Books or poems that were mentioned in the book 'Babel' by R.F.Kuang. (Not every single one but most that I made note of)
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last updated February, 2026
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Pliny the Younger
Pharsalia
Lucan Lucan
Trojan Women (Masters of Latin Literature)
Seneca Seneca
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
Alexander Pope
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith; D.D. Raphael
The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Penguin Little Black Classics, #65)
Richard Hakluyt
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Mary Wollstonecraft
Colonel Jack
Daniel Defoe
Jane Austen: Seven Novels
Jane Austen
Anastasius (Classic Travel Book)
Thomas Hope
A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809
James Morier
The King's Own (Classics of Naval Fiction)
Frederick Marryat
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Juvenal: Satires Book IV (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
John Godwin
Satires and Epistles of Horace and Satires of Persius (Penguin Classics)
Horatius Horatius
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
Livy Livy
A History of My Times
Xenophon Xenophon
Crito
Plato Plato
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
The Aeneid
Virgil Virgil
Apology
Phaedo
Bless you for this list, I just started and was hoping this existed!! 🫡
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