Literature I Have Read
This is a list of all literature I have read during my lifetime. It ranges from fiction to poetry to non-fiction, totaling 434 titles. For a PDF of this list, please click the box below.
1984
– George Orwell
Aaron’s Rod
– D.H. Lawrence
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent:
Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
– Elaine Pagels
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
– Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
– Mark Twain
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
– Anne Somerset
Affinity
– Sarah Waters
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
– Jean Rhys
Against Nature
– Joris-Karl Huysman
Agamemnon
– Aeschylus
The Age of Innocence
– Edith Wharton
Agnes Grey
– Anne Bronte
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence
– Daniel Crevier
Ajax
– Sophocles
Alice in Wonderland
– Lewis Carrol
All Quiet on the Western Front
– Erich Maria Remarque
All’s Well That Ends Well
– William Shakespeare
American Buffalo
– David Mamet
American Gods
– Neil Gaiman
American Psycho
– Bret Easton Ellis
Anna Karenina
– Leo Tolstoy
Antigone
– Sophocles
Anthony and Cleopatra
– William Shakespeare
Apology
– Plato
Ararat
– Louise Gluck
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base
– Annie Jacobsen
Ariel
– Sylvia Plath
As You Like It
– William Shakespeare
Autobiography
– Morrissey
The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
– Scott Frost
The Awakening
– Kate Chopin
The Bacchae
– Euripides
Barry Lyndon
– William Makepeace Thackeray
The Bell Jar
– Sylvia Plath
Beowulf
– Anonymous
Best-Ever Curry Cookbook
– Mridula Baljekar
Between Two Kings
– Alexandre Dumas
Beyond Good and Evil
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
– Sigmund Freud
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
– Henry Miller
Birds
– Aristophanes
Bizenghast Volume 1
– M. Alice LeGrow
Bizenghast Volume 2
– M. Alice LeGrow
Bizenghast Volume 3
– M. Alice LeGrow
The Black Arrow
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Tulip
– Alexandre Dumas
Black Elk Speaks
– John G. Neihardt
Black Zodiac
– Charles Wright
Bleak House
– Charles Dickens
The Blithedale Romance
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Blood Royal
– Alexandre Dumas
Brave New World
– Aldous Huxley
Breakfast of Champions
– Kurt Vonnegut
The Brothers Karamazov
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Top 25 Pick)
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Camille
– Alexandre Dumas fils
The Canterbury Tales
– Geoffrey Chaucer
Carl Jung: How to Believe
– Mark Vernon
Carmilla
– J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Castle of Otranto
– Horace Walpole
The Cat in the Hat
– Dr. Seuss
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
– Tennessee Williams
The Catcher in the Rye
– J.D. Salinger
Charlotte’s Web
– E.B. White
The Cherokee Nation: A History
– Robert J. Conley
The Cherry Orchard
– Anton Chekhov
Children of Dune
– Frank Herbert
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
– Lucette Lagnado
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
– Henry David Thoreau
Civilization and Its Discontents
– Sigmund Freud
Clarissa
– Samuel Richardson
A Clash of Kings
– George R.R. Martin
Cleopatra
– H. Rider Haggard
A Clockwork Orange
– Anthony Burgess
(Top 25 Pick)
The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary
– Karl von Eckartshausen
The Comedy of Errors
– William Shakespeare
Common Sense
– Thomas Paine
The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales
– Jacob Grimm
Coriolanus
– William Shakespeare
The Count of Monte Cristo
– Alexandre Dumas
(Top 25 Pick)
Cousin Bette
– Honore de Balzac
Cousin Pons
– Honore de Balzac
Crime and Punishment
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crucible
– Arthur Miller
Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
– Lol Tolhurst
The Custom of the Country
– Edith Wharton
Cymbeline
– William Shakespeare
D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study
– Anais Nin
The Da Vinci Code
– Dan Brown
A Dance with Dragons
– George R.R. Martin
Dancing with Myself
– Billy Idol
The Dead
– James Joyce
Dead Souls
– Nikolai Gogol
Death in Venice
– Thomas Mann
Death of a Salesman
– Arthur Miller
The Death of Ivan Ilych
– Leo Tolstoy
Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
– Arthur I. Miller
The Deerslayer
– James Fenimore Cooper
Delights and Shadows
– Ted Kooser
Delta of Venus
– Anais Nin
(Top 25 Pick)
The Denial of Death
– Ernest Becker
Descending Figure
– Louise Gluck
The Diary of a Young Girl
– Anne Frank
The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1: 1931-1934
– Anais Nin
Different Hours
– Stephen Dunn
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
– Philip K. Dick
Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
– Vivien Spitz
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
– John Milton
A Doll’s House
– Henrik Ibsen
Don Quixote
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dracula
