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These are books that I've read in full. They are in chronological order of original date by section.
Key:
☆☆☆☆☆ - ESSENTIAL: Highest level of recommendation. A very special work to me.
☆☆☆☆ - EXCELLENT: Superb. A very accomplished work that I love.
☆☆☆ - RECOMMENDED: Good. Not one of my all-time favorites, but certainly worth checking out.
☆☆ - HAS MERITS: Has some redeeming features that make it interesting, but generally I would reserve this for specialists.
☆ - NOT RECOMMENDED: Skip this. Not worth it.
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| Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others | c. 2100 BC | Stephanie Dalley [trans.] | Oxford World's Classics (1989) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia | c. 2100 BC | N.K. Sandars [trans.] | Penguin Classics (1971) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 B.C. | c. 1940-1640 BC | R.B. Parkinson [trans.] | Oxford World's Classics (1999) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Ἰλιάς
The Iliad |
c. 800-700 BC |
Ὅμηρος [Homer]
[trans. Robert Fagles] |
Penguin Classics (1999) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Ὀδύσσεια
The Odyssey |
c. 800-700 BC |
Ὅμηρος [Homer]
[trans. Robert Fagles] |
Penguin Classics (1999) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Hesiod and Theognis | c. 800-500 BC |
Ἡσίοδος [Hesiod]
Θέογνις ὁ Μεγαρεύς [Theognis of Megara] [trans. Dorothea Wender] |
Penguin Classics (1986) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Θεογονία [Theogony] ＊Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι [Works and Days] ＊Epigrams of Theognis |
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Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι
Homeric Hymns |
c. 700-500 BC | Jules Cashford [trans.] | Penguin Classics (2003) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Greek Lyric Poetry | c. 650-450 BC | M.L. West [trans.] | Oxford World's Classics (1999) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho | c. 600-570 BC |
Σαπφώ [Sappho]
[trans. Anne Carson] |
Oxford World's Classics (1999) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Odes | c. 498-447 BC |
Πίνδαρος [Pindar]
[trans. Cecil Maurice Bowra] |
Penguin Classics (1982) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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楚辭
The Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets | c. 278 BC-158 |
屈原 [Qu Yuan]
宋玉 [Song Yu] et al. [trans. David Hawkes] | Penguin Classics (1985) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Εἰδύλλια
Idylls | c. 270 BC |
Θεόκριτος [Theocritus]
[trans. Anthony Verity] | Oxford World's Classics (2003) | ☆☆☆ |
| Women Poets of China | c. 200 BC-1972 | Kenneth Rexroth [trans.] | New Directions (1982) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Complete Poems | c. 60 BC |
Gaius Valerius Catullus
[trans. Guy Lee] | Oxford World's Classics (1998) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Eclogae
Eclogues | c. 44-38 BC |
Publius Vergilius Maro
[trans. Guy Lee] [trans. David Ferry] |
Penguin Classics (1984)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2000) |
☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Complete Odes and Epodes | c. 30-14 BC |
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
[trans. David West] | Oxford World's Classics (2008) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Georgica
Georgics | c. 29 BC |
Publius Vergilius Maro
[trans. Peter Fallon] | Oxford World's Classics (2009) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Aeneis
The Aeneid | c. 19 BC |
Publius Vergilius Maro
[trans. Allen Mandelbaum] [trans. Sarah Ruden] |
Bantam Classics (2004)
Yale University Press (2009) |
☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Βιβλιοθήκη
The Library of Greek Mythology | c. 0-200 |
Ψευδο-Ἀπολλόδωρος [Pseudo-Apollodorus]
[trans. Robin Hard] | Oxford World's Classics (1999) | ☆☆ |
| The Erotic Poems | 2 |
Publius Ovidius Naso
[trans. Peter Green] | Penguin Classics (1983) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Ars amatoria [The Art of Love] ＊Remedia amoris [Cures for Love] ＊Medicamina faciei femineae [On Facial Treatment for Ladies] |
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Metamorphoseon
Metamorphoses | 8 |
Publius Ovidius Naso
[trans. Allen Mandelbaum] [trans. David Raeburn] |
Harcourt (1995)
Penguin Classics (2004) |
☆☆☆☆☆ |
| One Hundred Poems From the Japanese | c. 400-1955 | Kenneth Rexroth [trans.] | New Directions (1955) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Women Poets of Japan | c. 400-1977 | Kenneth Rexroth [trans.] | New Directions (1982) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Earliest English Poems | c. 700-1000 | Michael Alexander [trans.] | Penguin Classics (1992) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology | c. 700-1000 | Kevin Crossley-Holland [trans.] | Oxford World's Classics (1999) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Selected Poems of Li Po | c. 725-762 |
李白 [Li Bai]
[trans. David Hinton] | New Directions (1996) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| One Hundred Poems From the Chinese | c. 735-1279 | Kenneth Rexroth [trans.] | New Directions (1971) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Poems of the Late T'ang | c. 735-907 | A.C. Graham [trans.] | New York Review Books (2008) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain | c. 763-850 |
寒山 [Han Shan]
[trans. Red Pine] | Copper Canyon Press (2000) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji | 868 |
魚玄機 [Yu Xuanji]
[trans. David Young & Jiann I. Lin] | Wesleyan University Press (1998) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Departing Soul's Address to the Body | c. 1100-1250 | Sir Thomas Phillipps [trans.] | Dodo Press (2008) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death | c. 1185-1900 | Yoel Hoffmann [trans.] | Tuttle Publishing (1998) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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方丈記
Houjouki: Visions of a Torn World | 1212 |
鴨長明 [Kamo no Choumei]
[trans. Moriguchi Yasuhiko & David Jenkins] | Stone Bridge Press (1996) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Portable Dante | c. 1294-1320 |
Dante Alighieri
[trans. Mark Musa] | Penguin Classics (2003) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Vita nuova ＊Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy] |
| Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyuu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master | c. 1407-1481 |
一休宗純 [Ikkyuu Soujun]
[trans. Stephen Berg] | Copper Canyon (2000) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Riverside Milton | c. 1629-1674 | John Milton | Cengage Learning (1998) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains all of his poetry as well as a large selection of prose. |
| The Day of Doom or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement | 1662 | Michael Wigglesworth | ☆☆☆ | |
| One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryoukan | c. 1758-1831 |
良寛 [Ryoukan]
[trans. John Stevens] | Weatherhill (2006) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Hymnen an die Nacht
Hymns to the Night | 1800 | Novalis | McPherson & Company (1988) | ☆☆☆ |
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Les Fleurs du mal
The Flowers of Evil | 1857 |
Charles Baudelaire
[trans. Richard Howard] [trans. Jonathan D. Culler] | David R. Godine Publisher (1983) Oxford University Press (1998) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat | 1871-1873 |
Arthur Rimbaud
[trans. Louise Varèse] | New Directions (1961) |
☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Une Saison en Enfer [A Season in Hell] ＊Le Bateau ivre [The Drunken Boat] |
| Cat Town | 1913-1934 |
萩原朔太郎 [Hagiwara Sakutarou]
[trans. Satou Hiroaki] | NYRB Poets (2014) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Poems of Nakahara Chuuya | 1934-1937 |
中原中也 [Nakahara Chuuya]
[trans. Maki Sugiyama & Paul StJohn Mackintosh] | Gracewing Publishing (1993) | ☆☆☆ |
