- Dhalgren, S.R. Delany
- Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar
- The Recognitions, William Gaddis
- On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
- Moby-Dick, Melville
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Our Mutual Friend, Dickens
- Da Vinci’s Bicycle, Guy Davenport
- Tatlin! Guy Davenport
- A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller, Jr.
- 1984, George Orwell
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- Rabbit, Run, John Updike
- Rabbit Redux, John Updike
- Ulysses, Joyce
- Black Tickets, Jayne Anne Phillips
- Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
- House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
- Grey Lamb, Black Falcon, Rebecca West
- 100 Years of Solitude, G. G. Marquez
- Love in the Time of Cholera, G. G. Marquez
- Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, Dennis Overbye
- On Heroes and Tombs, Ernesto Sabato
- Friday Night Lights
- The Place in Flowers where Pollen Rests, Paul West
- Tar Baby, Toni Morrison
- The Tunnel, William Gass
- Habitations of the Word, William Gass
- Sexus, Henry Miller
- Desolation Angels, Jack Kerouac
- The Book of Sand, J. L. Borges
- Labyrinths, J. L. Borges
- Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
- The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin
- The City in History, Louis Mumford
- The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
- Pensées, Blaise Pascal
- The Divided Self, R.D. Laing
- Omensetter’s Luck, William Gass
- The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man, Robert Price
- The Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- The Golden Bough, James Frazer
- The White Goddess, Robert Graves
- The Ethics, Spinoza
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
- The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
- Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts
Editor’s Note: This list is part of Big Other’s Tribute to William H. Gass’s 88th Birthday.
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