The Aeneid

Virgil

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

The Death of the Heart

Elizabeth Bowen

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Howard Zinn

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Give Me Liberty, Vol. 2 / Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, Vol. 2

Eric Foner

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

Trust

Hernan Diaz

The World According to Joan Didion

Evelyn McDonnell

The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy

Jonathan Reisman

Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution

Jennifer Block

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

The Iliad

Homer

The Odyssey

Homer

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous

Beowulf

Unknown

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo

The Dud Avocado

Elaine Dundy

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid Ovid

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Either/Or

Elif Batuman