Lists!


Lists of the best books!


Autobiographies


-Confessions by Rousseau
-Education of Henry Adams
-Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
-Memoirs From Beyond the Grave by Chateaubriand
-My Life by Benvenuto Cellini
-Confessions by Augustine
-Gallic Wars by Julius Ceasar
-Journals of Andre Gide
-My Life by Giacomo Casanova
-Autobiography by Bertrand Russell
-Gray Notebooks by Joseph Pla
-Diary of Samuel Pepys
-Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence
-World Within World by Stephen Spender
-Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco
-World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
-Turning Point by Klaus Mann
-Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
-Story of a Life by Konstantin Pautovsky

Aphorisms


-EM Cioran
-La Rochefoucauld
-Vauvenargues
-Novalis: Observations & Fragments
-Chamfort
-Joseph Joubert: Notebooks
-Baltasar Gracian
-La Bruyere: Characters
-Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
-Lord Halifax
-Schopenhauer: Aphorisms
-Paul Valery: Notebooks
-Lichtenberg: Notebooks
-Goethe: Maxims
-Pascal: Penses
-Ambrose Bierce: Devil's Dictionary
-Voltaire
-Malcolm de Chazal: Sens-Plastique
-Giacomo Leopardi: Zibaldone
-WH Auden: Commonplace Book
-Eric Hoffer
-Franz Kafka
-Joseph Pla: Grey Notebooks
-Logan Pearsall Smith

Gay Books


-Dancer from the Dance (Holleran)
-Exile of Capri (Peyrefitte)
-City of Night (Rechy)
-Berlin Stories (Isherwood)
-Confusion (Zweig)
-Fridolin's Mystical Marriage (Wilbrandt)
-Alf (Vogel)
-Faggots (Kramer)
-The Immoralist (Gide)

History


-Jefferson and His Time (Malone)
-Crisis of the European Mind (Hazard)
-Dawn to Decadence (Barzun)
-Rites of Spring (Eksteins)
-Ancient Rome (Thomas R. Martin)
-Empire of Liberty (Wood)
-The Greeks (Kitto)


Last updated November 2023