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Nature/ Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1836 AD
Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe · 1839 AD
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 AD
Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854 AD
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 1855 AD
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881 AD
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1884 AD
Poems
Emily Dickinson · 1890 AD
Poems (Dickinson: Collected)
Emily Dickinson · 1890 AD
Main Street / Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis · 1920 AD
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 AD
The Cantos
Ezra Pound · 1925 AD
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 AD
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck · 1931 AD
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 AD
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952 AD
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952 AD
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 AD
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 AD
Long Day's Journey Into Night / Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill · 1956 AD
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 AD
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 AD
Collected Stories / The Slave
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1962 AD
The Lyrics: 1961-2012
Bob Dylan · 1963 AD
Herzog / Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow · 1964 AD
Stoner
John Williams · 1965 AD
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965 AD
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon · 1966 AD
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · 1968 AD
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 AD
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls · 1971 AD
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon · 1973 AD
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro · 1974 AD
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1980 AD
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe · 1980 AD
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1985 AD
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 AD
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis · 1991 AD
Selected Poems (Glück)
Louise Glück · 1992 AD
Industrial Society and Its Future
Ted Kaczynski · 1995 AD
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · 1996 AD
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym) · 2008 AD
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Ben Mezrich · 2009 AD
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares · 2025 AD
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