Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon"

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Literary critic Harold Bloom’s controversial list of the books that shaped Western culture, from his The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.

I have tried to list inexpensive English-language editions whenever possible. Occasionally the edition or translator will not precisely match that specified by Bloom; this seems unavoidable.

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  1. 1351.

  2. 1352.
    Solo Faces: A Novel
    by James Salter

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  3. 1353.
    Light Years
    by James Salter

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  4. 1354.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

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  5. 1355.
    A Flag for Sunrise
    by Robert Stone

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  6. 1356.
    The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
    by John Barth

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  7. 1357.
    The Sot-Weed Factor (The Anchor Literary Library)
    by John Barth

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  8. 1358.
    Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Book)
    by Walter Abish

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  9. 1359.
    How German Is It = Wie Deutsch Ist Es: A Novel
    by Walter Abish

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  10. 1360.
    Eclipse Fever (Nonpareil Books, No 76)
    by Walter Abish

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  11. 1361.
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    I Am the Dust Under Your Feet
    by Walter Abish

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  12. 1362.
    Forty Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Donald Barthelme

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  13. 1363.
    The Dead Father
    by Donald Barthelme

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  14. 1364.
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    On Wings of Song
    by Thomas M. Disch

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  15. 1365.
    Mosquito Coast, The
    by Paul Theroux

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  16. 1366.
    Witches of Eastwick
    by John Updike

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  17. 1367.
    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  18. 1368.
    Forgetting Elena: A Novel
    by Edmund White

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  19. 1369.
    Nocturnes for the King of Naples
    by Edmund White

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  20. 1370.
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    Time Remaining
    by James Mccourt

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  21. 1371.
    Modern Baptists
    by James Wilcox

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  22. 1372.
    Collected Poems 1951-1971
    by A. R. Ammons

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  23. 1373.
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    Ammons Selected Longer Poems Ammons (Cloth)
    by AR AMMONS

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  24. 1374.
    Sphere: The Form of a Motion
    by A. R. Ammons

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  25. 1375.
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    The double dream of spring
    by John Ashbery

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  26. 1376.
    Houseboat Days: Poems
    by John Ashbery

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  27. 1377.
    Selected Poems (Penguin Poets)
    by John Ashbery

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  28. 1378.
    Flow Chart: A Poem
    by John Ashbery

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  29. 1379.
    Hotel Lautreamont
    by John Ashbery

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  30. 1380.
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    And the Stars Were Shining
    by John Ashbery

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  31. 1381.
    American Buffalo: A Play
    by David Mamet

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  32. 1382.
    Speed-The-Plow
    by David Mamet

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  33. 1383.

  34. 1385.
    Fences
    by August Wilson

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  35. 1386.
    Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Plume)
    by August Wilson

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  36. 1387.
    Collected Earlier Poems
    by Anthony Hecht

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  37. 1388.
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    Living together: New and selected poems
    by Edgar Bowers

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  38. 1389.
    New And Selected Poems
    by Donald Justice

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  39. 1390.
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    From the First Nine Poems, 1946-76
    by James Merrill

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  40. 1391.
    The Changing Light at Sandover
    by James Merrill

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  41. 1392.
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    Above the River: The Complete Poems
    by James Wright

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  42. 1393.
    A New Selected Poems: Galway Kinnell
    by Galway Kinnell

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  43. 1394.
    New Selected Poems
    by Philip Levine

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  44. 1395.
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    Feldman: New and Selected Poems
    by Irving Feldman

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  45. 1396.
    The One Day
    by Donald Hall

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  46. 1397.
    Old and New Poems: Donald Hall
    by Donald Hall

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  47. 1398.
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    Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
    by Alvin Feinman

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  48. 1399.
    Untitled Subjects: Poems
    by Richard Howard

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  49. 1400.
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    Findings: Poems
    by Richard Howard

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