Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors Q to R

This page tells you which authors and titles are included on which great books lists. For more information, see my Great Books page

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• Qu Yuan, See Chu Ci
• Quasimodo, Salvatore, Italian, 1901-1968. Nobel Laureate
  • Selected Writings: Poems and Discourse on Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
• Anonymous, French, ca. 1225.
  • Queste del Saint Graal. Recommended by: Ward
• Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gómez, Spanish, 1580-1645.
  • Sueños (Dreams). Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Historia de la Vida del Buscón (Life and Adventures of Don Pablos the Sharper). Recommended by: Ward
  • Satirical Letter of Censure. Recommended by: Bloom
• Revealed to Muhammad, Arab, ca. 610-632.
  • Qur'an. Recommended by: App Bloom Fadiman 4 Good Reading Lubbock (Selections) Oriental Seymour-Smith Ward
• Rabe, David, American, 1940- .
  • Streamers. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rabelais, François, French, 1483-1553.
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Col37 Col61 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Meaningful Rex Seymour-Smith SJC (Selections) Utne Ward
• Racine, French, 1639-1699.
  • Tragedies. Recommended by: Adler (Selections)
  • Phèdre. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Rexmo SJC
  • Berenice. Recommended by: GBWW
  • Andromache. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Britannicus. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Athaliah. Recommended by: Bloom
• Radiguet, Raymond, French, 1903-1923.
  • Count d'Orgel's Ball. Recommended by: Bloom
• Raleigh, Sir Walter, English, ca. 1554-1618 .
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Ramayana, See Valmiki
• Ramsey, Charles George, American, 1884-1963.
  • Architectural Graphic Standards (With Harold Reeve Sleeper). Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Rand, Ayn, American, 1905-1982.
  • The Fountainhead. Recommended by: Radcliffe
  • Atlas Shrugged. Recommended by: Boston PL Harvard NYPL Radcliffe
• Ransome, Arthur, English, 1884-1967.
  • Swallows and Amazons. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Ransom, John Crowe, American, 1888-1974.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Ravikovitch, Dalia, Israeli, 1936-2005.
  • A Dress of Fire. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rawls, John, American, 1921-2002.
  • A Theory of Justice. Recommended by: Colcc91 LAT ML Nonfiction TLS
• Read, Herbert, English, 1893-1968.
  • The Green Child. Recommended by: Rexmo Ward
  • The Contrary Experience: Autobiographies. Recommended by: Ward
• Various Authors, Various, 20th C.
  • Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach (Ed. By William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt). Recommended by: Good Reading
• Rechy, John, American, 1934- .
  • City of Night. Recommended by: LAT
• Redol, Alves, Portuguese, 1911-1969.
  • The Man with Seven Names. Recommended by: Ward
• Reed, Ishmael, American, 1938- .
  • Mumbo Jumbo. Recommended by: Bloom
• Reed, John, American, 1887-1920.
  • Ten Days That Shook the World. Recommended by: Boston PL NYPL
• Reich, Wilhelm, Austrian, 1897-1957.
  • The Function of the Orgasm. Recommended by: Boston PL
  • Character Analysis. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Reisner, Marc, American, 1948-2000.
  • Cadillac Desert. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Reitman, Ben L., American, 1879-1942.
  • Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Remarque, Erich Maria, German, 1898-1970.
  • All Quiet on the Western Front. Recommended by: Boston PL NYPL
• Rembrandt van Rijn, See Rosenberg
• Renault, Mary, English, 1905-1983.
  • Alexander Trilogy. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Renoir, Jean, French, 1894-1979.
  • Renoir, My Father. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas, French, 1734-1806.
  • Monsieur Nicolas. Recommended by: Rex
• Reverdy, Pierre, French, 1889-1960.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rexroth, Kenneth, American, 1905-1982.
  • An Autobiographical Novel. Recommended by: Utne
• Rey, H. A., American, 1898-1977.
  • Curious George Learns the Alphabet. Recommended by: Harvard
• Reymont, Wladyslaw, Polish, 1867-1925. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Rhodes, Richard, American, 1937- .
  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Rhys, Jean, English, 1894-1979.
  • Wide Sargasso Sea. Recommended by: ML Novels NYPL Radcliffe Smiley Time
• Ribá, Carles, Catalan, 1893-1959.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rich, Adrienne, American, 1929-2012.
  • On Lies, Secrets and Silence. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
• Richardson, Samuel, English, 1689-1761.
  • Clarissa. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Pamela. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
  • Sir Charles Grandison. Recommended by: Bloom
• Richler, Mordecai, Canadian, 1931-2001.
  • Cocksure. Recommended by: Burgess
• Richter, Conrad, American, 1890-1968.
  • The Trees/The Fields/The Town (Trilogy). Recommended by: BOMC
• Riesman, David, American, 1909-2002.
  • The Lonely Crowd. Recommended by: LAT TLS
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Sanskrit, 12th-8th C BCE.
  • Rig Veda. (See also Vedas) Recommended by: StJE
• Riis, Jacob, American, 1849-1914.
  • The Battle with the Slum. Recommended by: NYPL
  • How the Other Half Lives. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Rilke, Rainer Maria, German, 1875-1926.
  • Duino Elegies. Recommended by: Utne
  • Works. Recommended by: Ward
  • Selected Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Sonnets to Orpheus. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Recommended by: Bloom
  • New Poems: First Part and Other Part. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rimbaud, Arthur, French, 1854-1891.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Rex SJC Ward
