literature
This list is by no means supposed to be comprehensive. There are things I'm sure I read but forgot about entirely, and there are things I've read, but for one reason or another have chosen to omit (usually because of a tenuous classification as simply "fiction" vs. "literature").
You'll also notice that in terms of scope I've also included dramatic works and also some milestone philosophical ones where I thought appropriate.
Anyway, the point here is to give a basic overview of the kinds of things I read or have read (or am in the process of reading, for those things not checked).
 | Abe, Kobo | Woman in the Dunes |
| Alighieri, Dante | The Inferno |
| Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Adams, Douglas | The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul |
| Ames, Jonathan | The Extra Man |
| Amis, Martin | Dead Babies |
| Amis, Martin | Einstein's Monsters |
| Amis, Martin | Heavy Water |
| Amis, Martin | London Fields |
| Amis, Martin | Night Train |
| Amis, Martin | Time's Arrow |
| Amis, Martin | Yellow Dog |
| Anonymous | Epic of Gilgamesh |
| Anonymous | Beowulf |
| Anonymous | Bhagavad Gita |
| Anonymous | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Blind Assassin |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Edible Woman |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid's Tale |
| Atwood, Margaret | Oryx and Crake |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Avrich, Jane | The Winter Without Milk |
| Aylett, Steve | Slaughtermatic |
| Baker, Nicholson | Fermata |
| Ballard, J. G. | Concrete Island |
| Bolano, Roberto | The Savage Detectives |
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| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Bradbury, Ray | The Martian Chronicles |
| Bradbury, Ray | October Country |
| Bradbury, Ray | Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Brown, Dan | The DaVinci Code |
| Bryers, Paul | Prayer of the Bone |
| Buddha | Dhammapada |
| Burgess, Anthony | A Clockwork Orange |
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger |
| Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood |
| Cărtărescu, Mircea | Nostalgia |
| Cervantes, Miguel De | Don Quixote |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | Canterbury Tales |
| Chbosky, Stephen | The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| Chuang Tzu | Chuang Tzu |
| Clarke, Susanna | Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell |
| Clarke, Susanna | The Ladies of Grace Adieu |
| Clarke, Will | The Chosen |
| Clarke, Will | Lord Vishnu's Love Handles |
| Coe, Jonathan | House of Sleep |
| Cohn, Rachel | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness |
| Coupland, Douglas | Eleanor Rigby |
| Coupland, Douglas | Generation X |
| Coupland, Douglas | Hey Nostradamus! |
| Coupland, Douglas | jPod |
| Coupland, Douglas | Life After God |
| Coupland, Douglas | Miss Wyoming |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| cummings, e. e. | Santa Claus |
| Danielewski, Mark Z. | House of Leaves |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| DeLint, Charles | The Little Country |
| Diaz, Junot | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
| Dickens, Charles | Christmas Carol |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment |
| Dunn, Katherine | Geek Love |
| Dunn, Mark | Ella Minnow Pea |
| Eco, Umberto | Baudolino |
| Eco, Umberto | Foucault's Pendulum |
| Eco, Umberto | The Island of the Day Before |
| Eco, Umberto | The Name of the Rose |
| Eggers, Dave | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey | Middlesex |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey | The Virgin Suicides |
| Euripides | Medea |
| Faulkner, William | Absalom, Absalom |
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying |
| Faulkner, William | The Hamlet |
| Faulkner, William | If I Forget Thee Jerusalem |
| Faulkner, William | Intruder in the Dust |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August |
| Faulkner, William | Sanctuary |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury |
| Faulkner, William | The Town |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Follett, Ken | The Pillars of the Earth |
| Follett, Ken | World Without End |
| Fowler, Nick | A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla |
| Frank, Pat | Alas, Babylon |
| Frederic, Harold | The Damnation of Theron Ware |
| Gibson, William | Neuromancer |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Grass, Gunter | The Tin Drum |
| Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Maltese Falcon |
| Harris, Charlaine | Dead Until Dark |
| Haslett, Adam | You Are Not a Stranger Here |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Heighton, Steven | The Shadow Boxer |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune Messiah |
| Hesse, Hermann | Beneath the Wheel |
| Hesse, Hermann | Fairy Tales |
| Hesse, Hermann | Journey to the East |
| Hesse, Hermann | Pictor's Metamorphoses |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha |
| Hesse, Hermann | Steppenwolf |
| Hilton, James | Lost Horizon |
| Hoeg, Peter | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow |
| Homer | Odyssey |
| Hornburg, Michael | Downer's Grove |
| Hornby, Nick | About a Boy |
| Hornby, Nick | Fever Pitch |
| Hornby, Nick | High Fidelity |
| Hornby, Nick | How To Be Good |
| Hornby, Nick | Long Way Down |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| Jha, Raj Kamal | The Blue Bedspread |
| Kafka, Franz | In the Penal Colony |
| Kafka, Franz | Metamorphosis |
| Kanehara, Hitomi | Snakes and Earrings |
| Karinthy, Ferenc | Metropole |
| Kerouac, Jack | On the Road |
