1 October
A certain <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/index.shtml">web site</a> about Thomas Browne offers meticulous full-text transcriptions of Browne's works and biographies on Browne.


2 October
2 October
Even musicians make lists of books. While others asked <a href="http://open-book.ca/News/Special-Feature-How-to-Read-Like-Bowie-David-Bowie-s-Top-100-Books">Bowie</a> to make one, <a href="https://www.artgarfunkel.com/library/list1.html">Garfunkel</a> proudly displays his on his official site.


3 October
In the Introduction to his A Lifetime's Reading, Philip Ward makes note of UNESCO's <a href="https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000001229_eng">Tentative List of Representative Works of World Literature</a>, including roughly 1500 literary works, published in 1972. Ward pronounces it a failure, "due to the outrageous imbalance by which almost every language spoken by a Unesco member state had to be represented by a book. There were fewer books in Chinese than in Dutch, or Polish, or Portuguese." This critique is misleading; such a requirement would've created an imbalance only if it had mandated a single work for each language. As we've seen from the "great books" lists transcribed here, the presence of more works in European languages than in Chinese (or Arabic, etc.) is no surprise, even from the U N. Moreover, the UNESCO project leaders made the right choice in categorizing the works by language, not nation or ethnicity.

This list is too massive for me to consider including in the project at this point. The document linked-to above presents its own problems. The introductory portion asserts that the titles are given in their original languages, but many of them (perhaps just written in languages that don't use the Roman alphabet) are actually given in French.


4 October
Another excellent online resource: <a href="http://www.pragmatism.org/">Pragmatism Cybrary</a>.

The Library of Congress site for The Making of America in Books and Periodicals [defunct!], as well as the <a href="https://collections.library.cornell.edu/moa_new/index.html">Cornell University</a> and <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/">University of Michigan</a> versions. All three institutions have contibuted to the project, but do they all need their own interfaces and search mechanisms? Apparently they don't overlap. I'm not sure.

And a couple sites allowing for comparison of texts in the original Greek and as translated into English: <a href="http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/en/index.html">The Little Sailing</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160109193154/http://ancientgreekonline.com/">Ancient Greek Online</a>.


5 October
Five of the eight movie lists rank the films, so that, as with music-album lists, we see a contrast with "great books" lists, which tend not to rank the list entries. Starting with just the top five of each list, we can see which of those appeared on the most lists.

So, the films ranked 1-5 which appeared on...
...8 of the 8 lists:
Citizen Kane
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Singin' in the Rain
The Searchers
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

...7 of the 8 lists:
Casablanca [not in Village Voice]
Chinatown [not in Maltin]
Raging Bull [not in Village Voice]
2001: A Space Odyssey [not in Time]
Vertigo [not in Time]

...6 of the 8 lists:
Seven Samurai [not in Time or A F I]
Tokyo Story [not in Maltin or A F I]

...5 of the 8 lists:
Rules of the Game [not in Time, Maltin, or A F I]

...2 of the 8 lists:
Andrei Rublev [only in Moving Arts and B F I/ Sight and Sound]


6 October
An excellent article on film canons, and canons in general, by Adrian Martin: <a href="http://www.filmcritic.com.au/essays/canons.html">Light My Fire: The Geology and Geography of Film Canons</a>.

Interesting to see to what extent the problems with film canons he defines also apply to "great books" lists...


7 October
Playlists, a former phrase actually warranting its new non-hyphenated status, in this age of D J's and the M P 3 likely shape our listening experiences and our understanding of music to a greater extent than sequences of album tracks as determined by artists, producers, etc. The tendency with playlists has been toward personalized lists: tracks reflecting a theme, a state of mind, or a set of experiences.

I want nothing to do with this. Granted, especially when I'm listening to music requiring closer, focused listening (Free Jazz, modern Classical, experimental, what have you), a compilation of tracks sometimes helps me stay more interested than when listening to whole albums. But, for popular music, I listen to whole albums. In other words, I never listened to much radio--even when I D J'ed at a college radio station! I prefer thinking of albums, not tracks, as the entities constituting a listening experience. Undoubtedly, though, compilations can be useful (or essential, in the case of artists who never made much in the way of albums), and even fun. For example, the Streetsounds comps of the 1980's, thankfully digitized by a certain Omar Hash, whose site unfortunately seems to be on hiatus, if not defunct.

Also, occasionally, when pondering the deficiencies of most "greatest hits" compilations, I can't help but think of my own versions. The problem with those comps is that often only offer hits, or album tracks that could've been singles. Superior album tracks that the casual listener might find weird or annoying are ignored. I developed my own "greatest hits" for The Doors, divided into four L P sides, when listening to all of their albums last year--namely, the 2007 remasters that in some cases featured new mixes of the tracks. Whether the tracks were released as singles does not factor. That said, I want the playlist to cover their entire recording output, serving as a sort of musical history of the band. I've also been tweaking a longer Neil Young playlist that I'll post later this week.

