800 Literature

000 General works · 1

j843.8

The Giant Raft

Jules Verne

1864

Recommended

800 Literature · 41

808.83

Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie

1937

Must-Read

808.8104 s

Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

1956

Must-Read

808.8104 s

Kaddish

Allen Ginsberg

1961

Must-Read

808.8104 s

Kaddish and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

1961

Recommended

808.2

Poetics

Aristotle

335 BCE

Must-Read

801.95

An Experiment in Criticism

C.S. Lewis

1961

Must-Read

808.88

A Visit from St. Nicholas

Clement Clarke Moore

1849

Recommended

809

Beginnings

Edward Said

1975

Recommended

809.894

Culture and Imperialism

Edward Said

1993

Must-Read

801.95

The World, the Text, and the Critic

Edward Said

1983

Recommended

809

Mimesis

Erich Auerbach

1946

Must-Read

808.803

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

1912

Recommended

808.8104 s

Gasoline

Gregory Corso

1958

Must-Read

801.9

How to Read and Why

Harold Bloom

2000

Must-Read

809.1

The Anxiety of Influence

Harold Bloom

1973

Must-Read

809

The Western Canon

Harold Bloom

1994

Must-Read

808.8

Histories

Herodotus

1494

Must-Read

800

Domnei

James Branch Cabell

2016

Recommended

809.89287

How to Suppress Women's Writing

Joanna Russ

1983

Recommended

800

Indian Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs

1892

Recommended

800

The Middle Temple Murder

Joseph Smith Fletcher

1919

Recommended

808.00141

Desire in Language

Julia Kristeva

1980

Recommended

800

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

1865

Recommended

808.89928209034

Sylvie and Bruno

Lewis Carroll

1889

Recommended

809

The Liberal Imagination

Lionel Trilling

1950

Recommended

808

Longinus On the Sublime

Longinus

1742

Must-Read

801

The Mirror and the Lamp

M. H. Abrams

1953

Must-Read

808.1

Being and Time

Martin Heidegger

1927

Must-Read

801.953

The Dialogic Imagination

Mikhail Bakhtin

1981

Must-Read

809.896

Decolonising the Mind

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1986

Recommended

+ 11 more in Literature.

810 American literature · 667

813.6

Seven Surrenders

Ada Palmer

2017

Recommended

813.6

The Will to Battle

Ada Palmer

2017

Recommended

813.6

Too Like the Lightning

Ada Palmer

2016

Must-Read

811.52

The Invention of Morel

Adolfo Bioy Casares

1964

Recommended

811.54

Diving into the Wreck

Adrienne Rich

1973

Recommended

811.54

The Dream of a Common Language

Adrienne Rich

1978

Recommended

813.54

The Stars My Destination

Alfred Bester

1956

Must-Read

813.54

Dear Life

Alice Munro

2000

Recommended

813.54

Lives of Girls and Women

Alice Munro

1971

Recommended

813.54

Runaway

Alice Munro

2004

Recommended

813.6

The Moons of Jupiter

Alice Munro

1982

Recommended

813.54

Meridian

Alice Walker

1976

Recommended

811.54

Howl

Allen Ginsberg

1956

Must-Read

812.54

Dutchman

Amiri Baraka

1964

Recommended

813.52

Ralestone Luck

Andre Norton

2006

Recommended

813.52

The Defiant Agents

Andre Norton

1962

Recommended

813.6

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

2021

Recommended

813.6

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

2013

Must-Read

813.6

Ancillary Mercy

Ann Leckie

2015

Must-Read

813.6

Ancillary Sword

Ann Leckie

2014

Must-Read

813.4

The Leavenworth Case

Anna Katharine Green

1902

Recommended

813.4

A Strange Disappearance

Anna Katharine Green, Sheba Blake

1880

Recommended

811.54

Autobiography of Red

Anne Carson

1999

Recommended

813.54

Glass, Irony and God

Anne Carson

1995

Recommended

📖

813.6

Dragonflight

Anne McCaffrey

1968

Must-Read

813.54

Queen of the Damned

Anne Rice

1988

Recommended

813.54

The Vampire Lestat

Anne Rice

1986

Recommended

812.6

The Flick

Annie Baker

2014

Recommended

813.54

Accordion Crimes

Annie Proulx

1996

Recommended

813.54

Barkskins

Annie Proulx

2016

Recommended

+ 637 more in American literature.