| Ark | 1980-1984 | Ronald Johnson | Living Batch Press (1996) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| A Bibliography of the King's Book or, Eikon Basilike | 1989 | Susan Howe | Paradigm Press (1989) | ☆☆☆ |
| Cantos for the Crestfallen | 2014 |
Pseudo-Leopardi
[trans. A. Necrezută, F. Pilastru, & I. Imaculată] | gnOme books (2014) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Lost Couplets of Pir Iqbal the Impaled | 2015 |
Pir Iqbal the Impaled
[trans. Adrian Xavier] | gnOme books (2015) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Annabella of Ely: Poems I-LXVII | 2016 |
Annabella of Ely
[trans. Liesl Ketum] | gnOme books (2016) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Verses From the Underlands | 2016 | Subject A | gnOme books (2016) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης
Prometheus Bound |
c. 479-424 BC |
attributed to Αἰσχύλος [Aeschylus]
[trans. Joel Agee] |
NYRB Classics (2015) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Ὀρέστεια
Oresteia |
c. 459 BC |
Αἰσχύλος [Aeschylus]
[trans. Robert Fagles] |
Penguin Classics (1984) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Ἀγαμέμνων [Agamemnon] ＊Χοηφόροι [The Libation Bearers] ＊Εὐμενίδες [The Eumenides] |
| The Complete Plays | c. 442-401 BC |
Σοφοκλής [Sophocles]
[trans. Paul Roche] |
Signet Classics (2001) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Αἴαντος [Ajax] ＊Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone] ＊Τραχίνιαι [Women of Trachis] ＊Οἰδίπους Τύραννος [Oedipus the King] ＊Ηλέκτρα [Electra] ＊Φιλοκτήτης [Philoctetes] ＊Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ [Oedipus at Colonus] |
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Ἀντιγόνη
Antigone | c. 441 BC |
Σοφοκλής [Sophocles]
[trans. David Franklin & John Harrison] |
Cambridge University Press (2003) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Lysistrata and Other Plays | c. 425-423 BC |
Αριστοφάνης [Aristophanes]
[trans. Alan Sommerstein] | Penguin Classics (2008) |
☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Ἀχαρνῆς [The Acharnians] ＊Λυσιστράτη [Lysistrata] ＊Νεφέλαι [The Clouds] |
| The Bacchae and Other Plays | c. 412-405 BC |
Eὐριπίδης [Euripides]
[trans. John Davie & Richard Rutherford] | Penguin Classics (2006) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Φοίνισσαι [The Phoenician Women] ＊Ὀρέστης [Orestes] ＊Βάκχαι [The Bacchae] ＊Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι [Iphigenia in Aulis] ＊Ῥῆσος [Rhesus] |
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Βάκχαι
The Bacchae | 405 BC |
Eὐριπίδης [Euripides]
[trans. Kenneth McLeish & Frederic Raphael] | Nick Hern Books (1999) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Japanese Nou Dramas | c. 1300-1500 | Royall Tyler [trans.] | Penguin Classics (1993) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Titus Andronicus | 1594 | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare Online | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1597 | William Shakespeare | Simon & Schuster (2002) | ☆☆ |
| Julius Caesar | 1599 | William Shakespeare | Simon & Schuster (2004) | ☆☆ |
| Hamlet | 1601 | William Shakespeare | Simon & Schuster (2003) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Othello | 1603 | William Shakespeare | Simon & Schuster (2003) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Timon of Athens | 1605 | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare Online | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| King Lear | 1605 | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare Online | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu | 1703-1721 |
近松門左衛門 [Chikamatsu Monzaemon]
[trans. Donald Keene] | Columbia University Press (1997) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊曾根崎心中 [The Love Suicides at Sonezaki] ＊国姓爺合戦 [The Battles at Coxinga] ＊寿の門松 [The Uprooted Pine] ＊心中天網島 [The Love Suicides at Amajima] |
| The Glass Menagerie | 1944 | Tennessee Williams | New Directions (1999) | ☆☆ |
| Death of a Salesman | 1949 | Arthur Miller | Penguin Books (1976) | ☆ |
| The Crucible | 1953 | Arthur Miller | Penguin Classics (2003) | ☆☆ |
| A Raisin in the Sun | 1959 | Lorraine Hansberry | Vintage (2004) | ☆ |
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| The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis | 66 |
Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger [trans. J.P. Sullivan] |
Penguin Classics (1986) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Satyricon ＊Apocolocyntosis |
| Satyricon | 66 |
Gaius Petronius Arbiter
[trans. Sarah Ruden] |
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (2000) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Metamorphoseon
The Golden Ass |
159 |
Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis
[trans. E.J. Kenney] [trans. Sarah Ruden] |
Penguin Classics (1999)
Yale University Press (2013) |
☆☆☆☆☆ |
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蜻蛉日記
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan |
974 |
藤原道綱母 [Michitsuna no Haha]
[trans. Edward Seidensticker] |
Tuttle Publishing (1989) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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源氏物語
The Tale of Genji |
1001 |
紫式部 [Murasaki Shikibu]
[trans. Royall Tyler] |
Penguin Classics (2003) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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枕草子
The Pillow Book |
1002 |
清少納言 [Sei Shounagon]
[trans. Meredith McKinney] |
Penguin Classics (2007) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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更級日記
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams |
c. 1050 |
菅原孝標女 [Lady Sarashina]
[trans. Ivan Morris] |
Penguin Classics (1975) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
The Sorrows of Young Werther |
1774 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[trans. Burton Pike] |
Modern Library (2005) | ☆☆☆ |
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雨月物語
Tales of Moonlight and Rain |
1776 |
上田秋成 [Ueda Akinari]
[trans. Anthony H. Chambers] |
Columbia University Press (2006) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Les 120 Journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage
The 120 Days of Sodom, or The School of Libertinage |
1785 |
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
[trans. James Havoc] |
Sun Vision Press (2012) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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La Religieuse
The Nun |
1796 |
Denis Diderot
[trans. Leonard Tancock] |
Penguin Classics (2005) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Notes from Underground & The Double | 1846-1864 |
Фёдор Достоевский [Fyodor Dostoevsky]
[trans. Jessie Coulson] |
Penguin Classics (1972) |
☆☆☆☆
Contains:
＊Записки из подполья [Notes From Underground] ＊Двойник [The Double] |
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Преступление и наказание
Crime and Punishment |
1866 |
Фёдор Достоевский [Fyodor Dostoevsky]
[trans. David McDuff] |
Penguin Classics (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Идиот
The Idiot |
1869 |
Фёдор Достоевский [Fyodor Dostoevsky]
[trans. David McDuff] |
Penguin Classics (2004) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Maldoror and the Complete Works | 1869 |
Comte de Lautréamont
[trans. Alexis Lykiard] |
Exact Change (2004) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Les Chants de Maldoror ＊Poésies ＊Various shorter writings |
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Братья Карамазовы
The Brothers Karamazov |
1880 |
Фёдор Достоевский [Fyodor Dostoevsky]
[trans. Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky] |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2002) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 1884 | Mark Twain | Penguin Classics (2002) | ☆ |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1890 | Oscar Wilde | Barnes & Noble Classics (2003) | ☆☆☆ |
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Sult
Hunger |
1890 |
Knut Hamsun
[trans. George Egerton] |