Break on Through
People Are Strange
Love Me Two Times
Light My Fire
The Crystal Ship
Alabama Song
--
Spanish Caravan
Unknown Soldier
Five to One
L A Women
--
Roadhouse Blues
Waiting for the Sun
Touch Me
Hello, I Love You
Strange Days
--
Riders on the Storm
My Wild Love
The End


8 October
Earth's Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, with both parts I [2011] and II [2012] considered together, is one of several double or triple L P epics that define the last few years of popular music, including:

2009:
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic. Developed and sequenced as both a double C D and L P, but more widely made available as a single C D, since the two halves fit on a single disc.

Oneida - Rated O. Both a triple C D and L P, so no surprises if listening to the L P version.

2010:
Excepter - Presidence. Two C D's, no L P version. If there had been, two of the tracks, 'Presidence' and 'Og', would have been split into two sides, as they're both around a half-hour long; in general, the album's a mess by their standards; the tracks collectively titled 'Teleportation', also totaling around a half hour, would've made for an excellent single L P; another L P could've consisted of 'The Open Well' on one side with 'Leng' and 'The Anti-Noah' on another.

Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me. Triple C D and L P, same set-up as Rated O--the C D's aren't long enough to cause sequencing problems for the L P's.

2011:
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow. Single C D, double L P; side A's too long and B's too short, but overall it's sequence of tracks works well in both formats.

Lou Reed/ Metallica - Lulu. Double C D and double L P; sequence works fine for both formats.

2012:
Swans - The Seer. Different sequence of tracks for the triple L P and the double C D. The Discogs entries give you the lowdown.

Scott Walker - Bish Bosch. Single C D and double L P. Sequence fits L P version perfectly.

Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill. Double C D and five-sided "sesquialbum" [see below], same sequence.

2013:
The Invisible Hands - The Invisible Hands. Double L P, the same songs by Alan Bishop, formerly of Sun City Girls, recorded twice with a Cairo-based band, once in English, once in Arabic. C D version only contains English-language versions.

The Knife - Shaking the Habitual. Double C D and triple L P, same sequence; the L P sides are awfully short--a good example of not ruining the sound quality of the L P with narrow grooves [see below].

Since the C D supplanted the cassette and L P around 1990, albums have generally been too long. A positive side effect, though, is that those artists who give more thought to issues of sequencing, and have understood the need to avoid unnecessarily-long albums, challenge themselves by making more double and triple L P's. Then again, artists realizing they have on their hands an album that works best being 50-60 minutes long can accept an impractical, but audiophile, solution: refuse to stretch the length of L P sides, instead putting out a short double L P or a 3-sided L P.

Some double L P's you may not have known were doubles, or certainly are not commonly referred to as doubles (in some cases with short sides or bonus tracks to make the sides not so short):
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
The Verve - A Northern Soul
Radiohead - O K Computer
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Bob Dylan - "Love and Theft"
The Knife - Silent Shout
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Animal Collective - Feels; Strawberry Jam; Merriweather Post Pavilion

Taking a broader historical perspective now, some 3-sided L P's (besides both of the Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light albums)--and no, this category doesn't include L P's with a bonus seven-inch, such as Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, or double L P's with such, like Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life):
Johnny Winter - Second Winter
Keith Jarrett - Eye of the Heart
Joe Jackson - Big World
Julian Cope - Jehovahkill
Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins (third side referred to as an E P, but it is not: an E P would have the five tracks spread across two 45-R P M sides, instead of all five on a single 33-and-1/3-R P M side)

The Wikipedia section on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_album#Sesquialbum">sesquialbums</a> notes the Norwegian band Motorpsycho, the true stars in this realm with two three-sided L P's and one five-sided. Besides Neil Young (noted above), The Mars Volta also have a five-sided album, Frances the Mute.


9 October
The rules I'm using to establish if a work not originally published as a monograph, but which ultimately took some monographic form, indeed counts as a monograph in the "great books" project have changed slightly over the course of the year; and some exceptions have popped up.

Examples of Rule(s):
Ezra Pound's Cantos is the most-glaringly obvious of those works consisting of several monographs and, in this case, works published in periodicals as well. Leaves of Grass is another example that stands out, but for a different reason: a work that changed considerably over the course of nearly four decades. One of our listmakers, Harold Bloom, prefers to list two editions of the work.

Plays are counted as monographs even when originally published in anthologies, such as George Bernard Shaw's Candida, Arms and the Man, and You Can Never Tell, all three published as Plays Pleasant [1898].

Two J D Salinger works, Franny and Zooey [1961] and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction [1961], as their titles hint, each consist of two stories originally published separately, all in the New Yorker magazine. Since they were published as two monographs by the author himself, and those editions have become the standard versions, they count here as monographs. The same goes for Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio--but the rule's applicability in that case is more obvious, as only ten of the 22 stories had been published prior to the book being developed and published.

