Poetry
A River Dies of Thirst by Mahmoud Darwish
Shadow Box by Fred Chappell
Song of a Living Room by Brigitte Byrd
Funny by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Easy by Marie Ponsot
One Above and One Below by Erin Belieu
Hello Sunshine by Ryan Adams
Plot by Claudia Rankine
Then, Something by Patricia Fargnoli
Collected Poems by James Schuyler
New And Collected Poems, 1964-2007 by Ishmael Reed
A Defense of Poetry by Gabriel Gudding
Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Spring Hill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Notes from the Air: Selected Late Poems by John Ashbery
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer by Jack Spicer
The Poet Assassinated by Apollinaire
Goat Funeral by Christopher Bakken
The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by LeRoi Jones and Amiri Baraka
Remedies for Vertigo by Walter Bargen
The Real Tin Floer by Aliki Barnstone
The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy by Aliki Barnstone
The Golem of Los Angeles by Tony Barnstone
Sad Jazz by Tony Barnstone
Red Sugar by Jane Beatty
The Dream Songs by John Berryman
Sky Lounge by Mark Bibbins
The Dance of No Hard Feelings by Mark Bibbins
The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan
The Disheveled Bed by Andrea Carter Brown
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Charles Bukowski
The Last Time I saw Amelia Earhart by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Plainwater by Anne Carson
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow by Marilyn Chin
The Happy Birthday of Death by Gregory Corso
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane
One Times One by e.e. cummings
Purgatorio by Dante, trans. Charles Singleton (Princeton U. Press)
Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
The Maverick Room by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems by Elaine Equi
Lip by Kathy Fagan
Faust by Goethe, trans. Walter Kaufmann
A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow by Noah Eli Gordon
Babel by Barbara Hamby
Songs in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems by Michael S. Harper
In Praise of the Unfinished by Julia Hartwig
Praise by Robert Hass
Muscular Music by Terrance Hayes
Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes
Beowulf tra.s Seamus Heaney
My Life by Lyn Hejinian
The Iliad by Homer, trans. Robert Fagles
Collected Poems by A.D. Hope
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Hoops by Major Jackson
Flow Blue by Sarah Kennedy
A New Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
California Sorrow by Mary Kinzie
The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch by Kenneth Koch
Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser
Collected Poems by Phillip Larkin
Imago by Joseph O. Legaspi
House Held Together By Winds by Sabra Loomis
Splay Anthem by Nethaniel Mackey
Bucolics by Maurice Manning
Eyeshot by Heather McHugh
The Intelligence of Clouds by Stanley Moss
Recyclopedia: Trimmings, Sperm**K*T, and Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen
Hollywood and God by Robert Polito
The Anatomy Theater: Poems by Nadine Sabra Meyer
The Skeleton of the Crow by Seido Ray Ronci
Raw Goods Inventory by Emily Rosko
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Black Series by Laurie Sheck
Captivity by Laurie Sheck
The Voice at 3:00 A.M. by Charles Simic
My Noiseless Entourage by Charles Simic
Walking the Black Cat by Charles Simic
Selected Poems: 1970-2005 by Floyd Skloot
The Gary Snyder Reader by Gary Snyder
Blue Venus by Lisa Russ Spahr
Changeable Thunder by David Baker
In Line for the Exterminator by Jim Daniels
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
The Transformation by Juliana Spahr
Everybody’s Autobiography by Gertrude Stein
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
View With a New Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymbroska
Poems by Allen Tate
An Almost Pure Empty Walking by Tryfon Tolides
A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Selected Levis by Larry Levis
Thom Gunn: Collected Poems by Thom Gunn
Breakers: Selected Poems by Paul Violi
Collected Poems: 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
Books About Writing, Theory, and Thought
The Craft of Revision by Donald Murray
Gin Before Breakfast: The Dilemma of the Poet in the Newsroom by W. Dale Nelson
Learning by Teaching by Donald Murray
The Well Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks
The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Bloom
The Sounds of Poetry by Robert Pinsky
A New Theory for American Poetry by Angus Fletcher
The Sayings of Chairman Mel by Melvin Memcher
The Poetry Dictionary
The Playwright’s Process by Buzz McLaughlin
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Susan Stewart
Reading for Form (essays) ed. Susan Wolfson and Marshall Brown
Dickinson’s Misery by Virginia Jackson
Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant
NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Blindness and Insight by Paul de Man
Roots of Lyric by Irvine Welsh
Melodious Guile by John Hollander
The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism
Teach Yourself Postmodernism
Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by Descartes
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Thesies, and Dissertationsi by Kate Turabian
An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research ed. Salwen and Stacks
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark
Handbook of Poetic Forms by Ron Padgett
Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Confessions by Saint Augustine
Essays by Michel de Montaigne
The Prince by Machiavelli
Five Dialogues by Plato
Symposium by Plato
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Morality by Bernard Williams
An Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Non-Fiction
Century of Clouds by Bruce Boone
Paper Lion by George Plimpton
The Gay Talese Reader by Gay Talese
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever by Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington
Man Against Earth by Donald Murray
Hip Hop America by Nelson George
Adolf Luther: The Fascination of Light (art book)
The Changing South of Gene Patterson ed. Roy Peter Clark and Raymond Arsenault
Journalism 1908: Birth of a Profession ed. Betty Houchin Winfeld
