Novels:
- Les Liaisons dangereuses (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 1782)
- Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811)
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)
- The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851)
- North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855)
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)
- The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett, 1934)
- Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon, 1937)
- Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth, 1969)
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle (George V. Higgins, 1971)
Short story collections:
- The Girl With the Golden Eyes and Other Stories (Honoré de Balzac, 1831-35)
- Death in Venice and Other Stories (Thomas Mann, 1897-1912)
- The Simple Art of Murder (Raymond Chandler, 1934-50)
- My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man (Georges Bataille, 1941-67)
- Collected Stories (Saul Bellow, 1951-95)
Plays:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare, 1595 or '96)
Non-fiction:
- The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (David Bordwell, 1981)
- More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts [Updated and Expanded Edition] (James Naremore, 1998/2008)
- Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (Kristin Thompson, 1999)
- The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Christopher Hitchens, 2001)
- Rio Bravo (Robin Wood, 2003)
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