Examples of Exceptions:
Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia were published serially, 1820-25, but since they were soon published in book form, as Essays of Elia [1823] and Last Essays of Elia [1833], those works count as monographs. So far, not an exception. The problem comes in that the three pertinent listmakers (Baldwin, Powys, and the Jasper Lee Company) only list Essays of Elia. Since the phrase, "essays of Elia," often refers to all of the essays (that is, both anthologies) we can't say for certain that only the first book is being listed. I've decided to include both.

William Butler Yeats's Autobiography is included in two lists (Magill and Fadiman). We know from the description in the book that the later (1955) version is what's included in Magill's list; for Fadiman's, we're not sure. That later version consisted of six different monographs; an earlier, 1938 version included only three of them. Given that the contents of the book changed; and surely could change in the future, with the addition perhaps of other autobiographical works, however minor, I'm including all six works separately. This is an exception because we want to give priority to a work's final manifestation, while making note of its original place of publication and title changes, or titles of constituent works (as in Pound's Cantos above). An important consideration here is that the later version of the Autobiography is a posthumous compilation. 


10 October
Neil Young's "Greatest Hits (Through 1980)"--indeed, the exclusion of 'Mr. Soul', 'Expecting to Fly', 'The Old Laughing Lady', 'Down by the River', 'Cowgirl in the Sand', 'Southern Man', 'Heart of Gold', 'Cortez the Killer', 'Long May You Run', 'Will to Love', and 'Look Out for My Love' is no accident. I just wanted to limit this to a double album. I like the idea of bonus seven-inch's with the versions of 'A Man Needs a Maid' and 'Don't Let It Get You Down' from the Live at Massey album on one, and the original recordings of two songs, 'White Line' and 'Hold Back the Tears' (from the legendary lost albums Homegrown and Chrome Dreams, respectively, both re-recorded in significantly-different versions for the albums Ragged Glory and American Stars 'n' Bars, respectively), on the other; and maybe, hidden C D tracks of the Rolling Stones's 'Lady Jane' and Carole King's 'He's a Bad Boy' just for a laugh.

Dangerbird
Old Man
I Believe in You
World on a String
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Borrowed Tune
--
Helpless
Walk On
Pocahontas
After the Gold Rush
Don't Be Denied
Tonight's the Night
--
Like a Hurricane
Hey Hey, My My (Out of the Blue)
Pardon My Heart
Powderfinger
Campaigner
Don't Cry No Tears
--
Out on the Weekend
Birds
Cinnamon Girl
Ohio
See the Sky About to Rain
On the Beach


11 October
Great Literature of the Eastern World: The Major Works of Prose, Poetry and Drama From China, India, Japan, Korea and the Middle East [1996], edited by Ian P McGreal, and its companion, Great Thinkers of the Eastern World: The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the World of Islam [1995] together offer us a list considerably longer than it might initially seem, because of the inclusion of a multitude of works under many of the entries, especially when you get to the entries of modern Japanese writers like 'The Novels of Mishima Yukio'. The inclusion of many obscure, at times inaccessible (to me!) works also means that, while in the long run I'd like to include it, for now it's being set aside. I cannot get the bibliographic research needed to collate this list with the others done within, say, a year, so to include it only partially would give users of the Greater Books site a misleading impression of the degree to which non-Western works are featured there.

Note that, formally, McGreal, in 1995, considered the Thinkers volume to be a companion to his Great Thinkers of the Western World: The Major Ideas and Classic Works of More Than 100 Outstanding Western Philosophers, Physical and Social Scientists, Psychologists, Religious Writers, and Theologians [1992], but for us that latter work is not pertinent to this project, being limited to non-fiction works. With the publication of the Literature volume, McGreal created another companion to Great Thinkers of the Eastern World. As he notes in the Preface to the former, "Some of the Eastern classics that one might expect to find in Great Literature of the Eastern World are not here only because they are philosophical/religious works prominently featured in this book's predecessor, Great Thinkers of the Eastern World. [...] Great Thinkers of the Eastern World emphasizes ideas and their place in philosophical and religious perspectives; the present volume concerns itself with expression of human experience through literature—through the use of images, recitals of significant events or moments, and reflection on what has happened in life" [original emphasis]. A few works are discussed in both; for our purposes, since the two McGreal projects are being combined to form one list, they will be counted once.

The underlined text is the section title; it is followed by, in both the books and the transcriptions here, on the first line, by the original title or alternate titles, if any; on the second line, the authors or a note about the work's authorship; and on the third, the date of composition, if given (for some of the entries, only the author's birth and date dates are given; these are not transcribed here). The literary form is also sometimes given, but it is not copied here.

