08 Jun 2023
Library wishlist
Below is a compilation from many recommendation lists I've come across rather than personal choices. I use this as a starting off point to narrow down from when deciding what to buy/read next.
If you have any further recommendations please let me know.
Computer science, information and general works
001: Knowledge
- Adler, Mortimer J - How to speak, How to Listen
- Gries, David - The Science of Programming
- McKenna, Terence K - The Archaic Revival
- McLuhan, Marshall - The Medium is the Massage
004: Data processing and computer science
- Raymond, Eric S. - The New Hacker's Dictionary
005: Computer programming, programs and data
- Aho, Alfred - Compilers, Principles, Techniques and Tools
- Cormen, Thomas - Introduction to Algorithms
- Friedman, Daniel P. - The Little Schemer
- Friedman, Daniel P. - The Seasoned Schemer
- Gamma, Erich - Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Hunt, Andrew - The Pragmatic Programmer
- James, Geoffrey - The Tao of Programming
- Knuth, Donald - The Art of Computer Programming
- McConnell, Steve - Code Complete
- Muranushi, Takayuki - Learn You a Haskell For Great Good
- O'Sullivan, Bryan - Real World Haskell
- Petzold, Charles - Code the Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
- Raymond, Eric S. - The Art of Unix Programming
- Ritchie, Dennis - The C Programming Languag
- Sedgewick, Robert - Algorithms Fourth Edition
- Skiena, Steven - The Algorithm Design Manual
- Stallman, Richard - Free Software Free Society
- Stallman, Richard - GNU Emacs Manual
- Van-Roy, Peter - Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming
- Warren, Henry - Hacker's Delight
- Wirth, Nuklaus - Algorithms and Data Structures
006: Special computer methods
- Kurzwil, Ray - The Age of Spiritual Machines
Philosophy and psychology
100: Philosophy and psychology
- Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy
- Scruton, Roger - An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy
110: Metaphysics
- Russell, Bertrand - The Problems of Philosophy
111: Ontology
- Sarte, Jean-Paul - Being and Nothingness
- Scruton, Roger - Art and Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of Mind
- Scruton, Roger - Beauty
113: Cosmology (Philosophy of nature)
- Bergson, Henri - Creative Evolution
- Sheldrake, Rupert - Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Conciousness
121: Epistemology (Theory of knowledge)
- Maritain, Jacques - The Degrees of Knowledge
- Russell, Bertrand - Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
- Russell, Bertrand - An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
- Santayana, George - Skepticism and Animal Faith
126: The self
- Bergson, Henri - Time and Free Will
128: Humankind
- Bergson, Henri - Matter and Memory
- Cioran, E.M. - A Short History of Decay
- Scruton, Roger - On Human Nature
131: Parapsychological and occult methods for achieving well-being, happiness, success
- Alli, Antero - Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection
- Watts, Alan - Psychotherapy: East and West
133: Specific topics in parapsychology and occultism
- Agrippa, von Nettesheim - Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic
- Bardon, Franz - Initiation Into Hermetics: A Course of Instruction of Magic Theory and Practice
- Carroll, Peter J - Liber Null and Psychonaught
- Crowley, Aleister - The Book of Thoth
- Crowley, Aleister - Gems From the Equinox: Instructions
- Crowley, Aleister - Magick in Theory and Practice
- Crowley, Aleister - Portable Darkness: An Aleister Crowley Reader
- DuQuette Lon Milo - Low magick: It's All in Your Head, You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is
- Hyatt, Christopher S - Undoing Yourself With Meditation and Other Devices
- Ouspensky, P.D - In search of the Miraculous
- Regardie, Israel - The Golden Dawn: A Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic
- Regardie, Israel - The Middle Pillar: A Co-relation of the Principles of Analytical Psychology and the Elementary Techniques of Magic
- Regardie, Israel - The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic
- Wilson, Robert Anton - Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas - The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction
144: Humanism and related systems and doctrines
- James, William - Pragmatism
- Maritain, Jacques - True Humanism
149: Other philosophical systems and doctrines
- Guenon, Rene - The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times
- Korzybski, Alfred - Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
- Scruton, Roger - The Uses of Pessimism and the Dangers of False Hope
150: Psychology
- Frankl, Viktor E. - Man's Search for Meaning
- Freud, Sigmund - Civilization and its Discontents
- Freud, Sigmund - Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
- Freud, Sigmund - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
- Hyatt, Christopher S - Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation
- James, William - The Principles of Psychology
- Jung, Carl - Man and His Symbols
- Jung, Carl - Man In Search of a Soul
- Peterson, Christopher - A Primer in Positive Psychology
- Peterson, Jordan - Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
- Russell, Bertrand - The Analysis of Mind
- Wilber, Ken - Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy
153: Conscious mental processes and intelligence
- Dewey, John - How We Think
- Hendriks, Fred - Steal like an Artist
- Jung, Carl - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconcious
154: Subconscious and altered states and processes
- Freud, Sigmund - The Interpretation of Dreams
155: Differential and developmental psychology
- Clear, James - Atomic Habits
156: Comparative psychology
- Panksepp, Jaak - Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
158: Applied psychology
- Covey, Stephen R. - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
160: Philosophical logic
- Dewey, John - Logic, The Theory of Enquiry
- Moore, W. Edgar - Creative and Critical Thinking
170: Ethics (Moral philosophy)
- Haidt, Jonathan - The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - The Genealogy of Morals
- Spinoza, Benedictus de - Ethics
- Tsunetomo, Yamamoto - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
- Yutang, Lin - The Importance of Living
179: Other ethical norms
- Devi, Savitri - Impeachment of Man
- Scruton, Roger - Animal Rights and Wrongs
181: Eastern philosophy
- Confucius - The Analects of Confucius (Arthur Waley translation)
- Feizi, Han - Han Feizi: Basic Writings
- Mencius - Mencius
- Mozi - Mozi: Basic Writings
