Books Left to Read
Books left to read, ordered by popularity among the twenty-four lists. Books only mentioned in two lists are not included here; go to the Books to Go (Chronology) section to see everything, including those.
6 LISTS
RUDYARD KIPLING 1865 [NP]
Kim [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
MARCEL PROUST 1871
In Search of Lost Time [O] [PB] [GB] [HB] [HRB] [G]
5 LISTS
JOHN DONNE 1572
The Complete English Poems [HC] [SJC] [EL] [HB] [EP]
THOMAS HOBBES 1588
Leviathan [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE 1639
Phedre [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
HENRY FIELDING 1707
Joseph Andrews [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM] [HRB]
LAURENCE STERNE 1713
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy [G] [HC] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
ADAM SMITH 1723
The Wealth of Nations [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EL] [HRB]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 1745
The Sorrows of Young Werther [G] [PB] [HC] [HB] [MUM]
STENDHAL 1783
The Charterhouse of Parma [O] [PB] [HB] [HRB] [G]
CHARLES DARWIN 1809
The Origin of Species [HC] [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HR
HENRY JAMES 1843
The Wings of the Dove [MLB] [RR] [G] [PB] [HB]
JOHN GALSWORTHY 1867 [NP]
The Forsyte Saga [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM] [NP]
D. H. LAWRENCE 1885
The Rainbow [MLB] [O] [PB] [HB]
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER 1890
Collected Stories [PP] [NBA] [HB] [MUM
EVELYN WAUGH 1903
A Handful of Dust [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB] [HB]
HENRY GREEN 1905
Loving [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB] [HB]
PAUL BOWLES 1910
The Sheltering Sky [MLB] [AT] [LM] [G] [HB]
DORIS LESSING 1919 [NP]
The Golden Notebook [AT] [LM] [G] [PB] [HB]
V. S. NAIPAUL 1932 [NP]
A House for Mr. Biswas [MLB] [AT] [G] [EL] [HB]
PETER CAREY 1943
Oscar and Lucinda [O] [MBP] [PB] [HB] [G] (31)
4 LISTS
LUCRETIUS 99 BCE
On the Nature of Things [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
EPICTETUS 55 CE
The Discourses [HC] [GB] [HRB] [SJC]
MARCUS AURELIUS 121 CE
Meditations [HC] [GB] [EL] [HRB]
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 1533
Essays [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
WILLIAM HARVEY 1578
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
RENE DESCARTES 1596
Discourse on the Method [HC] [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
JOHN MILTON 1608
Poems [HC] [GB] [HB] [HRB]
ANDREW MARVELL 1621
Poems [HC] [SJC] [EL] [HB]
JONATHAN SWIFT 1667
A Tale of a Tub [G] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
SAMUEL RICHARDSON 1689
Clarissa [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709
Rasselas [G] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU 1712
A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality [GB] [HC] [SJC] [HRB]
Confessions [PB] [EL] [HB] [EP]
JOHN JAY, JAMES MADISON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON 1745, 1751, 1755
The Federalist Papers [GB] [SJC] [EP] [HRB]
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1772
Selected Poems [HC] [EL] [HB] [HRB]
ALESSANDRO MANZONI 1785
The Betrothed [G] [PB] [HC] [HB]
NIKOLAI GOGOL 1809
Dead Souls [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
CHARLES DICKENS 1812
Hard Times [G] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
IVAN GONCHAROV 1812
Oblomov [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
HERMAN MELVILLE 1819
Billy Budd [PB] [EP] [HB] [HRB]
GEORGE ELIOT 1819
Daniel Deronda [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
Silas Marner [G] [PB] [EP] [HB]
Adam Bede [G] [PB] [HB] [HRB]
HENRIK IBSEN 1828
A Doll’s House and other plays [GB] [HB] [HRB] [EP]
THOMAS HARDY 1840
