Harold Bloom

[Wikipedia] b.1930 [personal canon]


Shelley's Mythmaking (1959 criticism)
The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (1961/1971 criticism)
Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument (1963 criticism)
Yeats (1970 criticism)
The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition (1971 criticism)
Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens (1976 criticism)
Figures of Capable Imagination (1976 criticism)
Wallace Stevens: The Poems of our Climate (1977 criticism)
Deconstruction and Criticism (1980 criticism)
The Flight to Lucifer: Gnostic Fantasy (1980)
The Breaking of the Vessels (1982 criticism)
The Book of J (1990 criticism) with David Rosenberg
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present (1989 criticism)
The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation (1992 nonfiction)
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (1973/1997 criticism) (Funsten)
A Map of Misreading (1975 criticism)
Kabbalah and Criticism (1975 criticism)
Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (1982 criticism)
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994 criticism)
Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996 nonfiction)
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1999 criticism)
How to Read and Why (2001 criticism)
El futur de la imaginació (The Future of the Imagination) (2002 nonfiction)
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2003 nonfiction)
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003 criticism)
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (2004 nonfiction)
Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005 nonfiction)

Allan Bloom

[Wikipedia] b.1930


Shakespeare's Politics (1964 criticism) with Harry Jaffa
Republic of Plato (1988/1991 nonfiction)
Closing of the American Mind (1987 nonfiction) (NatRev, bPyramid-539)
Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990 (1991 essays)
Love and Friendship (1993 nonfiction)
Shakespeare on Love & Friendship (2000 criticism)
Plato's Symposium (2001 nonfiction) with Seth Benardete

Jane Smiley

[Wikipedia] b.1949 [personal canon]


Barn Blind (1980)
At Paradise Gate (1981)
Duplicate Keys (1984)
The Greenlanders (1988)
Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989)
A Thousand Acres (1991) (Koen-64, LJ-123, Kunde-173, OCLC-411, cPunch, StMarks)
Moo (1995)
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998)
Horse Heaven (2000)
Good Faith (2003)
Ten Days in the Hills (2007)
The Age of Grief (1987 stories)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005 criticism)

Jorn Barger

[Wikipedia] b.1953 [personal canon]


Robot Wisdom: a journal of cybernetic psychology #1 (1979 serial)
I am the world (1980 comic strip)
Of the hand in the heart of the mind (1980 poem)
Brainfeathers (1980-1984 poem)
Antimath: an alphabet of emotions (1980-1998 comics)
James Joyce and artificial intelligence (1985 criticism)
Forethought #1 (1986 serial)
Solace: a textbook of romantic psychology (1987-1988 nonfiction)
Eve Chose to Know (1988 serial)
FWAKE-L digest (1992 criticism)
Was: Barger@ILS: memoirs of an AI hacker (1993 autobiography)
Ascii art FAQ (1993 nonfiction)
John Dee's Holua expedition (1993 story)
Bill Bixby haiku (1993 poems)
Keepers #1 (1994 serial)
Thomas Pynchon FAQ (1994 nonfiction)
"His year made up of anniversaries" a Joycean book of days (1994 nonfiction)
Outsider's Guide to AI (1994-1999 nonfiction)
Ascii maps (1995 design experiment)
Hypertext Unabomber manifesto (1996 design experiment)
Electronic text (alt.etext) FAQ (1997 nonfiction)
Robot Wisdom newsgroup finder (1997 reference)
Robot Wisdom Weblog (1997-present serial)
Net.literate (the smarter portal) (1998 design experiment)
IQ Infinity: the unknown James Joyce (1999-2005 criticism)

New Game digests (1996-2000 criticism)
Online shorter Finnegans Wake (1999 criticism)
Internet Ulysses (2000-2001 criticism)
James Joyce's Dedalus years (2000-2001 biography)
Animated Wandering Rocks (2001 criticism)
Annotated Stephen Hero (2001 criticism)
Dublin literary gossip (2001 history)
James Joyce's Old/New Testaments (2002 criticism)
50 Joycean conjectures (2005-2007 criticism)

