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Caligo's Literary Odyssey:

(the list will be updated)

Mythology and Epics 

The Ramayana i

Mahabharata 

The Iliad – Homer

The Odyssey – Homer

The Aeneid – Virgil

Beowulf 

The Poetic Edda 

The Tale of Igor's Campaign 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Religious and Spiritual Texts 

The Upanishads 

The Torah / Old Testament 

The Analects – Confucius

Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu

The New Testament 

The Confessions – St. Augustine

The Rule of Saint Benedict – Saint Benedict

Bustan and Gulistan – Saadi Shirazi

Summa Theologica (Selections) – Thomas Aquinas

The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

The Essential Rumi

Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart

Philosophy 

The Republic – Plato

Dialogues: Symposium – Plato

Dialogues: Apology – Plato

Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle

Politics – Aristotle

On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) – Lucretius

On Duties (De Officiis) – Cicero

On the Shortness of Life – Seneca

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

Discourse on the Method – René Descartes

Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes

Ethics – Baruch Spinoza

Two Treatises of Government – John Locke

The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

The Spirit of the Laws – Montesquieu

The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant

Phenomenology of Spirit – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

On Liberty – John Stuart Mill

Capital – Karl Marx

Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Interpretation of Dreams and more – Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung’s works

Being and Time – Martin Heidegger

The Revolt of the Masses – José Ortega y Gasset

Being and Nothingness – Jean-Paul Sartre

The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus

The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophical Investigations – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm

A Theory of Justice – John Rawls

Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault

Classical Literature and Drama 

Oedipus Rex – Sophocles

Antigona – Sophocles

Medea – Euripides

Lysistrata – Aristophanes

The Clouds – Aristophanes

The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) – Ovid

Metamorphoses – Ovid

The Histories – Herodotus

Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais

The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio

The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

King Lear – William Shakespeare

The Tempest – William Shakespeare

Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

Sonnets – William Shakespeare

Henry V – William Shakespeare

Historical and Political Texts

The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli

Utopia – Thomas More

Essays – Michel de Montaigne

The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi

The Art of War – Sun Tzu

Adventure and Historical Fiction 

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo

Ivanhoe – Walter Scott

Quentin Durward – Walter Scott

The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

The Deerslayer – James Fenimore Cooper

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

The Headless Horseman – Thomas Mayne Reid

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne

Captain Grant’s Children – Jules Verne

Fifteen-Year-Old Captain – Jules Verne

Captain Rip-Head – Louis Boussenard

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) – Jerome K. Jerome

The Phantom Ship – Frederick Marryat

Romanticism and Gothic

The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Emma – Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

The Professor – Charlotte Brontë

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Portrait of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Realism and Social Novels 

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Middlemarch – George Eliot

The Human Comedy: Gobseck – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: Father Goriot – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: Beatrice – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: The Woman of Thirty – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: Colonel Chabert – Honoré de Balzac

Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol

Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev

Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin

American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser

Martin Eden – Jack London

The Sea-Wolf – Jack London

White Fang – Jack London

Hearts of Three – Jack London

The Scarlet Plague – Jack London

Boule de Suif – Guy de Maupassant

Dear Friend – Guy de Maupassant

The Burden of Human Passions – W. Somerset Maugham

Modernist and Postmodernist Literature

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe

In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust

Dubliners – James Joyce

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

The Trial – Franz Kafka

The Castle – Franz Kafka

Letters to Milena - Franz Kafka

Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

The Stranger – Albert Camus

To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Plague – Albert Camus

The Fall – Albert Camus

The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann

Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann

Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse

The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse

Demian – Hermann Hesse

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami

Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

The Wall – Jean-Paul Sartre

Science Fiction and Fantasy 

The Time Machine – H. G. Wells

The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells

The Amphibian Man – Alexander Belyaev

Professor Dowell’s Head – Alexander Belyaev

Scarlet Sails – Alexander Grin

We – Yevgeny Zamyatin

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury

Solaris – Stanisław Lem

Roadside Picnic – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis

Discworld – Terry Pratchett

Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling

Eragon – Christopher Paolini

ACOTAR ACOMAF etc. Sarah J. Maas

Twilight – Stephenie Meyer

Detective and Mystery

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (all) – Arthur Conan Doyle

Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

War and Anti-War Literature 

All Quiet on the Western Front

Arc de Triomphe 

Three Comrades

The Promised Land

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

The Spark of Life 

The Night in Lisbon

The Black Obelisk 

– Erich Maria Remarque

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles

Dystopian and Political Allegory 

Animal Farm – George Orwell

1984 – George Orwell

Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

The Black Prince – Ayn Rand

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Japanese Literature 

The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu

The Pillow Book – Sei Shōnagon

Man'yōshū 

Kokin Wakashū

Shin Kokin Wakashū 

Poems of Saigyō

Matsuo Bashō 

Botchan – Natsume Sōseki

Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata

Rashōmon and more – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

All works of Osamu Dazai – Osamu Dazai (especially No Longer Human)

In Praise of Shadows - Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

Confessions of a Mask and more - Yukio Mishima

A Personal Matter – Kenzaburō Ōe

Ukrainian Literature 

Kobzar – Taras Shevchenko

The Forest Song – Lesya Ukrainka

Russian Poetry 

Poetry of Anna Akhmatova – Anna Akhmatova

Poetry of Boris Pasternak – Boris Pasternak

Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva – Marina Tsvetaeva

Poetry of Sergei Yesenin – Sergei Yesenin

Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky – Vladimir Mayakovsky

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka – Nikolai Gogol

Children’s and Young Adult Literature (just which I want to list here)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

Non-Fiction and Science 

On Painting – Leon Battista Alberti

A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft

Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

and many more. I give up.

Erotic Literature 

Venus in Furs – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

New Age and Mysticism

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Works of Carlos Castaneda – Carlos Castaneda

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