820 English literature · 677

823

Paradise

Abdulrazak Gurnah

1994

Recommended

823.92

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

2015

Must-Read

823.9

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

1939

Must-Read

823.912

Five Little Pigs

Agatha Christie

1942

Must-Read

823.52

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

1934

Must-Read

823.91

The ABC Murders

Agatha Christie

1936

Must-Read

823.91

The Big Four

Agatha Christie

1913

Recommended

823.912

The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

1924

Recommended

823.0872

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

1926

Must-Read

823.912

The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie

1923

Recommended

823.91

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie

1920

Recommended

823.912

The Mystery of the Blue Train

Agatha Christie

1928

Recommended

823.912

The Seven Dials Mystery

Agatha Christie

1929

Recommended

821.914

Call Me Ishmael Tonight

Agha Shahid Ali

2004

Recommended

821.914

Rooms Are Never Finished

Agha Shahid Ali

2001

Recommended

823.914

The Map of Love

Ahdaf Soueif

1999

Recommended

823.92

House of Suns

Alastair Reynolds

2008

Must-Read

823.92

Pushing Ice

Alastair Reynolds

2005

Must-Read

823.92

Revelation Space

Alastair Reynolds

2000

Must-Read

828

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

1932

Must-Read

828.91

Crome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

1921

Recommended

823.912

Island

Aldous Huxley

1962

Must-Read

823.912

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

1928

Recommended

823.91

Those Barren Leaves

Aldous Huxley

1925

Recommended

823.8

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

1999

Must-Read

823.91

The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

1951

Must-Read

821.8

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2021

Must-Read

821.8

Selected Poems

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1890

Must-Read

823.912

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood

1973

Recommended

823.92

The Memory of Love

Aminatta Forna

2010

Supplementary

+ 647 more in English literature.

830 German literature · 58

839.726

A Dream Play

August Strindberg

1935

Must-Read

832.912

Life of Galileo

Bertolt Brecht

2013

Must-Read

832.912

Mother Courage and Her Children

Bertolt Brecht

2007

Must-Read

832.91

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Bertolt Brecht

1966

Must-Read

832.912

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Bertolt Brecht

1941

Must-Read

832.912

The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht

1955

Must-Read

831.2

The Nibelungenlied

Edward Haymes

1986

Recommended

833.912

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

2024

Recommended

833.912

Bambi

Felix Salten

1926

Recommended

830

Amerika

Franz Kafka

1927

Must-Read

833.912

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

2016

Must-Read

833.91

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

1966

Must-Read

833.912

The Castle

Franz Kafka

1957

Must-Read

832.6

Don Carlos

Friedrich Schiller

1787

Recommended

832.6

Wallenstein

Friedrich Schiller

1800

Recommended

833.914

Dog Years

Günter Grass

1963

Must-Read

839.6

Independent People

Halldór Laxness

1945

Recommended

833.914

The Clown

Heinrich Böll

1963

Recommended

833.914

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Heinrich Böll

1974

Must-Read

839.7374

Faceless Killers

Henning Mankell

1997

Recommended

839.8226

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

1889

Must-Read

839.8226

An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen

1906

Must-Read

839.8226

Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

1965

Must-Read

839.822603

Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen

1890

Must-Read

839.8226

The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen

1889

Must-Read

830

Demian

Hermann Hesse

1919

Must-Read

833.912

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hermann Hesse

1930

Must-Read

833.91

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

1922

Must-Read

833.912

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

1943

Must-Read

833.914

The Land of Green Plums

Herta Müller

1994

Recommended

+ 28 more in German literature.

