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- achebe - things fall apart
- anon - bhagavad-gita
- anon - king james bible
- anon - quran
- anon - tao te ching
- aristotle - nichomachean ethics
- aristotle - politics
- atwood - the handmaid's tale
- augustine - confessions
- badiou - fifteen theses on contemporary art
- blum - killing hope
- borges - collected fictions
- bulgakov - master and margarita
- burroughs - naked lunch
- butler - kindred
- calvino - if on a winter's night a traveler
- campbell - hero with a thousand faces
- camus - the stranger
- capote - breakfast at tiffany's
- capote - in cold blood
- carroll - alice's adventures in wonderland
- cervantes - don quixote
- chaucer - canterbury tales
- chesterton - the man who was thursday
- chopin - the awakening
- coetzee - waiting for the barbarians
- confucius - analects
- cummings - the enormous room
- dante - the divine comedy
- de beauvoir - the second sex
- delillo - underworld
- delillo - white noise
- derrida - of grammatology
- dick - the three stigmata of palmer eldritch
- dickens - bleak house
- dostoevsky - brothers karamazov
- dostoevsky - crime and punishment
- du bois - the souls of black folk
- eco - the name of the rose
- eliot - four quartets
- eliot - the waste land
- ellison - invisible man
- emerson - essays
- faulkner - the sound and the fury
- fitzgerald - tender is the night
- fitzgerald - the great gatsby
- flaubert - madame bovary
- gaddis - the recognitions
- gaiman - american gods
- gibson - neuromancer
- goethe - faust
- graeber - debt
- graeber - fragments of an anarchist anthropology
- greene - the elegant universe
- gutierrez - a theology of liberation
- haley - the autobiography of malcolm x
- hawking - brief history of time
- heller - catch 22
- hemingway - for whom the bell tolls
- herbert - dune
- hesse - narcissus and goldmund
- hesse - siddhartha
- homer - iliad
- homer - odyssey
- hooks - feminism is for everybody
- huxley - brave new world
- invisible committee - the coming insurrection
- joyce - finnegans wake
- joyce - ulysses
- kafka - the trial
- kazantzakis - zorba the greek
- kipling - kim
- kundera - the unbearable lightness of being
- lewis - elmer gantry
- lowry - under the volcano
- machiavelli - the prince
- mann - the magic mountain
- marcus aurelius - meditations
- marquez - one hundred years of solitude
- mccarthy - blood meridian
- mccarthy - suttree
- mcluhan - understanding media
- melville - billy budd
- melville - moby dick
- milton - paradise lost
- morrison - beloved
- murakami - wind-up bird chronicle
- nabokov - ada
- nabokov - lolita
- neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
- nietzsche - beyond good and evil
- nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra
- norton anthology of english poetry
- ondaatje - the english patient
- orwell - nineteen eighty-four
- ovid - metamorphoses
- oxford anthology of american poetry
- pirsig - zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
- plath - the bell jar
- plato - the republic
- proust - in search of lost time
- pullman - his dark materials
- pynchon - gravity's rainbow
- rabelais - gargantua
- rand - atlas shrugged
- rand - fountainhead
- rousseau - emile
- rushdie - the satanic verses
- sartre - being and nothingness
- sartre - nausea
- segnit - the flavor thesaurus
- shakespeare - all plays
- solzhenitsyn - cancer ward
- solzhenitsyn - one day in the life of ivan denisovich
- spenser - faerie queen
- steinbeck - grapes of wrath
- stephenson - snow crash
- tatum - why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria
- thomas - lives of a cell
- thoreau - walden
- tocqueville - democracy in america
- tolkein - silmarillion
- tolle - the power of now
- tolstoy - war and peace
- toole - a confederacy of dunces
- virgil - aeneid
- voltaire - candide
- walker - the color purple
- wallace - consider the lobster
- wallace - infinite jest
- watts - the book
- wells - the time machine
- wharton - ethan frome
- wharton - the age of innocence
- wilde - the picture of dorian gray
- wilson - illuminatus
- wilson - shrodinger's cat trilogy
- woolf - to the lighthouse
- zinn - a people's history of the united states
This stuff was created by Jesse Arost, who is happy to take requests and would love to hear from you (jesse.arost at gmail). Many thanks to Austin for helping me put it online.
If you're a copyright holder and don't think these machines are cool/fair use, let me know and I'm happy to take your book down.