This story is a lot longer than it needs to be, but it documents (somewhat)
my intellectual development. During my teen years, something
(exactly what is lost in the pages of history) turned me on to philosophy.
Around age 15, I was wrestling with Kierkegaard and Kant. Which is kind of funny, because 20 years later, I’m still wrestling with those two.
Combing our local library for philosophical works, I stumbled
upon the most amazing set of books ever, Encyclopædia Britannica’s 60-volume
Great Books of the Western World. Later, I found out the selections
for this collection were chosen by Mortimer Adler, author of How to Read
a Book and many other excellent texts. Adler’s theories about the great
texts of Western civilization, and the “six great ideas” (truth, beauty,
goodness, liberty, equality, and justice) were the inspiration for the
Great Books programs of several universities (Thomas Aquinas College,
St. John’s College, Guttenberg College, Shimer College, Mercer University,
Saint Olaf College, North Park College, and the University of Dallas at
Irving). Sometime I wish I’d known about these Great Books programs when
choosing a college…
When I found out about these Great Books programs a few
years ago, I started collecting lists of the texts they used. Combining
these with Adler’s lists (at The
Center for the Study of Great Ideas), I came up with my list of the
Greatest Books ever written. To this, I added the list of an Eastern
literature Great Books list. Then about two years ago, everyone under the
sun started coming up with lists of the Greatest Books of the
Millenium, or century. Christianity Today put out a list.
The Modern Library, The New Republic, Amazon.com and
Waterstone’s Booksellers each put out lists. Several subject-specifc
magazines printed lists of the top 10 or 100 books ever written in their
particular field. As those lists appeared, I grabbed them and kept adding
them to my list.
The result is an enormous list. Actually, several lists, as
I have attempted to seperate the results into Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry,
Essays, and Drama. Eventually, those categories might again be split.
Anyway, the lists are below. This page is more for personal reference than
anything else. But other people have asked me for suggestions of good books
to read. My answer is found herein.
| Abrams, Meyer Howard | The Mirror And The Lamp |
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Acheson, Dean | Present At The Creation |
| Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
| Adams, Henry | Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres |
| Adams, Henry | Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres / The Education Of Henry Adams |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Adler, Mortimer | How to Read a Book |
| Aeschylus | Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound |
| Agnon, S. Y. | In the Heart of the Seas |
| Albee, Edward | Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf |
| Ambrose, Stephen E. | Undaunted Courage |
| Anderson, Hans Christian | The Tales of |
| Anderson, Sherwood | Winesburg, Ohio |
| Anonymous | Alcoholics Anonymous |
| Anonymous | Beowulf |
| Anonymous | The Gospel of Thomas |
| Anonymous | Way of a Pilgrim (English Translation) |
| Anselm | Proslogion |
| Apollonius | Conics |
| Aquinas | Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles |
| Arendt, Hannah | The Origins of Totalitarianism |
| Ariosto, Ludovico | Orlando Furioso |
| Aristophanes | The Clouds / The Frogs |
| Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics / On Rhetoric / Politics |
| Arnold, Ron | Ecoterror |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’S Tale |
| Auden, WH | The Dyer’s Hand |
| Auerbach, Erich | Mimesis — The Representation of Reality, etc. |
| Augustine | Confessions |
| Austen, Jane | Emma / Persuasion / Pride And Prejudice |
| Babbitt, Irving | Democracy and Leadership |
| Bach, Richard | Illusions |
| Bacon | Novum Organum |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It On The Mountain / Notes Of A Native Son / Giovanni’s Son |
| Balthasar, Hans Urs von | Glory of the Lord (7 vols.) |
| Balthasar, Hans Urs von | The Glory of the Lord |
| Banfield, Edward | The Unheavenly City |
| Barfield, Owen | Poetic Diction / Saving the Appearances |
| Barfield, Owen | Saving the Appearances |
| Barrett, Judi | Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs |
| Barrios, C. S. | The Texan |
| Barth, Karl | Church Dogmatics / Epistle to the Romans |
| Barth, Karl | The Epistle to the Romans |
| Barzun, Jacques | Classic, Romantic, and Modern / Culture We Deserve |
| Bate, Walter Jackson | Samuel Johnson |
| Baum, L. Frank | The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz |
| Beauvoir, Simone de | The Second Sex |
| Beck, Aaron T. | Cognitive Therapy And The Emotional Disorders |
| Becker, Carl L. | The Declaration Of Independence |
| Beerbohm, Max | Zuleika Dobson |
| Behe, Michael | Darwin’s Black Box |
| Bellow, Saul | Henderson the rain king / The adventures of Augie March |
| Bennett, Arnold | The old wives’ tale |
| Berger, John | Ways Of Seeing |
