Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors A
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- Abbey, Edward,
American, 1927-1989.
- Abe Kobo,
Japanese, 1925-1993.
- Abelard, Pierre and Héloïse,
French writing in Latin, 1079-1142 and 1101-1164.
- Letters.
Recommended by:
Rexmo
Ward
- Historia Calamitatum.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Abish, Walter,
American, 1931- .
- Alphabetical Africa.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- How German Is It.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Eclipse Fever.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- I Am the Dust Under Your Feet.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Abram, David,
American, 1957- .
- The Spell of the Sensuous.
Recommended by:
Utne
- Abrams, M. H.,
American, 1912-2015.
- Abu Bakr Muhammad bin 'Abdulmalik ibn Tufail,
Arab in Islamic Spain, ca. 1105-1185.
- Awakening of the Soul (Hayy ibn Yaqzan).
Recommended by:
Ward
- Achebe, Chinua,
Nigerian writing in English, 1930-2013.
- Acheson, Dean,
American, 1893-1971.
- Adamic, Louis,
American, 1899-1951.
- Dynamite: A Century of Class Violence in America, 1830-1930.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
NF
- Adams, Douglas,
English, 1952-2001.
- Adams, Henry,
American, 1838-1918.
- Adams, Léonie,
American, 1899-1988.
- Poems: A Selection.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Addams, Jane,
American, 1860-1935.
- Twenty Years at Hull-House.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Addison, Joseph and Richard Steele,
English and Irish-English, 1672-1719 and 1672-1729.
- Adi Granth,
See Sacred
Writings of the Sikhs
- Adler, Alfred,
Austrian, 1870-1937.
- Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation.
Recommended by:
Boston
PL
- Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren,
American, 1902-2001 and 1926- .
- How to Read a Book.
Recommended by:
Fadiman 3
- Adorno, Theodor,
German, 1903-1969.
- Philosophy of Modern Music.
Recommended by:
Boston
PL
- Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
Trans
- Adunis,
Lebanese, 1930- .
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Aeschylus,
Greek, 525-456/5 BCE.
- Aesop,
Greek, 620-560 BCE.
- Agee, James,
American, 1909-1955.
- Agee, Philip,
American, 1935- .
- Agnon, S. Y.,
Israeli, 1888-1970.
Nobel Laureate
- In the Heart of the Seas.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Twenty-One Stories.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Aiken, Conrad,
American, 1889-1973.
- Collected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Akhmatova, Anna,
Russian, 1888-1966.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Requiem.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Aksakov, Sergey,
Russian, 1791-1859.
- A Family Chronicle.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Akutagawa Ryunosuke,
Japanese, 1892-1927.
- Rashomon, and Other Stories.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Alain-Fournier,
French, 1886-1914.
- Le Grand Meaulnes.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Alas, Leopoldo (Clarín),
Spanish, 1852-1901.
- La Regenta.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Albee, Edward,
American, 1928-2016.
- The American Dream.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Alberti, Rafael,
Spanish, 1902-1984.
- The Owl's Insomnia: Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Alcman,
Greek, 7th C BCE.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Alcott, Louisa May,
American, 1832-1888.
- Aldiss, Brian,
English, 1925-2017.
- Life in the West.
Recommended by:
Burgess
- Aleichem, Sholem,
See Sholem
Aleichem
- Aleixandre, Vicente,
Spanish, 1898-1984.
Nobel Laureate
- A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Alexander, Christopher,
American, 1936- .
- Alexievich, Svetlana, Belarusian, 1948- . Nobel Laureate
- Alfieri, Vittorio,
Italian, 1749-1803.
- Saul.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Algren, Nelson,
American, 1909-1981.
- The Man with the Golden Arm.
Recommended by:
BOMC
- A Walk on the Wild Side.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Allison, Dorothy,
American, 1949- .
- Alvarez, Julia,
American, 1950- .
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Recommended by:
Harvard
- Amichai, Yehuda,
Israeli, 1934- .
- Selected Poetry.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Travels.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Amis, Kingsley,
English, 1922-1995.
- Amis, Martin,
English, 1949- .
- London Fields.
Recommended by:
Harvard
- Money.
Recommended by:
Time
- Ammons, A. R.,
American, 1926-2001.
- Collected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Selected Longer Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Sphere: The Form of a Motion.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Ampère, André Marie,
French, 1775-1836.
- Amundsen, Roald,
Norwegian, 1872-1928.
- Anand, Margot,
French-American writing in English, 1943- .
- The Art of Sexual Ecstasy.
Recommended by:
Utne
- Anantha Murthy, U. R.,
Indian writing in Kannada, 1932- .
- Anaya, Rudolfo,
American, 1937- .
- Andersen Nexø, Martin,
Danish, 1869-1954.
- Pelle the Conqueror.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Andersen, Hans Christian,
Danish, 1805-1875.
- Fairy Tales and Stories.
Recommended by:
Meaningful
- Anderson, Jack,
American, 1922-2005.
- Anderson, Sherwood,
American, 1876-1941.
- Andrade, Eugénio de,
Portuguese, 1923-2005.
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Andreyev, Leonid,
Russian, 1871-1919.
- Selected Tales.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Andric, Ivo,
Bosnian, 1892-1975.
Nobel Laureate
- The Bridge on the Drina.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Angelou, Maya,
American, 1928-2014.
- Anger, Kenneth,
American, 1927- .
- Various Authors,
English, 890-1154.
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.
Recommended by:
Telegraph
- Angulo, Jaime de,
American, 1887-1950.
- Indian Tales.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Anouilh, Jean,
French, 1910-1987.
