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Novels

Classics

Chinese

  • The Analects (論語, 논어), Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
  • Mozi (墨子, 묵자), Mo Tzu
  • Tao-te Ching (道德經, 도덕경), Laozi
  • Chuang Tzu
  • Mencius, Meng Tzu (372-289 B.C.)
  • The Great Learning (大學)
  • The Mean
  • Hsün Tzu, or Hsün Ch’ing
  • Han Fei Tzu
  • Records of the Historian: The Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch’ien (ca. 145-ca. 90 B.C.)
  • Texts of Chinese Buddhism
  • The Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Pundarika Sutra, or Miao-fa Lien-hua ching)
  • The Vimalakirtinirdesa Sutra (Wei-mo-chieh so-shuo ching)
  • The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana (Ta-ch’eng ch’i-hsin lun)
  • Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liu-tsu t’an ching)
  • The Record of Lin-chi (d. 866)
  • Supplementary Readings on Chinese Buddhism
  • Works of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
  • Works of Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)
  • General Readings in Chinese Fiction
  • The Water Margin, or All Men Are Brothers (Shui-hu chuan)
  • Journey to the West, or Monkey (Hsi-yu Chi), by Wu Ch’eng-en (ca. 1506-1581)
  • The Golden Lotus (Chin P’ing Mei)
  • Dream of the Red Chamber (Hung-lou meng), by Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in (Ts’ao Chan, d. 1763)
  • Chinese Drama
  • Chinese Poetry
  • The Book of Songs (Shih ching)
  • The Songs of the South (Ch’u Tz’u) by Ch’ü Yüan and Other Poets
  • Chinese Poets and Poetry


Japanese

  • Man’yôshû
  • Court Poetry: The Kokinshû and other Imperial Anthologies
  • The Pillow Book (Makura no sôshi) of Sei Shônagon
  • The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) by Murasaki Shikibu
  • Poetic Diaries and Poem Tales
  • Texts of Japanese Buddhism
  • Writings of Kûkai (Kôbô Daishi, 774-835)
  • Writings of Buddhist Masters of the Kamakura Period
  • Writings of the Zen Master Hakuin (1686-1769)
  • Supplementary Readings in Japanese Buddhism
  • An Account of My Hut (Hôjôki) by Kamo no Chômei (1153-1236)
  • Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa) by Yoshida Kenkô (1283-1350)
  • The Tale of the Heiki (Heiki monogatari)
  • The Nô Plays
  • The Fiction of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693)
  • The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bashô (1644-1694)
  • The Plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)
  • The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura, ca. 1748), by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shôraku, and Namiki Senryû
  • Kokoro, by Natsume Sôseki (1867-1914)


Indian

  • The Vedas
  • Upanishads (ca. 900-500 B.C.)
  • Mahabharata (ca. fifth century B.C.-fourth century C.E.)
  • Bhagavadgita (ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 100)
  • Ramayana of Valmiki (ca. 200 B.C.)
  • Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (ca. A.D. 300)
  • The Vedanta Sutra with the Commentary of Shankaracharya (ca. 780-820)
  • Theravada Buddhism: The Tipitaka
  • Theravada Buddhism: The Dhammapada (ca. 300 B.C.)
  • Theravada Buddhism: The Milindapanha (ca. first century C.E.)
  • Theravada Buddhism: The Mahasatipatthana Sutta
  • Mahayana Buddhism: Prajnaparamita (ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 400)
  • Mahayana Buddhism: The Srimaladevisimhanada Sutra
  • Mahayana Buddhism: The Lankavatara Sutra
  • Mahayana Buddhism: The Sukhavativyuha Sutras
  • Mahayana Buddhism: The Bodhicaryavatara of Shantideva (ca. 650)
  • Supplementary Readings on Indian Buddhism
  • Shakuntala (Abhijnanasakuntala) of Kalidasa (ca. 400)
  • The Little Clay Cart (Mrrcchakatika) of Shudraka (ca. 400)
  • Pancatantra (ca. 200 B.C.) According to Purnabhadra (ca. 1199)
  • Sanskrit Lyric Poetry
  • Gitagovinda of Jayadeva (ca. twelfth century)
  • Indian Devotional Poetry
  • Indo-Islamic Poetry
  • Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
  • Autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)


