Work | Author | Literary reference |
Absalom, Absalom! |
William Faulkner |
Bible: 2 Samuel 19:4 |
An Acceptable Time |
Madeleine L'Engle |
Bible: Psalm 66:13 |
A che punto è la notte (literally, "At which point is the night") |
Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini |
Bible: Isaiah 21:11 |
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan |
Aldous Huxley |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Tithonus" |
Ah, Wilderness! |
Eugene O'Neill |
Edward FitzGerald (trans.), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Alien Corn (play) |
Sidney Howard |
John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" |
"The Alien Corn" (short story) |
W. Somerset Maugham |
John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" |
All the King's Men |
Robert Penn Warren |
Anon., "Humpty Dumpty" |
All Passion Spent |
Vita Sackville-West |
John Milton, Samson Agonistes |
Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea |
Michael Morpurgo |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes |
Angus Wilson |
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass |
Antic Hay |
Aldous Huxley |
Christopher Marlowe, Edward II |
Arms and the Man |
George Bernard Shaw |
Virgil, Aeneid |
As I Lay Dying |
William Faulkner |
Homer, Odyssey |
Beautiful World, Where Are You |
Sally Rooney |
Friedrich Schiller, "The Gods of Greece" |
Behold the Man |
Michael Moorcock |
Bible: John 19:5 |
Beneath the Bleeding |
Val McDermid |
T. S. Eliot, East Coker |
Beyond the Mexique Bay |
Aldous Huxley |
Andrew Marvell, "Bermudas" |
Blithe Spirit |
Noël Coward |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark" |
Blood's a Rover |
James Ellroy |
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Poem IV ("Reveille") |
Blue Remembered Earth |
Alastair Reynolds |
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Poem XL |
Blue Remembered Hills |
Rosemary Sutcliff |
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Poem XL |
Bonjour Tristesse |
Françoise Sagan |
Paul Éluard, "À Peine Défigurée" |
Brandy of the Damned |
Colin Wilson |
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
Dee Brown |
Stephen Vincent Benét, "American Names" |
Butter In a Lordly Dish |
Agatha Christie |
Bible: Judges 5:25 |
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept |
Elizabeth Smart |
Bible: Psalm 137:1 |
Cabbages and Kings |
O. Henry |
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass ("The Walrus and the Carpenter") |
Captains Courageous |
Rudyard Kipling |
traditional "The ballad of Mary Ambree" |
Carrion Comfort |
Dan Simmons |
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Carrion Comfort" |
A Catskill Eagle |
Robert B. Parker |
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick |
The Children of Men |
P. D. James |
Bible: Psalm 90:3 |
Clouds of Witness |
Dorothy L. Sayers |
Bible: Hebrews 12:1 |
A Confederacy of Dunces |
John Kennedy Toole |
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting |
Consider the Lilies |
Iain Crichton Smith |
Bible: Matthew 6:28 |
Consider Phlebas |
Iain M. Banks |
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land |
Cover Her Face |
P. D. James |
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi |
The Cricket on the Hearth |
Charles Dickens |
John Milton, Il Penseroso |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Mark Haddon |
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" |
The Daffodil Sky |
H. E. Bates |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Maud" |
Dance Dance Dance |
Haruki Murakami |
W. H. Auden, "Death's Echo" |
A Darkling Plain |
Philip Reeve |
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach" |
Darkness Visible |
William Golding |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
Darkness Visible |
Walton Hannah |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid |
W. R. Johnson |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
Darkness Visible |
William Styron |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
Death Be Not Proud |
John Gunther |
John Donne, Holy Sonnets X |
The Doors of Perception |
Aldous Huxley |
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
Down to a Sunless Sea |
Lin Carter |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan |
Down to a Sunless Sea |
David Graham |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan |
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead |
Olga Tokarczuk |
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
"Dulce et Decorum est" |
Wilfred Owen |
Horace, Odes iii 2.13 |
Dying of the Light |
George R. R. Martin |
Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" |
East of Eden |
John Steinbeck |
Bible: Genesis 4:16 |
Ego Dominus Tuus |
W. B. Yeats |
Dante, La Vita Nuova |
Endless Night |
Agatha Christie |
William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence" |
England's Green |
