie
- Styron, William - Confessions of Nat Turner; Sophie's Choice
- Su-ma Ch'ien - Records of the Grand Historian
- Sun-tzu - The Art of War
- Swanwick, Michael - Jack Faust
-
- Synge, John Millington - The Playboy of the Western World
- Tannen, Deborah - You Just Don't Understand
- Taylor, Frederick W. - The Principles of Scientific Management
- Taylor, Peter - Summons to Memphis
- Teale, Edwin Way - Wandering Through Winter
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord - The Idylls of the King; "In Memoriam"
- Terkel, Studs - Good War: An Oral History of World War II
- Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair
- Thomas, Dylan - Under Milk Wood
- Thomas, Lewis - Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- Thoreau, Henry David - Civil Disobedience; Walden
- Thornton, Yvonne - Ditchdigger's Daughter
- Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America
- Toland, John - Rising Sun
- Tolkein, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings
- Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich - Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich; War and Peace
- Troloppe, Anthony - Autobiography; Barchester Towers; The Eustace Diamonds; The Last Chronocle of Barset; The Warden; The Way We Live Now
- Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in - The Dream of the Red Chamber
- Tuchman, Barbara - Guns of August; Sitwell and the American Experience in China
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich - Fathers and Sons
- Turner, Frederick J. - The Significance of the Frontier in American History
- Twain, Mark -
- Tyler, Anne - Breathing Lessons; Ladder of Years
- Uchida, Yoshiko - Picture Bride
- Undset, Sigrid - Kristin Lavransdatter
- Updike, John - The Centaur; Rabbit at Rest; Rabbit is Rich
- Valmiki (attr.) - The Ramayana
- Veblen, Thorstein - The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Verne, Jules - Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
- Virgil - The Aeneid
- Voltaire - Candide
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. - Cat's Cradle; Slaughterhouse Five
- Vyasa (attr.) - The Mahabharata
- Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
- Warner, William W. - Beautiful Swimmers
- Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
- Watson, James D. - Double Helix
- Watson, Larry - Montana 1948
- Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited; A Handful of Dust
- Webb, Mary - Precious Bane
- Weems, Mason L. - The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington
- Weiner, Jonathan - Beak of the Finch
- Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds
- Welty, Eudora - Optimist's Daughter
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence; The Custom of the Country; Ethan Frome; The House of Mirth
- White, Bailey - Mama makes Up Her Mind, and Other Dangers of Southern Living
-
- White, Theodore H. - Making of the President 1960
- Whiteley, Opal - Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow
- Whitman, Walt - A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads; Democratic Vistas; Leaves of Grass; Preface to the First Issue of Leaves of Grass; Selected Poems
-
- Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan; The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilder, Thornton - Our Town
- Williams, Brooke - Halflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness
- Williams, Juan - Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
- Williams, Tennessee - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire
- Williams, Terry T. - Refuge
- Williams, William C. - "In the American Grain"; "Paterson"; "Pictures from the Breughel"
- Wills, Garry - Lincoln at Gettysburg
- Wilson, August - Fences
- Wilson, Colin - The Outsider
- Wilson, Edward O. - On Human nature
- Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward Angel; You Can't Go Home Again
- Wolff, Tobias - This Boy's Life
- Wolstonecraft, Mary - A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway; Orlando; The Waves
- Wordsworth, William - "Lines: Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"; Preface to Lyrical Ballads; The Prelude;
- Wright, Richard - Black Boy; Native Son
- Wu Ch'eng-em (attr.) - Journey to the West
- Wycherley, William - The Country Wife
- Yasunari, Kawabata - Beauty and Sadness
- Yeats, W.B. - Autobiography; Collected Plays; "Easter 1916"; "Leda and the Swan"; "Sailing to Byzantium"; "The Wild Swans at Coole"
- Yergen, Daniel - Prize
- Yolen, Jane - Briar Rose; Favorite Folktales from around the World
- Yukio, Mishima - Confessions of a Mask; The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
- Zinsser, Hans - Rats, Lice and History
- Zola, Emile - Germinal
- Anonymous/Unknown -
what i've read, i've crossed off.....
.....
yeah. i have a long way to go.