| Kerouac, Jack | The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Kogawa, Joy | Obasan |
| Kostova, Elizabeth | The Historian |
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| Kotzwinkle, William | The Fan Man |
| Krauser, Lawrence | Lemon |
| Kundera, Milan | Book of Laughter and Forgetting |
| Kundera, Milan | Identity |
| Kundera, Milan | Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching |
| Larsson, Stieg | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| Lawrence, D. H. | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| Lecasble, Guillaume | Lobster |
| LeGuin, Ursula K. | The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Lindqvist, John | Let the Right One In |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | The Prince |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Magic Barrel |
| Marlowe, Christopher | Doctor Faustus |
| Martel, Yann | Beatrice and Virgil |
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| Martel, Yann | Life of Pi |
| Matheson, Richard | I Am Legend |
| Melville, Hermann | Benito Cerrino |
| Melville, Hermann | Moby Dick |
| McCullers, Carson | Member of the Wedding |
| McCullers, Carson | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| McEwan, Ian | The Comfort of Strangers |
| Mieville, China | The City and the City |
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| Mieville, China | Iron Council |
| Mieville, China | King Rat |
| Mieville, China | Looking for Jake |
| Mieville, China | Perdido Street Station |
| Mieville, China | The Scar |
| Miller, Arthur | The Crucible |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman |
| Milne, A. A. | Winnie the Pooh |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost |
| Mitchell, David | Ghostwritten |
| Moore, Christopher | Island of the Sequined Love Nun |
| Moore, Christopher | The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove |
| Murakami, Haruki | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World |
| Murakami, Haruki | Kafka on the Shore |
| Murakami, Haruki | Norwegian Wood |
| Murakami, Haruki | South of the Border, West of the Sun |
| Murakami, Haruki | A Wild Sheep Chase |
| Murakami, Haruki | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
| Murakami, Ryu | In the Miso Soup |
| Murr, Naeem | The Boy |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita |
| Nersesian, Arthur | Chinese Takeout |
| Nersesian, Arthur | Dogrun |
| Nersesian, Arthur | The Fuck-Up |
| Niffenegger, Audrey | The Time Traveler's Wife |
| Nin, Anais | Delta of Venus |
| Nunez, Sigrid | A Feather on the Breath of God |
| Orwell, George | 1984 |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Choke |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Diary |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Haunted |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Invisible Monsters |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Lullaby |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Survivor |
| Philips, Arthur | The Egyptologist |
| Pirsig, Robert M. | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Plato | Apology |
| Plato | Republic |
| Plato | Symposium |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen |
| Priest, Cherie | Boneshaker |
| Reichs, Kathy | Deja Dead |
| Remarque, Erich Maria | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Rice, Anne | Interview with the Vampire |
| Rushdie, Salman | The Satanic Verses |
| Russell, Maria Doris | The Sparrow |
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| Salinger, J. D. | Catcher in the Rye |
| Salinger, J. D. | Franny and Zooey |
| Sartre, Jean Paul | No Exit |
| Sebold, Alice | The Lovely Bones |
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| Shakespeare, William | As You Like It |
| Shakespeare, William | Hamlet |
| Shakespeare, William | Julius Caesar |
| Shakespeare, William | Macbeth |
| Shakespeare, William | Romeo and Juliet |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Arms and the Man |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Ceremony |
| Solzhenitsyn, Alexandre | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch |
| Sophocles | Antigone |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex |
| Sosnowski, David | Vamped |
| Steinbeck, John | Grapes of Wrath |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| Stephenson, Neal | Cryptonomicon |
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| Stephenson, Neal | Snow Crash |
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| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Setterfield, Diane | The Thirteenth Tale |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels |
| Tan, Amy | The Bonesetter's Daughter |
| Thomas, Scarlett | The End of Mr. Y |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit |
| Twain, Mark | Huckleberry Finn |
| Twain, Mark | Tom Sawyer |
| Vandermeer, Jeff | Finch |
| Veeramaneni, Giridhar | Enjoy the Journey |
| Verne, Jules | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| Verne, Jules | Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| Verne, Jules | Mysterious Island |
| Voltaire | Candide |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Wallace, David Foster | The Broom of the System |
| Wallace, David Foster | Infinite Jest |
| Wallace, David Foster | Oblivion: Stories |
| Wells, H. G. | The War of the Worlds |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome |
| Wilder, Thornton | Our Town |
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie |
| Williams, Tennessee | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Wolfe, Tom | The Right Stuff |
| Yu Hua | Chronicles of a Blood Merchant |
| Zafón, Carlos Ruiz | Shadow of the Wind |
| Zamyatin, Yevgeny | We |