840 French literature · 107

843.5

Gil Blas

Alain René Le Sage

1747

Recommended

843.91

The Wanderer

Alain-Fournier

1913

Must-Read

843.91

The Fall

Albert Camus

1956

Must-Read

848

The Plague

Albert Camus

1947

Must-Read

📖

843.912

Belle du Seigneur

Albert Cohen

1968

Must-Read

841.08504872

Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley

1923

Recommended

843.7

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

2016

Must-Read

843.7

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Alexandre Dumas

1848

Recommended

843.7

The Vicomte of Bragelonne

Alexandre Dumas

1848

Must-Read

843.76

Twenty Years After

Alexandre Dumas

1900

Must-Read

843.914

Samarkand

Amin Maalouf

1988

Recommended

📖

848.91207

Nadja

André Breton

1928

Must-Read

843.912

The Counterfeiters

André Gide

1925

Must-Read

📖

843.912

Man's Fate

André Malraux

1933

Must-Read

843.914

Simple Passion

Annie Ernaux

1992

Recommended

843

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1943

Must-Read

843.8

Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud

1949

Must-Read

843

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade

Assia Djebar

1993

Recommended

📖

843.912

Moravagine

Blaise Cendrars

1926

Must-Read

841

Les Fleurs du mal

Charles Baudelaire

1855

Must-Read

843

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

1800

Must-Read

843.7

Ursule Mirouët

Clara Bell, Honore De Balzac

1883

Recommended

843.5

D'Alembert's Dream

Denis Diderot

1966

Recommended

848

Jacques the Fatalist

Denis Diderot

1959

Recommended

848.509

Rameau's Nephew

Denis Diderot

1956

Recommended

843.8

Germinie Lacerteux

Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt

1889

Recommended

843.8

Monsieur Lecoq

Émile Gaboriau

1880

Recommended

842.914

The Bald Soprano

Eugène Ionesco

1950

Must-Read

📖

843.914

Bonjour Tristesse

Françoise Sagan

1954

Must-Read

843.91

The Tin Flute

Gabrielle Roy

1945

Recommended

+ 77 more in French literature.

850 Italian literature · 21

📖

853.912

Contempt

Alberto Moravia

1954

Must-Read

851.1

La Vita Nuova

Dante Alighieri

1876

Must-Read

851.1

Paradiso

Dante Alighieri

1595

Must-Read

851

Purgatorio

Dante Alighieri

1768

Must-Read

851.15

The Inferno

Dante Alighieri

1785

Recommended

853.914

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

1940

Must-Read

853.914

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

2012

Recommended

853.914

The Story of a New Name

Elena Ferrante

2012

Recommended

853.92

The Story of the Lost Child

Elena Ferrante

2014

Recommended

853.914

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Elena Ferrante

2013

Recommended

853.1

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

1940

Must-Read

853.8

The Mother

Grazia Deledda

1923

Recommended

853.914

If on a winter's night a traveler

Italo Calvino

1979

Must-Read

853.914

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

1972

Must-Read

853.91

The Castle of Crossed Destinies

Italo Calvino

1977

Must-Read

852.912

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Luigi Pirandello

1925

Recommended

851

Canzoniere

Petrarch

1533

Must-Read

853.914

The Day of Judgment

Salvatore Satta

1987

Supplementary

853.914

Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco

1988

Must-Read

853.914

The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco

1994

Must-Read

853.914

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

1980

Must-Read

860 Spanish & Portuguese literature · 47

863.64

The Kingdom of This World

Alejo Carpentier

1957

Recommended

863

Aura

Carlos Fuentes

1962

Recommended

863

Terra Nostra

Carlos Fuentes

1975

Recommended

863.64

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

César Aira

2006

Supplementary

863.64

Ghosts

César Aira

1990

Supplementary

869.93

Água Viva

Clarice Lispector

1973

Must-Read

869.342

Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector

2012

Must-Read

869.3

The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

1986

Must-Read

869.93

The Passion According to G.H.

Clarice Lispector

1964

Must-Read

861.62

Poet in New York

Federico García Lorca

1940

Must-Read

869

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

1982

Must-Read

863

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez

1981

Must-Read

863

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

1985

Must-Read

863

No One Writes to the Colonel

Gabriel García Márquez

1961

Must-Read

863

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Gabriel García Márquez

1975

Must-Read

864.6

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

1945

Must-Read

868.6209

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

1962

Must-Read

863.62

The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

1957

Must-Read

863

The Obscene Bird of Night

José Donoso

2024

Recommended

863

Paradiso

José Lezama Lima

1966

Recommended

863

El Filibusterismo

José Rizal

1891

Recommended

863

Noli Me Tangere

José Rizal

1887

Recommended

869.342

Baltasar and Blimunda

José Saramago

1988

Must-Read

869.342

Blindness

José Saramago

1995

Must-Read

863.64

The Sound of Things Falling

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

2011

Recommended

863.64

The Burning Plain

Juan Rulfo

1953

Must-Read

869.3

Dom Casmurro

Machado de Assis

1899

Must-Read

869.3

Quincas Borba

Machado de Assis

1899

Must-Read

863.64

Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez

2019

Recommended

863.64

Things We Lost in the Fire

Mariana Enriquez

2016

Recommended

+ 17 more in Spanish & Portuguese literature.