| Berlin, Isaiah | The Hedgehog and the Fox |
| Berlin, Isaiah | The Proper Study Of Mankind |
| Bernanos, Georges | Diary of a Country Priest |
| Bernanos, Georges | The Diary of a Country Priest |
| Berry, Wendell | Sabbaths |
| Berryman, John | 77 Dream Songs |
| Betts, Doris | Souls Raised from the Dead |
| Black Elk | Black Elk Speaks |
| Blake, Robert | Disraeli |
| Blake, Wm | Collected Works |
| Bloch, Marc | Strange Defeat |
| Bloom, Allan | The Closing of the American Mind |
| Bloom, Harold | The Western Canon |
| Bloy, Leon | The Woman Who Was Poor |
| Bois, W.E.B. Du | The Souls Of Black Folk |
| Boll, Heinrich | The Stories of Heinrich Boll |
| Bolt, Robert | A Man for All Seasons |
| Bonhoeffer, Dietrich | Life Together / The Cost of Discipleship |
| Bonhoeffer, Dietrich | The Cost of Discipleship / Letters and Papers from Prison |
| Booth, Wayne | Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | Ficciones |
| Bovard, James | Freedom In Chains |
| Bowen, Elizabeth | The Death Of The Heart |
| Bowles, Paul | The Sheltering Sky |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 / Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Browne, Harry | Why Government Doesn’t Work |
| Buber, Martin | I and Thou / Tales of the Hasidim |
| Buber, Martin | I and Thou |
| Buchanan, Patrick J | Right From The Beginning |
| Buck, Perl S | The Good Earth |
| Buckley Jr., William F | God & Man at Yale |
| Buechner, Frederic | Godric |
| Bultmann, Rudolph | Jesus Christ and Mythology |
| Bunyan, John | Pilgrim’s Progress |
| Burgess, Anthony | A Clockwork Orange |
| Burnham, James | The Machiavellians |
| Burroughs, William S. | Naked Lunch / The Job |
| Buruma, Ian | Behind The Mask |
| Butler, Samuel | The way of all flesh |
| Byatt, AS | Possession |
| Cain, James M. | The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| Cairnes, Scott | Recovered Body |
| Caldwell, Erskine | Tobacco Road |
| Calvin, John | Institutes of the Christian Religion |
| Campbell, Joseph | The Hero Of A Thousand Faces |
| Camus, Albert | The Plague |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger |
| Cantrell, Lana | The Greatest Story Never Told |
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender’S Game |
| Caro, Robert A. | The Power Broker |
| Carson, Anne | Eros The Bittersweet |
| Carson, Rachel | Silent Spring |
| Carson, Rachel | Silent Spring |
| Cather, Willa | Death Comes for the Archbishop / O Pioneers! / My Antonia |
| Cecil, Lord David | Melbourne |
| Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Chambers, Whittaker | Witness |
| Chapman, John | Spiritual Letters |
| Chase, Alston | In A Dark Wood |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | Canterbury Tales |
| Cheever, John | The Wapshot Chronicles |
| Cheng, Nien | Life and Death in Shanghai |
| Chernow, Ron | The House Of Morgan |
| Chesterton, G. K. | Orthodoxy |
| Chesterton, G.K. | The Man Who Was Thursday / Everlasting Man / Orthodoxy |
| Chesterton, GK | The Everlasting Man / Orthodoxy |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Christian, Catherine | The Pendragon |
| Churchill, Winston | The Second World War |
| Churchill, Winston | The Second World War |
| Clancy, Tom | The Hunt For Red October |
| Clark, Kenneth | Civilisation |
| Claudel, Paul | The Satin Slipper |
| Clément, Olivier | The Roots of Christian Mysticism |
| Cohn, Norman | The Pursuit of the Millennium |
| Coles, Robert | Children Of Crisis |
| Collingwood, RG | The Idea of History |
| Conquest, Robert | The Great Terror |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim / Heart Of Darkness / Nostromo / The Secret Agent |
| Copernicus | On The Revolutions Of The Spheres |
| Coupland, Douglas | Life After God |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Croly, Herbert | The Promise Of American Life |
| D’Souza, Dinesh | The End Of Racism |
| Dangerfield, George | The Strange Death Of Liberal England |
| Danielou, Jean | Bible and the Liturgy |
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy |
| Darwin, Charles | On the origin of species / The Descent of Man |
| Daumal, Rene | Mount Analogue |
| Davies, Robertson | Fifth Business / The Cunning Man |
| Day, Dorothy | The Long Loneliness |
| de Gaulle, Charles | The Edge of the Sword |
| De Long, James V | Property Matters — How Property Rights Are Under Assault And Why You Should Care |
| de Rougemont, Denis | Love in the Western World |
| Defoe | A Journal of the Plague Year |
| Delany, Samuel R. | Silent Interviews |
| Delillo, Don | White Noise |
| Deming, W. Edwards | Out Of The Crisis |
| Des Prez | Mass |
| Descartes, Rene | Discourse on Method / Geometry / Meditations / Rules For The Direction Of The Mind |
| Dewberry, Elizabeth | Many Things Have Happened Since He Died |
| Dewey, John | Philosophy And Civilization |
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol/ Tale of Two Cities |
| Dickey, James | Deliverance |
| Dillard, Annie | Holy the Firm / Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
| Dillard, Annie | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
| Dinesen, Isak | Out Of Africa |
| Dix, Gregory | Shape of the Liturgy |
| Doctorow, E.L. | Ragtime |
| Dodd, CH | Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments |
| Dodds, ER | Greeks and the Irrational |
| Donleavy, J.P. | The Ginger Man |
| Donne, John | The Holy Sonnets |
| Dostoevski | Brothers Karamazov / The House of the Dead |
| Douglas, Norman | Looking Back |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Dreiser, Theodore | An American Tragedy / Sister Carrie |
| Dubois | The Souls Of Black Folk |
| Dubus, Andre | Selected Stories |
| Dunne, John S. | The Way of All the Earth |
| Durant, Will & Ariel | The Story of Civilization |
| Durell, Lawrence | The Alexandria Quartet |
| Eady, Cornelius | Victims of the Latest Dance Craze |
| Eddison, E.R. | The Worm Ouroboros |
| Edel, Leon | Henry James |
| Einstein, Albert | Ideas and Opinions / Selected Papers |
| Eisley, Loren | The Immense Journey |
| Eliade, Mircea | Sacred and the Profane |
| Eliade, Mircea | The Myth of Eternal Return |
| Eliot, T. S. | Christianity and Culture |
| Eliot, T. S. | The Four Quartets |
| Eliot, TS | Christianity and Culture / On Poetry and Poets |
| Ellis, Alice Thomas | The Sin Eater |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man / Shadow And Act |
| Ellmann, Richard | James Joyce |
| Ellul, Jacques | Technological Society |
| Endo, Shusako | Silence |
| Endo, Shusaku | Silence |
| Epictetus | Discourses / Enchiridion |
| Euclid | Elements |
| Euripides | Hippolytus / The Bacchae / Medea |
| Fargas, Laura | An Animal of the Sixth Day |
| Farrell, James T. | The Studs Lonigan Trilogy |
| Faulkner, William | Absalom, Absalom! / As I Lay Dying / Light In August / The sound and the fury / The Bear |
| Feynman, Richard P. | Six Easy Pieces |
| Feynman, Richard | The Feynman Lectures on Physics |
| Fitzgerald, F Scott | The Great Gatsby / Tender Is The Night / The Beautiful And The Damned / This Side Of Paradise |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Florensky, Pavel | Pillar and Ground of the Truth |
| Florensky, Pavel | The Pillar and the Ground of Truth |
| Flynn, John T. | The Roosevelt Myth |
| Foote, Horton | The Trip to Bountiful |
| Foote, Shelby | The Civil War |
| Foote, Shelby | The Civil War |
| Ford, Ford Madox | Parade’S End / The Good Soldier |
| Forster, E. M. | Aspects Of The Novel / A Passage To India / A Room With A View / Howards End / Where Angels Fear To Tread |
| Foster, Richard | A Celebration of Discipline |
| Fowles, John | The French Lieutenant’S Woman / The Magus |
| Frank, Anne | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| Frankl, Victor | Man’s Search for Meaning |
| Frankl, Viktor | Man’s Search for Meaning |
| Frazer, James | The Golden Bough |
| Freeman, Douglas | R. E. Lee |
| Freud, Sigmund | The Interpretation of Dreams |
| Freud | General Introduction To Psychoanalysis |
| Friedman, Milton And Rose | Free To Choose |
| Friedman, Milton | Capitalism and Freedom |
| Fry, Christopher | The Lady’s Not for Burning |
| Frye, Northrop | Anatomy Of Criticism / Great Code |
| Fukuyama, Francis | The End of History and the Last Man |
| Fussell, Paul | The Great War And Modern Memory |
| Gaddis, William | The Recognitions |
| Galbraith, John Kenneth | The Affluent Society |
| Galileo | Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems / Two New Sciences |
| Gallico, Paul | The Snow Goose |
| Gandhi, Mohandas | An Autobiography — The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
| Gannet, Ruth Stiles | My Father’s Dragon |
| Gardner, John | Art of Fiction / On Moral Fiction |
| Gasset, Jose Ortega | Revolt of the Masses |
| Gasset, Jose Ortega | Revolt of the Masses |
| Gatto, John Taylor | Dumbing Us Down |
| Giardina, Denise | Saints and Sinners |
| Gide, Andre | The Immoralist |
| Gilder, George | Wealth and Poverty |
| Gilson, Etienne | Painting and Reality / Spirit of Medieval Philosophy |
| Girard, Rene | Scapegoat / Violence and the Sacred |
| Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther / Faustus |
| Goldbarth, Albert | Heaven and Earth — A Cosmology |
| Golding, William | The Lord Of The Flies |
| Gombrich, Ernest H. | Art And Illusion |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | The Mismeasure Of Man |
| Gowing, Lawrence | Vermeer |
| Grahame, Kenneth | The Wind In The Willows |
| Graves, Robert | Goodbye To All That / I Claudius / The White Goddess |
| Green, Henry | Loving |
| Green, Julien | Diaries |
| Greene, Graham | The Heart Of The Matter / The Power and the Glory |
| Greene, Graham | The Power and the Glory |
| Griffiths, Bede | The Golden String |
| Guardini, Romano | The Lord |
| Guenon, Rene | Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times |
| Guenon, Rene | The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times |
| Gurdjieff, G. I. | Meetings with Remarkable Men |
| Gurney, AR | The Dining Room |
| Hacking, Ian | The Taming Of Chance |
| Hahn, Thich Nhat | Peace Is Every Step |
| Haley, Alex & Malcolm X | The Autobiography Of Malcolm X |
| Hall, Donald | Claims for Poetry / Poetry and Ambition |
| Hamilton, Jay, And Madison | The Federalist |
| Hamilton, Laurell K. | Guilty Pleasures |