- Xunzi - Xunzi: Basic Writings
182: Pre-Socratic Greek philosophies
- Barnes, Jonathan - Early Greek Philosophy
- Waterfield, Robin - The First Philosophers
183: Sophistic, Socratic, related Greek philosophies
- Dillon, John - The Greek Sophists
184: Platonic philosophy
- Aristotle - The Complete Works of Aristotle (Revised Oxford edition)
188: Stoic philosophy
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations (Penguin classics edition)
- Epictetus - The Discourses
- Seneca - Letters from a Stoic
189: Medieval Western philosophy
- Anselm, Saint - The Major Works
190: Modern Western and other noneastern philosophy
- Evola, Julius - Men Among the Ruins
191: Philosophy of the United States and Canada
- Dewey, John - Experience and Nature
- Santayana, George - The Life of Reason
- Santayana, George - Persons and Places
193: Philosophy of Germany and Austria
- Horkheimer, Max - Dialectic of the Enlightenment
- Klages, Ludwig - A Biocentric Worldview
- Neitzche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
- Neitzche, Friedrich - Thus Spake Zarathustra
- Neitzche, Friedrich - The Will to Power
194: Philosophy of France
- Bergson, Henri - The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
195: Philosophy of Italy
- Raido - Handbook of Traditional Living
197: Philosophy of Russia
- Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch - All and Everything
- Ouspensky, P. D: The Fourth Way
Religion
201: Religious mythology, general classes of religion, interreligious relations and attitudes, social theology
- Campbell, Joseph - Pathways to Bliss
- Kierkegaard, Soren - Fear and Trembling
202: Doctrines
- Scruton, Roger - The Soul of the World
212: Existence, ways of knowing God, attributes of God
- Blavatsky, H.P - Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology
- Blavatsky, H.P - The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
222: Historical books of Old Testament
- Rushdoony, Rousas John - The Institutes of Biblical Law
230: Christianity
- Aquinas, Saint Thomas - Summa Theologica
- Chesterton, G.K. - The Everlasting Man
231: God
- Basil, Saint - On the Holy Spirit
- Cairns, Scott - The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain
232: Jesus Christ and his family
- Maximus, Saint - On the Cosmic Mystery of Christ
- Strobel, Lee - The Case For Christ
239: Apologetics and polemics
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint - The City of God
- Craig, William Lane - Reasonable Faith
- Hitchens, Peter - The Rage Against God
- Pascal, Blaise - Pensees
241: Christian ethics
- Pagels, Elaine H - Adam, Eve and the Serpent
248: Christian experience, practice, life
- Climacus, Saint John - The Ladder of Divine Ascent
- Nicodemus, The Higiotite, Saint - The Philokalia
- Scupoli, Lorenzo - Unseen Warfare
- Theophan, Saint - The Path to Salvation
261: Social theology and interreligious relations and attitudes
- Donoso, Cortes Juan - Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism
- Eliot, T.S. - Christianity and Culture
264: Public worship
- Amorth, Gabriele - An Exorcist Tells His Story
270: History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity
- Anonymous - Didache
- Williams, Charles - The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church
281: Early church and Eastern churches
- Athanasius, Saint - On the Incarnation
282: Roman Catholic Church
- Jacobus, de Voragine - The Golden Legend
283: Anglican churches
- Scruton, Roger - Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England
291: No longer used — formerly "Comparative religion"
- Eliade, Mircea - A History of Religious Ideas
- Evola, Julius - Meditations on the peaks
- James, William - Essays in Radical Empiricism
- James, William - The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Regardie, Israel - The One Year Manual
- Smith, Huston - The World's Religions
292: Classical religion (Greek and Roman religion)
- Apollodorus - The Library of Greek Mythology (Robin Hard translation)
294: Religions of Indic origin
- Valmiki, The Ramayana
- Vyasa - Bhagavad Gita
- Vyasa, The Mahabharata
- Vyasa, The Upanisads
296: Judaism
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America - Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism
299: Religions not provided for elsewhere
299.1: Indo-European
- Hoffner, Harry - Hittite Myths
- Singer, Itamar - Hittite Prayers
299.2: Sumer, Assyria, Mesopotamia
- Dalley, Stephanie - Myths from Mesopotamia
- Kramer, Samuel Noah - Sumerian Mythology
299.3: Of North African origin
- Faulkner, Raymond - The Book of the Dead
- Faulkner, Raymond - The Pyramid Texts
- Pinch, Geraldine - Egyptian Mythology
299.5: Of Asian origin
- Laozi - Tao Te Ching
- Various - The I Ching
- Zhuangzi - Zhuangzi: Basic Writings
299.7: Of North American origin
- Cast1aneda, Carlos - The Teachings of Don Juan
299.9: Other
- Hoeller, Stephan A - Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds
Social sciences
301: Sociology and anthropology
- Foucalt, Michel - The History of Sexuality
- Geertz, Clifford - The interpretation of Cultures
302: Social interaction
- Herman, Edward S. - Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- Wendler, Daniel - Improve Your Social Skills
303: Social processes
- Faye, Guillaume - Archeofuturism
- Ophuls, William - Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
- Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice - World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
- Waltz, Kenneth N. - Man, the State and War
305: Groups of people
- Ambedkar, B. R. - Annihilation of Caste
- Fraser, Andrew W. - The WASP Question
- Hernstein, Richard J. - The Bell Curve
- MacDonald, Kevin B. - Culture of Critique
- Orwell, George - The Road to Wigan Pier
- Taylor, Jared - White identity
306: Culture and institutions
- Adorno, Theodor W. - The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
- Buchanan, Patrick J. - The Death of the West
- Young, Michael Dunlop - The Rise of Meritocracy
- Evola, Julius - The Metaphysics of Sex
- Scruton, Roger - An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
- Scruton, Roger - Sexual Desire: A Philisophical Investigation
320: Political science (Politics and government)
- Benoist, Alain de - Manifesto for a European Renaissance
- Chomsky, Noam: Understanding Power: The Indespensable Chomsky
- Cicero - The Republic and the Laws (Oxford world classics edition)
- Codreanu, Corneliu - For my Legionaries
- Dugin, Aleksandr - The Fourth Political Theory
- Hedges, Chris - Death of the Liberal Class
- Krebbs, Pierre - Fighting For the Essence
