An alphabetical listing of the authors, books, plays, poems, stories, and journal articles discussed or mentioned in Books for Living:
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Revelations
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Epitaph of a Small Winner (The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room; The Fire Next Time
J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird; Peter Pan
Joseph Beam
Robert Benchley
Rose Levy Beranbaum, The Cake Bible
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bible
Isabella Bird
Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking: An Introduction (first published as The Use of Lateral Thinking)
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves
John Boswell
Jane Bowles
Paul Bowles
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Rebecca Brown, The Gifts of the Body
Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Toby C. Campbell, M.D., “When Minutes Matter,” The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 314, no. 17.
Truman Capote
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Chang Ch’ao
Bruce Chatwin
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
Lee Child, Killing Floor
Winston Churchill
John Ciardi, Manner of Speaking; The Little That Is All: “East Sixty-seventh Street” and “A Poem for Benn’s Graduation from High School”; “Washing Your Feet”; The Divine Comedy (translation)
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games series
Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking; More Home Cooking
Confucius
e e cummings
Dianne Mott Davidson, Sticks & Scones
Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Isak Dinesen, “Babette’s Feast”
Melvin Dixon
Hilda “H.D.” Dolittle
John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud”
Rita Dove
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit
Albert Einstein
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
Robert Ferro
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
E. M. Forster
Robert Frost
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Henry Green
John Grisham, The Confession
Michael Grumley
John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
Essex Hemphill
Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery
James Hilton, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Vyvyan Holland, Son of Oscar Wilde
Homer, The Iliad; The Odyssey
Vincent C. Horrigan and Raymond V. Schoder, A Reading Course in Homeric Greek
Marie Howe, What The Living Do: “My Dead Friends”
Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore
Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s School Days
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
William Inge, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man; Christopher and His Kind
Arturo Islas
The Jākata (Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births)
William James
Franz Kafka
Yasunari Kawabata
Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
The Koran
Larry Kramer
Milan Kundera
Stephen E. Lahey, John Wyclif
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird; Traveling Mercies; Help, Thanks, Wow; Stitches
John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure
Nigella Lawson, Feast
Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Stan Leventhal
Edna Lewis, The Taste of Country Cooking
Hsiang Ju Lin and Tsuifeng Lin, Chinese Gastronomy
Lin Yutang, My Country and My People; The Importance of Living; Between Tears and Laughter
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Listen! The Wind; Gift from the Sea
Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
Livy (Titus Livius)
Rosa Luxemburg
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Around My Room; A Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Mayo Clinic Family Health Book
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Paul Monette
Marianne Moore
Jan Morris
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Mohammed Mrabet
Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Kafka on the Shore; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running; IQ84
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock
George Orwell, 1984
Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
R. J. Palacio, Wonder
Shahrnush Parsipur
Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean
Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plato
Pliny the Younger
Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives
John Preston
Erich Maria Remarque
Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter series
John Ruskin
Vito Russo
Assotto Saint
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
William Shakespeare, King Lear; Hamlet
George Bernard Shaw, Bernard Shaw: Complete Plays with Prefaces
Randy Shilts
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (with Illustrations of Character and Content)
Socrates
Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style
Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls
Sir Wilfred Thesiger
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
A Thousand and One Nights
Monique Truong, The Book of Salt
Mark Twain
John Updike
Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar
Alice Waters
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Eudora Welty
E. B. White, Stuart Little; Charlotte’s Web; The Trumpet of the Swan; The Elements of Style (with William Strunk Jr.); Letters of E. B. White
Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams
Vera B. Williams, “More More More,” Said the Baby
Percival Christopher Wren, Beau Geste
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Yüan Chunglang