| Hammarskjold, Dag | Markings |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Maltese Falcon |
| Hampl, Patricia | Virgin Time |
| Hancock, G. | Fingerprints Of The Gods |
| Hansen, Ron | Mariette in Ecstasy |
| Hardy, G. H. | A Mathematician’S Apology |
| Hardy | Far From the Madding Crowd |
| Hart, Gary | The Minuteman — Restoring An Army Of The People |
| Hart, Joseph | Waking And Dreaming |
| Harvey | Motion Of The Heart And Blood |
| Hass, Robert | Human Wishes / Twentieth Century Pleasures |
| Hayek, F. A. | The Road To Serfdom |
| Hazlitt, Henry | Economics In One Lesson |
| Heany, Seamus | Field Work |
| Hegel | Phenomenology Of Mind, Logic |
| Heidegger, Martin | Being and Time |
| Heidegger | What Is Philosophy? |
| Heinlein, Robert | Citizen Of The Galaxy / Double Star / Starship Troopers / Stranger in a Strange Land / The Door Into Summer / The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress / The Puppet Masters |
| Heisenberg | The Physical Principles Of The Quantum Theory |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Helprin, Mark | A Soldier of the Great War |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A farewell to arms / For Whom The Bell Tolls / In Our Time / The Old Man And The Sea / The Sun Also Rises |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune |
| Herodotus | Histories |
| Heschel, Abraham Joshua | God in Search of Man |
| Heschel, Abraham Joshua | The Sabbath |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha |
| Highet, Gilbert | Classical Tradition |
| Hill, Geoffrey | The Lords of Limit / The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy |
| Hill, Napoleon | Think And Grow Rich |
| Hirsch, Edward | Earthly Measures |
| Hobbes | Leviathan |
| Hoelldobler, Bert & Edward O. Wilson | The Ants |
| Hoffer, Eric | The True Believer |
| Hofstadter, Richard | The Age of Reform |
| Hofstadter, Richard | The American Political Tradition |
| Holdstock, Robert | Mythago Wood |
| Homer | Iliad, Odyssey |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley | Collected Poems |
| Horgan, Paul | Great River |
| Horowitz, David | Radical Son |
| Hubbard, L. Ron | Fear / Mission Earth |
| Hubbard, L. Ron | Dianetics — The Modern Science Of Mental Health |
| Hudgins, Andrew | After The Lost War / The Neverending |
| Huff, Darrell | How To Lie With Statistics |
| Hughes, Richard | A High Wind In Jamaica |
| Hugo, Richard | The Triggering Town |
| Huizinga, Johann | Homo Ludens |
| Hume | Treatise Of Human Nature |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Are Watching God |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World / Doors of Perception / Perennial Philosophy / Point Counter Point |
| Huxley, Aldous | The Perennial Philosophy |
| Huygens | Treatise On Light, On The Movement Of Bodies By Impact |
| Huzinga, Johann | The Waning of the Middle Ages |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meany / The World According To Garp |
| Isherwood, Christopher | My Guru and His Disciple |
| Jackson, Shirley | The Haunting Of Hill House |
| Jacobs, Jane | The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
| Jacobs, Jane | The Economy of Cities |
| Jaki, Stanley | Road of Science and the Ways to God |
| James, Henry | Portrait Of A Lady / The Ambassadors / The Golden Bowl / The Wings Of The Dove |
| James, William | Psychology, Briefer Course / Varieties of Religious Experience |
| James, William | The Varieties of Religious Experience |
| Jarman, Mark | Questions for Ecclesiastes |
| Jarrell, Randall | Poetry and the Age |
| Jarrell, Randall | Poetry and the Age |
| John Paul II, Pope | Crossing the Threshold of Hope |
| John XXIII Pope | Journal of a Soul |
| Johnson, Denis | Angels |
| Johnson, Paul | Modern Times |
| Johnson, Paul | Modern Times |
| Jones, David | The Anathemata |
| Jones, James | From Here To Eternity |
| Joyce, James | A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man / Finnegan’s wake / Ulysses |
| Jung, Carl | Memories, Dreams, Reflections |
| Jung, CG | Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious / Memories Dreams and Reflections |
| Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis |
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial |
| Kant, Immanuel | Idea for a Universal History / Speculative Beginning of Human History / What is Enlightenment? / Critique Of Pure Reason, Foundations Of The Metaphysics Of Morals |
| Kaufman, George W & Moss Hart | You Can’t Take It With You |
| Kazantzakis, Nikos | The Last Temptation of Christ |
| Keegan, John | The Face Of Battle |
| Keegan, John | The Second World War |
| Kelley, David | A Life Of One’S Own |
| Kelley, George | Craig’s Wife |
| Kelly, Thomas | A Testament of Devotion |
| Keneally, Thomas | Schindler’S List / Three Cheers for the Paraclete |
| Kennedy, William | Ironweed |
| Kepler | Epitome Iv |
| Kermode, Frank | The Sense Of An Ending |
| Kerouac, Jack | On The Road |
| Kerouac, Jack | The Dharma Bums |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over The Cuckoo’S Nest / Sometimes A Great Notion |
| Keynes, John Maynard | The General Theory Of Employment, Interest, And Money |