– Bram Stoker
Dream Story
– Arthur Schnitzler
Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics
– Starhawk
Dubliners
– James Joyce
Dune
– Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah
– Frank Herbert
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East of Eden
– John Steinbeck
(Top 25 Pick)
Electra
– Sophocles
Elephants Can Remember
– Agatha Christie
Emma
– Jane Austen
An Enemy of the People
– Henrik Ibsen
Equus
– Peter Shaffer
Eric Brighteyes
– H. Rider Haggard
Ethan Frome
– Edith Wharton
Eugenie Grandet
– Honoré de Balzac
The Eye in the Triangle: An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley
– Israel Regardie
Face It
– Debby Harry
Fahrenheit 451
– Ray Bradbury
The Fall
– Albert Camus
Far from the Madding Crowd
– Thomas Hardy
Faust
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
– Hunter S. Thompson
A Feast for Crows
– George R.R. Martin
Felix Holt: The Radical
– George Eliot
The Fifth Sacred Thing
– Starhawk
Fire & Blood
– George R.R. Martin
Firstborn: Poems
– Louise Gluck
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
– Plato
Flowers for Algernon
– Daniel Keyes
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide
to Personal Freedom
– Miguel Ruiz
Frankenstein
– Mary Shelley
(Top 25 Pick)
Franny and Zooey
– J.D. Salinger
The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
– Ian Davidson
Funeral Elegy
– William Shakespeare
A Game of Thrones
– George R.R. Martin
Germinal
– Emile Zola
(Top 25 Pick)
Ghosts
– Henrik Ibsen
The Glass Menagerie
– Tennessee Williams
Glengarry Glen Ross
– David Mamet
Good Morning, Midnight
– Jean Rhys
Goodnight Moon
– Margaret Wise Brown
Goth: A History
– Lol Tolhurst
The Grapes of Wrath
– John Steinbeck
Great Expectations
– Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Green Eggs and Ham
– Dr. Seuss
The Gulag Archipelago
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gulliver’s Travels
– Jonathan Swift
Hamlet
– William Shakespeare
(Top 25 Pick)
A Handful of Dust
– Evelyn Waugh
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
– J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
– J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
– J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
– J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
– J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
– J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
– J.K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness
– Joseph Conrad
Hedda Gabbler
– Henrik Ibsen
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
– Joseph Campbell
The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq
– Seth W.B. Folsom
The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction
– Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
– Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality Volume 3: The Care of the Self
– Michel Foucault
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
– Eric Kurlander
The Hobbit
– J.R.R. Tolkien
The House on Marshland
– Louise Gluck
The House of Dolls
– Ka-tzetnik 135633
The House of Mirth
– Edith Wharton
(Top 25 Pick)
The House of the Seven Gables
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
– Dr. Seuss
The Hundred Secret Senses
– Amy Tan
The Hunt for Red October
– Tom Clancy
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The Idiot
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Iliad
– Homer
The Importance of Being Earnest
– Oscar Wilde
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
– George Zarkadakis
Inferno
– Dante Alighieri
The Informers
– Bret Easton Ellis
The Interpretation of Dreams
– Sigmund Freud
Interview with the Vampire
– Anne Rice
Inuyasha Volumes 1, 2, 3
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 4, 5, 6
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 7, 8, 9
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 10, 11, 12
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 13, 14, 15
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 16,17, 18
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 19, 20, 21
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 22, 23, 24
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 25, 26, 27
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 28, 29, 30
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 31, 32, 33
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 34, 35, 36
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 37, 38, 39
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 40, 41, 42
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 43, 44, 45
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 45, 47, 48
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 49, 50, 51
– Rumiko Takahashi
Inuyasha Volumes 52, 53, 54
– Rumiko Takahashi
Island of the Blue Dolphins
– Scott O’Dell
Jamaica Inn
– Daphne du Maurier
Jane Eyre
– Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure
– Thomas Hardy
(Top 25 Pick)
Julius Caesar
– William Shakespeare
The Jungle
