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    1.    Umberto Eco: The Name of the         ...............Rose and Focaults Pendulum

    2.    Hermann Hesse: Orgelspiel, Glass ...............Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein ...............und Wagner, and Siddhartha

    3.    Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, ...............The Metamorphosis

    4.    Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of ...............the Red Death”; The Narrative of ...............Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

    5.    Ernest Hemingway: Death in the ...............Afternoon

    6.    Mary Shelley: The Last Man

    7.    Albert Camus: The Plague, The ..............Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus 

    8.    Luis Borges: The Immortal

    9.    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day ................in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, ...............ApricJam: And Other Stories

    10.   Maxim Gorky: Confession

    11.    Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon

Literary Fiction

1.

Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose and Focaults Pendulum

2.

Hermann Hesse: Orgelspiel, Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein und Wagner, and Siddhartha

3.

Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis

4.

Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of the Red Death”; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

5.

Ernest Hemingway: Death in the Afternoon

6.

Mary Shelley: The Last Man

7.

Albert Camus: The Plague, The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus (nonfiction) 

8.

Luis Borges: The Immortal

9.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Apricot Jam: And Other Stories

10.

Maxim Gorky: Confession

11.

Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon

    1.    Umberto Eco: The Name of the         ...............Rose and Focaults Pendulum

    2.    Hermann Hesse: Orgelspiel, Glass ...............Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein ...............und Wagner, and Siddhartha

    3.    Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, ...............The Metamorphosis

    4.    Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of ...............the Red Death”; The Narrative of ...............Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

    5.    Ernest Hemingway: Death in the ...............Afternoon

    6.    Mary Shelley: The Last Man

    7.    Albert Camus: The Plague, The ..............Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus 

    8.    Luis Borges: The Immortal

    9.    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day ................in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, ...............ApricJam: And Other Stories

    10.   Maxim Gorky: Confession

    11.    Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon

SCIENCE-FICTION / FANTASY

1.

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth series (The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous), Planet of Adventure series (City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, The Pnume)

2.

Joe Haldeman: All My Sins Remembered and The Forever War

3.

Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles, Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, and I Sing the Body Electric

4.

Tim Powers: The Drawing of the Dark

5.

Richard Ben Sapir: The Far Arena

6.

Phillip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, VALIS, Eye in the Sky, The Man in the High Castle, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

7.

Gordon Dickson: Childe Cycle (Dorsai!, Necromancer, Soldier, Ask Not, Tactics of Mistake, The Spirit of Dorsai, Lost Dorsai, and The Final Encyclopedia)

8.

Harry Harrison: The Stainless Steel Rat series, the Deathworld series, Make Room! Make Room!, and The Technicolor Time Machine 

9.

J.G. Ballard: The Garden of Time and The Watchtowers

10.

A. E. Van Vogt: The Null-A series (The World of Null-A, The Pawns of Null-A, Null-A Three)

11.

Orson Scott Card: Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Game series)

12.

Jack L. Chalker: Well of Souls Series (esp. Midnight at the Well of Souls), Quintara Marathon series (The Demons at Rainbow Bridge and The Ninety Trillion Fausts)

13.

Frank Herbert: ConSentiency Universe series (Whipping Star and The Dosadi Experiment), and Dune

14.

Roger Zelazny: The Chronicles of Amber series; Eye of Cat and My Name Is Legion

15.

Isaac Asimov: Foundation Series (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation), Nightfall, and I, Robot

16.

E. E. Doc Smith: The Lensman series (Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol, and Gray Lensman)

17.

H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Call of Cthulhu, and The Shadow Out of Time

18.

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Word for World Is Forest 

19.

Philip José Farmer: The Riverworld series and the World of Tiers series

20.

Poul Anderson: Tau Zero and The Boat of a Million Years

21.

Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End, and Islands in the Sky

22.

Larry Niven: Lucifer's Hammer (with Jerry Pournelle), Footfall (with Pournelle), The Mote in God's Eye (with Pournelle), and Ringworld series

23.

Richard Matheson: I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come

24.