Barnes & Noble Publishing (1921) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Là-bas
The Damned |
1891 |
Joris-Karl Huysmans
[trans. Terry Hale] |
Penguin Classics (2002) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Japanese Gothic Tales | c. 1893-1916 |
泉鏡花 [Izumi Kyouka]
[trans. Charles Shirou Inoue] |
University of Hawaii Press (1996) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Dracula | 1897 | Bram Stoker | Signet Classics (1986) | ☆ |
| Heart of Darkness | 1899 | Joseph Conrad | Penguin Classics (2007) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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雁
The Wild Geese |
1911 |
森鷗外 [Mori Oogai]
[trans. Sanford Goldstein & Kingo Ochiai] |
Tuttle Publishing (1989) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination | 1923-1956 |
江戸川乱歩 [Edogawa Ranpou]
[trans. James B. Harris] |
Tuttle Publishing (1989) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Siddhartha | 1922 |
Hermann Hesse
[trans. Hilda Rosner & Zigmantas Ardickas] |
Bantam Books (1981) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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痴人の愛
Naomi |
1924 |
谷崎潤一郎 [Tanizaki Jun'ichirou]
[trans. Anthony H. Chambers] |
Vintage (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Great Gatsby | 1925 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Scribner (1995) | ☆ |
| The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories | 1926 | H.P. Lovecraft | Penguin Classics (1999) | ☆☆☆ |
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河童
Kappa |
1927 |
芥川龍之介 [Akutagawa Ryuunosuke]
[trans. Geoffrey Bownas] |
Peter Owen Limited (2009) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Le Con d'Irène
Irène's Cunt |
1928 |
Louis Aragon
[trans. Alexis Lykiard] |
Creation Books (1996) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Histoire de l'œil
Story of the Eye |
1928 |
Georges Bataille
[trans. Joachim Neugroschel] |
City Lights Publishers (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Maltese Falcon | 1930 | Dashiell Hammett | Orion (2005) | ☆ |
| Studs Lonigan | 1932-1935 | James T. Farrell | Penguin Classics (2001) |
☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Young Lonigan ＊The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan ＊Judgment Day |
| Miss Lonelyhearts | 1933 | Nathanael West | ☆☆ | |
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Le Bleu du ciel
Blue of Noon |
1935 | Georges Bataille | Marion Boyars (2005) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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날개
The Wings |
1935 |
이상 [Yi Sang]
[trans. Ahn Jung-hya & James B. Lee] |
Jimoondang Publishing Company (2001) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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بوف کور
The Blind Owl |
1937 |
صادق هدایت [Sadegh Hedayat]
[trans. D.P. Costello] |
Grove/Evergreen (1957) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | 1937 | Zora Neale Hurston | Amistad (2006) | ☆☆ |
| Mr. Popper's Penguins | 1938 | Richard Atwater & Florence Atwater | Little, Brown and Company (1988) | ☆ |
| Labyrinths | 1939-1956 |
Jorge Luis Borges
[trans. Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby] |
New Directions (2007) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Волшебник
The Enchanter |
1939 |
Владимир Набоков [Vladimir Nabokov]
[trans. Dmitri Nabokov] |
Vintage International (2011) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Finnegans Wake | 1939 | James Joyce | Penguin Classics (1999) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Ten Little Niggers
aka And Then There Were None |
1939 | Agatha Christie | St. Martin's Griffin (2004) | ☆☆ |
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女生徒
Schoolgirl |
1939 |
太宰治 [Dazai Osamu]
[trans. Allison Markin Powell] |
One Peace Books (2011) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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La invención de Morel
The Invention of Morel |
1940 |
Adolfo Bioy Casares
[trans. Ruth L.C. Simms] |
New York Review Books (2003) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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L'Étranger
The Stranger |
1942 |
Albert Camus
[trans. Matthew Ward] |
Vintage International (1989) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| A Bell for Adano | 1944 | John Hersey | Vintage (1988) | ☆ |
| Animal Farm | 1945 | George Orwell | Signet Classics (1996) | ☆☆ |
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L’Écume des jours
Foam on the Daze |
1947 |
Boris Vian
[trans. Brian Harper] |
Tam Tam Books (2003) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Pearl | 1947 | John Steinbeck | Penguin Books (2000) | ☆ |
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Se questo è un uomo
If This Is a Man aka Survival in Auschwitz |
1947 | Primo Levi | Simon & Schuster (1996) | ☆☆ |
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斜陽
The Setting Sun |
1947 |
太宰治 [Dazai Osamu]
[trans. Donald Keene] |
New Directions (1968) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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人間失格
No Longer Human |
1948 |
太宰治 [Dazai Osamu]
[trans. Donald Keene] |
New Directions (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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雪国
Snow Country |
1948 |
川端康成 [Kawabata Yasunari]
[trans. Edward G. Seidensticker] |
Vintage (1996) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| 1984 | 1949 | George Orwell | Signet Classics (1961) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Catcher in the Rye | 1951 | J.D. Salinger | Back Bay Books (2001) | ☆ |
| The Old Man and the Sea | 1952 | Ernest Hemingway | Scribner (1995) | ☆☆☆ |
| Junky | 1953 | William S. Burroughs | Penguin (2003) | ☆☆ |
| Lolita | 1955 | Vladimir Nabokov | Vintage (1989) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
Night |
1956 |
Elie Wiesel
[trans. Marion Wiesel] |
Hill & Wang (2006) | ☆☆ |
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金閣寺
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion |
1956 |
三島由紀夫 [Mishima Yukio]
[trans. Ivan Morris] |
Tuttle Publishing (2008) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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鍵
The Key |
1956 |
谷崎潤一郎 [Tanizaki Jun'ichirou]
[trans. Howard Hibbett] |
Vintage (1991) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Fuglane
The Birds |
1957 |
Tarjei Vesaas
[trans. Michael Barnes] |
Peter Owen Publishers (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Jealousy & In the Labyrinth | 1957-1959 |
Alain Robbe-Grillet
[trans. Richard Howard] |
Grove Press (1994) |
☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊La Jalousie [Jealousy] ＊Dans le labyrinthe [In the Labyrinth] |
| Naked Lunch | 1959 | William S. Burroughs | Grove Press (2004) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| A Separate Peace | 1959 | John Knowles | Scribner (2003) | ☆ |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 1960 | Harper Lee | Warner Books (1982) | ☆ |
| The Crimson Thread of Abandon: Stories | 1960-1983 |
寺山修司 [Terayama Shuuji]
[trans. Elizabeth L. Armstrong] | University of Hawaii Press (2013) | ☆☆☆ |
| A Clockwork Orange | 1962 | Anthony Burgess | W.W. Norton & Company (1986) | ☆☆☆ |
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砂の女
The Woman in the Dunes |
1962 |
安部公房 [Abe Koubou]
[trans. E. Dale Saunders] |
Vintage (1991) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Pale Fire | 1962 | Vladimir Nabokov | Vintage (1989) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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午後の曳航
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea |
1963 |
三島由紀夫 [Mishima Yukio]
[trans. John Nathan] |
Vintage (1994) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Marcovaldo, ovvero le stagioni in città
Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the City |
1963 |
Italo Calvino
[trans. William Weaver] |
Mariner Books (1983) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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夕べの雲
