Mainly for my own reference, this is just one long list of the books I’ve read since I started keeping track in 2007, with links.
- Abe, Kobo: The woman in the dunes 1962
- Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, 480-10 BCE
- Agee, Jonis: South of Resurrection, 1997
- Allende, Isabel: The Infinite Plan, 1991
- Akutagawa, Ryunosuke: Rashomon and Other Stories, 2006, trans. Jay Rubin
- Alegria, Claribel: Luisa in Realityland, 1987
- Amis, Martin: House of Meetings , 2007
- Amis, Martin: The Rachel Papers, 1973
- Amis, Martin: Time’s Arrow, 1991
- Aristophanes: Lysistrata , 411 BCE
- Aristophanes: Clouds, 419 BCE
- Aristotle: Poetics, 350 BCE
- Aristotle: Ethics: 350 BCE - one post here and another here
- Aristotle: On Interpretation, 350 BCE
- Aristotle, On the Soul
- Aristotle, On dreams
- Arkin, Frieda: Hedwig and Berti, 2005
- Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assasin,
- Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale , 1985
- Atwood, Margaret: Lady Oracle, 1976
- Austen, Jane: Persuasion, 1818
- Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park , 1814
- Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, 1813
- Austen, Jane. Lady Susan, 1805
- Austen, Jane: Emma, 1817
- Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey, 1818
- Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility, 1811
- Austen Leigh, James Edward: Memoir of Jane Austen – by her nephew, 1871
- Auster, Paul: Oracle Night, 2004
- Baker, Nicholson: The Fermata, 2004
- de Balzac, Honoré: Eugénie Grandet, 1833
- de Balzac, Honoré: Le Colonel Chabert, 1832
- de Balzac, Honoré. Modeste Mignon, 1844
- Banville, John: Eclipse, 2000
- Banville, John: The Sea, 2005
- Barbery, Muriel: L’élégance du hérisson, 2006
- Barbey, Claude Inga: Le Palais de Sucre , 2003
- Barker, Pat: Blow Your House Down, 1984
- Barthelme, Donald: Paradise, 1986
- Beigbeder, Frédéric: L’amour dure trois ans, 1997
- Bellow, Saul: A Theft, 1989
- Benioff, David: City of Thieves, 2009
- Berger, John. To The Wedding, 2001
- Besson, Philippe: L’arriere-saison , 2002
- Bolano, Roberto: Distant Star, 1996
- Boyd, William: Any Human Heart, 2002
- Bragance, Anne: Casus Belli , 2002
- Bragance, Anne. Une Succulente au fond de l’impasse, 2009
- Brink, André: The Rights of Desire, 2000
- Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey, 1847
- Bronte: Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848
- Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre, 1847
- Bronte, Charlotte:The Professor, 1857
- Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights, 1947
- Brookner, Anita. The Rules of Engagement, 2003
- Brooks, Geraldine: March, 2005
- Buchanan, Cathy Marie. The Day the Falls Stood Still, 2009
- Buck, Pearl: The Good Earth, 1931
- Burney, Frances. Evelina, 1787
- Byatt, A.S.: The Biographer’s Tale, 2001
- Canin, Ethan: Blue River, 1991
- Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland, 1865
- Chapman, Maile. Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, 2010 and here
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Criseyde, c. 1380-87
- Chauvet, Marie Vieux. Love, Anger, Madness – A Haitian Trilogy, 2009
- Chekhov, Anton: The Shooting Party, 1885
- Cheever, Susan: American Bloomsbury, 2006
- Chessex, Jacques. L’Ogre, 1973
- Chopin, Kate, At Fault, 1890
- Christine, Agatha: A Caribbean Mystery, 1964
- Claudel, Philippe: Les Ames Grises, 2003
- Claudel, Philippe: La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh , 2005
- Claudel, Philippe: Le Rapport de Brodeck, 2007
- Collins, Wilkie: The Frozen Deep, 1856
- Condé, Maryse. Les Belles Ténébreuses, 2007
- Condé, Maryse. Moi, Tituba, Sorcière,
- Croset, Laure Mi Hyun: Les Velléitaires, 2010
- Cunningham, Michael: The Hours, 1998
- Cusk, Rachel: The Lucky Ones , 2004
- Cusk, Rachel: Arlington Park , 2006
- Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion, 2006
- Dawson, Jill: Magpie, 1998
- Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders, 1722
- Delillo, Don: Falling Man , 2007
- Delillo, Don: The Body Artist , 2001. 2nd post here
- Delillo, Don: Running Dog, 1978
- Desai, Anita: Fasting, Feasting, 2000
- Desai, Kiran: The Inheritance of Loss, 2006
- Dickens, Charles: Bleak House, 1853
- Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol, 1843
- Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, 18??
- Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities, 1859
- Dickens, Charles: Nicholas Nickleby, 1838
- Didion, Joan: The Year of Magical Thinking, 2005
- Dillard, Annie: The Writing Life, 1990
- Dixon, K.B. A Painter’s Life, 2010
- Docx, Edward: The Calligrapher, 2003
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground, 1864
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment, 1866
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1901
- Doyle, Roddy: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, 1993
- Doyle, Roddy: The Woman Who Walked into Doors, 1996
- Doyle, Roddy: A Star Called Henry, 1999
- Doyle, Roddy: Paula Spencer, 2006
- Dufay, Danielle. Mon Mariage Chinois, 2004
- Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent, 1800
- Ellis, Rhian: After Life, 2000
- Eliot, George: Adam Bede, 1859 2nd post here
- Eliot, George: Silas Marner, 1861
- Eliot, George: Middlemarch, 1871
- Enchi, Fumiko: The Waiting Years, 1957
- Erdrich, Louise: Love Medicine, 1993
- Erdrich, Louise: The Painted Drum, 2003
- Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex , 2002
- Euripedes, The Bacchae, 405 BCE
- Euripedes, Medea, 431 BC
- Euripedes, Hippolytus, 428 BC
- Euripedes, The Trojan Women, 415 BC
- Fisher, Catherine: The Snow Walker’s Son, 1993
- Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary, 1856. 2nd post here
- Flaubert, Gustave: L’Education Sentimentale, 1869
- Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated, 2002
- Foer, Jonathan Safran: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 2005
- Folco, Michel: Dieu et nous seuls pouvons, 1991
- Ford, Richard: Wildfire, 1990
- Fournier, Alain: Le Grand Meaulnes, 1913
- Fournier, Jean-Louis: Où on va, papa?, 2008
- Fournier, Jean-Louis/Adriana Hunter: Where we going, Daddy, 2010
- Franzen, Jonathan: Freedom, 2010
- Frey, James: A Million Little Pieces, 2003
- Fuller, John. Flying to Nowhere, 1983
- Galgut, Damon. The Good Doctor, 2003
- Garbo, Norman: The Artist, 1978
- Garner, Alan: The Owl Service, 1967
- Gary, Romain: La Promesse de l’Aube, 1960
- Gavalda, Anna: Je L’Aimais, 2002
- Gawande, Atul. Complications: Notes on an imperfect science, 2003
- Gibbon, Edward: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-1788
- Giordano, Paolo. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, 2009
- Goldman, Francisco: The Divine Husband, 2004
- Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield, 1766
- Gordimer, Nadine: The Lying Days , 1953
- Gordimer, Nadine: A World of Strangers ,1958
- Gordimer, Nadine: Occasion for Loving , 1963
- Gordimer, Nadine: The Late Bourgeois World, 1966
- Gordimer, Nadine: A Guest of Honour, 1970
- Gordimer, Nadine: The Conservationist, 1972
- Gordimer, Nadine: Burger’s Daughter, 1979
- Gordimer, Nadine: Six Feet of the Country , 1982
- Gordimer, Nadine: A Sport of Nature, 1987
- Gordimer, Nadine: My Son’s Story, 1990
- Gordimer, Nadine: None to Accompany Me, 1994
- Gordimer, Nadine: The House Gun, 1998
- Gordimer, Nadine: The Pickup, 2001
- Gordimer, Nadine: Get a Life, 2005
- Gorz, André. Lettre à D., 2006
- Grenville, Kate: The Secret River, 2005
- Gunn, Kirsty: Rain , 1994
- Gunn, Kirsty: Featherstone, 2002
- Guterson, David: Snow Falling on Cedars, 1994
- Guterson, David: East of the Mountains, 1999
- Haddon, Mark: The curious incident of the dog in the night time, 2003
- Hamilton, Jay, Madison: The Federalist, 1787-88
- Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 1891
- Harford, Tim. The Logic of Life, 2008
- Hazzard, Shirley: The Transit of Venus, 1980
- Homer: The Iliad, 8th cent BCE, ending, metaphor, fate, Achilles and Helen.