• Ritsos, Yannis, Greek, 1909-1990.
  • Exile and Return. Recommended by: Bloom
• Robbe-Grillet, Alain, French, 1922-2008.
  • The Voyeur. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Jealousy. Recommended by: Bloom
  • In the Labyrinth. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Erasers. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Project for a Revolution in New York. Recommended by: Bloom
  • For a New Novel. Recommended by: Bloom Counterpunch Trans
• Roberts, Keith, English, 1935-2000.
  • Pavane. Recommended by: Burgess
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington, American, 1869-1935.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Robinson, Marilynne, American, 1944- .
  • Housekeeping. Recommended by: Time
• Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, English, 1647-1680.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rodoreda, Merce, Catalan, 1908-1983.
  • The Time of the Doves. Recommended by: Bloom
• Roethke, Theodore, American, 1908-1963.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Straw for the Fire. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rogers, Carl R., American, 1902-1987.
  • On Becoming a Person. Recommended by: LAT
• Rojas, Fernando de, Spanish, ca. 1465-1541.
  • Celestina. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
• Rolland, Romain, French, 1866-1944. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Various Authors, Romanian, 19th-20th C.
  • Romanian Poems: A Bilingual Anthology. Recommended by: Ward
• Rombauer, Irma, American, 1877-1962.
  • The Joy of Cooking. Recommended by: National Review NYPL
• Ronsard, Pierre de, French, ca. 1524-1585.
  • Odes, Elegies, Sonnets. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rorty, Richard, American, 1931-2007.
  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Recommended by: TLS
• Rosa, João Guimarães, Brazilian, 1908-1967.
  • Sagarana. Recommended by: Ward
  • The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. Recommended by: Meaningful Ward
• Rosenbaum, Jonathan, American, 1943- .
  • Movie Wars. Recommended by: Harvard
• Rosenberg, Isaac, English, 1890-1918.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rosenberg, Jakob, American, 1893-1980.
  • Rembrandt: Life and Work. Recommended by: Ward
• Rossetti, Christina, English, 1830-1894.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, English, 1828-1882.
  • Poems and Translations. Recommended by: Bloom
• Roth, Henry, American, 1906-1995.
  • Call It Sleep. Recommended by: Bloom Time
• Roth, Joseph, Austrian, 1894-1939.
  • The Radetzky March. Recommended by: Bloom
• Roth, Philip, American, 1933-2018.
  • Portnoy's Complaint. Recommended by: Bloom Burgess Hungry Mind LAT ML Novels NYPL Time
  • My Life as a Man. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Counterlife. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Patrimony. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Operation Shylock. Recommended by: Bloom
  • American Pastoral. Recommended by: Time
  • The Human Stain. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Rougemont, Denis de, Swiss writing in French, 1906-1985.
  • Love in the Western World. Recommended by: National Review
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques, French, 1712-1778.
  • Confessions. Recommended by: Bloom Col37 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Seymour-Smith Ward
  • On the Origin of Inequality. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Colcc91 GBWW SJC
  • On the Political Economy. Recommended by: Adler GBWW
  • Émile. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
  • Social Contract. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Colcc91 GBWW Good Reading SJC Telegraph
  • La Nouvelle Héloïse. Recommended by: Bloom
• Roussel, Raymond, French, 1877-1933.
  • Locus Solus. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rowley, William, See Thomas Middleton
• Rowling, J. K., English, 1965- .
  • Harry Potter. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Ruiz, Juan (Archpriest of Hita), Spanish, ca. 1283-ca. 1350.
  • Book of Good Love. Recommended by: Ward
• Rukeyser, Muriel, American, 1913-1980.
  • A Muriel Rukeyser Reader. Recommended by: Utne
• Rulfo, Juan, Mexican, 1918-1986.
  • Pedro Paramo. Recommended by: Meaningful
• Rumi, Jalal ad-Din, Persian, 1207-1273.
  • The Divan of Shams-i-Tabriz. Recommended by: Utne
  • Mathnawi. Recommended by: Meaningful Oriental Ward
  • Discourses. Recommended by: Ward
• Runciman, Steven, English, 1903-2000.
  • A History of the Crusades. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Rushdie, Salman, Indian writing in English, 1947- .
  • Midnight's Children. Recommended by: Bloom Meaningful ML Novels MW Asian Radcliffe Time
  • The Satanic Verses. Recommended by: Harvard Radcliffe
• Ruskin, John, English, 1819-1900.
  • Selected Writings. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Praeterita. Recommended by: Ward
  • Modern Painters. Recommended by: Bloom Lubbock
  • Stones of Venice. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Unto This Last. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Queen of the Air. Recommended by: Bloom
• Russell, Bertrand, English, 1872-1970. Nobel Laureate
  (See also Whitehead, Alfred North and Bertrand Russell)
  • Why I Am Not a Christian. Recommended by: NYPL
  • Autobiography. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
  • History of Western Philosophy. Recommended by: Ward
  • The Problems of Philosophy. Recommended by: Adler GBWW
  • The Analysis of Mind. Recommended by: Adler
  • An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth. Recommended by: Adler
  • Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. Recommended by: Adler
• Russo, Richard, American, 1949- .
  • Empire Falls. Recommended by: Harvard
• Rustaveli, Shota, Georgian, fl. 1200.
  • The Man in the Panther's Skin. Recommended by: Ward

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