| Keynes, John | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money |
| Kierkegaard, Soren | Fear and Trembling / Philosophical Fragments |
| King, Martin Luther Jr. | Why We Can’T Wait / I Have A Dream — Writings and Speeches That Changed the World |
| King, Stephen | It / The Stand |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Kim |
| Kirby, David | Big-Leg Music |
| Kirk, Russell | The Conservative Mind |
| Klemp, Harold | A Modern Prophet |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Knox, Ronald | Enthusiasm |
| Koestler, Arthur | Darkness At Noon |
| Kors, Alan Charles | The Shadow University |
| Krishnamurti | Think on These Things |
| Kuhn, Thomas S. | The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions |
| Kuhn, Thomas | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| L’Engle, Madeline | A Wrinkle in Time |
| La Fontaine | Fables |
| La Rochefoucauld | Maximes |
| Lamb, Wally | I Know This Much is True |
| Lamott, Anne | Operating Instructions / Traveling Mercies |
| Lane, Rose Wilder | The Discovery Of Freedom |
| Lavoisier | Elements Of Chemistry |
| Lawhead, Stephen | The Song of Albion |
| Lawrence & Lee | Inherit the Wind |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Lady Chatterley’S Lover / Sons And Lovers / The Rainbow / Women In Love |
| Leavis, FR | Scrutiny |
| Leclercq, Jean | The Love of Learning and the Desire for God |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lefkowitz, Mary | Not Out Of Africa |
| Leibniz | Monadology / Discourse On Metaphysics / Essay On Dynamics / Philosophical Essays / Principles Of Nature And Grace |
| Levertov, Denise | The Stream and the Sapphire |
| Levine, Philip | The Mercy |
| Lewis, C. S. | The Chronicles of Narnia / Mere Christianity |
| Lewis, C.S. | Till We Have Faces / Abolition of Man / Discarded Image / Mere Christianity / Screwtape Letters / Surprised By Joy / The Chronicles of Narnia |
| Lewis, CS | Mere Christianity |
| Lewis, CS | The Abolition of Man |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Arrowsmith / Babbitt / Main Street |
| Libertarianism, David Boaz: | A Primer |
| Liebling, A. J. | The Sweet Science |
| Lilie, Stuart and William Maddox | Beyond Liberal And Conservative |
| Lincoln | Selected Speeches |
| Lindgren, Torgny | Light |
| Lint, Charles De | Greenmantle / Memory And Dream / Moonheart / Mulengro / Someplace To Be Flying / The Little Country / Trader / Yarrow |
| Lippman, Walter | The Good Society |
| Lippmann, Walter | A Preface To Morals |
| Lobachevsky | Theory Of Parallels |
| Locke, John | Thoughts concerning Education / Second Treatise Of Government |
| London, Jack | The Call Of The Wild |
| Lonergan, Bernard | Insight — A Study of Human Understanding |
| Lossky, Vladimir | The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church |
| Lott, John R. | More Guns, Less Crime |
| Lovecraft, H.P. | At The Mountains Of Madness |
| Lowell, Robert | Lord Weary’s Castle |
| Lowry, Malcolm | Under the volcano |
| Lucretius | On The Nature Of Things |
| Lusseyran, Jacques | And There Was Light |
| Luther | The Bondage of the Will / The Freedom Of A Christian |
| Lynch, Thomas | The Undertaking — Life Studies From the Dismal Trade |
| Lynch, William | Christ and Apollo |
| Machan, Tibor | Classical Individualism — The Supreme Importance Of Each Human Being |
| Machiavelli | The Prince, Discourses |
| MacIntyre, Alisdair | After Virtue |
| Maharashi, Ramana | The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharashi |
| Mailer, Norman | The Naked And The Dead |
| Malcolm X | The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
| Malcolm, Janet | The Journalist And The Murderer |
| Malone, Dumas | Jefferson And His Time |
| Malory, Thomas | Works |
| Manchester, William | The Last Lion |
| Mann, Thomas | Joseph and His Brothers / Death in Venice |
| Mariana, Paul | The Great Wheel / Salvage Operations |
| Maritain, Jacques | Art and Scholasticism / Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry / Degrees of Knowledge |
| Maritain, Raissa | Journals |
| Markham, Beryl | West With The Night |
| Marlowe, Kit | Dr. Faustus |
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | Love in a Time of Cholera |
| Marx | Das Capital / Political And Economic Manuscripts Of 1844 / The German Ideology |
| Matthews, William | Time and Money |
| Maugham, Somerset | Of human bondage |
| Maugham, W. Somerset | The Razor’s Edge |
| Mauriac, Francois | Viper’s Tangle |
| Mauriac | Therese |
| Maurier, Daphne Du | Rebecca |
| Mccarthy, Cormac | Blood Meridian / Suttree |
| McCourt, Frank | Angela’s Ashes |
| Mccullers, Carson | The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter |
| Mccullough, David | The Great Bridge |
| McDermott, Alice | Charming Billy |
| McMurty, Larry | Lonesome Dove |
| Mcneill, William H. | The Rise Of The West |
| Mcpherson, James M. | Battle Cry Of Freedom |
| McPherson, James | Battle Cry of Freedom |
| Mcwilliams, Peter | Ain’T Nobody’S Business If You Do |
| Medawar, Peter B. | The Art Of The Soluble |
| Melville | Benito Cereno |
| Mencken, H. L. | The American Language |
| Meredith, William | Effort at Speech |
| Merrill, James | The Changing Light at Sandover |
| Merton, Thomas | New Seeds of Contemplation / The Seven Storey Mountain |
| Merton, Thomas | Seven Storey Mountain / No Man is an Island |
| Merton, Thomas | The Seven Storey Mountain |
| Mill, John Stuart | On Liberty |
| Miller, Arthur | Death Of A Salesman |
| Miller, Frank | The Dark Knight Returns |
| Miller, Henry | Amnesia, or The Devil at Large / Tropic Of Cancer |
| Miller, Walter | A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| Millikan | The Electron |
| Milne, A.A. | Winnie-the-pooh |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost |
| Miranda, Gary | Listeners at the Breathing Place |
| Mitchell, Joseph | Up in the Old Hotel |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With The Wind |
| Molière | The Misanthrope. |
| Monteverdi, Claudio | L’incoronazione de Poppea |
| Moore, Brian | Black Robe |
| Moore, G. E. | Principia Ethica |
| Morgan, Robert | The Truest Pleasure |
| Morris, Edmund | The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved / Jazz / Song of Solomon |
| Mounier, Emmanuel | Personalism |
| Muggeridge, Malcolm | Chronicles of Wasted Time |
| Muggeridge, Malcolm | Chronicles of Wasted Time |
| Muggeridge, Malcolm | Something Beautiful for God |
| Mulisch, Harry | The Discovery of Heaven |
| Mumford, Lewis | The City In History |
| Murdoch, Iris | Under the net |
| Murray, Stephen O. | American Gay |
| Myrdal, Gunnar | An American Dilemma |
| Myrdal, Gunnar | An American Dilemma |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita / Pale Fire / Speak, Memory |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Speak, Memory |
| Naipaul, V.S. | A Bend In The River / A House For Mr Biswas |
| Needham, Joseph | Science And Civilization In China |
| Newman, John Henry | Meditations and Devotions |
| Newman, John Henry | The Idea of a University |
| Newton | Principia Mathematica |
| Nicomachus | Arithmetic |
| Niebuhr, Reinhold | The Nature and Destiny of Man |
| Niebuhr, Reinhold | The Nature And Destiny Of Man |
| Niebuhr, Richard H. | Christ and Culture |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | Beyond Good and Evil / Thus Spoke Zarathustra / Birth Of Tragedy |
| Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain | Philokalia (English Translation) |
| Nisbet, Robert | The Quest for Community |
| Norris, Kathleen | Dakota |
| Novack, Michael | Rise Of The Unmeltable Ethnics |
| O’Brian, Patrick | The Aubrey/Maturin Novels |
| O’Brien, Flann | At Swim-two-birds |
| O’Connor, Flannery | The Collected Stories |
| O’Hara, John | Appointment In Samarra |
| O’Neill, Eugene | Long Day’s Journey Into Night |
| O’Rourke, P. J. | Parliament Of Whores |
| Oakeshott, Michael | Rationalism in Politics |
| Ong, Walter | Orality and Literacy |
| Orr, Gregory | Richer Entanglements |
| Orwell, George | 1984 / Animal farm / Homage To Catalonia |
| Orwell, George | Homage to Catalonia |
| Otto, Rudolf | The Idea of the Holy |
| Otto, Rudolph | Idea of the Holy |
| Ouspensky, Leonid and Vladimir Lossky | Meaning of Icons |
| Ouspensky, P. D. | In Search of the Miraculous |
| Ovid | The Metamorphoses |
| Owens, Virginia Stem | If You Do Love Old Men |
| O’Connor, Flannery | Wise Blood |
| Pagels, Elaine | The Gnostic Gospels |
| Paglia, Camille | Sexual Personae |
| Pankey, Eric | Apocrypha |
| Pannenberg, Wolfhart | Systematic Theology |
| Panofsky, Erwin | Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism / Studies In Iconology |
| Parrington, Vernon | Main Currents in American Thought |
| Parry, Milman | The Making of Homeric Verse |
| Pascal | Generation Of Conic Sections / Pensees |
| Passos, John Dos | U.S.A.(Trilogy) |
| Pasternak, Boris | My Sister—Life |
| Paterson, Isabel | The God Of The Machine |
| Paterson, Katherine | Jacob Have I Loved |
| Paulos, John Allen | A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper |
| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet |
| Paxton, Michael | Ayn Rand, A Sense Of Life |
| Peck, M. Scott | The Road Less Traveled |
| Peet, Billy | Chester the Worldly Pig |
| Peguy, Charles | The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc |
| Peikoff, Leonard | Objectivism, The Philosophy Of Ayn Rand |
| Pelikan, Jaroslav | The Christian Tradition |
| Pelikan, Jaroslav | The Melody of Theology |
| Percy, Walker | Lost in the Cosmos |
| Percy, Walker | Message in a Bottle / The Moviegoer |
| Perrault | Mother Goose Tales |
| Pieper, Josef | Leisure — The Basis of Culture |
| Pipes, Richard | The Russian Revolution |
| Pirsig, Robert | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Pirsig, Robert | Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Plante, David | The Francoeur Trilogy |
| Plato | Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus |
| Plotinus | The Enneads |
| Plutarch | Caesar / Cato The Younger / Lycurgus / Solon / Alcibiades |
| Pobedonostsev, Konstantin | Reflections of a Russian Statesman |
| Poe, AE | Stories |
| Polanyi, Michael | Meaning, Personal Knowledge |
| Popper, Karl | The Open Society And Its Enemies |
| Popper, Karl | The Open Society and Its Enemies |
| Postman, Neil | Amusing Ourselves to Death |
| Postrel, Virginia | The Future And Its Enemies |
| Potok, Chaim | My Name is Asher Lev |
| Pound, Ezra | Cantos |
| Pound, Ezra | The ABC of Reading |
| Powell, Anthony | A Dance To The Music Of Time (Series) |
| Powers, J.F. | The Presence of Grace |
| Price, Reynolds | Three Gospels |
| Proust, Marcel | Remembrance of Things Past / Swann’s Way |
| Psychiatry, Bruce Wiseman: | The Ultimate Betrayal |
| Ptolemy | Almagest |
| Pushkin | The Queen of Spades |
| Pynchon, Thomas | Gravity’S Rainbow / V. |
| Rabelais, Francois | Gargantua / Pantagruel |
| Racine | Phaedre |
| Radway, Janice | A Feeling For Books |
| Ramakrishna | The Gospel of Ramakrishna |
| Rand, Ayn | Anthem / Atlas Shrugged / The Fountainhead / The Virtue Of Selfishness / We The Living |
| Randall, John H. Jr | Making of the Modern Mind |
| Rawls, John | A Theory Of Justice |
| Reisner, Marc | Cadillac Desert |
| Reps, Paul | Zen Flesh, Zen Bones |
| Rhodes, Richard | The Making Of The Atomic Bomb |
| Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Richman, Sheldon | Separating School And State |
| Rieff, Philip | Triumph of the Therapeutic |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria | Duino Elegies |
| Rodriguez, Richard | Hunger of Memory |
| Roethke, Theodore | Straw for the Fire |
| Ronell, Avital | The Telephone Book |
| Rosenbaum, Jonathon | Placing Movies |
| Rosenzweig, Franz | The Star of Redemption |
| Roth, Philip | Portnoy’s complaint |
| Rothbard, Murray N. | America’S Great Depression |
| Rougemont, Denis de | Love in the Western World |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | Emile |
| Rousseau | Social Contract, The Origin Of Inequality |
| Royko, Mike | Slats Grobnik And Some Other Friends |
| Rummel, R. J. | Death By Government |
| Rushdie, Salman | Midnight’s children / The Satanic Verses |
| Russell, George William | The Candle of Vision |
| Ruwart, Mary | Healing Our World |
| Said, Edward | Orientalism |
| Salinger, J D | The catcher in the rye / Franny And Zooey |
| Sayers, Dorothy | The Man Born to Be King / The Mind of the Maker |
| Schaefer, Jack | Shane |
| Schimmel, Anne-Marie | Mystical Dimensions of Islam |
| Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. | The Age Of Jackson |
| Schmemann, Alexander | For the Life of the World |
| Scholem, Gershom | Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism |
| Schumacher, E. F. | A Guide for the Perplexed |
| Schumpeter, Joseph | Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy |
| Schuon, Fritjof | The Transcendent Unity of Religions |
| Schweitzer, Albert | Quest for the Historical Jesus |
| Sexson, Lynda | Ordinarily Sacred |
| Sheehan, Neil | A Bright Shining Lie |
| Shute, Nevil | A Town Like Alice / On The Beach / Trustee From The Toolroom |
| Silone, Ignazio | Bread and Wine |
| Simon, John | Reverse Angle |
| Simon, Julian | The Ultimate Resource |
| Simpson, Otto von | Gothic Cathedral |
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis | Collected Stories |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis | Collected Stories |
| Smith, Adam | Wealth Of Nations |
| Smith, Huston | The World’s Religions |
| Sobel, Dava | Longitude |
| Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / Gulag Archipelago |
| Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr | The Gulag Archipelago |
| Sontag, Susan | Under The Sign Of Saturn |
| Sophocles | Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus At Colonus / Antigone / Philoctetes |
| Sowell, Thomas | A Conflict Of Visions |
| Sowell, Thomas | Ethnic America |
| Spark, Muriel | Memento Mori / The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Spence, Jonathan D. | The Gate Of Heavenly Peace |
| Spillane, Mickey | One Lonely Night |
| Spinoza | Theological-political Treatise |
| St. Anselm | Proslogium |
| Stafford, WilliamL | Learning to Live in the World |
| Stegner, Wallace | Angle of Repose |
| Stein, Gertrude | The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas |
| Steinbeck, John | Cannery Row / East of Eden / The Grapes of Wrath / Of Mice And Men |
| Steiner, George | In Bluebeard’s Castle / Real Presences / Tolstoy or Dostoevsky |
| Steinsaltz, Adin | The Thirteen-Petalled Rose |
| Stern, Howard | Private Parts |
| Stevens, Jay | Storming Heaven |
| Stevenson, RL | Kidnapped / Treasure Island |
| Stone, Irving | Lust For Life / Men To Match My Mountains |
| Strachey, Lytton | Eminent Victorians |
| Strunk & White | The Elements Of Style |
| Styron, William | Darkness Visible / Sophie’S Choice |
| Suess, Dr | The Butter Battle Book |
| Suprynowicz, Vin | Send In The Waco Killers |
| Suzuki, D. T. | Essays in Zen Buddhism |
| Suzuki, Shunryu | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind |
| Swarthout, Glendon | Bless the Beasts and Children |
| Swenson, May | In Other Words |
| Swift | Gulliver’S Travels |
| Tacitus | Annals / The Histories |
| Tagore, Rabindranath | Gitanjali |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Tarkington, Booth | The magnificent Ambersons |
| Tawney, R. H. | Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism |
| Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre | The Phenomenon of Man |
| Teresa, Mother | A Simple Path |
| Terkel, Studs | Working |
| Therese of Lisieux, St. | The Story of a Soul |
| Thomas, Lewis | The Lives Of A Cell |
| Thompson, D’Arcy | On Growth And Form |
| Thompson, E. P. | The Making Of The English Working Class |
| Thucydides | Peloponnesian War |
| Tillich, Paul | On Art and Architecture |
| Tillich, Paul | The Courage to Be |
| Tocqueville | Democracy In America |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Lord of the Rings |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Lord Of The Rings / The Hobbit |
| Tolstoi, Leo | War and Peace / Anna Karenina / The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
| Tomkins, Silvan S. | Affect Imagery Consciousness |
| Toynbee, Arnold J. | A Study Of History |
| Traherne, Thomas | Centuries |
| Trilling, Lionel | The Liberal Imagination |
| Trilling, Lionel | The Liberal Imagination |
| Trungpa, Chogyam | Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism |
| Tuchman, Barbara | The Guns Of August |
| Turner, Frederick Jackson | The Frontier In American History |
| Twain, Mark | Huckleberry Finn / Short Stories / The Autobiography Of Mark Twain |
| Twitchell, Paul | The Flute Of God |
| Tyler, Anne | Saint Maybe |
| Tyng, Sewell | The Campaign of the Marne |
| Underhill, Evelyn | Mysticism |
| Underhill, Evelyn | Mysticism |
| Undset, Sigrid | Kristin Lavransdatter |
| Updike, John | In the Beauty of the Lillies |
| Updike, John | Rabbit, Run |
| Uris, Leon | Exodus / Trinity |
| Viete | Introduction To The Analytical Art |
| Virgil | Aeneid / Georgics |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Homecoming |
| Voltaire | Zadig |
| Von Balthasar, Hans Urs | The Glory of the Lord |
| von Hayek, FA | The Road to Serfdom |
| von Hayek | The Constitution of Liberty |
| von Mises, Ludwig | Bureaucracy |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Cat’S Cradle / Slaughterhouse Five |
| Vries, Peter de | The Blood of the Lamb |
| Wakefield, Dan | Returning |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Wangerin, Walter Jr. | The Book of the Dun Cow |
| Wanniski, Jude | The Way the World Works |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All The King’S Men |
| Washington, Booker T. | Selected Writings / Up From Slavery |
| Watson, James D. | The Double Helix |
| Watson, James | The Double Helix |
| Waugh, Evelyn | A Handful Of Dust / Brideshead Revisited / Scoop |
| Weaver, Henry Grady | The Mainspring Of Human Progress |
| Weaver, Richard | Ideas Have Consequences |
| Weaver, Richard | Ideas Have Consequences |
| Weber, Max | Economy and Society |
| Weil, Simone | Waiting for God |
| Wells, H.G. | The War Of The Worlds |
| West, Nathanael | The Day Of The Locust |
| West, Rebecca | Black Lamb And Grey Falcon |
| West, Rebecca | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon |
| West, Thomas | Vindicating The Founders |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome / The Age Of Innocence |
| White, E.B. | Charlotte’S Web |
| Whitehead, Alfred North & Bertrand Russell | Principia Mathematica |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Wildavsky, Aaron | But Is It True? |
| Wilder, Laura Ingles | Little House on the Prarie |
| Wilder, Thornton | The Bridge Of San Luis Rey |
| Williams, Charles | All Hallows’ Eve / Figure of Beatrice |
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie |
| Williams, Walter | More Liberty Means Less Government |
| Williams, William Appleman | The Contours Of American History |
| Williams, William Carlos | In The American Grain |
| Wilmot, Chester | The Struggle for Europe |
| Wilson, A.N. | Wise Virgin |
| Wilson, Angus | The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling |
| Wilson, Edmund | Patriotic Gore |
| Wilson, Edmund | To the Finland Station |
| Wilson, Edward | Sociobiology |
| Windling, Terri | The Wood Wife |
| Winton, Tim | Cloudstreet |
| Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| Woiwode, Larry | Beyond the Bedroom Wall |
| Wolfe, Claire | 101 Things To Do Til The Revolution |
| Wolfe, Thomas | Look Homeward, Angel |
| Wolfe, Tom | Bonfire Of The Vanities / The Right Stuff |
| Wolfe, Tom | Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers |
| Wolfe, Tom | The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test |
| Wolff, Tobias | In the Garden of the North American Martyrs / This Boy’S Life |
| Wollstonecroft, Mary | A Vindication of the Rights of Women |
| Woodham-smith, Cecil | Florence Nightingale |
| Woodward, C. Vann | The Strange Career Of Jim Crow |
| Woolf, Virginia | A Room Of One’S Own / Mrs. Dalloway / Orlando / To The Lighthouse |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy / Native Son |
| Yates, Frances A. | The Art Of Memory |
| Yeats, W. B. | Autobiographies / Irish Fairy and Folk Tales |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa | Autobiography of a Yogi |
| Zweig, Stefan | Balzac |
Music under a list of Great Books? Yes! Music, like books, can be
appreciated as texts; like poetry or drama, only more, um, lyrical.