- Lenin, Nikolai - The State and Revolution
- Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince
- Mosley, Oswald - The Alternative
- Reich, Wilhelm - The Mass Psychology of Fascism
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - On the Social Contract
- Schmitt, Carl - Political Theology
- Scruton, Roger - Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
- Sunic, Tomislav - Against Democracy and Equality
- Van der Walt, Lucien - Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
- Willinger, Markus - Generation Identity
321: Systems of governments and states
- Devi, Savitri - The Lightning and the Sun
- Ludovici, Anthony M - A Defence of Aristocracy
- Maine, Henry Sumner - Popular Government
- Maistre, Joseph de - Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions
- Molnar, Thomas Steven - The Counter-Revolution
322: Relation of state to organized groups and their members
- Vaneigem, Raoul - The Revolution of Everyday Life
323: Civil and political rights
- Benoist, Alain de - Beyond human rights
- Hayek, Friedrich A. - The Constitution of Liberty
- Maritain, Jacques - The Rights of Man and Natural Law
327: International relations
- Jervis, Robert - Perception and Misperception in International Politics
330: Economics
- Friedman, Milton - Capitalism and Freedom
- Lagrand, Dick - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
332: Financial economics
- Graeber, David - Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- Griffin, G. Edward - The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
- Sutton, Antony C - Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
335: Socialism and related systems
- Gentile, Giovanni - Origins and Doctrine of Fascism
- More, Thomas - Utopia
338: Production
- Case, Karl E. - Principles of Macroeconomics
- Case, Karl E. - Principles of Microeconomics
355: Military science
- Tzu, Sun - The Art of War
361: Social problems and services
- Lomborg, Bjørn - How to spend $50 billion to make the world a better place
363: Other social problems and services
- Jones, E. Michael - Libido Dominandi
365: Penal and related institutions
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - The Gulag Archipelago
366: Secret associations and societies
- Sutton, Antony C. - America's Secret Establishment
370: Education
- Dewwey, John - Democracy and Education
- Lewis, C.S. - The Abolition of Man
- Whitehead, Alfred North - The Aims of Education and Other Essays
371: Schools and their activities, special education
- Bauer, Susan - The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
- LLewellyn, Grace - The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
378: Higher education (Tertiary education)
- Bloom, Alan - The Closing of the American Mind
384: Communications
- Bennett, Tara and Terry, Paul - The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
395: Etiquette
- Castiglione, Baldassarre - The Book of the Courtier
398: Folklore
- Ellis, Peter Berresford - The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
- Evans-Wentz, W.Y. - The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
- Gregory, Lady Augusta - Gods and Fighting Men
- Guppy, Shusha - The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia
- Yeats, William Butler - Irish Folk and Fairy Tales
Language
425: Grammar of standard English
- Payne, Thomas - Understanding English Grammar
428: Standard English usage (Prescriptive linguistics)
- Greenbaum, Sidney - An Introduction to English Grammar
478: Classical Latin usage (Prescriptive linguistics)
- Scottish Classics Group - Ecce Romani (3 book series)
- McKeown, James C. - Classical Latin: An Introductory Course
- Oerberg, Hans H. - Lingua Latina: per se illustrata (The Latin Language: Illustrated by Itself)
- Pope, Stepahnie M. - Cambridge Latin Course (all units)
- Wheelock, Frederick M. - Wheelock's Latin
488: Classical Greek usage (Prescriptive linguistics)
- Joint Association of Classical Teachers - Reading Greek, An Independent Study Guide
- Joint Association of Classical Teachers - Reading Greek, Grammar and Exercises
- Joint Association of Classical Teachers - Reading Greek, Text and Vocabulary
- Joint Association of Classical Teachers - Speaking Greek
491: East Indo-European and Celtic languages
- Dillon, Myles - Teach Yourself Irish
- Bowen, John T. - Teach Yourself Welsh
- Gaeilge Gan Stro! - Beginners Level: A Multimedia Irish Language Course for Adults
- Brown, D. - Gramadeg Cymraeg Cyfoes: Contemporary Welsh Grammar
- Ihde, Thomas W. - Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners
- Mac Congáil, Nollaig - Leabhar Gramadaí Gaeilge
- Ó Domhnalláin, Tomás - Buntús cainte
- Ó Dónaill, Éamonn - Gaeilge gan stró!: A Multimedia Irish Language Course for Adults
- Ó Murchú, Déaglán - Briathra na Gaeilige: Regular and Irregular Verbs
- Stenson, Nancy - Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook
- Stenson, Nancy - Intermediate Irish: A Grammar and Workbook
495: Languages of East and Southeast Asia
- Banno, Eri - Genki: An integrated course in elementary Japanese
- Chen, Ru - Common Chinese Patterns 330
- DeFrancis, John - Intermediate Chinese (Green book - for language)
- DeFrancis, John - Beginning Chinese Reader: Part II (Red book - for characters)
- Liu, Xun - New Practical Chinese Reader series
Science
500: Natural sciences and mathematics
- Oakley, Barbara - A Mind for Numbers
501: Philosophy and theory
- Planck, Max - Where is Science Going?
- Poincare, Jules Henri - Science and Hypothesis
- Poincare, Jules Henri - Science and Method
- Whitehead, Alfred North - Science and the Modern World
504: Not assigned or no longer used
- Planck, Max - Scientific Autobiography
508: Natural history
- Pauwels, Louis - The Morning of the Magicians
510: Mathematics
- Graham, Ronald - Concrete Mathematics a foundation for computer science
- Whitehead, Alfred North - An Introduction to Mathematics
530: Physics
- Einstein, Albert - The Evolution of Physics
- Einstein, Albert - On the Method of Theoretical Physics
- Einstein, Albert - The Meaning of Relativity
- Planck, Max - Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory
577: Ecology
- Linkola, Pentti - Can Life Prevail?
Technology
612: Human physiology
- Muybridge, Eadweard - The Human Figure in Motion
613: Personal health and safety
- Low, Steven - Overcoming gravity: A systematic approach to gymnastics and bodyweight strength
- Tsatouline, Pavel - The Naked Warrior
Arts and recreation
701: Philosophy and theory of fine and decorative arts
- Maritain, Jacques - Art and Scholasticism
- Tolstoy, Leo - What is Art?