Islamic

  • The Seven Odes (Al-Mu’allaqat)
  • The Qur’an (Al-Qur’an)
  • The Ring of the Dove (Tawq al-Hamama), by Ibn Hazm (994-1064)
  • The Maqamat of al-Hamadhani (Maqamat al-Hamadhani) (968-1008)
  • The Assemblies of al-Hariri (Maqamat al-Hariri) (1054-1122)
  • The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla)
  • Deliverance from Error (Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal), by al-Ghazali (1058-1111)
  • On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy (Kitab fasl al-maqal), by Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126-1198)
  • The Conference of Birds, by Farid al-Din ’Attar (ca. 1142-ca. 1220)
  • The Mystical Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
  • The Prolegomena (Al-Muqaddima) of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)
  • The Shahnama
  • The Ruba’iyyat of ’Umar Khayyam (eleventh century)
  • The Book of Dede Korkut (Kitab-i Dede Korkut)
  • The Mystical Poetry of Yunus Emre (d. ca. 1320)
  • Leyla and Mejnun, by Fuzuli (ca. 1495-1556)


Miscellaneous

100 must-read books for men

Reference: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 3. Slaughterhouse‐Five by Kurt Vonnegut 4. 1984 by George Orwell 5. The Republic by Plato 6. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 7. The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger 8. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 9. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 13. How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie 14. Call of the Wild by Jack London 15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris 16. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss 17. Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac 18. The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer 19. Catch‐22 by Joseph Heller 20. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 21. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 22. The Master and Margarita by by Mikhail Bulgakov 23. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut 24. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 25. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 26. American Boys’ Handy Book 27. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer 28. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard 29. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 30. A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean 31. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells 32. Malcolm X: The Autobiography 33. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris 34. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 35. All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq 36. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 37. Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch 38. The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt 39. The Bible 40. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 41. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 42. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 43. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 44. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden 45. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 46. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 47. The Histories by Herodotus 48. From Here to Eternity by James Jones 49. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner 50. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig 51. Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson 52. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins 53. White Noise by Don Delillo 54. Ulysses by James Joyce 55. The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott 56. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 57. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson 58. Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 59. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse 60. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine De Pizan 61. The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu 62. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 63. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 65. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 66. The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt 67. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 68. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 69. The Thin Red Line by James Jones 70. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 71. The Politics by Aristotle 72. First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook 73. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 74. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 75. The Crisis by Winston Churchill 76. The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer 77. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 78. Animal Farm by George Orwell 79. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 80. Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche 81. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison 82. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 83. Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post 84. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly 85. Hamlet by Shakespeare 86. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn 87. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 88. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 89. The Stranger by Albert Camus 90. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe 91. The Pearl by John Steinbeck 92. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 93. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 94. Confederacy of Dunces ‐ John Kennedy Toole 95. Foucault’s Pendulum ‐ Umberto Eco 96. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux 97. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard 98. Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose 99. Paradise Lost by John Milton 100. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

