Harold Bloom
- Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
- Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- A Map of Misreading
- Deconstruction and Criticism
- George Orwell's 1984 (Bloom's Guides)
- George Orwell's Animal Farm
- Till I End My Song
- Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
- Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
- The Shadow of a Great Rock
- Falstaff
- Margaret Atwood
- Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
- Omens of the Millennium
- The Art of Reading Poetry
- J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
- Willa Cather's My Antonia
- The Book of J
- Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country
- Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
- The American Religion
- The Anatomy of Influence
- Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
- William Golding's Lord of the Flies
- Genius
- The Best Poems of the English Language
- Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
- Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle