The Foundations of Thought & Governance
- King James ed. of the Bible
- Federalist Papers, Madison, Hamilton, Jay
- The Ancient City, Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
- Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick
- Dialogues, Plato
- Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith
- Democracy in America, Tocqueville
The Human Condition & Moral Struggle
- As a Man Thinketh, James Allen
- Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
- Being Dead, Jim Crace
- The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
- Crime & Punishment, Dostoyevsky
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
- A Light in August, William Faulkner
- Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
- A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Epic American Journeys & Realism
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- All the Pretty Horses (Trilogy), Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- Martin Dressler: American Dreamer, Steven Millhauser
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Tragedy & Society
- Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Gothic, Mystery & Fantastic
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
- Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
- Amazing Fantasy #15, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- Dracula, Bram Stoker