List of literary works

This is an incomplete list of literary works:

See also: Religious texts

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• 1001 Nights
• 1984 by George Orwell

A

• Africa and Africans by Paul Bohannan and Philip Curtin
• Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• All the Names by José Saramago
• All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• The American Scene by Henry James
• The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
• Ancrene Wisse
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Animorphs by K. A. Applegate
• The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
• Areopagitica by John Milton
• As You Like It by William Shakespeare
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Aucassin and Nicolette
• The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin

B

• The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton
• Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett
• Batman by various authors
• The Battle of Malden by an unknown poet
• Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
• Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected by Erica Jong
• Beowulf
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Bible
• Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
• Beyond The Vernal Mind by Munia Khan
• Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew
• The Book of Love by Sarah Bower
• The Book of Mormon by various authors
• The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
• The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

C

• Candide by Voltaire
• Carmina Burana
• Carrie by Stephen King
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens
• Chi the book series by A. C. Quinn
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
• Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• The Cloud of Unknowing
• The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
• The Conan the Barbarian series by various authors.
• Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Søren Kierkegaard
• The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
• Consent to Kill: A Thriller by Vince Flynn
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
• Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
• Corpus Juris Civilis
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Country Wife by William Wycherley
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Cursor Mundi
• Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

D

• Danse Macabre by Stephen King
• Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
• Demian by Hermann Hesse
• Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
• Dhammapada, attributed to Siddhartha Gautama
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
• Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
• The Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Dunciad by Alexander Pope
• The DUNE Chronicles by Frank Herbert

E

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard
• Eldest by Christopher Paolini
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
• An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
• Everyman, anonymous morality play
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

F

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Faith into Action by Daisaku Ikeda
• Famous Last Words by Timothy Findlay
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Fear and Loathing: on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
• Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
• Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Filth by Grant Morrison
• Following the Equator by Mark Twain
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

G

• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
• Gesta Romanorum (authors unknown)
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
• Gospel of Judas (authorship disputed)
• Gotham Central by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
• A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Greek myths
• Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
• Grendel by John Gardner

H

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
• Havelok the Dane
• Hellblazer by various authors
• Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
• Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
• Henry V by William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
• Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
• Historia Brittonum
• A History of East Africa
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
• Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• Hrafnkels saga by an unknown Icelandic author
• Huainanzi
• Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

I

• I am Legend by Richard Matheson
• Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Iliad of Homer by Alexander Pope
• Imitations of Horace by Alexander Pope
• Inferno by Dante Alighieri
• Infinite Crisis by various authors
• An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Invisibles by Grant Morrison
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

J

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
• Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Journals of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
• Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

K

• The Kalevala
• King John by William Shakespeare
• King Lear by William Shakespeare
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

L

• Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
• The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
• The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
• The Little Golden Calf, by Ilf and Petrov
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lost World by Michael Crichton
• Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
• Lucifer by Mike Carey
• Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

M

• The Mabinogion
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
• Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
• Maurice by E.M. Forster
• Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
• Memoirs of a Geisha (novel) by Arthur Golden
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• Moral Essays by Alexander Pope
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The by Michael Chabon

N

• Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky
• The Nero Wolfe corpus by Rex Stout
• Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas
• The Nibelungenlied
• Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
• Night Shift by Stephen King
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• No Heroes by Danny O. Coulson and Elaine Shannon
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

O

• The Odyssey of Homer by Alexander Pope
• On Moral Fiction by John Gardner
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
• Othello by William Shakespeare
• The Owl and the Nightingale

P

• Panchatantra (authors unknown)
• Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Paradise Regained by John Milton
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• Phaedo by Plato
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Prey by Michael Crichton
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Principia Discordia
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
• The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
• Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Q

• Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

R

• A Race on the Edge of Time by David E. Fisher
• Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
• Reliques of Ancient English Poetry edited by Thomas Percy
• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Richard II by William Shakespeare
• Richard III by William Shakespeare
• Road, The by Cormac McCarthy
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