China:
The Book of Poetry
Shijing (Shih Ching) (Sometimes translated as the Book of Songs or the Book of Odes)
Unknown 
Poems date from tenth to sixth centuries B C; believed to have been edited by Confucius (d. 479 B C)

The Book of Changes
Yijing (I-ching)
Unknown; Composite work
Origins unclear; probably not put together as a coherent text until the ninth century B C (The so-called 'Ten Wings' were added in the early Han Dynasty [206 B C-A D 221])

The Book of History
Shujing (Shu Ching), Shang Shu, or Shu
Unknown. Contains imperial court documents (some believed to be later forgeries) from the earliest rulers down to the Zhou dynasty
Oldest material was written between the tenth and sixth centuries B C

The Commentaries of Zuo (Tso) on The Spring and Autumn Annuals
Zuo zhuan (Tso chuan)
Zuo Qiu-ming (Tso Ch'iu-ming)
Transmitted orally for generations, written down in the late fourth century B C

The Book of the Way
Daode jing (Tao-te ching) or Laozi (Lao-zu)
Traditionally attributed to Laozi, but authorship unknown
c. 300 B C

The Art of War
Sunzi bingfa (Sun-tzu ping fa), also known simply as Sunzi (Sun-tzu, sometimes Sun Tzu)
Unknown. The traditionally recognized author is Sun Wu, usually known as Sunzi (Sun-tzu), Sun being the surname, Wu the given name, and zi (tzu) a suffix indicating aristocratic lineage
Traditional date of composition: c. 500 B C. Probable actual date of composition: c. 300 B C

The Poetry of Qu Yuan (Ch'ü Yüan)
Qu Yuan (Ch'ü Yüan), also known as Qu Ping (Ch'ü Ping)
'Encountering Sorrow', 'Nine Songs', 'Heaven Questions' 

The Book of Rites
Liji (Li-chi) (Also translated as Record of Ritual)
Composite work of ancient texts
Compiled during Han dynasty (206 B C-A D 222) 

The Book of Huainanzi (Huai-nan Tzu)
King Liu An, King of Huainan (and Su Fei, Li Shang, Zuo Wu [Tso Wu], Tian You [T'ien Yu], Lei Bei [Lei Pei], Mao Bei [Mao Pei], Wu Bei [Wu Pei], Jin Chan [Chin Ch'ang], and other unnamed literati)
Completed 139 B C

Records of the Grand Historian
Shiji (Shih-chi)
Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Ch'ien)

Intrigues of the Warring States
Zhanguoce (Chan-kuo ts'e)
Unknown
No later than 8 B C

The Poetry of Tao Yuanming (T'ao Yüan-ming)
Tao Yuanming (T'ao Yüan-ming), also known as Tao Qian (T'ao Ch'ien)
'Returning to My Old Home', 'At the Beginning of Spring in the Year Kuei-Mao (Guimao)', 'Returning to Live in the Country', 'Return Home!', 'Peach Blossom Font'

The Poetry of Xie Lingyuan (Hsieh Ling-yün) 
Also known as Xie Kangle (Hsieh K'ang-lo), Duke of Kangle (Duke of K'ang-lo)
'Passing Through My Shining [Shih-ning] Estate', 'Leaving West Archery Hall at Dusk', 'On My Way from South Mountain to North Mountain, I Glance at the Scenery from the Lake', 'Journeying the Stream: Following the Jinzhu Torrent I Cross the Mountain'

Selections of Refined Literature
Wen xuan (Wen hsüan)
Xiao Tong (Hsiao T'ung), Crown Prince Zhaoming (Chao-ming) of the Liang
c. A D 526

The Poetry of Wang Wei
The Wang River poems, poems of Cloud Valley, 'Morning Audience', 'The Emperor Commands a Poem Be Written and Sent to My Friend, Prefect Wei Xi', 'From Puti Monastery', 'Living in the Hills', 'Hibiscus Hill', 'Bamboo Lodge', 'Deer Park', 'Goodbye to Tsu the Third at Chichou'

The Poetry of Li Bo (Li Po)
Also known as Li Bai (Li Pai)
'Quiet Night Thoughts', 'Ancient Airs' [59 poems], 'The Road to Shu Is Hard', 'Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon'

The Poetry of Du Fu (Tu Fu) 
'Ballad of Pengya', 'Northward Journey', 'Expressing My Feelings on Going from the Capital to Fengxian Prefecture', 'Ballad of the Army Carts', 'The Recruiting Officer of Shihao', 'Lament for the Prince', 'The Separation of an Old Man', 'Twenty Miscellaneous Poems from Quinzhou', 'Autumn Inspirations', 'Autumn Wastes', 'Yangtze and Han Rivers'

The Poetry of Hanshan (Han Shan)
Kanzan (in Japanese); also known as Cold Mountain
The 'Cold Mountain' poems

The Prose Works of Han Yu (Han Yü)
'Tracing the Origins of the Way', 'Offering to the Crocodiles', 'Disquisition on Teachers', 'Preface Sending Off Meng Jiao [Meng Chiao]', 'Memorial on the Buddha Bone', 'Biography of Mao Ying [Tipp O'Hair]'

The Poetry of Bo Juyi (Po Chü-yi)
Boshi Changqing ji (Master Bo's Changqing Era Collection); 'Song of Everlasting Regret', 'Songs of Qin [Ch'in], 'New Ballads'

The Poetry of Li He (Li Ho)
'Divine Strings', 'Matters Sealed in Green Writings', 'Ballad of a Pained Heart', 'Thirteen Poems from My Southern Garden', 'Song of General Lü', 'Changgu'

The Prose Works of Quyang Xiu (Ou-yang Hsiu) 
Various memorials submitted to the Court, expository essays on political matters, obituaries, New Tang History, New History of the Five Dynasties, Postscripts to Collected Ancient Inscriptions, 'Record of The Old Drunkard's Pavilion', 'The Autumn Sound'

The Poetry of Su Shi (Su Shih)
Also known as Su Dongpo (Su Tung-p'o)
Southern Travels Collection, 'On the Yangzi Watching the Hills', 'Written on the Wall at West Forest Temple', 'Prose Poems on the Red Cliff'

Romance of the Western Chamber
Xixiang ji (Hsi-hsiang chi)
Wang Shifu (Wang Shih-fu)
Second half of the thirteenth century

The Plays of Guan Hanqing (Kuan Han-ch'ing)
Guan Hanqing (Kuan Han-ch'ing)
Lord Guan Goes to the Feast with a Single Sword, Crying for Cunxiao (or Death of the Winged Tiger General), Rescued by a Coquette, The Riverside Pavilion, The Jade Mirror Stand, The Butterfly Dream, and Injustice to Dou E (or Snow in Midsummer)

The Water Margin
Shuihu zhuan (Shui-hu chuan); Outlaws of the Marsh, All Men Are Brothers 
Shi Nai'an (Shih Nai-an) and/or Luo Guanzhong (Lo Kuan-chung)
Composed c. middle of fourteenth century, with numerous subsequent recensions

Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Sanguo zhi yangi (San-kuo chih yen-i)
Attributed to Luo Guanzhong (Lo Kuan-chung)
1522

Journey to the West
Xiyou (Hsi-yu Chi)
Wu Chengen (Wu Cheng-en)
Composed between the late 1560's and the year of the author's death; first published c. 1592

Golden Lotus
Jin Ping Mei (Chin P'ing Mei)
Unknown 
Composed 1590's; first complete version printed in 1610

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Liaozhai Zhiyi (Liao-chai Chih-i)
Pu Songling (P'u Sung-ling) 
Composed between c. 1670-1707; published c. 1766

The Scholars
Rulin waishi (Ju-lin wai-shih) (Unofficial History of the Literati)
Wu Jingzi (Wu Ching-tzu)
1739-1750

Dream of the Red Chamber
Honglou meng (Hung-lou meng)
Cao Zueqin (Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in)
First printed edition, 1792

The Works of Lu Xun (Lu Hsün)
Pseudonym of Zhou Suren (Chou Shu-jen)
Calls to Arms [stories] (1923), Wandering [stories] (1926), Wild Grass [prose poems] (1927), The Grave [essays] (1927), And That's That [essays] (1928)

The Short Stories and Novels of Xiao Hong (Hsiao Hung)
Pseudonym of Zhang Nai Ying/Chuang Nai Ying
Major Short Stories: 'The Death of Wang Asao' (1932), 'Night Wind' (1933), 'Hands' (1936), 'Bridge' (1936), 'The Family Outsider' (1936), 'On the Oxcart' (1937), and 'Spring in a Small Town' (1941)
Major Novels: Field of Life and Death (1934), Market Street (1935), Tales of Hulan River (1939-1940), Ma Bole (1940-1941, unfinished)

The Fictional Works of Lao She
Pseudonym of Shu Xingchun/Shu Hsing-ch'un
Major Novels: The Two Mas (1931), Cat Country (1933), Divorce (1933), Rickshaw Boy (1936), Four Generations Under One Roof (1943), Cremation (1944)
Major Plays: The Face Issue (1941), The Dragon Beard Ditch (1950), Teahouse (1957)
Major Operas: Spring Wind (1943), Fifteen Springs of Cash (1956), Blue Clouds and White Snow (1959), Wang Baochuan (1964)
Major Short Stories: 'The Grand Opening' (1933), 'Mr. Jodhpurs' (1933), 'Black and White Li' (1934), 'The Crescent Moon' (1935), 'Tragedy in a New Age' (1935), 'A Benevolent Person' (1935), 'The Soul-slaying Spear' (1935), 'An Old and Established Name' (1935), 'This Life of Mine' (1937), and 'Going to Work' (1958)


India:
Hymns of the Rig Veda
Many anonymous authors over the centuries 
1500 B C(?) to c. 800 B C

Brāhmanas and Āranyakas
Many anonymous authors
Tenth to fifth centuries B C

Rāmāyana
[Vālmīki] (by tradition)
Evolved over several centuries; work took its present form somewhere between the fourth and second centuries, B C