by grade

3rd grade

  • Nonfiction,Biography,Amelia to Zora: Twenty-six Women Who Changed the World,Cynthia Chin-Lee,
  • Nonfiction,Biography,Author: A True Story,Helen Lester,
  • Nonfiction,Biography,Bill Peet: An Autobiography,Bill Peet,
  • Nonfiction,Biography,Clean Sea: Story of Rachel Carson,"Carol Hilgartner Schlank, et al.",
  • Nonfiction,Biography,Houdini: World's Greatest Mystery Man and Escape King,Kathleen Krull,
  • Nonfiction,Biography,Leonardo da Vinci,Diane Stanley,
  • Nonfiction,Biography,Reaching for the Moon,Buzz Aldrin,
  • Nonfiction,Biography,So You Want to be An Explorer?,Judith St. George,
  • Nonfiction,Biography,The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin,Peter Sis,
  • Nonfiction,Biography,Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?,Jean Fritz,
  • Nonfiction,Biography,Who Was Harry Houdini?,Tui Sutherland,
  • Nonfiction,History,The American History: 100 True Tales from American History,Jennifer Armstrong,
  • Nonfiction,History,Animals in the House: A History of Pets and People,Sheila Keenan,
  • Nonfiction,History,So You Want to be President?,Judith St. George,
  • Nonfiction,History,What if You Met a Pirate?,Jan Adkins,
  • Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Easy to be Green: Simple Activities You Can Do to Save the Earth,Ellie O'Ryan,
  • Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Great White Sharks,Sandra Markle,
  • Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Living Color,Steve Jenkins,
  • Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Garbage and Recycling (Young Discoverers),Rosie Harlow and Sally Morgan,
  • Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Storms,Seymour Simon,
  • Fiction,Reading,Frindle,Andrew Clements,
  • Fiction,Reading,I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun?,Brian P. Cleary,
  • Fiction,Reading,Summer Reading is Killing Me,Jon Scieszka,
  • Fiction,School,Dexter the Tough,Margaret Pterson Haddix,
  • Fiction,School,Mapping Penny's World,Loreen Leedy,
  • Fiction,School,La Mariposa,Francisco Jimenez,
  • Fiction,School,"Thank You, Mr. Falker",Patricia Polacco,
  • Fiction,Positive,Are We There Yet?,Alison Lester,
  • Fiction,Positive,Babe the Gallant Pig,Dick King-Smith,
  • Fiction,Positive,The Conquerors,David McKee,
  • Fiction,Positive,Dare to Dream!,Carl Sommer,
  • Fiction,Positive,"Dream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom, & Wishes",Susan V. Bosak,
  • Fiction,Positive,The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio,Lloyd Alexander,
  • Fiction,Positive,Hachiko Waits,Leslea Newman,
  • Fiction,Positive,Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story,Wendy Tokuda & Richard Hall,
  • Fiction,Positive,Judy Moody,Megan McDonald,
  • Fiction,Positive,Letters from Rapunzel,Sara Lewis Holmes,
  • Fiction,Positive,Loser,Jerry Spinelli,
  • Fiction,Positive,Paint the Wind,Pam Munoz Ryan,
  • Fiction,Positive,The Penguin's Peril: Taylor-Made Tales #4,Ellen Miles,
  • Fiction,Positive,The Quiltmaker's Gift,Jeff Brumbeau,
  • Fiction,Positive,The Quiltmaker's Journey,Jeff Brumbeau,
  • Fiction,Positive,The Rag Coat,Lauren Mills,
  • Fiction,Positive,Thunder Rose,Jerdine Nolen,
  • Fiction,Classic,Half Magic,Edward Eager,
  • Fiction,Classic,Homer Price,Robert McCloskey,
  • Fiction,Classic,Peter Pan,J. M. Barrie,
  • Fiction,Classic,Rabbit Hill,Robert Lawson,
  • Fiction,Classic,The Wheel on the School,Meindert Dejong,
  • Fiction,Classic,The Wolves of Willoughby Chase,Joan Aiken,
  • Fiction,Historical,Great White Sharks,Sandra Markle,
  • Fiction,Historical,Molly's Pilgrim,Barbara Cohen,
  • Fiction,Historical,Morning Girl,Michael Dorris,
  • Fiction,Historical,Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy,Kate Waters,
  • Fiction,Historical,Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl,Kate Waters,
  • Fiction,Historical,Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Batutta 1325-1354,James Rutherford,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Freddy the Detective,Walter Brooks,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Lizard Music,Daniel Manus Pinkwater,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Shredderman: Secret Identity,Wendelin Van Draanen,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Boy of a Thousand Faces,Brian Selznick,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Edgar & Ellen Under Town,Charles Ogden,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Framed,Frank Boyce,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Jim Ugly,Sid Fleischman,
  • Fiction,Mystery,The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo: An Eco Mystery,Jean Craighead George,
  • Fiction,Mystery,"Murder, My Tweet: A Chet Gecko Mystery",Bruce Hale,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Atherton Book 1: The House of Power,Patrick Carman,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Do the Funky Pickle,Jerry Spinelli,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Love That Dog,Sharon Creech,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Lunch Money,Andrew Clements,
  • Fiction,Mystery,No Talking,Andrew Clements,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Picklemania,Jerry Spinelli,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Prizefighter en mi Casa,E. E. Charlton-Trujillo,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Sahara Special,Esme Codell,
  • Fiction,Mystery,The School Story,Andrew Clements,
  • Fiction,Mystery,There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom,Louis Sachar,
  • Fiction,Mystery,Waiting for Normal,Leslie Connor,
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