Evening Clouds | 1964 |
庄野潤三 [Shouno Junzou]
[trans. Wayne P. Lammers] | Stone Bridge Press (2000) | ☆☆☆ |
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他人の顔
The Face of Another | 1964 |
安部公房 [Abe Koubou]
[trans. E. Dale Saunders] | Vintage (2003) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| I Heard the Owl Call My Name | 1967 | Margaret Craven | Laurel (1993) | ☆ |
| The Outsiders | 1967 | S.E. Hinton | Speak (2008) | ☆ |
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燃え尽きた地図
The Ruined Map | 1967 |
安部公房 [Abe Koubou]
[trans. E. Dale Saunders] | Vintage (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Раковый корпус
Cancer Ward | 1967 |
Александр Солженицын [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]
[trans. Nicholas Bethell & David F. Burg] | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1991) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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太陽と鉄
Sun and Steel | 1968 |
三島由紀夫 [Mishima Yukio]
[trans. John Bester] | Kodansha International (2003) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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La Disparition
A Void | 1969 |
Georges Perec
[trans. Gilbert Adair] | Verba Mundi (2005) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| A Maze of Death | 1970 | Philip K. Dick | Mariner Books (2013) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Le città invisibili
Invisible Cities | 1972 |
Italo Calvino
[trans. William Weaver] | Harcourt (1974) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Sommarboken
The Summer Book | 1972 |
Tove Jansson
[trans. Thomas Teal] | New York Review Books (2008) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Transparent Things | 1972 | Vladimir Nabokov | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (1989) | ☆☆☆ |
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Пикник на обочине
Roadside Picnic | 1972 |
Аркадий Стругацкий & Борис Стругацкий [Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky]
[trans. Olena Bormashenko] | Chicago Review Press (2012) | ☆☆☆ |
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箱男
The Box Man | 1973 |
安部公房 [Abe Koubou]
[trans. E. Dale Saunders] | Vintage (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Gravity's Rainbow | 1973 | Thomas Pynchon | Penguin Books (2006) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| La Belle Captive | 1975 | Alain Robbe-Grillet | University of California Press (1996) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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限りなく透明に近いブルー
Almost Transparent Blue | 1976 |
村上龍 [Murakami Ryuu]
[trans. Nancy Andrew] | Kodansha USA (2003) | ☆☆☆ |
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密会
Secret Rendezvous | 1977 |
安部公房 [Abe Koubou]
[trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter] | Vintage (2002) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Souvenirs du triangle d'or
Recollections of the Golden Triangle | 1978 |
Alain Robbe-Grillet
[trans. J.A. Underwood] | Grove Press (1994) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Turner Diaries | 1978 | William Luther Pierce | National Vanguard Books (1978) | ☆ |
| Little Birds | 1979 | Anaïs Nin | Grove Press (1994) |
☆☆☆☆
First published in 1979 but apparently written in the early 1940s |
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Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler | 1979 |
Italo Calvino
[trans. William Weaver] | L&OD Key Porter (1982) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | 1980 | John Kennedy Toole | Grove Weidenfeld (1994) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Dictee | 1982 | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha | University of California Press (2001) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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方舟さくら丸
The Ark Sakura | 1984 |
安部公房 [Abe Koubou]
[trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter] | Vintage (2009) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | 1985 | Jeanette Winterson | Grove Press (1997) | ☆ |
| Beloved | 1987 | Toni Morrison | Vintage (2004) | ☆☆ |
| Hatchet | 1987 | Gary Paulsen | Simon & Schuster (2006) | ☆ |
| The Bean Trees | 1988 | Barbara Kingsolver | HarperTorch (1998) | ☆ |
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Il pendolo di Foucault
Foucault's Pendulum | 1988 |
Umberto Eco
[trans. William Weaver] | Mariner Books (2007) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Hunter | 1989 | William Luther Pierce | National Vanguard Books (1989) | ☆ |
| Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness | 1990 | William Styron | Vintage (1992) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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カンガルー・ノート
Kangaroo Notebook |
1991 |
安部公房 [Abe Koubou]
[trans. Maryellen Toman Mori] |
Vintage (1997) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Originally written c. 1973-1977 but not published until 1991. |
| American Psycho | 1991 | Bret Easton Ellis | Random House (1991) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Ghost of Chance | 1991 | William S. Burroughs | Serpent's Tail (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Fur | 1992 |
Liliane Giraudon
[trans. Guy Bennett] |
Sun and Moon Press (1995) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Babyficker
Babyfucker |
1992 |
Urs Allemann
[trans. Peter Smith] |
Les Figues Press (2010) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Extension du domaine de la lutte
Whatever |
1994 |
Michel Houellebecq
[trans. Paul Hammond] |
Serpent's Tail (1998) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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ねじまき鳥クロニクル
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
1994 |
村上春樹 [Murakami Haruki]
[trans. Jay Rubin] |
Vintage (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Satanskin | 1995 | James Havoc | The Tears Corporation (1995) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Infinite Jest | 1996 | David Foster Wallace | Back Bay Books (2006) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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나는 나를 파괴할 권리가 있다
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself |
1996 |
김영하 [Kim Young-ha]
[trans. Chi-young Kim] |
Harcourt (2007) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| A Crackup at the Race Riots | 1998 | Harmony Korine | Doubleday (1998) | ☆☆☆ |
| Holes | 1998 | Louis Sachar | Scholastic (1998) | ☆ |
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Les Particules élémentaires
The Elementary Particles |
1998 |
Michel Houellebecq
[trans. Frank Wynne] |
Vintage (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| House of Leaves | 2000 | Mark Z. Danielewski | Random House (2000) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Hoot | 2002 | Carl Hiaasen | Knopf Books for Young Readers (2002) | ☆ |
| Ice Trilogy | 2002-2005 |
Владимир Сорокин [Vladimir Sorokin]
[trans. Jamey Gambrell] |
New York Review Books (2006) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Лёд [Ice] ＊Путь Бро [Bro] ＊23'000 [23,000] |
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アフターダーク
After Dark |
2004 |
村上春樹 [Murakami Haruki]
[trans. Jay Rubin] |
Vintage (2008) | ☆☆☆ |
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Memoria de mis putas tristes
Memories of My Melancholy Whores |
2004 |
Gabriel García Márquez
[trans. Edith Grossman] |
Vintage Español (2004) | ☆☆☆ |
| Never Let Me Go | 2005 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Vintage (2010) | ☆☆☆ |
| Dreams of Amputation | 2013 | Gary J. Shipley | Copeland Valley Press (2013) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Soumission
Submission |
2015 |
Michel Houellebecq
[trans. Lorin Stein] |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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| Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections | c. 3500-539 BC | Trudy Kawami & John Olbrantz | Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University (2013) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Voynich Manuscript | c. 1404-1438 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | ||
| Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-e, Sex, Blood, Demons, Monsters, Ghosts, Tattoos | 1603-1867 | Jack Hunter | Shinbaku Books (2010) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour, 1734-1763 | 1734-1763 | Albert Seba | TASCHEN (2005) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Staring Back | 1952-2006 | Chris Marker | The MIT PRess (2007) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Amphigorey | 1959-1972 | Edward Gorey | G.P. Putnam's Sons (1980) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| 寺山修司の仮面画報 | 1960-1983 | 寺山修司 [Terayama Shuuji] | 平凡社 (1991) |
☆☆☆☆
Japanese collection of Terayama Shuuji's photography. Untranslated. |
| Amphigorey Too | 1962-1975 | Edward Gorey | TarcherPerigee (1980) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Amphigorey Also | 1967-1983 | Edward Gorey | Harper Paperbacks (1993) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Cover to Cover | 1975 | Michael Snow | The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Halifax (1975) | ☆☆ |
| Amphigorey Again | 1982-1999 | Edward Gorey | Harper (2006) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The World of Edward Gorey | 1996 | Clifford Ross & Karen Wilkin | Harry N. Abrams (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| City of the Broken Dolls | 1997 | Romain Slocombe | Creation Books (2015) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| In the Shadow of No Towers | 2004 | Art Spiegelman | Viking (2004) | ☆ |
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ऋग्वेद
The Rig Veda |
c. 1500-1000 BC | Wendy Doniger [trans.] | Penguin Classics (2005) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Abridged |
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उपनिषद्
The Upanishads |
c. 800-300 BC | Juan Mascaró [trans.] | Penguin Classics (1965) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Abridged |
| The Bible | c. 745 BC-95 |
New International Version
King James Version |
Zondervan Publishing (1985)
Oxford World's Classics (1998) |
☆☆☆
Read all 1611 edition apocrypha in the KJV |
| Buddhist Scriptures | c. 400 BC-1900 | Donald S. Lopez Jr. [trans.] | Penguin Classics (2004) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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道德經
Dao De Jing | c. 400 BC |
老子 [Laozi]
[trans. D.C. Lau] | Penguin Classics (2002) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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धम्मपद
The Dhammapada | c. 400 BC | Juan Mascaró [trans.] | Penguin Classics (2004) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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महाभारतम्
The Mahābhārata | c. 400 BC-400 | John D. Smith [trans.] | Penguin Classics (2009) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Abridged |
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भगवद्गीता
The Bhagavad Gita | c. 400 BC-400 | Juan Mascaró [trans.] | Penguin Classics (1975) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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मूलमध्यमककारिका
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā | c. 150-250 |
नागार्जुन [Nāgārjuna]
[trans. Jay L. Garfield] | Oxford World's Classics (1996) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Confessiones
Confessions | c. 397-400 |
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
[trans. R.S. Pine-Coffin] | Penguin Classics (1979) | ☆☆☆ |
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बोधिसत्त्वचर्यावतार
The Bodhicaryāvatāra | c. 700 |
Śāntideva
[trans. Kate Crosby & Andrew Stilton] | Oxford World's Classics (2008) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Hounen the Buddhist Saint: Essential Writings and Official Biography | c. 1153-1212 |
法然 [Hounen]
[trans. Joseph A. Fitzgerald] | World Wisdom (2006) | ☆☆ |
| Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dougen | c. 1231-1253 |
道元 [Dougen]
[trans. Kazuaki Tanahashi et al.] | North Point Press (1995) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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徒然草
Essays in Idleness: The Tsuredzuregusa of Kenkou | 1330-1332 |
吉田兼好 [Yoshida Kenkou]
[trans. Donald Keene] | Columbia University Press (1998) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| A Reformation Debate: John Calvin & Jacopo Sadoleto | 1539 |
John Calvin
Jacopo Sadoleto [trans. John C. Olin] | Fordham University Press (2000) | ☆☆ |
| Popol Vuh | 1550 | Dennis Tedlock [trans.] | Touchstone (1986) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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De Doctrina Christiana
On Christian Doctrine | c. 1674 (?) |
attributed to John Milton
[trans. Charles R. Sumner] |
☆☆☆
This was found in 1823 among other papers by John Milton. While we have no infallible proof that it is his manuscript, general consensus is that it is authentic. |
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Царство Божие внутри вас
The Kingdom of God Is Within You | 1893 |
Лев Толстой [Leo Tolstoy]
[trans. Constance Garnett] | WikiSource | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Secret Teachings of All Ages | 1928 | Manly P. Hall | TarcherPerigee (2003) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Conversations with Ogotemmêli: An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas | 1948 | Marcel Griaule | International African Institute (1975) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition With Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada | 1959 | Walpola Rahula | Grove Press (2007) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious | 1961 | Douglas E. Harding | The Shollond Trust (2012) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Shinto: The Kami Way | 1962 | Sokyo Ono | Tuttle Publishing (2011) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Shingon: Japanese Esoteric Buddhism | 1988 | 山崎泰廣 [Yamasaki Taikou] | Shingon Buddhist International Institute (1996) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Mindfulness in Plain English | 1988 |
Henepola Gunaratana
[trans. Lauri Porceddu] | Wisdom Publications (1996) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Zoroastrian Faith: Tradition and Modern Research | 1993 | S.A. Nigosian | McGill-Queen's University Press (1993) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion | 1995 | Swami Bhaskarananda | Viveka Press (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Buddhism: Plain and Simple | 1997 | Steve Hagen | Broadway Books (1998) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Foundations of Buddhism | 1998 | Rupert Gethin | Oxford University Press (1998) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Buddha | 2001 | Karen Armstrong | Penguin Books (2004) | ☆☆ |
| Introduction to the Hebrew Bible | 2004 | John J. Collins | Fortress Press (2004) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason | 2004 | Sam Harris | W.W. Norton (2005) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Foundation of Buddhist Thought | 2005-2012 | Geshe Tashi Tsering | Wisdom Publications (2005-2012) |
☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Volume 1: The Four Noble Truths (2005) ＊Volume 2: Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth (2008) ＊Volume 3: Buddhist Psychology (2006) ＊Volume 4: The Awakening Mind (2008) ＊Volume 5: Emptiness (2009) ＊Volume 6: Tantra (2012) |
| The Essence of Shintou: Japan's Spiritual Heart | 2006 |
山蔭基央 [Yamakage Motohisa]
[trans. Mineko S. Gillespie & Gerald L. Gillespie] | Kodansha USA (2007) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Bible: A Biography | 2007 | Karen Armstrong | Atlantic Monthly Press (2007) | ☆☆ |