Mahābhārata (Great Poem of the Descendants of Bharata)
Rishi Vyasa
400 B C to 400 A D

The Song of the Lord (Bhagavad-Gītā)
Unknown. Tradition assigns the work to Vyasa, the legendary author of the Mahābhārata
The exact date of composition is unknown. The Gita has been dated as early as 500 B C and as late as A D 100. Most scholars situate the work between the fifth and first centuries, B C

Dhammapada
The Path of Righteousness (or Virtue)
The Dhammapada consists of sayings attributed to the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama); finally translated into Pali by unknown writers
Around third century B C 

Vedānta Sūtras
Vedāntasūtras or Brahmasūtras or Shārīraka-mīmāmsā-sūtras
Bādārayana
Probably c. 200 B C

Panchatantra (The Five Books)
Unknown, sometimes attributed to the narrators: Vishnusharman or Vasughaga, depending on the version
Unknown, likely c. 200 B C

Deeds of the Buddha
Buddha-carita
Ashvaghosha
Late first to mid-second centuries A D

Purānas
Vyāsa (legendary author). Revised by many unknown writers
First century A D

Yoga Sūtra
Patanjali
Perhaps second to fourth centuries A D

Shakuntalā
Shakuntalā (Śakuntalā). The work is also known by its longer title: Abhijnānashakuntalā (Shakuntalā and the Ring of Recollection).
Kālidāsa
Middle of the fifth-century A D

Treasury of Well-Turned Verses
Subhāsita-ratna-kosa
Vidyākara 
c. A D 1100 (revised version c. 1130)

Gītagovinda (Song of the Lord)
Jayadeva
Twelfth century

Rāmcaritmānas
Tulsīdas
c. 1574

The Works of Rammohun Roy
Raja Rammohun Roy 
A Gift to Deists (1803), Translation of an Abridgment of the Vedanta (1815), The Precepts of Jesus, A Guide to Peace and Happiness (1820)

The Poetry of Ghalib
Asadullah Khan Ghalib (Mirza Ghalib)
Major Poetic Works: In Urdu: Diwan-i-Ghabli, in Persian: Kulliyat-i-Nasir-Ghalib

The Works of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Major Works: Rajmohan's Wife (1864), The Daughter of the Feudal Lord (Durgeshnandini) (1865), Mrinalini (1869), The Poison Tree (Bishabriksha) (1873), Indira (1873), Chandrasekhar (1875), Krishnakanta's Will (1878), Anandamath (Abbey of Bliss) (1882), Rajsinha (1882), Sitaram (1887)

The Poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
Major Works: In English: Gitanjali (1912), The Gardener (1913), The Crescent Moon (1913); in Bengali: Prabhat Sangeet (Morning Songs) 1883, Mānasi (The Lady of the Mind) 1890, Sonār Tari (The Golden Boat) 1894, Naibedya (Offerings) 1901, Gitānjali (Song Offerings) 1912, Balākā (Wild Geese) 1916, Patra-put (Plate of Leaves) 1936, Naba-jatak (The Newly Born) 1940, Ses Lekhā (Last Writing) 1941

The Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal
Shaikh Muhammad Iqbal (Allama Iqbal)
Major Works: (In Persian) Asrar-i-Khudi (Secrets of the Self) (1915); Rumuz-i-Bekhudi (Mysteries of Selflessness) (1918); Payam-i-Mashriq (Message of the East) (1923); Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms) (1927); Javidnama (The Book of Eternity) (1932), Pas Chi Bayad Kard Ay Aqwam i Sharq? (What then is to be done, O Peoples of the East?) (1936). 
(In Urdu) Bang-i-Dara (The Caravan Bell) (1924); Bal-i Jibril (Gabriel's Swing) (1935); Zarb-i-Kalim (The Blow of Moses' Staff) (1936); Armaghan-i-Hijaz (The Gift From Hijaz) 1938.

Kamayani
Jaishankar Prasad


Japan:
The Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves
Man'yōshū
Ōtomo no Yakamochi and other (unidentified) compilers; Princess Nukada, or Nukata, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Yamanoue no Ōkura, Ōtomo no Tabito, Lady Kasa

Tales of Ise
Ise monogatari
Unknown. Possibly, among others, Ariwara no Narihira
First part of tenth century

Collections of Poems Old and New
Kokinshū
Anthologizers: Ki no Tsurayuki, Ki no Tomonori, Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, Mibu no Tadamine
Early tenth century

Tosa Diary
Tosa nikki
Ki no Tsurayuki
c. 935

Kagero Diary
Kagero nikki
Michitsuna's Mother (Michitsuna no Hacha)
c. 971

The Pillow Book
Makura no soshi
Sei Shonagon
c. 993-1010

The Tale of Geni (Genji monogatari)
Murasaki Shikibu
The bulk of The Tale of Genji was probably written and circulated chapter by chapter between the year 1003 and the author's death, as early as 1014. There is no known original holograph. Extant textual variants fall into three major categories: the Kawachi recension, the Aobyōshi recension, and a group of other dissimilar variants called Beppon.