704: Special topics in fine and decorative arts
- Faigin, Gary - The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression
720: Architecture
- Scruton, Roger - The Aesthetics of Architecture
741: Drawing and drawings
Unfortunately one of the downsides with the Dewey Decimal system is that it crams drawing books, comics, and all books relating to cartoons/animation in the same class, so I've had to further subdivide these to make sense of it:
741.2-4: Drawing
- 741.2: Technique of drawing
- Bargue, Charles - Charles Bargue Drawing Course
- Dodson, Bert - Keys to Drawing
- Edwards, Betty - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- Harding, James Duffield - On Drawing Trees and Nature
- Loomis, Andrew - Fun With a Pencil
- Robertson, Scott - How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments From Your Imagination
- 741.4
- Hale, Robert Beverly - Drawing Lessons From the Great Masters
741.5: Cartoons, caricatures, comics
- 741.50
- Lee, Stan - Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir
- 741.51
- Eisner, Will - Comics and Sequential Art (expanded version)
- Hamm, Jack - Cartooning the Head and Figure
- Lee, Stan - How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
- McCloud, Scott - Making Comics
- 741.58: Animation
- Blair, Preston - Advanced Animation
- Blair, Preston - Cartoon Animation
- Thomas, Frank - The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
- 741.59: Collections
- See comics wishlist page
741.6: Graphic design, illustration, commercial art
- Famous Artists School - Famous Artists Course
742: Perspective in drawing
- Norling, Ernest R. - Perspective Made Easy
743: Drawing and drawings by subject
- Cecile, Hardy - Better Figure Drawing
- Ellenberger, Wilhelm - An Atlas of Animal Anatomy For Artists
- Goldfinger, Eliot - Animal Anatomy For Artists
- Hamm, Jack - Drawing the Head and Figure
- Hamm, Jack - Drawing Scenery: Seascapes and Landscapes
- Hampton, Michael - Figure Drawing: Design and Invention
- Hultgren, Ken - The Art of Animal Drawing
- Loomis, Andrew - Drawing the Head and Hands
- Loomis, Andrew - Figure Drawing For All It's Worth
- Maltzman, Stanley - Drawing Nature
- Marshall, Francis - Drawing the Female Figure
- Tiner, Ron - Figure Drawing Without a Model
- Vilppu, Glenn V. - Vilppu's Animal Drawing Manual
- Vilppu, Glenn V. - The Vilppu Drawing Manual
751: Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials, forms
- Bellamy, David - Davis Bellamy's Watercolour Landscape Course
- Civardi, Giovanni - Drawing Portraits: Faces and Figures
- McCloud, Scott - Understanding Comics
752: Color
- Gurney, James - Color and Light: A Guide For the Realist Painter
758: Nature, architectural subjects and cityscapes, other specific subjects
- Crawshaw, Alwyn - Alwyn and June's Outdoor Painting Course
759: History, geographic treatment, biography
- Vasari, Giorgio - The Lives of the Artists
778: Specific fields and special kinds of photography
- Williams, Richard - The Animator's Survival Kit
780: Music
- Scruton, Roger - Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation
781: General principles and musical forms
- Benward, Bruce - Music in Theory and Practice
- Scruton, Roger - The Aesthetics of Music
791: Public performances
- Baker, Tom - Who on Earth is Tom Baker? An Autobiography
- McQuarrie, Ralph - Star wars art: Ralph McQuarrie
794: Indoor games of skill
- Barski, Conrad - Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time
Literature
801: Philosophy and theory
- Bloom, Harold - How to Read and Why
808: Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures
- Corbett, E.P.J. - Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
- Joseph, Miriam - The Trivium
- Kane, Thomas - The New Oxford Guide to Writing
- Kane, Thomas - The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing
- Zelazny, Roger - The Chronicles of Amber
811: American poetry in English
- Ashbery, John - Collected Poems
- Baer, William - The Unfortunates
- Crane, Hart - The Bridge
- Dickinson, Emily - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land and Other Poems
- Frost, Robert - Collected Poems
- Ginsberg, Allen - Howl and Other Stories
- Pound, Ezra - The Cantos
- Stevens, Wallace - Harmonium
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
- Williams, Carlos Williams - Collected Poems Vol.1 and 2
812: American drama in English
- Albee, Edward - The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
- Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
- Kushner, Tony - Angels in America
- Miller, Arthur - Death of a Salesman
- O'Neill, Eugene - Complete Plays (Library of America)
- Shepard, Sam - Buried Child
- Wilder, Thornton - Our Town
- Williams, Tennessee - Plays 1937-1955 (Library of America)
- Wilson, August - Fences
813: American fiction in English
813.0: Anthologies and criticism
- Bierce, Ambrose - Ghost and Horror Stories
813.2: Post-revolutionary (1776-1830)
- Irving, Washington - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
813.3: Middle 19th century (1830-1861)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Twice-told Tales
- Melville, Herman - Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales
- Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
813.4: Later 19th century (1861-1900)
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
- Crane, Stephen - Maggie and Other Stories
- Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
- Hearn, Lafcadio - Kwaidan
- James, Henry - The Ambassadors
- James, Henry - The American
- James, Henry - The Bostonians
- James, Henry - Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels
- Twain, Mark - Complete Short Stories
- Twain, Mark - The Mysterious Stranger
813.5: 20th century
- Anderson, Sherwood - Death in the Woods and Other Stories
- Asimov, Isaac - Foundation series
- Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale
- Auster, Paul - The New York Trilogy
- Barth, John - The Sot-weed Factor
- Beagle, Peter S. - The Last Unicorn
- Bellow, Saul - Herzog
- Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
- Bradbury, Ray - Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Brooks, Terry - Shannara
- Burroughs, William S. - Naked Lunch
- Carver, Raymond - Where I'm Calling From
- Cather, Willa - My Antonia
- Chambers, Robert - The King in Yellow
- Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep
- Cheever, John - The Stories of John Cheever
- Cook, Glen - The Black Company
