Reading Lists (for personal reference only)
Imma just put it here. List of books 'cause I probably forgot I have to read them ever since agessssss...
CLASSICS
•Beowulf (England)
•The Metamorphoses by Ovid
•The Illiad by Homer
•The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
•Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
•The Song of Roland (France)
•Fairytales by Charles Perrault
•Fairytales by Madame D'Aulnoy
•Tristan and Iseult (Ireland)
•Tristan by Gottfried (ಠ_ಠ)
•Ars Amatoria by Ovid
•The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella by Charlotte Lennox
•Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World by Frances Burney
•Ourika by Claire de Duras
•La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
•Julie or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
•The Red Lily somewhere in Gutenberg
•Fantomina by Eliza Haywood
•Emily Hamilton by Sukey Vickery
•War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
•Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
•Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
•The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
•The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching
•The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
•Ben-Hur : a tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
•Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
•Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
•The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
•Paradise Lost by John Milton
NON-FICTION
•Allegory of the Cave by Plato
•Rhetoric by Aristotle
•Republic by Plato
•Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
•Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
•Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth by Brian Cruver
•Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal by Michael Woodford
•Those non-fiction u posted elsewhere
•The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
•The Female Mystique by Betty Friedan
•A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
•White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
•All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
•Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
•Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
•The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne (Penguin Classics)
•Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
•Historia by Fr. Joaquin Martinez de Zuñiga (where on earth will I find this, say ಥ‿ಥ)
•Flow: the psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
•City of Lights, City of Poison by Holly Tucker
•Visual and Other Pleasures by by Laura Mulvey
THE PERPETUAL, EXISTENTIAL AND THEOLOGICAL ASSIGNMENT
•The Bible (King James Version)
POETRY
•Mountain Interval by Robert Frost
•Harlem (A Dream Deferred) by Langston Hughes
•I, Too by Langston Hughes
•The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
•Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea by Sylvia Plath
•The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
•The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
•The Prelude by William Wordsworth
•Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
•The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (Oxford Collection Edition)
•An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
•An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
•Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot by Alexander Pope
•Bagay by Rolando S. Tinio
•Rage and Ritual by Rolando S. Tinio
SHORT STORY
•The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
LITERARY FICTION
•Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
•Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini
•Rauu by N S Inamdar
•Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
•Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
•Banana Yoshimoto
•Idol, Burning by Rin Usami
•Breast and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
•Somehow, Crystal by Yasuo Tanaka
•Sanshirō by Sōseki Natsume
•Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
•Lord of the Flies by William Golding
•Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (nah probably ain't reading this; listed this to challenge myself—ugh... men...)
•Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (must read)
•The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (recap)
•One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
•Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
•Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
•Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie
•The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
•Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (eeew)
•Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
•Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
•Imagine, I'm Beautiful by Naomi McDougall-Jones
•Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
•The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
•The Vegetarian by Han Kang
•Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
•The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
•Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
•The Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
•The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
•The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
•The Viper of Milan by Marjorie Bowen
•The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
•The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
•One Day by David Nicholls (yass i'm willing to be a hopeless pathetic hung up romantic, over and over [ಥ‿ಥ])
•Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
•The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (basic biatch alert)
•Tokiga nijimu asa by Yang Yi
•Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
•Beloved by Toni Morrison
•The Bridge on the Drina by by Ivo Andrić
•By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
GENRE FICTION
•Great Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (┐(∵)┌)
•Beach Read by Emily Henry (girl, frrrrr? -_-)
•Funny Story by Emily Henry
•Pet and Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
•You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
•Las Léonas by Adriana Herrera
•Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
•Caroline Linden (forget Emily Henry)
•Someone to Love by Mary Balogh
•My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas
•Beguiling the Beauty by Sherry Thomas
•Pingkang Li Mysteries by Jeannie Lin
•The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase
•Hearts Aflame by Johanna Lindsey
•Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale (must read, how dare u skip)
•Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai
•Ashes of Izalco by Claribel Alegría (I need this for ma projectttt)
•Amada mía by Angelica de Paz
•Dune by Frank Herbert
•In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami
•Those romance recs u asked somewhere in Reddit
•Diversity megathread somewhere in Reddit
•Sul più bello by Eleonora Gaggero
•I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda
•The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
MUST READ!!
SOUTHEAST ASIAN LITERATURE:
•LIST PROVIDED: https://the-seams.wixsite.com/collective/resources
•Dusun Folktales: A Collection of Eighty-eight Folktales in the Dusun Language of Brunei with English Translations
LOCAL BOOKS (I have not yet or have ever readdddddd ༼;´༎ຶ༎ຶ༽)
•Nick Joaquin
•Gina Apostol
•Lualhati Bautista
•Carmen Guerrero Nakpil (sold out [ಥ_ಥ])
•Critical Essays by José García Villa
•America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
•Manila Noir by Jessica Hagedorn
•Smaller and Smaller Circles by F. H. Batacan
•America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
•The Age of Umbrage by Jessica Zafra
•The Rosales Saga by F. Sionil Jose
•The Thing with Feathers by Cristina Pandoja Hidalgo
•Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
•The Quiet Ones by Glenn L. Diaz
FILMS (in case i forgot)
•Past Lives by Celine Song
•About Time by Richard Curtis
•Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino
•Before Sunrise by Richard Linklater
•One Day by Lone Scherfig
•Les Émotifs anonymes by Jean-Pierre Améris
•Sisi (2009) - [abandoned due to short attention span]
•Dangal by Nitesh Tiwari
•Ek Duuje Ke Liye by K. Balachander
•Bajirao Mastani by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
•Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese
•Moonlight by Barry Jenkins
✓12 Years a Slave by Steve McQueen (de-humanizing, visceral, a little white savior narrative but powerful and picture perfect **chef’s kiss**)
✓Boyz n the Hood by John Singleton (90s L.A youth violence; guns and gang; Ice Cube in da hauzzzzz y’all)
✓Straight Outta Compton by F. Gary Gray (NWA 80s Cali; Cool, Ice Cube’s boy playin' his papa; Eazy-E damn man u make me cry ಥ╭╮ಥ)
•El Mariachi by Robert Rodriguez
•American Pie 3 & 4 by Paul Weitz
•Fandango by Kevin Reynolds
•Higher Learning by John Singleton
•La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz
•Girlhood by Céline Sciamma
•Faculty (2010) by Jerrold Tarog
**LISTS SHOULD BE IDEALLY COMPLETED BY YEAR END 2026; IF NOT, THEN CARRY OVER (DUH).**
P.S. Where's ASEAN?
Update as of 1/20/26: Good people have shared this link.
https://the-seams.wixsite.com/collective/resources
Oh my Philippines for piling up the Southeast Asian literature database ಥ‿ಥ...
I love ya my people (*＾3＾)/～♡