Zuffar Kunial |
William Blake, "And did those feet in ancient time"[1] |
Everything is Illuminated |
Jonathan Safran Foer |
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
An Evil Cradling |
Brian Keenan |
Quran 13:18 (trans. Arthur John Arberry) |
Except the Lord |
Joyce Cary |
Bible: Psalm 127:1[2] |
Eyeless in Gaza |
Aldous Huxley |
John Milton, Samson Agonistes |
Fair Stood the Wind for France |
H. E. Bates |
Michael Drayton, Ballad of Agincourt |
Fame Is the Spur |
Howard Spring |
John Milton, "Lycidas" |
A Fanatic Heart |
Edna O'Brien |
W. B. Yeats, "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" |
Far From the Madding Crowd |
Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
The Far-Distant Oxus |
Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock |
Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum |
A Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemingway |
George Peele, "A Farewell to Arms (To Queen Elizabeth)" |
Fear and Trembling |
Søren Kierkegaard |
Bible: Philippians 2:12 |
For a Breath I Tarry |
Roger Zelazny |
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Poem XXXII |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Ernest Hemingway |
John Donne, Meditation XVII |
Frequent Hearses |
Edmund Crispin |
Alexander Pope, "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" |
From Here to Eternity |
James Jones |
Rudyard Kipling, "Gentlemen-Rankers" |
The Getting of Wisdom |
Henry Handel Richardson |
Bible: Proverbs 4:7 |
A Glass of Blessings |
Barbara Pym |
George Herbert, "The Pulley" |
The Glory and the Dream |
William Manchester |
William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" |
The Gods Themselves |
Isaac Asimov |
Friedrich Schiller, The Maid of Orleans |
The Golden Apples of the Sun |
Ray Bradbury |
W. B. Yeats, "The Song of the Wandering Angus" |
The Golden Bowl |
Henry James |
Bible: Ecclesiastes 12:6 |
Gone with the Wind |
Margaret Mitchell |
Ernest Dowson, "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynara" |
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" |
Great Work of Time |
John Crowley |
Andrew Marvell, "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" |
The Green Bay Tree |
Louis Bromfield |
Bible: Psalm 37:35 |
A Handful of Dust |
Evelyn Waugh |
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land |
Have His Carcase |
Dorothy L. Sayers |
Homer, Iliad (trans. William Cowper) |
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things |
JT LeRoy |
Bible: Jeremiah 17:9 |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
Carson McCullers |
William Sharp, "The Lonely Hunter" |
His Dark Materials |
Philip Pullman |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
Horseman, Pass By |
Larry McMurtry |
W. B. Yeats, "Under Ben Bulben" |
The House of Mirth |
Edith Wharton |
Bible: Ecclesiastes 7:4 |
How Sleep the Brave |
H. E. Bates |
William Collins, "How Sleep the Brave" |
How Sleep the Brave |
John Briley |
William Collins, "How Sleep the Brave" |
How Sleep the Brave |
James H. Hunter |
William Collins, "How Sleep the Brave" |
Human Voices |
Penelope Fitzgerald |
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Maya Angelou |
Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Sympathy" |
I Sing the Body Electric! |
Ray Bradbury |
Walt Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric" |
I Will Fear No Evil |
Robert A. Heinlein |
Bible: Psalm 23:4 |
If I Forget Thee Jerusalem |
William Faulkner |
Bible: Psalm 137:5 |
If Not Now, When? |
Primo Levi |
Pirkei Avot 1:13 |
In Death Ground |
David Weber and Steve White |
Sun Tzu, The Art of War |
In a Dry Season |
Peter Robinson |
T. S. Eliot, "Gerontion" |
In Dubious Battle |
John Steinbeck |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
In the Forests of the Night |
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes |
William Blake, "The Tyger" |
In a Glass Darkly |
Sheridan Le Fanu |
Bible: 1 Corinthians 13:12 |
An Instant in the Wind |
André Brink |
Hart Crane, "The Broken Tower" |
It's a Battlefield |
Graham Greene |
Alexander William Kinglake, The Invasion of the Crimea, Vol. 6 |
Jacob Have I Loved |
Katherine Paterson |
Bible: Romans 9:13 |
Jesting Pilate |
Aldous Huxley |
Francis Bacon, Of Truth |
The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
Leo Tolstoy |
Bible: Luke 17:21 |
The Last Enemy |
Richard Hillary |
Bible: 1 Corinthians 15:26 |
The Last Temptation |
Val McDermid |
T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral |
The Lathe of Heaven |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Zhuangzi, Book XXIII, paragraph 7 |
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men |
James Agee |
Bible: Ecclesiasticus 44:1 |
Lilies of the Field |
William Edmund Barrett |
Bible: Matthew 6:28 |
This Lime Tree Bower |
Conor McPherson |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" |
The Line of Beauty |