- Cook, Glen - The Swordbearer
- DeLillo, Don - Underworld
- DeLillo, Don - White Noise
- Dick, Philip K. - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
- Dick, Philip K. - The Man in the High Castle
- Dick, Philip K. - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- Dick, Philip K. - A Scanner Darkly
- Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - The Palace of Illusions
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
- Eddings, David - The Belgariad
- Ellison, Raph - Invisible Man
- Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
- Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
- Fitzgerald, F.Scott - Flappers and Philosophers
- Friedman, C. S. - The Coldfire Trilogy
- Gaddis, William - The Recognitions
- Gibson, William - Neuromancer
- Goldman, William - The Princess Bride
- Harris, Thomas - The Silence of the Lambs
- Heinlein, Robert A. - Starship Troopers
- Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
- Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
- Herbert, Frank - Dune series
- Howard, Robert E. - Conan the Barbarian Anthology
- Jackson, Shirley - The Haunting of Hill House
- Jin, Ha - The Bride-groom
- Jin, Ha - Waiting
- Jordan, Robert - The Wheel of Time
- Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
- King, Stephen - Dark Tower series
- King, Stephen - It
- King, Stephen - Pet Semetary
- Le Guin, Ursula - Earthsea
- Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
- Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street
- London, Jack - The Iron Heel
- Lowry, Lois - The Giver
- Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano
- Martin, George R. R. - A Song of Ice and Fire
- Matherson, Richard - I Am Legend
- McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridian
- McCullers, Carson - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Miller, Henry - The Tropic of Cancer
- Moon, Elizabeth - The Deed of Paksenarrion
- Morrison, Toni - Song of Solomon
- Nolan, William F. - Logan's Run
- O'Hara, John - Appointment in Samarra
- Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
- Potok, Chaim - The Chosen
- Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
- Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow
- Pynchon, Thomas - Inherent Vice
- Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged
- Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
- Roth, Philip - American Pastoral
- Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
- Salvatore, R. A. - Exile
- Shea, Robert - The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- Shepard, Lucius - Beast of the Heartland, and Other Stories
- Silverberg, Robert - The World Inside
- Simmons, Dan - Song of Kali
- Skinner, B. F - Walden Two
- Smith, Clark Ashton - The Emperor of Dreams
- Stein, Gertrude - Three Lives
- Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
- Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
- Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces
- Updike, John - Rabbit, Run
- VanderMeer, Jeff - City of Saints and Madmen
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse-five
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Welcome to the Monkey House
- Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest
- Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
- West, Nathaniel - The Day of the Locust
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
- White, Edward Lucas - Lukundoo
- Wilhelm, Kate - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
- Wilson, Robert - Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
- Wolfe, Gene - The Book of the New Sun
- Wolfe, Gene - The Wizard Knight
- Wright, Richard - Native Son
813.6: 21st century
- Bakker, R. Scott - The Darkness That Comes Before
- Golden, Christie - Arthas Rise of the Lich King
- Golden, Christie - Before the Storm
- Grubb, Jeff - The Last Guardian
- Rothfuss, Patrick - The Kingkiller Chronicle
- Sanderson, Brandon - Mistborn
814: American essays in English
- Mencken, H.L. - A Mencken Chrestomathy
818: American miscellaneous writings in English
- Malaclypse, the Younger - Principia Discordia
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Collected Works
821: English Poetry
- Blake, William - The Complete Poetry and Prose
- Byron, Lord - Don Juan
- Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
- Coleridge, Samuel - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Eliot, T.S. - Collected Poems
- Kipling, Rudyard - Collected Poems
- Larkin, Philip - Collected Poems
- Pope, Alexander - An Essay on Man
- Pope, Alexander - Moral Essays
- Reuel, John Ronald - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queene
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred - Idylls of the King
- Wordsworth, William - The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
- Yeats, W. B. - The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
822: English drama
- Beckett, Samuel - The Complete Dramatic Works
- Jonson, Ben - Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques
- Marlowe, Christopher - The Complete Plays
- Shaw, George Bernard - Plays by George Bernard Shaw
- Thomas, Dylan - Under Milk Wood
- Webster, John - The Duchess of Malfi
823: English fiction
823.0
- Lodge, David - The Art of Fiction
823.4: Post-Elizabethan (1625-1702)
- Bunyan, John - The Pilgrim's Progress
823.5: Queen Anne (1702-45)
- Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
- Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
823.6: Later 18th century (1745-1800)
- Goldsmith, Oliver - The Vicar of Wakefield
- Sterne, Laurence - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
823.7: Early 19th century (1800-37)
- Lewis, Matthew - The Monk
- Maturin, Charles Robert - Melmoth the Wanderer
- Scott, Sir Walter - Ivanhoe
823.8: Victorian period (1837-1900)
- Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Butler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh
- Dickens, Charles - Bleak House
- Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield
- Dickens, Charles - Hard Times
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Eliot, George - Middlemarch
- Hardy, Thomas - Far From the Madding Crowd
- Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
- Trollope, Anthony - The Way We Live Now
823.91: Modern period (1901-99)
- Adams, Richard - Watership Down
- Aickman, Robert - Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
- Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
- Amis, Martin - London Fields
- Anand, Raj Mulk - Untouchable
- Banks, Iain - The Wasp Factory
- Barker, Clive - Books of Blood
- Blackwood, Algernon - Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
- Brunner, John - Stand on Zanzibar
- Chatterjee, Upamanyu - The Mammries of the Welfare State
- Conrad, Joseph - Lord Jim
- Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo
- Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Agent
- Dunsany, Lord - The King of Elfland's Daughter
- Fleming, Ian - Live and Let Die
- Fleming, Ian - Moonraker
- Fleming, Ian - Diamonds are Forever
- Fleming, Ian - From Russia, with Love
- Fleming, Ian - Dr. No
- Fleming, Ian - Goldfinger
- Fleming, Ian - For Your Eyes Only
- Fleming, Ian - Thunderball
- Fleming, Ian - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Fleming, Ian - You Only Live Twice
- Fleming, Ian - The Man with the Golden Gun
- Fleming, Ian - The Spy Who Loved Me
- Fleming, Ian - Octopussy
- Forster, E. M. - A Passage to India
- Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Golding, William - The Spire
- Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory
- Hodgson, William Hope - The House on the Borderland
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day
- James, M. R. - Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories
- Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake
- Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Joyce, James - Ulysses
- Lawrence, D. H. - Sons and Lovers
- Lawrence, D. H. - Women in Love
- Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia
- Lewis, Wyndham - Tarr
- Maugham, W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage
- McEwan - Atonement
- Miéville, China - Kraken
- Miéville, China - Perdido Street Station
- Moorcock, Michael - Elric Anthology
- Moore, Alan - Jerusalem: A Novel
- Murdoch, Iris - Under the Net
- Narayan, R. K. - Malgudi Days
- O'Brien, Flann - The Third Policeman
- Potter, Beatrix - Tales of Beatrix Potter
- Peake, Mervyn - Boy in Darkness
- Pratchet, Terry and Gaiman, Neil - Good Omens
- Pullman, Philip - His Dark Materials
- Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter series
- Roy, Arundhati - The God of Small Things
- Rushdie, Sauman - Midnight's Children
- Sabatini, Rafael - Captain Blood
- Saki - Collected Short Stories
- Seth, Vikram - A Suitable Boy
- Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Silmarillion
- Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
- White, T. H. - The Once and Future King
- Wodehouse, P. G. - Right Ho, Jeeves
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
823.92: Modern period (2000-)
- Abercrombie, Joe - The First Law
- Erikson, Steven - Malazan Book of the Fallen
- Guo, Xiaolu - 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
- King, William - Illidan
824: English essays
- Chesterton, G.K. - Heretics
828: English miscellaneous writings
- Crowley, Aleister: The Book of Lies
- Wilde, Oscar - The Complete Plays
832: German drama
- Buchner, Georg - Danton's Death
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von - Faust
- Kleist, Heinrich Von - The Broken Jug
- Schiller, Friedrich - The Robbers and Wallenstein
833: German fiction
833.6: 18th Century, Classical Period, Romantic Period (1750-1832)
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Kleist, Heinrich Von - The Marquise of O and Other Stories
833.8: Later 19th Century (1856-1900)
- Fontane, Theodor - Effi Briest
- Storm, Theodor - The Rider of the White Horse
833.9: Modern Period (1900-)
- Doblin, Alfred - Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Durrenmatt, Friedrich - The Judge and His Hangman
- Grass, Gunter - The Flounder
- Grass, Gunter - The Tin Drum
- Hesse, Hermann - The Glass Bead Game
- Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha
- Hesse, Hermann - Steppenwolf
- Junger, Ernst - The Glass Bees
- Kafka, Franz - Amerika
- Kafka, Franz - The Castle
- Kafka, Franz - The Complete Stories
- Kafka, Franz - Metamorphis
- Kafka, Franz - The Trial
- Kubin, Alfred - The Other Side
- Mann, Heinrich - The Loyal Subject
- Mann, Thomas - Buddenbrooks
- Mann, Thomas - Joseph and his Brothers
- Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
- Meyrink, Gustav - The Golem
- Musil, Robert - The Man Without Qualities
- Ransmayr, Christoph - The Last World
- Suskind, Patrick - Perfume: The Story of a Murder
- Wolfe, Christa - Cassandra
838: German miscellaneous writings
- Salomon, Ernst Von - It Cannot be Stormed
839: Other Germanic literatures
- Boye, Karin - Kallocain
- Hamsun, Knut - The Growth of the Soil
840: French literature and literatures of related Romance languages
- Nerval, Gérard de - Elegies and Satires
841: Fench poetry
- Chénier, André - Poems
- Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline - Elegies
- Hugo, Victor - Odes and Ballads
- Lamartine, Alphonse de - Meditations
- Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin - Joseph Delorme
- Vigny, Alfred de - Poems
842: French drama
- Satre, Jean-Paul - No Exit
- Mérimée, Prosper - Theatre of Clara Gazul
843: French fiction
843.7 Constitutional Monarchy (1815-48)
- Balzac, Honoré de - The Chouans
- Constant, Benjamin - Adolphe
- Stendhal - The Red and the Black
- Vigny, Alfred de - Cinq-Mars
843.8 Later 19th Century (1848-1900)
- Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
843.9 Modern Period (1900-)
- Camus, Albert - The Stranger
- Proust, Marcel - Remembrance of Things Past
- Raspail, Jean - The Camp of the Saints
- Satre, Jean-Paul - Nausea
- Topor, Roland - The Tenant
848: French miscellaneous writings
- Senancour, Etienne Pivert de - Obermann
851: Italian poetry
- Ariosto, Lodovico - Orlando Furioso
- Boccaccio, Giovanni - The Decameron
- Dante Alighieri - Dante's Inferno
- Leopardi, Giacomo - Canti
- Michelangelo Buonarroti - Complete poems and Selected Letters
- Tasso, Torquato - Jerusalem Delivered
852: Italian drama
- D'Annunzio, Gabriele - Francesca da Rimini
- Pirandello, Luigi - Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
853: Italian fiction
853.6: Period of Renovation (1748-1814)
- Foscolo, Ugo - Last letters of Jacopo Ortis
853.7: Early 19th Century (1814-1859)
- Manzoni, Alessandro - The Betrothed
853.8: Later 19th Century (1859-1900)
- Mantegazza, Paolo - The Year 3000: A Dream
- Verga, Giovanni - Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories
853.9: Modern Period (1901-)
- Bassani, Giorgio - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Blissett, Luther - Q
- Buzzati, Dino - The Tartar Steppe
- Calvino, Italo - The Invisible Cities
- Deledda, Grazia - Elias Portolu
- Eco, Umberto - Foucalt's Pendulum (William Weaver translation)
- Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose (William Weaver translation)
- Gadda, Carlo Emilio - That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
- Ginzburg, Natalia - Family Sayings
- Moravia, Alberto - Contempt
- Pavese, Cesare - The Moon and the Bonfires
- Pincio, Tommaso - Love-Shaped Story
- Salgari, Emilio - Sandokan
- Svevo, Italo - Zeno's Conscience
- Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
- Montale, Eugenio - Cuttlefish Bones
854: Italian Essays
- Levi, Primo - The Periodic Table
863: Spanish fiction
863.5: 19th Century (1800-1900)
- Fuentes, Carlos - Aura
863.6: 20th Century
- Piñera, Virgilio - Cold Tales
- Quiroga, Horacio - The Decapitated Chicken, and Other Stories
873: Latin epic poetry and fiction
- Ovid - Metamorphoses (Rolfe Humphries translation)
- Virgil - The Aeneid (Robert Fagles translation)
878: Latin miscellaneous writings
- Caesar - The Gallic Wars (Dover thrift edition)
- Tacitus - The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin classics edition)
881: Classical Greek poetry
- Schmidt, Michael - The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets
882: Classical Greek drama
- Aeschylus - The Oresteia (Penguin Classics)
- Aristophanes - Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds (Penguin Classics)
- Euripedes - Medea and Other Plays (Penguin classics edition)
- McDonald, Marianne - Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
- Sophocles - The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (Paul Roche translation)
883: Classical Greek epic poetry and fiction
- Finley, M. I. - The World of Odysseus
- Hesiod - Hesiod and Theognis (Penguin classics edition)
- Weil, Simone - The Iliad or the Poem of Force
- West, Martin L. - Greek Epic Fragments
891: East Indo-European and Celtic literatures
891.4: Modern Indic languages
- Bandyopadhaya, Bibhutbushana - Pather Panchali: Song of the Road
- Munshi, Premchand - Godaan
- Tagore, Rabindranth - Gitanjali
891.5: Persian languages
- Dabashi, Hamid - The Shahnameh
- Davis, Dick - Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams
- Hidāyat, Ṣādiq - The Blind Owl
- Khayyam, Omar - The Rubaiyiat of Omar Khayyam
- Rumi, Jalal ad-Din - The Essential Rumi
- Saʻdī - Gulistān; or Flower-garden
891.6: Celtic languages
- Guest, Lady Charlotte - The Mabinogion
- Koch, John T - The Celtic Heroic Age
891.7: Russian and East Slavic languages
- Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Demons
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Notes From the Underground
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - The Cancer Ward
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - The First Circle
- Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, Leo - Twenty-Three Tales
- Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
- Zamiatin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich - We
891.9: West and South Slavic languages
- Březina, Otokar - Hidden History
- Mácha, Karel Hynek - May
- Němcová, Božena - The Grandmother: A Story of Country Life in Bohemia
- Olbracht, Ivan - The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich
892: Afro-Asiatic literatures
892.1: Akkadia, Babylon, Mesopotamia, and Sumer
- Foster, Benjamin - Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature
- Gilgamesh - The Epic of Gilgamesh (Andrew George translation)
- Sandars, Nancy - Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia
892.6: Canaan, Minoan Crete, Ugarit
- Coogan, Michael - Stories From Ancient Canaan
- Parker, Simon - Ugaritic Narrative Poetry
893: Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic literatures
893.1: Egyptian
- Parkinson, Richard - The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems
- Wilkinson, Toby - Writings from Ancient Egypt
895: Literatures of East and Southeast Asia
895.1: Chinese
- 895.11: Chinese poetry
- Dao, Bei - The August Sleepwalker
- 895.12: Chinese drama
- Kong, Shangren Qing - The Peach Blossom Fan
- Liu, Jung-en - Six Yuan Plays
- She, Lao - Teahouse: A play in three acts
- Shifu, Wang - The Story of the Western Wing
- Xianzu, Tang - A Dream Under the Southern Bough
- Xianzu, Tang - The Peony Pavilion
- 895.13: Chinese fiction
- 895.133: Tang and Five Dynasties (618-960)
- Various - The Dragon King's Daughter: Ten Tang Dynasty Stories
- 895.134: Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasties (960-1912)
- Bangqing, Han - The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai
- E, Liu - The Travels of Lao Can
- Gu, Zhizhong - Creation of the Gods
- Mengchu, Ling - In the Inner Quarters
- Menglong, Feng - Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection
- Nai'an - Water Margin (aka All Men Are Brothers, Outlaws of the Marsh)
- Pu, Songling - Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
- Sheng, Lanling Xiaoxiao - The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Jin Ping Mei
- Tiancheng, Lü - The Embroidered Couch
- Unknown - Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
- Unknown - The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction
- Wu, Cheng'en - Journey to the West (aka Monkey, Monkey King)
- Wu, Jingzi - The Scholars
- Xueqin, Cao - The Story of the Stone (aka Dream of the Red Chamber)
- Yu, Li - The Carnal Prayer Mat
- Yu, Li - Silent Operas
- Yu, Li - A Tower for the Summer Heat
- 895.135: Modern Period (1912-2010)
- Alai - Red Poppies
- Anyi, Wang - The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
- Cheng, Ah - The King of Trees
- Chin, Pa - Family
- Cixin, Liu - The Wandering Earth
- Congwen, Shen - Border Town
- Congwen, Shen - Selected Stories of Shen Congwen
- Dao, Bei - Waves
- Dun, Mao - Midnight
- Dun, Mao - Rainbow
- Fang, Fang - Children of the Bitter River
- Hong, Xiao - The Field of Life and Death and Tales of Hulan River
- Hua, Yu - Brothers
- Hua, Yu - Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
- Hua, Yu - To Live: A Novel
- Jian, Ma - The Noodle Maker
- Jiang, Yang - Baptism
- Jiang, Feng - The Three-Inch Golden Lotus
- Henshui, Zhang - Shanghai Express
- Hongliang, Duanmu - The Sorrows of Egret Lake
- Lianke, Yan - Serve the People!
