works to read: a massive list, forever changing.

  • american

  • mark z. danielewski - house of leaves
  • charles darwin - the voyage of the beagle
  • philip k. dick - do androids dream of electric sheep?
  • dave eggers - a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
  • dave eggers - you shall know our velocity
  • t.s. eliot - the wasteland (and martin rowson's graphic-novel adaptation of it)
  • william faulkner - the sound and the fury
  • william faulkner - absalom, absalom
  • henry james - short story the turn of the screw
  • james joyce - portrait of the artist as a young man
  • jack kerouac - the town and the city
  • toni morrison - the bluest eye
  • thomas paine - common sense
  • chuck palanhuik - rant
  • thomas pynchon - gravity's rainbow
  • george steinbeck - grapes of wrath
  • mark twain - short stories
  • kurt vonnegut - cat's cradle
  • howard zinn - a people's history of the united states
  • british

  • willem defoe - robinson crusoe
  • henry fielding - tom jones
  • samuel richardson - clarissa
  • russian

  • teodor dostoevsky - the brothers karamazov
  • nikolai gogol - dead souls
  • leo tolstoy - anna karenina
  • german

  • rainier marie rilke - letters to a young poet
  • belgian

  • georges rodenbach - bruges-la-morte
  • french

  • albert camus - the fall
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i welcome recommendations!