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Fiction

2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño
Absalom, Absalom (1936) by William Faulkner
Ada, or Ardor (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow
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
The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath
Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe
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.
The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
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
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy
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
East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck
The Elementary Particles (1998) by Michel Houellebecq
The End of the Affair (1951) by Graham Greene
Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler
A Fable (1954) by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
Ficciones (1956) by Jorge Luis Borges
Finnegan’s Wake (1939) by James Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
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
Henderson the Rain King (1959) by Saul Bellow
A Hero of Our Time (1840) by Mikhail Lermontov
Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams
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
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
Julius Caesar (1599) by William Shakespeare
King Lear (1608) by William Shakespeare
Kokoro (1914) by Natsume Sōseki
Kristin Lavransdatter (1922) by Sigrid Undset
The Last Gentleman (1966) by Walker Percy
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1767) by Laurence Sterne
Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
◦ The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
◦ The Two Towers (1954)
◦ The Return of the King (1955)
Love in the Ruins (1971) by Walker Percy
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) by G. K. Chesterton
The Man Without Qualities (1943) by Robert Musil
Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon
The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Matryona’s Place (1963) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Merchant of Venice (1600) by William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) by Herman Melville
The Moviegoer (1961) by Walker Percy
My Ántonia (1918) by Willa Cather
The Naked and the Dead (1948) by Norman Mailer
The Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) by G. K. Chesterton
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) by Hermann Hesse
Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
No Longer Human (1948) by Osamu Dazai
Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov
Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway
On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez
Othello (1604) by William Shakespeare
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
Romeo and Juliet (1597) by William Shakespeare
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) by Yukio Mishima
Sanctuary (1931) by William Faulkner
The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scoop (1938) by Evelyn Waugh
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
The Sound of Waves (1954) by Yukio Mishima
The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
◦ Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
◦ Perelandra (1943)
◦ That Hideous Strength (1945)
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
The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells
To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
The Trilogy by Samuel Beckett
◦ Molloy (1951)
◦ Malone Dies (1951)
◦ The Unnamable (1953)
The Tunnel (1920) by William H. Gass
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) by Jules Verne
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera
Under the Volcano (1947) by Malcolm Lowry
Utopia (1516) by Saint Thomas More
V. (1963) by Thomas Pynchon
Venomous Lumpsucker (2022) by Ned Beauman
The Violent Bear It Away (1960) by Flannery O’Connor
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf
The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler
White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo
Wise Blood (1952) by Flannery O’Connor
The Woman in the Dunes (1962) by Kōbō Abe
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
Zeno’s Conscience (1923) by Italo Svevo

Short Stories

Everything That Rises Must Converge (1961) by Flannery O’Connor
Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Good Country People (1955) by Flannery O’Connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1953) by Flannery O’Connor
Leaf by Niggle (1945) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Pigeon Feathers (1956) by John Updike
The River (1953) by Flannery O’Connor
A Sandstone Farmhouse (1990) by John Updike
Smith of Wootton Major (1967) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Nonfiction

Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) by Neil Postman
The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx
The Gulag Archipelago (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
◦ Volume 1
◦ Volume 2
◦ Volume 3
The Long Loneliness (1952) by Dorothy Day
Lost in the Cosmos (1983) by Walker Percy
Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor Frankl
Tribe (2016) by Sebastian Junger
When Hell Was in Session (1975) by Jeremiah Denton
Why Liberalism Failed (2018) by Patrick Deneen

Philosophy

The Abolition of Man (1943) by C. S. Lewis
After Virtue (1981) by Alasdair MacIntyre
Art and Scholasticism (1920) by Jacques Maritain
Beyond Good and Evil (1886) by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche
The City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo
◦ Volume I
◦ Volume II
The Degrees of Knowledge (1932) by Jacques Maritain
Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Drama of Atheist Humanism (1945) by Henri de Lubac
Essays (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
Fear and Trembling (1843) by Søren Kierkegaard
Heretics (1905) by G. K. Chesterton
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (1999) by René Girard
Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) by Bernard Lonergan
Lettres provinciales (1657) by Blaise Pascal
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959) by Karl Popper
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) by René Descartes
On the Consolation of Philosophy (524) by Boethius
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Pensées (1670) by Blaise Pascal
The Republic by Plato
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) by Thomas Kuhn
Summa contra Gentiles by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas
◦ Prima Pars
◦ Prima Secundae
◦ Secunda Secundae
◦ Tertia Pars
Violence and the Sacred (1972) by René Girard

Spiritual

A Calendar of Wisdom (1911) by Leo Tolstoy
Confession (1882) by Leo Tolstoy
Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Everlasting Man (1925) by G. K. Chesterton
The Imitation of Christ (1427) by Thomas à Kempis
Mere Christianity (1952) by C. S. Lewis
Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesterton
The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
The Screwtape Letters (1942) by C. S. Lewis
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

Choruses from “The Rock” (1934) by T. S. Eliot
The Divine Comedy (1321) by Dante Alighieri
◦ Inferno
◦ Purgatorio
◦ Paradiso
The Dream Songs (1964) by John Berryman
Ève (1914) by Charles Péguy
The Everlasting Mercy (1911) by John Masefield
Faust (1808) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fleurs de mal (1858) by Charles Baudelaire
Four Quartets (1943) by T. S. Eliot
The House of Dust (1920) by Conrad Aiken
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton
The Prophet (1923) by Khalil Gibran
The Spiritual Canticle (1582) by Saint John of the Cross
The Waste Land and Other Poems (1940) by T. S. Eliot

Essays

Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power (1970) by Josef Pieper
Defining Deviancy Down (1993) by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Eating Disorders and Mimetic Desire (1996) by René Girard
Epistemological Crises, Dramatic Narrative, and the Philosophy of Science (1977) by Alasdair MacIntyre
The Inner Ring (1944) by C. S. Lewis
Letter from Birmingham City Jail (1963) by Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Think Little (1972) by Wendell Berry
Two Concepts of Liberty (1958) by Isaiah Berlin
Who Cares if You Listen? (1958) by Milton Babbitt