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- Babbitt, Irving,
American, 1865-1933.
- Babel, Isaac Emmanuelovich,
Russian, 1894-ca. 1940 .
- Collected Stories.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Bach, George R. and Herb Goldberg,
American, 1914-1986 and 1937-.
- Creative Aggression.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Bach, Richard,
American, 1936- .
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Recommended by:
Telegraph
- Bachelard, Gaston,
French, 1884-1962.
- Bachmann, Ingeborg,
Austrian, 1926-1973.
- In the Storm of Roses.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bacon, Francis,
English, 1561-1626.
- Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani,
Persian writing in Arabic, 969-1008.
- Bai Juyi (Po Chü-i),
Chinese, 772-846.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Baker, Nicholson,
American, 1957- .
- Baldwin, James,
American, 1924-1987.
- Ball, Edward,
American, 1959- .
- Ballard, J. G.,
English, 1930-2009.
- The Unlimited Dream Company.
Recommended by:
Burgess
- Balzac, Honoré de,
French, 1799-1850.
- Banerji, Bibhutibhusan,
Indian writing in Bengali, 1894-1950.
- Pather Panchali (Song of the Road).
Recommended by:
Ward
- Banfield, Edward C.,
American, 1916-1999.
- Banham, Reyner,
English, 1922-1988.
- Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
NF
- Baraka, Amiri,
See Jones,
Leroi
- Barnes, Harry Elmer,
American, 1889-1968.
- A History of Historical Writing.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Baroja, Pio,
Basque Spanish, 1872-1956.
- Restlessness of Shanti Andía and Other Writings.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Barrie, J. M.,
Scottish, 1860-1937.
- Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Barth, John,
American, 1930- .
- The Floating Opera.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The End of the Road.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The Sot-Weed Factor.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Time
- Giles Goat-Boy.
Recommended by:
Burgess
LAT
- Barth, Karl,
Swiss writing in German, 1886-1968.
- The Word of God and the Word of Man.
Recommended by:
GBWW
- Credo.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Barthélemy St.-Hilaire, Jules,
French, 1805-1895.
- The Buddha and His Religion.
Recommended by:
Lubbock
- Barthelme, Donald,
American, 1931-1989.
- Forty Stories.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The Dead Father.
Recommended by:
Bloom
LAT
- Barthes, Roland,
French, 1915-1980.
- Basho, Matsuo,
Japanese, 1644-1694.
- Bassani, Giorgio,
Italian, 1916-2000.
- The Heron.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bataille, Georges,
French, 1897-1962.
- Visions of Excess.
Recommended by:
Harvard
- Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Eroticism).
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
Trans
- Blue of Noon.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Batatu, Hanna,
Palestinian writing in English, 1926-2000.
- Bate, W. Jackson,
American, 1918-1999.
- Bates, Henry Walter,
English, 1825-1892.
- The Naturalist on the River Amazons.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Baudelaire, Charles,
French, 1821-1867.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Rex
SJC
- Flowers of Evil.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Paris Spleen.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Baum, L. Frank,
American, 1856-1919.
- Bayatli, Yahya Kemal,
Turkish, 1884-1958.
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Bazin, Andre,
French, 1918-1958.
- Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de,
French, 1732-1799.
- Barber of Seville.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Marriage of Figaro.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher,
English, 1584-1616 and 1579-1625.
- Plays.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Beauvoir, Simone de,
French, 1908-1986.
- Beck, Charlotte Joko,
American, 1917-2011.
- Everyday Zen.
Recommended by:
Utne
- Beck, Simone,
French, 1904-1991.
- Art of French Cooking.
Recommended by:
Boston
PL
- Beckett, Samuel,
Irish writing in French and English, 1906-1989.
Nobel Laureate
- Bécquer, Gustavo Adolpho,
Spanish, 1836-1870.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Beddoes, Thomas Lovell,
English, 1803-1849.
- Death's Jest-Book.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Beerbohm, Max,
English, 1872-1956.
- Behe, Michael J.,
American, 1952- .
- Behn, Aphra,
English, 1640-1689.
- Oroonoko.
Recommended by:
Smiley
- "The Fair Jilt".
