This is my personal collection of favorite and most worthwhile reads. I will be expanding as I continue to read and recall what I have read in the past.
Novels and other Lengthy Reads
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, ESQ., of the Kingdom of Ireland by William M. Thackeray
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Moby Dick; or, the Whale by Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
The Red Badge of Courage by Steven Crane
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque
The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Iliad by Homer
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Beowulf
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Short Stories
“Nachts Schlafen die Ratten doch” by Wolfgang Borchert
“Zwei Denkmaler” by Anna Seghers
“Ligeia” by Edgar Allan Poe
Historical
The Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar
Roman Lives by Plutarch
Eichmann in Israel; a Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Boyd: the Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa at Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge
Theatre
“Cato” by Joseph Addison
“Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles
“Antigone” by Sophocles
“The Trojan Women” by Seneca
“Prometheus Bound” by Aeschylus
“Iphigenia at Aulis” by Euripides
“Pygmalion” by Bernard Shaw
“The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams
“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams
“Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare
“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare
“Henry V” by William Shakespeare
Essays and Philosophical Texts
“Reflections on the Guillotine” by Albert Camus
“The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus
“Letters from a Stoic” by Seneca
“Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius
“Walden; or, Life in the Woods” by Henry David Thoreau
“The Divinity School Address” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“History” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry
Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane
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