-Beowulf
-Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
-Agee, James - A Death in the Family
-Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
♣ [Miss Austen has been mentioned here and, in combination with Henry James, here]
-Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
-Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
-Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
-Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
-Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
-Camus, Albert - The Stranger
♣ [the only non-English work here that I've read in the original language . . . but that was a long time ago]
-Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
-Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
♣ [I've read many, but not all, of the Tales and mostly in the original]
-Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
-Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
-Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
-Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
♣ [but I have read The Deerslayer, and recommend that everyone should read at least one Cooper novel as a necessary prelude to Mark Twain's explication of Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses]
-Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
-Dante - Inferno
♣ [more Dante here]
-de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
-Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
♣ [no Crusoe on this weblog, but he cropped up recently in an unexpected context on Erin O'Connor's Critical Mass]
-Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
-Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
♣ [but I have read The Brothers Karamazov, a surprisingly funny book]
-Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
-Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
-Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
-Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
-Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
-Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
♣ [many, but not nearly all]
-Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
-Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
♣ [I'm fond of Faulkner, but haven't gotten to these two yet]
-Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones [over and over, repeatedly]
-Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
-Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
-Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
-Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
♣ [who can forget the demon poodle?]
-Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
♣ [recently featured, perversely enough, on Survivor All-Stars]
-Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
-Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
-Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
-Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
-Homer - The Iliad
-Homer - The Odyssey
♣ [see stirrup jar, below]
-Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
-Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
-Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
-Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
-James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
-James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
♣ [James was seen with Miss Austen here]
-Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
-Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
-Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
-Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
-Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
-London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
-Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
-Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
-Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
-Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
♣ [Melville was quoted here]
-Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
-Morrison, Toni - Beloved
-O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
-O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
-Orwell, George - Animal Farm
-Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
-Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
-Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
♣ [this site's numerous Poe citations are collected here]
-Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
-Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
♣ [All of Pynchon's other novels, too. He's mentioned here, and cropped up on another lawyer's weblog as well]
-Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
-Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac [look out below]
-Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
-Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
-Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
-Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
-Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
-Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
♣ [and most of the others, plus The Two Noble Kinsmen]
-Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
-Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
-Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
-Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
-Sophocles - Antigone
-Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
-Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
-Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
-Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
-Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
-Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
-Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
-Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
-Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
-Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-Voltaire - Candide
-Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
-Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
-Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
-Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
-Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
♣ [Whitman has been known to make me grumpy, but is handy when hunting snark]
-Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
-Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
-Wright, Richard - Native Son