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  • Aakhus, Patricia
    • The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh
  • Abbey, Edward
    • The Brave Cowboy
    • Desert Solitaire
  • Abbott, Edwin A.
    • Flatland
  • Abdel-Fattah, Randa
    • Does My Head Look Big in This?
  • Abdellatif Kechiche
    • Black Venus
  • Abe Akira
    • Abe Akira: Short Stories
  • Abe, Kobo
    • Beyond the Curve
    • The Woman in the Dunes
  • Abelard, Peter
    • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
    • Peter Abelard: The Essential Theological and Philosophical Works
  • Abrams, Jim
    • Airplane!
  • Abrams, J.J.
    • The Rise of Skywalker
    • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Abuelaish, Izzeldin
    • I Shall Not Hate
  • Acevedo, Elizabeth
    • The Poet X
  • Achebe, Chinua
    • Anthills of the Savannah
    • Arrow of God
    • Civil Peace
    • A Man of the People
    • Marriage is a Private Affair
    • No Longer at Ease
    • The Short Fiction of Chinua Achebe
    • There Was a Country
    • Things Fall Apart
  • Aciman, Andre
    • Call Me By Your Name
  • Acker, Kathy
    • Empire of the Senseless
  • Adams, Douglas
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Adams, Henry
    • The Education of Henry Adams
  • Adam Shepard
    • Scratch Beginnings
  • Adams, John and Abigail
    • The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
  • Adams, Richard
    • Watership Down
  • Addonizio, Kim
    • "Ever After" and Other Short Stories
  • Adeyemi, Tomi
    • Children of Blood and Bone
    • Children of Virtue and Vengeance
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
    • Americanah
    • Apollo
    • The Danger of a Single Story
    • Half of a Yellow Sun
    • Purple Hibiscus
    • The Thing Around Your Neck
  • Adiga, Aravind
    • Amnesty: A Novel
    • The White Tiger
  • Adjapon, Bisi
    • Daughter in Exile
  • Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
    • Chain-Gang All-Stars
  • Adolf Streckfuss
    • Quicksands
  • Adorno, Theodor
    • The Culture Industry
    • The Dialectic of Enlightenment
  • Aeschylus
    • Agamemnon
    • The Eumenides
    • Libation Bearers
    • Oresteia
    • The Persians
    • Prometheus Bound
    • The Seven Against Thebes
  • Agbabi, Patience
    • The Poems of Patience Agbabi
  • Agee, James
    • A Death in the Family
    • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
  • Ahmad, Rukhsana
    • The Hope Chest
  • Aidoo, Ama Ata
    • Changes: A Love Story
    • Our Sister Killjoy
  • A. Igoni Barrett
    • Blackass
  • Ai Ogawa
    • Ai Ogawa: Poems
  • Aira, Cesar
    • How I Became a Nun
  • Aker, Don
    • The First Stone
  • Akinari, Ueda
    • The Tales of Ueda Akinari
  • Akin, Fatih
    • Head-On
  • Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
    • In a Grove
    • The Nose (Akutagawa)
    • Rashomon
    • The Short Fiction of Akutagawa
  • Alain-Fournier
    • Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate)
  • Alameddine, Rabih
    • The Wrong End of the Telescope
  • Alam, Rumaan
    • Leave the World Behind
  • Alana Valentine
    • Parramatta Girls
  • Alan Parker
    • Mississippi Burning
  • Albee, Edward
    • The American Dream
    • The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
    • The Goat
    • The Sandbox
    • Three Tall Women
    • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
    • The Zoo Story
  • Albertalli, Becky
    • Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
  • Albin, Gennifer
    • Altered
    • Crewel
  • Albom, Mitch
    • The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    • Have a Little Faith
    • The Time Keeper
    • Tuesdays With Morrie
  • Albright, Madeleine
    • Prague Winter
  • Alcott, Louisa May
    • Behind a Mask
    • A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True
    • Hospital Sketches
    • Little Women
  • Alderman, Naomi
    • The Future
    • The Power
  • Alejandro Morales
    • The Rag Doll Plagues
  • Alexander Bogdanov
    • Red Star
  • Alexander, Kwame
    • The Crossover
    • The Door of No Return
  • Alexander, Lloyd
    • The Black Cauldron
    • The Book of Three
    • The High King
  • Alexander, Meena
    • Fault Lines
  • Alexander, Michelle
    • The New Jim Crow
  • Alexie, Sherman
    • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    • The Business of Fancydancing
    • Flight
    • Indian Killer
    • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
    • Reservation Blues
    • Ten Little Indians
    • War Dances
    • You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
  • Alfarabi
    • Alfarabi, The Political Writings
  • Alfredson, Tomas
    • Let the Right One In
  • Alger, Horatio
    • Ragged Dick
    • The Young Musician
  • Ali, Ahmed
    • Twilight in Delhi
  • Alighieri, Dante
    • Divine Comedy-I: Inferno
    • Divine Comedy: Paradiso
    • Divine Comedy: Purgatorio
    • La Vita Nuova
  • Ali, Monica
    • Brick Lane
    • Love Marriage
  • Alleg, Henri
    • The Question
  • Allende, Isabel
    • Eva Luna
    • The House of the Spirits
  • Allen, Woody
    • Annie Hall
    • Blue Jasmine
    • Crimes and Misdemeanors
    • Midnight in Paris
  • Allison, Dorothy
    • Bastard Out of Carolina
    • Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
  • Allman, Paul Limbert
    • "The Frequency" and Other Writings
  • al-Mansour, Haifaa
    • Wadjda
  • Almodovar, Pedro
    • Talk to Her
    • What Have I Done to Deserve This?
    • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • Almond, David
    • Kit's Wilderness
    • Skellig
  • Al-Nawab, Muzaffar
    • Muzaffar Al-Nawab: Poems
  • al-Shaykh, Hanan
    • One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling
  • Altman, Robert
    • MASH
    • Nashville
  • Alvarez, Julia
    • Before We Were Free
    • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
    • In the Time of the Butterflies
    • Return to Sender
  • Amadiume, Ifi
    • Male Daughters, Female Husbands
  • Amirrezvani, Anita
    • The Blood of Flowers
  • Amis, Kingsley
    • Lucky Jim
  • Amis, Martin
    • London Fields
    • Yellow Dog
    • The Zone of Interest
  • Amitav Ghosh
    • The Great Derangement
    • The Hungry Tide
    • Sea of Poppies
    • The Shadow Lines
  • Amma, K. Saraswathi
    • K. Saraswathi Amma: Short Stories
  • Ammons, A.R.
    • A.R. Ammons: Poems
  • Amsterdam, Steven
    • Things We Didn't See Coming
  • Amy Levy
    • The Romance of a Shop
  • Anand, Mulk Raj
    • Untouchable
  • Ananthamurthy, U.R.
    • Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man
  • Anaya, Rudolfo
    • Bless Me, Ultima
  • Andersen, Hans Christian
    • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales
    • The Little Match Girl
  • Anderson, Benedict
    • Imagined Communities
  • Anderson, Laurie Halse
    • Chains
    • Fever 1793
    • The Impossible Knife of Memory
    • Speak
  • Anderson, M.T.
    • Feed
  • Anderson, Paul Thomas
    • Boogie Nights
    • Inherent Vice (film)
    • Magnolia
    • The Master
    • Phantom Thread
    • Punch-Drunk Love
    • There Will Be Blood
  • Anderson, Sherwood
    • Winesburg, Ohio
  • Anderson, Wes
    • The Grand Budapest Hotel
    • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Andre Alexis
    • Fifteen Dogs
  • Andrew A. Smith
    • Grasshopper Jungle
  • Andrew Jarecki
    • Capturing the Friedmans
  • Andrews, Jesse
    • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  • Angel-Ajani, Asale
    • A Country You Can Leave
  • Angelina Grimke
    • Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
  • Angelou, Maya
    • Africa (Maya Angelou poem)
    • Alone (Maya Angelou poem)
    • Caged Bird
    • Harlem Hopscotch
    • The Heart of a Woman
    • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    • Maya Angelou: Poems
    • On the Pulse of Morning
    • Phenomenal Woman (Maya Angelou poem)
    • Still I Rise
  • Angleberger, Tom
    • Poop Fountain!: The Qwikpick Papers
  • Anna Deavere Smith
    • Fires in the Mirror
  • Anonymous
    • The Battle of Maldon
    • The Brome Play of Abraham and Isaac
    • Hrafnkel’s Saga
    • Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth
    • The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman
    • The Orkneyinga Saga
    • The Poem of the Cid
    • Sir Gowther
  • Anonymous - Arabian Nights
    • The Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Nights
  • Anonymous - Beowulf
    • Beowulf
    • Judith
  • Anonymous - Bhagavad-Gita
    • Bhagavad-Gita
  • Anonymous - Book of Dede Korkut
    • Book of Dede Korkut
  • Anonymous - Everyman
    • Everyman: Morality Play
  • Anonymous - Exeter Book
    • Exeter Book
  • Anonymous - Gawain Poet
    • The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
  • Anonymous - Gilgamesh
    • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Anonymous - King Horn
    • King Horn
  • Anonymous - Koran
    • The Koran
  • Anonymous - Lazarillo de Tormes
    • Lazarillo de Tormes
  • Anonymous - Mahabharata
    • Mahabharata
  • Anonymous - Mankind
    • Mankind: Medieval Morality Plays
  • Anonymous (Middle English)
    • Sir Orfeo
  • Anonymous - Nibelungenlied
    • Nibelungenlied
  • Anonymous - Njal's Saga
    • Njal's Saga
  • Anonymous - Popol Vuh
    • Popol Vuh
  • Anonymous - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Anonymous - Song of Roland
    • Song of Roland
  • Anonymous - Sundiata
    • Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
  • Anonymous - The Alliterative Morte Arthure
    • The Alliterative Morte Arthure
  • Anonymous - The Enuma Elish
    • The Enuma Elish
  • Anonymous - The Play of Adam (Le Jeu d'Adam)
    • The Play of Adam (Le Jeu d'Adam)
  • Anonymous - The Song of the Cid
    • The Song of the Cid
  • Anonymous - Thomas Kinsella
    • The Táin
  • Anonymous - Upanishads
    • The Upanishads
  • Anonymous - Various Authors