Recommended by:
Smiley
- Bell, Daniel,
American, 1919-2011.
- End of Ideology.
Recommended by:
TLS
- The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Belli, Giuseppe Gioachino,
Italian, 1791-1863.
- Bellow, Saul,
American, 1915-2005.
Nobel Laureate
- Bely, Andrey,
Russian, 1880-1934.
- Petersburg.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Ben Ezra, Moses ben Jacob,
Jew in Islamic Spain writing in Hebrew, ca. 1055-1138.
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Benavente, Jacinto,
Spanish, 1866-1954.
Nobel Laureate
- Benedict, Ruth,
American, 1887-1948.
- Patterns of Culture.
Recommended by:
Boston
PL
- Benjamin, Walter,
German, 1892-1940.
- Benn, Gottfried,
German, 1886-1956.
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bennett, Arnold,
English, 1867-1931.
- Bentham, Jeremy,
English, 1748-1832.
- Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.
Recommended by:
Adler
Ward
- Theory of Fictions.
Recommended by:
Adler
- Anonymous,
English, 8th C.
- Berger, John,
English, 1926-2017.
- Pig Earth.
Recommended by:
Utne
- Berger, Peter,
American, 1929-2017.
- The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About
Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Berger, Thomas,
American, 1924-2014.
- Little Big Man.
Recommended by:
BOMC
- Bergson, Henri,
French, 1859-1941.
Nobel Laureate
- Time and Free Will.
Recommended by:
Adler
- Matter and Memory.
Recommended by:
Adler
- Creative Evolution.
Recommended by:
Adler
- Two Sources of Morality and Religion.
Recommended by:
Adler
- An Introduction to Metaphysics.
Recommended by:
GBWW
- Berkeley, George,
Irish-English, 1685-1753.
- Berkman, Alexander,
American, 1870-1936.
- Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist and other works.
Recommended by:
Rexmo
- Berlin, Isaiah,
English, 1909-1997.
- Four Essays on Liberty.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Russian Thinkers.
Recommended by:
TLS
- The Proper Study of Mankind.
Recommended by:
ML
Nonfiction
- The Hedgehog and the Fox.
Recommended by:
National
Review
- Bernard, Claude,
French, 1813-1878.
- Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine.
Recommended by:
Adler
- Bernays, Edward L.,
American, 1891-1995.
- The Engineering of Consent.
Recommended by:
Boston
PL
- Bernhard, Thomas,
Austrian, 1931-1989.
- Woodcutters.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Berryman, John,
American, 1914-1972.
- Collected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bettelheim, Bruno,
Austrian-American writing in English, 1903-1990.
- The Uses of Enchantment.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Anonymous,
Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 200 BCE.
- Bhartrhari,
Indian writing in Sanskrit, 7th C.
- Bialik, Chaim Nachman,
Ukrainian-Palestinian Jew writing in Hebrew, 1873-1934.
- Shirot Bialik: The Epic Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Various Authors,
Jews writing in Hebrew, 13th-2nd C BCE.
- Various Authors,
Jewish Christians writing in Greek, 1st C CE.
- Bierce, Ambrose,
American, 1842-1914? .
- Collected Writings.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bilhana,
Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 1040-1095.
- Caurapañcasika (Phantasies of a Love-Thief).
Recommended by:
Ward
- Billington, Ray Allen,
American, 1903-1981.
- The Genesis of the Frontier Theory: A Study in Historical
Creativity.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Various Authors,
Arab, 8th-11th C.
- Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abassid Poets.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Bishop, Elizabeth,
American, 1911-1979.
- The Complete Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
NYPL
- Bjørnson, Bjørnsterne,
Norwegian, 1832-1910.
Nobel Laureate
- Black Elk,
Native American, 1863-1950.
- Blake, William,
English, 1757-1827.
- Songs of Innocence and Experience.
Recommended by:
Telegraph
- Blake, Robert,
English, 1916-2003.
- Blake, William,
English, 1757-1827.
- Blanchot, Maurice,
French, 1907-2003.
- Thomas the Obscure.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bland, David Farrant,
English, ca. 1911-1970.
- History of Book Illustration.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Bloch, Marc,
French, 1886-1944.