870 Latin literature · 21

873

The Golden Ass

Apuleius

1500

Recommended

878.01

Poems

Catullus

1834

Recommended

873.45

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

1749

Recommended

873.45

Tom Jones

Henry Fielding

1749

Must-Read

871.01

Epistles

Horace

1816

Recommended

877.3

Odes

Horace

1635

Recommended

871.01

Satires

Horace

2004

Recommended

871.1

On the Nature of Things

Lucretius

1495

Must-Read

873.2

Pharsalia

Marcus Annaeus Lucan

1486

Recommended

878.0108

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

170

Must-Read

870

Selected Political Speeches

Marcus Tullius Cicero

1550

Must-Read

871.2

Fasti

Ovid

1482

Must-Read

871.01

Heroides

Ovid

1502

Must-Read

871.01

The Art of Love

Ovid

1929

Must-Read

873

Satyricon

Petronius

1575

Recommended

878.01

The Twelve Caesars

Suetonius

1574

Must-Read

878.0108

Annals & The Histories

Tacitus

2018

Must-Read

878.6

Histories

Tacitus

1864

Must-Read

873

Aeneid

Virgil

29 BCE

Must-Read

871.01

Eclogues

Virgil

1684

Must-Read

873

Georgics

Virgil

1628

Must-Read

880 Greek literature · 49

882.01

Agamemnon

Aeschylus

1816

Must-Read

882.01

Eumenides

Aeschylus

1844

Must-Read

882.01

Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

2016

Must-Read

882.01

Oresteia

Aeschylus

1845

Must-Read

882

Persians

Aeschylus

1818

Must-Read

880

Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

1559

Must-Read

882.01

Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

1812

Must-Read

882.01

The 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus

Aeschylus

2017

Recommended

882.1

The Oresteia of Aeschylus

Aeschylus

1845

Recommended

888.0108

Aesop's Fables

Aesop

1848

Must-Read

881.01

The Argonautica

Apollonius (Rhodius), Apollonius

1574

Recommended

881.01

Argonautica

Apollonius of Rhodes

1574

Recommended

882.4

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

411 BCE

Must-Read

882.4

The Acharnians

Aristophanes

1973

Must-Read

882

The Birds

Aristophanes

1999

Must-Read

882

The Clouds

Aristophanes

423 BCE

Must-Read

882.01

The Frogs

Aristophanes

405 BCE

Must-Read

888.5

On the Soul

Aristotle

350 BCE

Must-Read

888.5

Rhetoric

Aristotle

350 BCE

Must-Read

882.01

Alcestis

Euripides

1818

Must-Read

882.3

Electra

Euripides

1588

Must-Read

882.3

Helen

Euripides

1837

Must-Read

882.01

Heracles

Euripides

1876

Must-Read

882.3

Hippolytus

Euripides

1756

Must-Read

882.01

The Bacchae

Euripides

1954

Must-Read

883.02

Theogony

Hesiod

700 BCE

Must-Read

883.02

Theogony & Works and Days

Hesiod

1953

Must-Read

883

Works and Days

Hesiod

700 BCE

Must-Read

883.01

Homeric Hymns

Homer

1806

Must-Read

883.01

Odyssey

Homer

700 BCE

Must-Read

+ 19 more in Greek literature.

890 Other literatures · 130

894.8141108

Speaking of Siva

A.K. Ramanujan

1973

Recommended

891.8516

Pan Tadeusz

Adam Mickiewicz

1834

Recommended

891.7

Curtain

Agatha Christie

1975

Must-Read

891.733

Yama

Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin

1952

Recommended

891.72

Boris Godunov

Aleksandr Pushkin

1831

Must-Read

891.733

Eugene Onegin

Aleksandr Pushkin

1995

Must-Read

891.734

Cancer Ward

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1968

Must-Read

891.744

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1962

Must-Read

891.7142

Poem Without a Hero

Anna Akhmatova

1970

Must-Read

891.713

Selected Poems

Anna Akhmatova

1969

Must-Read

891.733

Selected Stories

Anton Chekhov

1960

Must-Read

891.733

The Lady with the Little Dog

Anton Chekhov

2002

Must-Read

891.733

Ward No. 6

Anton Chekhov

2000

Must-Read

891.7344

Roadside Picnic

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

1978

Must-Read

895.6132

Selected Haiku

Basho

2013

Must-Read

895.3

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Basho

1966

Must-Read

891.86

Closely Watched Trains

Bohumil Hrabal

1990

Recommended

891.8635

Too Loud a Solitude

Bohumil Hrabal

1990

Recommended

895.1808

I Ching

Book of Changes

1951

Recommended

891.8537

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Bruno Schulz

1978

Recommended

891.8537

The Street of Crocodiles

Bruno Schulz

1963

Recommended

895.134

Dream of the Red Chamber

Cao Xueqin

2011

Must-Read

895.1352

Death's End

Cixin Liu

2010

Recommended

895.136

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

2006

Recommended

891.8517

Selected Poems

Czesław Miłosz

1973

Recommended

895.13

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

1686

Must-Read

895.13

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

1925

Recommended

891.82354

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Danilo Kiš

1980

Recommended

891.8235

Garden, Ashes

Danilo Kiš

1965

Recommended

895.113

Selected Poems

Du Fu

1974

Must-Read

+ 100 more in Other literatures.