    • The Buddhist Scriptures
    • The Harley 2253 Manuscript
  • Anonymous - Vercelli Book
    • The Vercelli Book
  • Anonymous - York Mystery Plays
    • York Mystery Plays
  • Anselm of Canterbury
    • The Writings of Anselm of Canterbury
  • Anzaldua, Gloria
    • Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza
  • Appachana, Anjana
    • "Incantations" and Other Stories
  • Applegate, Katherine
    • The One and Only Ivan
  • Appleman-Jurman, Alicia
    • Alicia: My Story
  • Apuleius
    • The Golden Ass
  • Aquinas, Thomas
    • Summa Theologica
    • Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings
  • Ardolino, Emile
    • Dirty Dancing
  • Arenas, Reinaldo
    • Before Night Falls
  • Arendt, Hannah
    • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
    • On Revolution
    • The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • Aristophanes
    • The Acharnians
    • The Birds
    • The Clouds
    • The Ecclesiazusae
    • The Frogs
    • Lysistrata
  • Aristotle
    • Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
    • Aristotle's Metaphysics
    • Aristotle's Poetics
    • Aristotle's Politics
  • Armah, Ayi Kwei
    • The Healers
  • Armas, Elena
    • The Spanish Love Deception
  • Armitage, Simon
    • Mother, any distance greater than a single span
    • Simon Armitage: Poems
  • Armstrong, Jeannette
    • Jeannette Armstrong: Poetry
  • Armstrong, William H.
    • Sounder
  • Arnold, Matthew
    • Culture and Anarchy
    • Matthew Arnold: Poems
  • Arnow, Harriette
    • The Dollmaker
  • Aronofsky, Darren
    • Black Swan (2010 Film)
    • Mother! (2017 Film)
    • Pi
  • Aronson, Marc
    • Trapped
  • Arthur Hiller
    • Love Story
  • Arthur Koestler
    • Darkness at Noon
  • Arundhathi Subramaniam
    • To the Welsh Critic Who Doesn't Find Me Identifiably Indian
  • Ashbery, John
    • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
    • Some Trees
  • Ashby, Hal
    • Harold and Maude
  • Asher, Jay
    • Thirteen Reasons Why
  • Ash, Stephen V.
    • A Year in the South: 1865
  • Ash, Timothy Garton
    • The Magic Lantern
  • Asimov, Isaac
    • Foundation
    • The Fun They Had
    • I, Robot
  • Asinof, Eliot
    • Eight Men Out
  • Asquith, Anthony
    • The Importance of Being Earnest 1952 Film
  • Astell, Mary
    • A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
    • Some Reflections Upon Marriage
  • Aster, Alex
    • Lightlark
  • Astley, Thea
    • It's Raining in Mango
  • Asturias, Miguel Angel
    • The President
  • Athenagoras
    • "A Plea Regarding the Christians" and Other Writings
  • Atkinson, Kate
    • Behind the Scenes at the Museum
    • Life After Life
    • When Will There Be Good News?
  • Attar, Farid ud-Din
    • The Conference of the Birds
  • Attenberg, Jami
    • The Middlesteins
    • Saint Mazie
  • Atwater, Florence
    • Mr. Popper's Penguins
  • Atwater, Richard
    • Mr. Popper's Penguins
  • Atwood, Margaret
    • Alias Grace
    • The Blind Assassin
    • Cat's Eye
    • The Edible Woman
    • Hag-Seed
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • Happy Endings
    • The Heart Goes Last
    • MaddAddam
    • Oryx and Crake
    • The Penelopiad
    • The Poems of Margaret Atwood
    • Short Fiction of Margaret Atwood
    • Surfacing
    • The Testaments
    • When It Happens
    • The Year of the Flood
  • Auburn, David
    • Proof
  • Auchincloss, Louis
    • The Rector of Justin
  • Auden, W. H.
    • Epitaph on a Tyrant
    • Refugee Blues
    • W. H. Auden: Poems
    • W.H. Auden: Prose
  • Auerbach, Dathan
    • Penpal
  • Aurelius, Marcus
    • Meditations
  • Austen, Jane
    • Emma
    • Lady Susan
    • Mansfield Park
    • Northanger Abbey
    • Orgoglio e pregiudizio
    • Persuasion
    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Sanditon
    • Sense and Sensibility
  • Auster, Paul
    • The New York Trilogy
  • Author Unknown
    • The Trial of an Ox for Killing a Man
  • Aveyard, Victoria
    • Red Queen
  • Avildsen, John G.
    • Rocky (1976 Film)
  • Aviv, Rachel
    • Strangers to Ourselves
  • Awoonor, Kofi
    • The Sea Eats the Land At Home
  • Axline, Virginia
    • Dibs in Search of Self
  • Ayad Akhtar
    • Disgraced
  • Ayckbourn, Alan
    • Absurd Person Singular
  • Ayer, Eleanor H.
    • Parallel Journeys
  • Azuela, Mariano
    • The Underdogs
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