Fiction

• 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño
• Absalom, Absalom (1936) by William Faulkner
• Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
• Anna Karenina (1878) by Leo Tolstoy
• As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
• Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
• The Book of Disquiet (1985) by Fernando Pessoa
• The Book of the New Sun (1987) by Gene Wolfe
• Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
• Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
• The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
• The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
• A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) by Alexandre Dumas
• Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon
• Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler
• Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
• A Death in the Family (1957) by James Agee
• Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey
• Demian (1919) by Hermann Hesse
• Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Don Quixote (1615) by Miguel de Cervantes
• Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce
• Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
• East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck
• The Elementary Particles (1998) by Michel Houellebecq
• The End of the Affair (1951) by Graham Greene
• Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
• Ficciones (1956) by Jorge Luis Borges
• Finnegan’s Wake (1939) by James Joyce
• Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
• The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
• The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
• Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
• The Great Divorce (1945) by C. S. Lewis
• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Hamlet (1603) by William Shakespeare
• A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh
• Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
• The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene
• A Hero of Our Time (1840) by Mikhail Lermontov
• The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsum
• The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
• The Iliad by Homer
• In Search of Lost Time (1927) by Marcel Proust
• Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
• Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
• Ironweed (1983) by William Kennedy
• J R (1975) by William Gaddis
• Journey to the End of the Night (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Kokoro (1914) by Natsume Sōseki
• Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
• Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Lord of the Rings (1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Love in the Ruins (1971) by Walker Percy
• Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
• The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
• The Man Without Qualities (1943) by Robert Musil
• Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon
• The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) by Herman Melville
• The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy
• The Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs
• The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
• No Longer Human (1948) by Osamu Dazai
• Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
• Out of the Silent Planet (1938) by C. S. Lewis
• Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov
• Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
• The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
• The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
• The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
• The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) by Yukio Mishima
• The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño
• Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
• Sons and Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
• The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
• Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse
• Stoner (1965) by John Williams
• Storm of Steel (1920) by Ernst Jünger
• The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
• The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1892) by Friedrich Nietzsche
• To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
• The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
• The Trilogy (1951) by Samuel Beckett
• Tristram Shandy (1767) by Laurence Sterne
• The Tunnel (1920) by William H. Gass
• Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
• V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
• The Violent Bear It Away (1960) by Flannery O’Connor
• War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
• The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf
• White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
• Wise Blood (1952) by Flannery O’Connor
• Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë

Nonfiction

• The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx
• Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx
• The Gulag Archipelago (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
• Lost in the Cosmos (1983) by Walker Percy
• Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor Frankl
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) by Thomas S. Kuhn
• Tribe (2016) by Sebastian Junger
• When Hell Was in Session (1975) by Jeremiah Denton

Philosophy

• After Virtue (1981) by Alasdair MacIntyre
• Art and Scholasticism (1920) by Jacques Maritain
• Beyond Good and Evil (1886) by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo
• Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo
• The Degrees of Knowledge (1932) by Jacques Maritain
• The Drama of Atheist Humanism (1945) by Henri de Lubac
• Fear and Trembling (1843) by Søren Kierkegaard
• Heretics (1905) by G. K. Chesterton
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) by René Descartes
• Pensées (1670) by Blaise Pascal
• The Republic by Plato
• Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas
• Violence and the Sacred (1972) by René Girard

Spiritual

• The Imitation of Christ (1427) by Thomas à Kempis
• Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesterton
• Seeds of Contemplation (1949) by Thomas Merton
• The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) by Thomas Merton
• Spiritual Exercises (1548) by Saint Ignatius of Loyola
• Story of a Soul (1898) by Thérèse of Lisieux

Poetry

• The Divine Comedy (1321) by Dante Alighieri
• The Dream Songs (1964) by John Berryman
• The Everlasting Mercy (1911) by John Masefield
• Faust (1808) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Four Quartets (1943) by T. S. Eliot
• The House of Dust (1920) by Conrad Aiken
• Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton
• The Prophet (1923) by Khalil Gibran
• The Spiritual Canticle by Saint John of the Cross
• The Waste Land and Other Poems (1940) by T. S. Eliot

Essay

• Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power (1970) by Josef Pieper
• Eating Disorders and Mimetic Desire (1996) by René Girard
• Epistemological Crises, Dramatic Narrative, and the Philosophy of Science (1977) by Alasdair MacIntyre
• The Message in the Bottle (1975) by Walker Percy
• The Person and the Common Good (1946) by Jacques Maritain
• Repressive Tolerance (1965) by Herbert Marcuse
• Who Cares if You Listen? (1958) by Milton Babbitt