- Long, Gu - The Eleventh Son
- Murong, Xuecun - Leave Me Alone
- Rui, Li - Silver City: A Novel
- Rong, Jiang - Wolf Totem
- Shaogong, Han - A Dictionary of Maqiao
- Shuli, Zhao - Changes in Li Village
- Shuo, Wang - Playing for Thrills
- Shuo, Wang - Please Don't Call Me Human
- Tong, Su - Raise the Red Lantern
- Wen, Zhu - I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China
- Xianliang, Zhang - Half of Man is Woman
- Xingjian, Gao - Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
- Xingjian, Gao - Soul Mountain
- Xue, Can - Five Spice Street
- Xun, Lu - The real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China, The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
- Yan, Geiling - The Flowers of War
- Yan, Geiling - The Lost Daughter of Happinesss
- Yan, Geiling - White Snake and other stories
- Yan, Mo - Big Breasts and Wide Hips
- Yan, Mo - Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
- Yan, Mo - Red Sorghum
- Yan, Mo - Shifu, You'll Do Anything For A Laugh
- Ying, Hong - The Concubine of Shanghai
- Ying, Hong - K: The Art of Love
- Ying, Hong - Peacock Cries
- Yong, Jin - The Book and the Sword: A Martial Arts Novel
- Zhang, Ailing - Love in a Fallen City
- Zhang, Ailing - Lust, Caution
- Zhongshu, Qian - Fortress Besieged
- 895.136: 2010-
- Xue, Can - Vertical Motion
- 895.133: Tang and Five Dynasties (618-960)
- 895.15: Chinese oratory
- Ling, Ding - The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River
- 895.18: Authors, China, and Chinese miscellany
- Xun, Lu - Wild Grass
895.6 Japanese
- 895.61: Japanese poetry
- Chomei, Kamo no - Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World
- Unknown - The Tales of Ise
- 895.62: Japanese drama
- Monzaemon, Chikamatsu - Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
- Various - Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers
- 895.63: Japanese fiction
- 895.631: Classical Japan (-1185)
- Shikibu, Murasaki - The Tale of Genji
- 895.632: Feudal Japan (1185-1603)
- Various - The Tale of the Heike
- 895.633: Edo Period (1603-1868)
- Akinari, Ueda - Tales of Moonlight and Rain
- Saikaku, Ihara - The Life of an Amorous Woman
- 895.634: Imperial Japan (1868-1945)
- Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke - Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
- Ichiyō, Higuchi - In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyō
- Kenji, Miyazawa - The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
- Koda, Rohan - Pagoda, Skull and Samurai
- Kyōka, Izumi - Japanese Gothic Tales
- Nagai, Kafū - During The Rains and Flowers In The Shade
- Naoya, Shiga - The Paper Door and Other Stories
- Natsume, Sōseki - Botchan
- Natsume, Sōseki - I am a Cat
- Natsume, Sōseki - Kokoro
- Ogai, Mori - The Wild Geese
- Shimei, Futabatei - Ukigumo: The Drifting Cloud
- Tōson, Shimazaki - The Broken Commandment
- Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō - The Makioka Sisters
- Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō - Naomi
- Yoshikawa, Eiji - Musashi
- Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen
- 895.635: 1945-2000
- Abe, Kōbō - The Box Man
- Abe, Kōbō - The Woman in the Dunes
- Ariyoshi, Sawako - The Twilight Years
- Chungtai, Ismat - The Quilt and Other Stories
- Dazai, Osamu - No Longer Human
- Dazai, Osamu - The Setting Sun
- Edogawa, Ranpo - Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
- Enchi, Fumiko - The Waiting Years
- Endō, Shūsaku - Silence
- Endō, Shūsaku - The Samurai
- Ibuse, Masuji - Black Rain
- Inoue, Yasushi - The Counterfeiter and Other Stories
- Kawabata, Yasunari - Snow Country
- Kawabata, Yasunari - The Master of Go
- Kawabata, Yasunari - Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
- Mishima, Yukio - Confessions of a Mask
- Mishima, Yukio - Spring Snow
- Mishima, Yukio - The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
- Murakami, Haruki - The Elephant Vanishes
- Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood
- Murakami, Haruki - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
- Murakami, Ryū - Almost Transparent Blue
- Ōe, Kenzaburō - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
- Ōe, Kenzaburō - A Personal Matter
- Ōoka, Shōhei - Fires on the Plain
- 895.636: 2000-
- Ogawa, Yōko - The Housekeeper and the Professor
- 895.631: Classical Japan (-1185)
- 895.64: Japanese essays
- Kenkō, Yoshida - Essays in Idleness
- 895.68: Authors, Japan and Japanese miscellany
- Michitsuna's Mother - The Gossamer Years
- Shōnagon, Sei - The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon
895.7: Korean
- 895.73: Korean fiction
- 895.732: Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)
- Hŏ, Kyun - The Story of Hong Gildong
- Kim, Man-jung - The Nine Cloud Dream
- 895.733: Japanese Occupation (1910-1945)
- Yi, Sang - The Wings
- 895.734: 1945-2000
- Bandi - The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
- Kim, Young-ha - I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
- Yi, Mun-yŏl - Our Twisted Hero
- 895.735: 2000-
- Han, Kang - The Vegetarian
- 895.732: Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)
History and geography
901: Philosophy and theory of history
- Ortega, y Gasset, Jose - The revolt of the Masses
- Toynbee, Arnold - A Study of History
911: Historical geography
- Scarre, Christopher - The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome
913: Geography of and travel in the ancient world
- Kramer, Samuel Noah - The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character
914: Geography of and travel in Europe
- Levi, Carlo - Christ Stopped at Eboli
915: Geography of and travel in Asia
- Polo, Marco - The Travels
- Jian, Ma - Red Dust: A Path Through China
921–928: Reserved as an optional location for biographies, shelved alphabetically by subject's last name.
- Cellini, Benvenuto - Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Waddell, Helen - The Desert Fathers
- Salomon, Ernst Von - The Outlaws
931: China to 420
- Qian, Sima - Records of the Grand Historian
932: Egypt to 640
- Shaw, Ian - The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
933: Palestine to 70
- Josephus - The Jewish Wars (Penguin classics edition)
- Noll, Kurt - Canaan and Israel in Antiquity
935: Mesopotamia to 637 and Iranian Plateau to 637
- Postgate, Nicholas - Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History
- Pritchard, James B. - The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures
- Roux, Georges - Ancient Iraq
936: Europe north and west of Italian Peninsula to c. 499
- Cunliffe, Barry - The Ancient Celts
937: Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476
- Augustus - The Deeds of Divine Augustus
- Boatwright, Mary - A Brief History of the Romans
- Livy - The Early History of Rome (Penguin classics edition)
- Suetonius - The Twelve Caesars (Penguin classics edition)
938: Greece to 323
- Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin classics edition)
- Xenophon - The Expedition of Cyrus (Robin Waterfield translation)
- Gurney, Oliver - The Hittites
- Mieroop, Mark van de - A History of the Ancient Near East, ca.3000-323 BC
939: Other parts of ancient world
- Strauss, Barry - The Trojan War, A New History
940: History of Europe
- Casanova, Giacomo - The Life and Memoirs of Casanova
- Green, Miranda - The Celtic World
- Junger, Ernst - Storm of Steel
- Staël, Madame de - Ten Years of Exile
941: British Isles
- Lomas, Arran - Stick a Flag in It
943: Germany and neighboring central European countries
- Stoddard, Lothrop - Into the Darkness
944: France and Monaco
- Chateaubriand, François-René - Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
- Jackson, Julian - A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
945: Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Malta
- Burckhardt, Jacob - The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Mario, Jessie White - Vita di Giuseppe Garibaldi
951: China and adjacent areas
- Fu, Shen - Six Records of a Floating Life
- Jicai, Feng - Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution
- Yi, Sun-sin - Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin
954: India and neighboring south Asian countries
- Naipaul, V.S. - India: A Wounded Civilization
972: Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda
- Froude, James Anthony - The Bow of Ulysses
973: United States
- Kissinger, Henry - Diplomacy
- Ruppert, Michael C - Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil