The Middle East
The Bible
Gilgamesh
Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat
Rumi & Hafiz, Sufi Poetry
India
Mahabharata (Bhagavad Gita)
Ramayana
Upanishads
Dhammapada & Buddhist Discourses
Nagarjuna, Wisdom of the Middle Way
China
I-Ching
Confucius, Analects
Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing
Zhuangzi
Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian
Japan
Murasaki, Tale of Genji
Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
Kenkō, Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)
Dōgen, Shobogenzo
Yukio Mishima
Haruki Murakami
Greece
Sappho, poems & fragments
Homer, Iliad & Odyssey
Herodotus, The Histories
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars
Aeschylus, plays
Sophocles, plays
Rome
Lucretius, The Nature of Things
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Catullus, poems
Plutarch, Parallel Lives
Petronius, Satyricon
Russia
Tolstoy
Gogol
Dostoevsky
Chekhov
South & Central America
Jorge Lus Borges
Octavio Paz
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Clarice Lispector
Julio Cortázar
Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Chinua Achebe
Wole Soyinka
Amos Tutuola
Ben Okri
Tayeb Salih
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Europe and the West
Njals Saga
Beowulf
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Proust
George Eliot
Jane Austen
Henry James
Kafka
North America
Emerson
Thoreau
Hawthorne
Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Toni Morrison
Leslie Marmon Silko
Edith Wharton
Thomas Pynchon
Cormac McCarthy
Flannery O’Connor
Raymond Carver
Ralph Ellison
James Baldwin
English Language Poetry
William Blake
Byron
Emily Dickinson
William Carlos Williams
T.S. Eliot
Frank O’Hara
Hart Crane
Louise Glück
