LiteraryThe canon, by hand.

1984

George Orwell

A private self tries to survive inside a state built to abolish privacy.

A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Desire, marriage, judgment, and the long search for a bearable truth.

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Hamlet

Shakespeare

A prince returns to a court where grief has curdled into theatre.

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

Henry IV Part 1

Shakespeare

King Lear

Shakespeare

Letter to His Father

Franz Kafka

Macbeth

Shakespeare

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Meno & Euthyphro

Plato

Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie

My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

Night Watch

Terry Pratchett

Othello

Shakespeare

Paradise Lost

John Milton

A fall, a kingdom, a garden, and the voice that refuses to kneel.

Pride And Prejudice

Jane Austen

Two intelligent people mistake each other until correction becomes intimacy.

Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Observation becomes method, friendship becomes record.

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

W. Bernard Carlson

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)

Ancient Text

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

A son wakes transformed, and the household reveals what it had already become.

The Odyssey

Homer

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Beauty keeps its face while the soul is asked to hold the evidence.

The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Nietzsche

The prophet comes down from the mountain carrying a harder kind of dawn.

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Love and injury echo across the moors until inheritance becomes weather.