Alan Hollinghurst |
William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty |
The Little Foxes |
Lillian Hellman |
Bible: Song of Songs 2:15 |
Little Hands Clapping |
Dan Rhodes |
Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" |
A Little Learning |
Evelyn Waugh |
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism |
The Longest Journey |
E. M. Forster |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion |
Look Homeward, Angel |
Thomas Wolfe |
John Milton, "Lycidas" |
Look to Windward |
Iain M. Banks |
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land |
The Magic Mountain |
Thomas Mann |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy |
The Man Within |
Graham Greene |
Thomas Browne, Religio Medici |
Many Waters |
Madeleine L'Engle |
Bible: Song of Songs 8:7 |
A Many-Splendoured Thing |
Han Suyin |
Francis Thompson, "The Kingdom of God" |
The Mermaids Singing |
Val McDermid |
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
The Millstone |
Margaret Drabble |
Bible: Matthew 18:6 |
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side |
Agatha Christie |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" |
Moab Is My Washpot |
Stephen Fry |
Bible: Psalm 60:8 |
The Monkey's Raincoat |
Robert Crais |
Matsuo Bashō, Sarumino |
Monstrous Regiment |
Terry Pratchett |
John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women |
A Monstrous Regiment of Women |
Laurie R. King |
John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women |
The Moon by Night |
Madeleine L'Engle |
Bible: Psalm 121:6 |
Mother Night |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One |
The Moving Finger |
Agatha Christie |
Edward FitzGerald (trans.), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
The Moving Toyshop |
Edmund Crispin |
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock |
Mr Standfast |
John Buchan |
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress |
Nectar in a Sieve |
Kamala Markandaya |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Work without Hope" |
The Needle's Eye |
Margaret Drabble |
Bible: Matthew 19:24 |
Nine Coaches Waiting |
Mary Stewart |
Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy |
No Country for Old Men |
Cormac McCarthy |
W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium" |
No Highway |
Nevil Shute |
John Masefield, The Wanderer |
No Longer at Ease |
Chinua Achebe |
T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi |
Noli Me Tangere |
José Rizal |
Bible: John 20:17 |
Not Honour More |
Joyce Cary |
Richard Lovelace, "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres"[2] |
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal |
H. E. Bates |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" |
Number the Stars |
Lois Lowry |
Bible: Psalm 147:4 |
O Jerusalem! |
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins |
Bible: Psalm 137:5 |
O Pioneers! |
Willa Cather |
Walt Whitman, "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" |
Of Human Bondage |
W. Somerset Maugham |
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics |
Of Mice and Men |
John Steinbeck |
Robert Burns, "To a Mouse" |
Oh! To be in England |
H. E. Bates |
Robert Browning, "Home Thoughts From Abroad" |
"'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" |
M. R. James |
Robert Burns, "Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad" |
The Other Side of Silence |
André Brink |
George Eliot, Middlemarch |
Out of Africa |
Karen Blixen |
Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, 8, 6. |
The Painted Veil |
W. Somerset Maugham |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live" |
Pale Kings and Princes |
Robert B. Parker |
John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci" |
The Parliament of Man |
Paul Kennedy |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Locksley Hall" |
Paths of Glory |
Humphrey Cobb |
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
A Passage to India |
E. M. Forster |
Walt Whitman, "Passage to India" |
Poison Tree |
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes |
William Blake, "A Poison Tree" |
The Poison Tree |
Erin Kelly |
William Blake, "A Poison Tree" |
Postern of Fate |
Agatha Christie |
James Elroy Flecker, "The Gates of Damascus" |
Precious Bane |
Mary Webb |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
The Proper Study |
Isaac Asimov |
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man |
Quo Vadis |
Henryk Sienkiewicz |
Bible: John 13:36 (Vulgate translation) |
Recalled to Life |
Reginald Hill |
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities |
Recalled to Life |
Robert Silverberg |
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities |
Ring of Bright Water |
Gavin Maxwell |
Kathleen Raine, "The Marriage of Psyche" |
The Road Less Traveled |
M. Scott Peck |
Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" |