Histories of jazz and rock (2000 design experiments)
Judaism timeline (2001-2002 history)
Historical Jesus FAQ (2002 history)
Timelines of Greece and Rome with etexts (2002 design experiment)
The Internet Hamlet (2002 design experiment)
Gothtown's Night of Woe (2002 pun)
Timeline of GNU/Linux and Unix (2002 history)
Le seul mot juste: Flaubert resources (2002 criticism)
Timeline of knowledge representation (2002-2003 history of ideas)
Verlaine's "Clair de lune" (2003 translation)
Logarithmic timeline of the universe (2003-2005 history)
Fish-math (2004 comics)
The Octaves of Light (2005 visualisation experiment)
20 miscellaneous conjectures (2005 nonfiction)
Robot Wisdom flickrblog (2006 design experiment)
Warum ich so weise bin: neologisms (2007 reference)
The Barger Canon (2007 criticism)
Canon 2.0 (2007 website)

Mary McCarthy

[Wikipedia] b.1912

The Company She Keeps (1942)
The Oasis (1949)
The Groves of Academe (1952) (Burgess)
A Charmed Life (1955)
Venice Observed (1956 nonfiction)
The Stones of Florence (1956 nonfiction)
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957 autobiography)
The Group (1962) (StMarks)
Vietnam (1967 nonfiction)
The Writing on the Wall (1970 essays)
Birds of America (1971)
The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974 nonfiction)
Cannibals and Missionaries (1979)
Ideas and the Novel (1980 criticism)
How I Grew (1987 autobiography)
Intellectual Memoirs (1992 autobiography)

Richard Ellmann

[Wikipedia] b.1918


Yeats: The Man And The Masks (1948 biography)
James Joyce (1959, 1982 biography) (MLnf-73, Good, Mesler-25, Barger-10)
The Identity of Yeats (1964 criticism)
Eminent Domain: Yeats among Wilde, Joyce, Pound, Eliot and Auden (1967 criticism)
Ulysses On The Liffey (1972 criticism)
Golden Codgers (1973 biography)
The Consciousess of Joyce (1977 criticism)
Four Dubliners: Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett (1986 criticism)
Oscar Wilde (1987) (Good)
A long the riverrun (1989 essays)

Kingsley Amis

[Wikipedia] b.1922


1947 Bright November
1953 A Frame of Mind
1954 Poems: Fantasy Portraits.
1954 Lucky Jim (Burgess, Time, Good, StMarks, cPunch, Observer-65, Gioia1-67, Ukaunz-514, Barger-31)
1955 That Uncertain Feeling
1956 A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956.
1957 Socialism and the Intellectuals. A Fabian Society pamphlet
1958 I Like it Here
1960 Take A Girl Like You
1960 New Maps of Hell: a Survey of Science Fiction
1960 Hemingway in Space (short story), Punch Dec 1960
1962 My Enemy's Enemy
1962 The Evans County
1963 One Fat Englishman
1965 The Egyptologists (with Robert Conquest).
1965 The James Bond Dossier
1965 The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (pseud. Lt.-Col William ('Bill') Tanner)
1966 The Anti-Death League (Burgess)
1968 Colonel Sun: a James Bond Adventure (pseud. Robert Markham)
1968 I Want It Now
1968 A Look Round the Estate: Poems, 1957-1967
1969 The Green Man (Ukaunz-377)
1970 What Became of Jane Austen?, and Other Questions
1971 Girl, 20
1972 On Drink
1973 The Riverside Villas Murders
1974 Ending Up
1974 Rudyard Kipling and his World
1975 The Crime Of The Century
1976 The Alteration
1978 Jake's Thing
1978 The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (ed.)
1979 Collected Poems 1944-78
1980 Russian Hide-and-Seek
1980 Collected Short Stories
1983 Every Day Drinking
1984 How's Your Glass?
1984 Stanley and the Women (Barger-72)
1986 The Old Devils (Ukaunz-228)
1988 Difficulties With Girls
1990 The Folks That Live on the Hill
1990 The Amis Collection
1991 Memoirs
1991 Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories
1991 We Are All Guilty
1992 The Russian Girl
1994 You Can't Do Both
1995 The Biographer's Moustache
1997 The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage
2001 The Letters of Kingsley Amis, Edited by Zachary Leader

Renata Adler

[Wikipedia] b.1938


A Year in the Dark: Journal of a Film Critic (1969 criticism)
Toward a Radical Middle (1970 nonfiction)
Speedboat (1976) (Barger-24)
Pitch Dark (1983)
Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al., Sharon v. Time (1986 nonfiction)
Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker (1999 nonfiction)
Canaries in the Mineshaft: Essays on Politics and the Media (2001 essays)
Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Decision that Made George W. Bush President (2004 nonfiction)
In Private Capacity: The History of the Bilderberg Conference (2002 nonfiction)

Anthony Burgess

[Wikipedia] b.1917 [personal canon]


The Long Day Wanes 1956-59
Time for a Tiger 1956
The Enemy in the Blanket1958
Beds in the East 1959
The Right to an Answer 1960
The Doctor is Sick 1960
The Worm and the Ring 1961
Devil of a State 1961
One Hand Clapping 1961
A Clockwork Orange 1962 (BPL, MLb-65, MLr-55, Madison-26, OCLC-387, NYPubLib, Radcliffe-49, Time, Koen-49, LJ-58, Kunde-31, Piegirl-16, Mesler-58, Ukaunz-437, Friendswood-34, Cannon, Winalotta-62, Barron, JoCo)
The Wanting Seed 1962
Honey for the Bears 1963
Enderby 1963-84
Inside Mr. Enderby 1963 (Ukaunz-432)
The Eve of St. Venus 1964
Nothing Like the Sun 1964 (Bloom)
A Vision of Battlements 1965
Tremor of Intent 1966
Enderby Outside 1968
M/F 1971
Napoleon Symphony 1974
The Clockwork Testament 1974
Beard's Roman Women 1977
Abba Abba 1977
1985 1978
Man of Nazareth 1979
Earthly Powers 1980
The End of the World News 1982
Enderby’s Dark Lady 1984
The Kingdom of the Wicked 1985
The Pianoplayers 1986
Any Old Iron 1988
The Devil’s Mode 1989
Mozart and the Wolf Gang 1991
A Dead Man in Deptford 1993
Byrne 1995

Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965 nonfiction), also published as Re Joyce
Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (1973 nonfiction)
Shakespeare (1970 nonfiction)
Homage to QWERT YUIOP (1986 nonfiction)
Little Wilson and Big God (1986 nonfiction)
You’ve Had Your Time (1990 nonfiction)
A Mouthful of Air (1992 nonfiction)
One Man's Chorus (1998 nonfiction)
Obscenity and the Arts (1973 nonfiction)
New York (1976 nonfiction)
A Christmas Recipe (1977 nonfiction)
On Going To Bed (1982 nonfiction)
An Essay on Censorship (letter to Salman Rushdie in verse) (1989 nonfiction)
Childhood (Penguin 60s series) (1996 nonfiction)
(as John Burgess Wilson) English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974 nonfiction)
The Novel To-day (1963 nonfiction)
The Novel Now: A Student's Guide to Contemporary Fiction (1967 nonfiction)
Scrissero in Inglese (1979 nonfiction)
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice (1984 nonfiction)
This Man and Music (1982 nonfiction)
On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang, Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination (1991 nonfiction)
Moses: A Narrative (1976 poem)
Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems (2002 poems)
The Devil's Mode and Other Stories (1989 stories)
A Long Trip to Tea Time (1976 kids)
The Land Where The Ice Cream Grows (1979 kids)
Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (1986 autobiography)
You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (1990 autobiography)
Urgent Copy: Literary Studies (1968 nonfiction)
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986 nonfiction)
One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings, ed. Ben Forkner (1998 nonfiction)
Ernest Hemingway and his World (1978 nonfiction)
Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence (1985 nonfiction)

Language Made Plain (1964 nonfiction)
A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992 nonfiction)

Martin Amis

[Wikipedia] b.1949

The Rachel Papers (1973)
Dead Babies (1975) (Ukaunz-333)
Success (1978)
Other People (1981) (Barger-51)
Money (1984) (Time, StMarks, Waterstones-70, Gioia1-81, Ukaunz-260)
London Fields (1989) (Harvard, Barger-69, Ukaunz-197)
Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense (1991) (Ukaunz-167)
The Information (1995) (Ukaunz-112)
Night Train (1997)
Yellow Dog (2003)
House of Meetings (2006)
The Pregnant Widow (2007)
Einstein's Monsters (1987 stories)
Two Stories (1994 stories)
God's Dice (1995 stories)
Heavy Water: And Other Stories (1998 stories)
State of England: And Other Stories (1998 stories)
Amis Omnibus (omnibus) (1999 stories)
The Fiction of Martin Amis (2000 stories)
Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982 nonfiction)
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America (1986 nonfiction)
Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions (1993 nonfiction)
Experience (2000 autobiography)
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (2001 criticism)
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002 nonfiction)

Chinua Achebe

[Wikipedia] b.1930 Nigeria

Things Fall Apart (1958) (Bloom, Fadiman, sSmith, Norway, NYPubLib, Radcliffe-70, Time, Utne, StMarks, Logos, JoCo, Gioia2, Inspirica, Observer-71, Madison-50, Urich-51, Burt-56, Ward, Berres, LJ-133, Kunde-203, OCLC-316, Ukaunz-472, bPyramid-530)
No Longer at Ease (1960) (Bloom, sSmith, Berres)
Arrow of God (1964) (Bloom, Berres, Ukaunz-423)
A Man of the People (1966) (Burgess)
Chike and the River (1966)
Anthills of the Savannah (1988)
The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (1962 stories)
Girls at War and Other Stories (1973 stories)
Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems (1971 poems)
Another Africa (1998 poems)
Collected Poems (2004 poems)
The Novelist as Teacher (1965 nonfiction)
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (1975 criticism)
Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975 nonfiction)
The Trouble With Nigeria (1984 nonfiction)
Hopes and Impediments (1988 nonfiction)
Home and Exile (2000 nonfiction)
Dead Men's Path (1972 kids)
How the Leopard Got His Claws (with John Iroaganachi) (1972 kids)
The Flute (1975 kids)
The Drum (1978 kids)

Muriel Spark

[Wikipedia] b.1918

The Comforters (1957)
Robinson (1958)
Memento Mori (1959) (Ukaunz-465)
The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)
The Bachelors (1960)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) (MLb-76, LJ-24, Time, Friendswood-43, Kunde-61, Observer-72, Madison-76, Ukaunz-450)
The Girls of Slender Means (1963) (Burgess, Ukaunz-431)
The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) (Burgess)
The Public Image (1968)
The Driver's Seat (1970) (Ukaunz-363)
Not to Disturb (1971)
The Hothouse by the East River (1973)
The Abbess of Crewe (1974)
The Takeover (1976)
Territorial Rights (1979)
Loitering with Intent (1981) (Smiley)
The Only Problem (1984)
A Far Cry From Kensington (1988)
Symposium (1991)
Reality and Dreams (1996)
Aiding and Abetting (2000)
The Finishing School (2004)
Tribute to Wordsworth (edited by Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford) (1950 criticism)
Child of Light (a study of Mary Shelley) (1951 criticism)
The Fanfarlo and Other Verse (1952 poems)
John Masefield (biography) (1953 biography)
Emily Brontë: her life and work (by Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford) (1953 biography)
The Go-away Bird (1958 stories)
Voices at Play (1961 stories and plays)
Doctors of Philosophy (1963 play)
Collected Poems (1967 poems)
Collected Stories (1967 stories)
The Very Fine Clock (1968 kids)
Bang-bang You're Dead (1982 stories)
Going up to Sotheby's (1982 poems)
Curriculum Vitae (1992 autobiography)
Complete Short Stories (2001 stories)
All the Poems (2004 poems)

Robertson Davies

[Wikipedia] b.1913 Canada


The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947 essays)
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949 essays)
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967 essays)
The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks (1985 essays)
Shakespeare's Boy Actors (1939 criticism)
Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course (1942 criticism)
Renown at Stratford (1953 criticism) (with Tyrone Guthrie)
Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded (1954 criticism) (with Tyrone Guthrie)
Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd (1955 criticism) (with Tyrone Guthrie)
A Voice From the Attic (1960 criticism)
A Feast of Stephen (1970 criticism)
Stephen Leacock (1970 criticism)
One Half of Robertson Davies (1977 criticism)
The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (1979 criticism)
The Well-Tempered Critic (1981 criticism)
The Mirror of Nature (1983 criticism)
Reading and Writing (1993 criticism)
The Merry Heart (1996 criticism)
Happy Alchemy (1997 criticism)

Tempest-Tost (1951 Salterton trilogy)
Leaven of Malice (1954 Salterton trilogy)
A Mixture of Frailties (1958 Salterton trilogy)
Fifth Business (1970 Deptford trilogy) (Bloom, MLr-40, StMarks, Mesler-29, Madison-82, Barger-55)
The Manticore (1972 Deptford trilogy) (Bloom, StMarks, Mesler-29, Barger-55)
World of Wonders (1975 Deptford trilogy) (Bloom, StMarks, Mesler-29, Barger-55)
The Rebel Angels (1981 Cornish trilogy) (Bloom, Burgess)
What's Bred in the Bone (1985 Cornish trilogy)
The Lyre of Orpheus (1988 Cornish trilogy)
Murther and Walking Spirits (1991 Toronto trilogy)
The Cunning Man (1994 Toronto trilogy) (MLr-99)

High Spirits (1982 stories)

Overlaid (1948 play)
Eros at Breakfast (1948 play)
Fortune My Foe (1949 play)
Hunting Stuart (1949 play)
The Voice of the People (1949 play)
At My Heart's Core (1950 play)
A Masque of Aesop (1952 play)
A Jig for the Gypsy (1955 play)
A Masque of Mr. Punch (1963 play)
Question Time (1975 play)
Brothers in the Black Art (1981 play)

Robert Graves

[Wikipedia] b.1895


Over the Brazier (1916 poems)
Goliath and David (1917 poems)
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917 poems)
Treasure Box (1920 poems)
Country Sentiment (1920 poems)
The Pier-Glass (1921 poems)
Whipperginny (1923 poems)
The Feather Bed (1923 poems)
Mock Beggar Hall (1924 poems)
Welchmans Hose (1925 poems)
Poems (1925 poems)
The Marmosites Miscellany (as John Doyle) (1925 poems)
Poems (1914-1927) (1927 poems)
Poems 1929 (1929 poems)
Ten Poems More (1930 poems)
Poems 1926-1930 (1931 poems)
To Whom Else? (1931 poems)
Poems 1930-1933 (1933 poems)
Collected Poems (1938 poems)
No More Ghosts (1940 poems)
Work in Hand, with Norman Cameron and Alan Hodge (1942 poems)
Poems (1943 poems)
Poems 1938-1945 (1945 poems)
Collected Poems (1914-1947) (1948 poems)
Poems and Satires (1951 poems)
Poems 1953 (1953 poems)
Collected Poems 1955 (1955 poems)
Poems Selected by Himself (1957 poems)
The Poems of Robert Graves (1958 poems)
Collected Poems 1959 (1959 poems)
The Penny Fiddle: Poems for Children (1960 poems)
More Poems 1961 (1961 poems)
Collected Poems (1961 poems)
New Poems 1962 (1962 poems)
The More Deserving Cases: Eighteen Old Poems for Reconsideration (1962 poems)
Man Does, Woman Is (1964 poems)
Ann at Highwood Hall: Poems for Children (1964 poems)
Love Respelt (1965 poems)
Collected Poems 1965 (1965 poems)
Seventeen Poems Missing from 'Love Respelt' (1966 poems)
Colophon to 'Love Respelt' (1967 poems)
Poems 1965-1968 (1968 poems)
Poems About Love (1969 poems)
Love Respelt Again (1969 poems)
Beyond Giving (1969 poems)
Poems 1968-1970 (1970 poems)
The Green-Sailed Vessel (1971 poems)
Poems: Abridged for Dolls and Princes (1971 poems)
Poems 1970-1972 (1972 poems)
Deyá, A Portfolio (1972 poems)
Timeless Meeting: Poems (1973 poems)
At the Gate (1974 poems)
Collected Poems 1975 (1975 poems) (Bloom, Ward)
New Collected Poems (1977 poems)
Complete Poems Volume 1 (1995 poems)
Complete Poems Volume 2 (1996 poems)
Complete Poems Volume 3 (1999 poems)
The Complete Poems in One Volume (2000 poems)

My Head! My Head! (1925)
The Shout (1929)
No Decency Left (with Laura Riding) (as Barbara Rich) (1932)
The Real David Copperfield (1934)
I, Claudius (1934) (MLb-14, Friendswood-35, Kunde-53, Utah-66, LJ-70, MLr-74, Koen-97, Waterstones-99, Barger-120, Harvard, Time, sSmith, Sullivan)
Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina (1934) (sSmith)
Antigua, Penny, Puce (1936)
Count Belisarius (1938)
Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth (1940)
Proceed, Sergeant Lamb (1941)
The Story of Marie Powell: Wife to Mr. Milton (1943)
The Golden Fleece (Hercules, My Shipmate) (1945) (sSmith)
King Jesus (1946) (Bloom, sSmith)
Watch the North Wind Rise (Seven Days in New Crete) (1949)
The Islands of Unwisdom (1949)
Homer's Daughter (1955)
Catacrok! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny (1956 stories)
They Hanged My Saintly Billy (1957)
Collected Short Stories (1964 stories)
An Ancient Castle (1980)
On English Poetry (1922 criticism)
The Meaning of Dreams (1924 nonfiction)
Poetic Unreason and Other Studies (1925 criticism)
Contemporary Techniques of Poetry: A Political Analogy (1925 criticism)
Another Future of Poetry (1926 criticism)
Impenetrability or The Proper Habit of English (1927 criticism)
The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey (1927 criticism)
Scottish Ballads (1927 criticism)
Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing and Improper Language (1927 criticism)

A Survey of Modernist Poetry (with Laura Riding) (1927 criticism)

Lawrence and the Arabs. London: Jonathan Cape (1927 biography)

A Pamphlet Against Anthologies (with Laura Riding) (1928 criticism)

Mrs. Fisher or The Future of Humour (1928 criticism)

Good-bye to All That (1929 autobiography) (Harvard, cPunch, MLnf, Connolly)

But It Still Goes On: An Accumulation (1930 nonfiction)

The Long Weekend (with Alan Hodge) (1940 criticism)

The Reader Over Your Shoulder (with Alan Hodge) (1943 criticism)
The White Goddess (1948 nonfiction) (Barger-95)

The Common Asphodel: Collected Essays on Poetry 1922-1949 (1949 criticism)

Occupation: Writer (1950 autobiography)

The Nazarene Gospel Restored (with Joshua Podro) (1953 nonfiction)

The Greek Myths (1955 nonfiction) (Borges)

The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures, 1954-1955 (1955 criticism)

Adam's Rib (1955 nonfiction)

Jesus in Rome (with Joshua Podro) (1957 nonfiction)

Steps (1958 nonfiction)

5 Pens in Hand (1958 criticism)

Food for Centaurs (1960 nonfiction)

Greek Gods and Heroes (Myths of Ancient Greece) (1960 nonfiction)
Oxford Addresses on Poetry (1962 criticism)

The Siege and Fall of Troy (1962 nonfiction)
The Big Green Book (1962 kids)
Hebrew Myths. The Book of Genesis (with Raphael Patai) (1964 nonfiction)

Majorca Observed (1965 nonfiction)

Mammon and the Black Goddess (1965 criticism)

Two Wise Children (1966 kids)

Poetic Craft and Principle (1967 criticism)
The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star (1968 kids)
Greek Myths and Legends (1968 nonfiction)

The Crane Bag (1968 kids)
On Poetry: Collected Talks and Essays (1969 criticism)

Difficult Questions, Easy Answers (1972 criticism)

In Broken Images: Selected Letters 1914-1946 (1982 letters)
Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters 1946-1972 (1984 letters)
Collected Writings on Poetry (1992 criticism)

Some Speculations on Literature, History, and Religion (2000 essays)

Philip Roth

[Wikipedia] b.1933


Goodbye, Columbus (1959) (Berres)
Letting Go (1962)
When She Was Good (1967)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) (Bloom, MLb-52, Friendswood-57, Utah-79, LJ-80, Kunde-84, Mesler-87, Burgess, HungryMind, Funsten, NYPubLib, Time, JoCo, Sullivan, Berres, Ukaunz-378, bPyramid-755)
Our Gang (1971)
The Breast (1972) (Ukaunz-351)
The Great American Novel (1973) (bPyramid-158)
My Life As a Man (1974) (Bloom, Mesler-16, Madison-96, Berres)
Reading Myself and Others (1976 criticism)
The Professor of Desire (1977)
The Ghost Writer (1979) (Bloom, Berres)
Zuckerman Unbound (1981) (Bloom, Berres)
The Anatomy Lesson (1983) (Bloom)
The Prague Orgy (1985) (Bloom)
The Counterlife (1986) (Bloom, Berres)
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988 autobiography)
Deception: A Novel (1990)
Patrimony: A Memoir (1991 autobiography) (Bloom, Berres)
Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) (Bloom, Berres, Ukaunz-137)
Sabbath's Theater (1995) (Mesler-52, Ukaunz-114)
American Pastoral (1997) (Gioia1-75, Time, Observer, cPunch, Ukaunz-99, bPyramid-652)
I Married a Communist (1998)
The Human Stain (2000) (Ukaunz-62, Gioia2)
The Dying Animal (2001)
Shop Talk (2001 criticism)
The Plot Against America (2004) (Ukaunz-8)
Everyman (2006)
Exit Ghost (2007)

Vladimir Nabokov

[Wikipedia] b.1899


(1926) Mary
(1928) King, Queen, Knave
(1930) The Defense (Burgess)
(1930) The Eye
(1932) Glory
(1932) Laughter in the Dark
(1936) Despair
(1938) Invitation to a Beheading
(1938) The Gift
(1938) The Waltz Invention (play)
(1941) The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (cPunch)
(1944) Nikolai Gogol (criticism)
(1947) Bend Sinister
(1947) Nine Stories (stories)
(1955) Lolita (Bloom, Piegirl-2, Mesler-3, MLb-4, Kunde-5, bPyramid-5, Friendswood-5, Funsten-9, Radcliffe-11, Barger-16, LJ-17, Froggie-25, Koen-31, Waterstones-31, Montana-32, Madison-32, MLr-34, Utah-35, Northport-46, BOMC, BPL, Fadiman, Harvard, HungryMind, Norway, NYPubLib, Smiley, Time, Burt, Observer, Good, JoCo, Sullivan, cPunch, Logos, Cannon, Hitchers, Barron, Gioia2, BBC-178, OCLC-257, Ukaunz-496)
(1957) Pnin (Barger, Ukaunz-485)
(1958) Nabokov's Dozen (stories)
(1962) Pale Fire (Bloom, Montana-13, Piegirl-17, Barger-25, Gioia1-35, Mesler-45, ML-53, bPyramid-101, Kunde-115, Burgess, Fadiman, Time, Sullivan, Ukaunz-438)
(1963) Notes on Prosody (criticism)
(1964) Eugene Onegin (criticism)
(1966) Nabokov's Quartet (stories)
(1967) Speak, Memory (autobiography) (MLnf, Fadiman, NatRev, Barger)
(1968) Nabokov's Congeries (stories)
(1969) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Ward, bPyramid-69, Ukaunz-380)
(1969) Poems and Problems (poems)
(1972) Transparent Things (Barger)
(1973) A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (stories)
(1973) Strong Opinions (criticism) (Barger-14)
(1974) Look at the Harlequins!
(1975) Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (stories)
(1976) Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (stories)
(1979) The Nabokov–Wilson Letters
(1980) Lectures on Literature (criticism)
(1981) Lectures on Russian Literature (criticism)
(1983) Lectures on Don Quixote (criticism)
(1984) The Man from the USSR and Other Plays (plays)
(1985) The Enchanter
(1995) The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (stories)
(2000) Nabokov's Butterflies
(2005) Cloud, Castle, Lake (stories)

Tom Wolfe

[Wikipedia] b.1931


The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965 criticism)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968 criticism) (Funsten, NatRev, Sullivan, Ukaunz-397)
The Pump House Gang (1968 criticism)
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970 criticism) (NatRev)
The New Journalism (1975 criticism) (co-edited with EW Johnson)
The Painted Word (1975 criticism)
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976 criticism)
The Right Stuff (1979 nonfiction) (MLnf, bPyramid-114)
In Our Time (1980 criticism)
From Bauhaus to Our House (1981 criticism)
The Purple Decades (1982 criticism)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) (Barger-53, Radcliffe-65, Waterstones-82, Kunde-134, NYPubLib, StMarks, Ukaunz-218)
A Man in Full (1998) (Barger-53)
Hooking Up (2000 criticism)
I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)

criteria for inclusion: popularity, sociology

Graham Greene

[Wikipedia] b.1904, Great Britain

Babbling April (1925 poems)
The Man Within (1929)
The Name of Action (1930)
Rumour at Nightfall (1932)
Stamboul Train (Orient Express) (1932)
It's a Battlefield (1934)
England Made Me (1935) (Ukaunz-630)
A Gun for Sale (This Gun for Hire) (1936)
Journey Without Maps (1936 travel)
Brighton Rock (1938) (Bloom, sSmith, Gioia2, Waterstones-61, Ukaunz-605)
The Confidential Agent (1939)
The Lawless Roads (1939 travel)
The Power and the Glory (The Labyrinthine Ways) (1940) (Bloom, Gioia1-66, Waterstones-72, OCLC-307, Ukaunz-589, bPyramid-725, Burgess, Time, Logos, Connolly, sSmith, Inspirica, Madison)
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
Nineteen Stories (1947)
The Heart of the Matter (1948) (Bloom, Utah-32, MLb-40, Mesler-88, Kunde-97, Friendswood-118, Ukaunz-551, Burgess, Time, Sullivan, sSmith, Gioia2)
The Third Man (1949 novella) (Ukaunz-535)
The End of the Affair (1951) (JoCo, LJ-145, Kunde-221, Ukaunz-532)
The Living Room (1953 play)
Twenty-One Stories (1954 stories)
The Quiet American (1955) (Observer, Mesler-44, Ukaunz-499)
Loser Takes All (1955)
The Potting Shed (1957 play)
The Little Fire Engine (no date, kids)
The Little Train (1957, kids)
Our Man in Havana (1958) (Urich-43)
The Complaisant Lover (1959 play)
A Burnt-Out Case (1960) (Urich-28, Barger-68)
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961 travel)
A Sense of Reality (1963 stories)
The Little Steamroller (1963, kids)
Carving a Statue (1964 play)
The Comedians (1966) (Barger-36)
The Little Horse Bus (1966, kids)
May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967 stories)
Travels with My Aunt (1969)
A Sort of Life (1971 autobiography)
The Honorary Consul (1973) (Mesler-37, Ukaunz-346)
Lord Rochester's monkey: Being the life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974 biography)
The Return of A.J.Raffles (1975 play)
The Human Factor (1978)
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (1980) (cPunch)
Ways of Escape (1980 autobiography)
The Pleasure-Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935–40 (1980 criticism)
The Great Jowett (1981 play)
Monsignor Quixote (1982)
J'Accuse - The Dark Side of Nice (1982)
Yes and No (1983 play)
For Whom the Bell Chimes (1983 play)
Getting to Know the General (1984 autobiography)
The Tenth Man (1985)
The Captain and the Enemy (1988)
Why the Epigraph? (1989)
Yours, etc.: Letters to the Press (1989 prose)
The Last Word and Other Stories (1990 stories)
A World of My Own (1992 autobiography)

James Dickey

[Wikipedia] b.1923, USA


Into the Stone and Other Poems (1960 poems)
Drowning with Others (1962 poems)
The Suspect in Poetry (1964 criticism)
Helmets (1964 poems)
Two Poems of the Air (1964 poems)
Buckdancer's Choice (1965 poems)
Poems 1957-67 (1967 poems)
Spinning the Crystal Ball: Some Guesses at the Future of American Poetry (1967 criticism)
Babel to Byzantium (1968 criticism)
The Achievement of James Dickey: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems (1968 poems)
Deliverance (1970) (Madison-36, MLb-42, Barger-49, Kunde-101, Friendswood-120, Time, Sullivan)
The Eye Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy (1970 poems)
Self-Interviews (1970)
The Self as Agent (1970)
Sorties: Journals and New Essays (1971 essays)
Exchanges...: Being in the Form of a Dialogue with Joseph Trumbull Stickney (1971)
Jericho: The South Beheld (1974)
The Zodiac (1976 poems)
God's Images: The Bible: A New Vision (1977)
Veteran Birth: The Gadfly Poems 1947-49 (1978 poems)
The Enemy from Eden (1978)
Tucky the Hunter (1978)
In Pursuit of the Grey Soul (1979)
Head-Deep in Strange Sounds: Free-Flight Improvisations from the unEnglish (1979 poems)
The Strength of Fields (1979 poems)
The Starry Place Between the Antlers: Why I Live in South Carolina (1981)
Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems (1981 poems)
The Early Motion (1981 poems) (Bloom)
The Poet Turns on Himself (1982)
Puella (1982 poems)
Värmland (1982 poems)
Night Hurdling: Poems, Essays, Conversations, Commencements, and Afterwards (1983)
Intervisions (1983 poems)
The Central Motion: Poems 1968-79 (1983 poems) (Bloom)
False Youth: Four Seasons (1983 poems)
For a Time and Place (1983 poems)
Bronwen, The Traw, and the Shape-Shifter: A Poem in Four Parts (1986 poems)
Alnilam (1987)
Wayfarer: A Voice from the Southern Mountains (1988)
The Eagle's Mile (1990 poems)
The Whole Motion: Collected Poems 1949-92 (1992 poems)
To the White Sea (1993)