| Jainism: An Introduction | 2009 | Jeffery D. Long | I.B.Tauris (2009) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Living Buddhas: The Self-Mummified Monks of Yamagata, Japan | 2010 | Ken Jeremiah | McFarland (2010) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion | 2010 | Birgül Açıkyıldız | I.B.Tauris (2010) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction | 2013 | Matthew T. Kapstein | Oxford University Press (2013) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name | 2020 | Brian C. Muraresku | St. Martin's Press (2020) | ☆☆☆ |
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| A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy | c. 1500 BC-1950 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishan [trans.] | Princeton University Press (1967) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Philosophy Before Socrates: An Introduction with Texts and Commentary | c. 600-420 BC | Richard D. McKirahan [trans.] | Hackett Publishing Co. (2011) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Early Greek Philosophy | c. 600-420 BC | Jonathan Barnes [trans.] | Penguin Classics (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists | c. 600-420 BC | Robin Waterfield [trans.] | Oxford World's Classics (2000) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Fragments | c. 500 BC |
Ἡράκλειτος [Heraclitus]
[trans. Brooks Haxton] |
Penguin Classics (2003) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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論語
The Analects |
c. 476-221 BC |
孔子 [Confucius]
[trans. Annping Chin] [trans. Robert Eno] |
Penguin Classics (2014)
IUScholarWorks Online Teaching Translation (2016) |
☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Ta Hsüeh and Chung Yung: The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean | c. 476-221 BC |
Andrew Plaks [trans.]
Robert Eno [trans.] |
Penguin Classics (2004)
IUScholarWorks Online Teaching Translation (2016) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊大學 [Great Learning] ＊中庸 [Doctrine of the Mean] |
| Early Socratic Dialogues | c. 399-361 BC |
Πλάτων [Plato]
[trans. Trevor J. Saunders] | Penguin Classics (2005) |
☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Ἴων [Ion] ＊Λάχης [Laches] ＊Λύσις [Lysis] ＊Χαρμίδης [Charmides] ＊Ἱππίας μείζων [Hippias Major] ＊Ἱππίας ἐλάττων [Hippias Minor] ＊Εὐθύδημος [Euthydemus] |
| Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo | c. 399-361 BC |
Πλάτων [Plato]
[trans. G.M.A. Grube] | Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (2002) |
☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Εὐθύφρων [Euthyphro] ＊Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους [Apology] ＊Κρίτων [Crito] ＊Μένων [Meno] ＊Φαίδων [Phaedo] |
| Protagoras and Meno | c. 399-361 BC |
Πλάτων [Plato]
[trans. Adam Beresford] | Penguin Classics (2005) |
☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Πρωταγόρας [Protagoras] ＊Μένων [Meno] |
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Γοργίας
Gorgias | c. 399-361 BC |
Πλάτων [Plato]
[trans. Walter Hamilton] | Penguin Classics (2004) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Κρατύλος
Cratylus | c. 399-361 BC |
Πλάτων [Plato]
[trans. C.D.C. Reeve] | ☆☆ | |
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孟子
Mencius | c. 300 BC |
孟子 [Mencius]
[trans. D.C. Lau] [trans. Robert Eno] |
Penguin Classics (2004)
IUScholarWorks Online Teaching Edition (2016) |
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De rerum natura
On the Nature of Things | c. 56 BC |
Titus Lucretius Carus
[trans. Walter Englert] | Focus Philosophical Library (2002) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Praise of Folly and Other Writings | 1511 |
Desiderius Erasmus
[trans. Robert M. Adams] | W. W. Norton & Company (1989) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Die Vernunft in der Geschichte
Reason in History | 1822 |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
[trans. Robert S. Hartman] | Pearson (1995) | ☆☆ |
| Essays and Aphorisms | 1851 |
Arthur Schopenhauer
[trans. R.J. Hollingdale] | Penguin Classics (1973) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Abridged version of Parerga und Paralipomena. |
| Might Is Right or The Survival of the Fittest | 1896 | Ragnar Redbeard | 14 Word Press (1999) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | 1921 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein
[trans. Charles K. Ogden] [trans. David Pears & Brian McGuinness] | Routledge Classics (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Sein und Zeit
Being and Time | 1927 |
Martin Heidegger
[trans. John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson] | Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2008) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Basic Writings: Ten Key Essays, Plus the Introduction to Being and Time | 1927-1964 |
Martin Heidegger
[ed. David Farrell Krell] | HarperCollins (1993) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Pe culmile disperării
On the Heights of Despair | 1934 |
Emil Cioran
[trans. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston] | University of Chicago Press (1992) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Einführung in die Metaphysik
Introduction to Metaphysics | 1935 |
Martin Heidegger
[trans. Gregory Fried & Richard Polt] | Yale University Press (1999) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Poetry, Language, Thought | 1935-1951 |
Martin Heidegger
[trans. Albert Hofstadter] | Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2013) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Metafisica della guerra
Metaphysics of War |
1935-1950 | Julius Evola [trans. E. Christian Kopff] | Integral Tradition Publishing (2007) | ☆☆☆ |
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Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)
Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) | 1936-1938 |
Martin Heidegger
[trans. Parvis Emad & Kenneth Maly] | Indiana University Press (1999) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays | 1940-1954 |
Martin Heidegger
[trans. William Lovitt] | Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2008) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Philosophische Untersuchungen
Philosophical Investigations | 1953 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein
[trans. P.M.S. Hacker] | Wiley-Blackwell (2009) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason | 1961 |
Michel Foucault
[trans. Richard Howard] | Vintage (1988) | ☆☆☆ |
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Zeit und Sein
On Time and Being | 1962 |
Martin Heidegger
[trans. Joan Stambaugh] | University of Chicago Press (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | 1972 | Peter Singer | Oxford University Press (2015) |
☆☆☆
Also contains: ＊"The Singer Solution to World Poverty" ＊"What Should a Billionaire Give--And What Should You?" |
| A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality | 1978 | John R. Perry | Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (1978) | ☆☆ |
| Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction | 1988 | A.C. Grayling | Oxford University Press (2001) | ☆ |
| A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time | 1989 | Michael Gelven | Northern Illinois University Press (1989) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Industrial Society and Its Future | 1995 | Theodore J. Kaczynski | Washington Post (1995) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations | 1997 | Marie McGinn | Routledge (2013) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes | 1998 | Anat Biletzki | Routledge (1998) | ☆☆ |
| A Course in Indian Philosophy | 1998 | Anthony Kennedy Warder | Motilal Banarsidass (2009) | ☆☆ |
| Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy | 2000 | Avrum Stroll | Columbia University Press (2001) | ☆☆ |
| Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction | 2001 | Sue Hamilton | Oxford University Press (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Natural Goodness | 2001 | Philippa Foot | Clarendon Press (2001) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction | 2003 | Catherine Osborne | Oxford University Press (2001) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction | 2003 | Daniela Vallega-Neu | Indiana University Press (2003) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Le Destin des images