- Becket.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Antigone.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Eurydice.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The Rehearsal.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Anselm, St.,
Italian-English writing in Latin, 1033-1109.
- Ansky, S.,
Russian writing in Yiddish, 1863-1920.
- The Dybbuk.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Various Authors,
Chinese, 8th C BCE-20th C.
- Anthology of Chinese Literature.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Various Authors writing in Arabic,
Persian, Turkish, etc.,
Arabic, Persian, Turkish, etc., 7th-18th C.
- Anthology of Islamic Literature, From the Rise of Islam to
Modern Times.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Various Authors,
Japanese, 8th-19th C.
- Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Nineteenth Century.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Various Authors,
Korean, 1st Millennium-20th C.
- Anthology of Korean Poetry, From the Earliest Era to the
Present.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Various Authors,
Sri Lankan, 6th-19th C.
- An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature up to 1815.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Anwar, Chairil,
Indonesian, 1922-1949.
- Complete Poetry and Prose.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Anzaldua, Gloria,
American, 1942-2004.
- Various Authors,
Jews writing in Hebrew and Aramaic, 2nd C BCE-1st C CE.
- Apocrypha.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Apollinaire, Guillaume,
French, 1880-1918.
- Selected Writings.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Apollonius of Perga,
Greek, fl. 247-205 BCE.
- Apollonius Rhodius,
Greek, fl. 220 BCE.
- Argonautica.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Appelfeld, Aharon,
Israeli, 1932-2018.
- The Immortal Bartfuss.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Badenheim 1939.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Applewhite, James,
American, 1935- .
- River Writing: An Eno Journal.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Apuleius,
Roman, fl. ca. 155 CE.
- Aquinas, St. Thomas,
See Thomas
Aquinas, St
- Arabian Nights,
See Thousand
and One Nights
- Aragon, Louis,
French, 1897-1982.
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Archilochus,
Greek, 7th C BCE.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Archimedes,
Greek, ca. 287-212 BCE.
- Works.
Recommended by:
Adler
(Selections)
GBWW
Rexmo
- On Floating Bodies.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- On Conoids and Spheroids.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Quadrature of the Parabola.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Arden, John,
English, 1930-2012.
- Plays.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Arenas, Reinaldo,
Cuban, 1943-1990.
- The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Arendt, Hannah,
American, 1906-1975.
- Ariès, Philippe,
French, 1914-1984.
- Ariosto, Ludovico,
Italian, 1474-1533.
- Aristophanes,
Greek, 448-388 BCE.
- Aristotle,
Greek, 384-322 BCE.
- Armah, Ayi K.,
Ghanaian writing in English, 1939- .
- The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Arnold, Matthew,
English, 1822-1888.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Essays.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Aron, Raymond,
French, 1905-1983.
- The Opium of the Intellectuals.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Memoirs.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Arora, David,
American, fl. 1979.
- Arreola, Juan Jose,
Mexican, 1918-2001.
- Confabulario and Other Inventions.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Arrian,
Greek, ca. 100-180 CE.
- Anabasis.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Arrow, Kenneth,
American, 1921-2017.
- Social Choice and Individual Values.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Artaud, Antonin,
French, 1896-1948.
- Asch, Sholem,
Polish-American writing in Yiddish, 1880-1957.
- East River.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Ashbery, John,
American, 1927-2017.
- The Double Dream of Spring.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Houseboat Days.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Flow Chart.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Hotel Lautréamont.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- And the Stars Were Shining.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Ashton-Warner, Sylvia,
New Zealander, 1908-1984.
- Ashvaghosha,
Indian writing in Sanskrit, 1st-2nd C CE.
- Buddha-charita.
Recommended by:
StJE
- Asimov, Isaac,
American, 1920-1992.
- Asturias, Miguel Angel,
Guatemalan, 1899-1974.
Nobel Laureate
- Men of Maize.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Athanasius, St.,
Byzantine Greek, ca. 297-373.
- On the Incarnation.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Atkinson, Kate,
English, 1951- .
- Emotionally Weird.
Recommended by:
Harvard
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
Recommended by:
Smiley
- Atwood, Margaret,
Canadian, 1939- .
- Surfacing.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The Handmaid's Tale.
Recommended by:
Harvard
NYPL
- The Blind Assassin.
Recommended by:
Time
- Aubigné, Agrippa d',
French, 1552-1630.
- Les Tragiques.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Aubrey, John,
English, 1626-1697.
- Brief Lives.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Auden, W. H.,
English, 1907-1973.
- The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Collected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Fadiman 4
- The Dyer's Hand.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Auerbach, Erich,
German, 1892-1957.
- Mimesis: Representation of Reality in Western Literature.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
Trans
- Augustine, St.,
North African writing in Latin, 354-430.
- Austen, Jane,
English, 1775-1817.
- Auster, Paul,
American, 1947- .
- The New York Trilogy.
Recommended by:
Harvard
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd),
Arab in Islamic Spain, 1126-1198.
- On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy.
Recommended by:
Oriental
- Avogadro, Amadeo,
Italian, 1776-1856.
- Masses and Proportions of Elementary Molecules.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Anonymous,
Indian (extant only in Chinese translation), 5th-6th C.
- Awakening of Faith in Mahayana.
Recommended by:
Oriental
- Ayensu, Edward S. and Robert A. DeFilipps,
Ghanaian-American and American, 1935- and 1939-.
- Endangered and Threatened Plants of the United States.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Aztecs,
Aztecs (Mexico), 12th-15th C.
- Azuela, Mariano,
Mexican, 1873-1952.
- Underdogs.
Recommended by:
Ward
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