Frederik Pohl: The Space Merchants (with Kornbluth), The World at the End of Time, and the Starchild Trilogy

25.

Robert Silverberg: Shadrach in the Furnace and the Gilgamesh series (Gilgamesh the King and To the Land of the Living)

26.

Fritz Leiber: The Wanderer and The Big Time

27.

Michael Moorcock: The Blood Red Game and The Multiverse trilogy

28.

Robert E. Howard: The Solomon Kane series

29.

Fred Saberhagen: The Berserker series

30.

Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land

31.

Robert Sheckley: Immortality, Inc., Cordle to Onion to Carrot, and The Petrified World 

32.

James Blish: A Case of Conscience

33.

David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas 

34.

James E. Gunn: The Immortals

35.

Cyril M. Kornbluth: The Space Merchants (with Frederik Pohl)

36.

James Tiptree: Up the Walls of the World

37.

Katherine MacLean: Incommunicado

38.

Octavia Butler: Patternist series

39.

Brian Aldiss: Beyond Plato's Cave

40.

Algis Budrys: Michaelmas

    1.    Umberto Eco: The Name of the         ...............Rose and Focaults Pendulum

    2.    Hermann Hesse: Orgelspiel, Glass ...............Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein ...............und Wagner, and Siddhartha

    3.    Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, ...............The Metamorphosis

    4.    Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of ...............the Red Death”; The Narrative of ...............Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

    5.    Ernest Hemingway: Death in the ...............Afternoon

    6.    Mary Shelley: The Last Man

    7.    Albert Camus: The Plague, The ..............Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus 

    8.    Luis Borges: The Immortal

    9.    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day ................in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, ...............ApricJam: And Other Stories

    10.   Maxim Gorky: Confession

    11.    Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon

NON-FICTION / PHILOSOPHY 

1.

Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism

2.

Aristotle: On the Heavens; On the Soul; On Memory; Metaphysics

3.

Nikolai Bukharin: Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology; Philosophical Arabesques

4.

Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus 

5.

Stephen F. Cohen: Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution

6.

Robert Conquest: The Great Terror: A Reassessment

7.

Georgi Dimitrov: The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov

8.

Sextus Empiricus: Adversus Mathematicos

9.

Fritz Graf and Sara Iles Johnston: Ritual Texts of the Afterlife

10.

Paul R. Gregory: Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina

11.

Mihály Hoppál: Schamanen and Schamanismus

12.

Edward Jenner: The Gold Leaves

13.

Sara Iles Johnston: Hecate Soteira

14.

Zhores Medvedev and Roy Medvedev: The Unknown Stalin

15.

Plato: Republic, Parmenides, Sophist, and Timaeus

16.

Plotinus: Enneads

17.

Dimitry Pospielovsky: A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Antireligious Policies

18.

Donald Rayfield: Stalin and His Hangmen

19.

Ross Wolfe: "Religion in Russian Marxism." Rethinking Marxism, Volume 32, 2020

20.

Simon Sebag Montefiore: Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar and Young Stalin

21.

Arvo Tuominen: The Bells of the Kremlin: An Experience in Communism

22.

Yulia Ustinova: Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind

23.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus

24.

Ahmad Ibn Fadlan: The Risala of Ibn Fadlan, 921 AD

25.

Anon: The Secret History of the Mongols (after 1227 AD)

26.

J. A. Longworth: A Year Among the Circassians, 1840

27.

Al-Masudi: Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems, 947 AD

28.

Gabriele de’ Mussi: Istoria de Morbo sive Mortalitate quae fuit Anno Dni 1348

29.

Karl F. Neumann: Russland Und Die Tscherkessen, 1840

30.

Giovanni da Pian del Carpine: Ystoria Mongalorum, 1240s; The Journey of Friar John of Pian de Carpine to the Court of Kuyuk Khan, 1245–1247

31.

Edmund Spencer: Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary [Crimean Khanate], &c. Including a Steam Voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople and Round the Black Sea, in 1836

32.

Pero Tafur: The Travels of Pero Tafur, 1435–1439

33.

Micha Titiev: Old Aruba

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