A History of American Literary Journalism by John C. Hartsock
Greek to English Dictionary
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene
Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story by Gary Indiana
The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder ed. Bill Morgan
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: A Concise History ed. Fred Kleiner and Christin Mamiya
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
What is the What by Dave Eggers
My Less than Secret Life by Jonathan Ames
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
Picture by Lillian Ross
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
On Christian Liberty by Martin Luther
The Guide of the Perplexed by Maimonides
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Happy to Be Here by Garrison Keillor
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
American Sucker by David Denby
The Double Life is Twice as Good by Jonathan Ames
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Orchid Theif by Susan Orlean
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
Naked Pictures of Famous People by John Stewart
Can’t Buy My Love by Jean Kilbourne
Igor Stravinsky by Michael Oliver
The Racial Contract by Charles Mills
Branded by Alyssa Quart
Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)
The Roman Empire by Colin Wells
The Insanity Defense by Woody Allen
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
The Lives of the Later Caesars (Penguin)
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
America by John Stewart
The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
Generation Debt by Anya Kamenetz
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Call to Greatness by Adlai Stevenson
The Souls of Black Folk by W.B. DuBois
Salvador by Joan Didion
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Fiction
Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
A Still Small Voice by John Reed
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Chump Change by Dan Fante
Mooch by Dan Fante
Spitting off Tall Buildings by Dan Fante
The Magus by John Fowles
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Record Palace by Susan Wheeler
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
The Beauty Supply District (graphic novel) by Ben Katchor
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Regeneration by Pater Barker
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Whatever Isn’t Glory by Thomas McAfee
The Vintage Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Roxana by Daniel Defoe
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
Girl, Interrupted by Suzanna Kaysen
Joe Jones by Anne Lamont
Normal People Don’t Live Like This by Dylan Landis
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collected Novellas by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower my Marcel Proust
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Sorrow Floats by Tim Sandlin
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules ed. David Sedaris
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Bambogo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Dirty South by Alex Wheatle
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielwski
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Auto-Graph Man by Zadie Smith
The Stories of John Edgar Wideman by John Edgar Wideman
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (Flash Fiction) by Sarah Manguso
How the Water Feels to the Fishes (Flash Fiction) by Dave Eggers
Minor Robberies (Flash Fiction) by Deb Olin Unferth
Medieval Romances
No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Candide by Voltaire
One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
1984 by George Orwell
Drama
Plays by Susan Glaspell
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Three Sisters by Anton Chekov
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Red Roses For Me by Sean O’Casey
The Complete Plays by John M. Synge
King Lear by Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare
Richard III by Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare
Measure for Measure by Shakespeare
King Lear by Shakespeare
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
No Exit and Other Plays by Sartre
Three Great Plays by Eugene O’Neill
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Rhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille, trans. Richard Wilbur
The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed by Wole Soyinka
Anthologies and Compilations
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2
Writing New York ed. Phillip Lopate
The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, The Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World since 1953, introduction by George Plimpton
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
American Short Stories from Key Editions 1964
American Realism Reader from Viking Portable Library
Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker ed. David Remnick
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker ed. David Remnick and Henry Finder
The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys ed. Klara Glowczewska
How Race is Lived in America: Correspondents of The New York Times
Modern Political Thought: A Reader ed. John Gingell, Adrian Little and Christopher Winch
Best of American Poetry 2009 ed. David Wagoner
Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1865-1914
Norton Anthology of American Literature: Literature Since 1945
Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry: Volume 2, Contemporary Poetry
Best American Poetry 2004 ed. Lyn Hejinian
250 Poems: A Portable Anthology ed. Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
The Spoken Word Revolution
The Spoken Word Revolution: Redux
The Poetry of Our World ed. Jeffery Paine
Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry ed. Hayan Chakara
Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece ed. Don Schofield
From The Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great ed. Camille T. Dungy, Matt O’Donnell, and Jeffrey Thomson, foreword by Gerald Stern
The Longman Anthology of Poetry
New American Poets ed. Jack Myers and Roger Weingarten
The New North: Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland ed. Chris Agee
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