The Mayor of Casterbridge [G] [PB] [HB] [MUM]
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 1844
Beyond Good and Evil [GB] [SJC] [HB] [HRB]
ARNOLD BENNETT 1867
The Old Wives’ Tale [MLB] [G] [PB] [HB]
FORD MADOX FORD 1873
Parade’s End [MLB] [G] [PB] [HB]
WILLA CATHER 1873
Death Comes for the Archbishop [MLB] [RR] [AT] [EL]
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE 1894
Journey to the End of the Night [O] [PB] [HB] [G]
JOSEPH ROTH 1894
The Radetzky March [G] [PB] [EL] [HB]
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD 1904
The Berlin Stories [AT] [PB] [G] [HB]
ANTHONY POWELL 1905
A Dance to the Music of Time (series) [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB]
IRIS MURDOCH 1919
Under the Net [MLB] [AT] [G] [PB]
KINGSLEY AMIS 1922
Lucky Jim [AT] [O] [PB] [G]
PHILIP ROTH 1933
Operation Shylock [NYT] [PFA] [PB] [HB]
J. G. FARRELL 1935
The Siege of Krishnapur [MBP] [G] [PB] [HB]
DON DELILLO 1936
Libra [NYT] [LM] [PB] [HB]
THOMAS PYNCHON 1937
The Crying of Lot 49 [AT] [G] [PB] [HB]
V. [MLR] [G] [PB] [HB]
The Satanic Verses [MLR] [RR] [G] [PB]
MARTIN AMIS 1949
Money [AT] [O] [PB] [G] (52)
3 LISTS
CONFUCIUS 551 BCE
The Analects [EL] [HC] [EP]
AESCHYLUS 524 BCE
Seven Against Thebes [HB] [HC] [HRB]
Persians [HB] [HC] [HRB]
Suppliant Maids [HB] [HC] [HRB]
SOPHOCLES 497 BCE
Women of Trachis [HB] [GB] [HRB]
EURIPIDES 480 BCE
Electra [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Cyclops [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Heracles [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Hecuba [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Ion [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Helen [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Iphigenia at Aulis [GB] [HB] [HRB]
ARISTOPHANES 446 BCE
The Knights [GB] [HB] [HRB]
The Wasps [GB] [HB] [HRB]
The Assemblywomen [GB] [HB] [HRB]
PLATO 428 BCE
Euthydemus [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Cratylus [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Parmenides [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Sophist [GB] [HB] [HRB] [SJC]
Statesman [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Philebus [GB] [HB] [HRB]
Laws [GB] [HB] [HRB]
ARISTOTLE 384 BCE
Physics [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
On Generation and Corruption [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Metaphysics [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Parts of Animals [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
On Generation of Animals [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
De Anima [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
On Interpretation [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Prior Analytics [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Categories [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
EUCLID 300 BCE
Elements [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
APOLLONIUS OF PERGA 262 BCE
On Conic Sections [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
VIRGIL 70 BCE
The Eclogues [GB] [HB] [HRB]
The Georgics [GB] [HB] [HRB]
TACITUS 56 CE
Annals [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
NICOMACHUS OF GERASA 60 CE
Introduction to Arithmetic [GB] [HRB] [SJC]
PTOLEMY 90 CE
The Almagest [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
PLOTINUS 204 CE
The Enneads [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO 354 CE
City of God [GB] [HB] [HRB]
ANONYMOUS
Beowulf 700-1000 CE APPROX. [HC][EP][HB]
ANONYMOUS
The Song of Roland 1140 CE APPROX. [HC] [HB] [HRB]
THOMAS AQUINAS 1225
Summa Theologica [SELECTIONS] [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
GEOFFRY CHAUCER 1343
Troilus and Criseyde [GB] [HB] [HRB]
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS 1466
The Praise of Folly [GB] [HB] [HRB]
