Fiction - Novels
Samuel Beckett, Molloy, 1955, literary fiction, postmodernism.
T. C. Boyle: Water Music, 1980, literary fiction, historical fiction, comic novel.
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim, 1900, literary fiction, psychological fiction.
Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961, literary fiction, science fiction.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007, literary fiction, historical fiction, war novel.
Franz Kafka, The Trial, 1937, literary fiction, modernism, philosophical fiction, dystopian fiction, absurdist fiction, paranoid fiction.
Dennis Lehane: The Given Day, 2008, literary fiction, crime fiction.
Tom Robbins: Still Life with Woodpecker, 1980, literary fiction, postmodernism, humor.
Vladimir Nabokov: Bend Sinister, 1939, literary fiction, dystopian fiction, late modernism.
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, 2017 literary fiction, historical fiction, magical realism, experimental fiction.
Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise, 1981, literary fiction, naturalism, stream of consciousness.
Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock, 2021, literary fiction, science fiction.
John Updike, Toward the End of Time, 1997, literary fiction, science fiction.
Fiction - Short Stories
Wallace Fowlie: French Stories/Contes Francais (compilation), 1960, literary fiction.
Daniel Howard: The Modern Tradition: Short Stories (compilation), 1968, literary fiction.
Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories, 2004, literary fiction.
Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories, 2009, literary fiction.
Joyce Carol Oates: Night-Side, 1977, literary fiction, Gothic.
Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, 1955, literary fiction, Southern Gothic.
Short Stories/Nonfiction
John Irving, Trying to Save Peggy Sneed, 1996, literary fiction, short stories, essays.
Poetry
John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667, Baroque, English Renaissance, epic.
Walter Scott, Lady in the Lake, 1810, romanticism, narrative poem.
Steven St. Vincent Millay, The Western Star, 1943, narrative poem.
Nonfiction
Soren Kierkegaard: Either/Or, Volume 2, 1943, Philosophy (very hard to read!).
Edward Abbey, Down the River, 1982, Environmentalism.
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, 1968, Environmentalism.
Derek Bickerton, Language and Species, 1990, Linguistics.
Loren Eisley: The Night Country: Reflections of a Bone-Hunting Man, 1971, Anthropology.
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, 2005, Cognitive Science.
Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon, 2000, Essays.
Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tuscon, 1995.
Showan Khurshid, Knowledge Processing, Creativity, and Politics: A Political Theory Based on Evolutionary Theory, 2006, Political Science.
Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America, 1996, Law.
Doug Peacock, The Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, 1990, Environmentalism, Wildlife.
Eric Walberg, Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics in the Era of Great Games, 2011, Political Science.
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