– Upton Sinclair
Justine
– Marquis de Sade
Kafka on the Shore
– Haruki Murakami
Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian
– Noam Chomsky
King John
– William Shakespeare
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
– George R.R. Martin
The Knight of Maison Rouge
– Alexandre Dumas
The Kreutzer Sonata
– Leo Tolstoy
L’Assommoir
– Emile Zola
La Bete Humaine
– Emile Zola
Ladders to Fire
– Anais Nin
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
– D.H. Lawrence
The Lair of the White Worm
– Bram Stoker
A Laodicean: A Story of Today
– Thomas Hardy
The Last of the Mohicans
– James Fenimore Cooper
Late Wife
– Claudia Emerson
Leaves of Grass
– Walt Whitman
Les Miserables
– Victor Hugo
Less Than Zero
– Bret Easton Ellis
Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1945
– Paul Roland
Light in August
– William Faulkner
The Little Book of Conspiracies: 50 of the World’s Greatest Theories
– Joel Levy
Lolita
– Vladimir Nabakov
Loose Woman
– Sandra Cisneros
Lord of the Flies
– William Golding
Love
– Elizabeth von Arnim
Lucifer’s Court: A Heretic’s Journey in Search of the Light Bringers
– Otto Rahn
Lysistrata
– Aristophanes
M. Butterfly
– David Henry Hwang
Macbeth
– William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary
– Gustave Flaubert
Man and His Symbols
– C.G. Jung
The Man Who Fell to Earth
– Walter Tevis
Mansfield Park
– Jane Austen
The Martian Chronicles
– Ray Bradbury
The Marvelous Land of Oz
– Frank L. Baum
Master and Man
– Leo Tolstoy
The Master and Margarita
– Mikhail Bulgakov
The Masterpiece
– Emile Zola
The Mayor of Casterbridge
– Thomas Hardy
McTeague
– Frank Norris
Meadowlands
– Louise Gluck
The Meaning of Witchcraft
– Gerald B. Gardner
Measure for Measure
– William Shakespeare
(Top 25 Pick)
Medea
– Euripides
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
– C.G. Jung
Mental Radio
– Upton Sinclair
The Merchant of Venice
– William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor
– William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis
– Franz Kafka
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
– William Shakespeare
The Minister’s Black Veil
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Modern Mephistopheles
– Louisa May Alcott
A Modest Proposal
– Jonathan Swift
Moll Flanders
– Daniel Defoe
The Monk
– Matthew Lewis
Monster Volume 1
– Naoki Urasawa
Monster Volume 2
– Naoki Urasawa
Monster Volume 3
– Naoki Urasawa
Monster Volume 4
– Naoki Urasawa
Monster Volume 5
– Naoki Urasawa
Monster Volume 6
– Naoki Urasawa
Monster Volume 7
– Naoki Urasawa
Monster Volume 8
– Naoki Urasawa
Monster Volume 9
– Naoki Urasawa
Mrs. Dalloway
– Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch
– William S. Burroughs
Nana
– Emile Zola
Native Guard
– Natasha Trethewey
Native Wisdom: Perceptions of the Natural Way
– Ed McGaa
The Night of the Iguana
– Tennessee Williams
Nine Stories
– J.D. Salinger
Northanger Abbey
– Jane Austen
Notes from Underground
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Top 25 Pick
Top 25 Pick
The Octopus: A Story of California
– Frank Norris
The Odd Women
– George Gissing
The Odyssey
– Homer
Oedipus at Colonus
– Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
– Sophocles
Of Mice and Men
– John Steinbeck
Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
– Dr. Seuss
The Old Curiosity Shop
– Charles Dickens
The Old English Baron
– Clara Reeve
On the Road
– Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
– Ken Kesey
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
– Annie Jacobsen
The Oresteia
– Aeschylus
Othello
– William Shakespeare
(Top 25 Pick)
Our Town
– Thornton Wilder
Pamela
– Samuel Richardson
Paradise Lost
– John Milton
The Pearl
– John Steinbeck
The Pentagon’s Brain
– Annie Jacobsen
Pere Goriot
– Honore de Balzac
Persuasion
– Jane Austen
Peter Pan
– J.M. Barrie
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
– Annie Jacobsen
Philosophy in the Bedroom
– Marquis de Sade
The Picture of Dorian Gray
– Oscar Wilde
(Top 25 Pick)
The Plague
– Albert Camus
The Portrait of a Lady
– Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
– James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice
– Jane Austen
The Prince
– Niccolo Machiavelli
Prometheus Bound
– Aeschylus
Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry
– Louise Gluck
The Prophet
– Kahlil Gibran
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
– Noam Chomsky
Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World
– Robert Anton Wilson
The Queen of the Damned
– Anne Rice
Quiet Days in Clichy
– Henry Miller
The Rainbow
– D.H. Lawrence
(Top 25 Pick)
The Rape of Lucrece
– William Shakespeare
Rappaccini’s Daughter
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Record, Play Pause
– Stephen Morris
The Red Book: Liber Novus
– C.G. Jung
(Top 25 Pick)
Red Dragon
– Thomas Harris
The Red Pony
– John Steinbeck
The Remains of the Day
– Kazuo Ishiguro
Repair
– C.K. Williams
The Republic
– Plato
The Return of the Native
– Thomas Hardy
Rights of Man