S

• Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• Salterton Trilogy by Robertson Davies
• Samson Agonistes by John Milton
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
• The Seafarer
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
• Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts
• The Sherlock Holmes Series of Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Shōgun (1975) by James Clavell
• Showdown at Two-Bit Creek (2003) by Ralph Compton & Joseph A. West
• The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard
• The Silmarillion (1977) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The by Ann Brashares
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Something Happened by Joseph Heller
• The Song of Roland
• The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein
• Strange Meeting (book) by Susan Hill
• Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein
• Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960) by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
• A Summer Book by Tove Jansson
• Superman: The Man of Steel by various authors
• Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
• Sybil (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli

T

• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• This Other Eden by Ben Elton
• Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
• Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
• The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
• The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

U

• Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Uncle Sam by Steve Darnell and Alex Ross

The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass in Pursuit of American Liberty - Nicholas Buccola

V

• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
• Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
• Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
• Vachana by Basava

W

• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour
• A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
• War and Peace By Leo Tolstoy
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• We the Living by Ayn Rand
• Wesele (The Wedding) by Stanisław Wyspiański
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
• White Noise by Don DeLillo
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• Widsith
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
• The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Y

• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman
• Yo-Yo Boing! by Giannina Braschi

Z

• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

Requested

Requested A

• All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
• The Art Of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein
• Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

Requested B

• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• Blue Crow by Michael Spring
• Burn Down the Night by Graig Lee Street
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
• The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
• Bec by Darren Shan
• Blood Beast by Darren Shan

Requested C

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr
• The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
• Carter's Big Break by Brent Crawford
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Requested D

• Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
• Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
• Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay
• Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Dragons in Our Midst by Brain Davis
• Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
• A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
• Demon Thief by Darren Shan
• Deaths Shadow by Darren Shan
• Dark Calling by Darren Shan
• Demon Apocalypse by Darren Shan
• Du Sang sur Le Miroir by Cosmos (Akoete) Eglo
• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

Requested F

• Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
• Fallen by Lauren Kate
• Full Tilt by Neal Schusterman

Requested G

• The Gunslinger by Stephen King
• The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Requested H

• Half The Town by Patrick Alcatraz
• The Humanoids by Jack Williamson
• The Human Stain by Philip Roth
• Hell's Heroes by Darren Shan
• Hostile Environment by Patrick C. Crowell
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer
• "The House of God" by Samuel Shem

Requested I

• I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher
• IdleWild by Nick Sagan
• Inside The Volcano by Eduardo Paz-Martinez
• Ironside by Holly Black
• The Help by Kathyrn Stockett

Requested J

• John Dies at the End by David Wong

Requested K

Requested L

• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Lord Loss by Darren Shan
• The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Requested M

• Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
• Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever by James Patterson
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner
• The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Mudsong by Michael Spring
• Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan

Requested N

• The Ninth Gate by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• No Hope for Gomez! by Graham Parke
• The Night World Series by Lisa Jane Smith
• Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal

Requested O

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Requested P

• Percy Jackson, 1-3 by Rick Riordan
• The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay
• Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
• Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud
• Pottermore by J. K. Rowling
• Puckoon by Spike Milligan

Requested R

• The Rain In Spain By Eduardo Paz-Martinez
• Razor Wire Pubic Hair by Carlton Mellick III
• Redwall by Brian Jaques
• Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
• Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita

Requested S

• Sacred by Dennis Lehane
• The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
• The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley
• Slawter by Darren Shan
• The Song of Sin by Phil Duncan
• The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black
• Star Wars series by George Lucas
• The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
• The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

Requested T

• Tithe by Holly Black
• The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
• The Demonata by Darren Shan
• The Saga of Darren Shan book 1-12 by Darren Shan
• The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

Requested U

• Unwind by Neal Schusterman

Requested V

• Valiant by Holly Black
• Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

Requested W

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
• White Fang by Jack London
• Wolf Island by Darren Shan
• We are Greeks! by Dimitris Varos
• We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Notes

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