Esquire's "278 Books You Should Have Read By Now" by Harold Bloom - September 1994 Abish, Walter Alphabetical Africa Abish, Walter Eclipse Fever Abish, Walter How German Is It Abish, Walter I Am the Dust Under Your Feet Adams, Leonie Poems: A Selection Agee, James Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Agee, James Permit Me Voyage Aiken, Conrad Collected Poems Ammons, A.R. Collected Poems Ammons, A.R. Selected Longer Poems Ammons, A.R. Sphere: The Form of a Motion Anderson, Sherwood Death in the Woods and Other Stories Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio Applewhite, James River Writing: An Eno Journal Ashbery, John And the Stars Were Shining Ashbery, John Flow Chart Ashbery, John Hotel Lautreamont Ashbery, John Houseboat Days Ashbery, John Selected Poems Ashbery, John The Double Dream of Spring Baldwin, James The Price of the Ticket Barth, John The End of the Road Barth, John The Floating Opera Barth, John The Sot-Weed Factor Barthelme, Donald Forty Stories Barthelme, Donald The Dead Father Bellow, Saul Herzog Bellow, Saul Sieze the Day Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March Berryman, John Collected Poems Bishop, Elizabeth Collected Poems Bogan, Louise The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems Bowers, Edgar Living Together: New and Selected Poems Bowles, Paul The Sheltering Sky Boyle, Kay Three Short Novels Brodkey, Harold Stories in an Almost Classical Mode Burke, Kenneth A Rhetoric of Motives Burke, Kenneth Counter-statement Cahan, Abraham The Rise of David Levinsky Capote, Truman In Cold Blood Cards, Raymond Where I'm Calling From Cather, Willa A Lost Lady Cather, Willa My Antonia Cather, Willa The Professor's House Cheever, John Bullet Park Cheever, John The Stories of ... Clampitt, Amy Westward Delillo, Don Libra Delillo, Don Mao II Delillo, Don White Noise Doctrow, E.L. The Book of Daniel Doctrow, E.L. World's Fair Dove, Rita Selected Poems Duncan, Robert Bending the Bow Eberhart, Collected Poems Eliot, T. S. The Complete Poems and Plays Eliot, T.S. Selected Essays Elkin, Stanley The Living End Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Faulkner, William Absalon, Absalom! Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William Light in August Faulkner, William Sanctuary Faulkner, William The Collected Stories Faulkner, William The Hamlet Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William The Wild Palms Feinman, Alvin Poems Feldman, Irving Selected Poems Fitzgerald, F. Scott Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender Is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, Robert Spring Shade: Poems Frost, Robert The Poetry Gaddis, William The Recognitions Galsgow, Ellen Barren Ground Galsgow, Ellen Vein of Iron Garrigue, Jean Selected Poems Gass, William H. In the Heart of the Country 9and Other Stories) Gass, William H. Omensetter's Luck Grossman, Allen The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected Hall, Donald Old and New Poems Hall, Donald The One Day Hawkes, John Second Skin Hawkes, John The Cannibal Hayden, Robert Collected Poems Hecht, Anthony Collected Earlier Poems Hemmingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms Hemmingway, Ernest Complete Short Stories Hemmingway, Ernest The Garden of Eden Hemmingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises Hirsch, Edward Earthly Measures Hoban, Russell Riddley Walker Hollander, John Reflections on Espionage Hollander, John Selected Poetry Hollander, John Tesserae Howard, Richard Findings Howard, Richard Untitled Subjects Hughes, Langston I Wonder As I Wander Hughes, Langston Selected Poems Hughes, Langston The Big Sea Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Jarrell, Randall Complete Poems Jeffers, Robinson Selected Poems Johnson, Denis Angels Johnson, Denis Fiskadoro Johnson, Denis Jesus' Son Justice, Donald Selected Poems Kees, Weldon Collected Poems Kennedy, William Ironweed Kennedy, William The Albany Cycle Kinnell, Galway Selected Poems Koch, Kenneth Seasons On Earth Kushner, Tony Angels In America LeGuin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness Levine, Philip Selected Poems Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair It Can't Happen Here Lindsay, Vachel Collected Poems Lowell, Robert Collected Poems Mailer, Norman Advertisements For Myself Mailer, Norman Ancient Evenings Mailer, Norman The Executioner's Song Malamud, Bernard The Fixer Malamud, Bernard The Stories of ... Mamet, David American Buffalo Mamet, David Speed the Plow Marquand, John P. H.M. Pulham, Esquire Masters, Edgar