- Blok, Aleksandr,
Russian, 1880-1921.
- The Twelve and Other Plays.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bloom, Allan,
American, 1930-1992.
- Bloom, Harold,
American, 1930- .
- The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Blume, Judy,
American, 1938- .
- Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
Recommended by:
Time
- Boas, Franz,
American, 1858-1942.
- Bobbio, Norberto,
Italian, 1909-2004.
- The Future of Democracy.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Bobrowski, Johannes,
German, 1917-1965.
- Shadow Lands.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Boccaccio, Giovanni,
Italian, 1313-1375.
- Bodhidharma (Daruma),
Indian-Chinese, ca. 470-543 .
- Selected Writings.
Recommended by:
StJE
- Boethius,
Roman, ca. 480-524.
- Consolation of Philosophy.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- On Music.
Recommended by:
Aquinas
- Bogan, Louise,
American, 1887-1970.
- The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bohr, Niels,
Danish, 1885-1962.
- Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature.
Recommended by:
GBWW (Selections)
- Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in
Atomic Physics.
Recommended by:
GBWW
- Boiardo, Matteo Maria,
Italian, 1441-1494.
- Orlando Innamorato.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas,
French, 1636-1711.
- Art of Poetry.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Lutrin.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Böll, Heinrich,
German, 1917-1985.
Nobel Laureate
- Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bond, Edward,
English, 1934- .
- The Fool.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Saved.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bonnefoy, Yves,
French, 1923-2016.
- Words in Stone.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Anonymous,
Turkish, 15th C.
- Book of Dede Korkut.
Recommended by:
Oriental
- Anonymous,
Egyptian, Ancient, 23rd-16th C BCE.
- Book of the Dead.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Boorstin, Daniel,
American, 1914-2004.
- The Image, or What Happened to the American Dream.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Borges, Jorge Luis,
Argentinian, 1899-1986.
- Borkin, Joseph,
American, 1911-1979.
- Borrow, George,
English, 1803-1881.
- Lavengro.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Romany Rye.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne,
French, 1627-1704.
- Funerary Orations.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Boston Women's Health Book Collective,
American, Pub. 1973.
- Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Recommended by:
Boston
PL
- Boswell, James,
Scottish, 1740-1795.
- Botkin, B. A.,
American, 1901-1975.
- Bouton, Jim,
American, 1939- .
- Bowen, Elizabeth,
Anglo-Irish, 1899-1973.
- Bowers, Edgar,
American, 1924-2000.
- Living Together: New and Selected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bowles, Paul,
American, 1910-1999.
- Bowra, Sir Cecil Maurice,
English, 1898-1971.
- Primitive Song.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Boyer, Richard O.,
American, 1903-1973.
- Labor's Untold Story (With Herbert M. Morais).
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
NF
- Boyle, Kay,
American, 1903-1992.
- Three Short Novels.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan,
American, 1948- .
- Tortilla Curtain.
Recommended by:
Harvard
- Bracher, Karl Dietrich,
German, 1922-2016.
- The Totalitarian Experience.
Recommended by:
TLS
- Bradbury, Malcolm,
English, 1932-2000.
- The History Man.
Recommended by:
Burgess
- Bradbury, Ray,
American, 1920-2012.
- Fahrenheit 451.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Braine, John,
English, 1922-1986.
- Room at the Top.
Recommended by:
Burgess
- Braudel, Fernand,
French, 1902-1985.
- Braverman, Harry,
American, 1920-1976.
- Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the
Twentieth Century.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
NF
- Brecht, Bertolt,
German, 1898-1956.
- Poems, 1913-1956.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- The Threepenny Opera.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Galileo.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
Trans
- The Good Woman of Setzuan.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Mother Courage and Her Children.
Recommended by:
Bloom
GBWW
- Breton, André,
French, 1896-1966.
- Breuil, Henri,
French, 1877-1961.
- Bridges, Robert,
English, 1844-1930.
- Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Broch, Hermann,
Austrian, 1886-1951.
- The Sleepwalkers.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Smiley
- Hugo von Hoffmannsthal and His Time.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Death of Virgil.
