Brian’s

Bookshelf

The Poems of John Donne

By John Donne; ed. Herbert Grierson

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

By Gerard Manley Hopkins; ed. W.H. Gardner and N.H. MacKenzie

Pensées and Other Writings

By Blaise Pascal; trans. Honor Levi

The English Poems of George Herbert

By George Herbert; ed. Helen Wilcox

Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

By Donald Knuth

Delta Wedding

By Eudora Welty

Middlemarch

By George Eliot

Confessions

By Augustine; trans. Henry Chadwick

The Oresteia

By Aeschylus; trans. Robert Fagles

The Sound and the Fury

By William Faulkner

Miss Lonelyhearts

By Nathanael West

Kokoro

By Natsume Soseki; trans. Meredith McKinney

The Poems of Emily Dickinson

By Emily Dickinson; ed. R.W. Franklin

Bleak House

By Charles Dickens

Infinite Jest

By David Foster Wallace

Poems, Protest, and a Dream

By Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; trans. Margaret Sayers Peden

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

By Helen Vendler

Collected Poems 1909 - 1962

By T.S. Eliot

Canzoniere

By Francesco Petrarca; ed. and trans. Mark Musa

Paradise Lost

By John Milton; ed. Alastair Fowler

Heart of Darkness

By Joseph Conrad

The Spanish Tragedie, or Hieronimo is Mad Againe

By Thomas Kyd

The Bridge

By Hart Crane

Childhood’s End

By Arthur C. Clarke

The Faerie Queene

By Edmund Spenser; ed. A.C. Hamilton

Mrs. Dalloway

By Virginia Woolf

La Vida Es Sueño

By Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Moby Dick, or The Whale

By Herman Melville

Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy; trans. Marian Schwartz

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Brontë

Red Sorghum

By Mo Yan; trans. Howard Goldblatt

Don Quixote

By Miguel de Cervantes; trans. Edith Grossman

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963

By Taylor Branch

Aurora Leigh

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Spring and All

By William Carlos Williams

Gilead

By Marilynne Robinson