Lee Spoon River Anthology Mayer, Edwin Justice Children of Darkness McCarthy, Cormac Blood Meridian McCarthy, Cormac Child of God McCarthy, Cormac Suttree McClatchy, J.D. The Rest of the Way McCourt, James Time Remaining McCullers, Carson The Ballad of the Sad Cafe McCullers, Carson The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Merrill, James From the First Nine Merrill, John The Changing Light at Sandover Merwin, W.S. Selected Poems Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman Mitchell, Joseph Up In the Old Hotel Moore, Marianne Complete Poems Morris, Wright Ceremony in Lone Tree Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon Moss, Howard New Selected Poems Moss, Thylias Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita Nabokov, Vladimir Pale Fire Naylor, Gloria The Women of Brewster Place O'Connery, Flannery The Violent Bear It Away O'Connor, Flannery Complete Stories O'Connor, Flannery Wise Blood O'Hara, Frank Selected Poems O'Hara, John Appointment in Samarra O'Hara, John Collected Stories O'Neill, Eugene Lazarus Laughed O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night O'Neill, Eugene The Iceman Cometh Oates, Joyce Carol Then Olson, Charles Collected Poems Olson, Charles The Maximus Poems Ozick, Cynthia Envy, or Yiddish in America Ozick, Cynthia The Messiah of Stockholm Paley, Grace The Little Disturbances of Man Percy, Walker The Moviegoer Porter, Katherine Anne Collected Stories Pound, Ezra Literary Essays Pound, Ezra Personae Pound, Ezra The Cantos Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49 Pynchon, Thomas V Rabe, David Streamers Ransom, John Crowe Selected Poems Reed, Ishmael Mumbo Jumbo Robinson, Edwin Arling. Selected Poems Roethke, Theodore Collected Poems Roethke, Theodore Straw for the Fire Roth, Henry Call It Sleep Roth, Philip My Life As a Man Roth, Philip Operation Shylock Roth, Philip Patrimony Roth, Philip Portnoy's Complaint Roth, Philip The CounterLife Roth, Philip Zuckerman Bound Salinger, J.D. Nine Stories Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye Salter, James Light Years Salter, James Solo Faces Schuyler, James Collected Poems Schwartz, Delmore Selected Poems Schwartz, Delmore Summer Knowledge Shepard, Sam Seven Plays Simic, Charles Selected Poems Snyder, Gary No Nature: New and Selected Poems Stein, Gertrude Tender Buttons Stein, Gertrude The Geographical History of America Stein, Gertrude The Making of Americans Stein, Gertrude Three Lives Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath Stevens, Wallace Collected Poems Stevens, Wallace Opus Posthumous Stevens, Wallace The Necessary Angels Stevens, Wallace The Palm at the End of the Mind Stone, Robert A Flag for Sunrise Stone, Robert Dog Soldiers Strand, Mark Dark Harbor Strand, Mark Selected Poems Strand, Mark The Continuous Life Styron, William The Long March Swenson, Mary In Other Words Swenson, Mary New & Selected Things Taking Place Tate, Allen Collected Poems Theroux, The Mosquito Coast Tolson, M.B. Harlem Gallery Tommer, Jean Cane Updike, John The Witches of Eastwick Vidal, Gore Lincoln Vidal, Gore Myra Breckenridge Vonnegut Jr., Kurt Cat's Cradle Warren, Robert Penn All the King's Men Warren, Robert Penn Selected Poems Warren, Robert Penn Worlds Enough and Time Welty, Eudora Collected Stories Welty, Eudora Delta Wedding Welty, Eudora The Poner Heart Welty, Eudora The Robber Bridegroom West, Nathaniel A Cool Million West, Nathaniel Miss Lonelyhearts West, Nathaniel The Day of the Locust Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith The Collected Short Stories Wharton, Edith The Custon of the Country Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth Wheelwright, John B. Collected Poems White, Edmund Forgetting Elena White, Edmund Nocturnes for the King of Naples Wilbur, Richard New and Collected Poems Wilcox, James Modern Baptists Wilder, Thornton Three Plays Williams, Tennessee A Streetcar Named Desire Williams, Tennessee Summer and Smoke Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie Williams, Will. Carlos Collected Poems Williams, Will. Carlos Paterson Williams, Will. Carlos Spring and All Wilson, August Fences Wilson, August Joe Turner's Come and Gone Wilson, Edmund Patriotic Gore Wilson, Edmund The Shores of Light Wright, Charles The World of the Ten Thousand Things Wright, James Above the River: The Complete Poems Wright, Jay Boleros Wright, Jay Dimensions of History Wright, Jay Elaine's Book Wright, Jay Selected Poems Wright, Jay The Double Invention of Komo Wright, Richard Black Boy Wright, Richard Native Son Wylie, Elinor Last Poems