The Future of the Image | 2003 |
Jacques Rancière
[trans. Gregory Elliott] | Verso (2009) | ☆☆ |
| How to Read Wittgenstein | 2005 | Ray Monk | W.W. Norton (2005) | ☆☆☆ |
| Nāgārjuna's Mādhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction | 2009 | Jan Westerhoff | Oxford University Press (2009) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Wittgenstein | 2011 | William Child | Routledge (2011) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Lying | 2011 | Sam Harris | Four Elephants Press (2013) | ☆☆☆ |
| Free Will | 2012 | Sam Harris | Free Press (2012) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Mortality | 2012 | Christopher Hitchens | Twelve (2012) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy | 2013 | Michael Beaney [ed.] | Oxford University Press (2013) | ☆☆ |
| The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere | 2014 | Pico Iyer | Simon & Schuster (2014) | ☆☆ |
| Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction | 2014 | Daniel K. Gardner | Oxford University Press (2014) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Cosmic Pessimism | 2015 | Eugene Thacker | Univocal Publishing (2015) | ☆☆☆ |
| Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement | 2020 | Jonathan Anomaly | Routledge (2020) | ☆☆☆ |
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Περὶ ποιητικῆς
Poetics | c. 336 BC |
Ἀριστοτέλης [Aristotle]
[trans. Anthony Kenny] | Oxford University Press (2013) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Book of Tea | 1906 | 岡倉覚三 [Okakura Kakuzou] | Empire Books (2011) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| A Room of One's Own | 1929 | Virginia Woolf | Penguin Books (2000) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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陰翳礼讃
In Praise of Shadows |
1933 |
谷崎潤一郎 [Tanizaki Jun'ichirou]
[trans. Edward G. Seidensticker & Thomas J. Harper] |
Leete's Island Books (1977) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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L'Iliade ou le poème de la force
The Iliad or The Poem of Force |
1940 |
Simone Weil
[trans. James P. Holoka] |
UNKNO (1985) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient | 1954 | Henri Frankfort | Yale University Press (1996) | ☆☆ |
| Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Filmmaking | 1963-2001 | Stan Brakhage | McPherson (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Film as a Subversive Art | 1974 | Amos Vogel | Distributed Art Publishers (2005) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Notes sur le cinématographe
Notes on the Cinematographer |
1975 |
Robert Bresson
[trans. Jonathan Griffin] |
Green Integer (1997) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century | 1983 | Svetlana Alpers | University of Chicago Press (1984) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec | 1986 | Mary Ellen Miller | Thames & Hudson World of Art (2001) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Pleasures of Japanese Literature | 1988 | Donald Keene | Columbia University Press (1993) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema | 1988 | David Desser | Indiana University Press (1988) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| History of Japanese Art | 1993 | Penelope Mason | Pearson Prentice Hall (2005) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide | 1993 | William J. Puette | Tuttle Publishing (2004) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria | 2003 | Zainab Bahrani | University of Pennsylvania Press (2003) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuuji and Postwar Japan | 2005 | Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei | University of Hawaii Press (2005) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains full translations of a few plays. |
| A History of Roman Art | 2006 | Fred S. Kleiner | Thomson Wadsworth (2006) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock | 2006 | Kirk Varnedoe | Princeton University Press (2006) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Art of Buddhism: An Introduction to Its History and Meaning | 2008 | Denise Patry Leidy | Shambhala (2009) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Greek Art and Archaeology: A New History, c. 2500-c. 150 BCE | 2011 | Richard T. Neer | Thames & Hudson (2011) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuuji | 2011 | Steven C. Ridgely | University of Minnesota Press (2011) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Baroque & Rococo | 2012 | Gauvin Alexander Bailey | Phaidon Press (2012) | ☆☆☆ |
| Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics | 2013 | Yuriko Furuhata | Duke University Press Books (2013) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911 | 2014 | Claudia Brown | University of Washington Press (2014) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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嫌われる勇気 自己啓発の源流「アドラー」の教え
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness |
2013 | 岸見一郎 [Kishimi Ichirou] & 古賀史健 [Koga Fumitake] | Allen & Unwin (2019) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Das Unbenhagen in der Kultur
Civilization and Its Discontents |
1930 | Sigmund Freud | W. W. Norton Company (1989) | ☆☆☆ |
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| The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA | 1968 | James D. Watson | Touchstone Books (2011) | ☆☆☆ |
| Cosmos | 1980 | Carl Sagan | Random House (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming | 2010 | Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway | Bloomsbury Press (2010) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| A Planet of Viruses | 2011 | Carl Zimmer | University of Chicago Press (2011) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | 2014 | Elizabeth Kolbert | Henry Holt and Co. (2014) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect | 2018 | Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie | Basic Books (2018) | ☆☆ |
| The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption | 2019 | Dahr Jamail | The New Press (2019) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | 2019 | David Wallace-Wells | Tim Duggan Books (2019) | ☆☆☆ |
| Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class | 2020 | Charles Murray | Twelve (2020) | ☆☆☆ |
| Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future | 2021 | Elizabeth Kolbert | Crown (2021) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Physics of Climate Change | 2021 | Lawrence M. Krauss | Post Hill Press (2021) | ☆☆☆ |
| If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All | 2025 | Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares | Little, Brown and Company (2025) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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| The Passing of the Great Race or The Racial Basis of European History | 1916 | Madison Grant | Charles Scribner's Sons (1916) | ☆ |
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La civilisation chinoise: La vie publique et la vie privée
Chinese Civilization |
1929 | Marcel Granet | Arms Pr Inc (1974) | ☆ |
| Japaneseness: A Guide to Values and Virtues | 2016 | 山久瀬洋二 [Yamasuke Youji] | Stone Bridge Press (2016) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island on the Changing Earth | 2022 | Dahr Jamail & Stan Rushworth | The New Press (2022) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Il principe
The Prince |
1513 | Niccolò Machiavelli [trans. W.K. Marriott] | Project Gutenberg | ☆☆ |
| Utopia | 1516 | Thomas More [trans. Paul Turner] | Penguin Classics (2003) | ☆☆☆ |
| The International Jew | 1920-1921 | Henry Ford | The Dearborn Publishing Co. (1921) | ☆ |
| Mein Kampf | 1925 | Adolf Hitler [trans. Ralph Manheim] | First Mariner Books (1999) | ☆ |
| The Irony of American History | 1952 | Reinhold Niebuhr | Scribner (1985) | ☆ |
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Il fascismo. Saggio di una analisi critica dal punto di vista della Destra.