Recommended by:
Bloom
Ward
- Brodie, Fawn M.,
American, 1915-1981.
- Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Brodkey, Harold,
American, 1930-1996.
- Stories in an Almost Classical Mode.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Brodsky, Joseph,
Russian-American writing in English, 1940-1996.
Nobel Laureate
- A Part of Speech: Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Various authors,
Aztecs (Mexico), 1519 ff..
- Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
(Ed. by Miguel León-Portillo).
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
Trans
- Brontë, Charlotte,
English, 1816-1855.
- Brontë, Emily,
English, 1818-1848.
- Brower, David,
American, 1912-2000.
- Brown, Dee Alexander,
American, 1908-2002.
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the
American West.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Brown, George Douglas,
See Douglas,
George
- Brown, Margaret Wise,
American, 1910-1952.
- Goodnight Moon.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Brown, Norman O.,
American, 1913-2002.
- Love's Body.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
NF
- Browne, Sir Thomas,
English, 1605-1682.
- Religio Medici.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Garden of Cyrus.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Browning, Robert,
English, 1812-1849.
- Brownmiller, Susan,
American, 1935- .
- Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Brunhoff, Jean de,
French, 1899-1937.
- Bruno, Giordano,
Italian, 1548-1600.
- The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bryant, William Cullen,
American, 1794-1878.
- Collected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bryson, Bill,
American, 1951?-.
- Made in America.
Recommended by:
Utne
- The Lost Continent.
Recommended by:
Harvard
- Buber, Martin,
Austrian, 1878-1965.
- Büchner, Georg,
German, 1813-1837.
- Danton's Death.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Woyzeck.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Buck, Pearl S.,
American, 1892-1973.
Nobel Laureate
- Buckley, William F.,
American, 1925-2008.
- Various Authors, writing in Pali and
Sanskrit,
Indians writing in Pali and Sanskrit, 100-400 CE.
- Buddhist Scriptures.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Various Authors,
Japanese, fl. 1185-1333.
- Buddhist Masters of the Kamakura Period.
Recommended by:
Oriental
- Bukowski, Charles,
American, 1920-1994.
- Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of
Ordinary Madness.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Ham on Rye.
Recommended by:
Harvard
- Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills.
Recommended by:
Harvard
- Bulgakov, Mikhail,
Russian, 1891-1940.
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward,
English, 1803-1873.
- The Last Days of Pompeii.
Recommended by:
Lubbock
- Bunin, Ivan,
Russian, 1870-1953.
Nobel Laureate
- Selected Stories.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Bunting, Basil,
English, 1900-1985.
- Collected Poems.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Buñuel. Luis,
Spanish, 1900-1983.
- Bunyan, John,
English, 1628-1688.
- Burgess, Anthony,
English, 1917-1994.
- Burke, Edmund,
Irish, 1729-1797.
- Burke, Kenneth,
American, 1897-1993.
- Counter-statement.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- A Rhetoric of Motives.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Burkert, Walter,
German, 1931-2015.
- Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial
Ritual and Myth.
Recommended by:
Counterpunch
Trans
- Burney, Fanny,
English, 1752-1840.
- Evelina.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Burnham, James,
American, 1905-1987.
- The Managerial Revolution.
Recommended by:
TLS
- The Machiavellians.
Recommended by:
National
Review
- Burns, Robert,
Scottish, 1759-1796.
- Burroughs, William S.,
American, 1914-1997.
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice,
American, 1875-1950.
- Tarzan of the Apes.
Recommended by:
NYPL
- Burton, Robert,
English, 1577-1640.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis,
English, 1821-1890.
- Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Butler, Joseph,
English, 1692-1752.
- The Analogy of Religion.
Recommended by:
Lubbock
- Butler, Samuel,
English, 1613-1680.
- Hudibras.
Recommended by:
Bloom
- Butler, Samuel,
English, 1835-1902.
- Buzzati, Dino,
Italian, 1906-1972.
- The Tartar Steppe.
Recommended by:
Ward
- Byatt, A. S.,
English, 1936- .
- Byron, George Gordon, Lord,
English, 1788-1824.
- Byron, Robert,
English, 1905-1941.
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