A Scanner Darkly |
Philip K. Dick |
Bible: 1 Corinthians 13:12 |
"Shall not Perish" |
William Faulkner |
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address |
The Sick Rose |
Erin Kelly |
William Blake, "The Sick Rose" |
The Skull Beneath the Skin |
P. D. James |
T. S. Eliot, "Whispers of Immortality" |
The Soldier's Art |
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Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" |
Some Buried Caesar |
Rex Stout |
Edward FitzGerald (trans.), Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Specimen Days |
Michael Cunningham |
Walt Whitman's prosework |
The Stars' Tennis Balls |
Stephen Fry |
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi |
Stranger in a Strange Land |
Robert A. Heinlein |
Bible: Exodus 2:22 |
"Such, Such Were the Joys" |
George Orwell |
William Blake, "The Echoing Green" |
A Summer Bird-Cage |
Margaret Drabble |
John Webster, The White Devil |
The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
Bible: Ecclesiastes 1:5 |
Surprised by Joy |
C. S. Lewis |
William Wordsworth, "Surprised by Joy" |
A Swiftly Tilting Planet |
Madeleine L'Engle |
Conrad Aiken, "Morning Song of Senlin" |
Taming a Sea Horse |
Robert B. Parker |
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" |
Tender Is the Night |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale'" |
Terrible Swift Sword |
Bruce Catton |
Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" |
That Good Night |
N. J. Crisp |
Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" |
That Hideous Strength |
C. S. Lewis |
David Lyndsay, Ane Dialog |
Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" |
This Side of Paradise |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Rupert Brooke, "Tiare Tahiti" |
Those Barren Leaves |
Aldous Huxley |
William Wordsworth, "The Tables Turned" |
Thrones, Dominations |
Dorothy L. Sayers |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
Tiger! Tiger! (alternative title of The Stars My Destination) |
Alfred Bester |
William Blake, "The Tyger" |
"Tiger! Tiger!" |
Rudyard Kipling |
William Blake, "The Tyger" |
A Time of Gifts |
Patrick Leigh Fermor |
Louis MacNeice, "Twelfth Night" |
Time of our Darkness |
Stephen Gray |
Lawrence Binyon, "For the Fallen" |
A Time to Kill |
John Grisham |
Bible: Ecclesiastes 3:3 |
Time To Murder And Create |
Lawrence Block |
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
Tirra Lirra by the River |
Jessica Anderson |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" |
To a God Unknown |
John Steinbeck |
Rigveda Book X |
To Sail Beyond the Sunset |
Robert A. Heinlein |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses" |
To Say Nothing of the Dog |
Connie Willis |
Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat |
To Your Scattered Bodies Go |
Philip José Farmer |
John Donne, Holy Sonnets VIII |
The Torment of Others |
Val McDermid |
T. S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages |
Unweaving the Rainbow |
Richard Dawkins |
John Keats, "Lamia" |
Vanity Fair |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress |
Vile Bodies |
Evelyn Waugh |
Bible: Philippians 3:21 |
The Violent Bear It Away |
Flannery O'Connor |
Bible: Matthew 11:12 (Douay translation) |
The Vorpal Blade |
Colin Forbes |
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass ("Jabberwocky") |
Waiting for the Barbarians |
J. M. Coetzee |
Constantine P. Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians" |
Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life |
John Neal |
Horace Greeley, Recollections of a Busy Life[3] |
The Waste Land |
T. S. Eliot |
Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance |
The Way of All Flesh |
Samuel Butler |
Bible: Joshua 23:14 (as rephrased in John Wesley's Explanatory Notes) |
The Way Through the Woods |
Colin Dexter |
Rudyard Kipling, "The Way Through the Woods" |
The Wealth of Nations |
Adam Smith |
Bible: Isaiah 61:6 |
What's Become of Waring |
Anthony Powell |
Robert Browning, "Waring" |
When the Green Woods Laugh |
H. E. Bates |
William Blake, "Laughing Song" |
Where Angels Fear to Tread |
E. M. Forster |
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism |
The Widening Gyre |
Robert B. Parker |
W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" |
Wildfire at Midnight |
Mary Stewart |
Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy |
The Wind's Twelve Quarters |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Poem XXXII |
The Wings of the Dove |
Henry James |
Bible: Psalm 55:6 |
The Wives of Bath |
Susan Swan |
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale |
The World, the Flesh and the Devil |
Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Book of Common Prayer |
The Yellow Meads of Asphodel |
H. E. Bates |
Alexander Pope, "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day" |