Fascism Viewed From the Right |
1964 | Julius Evola [trans. E. Christian Kopff] | Arktos Media Ltd. (2013) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Responsibility of Intellectuals | 1967 | Noam Chomsky | The New Press (2017) |
☆☆☆☆
Also contains: ＊"The Responsibility of Intellectuals Redux" |
| Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda | 1995 | Noam Chomsky | Seven Stories Press (2002) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Ecofascism: Lessons From the German Experience | 1995 | Janet Biehl & Peter Staudenmaier | AK Press (1995) | ☆☆☆ |
| Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate | 2004 | George Lakoff | Chelsea Green Publishing (2014) |
☆☆☆☆
2014 edition has a lot of re-written sections. |
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L'Insurrection qui vient
The Coming Insurrection |
2007 | Comité invisible | Semiotext(e) (2009) | ☆☆☆ |
| Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? | 2009 | Mark Fisher | Zero Books (2009) | ☆☆ |
| Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters | 2014 | Michael S. Roth | Yale University Press (2014) | ☆☆☆ |
| Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization | 2015 | Roy Scranton | City Lights Publishers (2015) | ☆☆ |
| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century | 2017 | Timothy Snyder | Tim Duggan Books (2017) | ☆☆☆ |
| Internationalism or Extinction | 2019 | Noam Chomsky | Routledge (2020) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| What If We Stopped Pretending? | 2019 | Jonathan Franzen | Harper Collins Publishers (2021) | ☆☆ |
| The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time | 2023 | Yascha Mounk | Penguin Press | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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| Dead Man Working | 2012 | Carl Cederström & Peter Fleming | Zero Books (2012) | ☆☆☆ |
| 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep | 2013 | Jonathan Crary | Verso (2013) | ☆☆ |
| This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate | 2014 | Naomi Klein | Simon & Schuster (2014) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists | 2018 | Naomi Klein | Haymarket Books (2018) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet | 2020 | Noam Chomsky & Robert Pollin | Verso (2020) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need | 2021 | Bill Gates | Knopf Publishing Group (2021) | ☆☆☆ |
| The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet | 2021 | Michael E. Mann | PublicAffairs (2021) | ☆☆☆ |
| Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World | 2022 | Jonathan Crary | Verso (2022) | ☆☆ |
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Ἱστορίαι
The Histories |
c. 430 BC |
Ἡρόδοτος [Herodotus]
[trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt] |
Penguin Classics (2003) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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山海经
The Classic of Mountains and Seas | c. 30 | Anne Birrell [trans.] | Penguin Classics (2000) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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古事記
Kojiki | 712 |
太安万侶 [Oo no Yasumaro]
[trans. Basil Hall Chamberlain] | Tuttle Publishing (2005) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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紫式部日記
The Diary of Lady Murasaki | 1010 |
紫式部 [Murasaki Shikibu]
[trans. Richard Bowring] | Penguin Classics (2005) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Hiroshima | 1946 | John Hersey | Vintage (1989) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan | 1964 | Ivan Morris | Kodansha USA (1994) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Adolf Hitler – mein Jugendfreund
The Young Hitler I Knew | 1973 |
August Kubizek
[trans. Geoffrey Brooks] | Greenhill Books (2006) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion | 1976 | Thorkild Jacobsen | Yale University Press (1978) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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Il formaggio e i vermi. Il cosmo di un mugnaio del '500
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller | 1976 |
Carlo Ginzburg
[trans. John Tedeschi & Anne C. Tedeschi] | Johns Hopkins University Press (1992) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius | 1990 | Ray Monk | Penguin Books (1991) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey | 1990 | Mikiso Hane | Routledge (2014) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Voices From the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution | 1991 |
冯骥才 [Feng Jicai]
[trans. Cathy Silber, Deborah Cao, Lawrence Tedesco, & Denny Chiu] |
Pantheon (1991) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen | 1992 | Richard M. Wunderli | Indiana University Press (1992) | ☆☆☆ |
| Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory | 1994 | Lawrence Wright | Vintage (1995) | ☆☆☆ |
| From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race | 1996 | Andrew Collins | Bear & Company (2001) | ☆ |
| Hitler | 1998 | Ian Kershaw | W.W. Norton & Company (1998) |
☆☆☆☆☆
Contains: ＊Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris ＊Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis |
| King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa | 1998 | Adam Hochschild | Mariner Books (1999) | ☆☆☆☆ |
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Uruk, la prima città
Uruk: The First City | 1998 |
Mario Liverani
[trans. Zainab Bahrani & Marc Van de Mieroop] | Equinox Publishing (2006) | ☆☆ |
| Mao: A Life | 1999 | Philip Short | Holt Paperbacks (2001) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party | 1999 | William H. Schmaltz | Brassey's Inc (2000) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Imaginative World of the Reformation | 2001 | Peter Matheson | Fortress Press (2001) | ☆ |
| Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 | 2001 | Benny Morris | Vintage (2001) | ☆☆☆ |
| An Archaeological History of Japan, 30,000 B.C. to A.D. 700 | 2002 | 溝口孝司 [Mizoguchi Kouji] | University of Pennsylvania Press (2002) | ☆☆ |
| Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction | 2004 | Ian Shaw | Oxford University Press (2004) | ☆ |
| Ancient Joumon of Japan | 2004 | Junko Habu | Cambridge University Press (2004) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics | 2007 | Annping Chin | Scribner (2007) | ☆☆☆ |
| Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World | 2007 | Timothy Brook | Bloomsbury Press (2007) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes | 2009 | Tamim Ansary | PublicAffairs (2009) | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction | 2013 | Amanda H. Podany | Oxford University Press (2013) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People | 2016 | Ilarion Merculieff | North Atlantic Books (2016) | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden | 2021 | Peter L. Bergen | Simon & Schuster (2021) | ☆☆☆ |
| The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything | 2021 | Mike Rothschild | Melville House (2021) | ☆☆ |