- Horan, Nancy: Loving Frank, 2007
- Hornby, Nick: Slam, 2007
- Houellebecq, Michel: La Carte et le Territoire, 2010
- Hulme, Keri: The Bone People , 1984
- Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1748
- Huston, Nancy: Instruments des Ténèbres, 1996
- Hustvedt, Siri. The Sorrows of an American, 2008
- Ishiguro, Kazuo: An Artist of the Floating World, 1986
- Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let me Go , 2005. 2nd post here
- Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896
- Jin, Ha: Waiting, 1999
- Jolley, Marcel. Neither Here Nor There, 2008
- Jones, Edward P.: The Known World, 2003
- Jones, Lloyd: Mister Pip, 2006
- Josipovici, Gabriel: Goldberg: Variations, 2002
- Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1914 Book 1, Book 2, Book 3.
- Kawabata, Yasunari: Snow Country , 1957
- Keller, Gottfried: A Village Romeo and Juliet, 1856
- Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , 1962
- Kingsolver, Barbara: Animal Dreams, 1990
- Kristof, Agota. Le Grand Cahier, 1986
- Kristof, Agota. La Preuve, 1988
- Kundera, Milan: The Art of the Novel, 1986
- Kundera, Milan: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1978
- Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984
- Kwei-Armah, Kwame: Elmina’s Kitchen, 2003
- Lawrenson, Deborah: Songs of Blue and Gold, 2008
- Lakoseljac, Bianca: Bridge in the Rain, 2010
- Lawson, Mary: Crow Lake, 2003
- Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
- Le Clezio, J.M.G: Onitsha, 1991
- L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time, 1962
- L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wind in the Door, 1973
- Lesbre, Michèle: Le Canapé Rouge, 2007
- Lessing, Doris: The Grass is Singing, 1950
- Lethem, Jonathan: The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, 1996
- Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn, 1999
- Lewycka, Marina: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, 2005
- Lind, Jakov. Ergo (trans. Ralph Manheim), 1967
- Locke, John: Second Treatise of Government , 1690
- Longinus: On the Sublime, 1st century AD
- Luke the Physician: Acts of the Apostles, ca. 80
- Lustig, Arnost: Lovely Green Eyes, 2000
- Mabanckou, Alain: African Psycho, 2003
- Machiavelli: The Prince, 1515
- Maillart, Ella. La Voie Cruelle, 1939
- Maggetti, Daniel: La Mort, les Anges, la Poussière, 1995
- Malouf, David: The Conversations at Curlow Creek, 1996
- Malzieu, Mattias: Maintenant qu’il fait tout le temps nuit sur toi, 2005
- Martel, Yann: Life of Pi , 2002
- Martin, Lee: The Bright Forever, 2005
- Matthew the Evangelist: Gospel of Matthew, ca. 70-100
- Mattison, Alice: Hilda and Pearl, 2001
- McCarthy, Cormac: The Road , 2006
- McCullers, Carson: The Ballad of the Sad Café , 1951
- McCullers, Carson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter , 1940
- McCullers, Carson: The Member of the Wedding, 1948
- McMurtry, Larry: Lonesome Dove, 1985
- McDermott, Alice: After This, 2006
- McDermott, Alice: Child of My Heart , 2002
- McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy , 1998
- McDermott, Alice: At Weddings and Wakes , 1992
- McDermott, Alice: That Night , 1987
- McDermott, Alice: A Bigamist’s Daughter , 1982
- McEwan, Ian: Amsterdam, 1998
- McEwan, Ian: Atonement, 2002
- Messud, Claire: The Emperor’s Children , 2006
- Miller, Sue: The Good Mother, 1986
- Millhauser, Steven: Martin Dressler, 1997
- Mistry, Rohinton: Family Matters , 2002
- Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas, 2003
- Mitchell, David: Black Swan Green, 2006
- Monterroso, Augusto. the black sheep and other fables, 2005
- Monzo, Quim. Gasoline, 2010
- Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye , 1970
- Morrison, Toni: Beloved
- Murakami, Haruki. Norwegian Wood, 2000
- Murdoch, Iris. Under the Net, 1954
- Murdoch, Iris: The Sandcastle, 1957
- Murdoch, Iris: The Nice and the Good, 1968
- Myant, Maureen: The Search, 2009
- Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita, 1955
- Nadolny, Sten. The Discovery of Slowness, 1983
- Nelson, Antonya: Living to Tell, 2000
- Oates, Joyce Carol: Rape: a love story , 2004
- Oates, Joyce Carol: We Were the Mulvaneys, 1996
- O’Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood, 1952
- Ozecki, Ruth L.: MyYear of Meat, 1998
- Packer, Ann: The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, 2002
- Patchett, Ann: Bel Canto , 2001
- Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar, 1963
- Plato: Meno, 380 BCE,
- Plato, Thaetetus, 360 BC
- Plato: Crito, c. 400 BCE
- Plato: The Republic , c. 400 BCE
- Plato: Apology, c. 400 BCE
- Plume, Amélie: Oui Emile Pour la Vie, 1984
- Polet, Grégoire: Excusez les fautes du copiste, 2006
- Powers, Richard: The Echo Maker , 2006
- Pullman, Philip: The Golden Compass, 1996
- Pullman, Philip: The Subtle Knife, 1997
- Pullman, Philip: The Amber Spyglass, 2000
- Ramuz, C.F.: La Beauté sur la Terre, 1927
- Ramuz, C.F.: Si le soleil ne revenait pas, 1937
- Ramuz, C.F.: Derborence, 1934
- Ramuz, C.F.: Un Vieux de Campagne et autres nouvelles, ???
- Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead, 1943
- Reiken, Frederick: The Odd Sea,
- Reiken, Frederick: The Lost Legends of New Jersey, 2005
- Rhys, Jean: Good Morning, Midnight, 1939
- Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
- Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping, 1980
- Robinson, Marilynne: Gilead, 2004
- Robinson, Ray: Electricity, 2006
- Roth, Philip: The Ghost Writer, 1979
- Roth, Philip. The Human Stain, 2000
- Roth, Philip: Everyman, 2006
- Ruocco, Joanna. The Mothering Coven, 2009. And here.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Social Contract, 1762
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Discourse on Inequality, 1755
- Russell, Mary Doria: The Sparrow, 1996
- Sarton, May: As We Are Now, 1973
- Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel: Lorsque J’étais une Oeuvre d’art, 2002
- Schopenhauer, Arthur: Essays, 1819-1860, trans. Dircks
- Scott, Joanna: Tourmaline, 2002
- Sedaris, David: Me Talk Pretty One Day, 2005
- Shakespeare: Hamlet, 1602?
- Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale, 1594 or 1610
- Shakespeare: The Tempest
- Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
- Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
- Shakespeare: Othello
- Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, 1604
- Shakespeare: Cymbeline
- Shamsie, Kamila: Burnt Shadows, 2009
- Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein , 1818
- Shields, Carol: Unless, 2002
- Shields, Carol: The Stone Diaries, 1994
- Smith, Alexander McCall: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, 1998
- Smith, Ali: The Accidental, 2005
- Sophocles: Antigone, ca. 440 BCE
- Sophocles: Oedipus the King, ca. 429 BCE
- Southgate, Martha: The Fall of Rome , 2002
- Spivey, Ben: Flowing in the Gossamer Fold, 2010
- Spyri, Johanna: Heidi, 1872
- Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886
- Stevenson,Robert Louis: Kidnapped, 1886
- Stockett, Kathryn. The Help, 2009
- Styron, William: Set This House on Fire, 1960
- Swift, Graham: Last Orders, 1996, 2nd post here
- Swift, Graham: Waterland, 1983
- Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair, 1847-48
- Thornton, Rosy: Hearts and Minds, 2007
- Thuong-Thuong, Tran Thi: Letters to a Teacher , 2007
- Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980
- Trocchi, Alexander:Young Adam, 1954
- Tsutsui, Yasutaka. The Maid, 2010
- Updike, John. Villages, 2003
- Urrea, Luis Alberto: Into the Beautiful North, 2009
- Urquhart, Jane: The Underpainter , 1997
- Urquhart, Jane: A Map of Glass, 2005
- Van Cauwelaert, Didier: La Maison des Lumières, 2009
- Vida, Vendela: Let the Northen Lights Erase Your Name, 2007
- Vieux Chauvet, Marie : Amour, Colère et Folie, 2005
- Vowell, Sarah: Assassination Vacation, 2005
- Walls, Jeannette: The Glass Castle, 2005
- Washington, George: Farewell address, 1796
- Waugh, Evelyn: Vile Bodies, 1930
- Wharton, Edith: The House of Mirth, 1905
- Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome, 1911
- Wharton, Edith: Summer, 1917
- Wharton, Edith: The Buccaneers, 1937/1993, with Marion Mainwaring
- Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence, 1920
- Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray , 1891
- Willis, Sarah: Some Things That Stay , 2000
- Wilson, Eric G.: My Business is to Create, 2011
- Winterson, Jeanette: The Passion, 1987
- Woolley, Brian. The Wonderful Room, 2009
- Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out, 1915
- Woolf, Virginia: Night and Day, 1919
- Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway , 1925
- Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse, 1927
- Woolf, Virginia: The Waves, 1931
- Yates, Richard: Revolutionary Road, 1961
- Young, Angela: Speaking of Love, 2007
- Zambra, Alejandro. The Private Lives of Trees, 2010
