Works Covered

Leopoldo Alas
La Regenta
His Only Son
Ten Tales

Jerzy Andrzejewski
Ashes and Diamonds

Arrian
The Campaigns of Alexander

Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey

Félix de Azúa
Diary of a Humiliated Man

Isaac Babel
Works of Isaac Babel

Pío Baroja
The Restlessness of Shanti Andía
The Lord of Labraz
The Tree of Knowledge
The Struggle for Life
     The Quest
     Weeds
     Red Dawn

Christopher R. Beha
What Happened to Sophie Wilder

Andrei Bely
Petersburg

Roberto Bolaño
2666

Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of a Dog

Dino Buzzati
The Tartar Steppe

J. L. Carr
A Month in the Country

Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
The Shadow-Line

Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe

Sergio De La Pava
A Naked Singularity

Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gambler

eBooks
     A Trip of Goats, Kim Crawford
     A Listening Thing, William Michaelian
     Convergence, Christopher Turner

José Maria Eça de Queirós
The Maias
The Relic

William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier
Parade's End

Benito Pérez Galdós
Fortunata and Jacinta
The Spendthrifts
Our Friend Manso
The Shadow
Torquemada
Tristana

Witold Gombrowicz
Ferdydurke
Pornografia
Princess Ivona

Henry Green
Loving

Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate

Jiří Hájíček
Rustic Baroque

Jaroslav Hašek
The Good Soldier Švejk
Behind the Lines: Bugulma and Other Tales

Herodotus
The Histories

Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey

Bohumil Hrabal
Too Loud a Solitude
I Served the King of England
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Bruno Jasieński
I Burn Paris

James Joyce
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis

Rudyard Kipling
Kim
The Man Who Would Be King
On the City Wall

László Krasznahorkai
Satantango

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
The Letter Killers Club

Gyula Krúdy
The Adventures of Sindbad

D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers

Primo Levi
The Periodic Table

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Curzio Malaparte
Kaputt

Jaime Manrique
Cervantes Street

Sándor Márai
Embers

Anatoly Mariengof
Cynics
A Novel Without Lies

Zachary Mason
The Lost Books of the Odyssey (and a note on the original edition)

Eduardo Mendoza
The Truth about the Savolta Case
The City of Marvels

Miklós Mészöly
Death of an Athlete

Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita

István Örkény
One Minute Stories
The Flower Show / The Toth Family
Stevie in the Bloodbath

Walter Pater
Imaginary Portraits

Plato
Complete Works

Andrei Platonov
Chevengur

J. F. Powers
Morte D'Urban

Bolesław Prus
The Doll

Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Onegin
Mozart and Salieri
The Little Tragedies

Marilynne Robinson
Gilead

Joseph Roth
Job
The Radetzky March
The Legend of the Holy Drinker

Arthur Schnitzler
The Road to the Open
La Ronde

Bruno Schulz
Stories

William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale

Mikhail Shishkin
Maidenhair
The Light and the Dark
Two short stories: “Calligraphy Lesson” and “Of Saucepans and Star-Showers”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In the First Circle
Apricot Jam and Other Stories

Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Italo Svevo
Zeno's Conscience

Sándor Szathmári
Voyage to Kazohinia

Peter Taylor
A Summons to Memphis

William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair

Thucydides
The Peloponnesian War

Leo Tolstoy
Hadji Murad

Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now

Ivan Turgenev
First Love
A Sportsman's Notebook
Fathers and Children

Mark Twain
King Leopold's Soliloquy

Miguel de Unamuno
Mist

Unknown
Epic of Gilgamesh

Vladislav Vančura
Summer of Caprice

Ernst Weiss
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer
The Eyewitness
Jarmila

Glenway Wescott
The Pilgrim Hawk

John Williams
Butcher's Crossing
Stoner
Augustus

Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
To The Lighthouse

Stefan Żeromski
The Faithful River

NON-FICTION:

Essays

Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen


U.S. History

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford

Mourt’s Relation by George Morton, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Robert Cushman

Good Newes from New England by Edward Winslow

His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier

William Goetzmann on My Confession: Reflections of a Rogue by Samuel Chamberlain (C-SPAN video) and some of the links with Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian


World History

The Histories by Herodotus

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński

After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge

Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece by Ian Worthington

The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian

Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire by James Romm

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
(and an excerpt of a review by Katie Low in The Oxonian Review)

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor

The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss and some thoughts on such a
speculative history (before I knew about John Lewis Gaddis’ Landscape of History and Niall Ferguson’s Virtual History)

Off the Beaten Track in the Classics by Carl Kaeppel

Paideia: the Ideals of Greek Culture (Volume 1) by Werner Jaeger

A short review of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century and The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969 by Johanna Reiss

Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard by Fan Shen


Literary Nonfiction

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro

Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters


Other Nonfiction

The Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi

The Painting of You by William Michaelian

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor

The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky

Bluegrass Bluesman by Josh Graves

Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon: Tales of a Soviet Scientist by Iosif Shklovsky