THOMAS MORE 1478
Utopia [HC] [HB] [HRB]
FRANCIS BACON 1561
Novum Organum [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
The New Atlantis [HC] [GB] [HRB]
GALILEO GALILEI 1564
Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
JOHANNES KEPLER 1571
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV – V)[GB] [SJC] [HRB]
RENE DESCARTES 1596
Rules for the Direction of the Mind [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Meditations on First Philosophy [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
JOHN MILTON 1608
Areopagitica & Tractate of Education [HC] [HB] [HRB]
CHRISTIAN HUYGENS 1629
Treatise on Light [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
JOHN LOCKE 1632
Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
ISAAC NEWTON 1643
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
SAMUEL RICHARDSON 1689
Pamela [G] [PB] [HB]
VOLTAIRE 1694
Letters on the English, by Voltaire [HC] [HB] [HRB]
DAVID HUME 1711
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Hume [HC] [GB] [HRB]
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU 1712
The Social Contract [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Emile; or, On Education [PB] [HB] [HRB]
Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise [G] [PB] [HB]
TOBIAS SMOLLETT 1721
The Adventures of Roderick Random [G] [PB] [HB]
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker [G] [PB] [HB]
IMMANUEL KANT 1724
The Critique of Pure Reason [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 1730
She Stoops to Conquer [HC] [EP] [HB]
The Vicar of Wakefield [G] [PB] [HB]
EDWARD GIBBON 1737
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [GB] [HB] [HRB]
JAMES BOSWELL 1740
The Life of Samuel Johnson [GB] [HB] [HRB]
ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER 1743
Elements of Chemistry [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 1745
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship [PB] [HC] [HB]
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 1751
The School for Scandal [HC] [HB] [MUM]
FANNY BURNEY 1752
Evelina [G] [PB] [HB]
WILLIAM BLAKE 1757
The Complete Poems [HC] [EL] [HB]
MARIA EDGEWORTH 1767
Castle Rackrent [G] [PB] [HB]
JAMES HOGG 1770
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner [G] [PB] [HB]
JANE AUSTEN 1775
Mansfield Park [G] [PB] [HB]
Persuasion [G] [PB] [HB]
CHARLES MATURIN 1782
Melmoth the Wanderer [G] [PB] [HB]
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 1785
Nightmare Abbey [O] [HB]
JACOB AND WILHELM GRIMM 1785
Household Tales [HC] [EP] [HB]
LORD BYRON 1788
Selected Poems [HC] [EL] [HB]
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792
Poems [HC] [HB] [EL]
JOHN STUART MILL 1806
Autobiography [HC] [HB] [HRB]
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1806
Selected Poems [HC] [EL] [HB]
CHARLES DARWIN 1809
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex [GB] [HRB] [EP]
ELIZABETH GASKELL 1810
Mary Barton [G] [PB] [HB]
Cranford [G] [PB] [HB]
North and South [G] [PB] [HB]
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 1811
Uncle Tom’s Cabin [G] [PB] [EP]
CHARLES DICKENS 1812
Bleak House [G] [PB] [HB]
The Pickwick Papers [G] [HB] [HRB]
Martin Chuzzlewit [G] [PB] [HB]
SOREN KIERKEGAARD 1813
Fear and Trembling [PB] [GB] [SJC]
ANTHONY TROLLOPE 1815
The Way We Live Now [O] [HB]
KARL MARX 1818
Capital [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
IVAN TURGENEV 1818
First Love [G] [EL] [HB]
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 1821
The Devils [PB] [EL] [HB]
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE 1821
Selected Poems by Charles Baudelaire [EL] [HB] [EP]
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 1821
A Sentimental Education [G] [PB] [HB]
LEO TOLSTOY 1828
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories [PB] [EL] [HB]