– Thomas Paine
Romeo and Juliet
– William Shakespeare
A Room of One’s Own
– Virginia Woolf
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
– Tom Stoppard
Rurouni Kenshin Volumes 1, 2, 3
– Nobuhiro Watsuki
Rurouni Kenshin Volumes 4, 5, 6
– Nobuhiro Watsuki
Rurouni Kenshin Volumes 7, 8, 9
– Nobuhiro Watsuki
Rurouni Kenshin Volumes 10, 11, 12
– Nobuhiro Watsuki
Rurouni Kenshin Volumes 13, 14, 15
– Nobuhiro Watsuki
Rurouni Kenshin Volumes 16, 17, 18
– Nobuhiro Watsuki
Rurouni Kenshin Volumes 19, 20, 21
– Nobuhiro Watsuki
Rurouni Kenshin Volumes 22, 23, 24
– Nobuhiro Watsuki
Rurouni Kenshin Volumes 25, 26, 27
– Nobuhiro Watsuki
Sacred Paths for Modern Men: A Wake Up Call from Your 12 Archetypes
– Dagonet Dewr
Samson Agonistes
– John Milton
The Scarlet Letter
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Seagull
– Anton Chekhov
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
– Jennifer Lynch
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
– Mark Frost
Secrets, Lies and Democracy
– Noam Chomsky
Sense and Sensibility
– Jane Austen
The Seven Against Thebes
– Aeschylus
The Seven Ages
– Louise Gluck
The Shadow-Line
– Joseph Conrad
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
– William Shakespeare
The Shining
– Stephen King
Sister Carrie
– Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-Five
– Kurt Vonnegut
The Soft Machine
– William S. Burroughs
Sons and Lovers
– D.H. Lawrence
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
– Starhawk
A Spy in the House of Love
– Anais Nin
A Storm of Swords
– George R.R. Martin
Strange Angel
– George Pendle
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The Stranger
– Albert Camus
(Top 25 Pick)
Stranger in a Strange Land
– Robert A. Heinlein
A Streetcar Named Desire
– Tennessee Williams
Summer
– Edith Wharton
The Sun Also Rises
– Ernest Hemingway
Sylvia Plath: A Biography
– Linda Wagner-Martin
The Symposium
– Plato
A Tale of Two Cities
– Charles Dickens
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
– Carlos Castaneda
The Tempest
– William Shakespeare
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
– Anne Bronte
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
– John Milton
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
– Thomas Hardy
(Top 25 Pick)
Therese Raquin
– Emile Zola
Things Fall Apart
– Chinua Achebe
The Three Musketeers
– Alexandre Dumas
The Three Sisters
– Anton Chekhov
The Time Machine
– H.G. Wells
This Side of Paradise
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Titus Andronicus
– William Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird
– Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
– Virginia Woolf
(Top 25 Pick)
Tortilla Flat
– John Steinbeck
Totem and Taboo
– Sigmund Freud
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
– John Steinbeck
The Trial and Death of Socrates
– Plato
The Trial
– Franz Kafka
Tristram Shandy
– Laurence Sterne
Tropic of Cancer
– Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn
– Henry Miller
True West
– Sam Shepard
The Turn of the Screw
– Henry James
Twelfth Night
– William Shakespeare
Twenty Years After
– Alexandre Dumas
Twice-Told Tales
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf 1990-1991: With the 1st Marine Division in Desert Shield and Desert Storm
– U.S. Marine Corps
Uncle Vanya
– Anton Chekhov
Under the Greenwood Tree
– Thomas Hardy
Under the Roofs of Paris
– Henry Miller
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
– Peter Hook
The Vampire Lestat
– Anne Rice
The Vampyre: A Tale
– John William Polidori
Vanity Fair
– William Makepeace Thackeray
Venus and Adonis
– William Shakespeare
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
– Eric Carle
Villette
– Charlotte Bronte
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
– Mary Wollstonecraft
Vita Nova
– Louise Gluck
Waiting for Godot
– Samuel Beckett
Walden
– Henry David Thoreau
Walking to Martha’s Vineyard
– Franz Wright
War and Peace
– Leo Tolstoy
Washington Square
– Henry James
Watchmen
– Alan Moore
Where Angels Fear to Tread
– E.M. Forster
Where the Red Fern Grows
– Wilson Rawls
Where the Wild Things Are
– Maurice Sendak
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
– Edward Albee
Wide Sargasso Sea
– Jean Rhys
(Top 25 Pick)
The Wild Iris
– Louise Gluck
The Wings of the Dove
– Henry James
The Winter of Our Discontent
– John Steinbeck
The Winter’s Tale
– William Shakespeare
Women in Love
– D.H. Lawrence
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
– Frank L. Baum
The Woodlanders
– Thomas Hardy
The World According to Garp
– John Irving
The World of Ice & Fire
– George R.R. Martin
A Writer’s Diary
– Virginia Woolf
Wuthering Heights
– Emily Bronte
(Top 25 Pick)
Year 501: The Conquest Continues
– Noam Chomsky
The Years
– Virginia Woolf
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Short Stories
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Zastrozzi
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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