Other Great Books Lists

The Western Canon: The Democratic Age. Harold Bloom

Italy

• Ugo Foscolo
  On Sepulchres
  Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
  Odes and The Graces
• Alessandro Manzoni
  The Betrothed
  On the Historical Novel
• Giacomo Leopardi
  Essays and Dialogues
  Poems
  The Moral Essays
• Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
  Roman Sonnets
• Giosué Carducci
  Hymn to Satan
  Barbarian Odes
  Rhymes and Rhythms
• Giovanni Verga
  Little Novels of Sicily
  Mastro-Don Gesualdo
  The House by the Medlar Tree
  The She-Wolf and Other Stories

  Spain and Portugal

• Gustavo Adolpho Bécquer
  Poems
• Benito Pérez Galdós
  Fortunata and Jacinta
• Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)
  La Regenta
• José Maria de Eça de Queirós
  The Maias

  France

• Benjamin Constant
  Adolphe
  The Red Notebook
• François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
  Attala
  René
  The Genius of Christianity
• Alphonse de Lamartine
  Meditations
• Alfred de Vigny
  Chatterton
  Poems
• Victor Hugo
  The Distance, the Shadows: Selected Poems
  Les Misérables
  Notre-Dame of Paris
  William Shakespeare
  The Toilers of the Sea
  The End of Satan
  God
• Alfred de Musset
  Poems
  Lorenzaccio
• Gérard de Nerval
  The Chimeras
  Sylvie
  Aurelia
• Théophile Gautier
  Mademoiselle de Maupin
  Enamels and Cameos
• Honoré de Balzac
  The Girl with the Golden Eyes
  Louis Lambert
  The Wild Ass's Skin
  Old Goriot
  Cousin Bette
  A Harlot High and Low
  Eugénie Grandet
  Ursule Mirouet
• Stendhal
  On Love
  The Red and the Black
  The Charterhouse of Parma
• Gustave Flaubert
  Madame Bovary
  Sentimental Education
  Salammbô
  A Simple Soul
• George Sand
  The Haunted Pool
• Charles Baudelaire
  Flowers of Evil
  Paris Spleen
• Stéphane Mallarmé
  Selected Poetry and Prose
• Paul Verlaine
  Selected Poems
• Arthur Rimbaud
  Complete Works
• Tristan Corbière
  Les Armours Jaunes
• Jules Laforgue
  Selected Writings
• Guy de Maupassant
  Selected Short Stories
• Émile Zola
  Germinal
  L'Assommoir
  Nana

  Scandinavia

• Henrik Ibsen
  Brand
  Peer Gynt
  Emperor and Galilean
  Hedda Gabler
  The Master Builder
  The Lady from the Sea
  When We Dead Awaken
• August Strindberg
  To Damascus
  Miss Julie
  The Father
  The Dance of Death
  The Ghost Sonata
  A Dream Play

  Great Britain

• Robert Burns
  Poems
• William Blake
  Complete Poetry and Prose
• William Wordsworth
  Poems
  The Prelude
• Sir Walter Scott
  Waverley
  The Heart of Midlothian
  Redgauntlet
  Old Mortality
• Jane Austen
  Pride and Prejudice
  Emma
  Mansfield Park
  Persuasion
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Poems and Prose
• Dorothy Wordsworth
  The Grasmere Journal
• William Hazlitt
  Essays and Criticism
• Lord Byron
  Don Juan
  Poems
• William Savage Landor
  Poems
  Imaginary Conversations
• Thomas De Quincey
  Confessions of an English Opium Eater
  Selected Prose
• Charles Lamb
  Essays
• Maria Edgeworth
  Castle Rackrent
• John Galt
  The Entail
• Elizabeth Gaskell
  Cranford
  Mary Barton
  North and South
• James Hogg
  The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
• Charles Maturin
  Melmoth the Wanderer
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Poems
  A Defence of Poetry
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  Frankenstein
• John Clare
  Poems
• John Keats
  Poems and Letters
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes
  Death's Jest-Book
  Poems
• George Darley
  Nepenthe
  Poems
• Thomas Hood
  Poems
• Thomas Wade
  Poems
• Robert Browning
  Poems
  The Ring and the Book
• Charles Dickens
  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
  David Copperfield
  The Adventures of Oliver Twist
  A Tale of Two Cities
  Bleak House
  Hard Times
  Nicholas Nickleby
  Dombey and Son
  Great Expectations
  Martin Chuzzlewit
  Christmas Stories
  Little Dorrit
  Our Mutual Friend
  The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  Poems
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  Poems and Translations
• Matthew Arnold
  Poems
  Essays
• Arthur Hugh Clough
  Poems
• Christina Rossetti
  Poems
• Thomas Love Peacock
  Nightmare Abbey
  Gryll Grange
• Gerald Manley Hopkins
  Poems and Prose
• Thomas Carlyle
  Selected Prose
  Sartor Resartus
• John Ruskin
  Modern Painters
  The Stones of Venice
  Unto This Last
  The Queen of the Air
• Walter Pater
  Studies in the History of the Renaissance
  Appreciations
  Imaginary Portraits
  Marius the Epicurean
• Edward FitzGerald
  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• John Stuart Mill
  On Liberty
  Autobiography
• John Henry Newman
  Apologia pro Vita Sua
  A Grammar of Assent
  The Idea of a University
• Anthony Trollope
  The Barsetshire Novels
  The Palliser Novels
  Orley Farm
  The Way We Live Now
• Lewis Carroll
  Complete Works
• Edward Lear
  Complete Nonsense
• George Gissing
  New Grub Street
• Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Poems and Letters
• Charlotte Brontë
  Jane Eyre
  Villette
• Emily Brontë
  Poems
  Wuthering Heights
• William Makepeace Thackeray
  Vanity Fair
  The History of Henry Esmond
• George Meredith
  Poems
  The Egoist
• Francis Thompson
  Poems
• Lionel Johnson
  Poems
• Robert Bridges
  Poems
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  Collected Poems
  The Man Who Was Thursday
• Samuel Butler
  Erewhon
  The Way of All Flesh
• W. S. Gilbert
  Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
  Bab Ballads
• Wilkie Collins
  The Moonstone
  The Woman in White
  No Name
• Coventry Patmore
  Odes
• James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis)
  The City of the Dreadful Night
• Oscar Wilde
  Plays
  The Picture of Dorian Gray
  The Artist as Critic
  Letters
• John Davidson
  Ballads and Songs
• Ernest Dowson
  Complete Poems
• George Eliot
  Adam Bede
  Silas Marner
  The Mill on the Floss
  Middlemarch
  Daniel Deronda
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  Essays
  Kidnapped
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Treasure Island
  The New Arabian Nights
  The Master of Ballantrae
  Weir of Hermiston
• William Morris
  Early Romances
  Poems
  The Earthly Paradise
  The Well at the World's End
  News from Nowhere
• Bram Stoker
  Dracula
• George Macdonald
  Lilith
  At the Back of the North Wind

  Germany

• Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenburg)
  Hymns to the Night
  Aphorisms
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
  Fairy Tales
• Eduard Mörike
  Selected Poems
  Mozart on His Way to Prague
• Theodor Storm
  Immensee
  Poems
• Gottfried Keller
  Green Henry
  Tales
• E. T. A. Hoffmann
  The Devil's Elixir
  Tales
• Jeremias Gotthelf
  The Black Spider
• Adalbert Stifter
  Indian Summer
  Tales
• Friedrich Schlegel
  Criticism and Aphorisms
• Georg Büchner
  Danton's Death
  Woyzeck
• Heinrich Heine
  Complete Poems
• Richard Wagner
  The Ring of the Nibelung
• Friedrich Nietzsche
  The Birth of Tragedy
  Beyond Good and Evil
  On the Genealogy of Morals
  The Will to Power
• Theodor Fontane
  Effi Briest
• Stefan George
  Selected Poems

  Russia

• Aleksandr Pushkin
  Complete Prose Tales
  Complete Poetry
  Eugene Onegin
  Narrative Poems
  Boris Godunov
• Nikolay Gogol
  The Complete Tales
  Dead Souls
  The Government Inspector
• Mikhail Lermontov
  Narrative Poems
  A Hero of Our Time
• Segey Aksakov
  A Family Chronicle
• Aleksandr Herzen
  My Past and Thoughts
  From the Other Shore
• Ivan Goncharov
  The Frigate Pallada
  Oblomov
• Ivan Turgenev
  A Sportsman's Notebook
  A Month in the Country
  Fathers and Sons
  On the Eve
  First Love
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Notes from the Underground
  Crime and Punishment
  The Idiot
  The Possessed (The Devils)
  The Brothers Karamazov
  Short Novels
• Leo Tolstoy
  The Cossacks
  War and Peace
  Anna Karenina
  A Confession
  The Power of Darkness
  Short Novels
• Nikolay Leskov
  Tales
• Aleksandr Ostrovsky
  The Storm
• Nikolay Chernyshevsky
  What is to Be Done?
• Aleksandr Blok
  The Twelve and Other Poems
• Anton Chekhov
  The Tales
  The Major Plays

  The United States

• Washington Irving
  The Sketch Book
• William Cullen Bryant
  Collected Poems
• James Fenimore Cooper
  The Deerslayers
• John Greenleaf Whittier
  Collected Poems
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Nature
  Essays, first and second series
  Representative Men
  The Conduct of Life
  Journals
  Poems
• Emily Dickinson
  Complete Poems
• Walt Whitman
  Leaves of Grass, first edition
  Leaves of Grass, third edition
  The Complete Poems
  Specimen Days
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  The Scarlet Letter
  Tales and Sketches
  The Marble Faun
  Notebooks
• Herman Melville
  Moby-Dick
  The Piazza Tales
  Billy Budd
  Collected Poems
  Clarel
• Edgar Allan Poe
  Poetry and Tales
  Essays and Reviews
  The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
  Eureka
• Jones Very
  Essays and Poems
• Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
  The Cricket and Other Poems
• Henry David Thoreau
  Walden
  Poems
  Essays
• Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
  Two Years Before the Mast
• Frederick Douglass
  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Selected Poems
• Sidney Lanier
  Poems
• Francis Parkman
  France and England in North America
  The California and Oregon Trail
• Henry Adams
  The Education of Henry Adams
  Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres
• Ambrose Bierce
  Collected Writings
• Louisa May Alcott
  Little Women
• Charles W. Chesnutt
  The Short Fiction
• Kate Chopin
  The Awakening
• William Dean Howells
  The Rise of Silas Lapham
  A Modern Instance
• Stephen Crane
  The Red Badge of Courage
  Stories and Poems
• Henry James
  The Portrait of a Lady
  The Bostonians
  The Princess Casamassima
  The Awkward Age
  Short Novels and Tales
  The Ambassadors
  The Wings of the Dove
  The Golden Bowl
• Harold Frederic
  The Damnation of Theron Ware
• Mark Twain
  Complete Short Stories
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  The Devil's Racetrack
  Number Forty-Four: The Mysterious Stranger
  Pudd'nhead Wilson
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• William James
  The Varieties of Religious Experience
  Pragmatism
• Frank Norris
  The Octopus
• Sarah Orne Jewett
  The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
• Trumbull Stickney
  Poems