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1830
The Complete Poems [HC] [EL] [HB]
WILLIAM MORRIS 1834
News from Nowhere [G] [PB] [HB]
MARK TWAIN 1835
The Mysterious Stranger [G] [HB] [HRB]
THOMAS HARDY 1840
Far from the Madding Crowd [G] [PB] [HB]
The Woodlanders [G] [PB] [HB]
WILLIAM JAMES 1842
The Principles of Psychology [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
Pragmatism [GB] [HB] [HRB]
HENRY JAMES 1843
The Golden Bowl [MLB][PB] [HB]
GEORGE GROSSMITH 1847
The Diary of a Nobody [O] [PB]
New Grub Street [G] [PB] [HB]
ANTON CHEKHOV 1860
Plays [GB] [EP] [HB]
H. G. WELLS 1866
The Island of Dr Moreau [G] [PB] [HB]
ANDRE GIDE 1869 [NP]
The Immoralist [G] [PB] [HB]
ERSKINE CHILDERS 1870
The Riddle of the Sands [O] [PB]
WILLA CATHER 1873
A Lost Lady [G] [GB] [HB]
The Professor’s House [G] [PB] [HB]
MAX BEERBOHM 1874
Zuleika Dobson [MLB][G] [HB]
GERTRUDE STEIN 1874
The Making of Americans [LM] [PB] [HB]
ROBERT FROST 1874
Poems [EL] [EP] [HB]
THOMAS MANN 1875 [NP]
Joseph and His Brothers [EL] [HB] [HRB]
Buddenbrooks [G] [PB] [NP]
ALFRED DOBLIN 1878
Berlin Alexanderplatz [G] [PB] [HB]
ALBERT EINSTEIN 1879
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory [GB] [SJC] [HRB]
WALLACE STEVENS 1879
Poems [SJC] [EL] [HB]
ROBERT MUSIL 1880
The Man Without Qualities [G] [PB] [HB]
D. H. LAWRENCE 1885
JEAN TOOMER 1894
Cane [LM] [PB] [HB]
ERICH REMARQUE 1898
All Quiet on the Western Front [G] [PB] [MUM]
ELIZABETH BOWEN 1899
The Death of the Heart [MLB][AT] [G]
NEVIL SHUTE 1899
A Town Like Alice [MLR] [G] [PB]
ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY 1900
The Little Prince [G] [PB] [MUM]
ANDRE MALRAUX 1901
Man’s Fate [HB] [G] [MUM]
CHRISTINA STEAD 1902
The Man Who Loved Children [AT] [G] [HB]
SAMUEL BUTLER 1902
Erewhon [G] [PB] [HB]
EVELYN WAUGH 1903
Vile Bodies [G] [PB] [HB]
ALAN PATON 1903
Cry, the Beloved Country [G] [PB] [MUM]
ALEJO CARPENTIER 1904
The Kingdom of this World [G] [PB] [HB]
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 1905 [NP]
Nausea [PB] [HB] [HRB]
JOHN O’HARA 1905
Appointment in Samarra [MLB] [AT] [HB]
NELSON ALGREN 1909
The Man With the Golden Arm [NBA] [G] [PB]
WILLIAM GOLDING 1911 [NP]
Rites of Passage [MBP] [PB] [G]
MERVYN PEAKE 1911
Titus Groan [G] [PB] [HB]
PATRICK WHITE 1912 [NP]
Voss [G] [PB] [HB]
GIORGIO BASSANI 1916
The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis [G] [PB] [EL]
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN 1918 [NP]
Cancer Ward [PB] [HB] [HRB]
MURIEL SPARK 1918
The Girls of Slender Means [G] [PB] [EL]
The Driver’s Seat [G] [PB] [EL]
PRIMO LEVI 1919
The Periodic Table [O] [EL] [HB]
If Not Now, When? [G] [PB] [HB]
STANISLAW LEM 1921
Solaris [G] [PB] [HB]
NORMAN MAILER 1923
The Executioner’s Song [PP] [O] [HB]
RUSSELL HOBAN 1925
Riddley Walker [LM] [G] [HB]
JOHN BERGER 1926
G. [MBP] [G] [PB]
PHILIP K. DICK 1928
The Man in the High Castle [HA] [LM] [G]
MILAN KUNDERA 1929
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting [O] [PB]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being [G] [PB] [HB]
J. G. BALLARD 1930
Crash [LM] [G] [PB]
JOHN BARTH 1930
The Sot-Weed Factor [AT] [LM] [HB]
E. L. DOCTOROW 1931
The Book of Daniel [G] [PB] [HB]
DON DELILLO 1936
Mao II [PFA] [PB] [HB]
ROBERT STONE 1937
Dog Soldiers [AT] [NBA] [HB]
JOYCE CAROL OATES 1938
Them [NBA] [PB] [HB]
LARRY NIVEN 1938
Ringworld [HA] [NA] [G]
ANGELA CARTER 1940
Wise Children [O] [PB] [G]
MICHAEL ONDAATJE 1943
The English Patient [MBP] [G] [PB]
JOE HALDEMAN 1943
The Forever War [HA] [NA] [G]
W. G. SEBALD 1944
Austerlitz [O] [PB] [G]
JAMES KELMAN 1946
How Late It Was, How Late [MBP] [G] [PB]
JEANNETTE WINTERSON 1959
The Passion [G] [PB] [HB]
ARUNDHATI ROY 1961
The God of Small Things [MBP] [G] [PB]
BRETT EASTON ELLIS 1964
American Psycho [LM] [G] [PB]
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