An Account of a Ten-Foot Square Hut
Hōjōki
Kamo no Chōmei
1212

New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern
Shinkokinshū
Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie), Minamoto no Michitomo, Fujiwara no Ariie, Fujiwara no Ietaka, Fujiwara no Masatsune, Jakuren
First decade of thirteenth century 

The Tale of the Heike
Heike monogatori
Unknown
Thirteenth century

Essays in Idleness
Tsurezuregusa
Urabe Kenkō
Composed c. 1319 to c. 1350

The Noh Plays
Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, Zeami Motokiyo, Kanze Motomasa, Komparu Zenchiku, and others
Fourteenth through sixteenth centuries

The Fictional Works of Ihara Saikaku
Major Works: The Life of an Amorous Man (Kōshoku ichidai otoko) (1682); Five Women Who Loved Loved (Kōshoku gonin onna) (1686); The Life of an Amorous Woman (Kōshoku ichidai onna) (1686); The Great Mirror of Male Love (Nanshoku ōkagami) (1687); The Japanese Family Warehouse (Nippon eitaigura) (1688); Tales of Samurai Honor (Buke giri monogatari) (1688); Some Final Words of Advice (Saikaku oridome) (1694)

The Haiku Poetry of Matsuo Bashō
Major Works: Some thousand extant haiku; The Journal of the Weatherbeaten Skeleton (Nozarashi kikō) (1684); Collected Verses (Atsume ku) (1687); The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no hosomichi) (c. 1689); Saga Diary (Saga nikki) (1691)

The Plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Major plays: The Soga Heirs (1683), Victorious Kagekiyo (1686), Double Suicide at Sonezaki (1703), The Battles of Coxinga (1715), The Woman Killer and the Hell of Oil (1721)

The Haiku Poetry of Kobayashi Kissa
Major Works: Journal of My Father's Last Days (Chichi no Shuen Nikki) (1801); The Year of My Life (Ora ga Haru) (1819)

The Works of Mori Ōgai
Major Works: The Dancing Girl (Mahime) (1890), Vita Sexualis (1909), Youth (Seinen) (1910), Delusions (Mōsō) (1911), The Wild Goose (Gan) (1911-13), The Abe Clan (Abe ichizoku) (1913), Incident at Sakai (Sakai jiken) (1914), Suibue Chūsai (1916)

The Novels of Natsume Soseki
Original name Natsume Kinnosuke
Major Novels: I Am a Cat (1905-06), Botchan (1906), Red Poppy (1907), Sanshiro (1908), And Then (1909), The Gate (1910), To the Spring Equinox and Beyond (1912), The Wayfarer (1913), Kokoro (1914), Grass on the Wayside (1915), Darkness and Light (1916)

The Prose and Poetry of Yosano Akiko
Major Works: Poetry: Midaregami (Tangled Hair) (1901); 'My Brother, You Must Not Die' (1904); 'Sozorogoto' ('Verses in Idle Moments') (1908)

The Novels of Nagai Kafū
Major Works: The River Sumida (Sumidagawa) (1909), Geisha in Rivalry (Udekurabe) (1916-17), A Strange Tale from East of the River (Bokutō kidan) (1937), A Daily Account of the Calamity (Risai nichiroku) (1946-48)

The Fictional Works of Shiga Naoya
Major Works of Fiction: 'The Razor' (1910), 'My Mother's Death and My New Other' (1912), Otsu Junkichi (1912), 'Seibei and His Gourds' (1912), 'An Incident', 'Han's Crime (1913), 'At Kinosaki', Reconciliation (1917), A Dark Night's Passing (1937), 'Gray Moon' (1945)

The Novels of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
Major Novels: Naomi (1925), Some Prefer Nettles (1929), The Secret History of Lord Musashi (1932), The Makioka sisters (1948), The Key (1956), Diary of a Mad Old Man (1962)

The Short Stories of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
Major Works: 'The Rashō Gate' (1915), 'The Noise' (1916), 'Yam Gruel' (1916), 'The Bandits' (1917), 'A Life Spent at Frivolous Writing' (1917), 'Withered Fields' (1918), 'The Spider's Thread' (1918), 'Death of a Martyr' (1918), 'The Hell Screen' (1918), 'The Ball' (1919), 'Christ in Nanking' (1920), 'The Chastity of O-Tomi' (1922), 'In the Grove' (1922), 'Cogwheels' (1927), 'A Fool's Life' (1927)

The Fictional Works of Ibuse Masuji
Major Works: 'Salamander' (1922), 'Carp' (1926), 'Savan on the Roof' (1929), Waves: A War Diary (1938), John Majirō: A Castaway's Chronicle (1938), 'Tajinko Village' (1939), 'Isle-on-the-Billows' (1946), 'A Geisha Remembers' (1950), 'Station Inn' (1957), Lieutenant Lookeast (1961), Black Rain (1964)

The Fictional Works of Kawabata Yasunari
Major Works of Fiction: The Izu Dancer (Izu no odoriko) (1926), Palm of the Hand Stories (Tenohira no shōsetsu) (1926), Evening Sun (Yūhi) (1943), Snow Country (Yukiguni) (1948), Thousand Cranes (Senbazuru) (1949), Palm of the Hand Stories (Tanagokoro no shōsetsu) (1950), Dancing Girl (Maihime) (1951), The Sound of the Moutain (Yana no oto) (1954), The Lake (Mizuumi) (1955), House of the Sleeping Beauties (Nemureru bijo) (1961), Beauty and Sadness (Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) (1965), One Arm (Kataude) (1965) 

The Fictional Works of Enchi Fumiko
Major Works Translated: The Waiting Years (Onnazaka) (1957); Masks (Onnamen) (1958); Love in Two Lives: The Remnant (Nisei no en-shūi) (1958)
Untranslated: Banshun Sōya (1928); Himojii Tsukihi (1954); Ake o ubau mono (1969); Yūkon (1972); Namamiko monogatari (1965); Shokutoku no nai ie (1979)

The Novels of Mishima Yukio
Original name Hiraoka Kimitake
Major Works of Fiction: Confessions of the Mask (Kamen no kokuhaku) (1949); Thirst for Love (Ai no kawaki) (1950); The Sound of the Waves (Shiosai) (1954); The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kin Kajuji) (1956); After the Banquet (Utage no ato) (1960); Patriotism (Yukoku) (1960); The Sea of Fertility (Hojo no umi) (1970)

The Novels of Ariyoshi Sawako
Major Novels: The River Ki (1959), The Doctor's Wife (1967), The Twilight Years (1972), Kabuki Dancer (1972)
  

Korea:
Koryŏ Songs
Major Poems (among others): 'Ode on the Seasons', 'Song of Green Mountain', 'Song of P'yongyang', 'Song of the Gong and Chimes', 'Will You Go?', 'Spring Overfows the Pavilion'
Various anonymous authors; a few poets identified by name
Twelfth to fourteenth centuries

Songs of Flying Dragons
Yongbi ŏch 'ŏn ka
Scholars in the Hall of Worthies
1445-47

The Poetry of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn
Nansŏrhŏn is her pen name; her given name was Ch'o-hi
Major Poems: 'A Woman's Sorrow', 'For My Brother Hagok', 'Mourning My Children', 'A Poor Woman'

The Poetry of Yun Sŏndo
Major Poems: 'Dispelling Gloom' (1618), 'New Songs in the Mountains' (and their sequel) (1614-1645), The Angler's Calendar (1651), 'The Disappointing Journey' (1652)

The Cloud Dream of the Nine
Kuun mong
Kim Man-jung (Kim Man-Choong)
Most critics believe that Kim in 1687 wrote Kuun mong in classical Chinese. Oldest extant version in woodblock print written in classical Chinese dated 1725. Versions in Korean published after 1725.

The Song of a Faithful Wife
Ch'unhyang ka (Ch'unghyang chŏn)
Original author unknown
Date of origin unknown. Oldest extant version in 1754. The singing version written down by Shin Chae-hyo (1812-1884). Modern rewritings from 1911 on

A Record of Sorrowful Days
Hanjung nok
Lady Hong of Hyegyŏng Palace
1795-1806

The Works of Pak Chiwŏn
Major Works: Yorha ilgi (Jehol Diary) (1780); 'Hŏsaeng chŏn' ('The Story of Master Hŏ'), 'Yangban chŏn' ('The Story of a Yangban'), 'Hojil' ('A Tiger's Reprimand'), 'Kwangmuncha chŏn' ('The Story of Kwangmum'), and 'Yedok Sonsaeng chŏn' ('The Story of Master Yedok')

Your Silence
Nim-ŭi ch'imuk (Your Silence or The Silence of Love)
Han Yong-un
Major Works: Chosŏn pulgyo yusillon (The Revitalization of Korean Buddhism) (1913), Pulgyo taejŏn (Encyclopedic Dictionary of Buddhism) (1915), Chosŏn tongnip-ŭi so (Basis for Korean Independence) (1919-1920), Hŭkp'ung (Black Wind--novel) (1926), Nim-ŭi ch'imuk (Your Silence--poetry) (1926), Huhŭi (Regret--novel], Pangmyŏng (The Ill-starred--novel) (1938)


Middle East:
The Seven Golden Odes
Imr'u al-Qays, Tarafa, Labid, 'Antara, Zuhayr, 'Amr ibn Kulthum, Harith 
Sixth century to early seventh century A D

Qur'an
Qur'ān (Koran is a common but less accurate transliteration)
According to Muslim belief, the Qur'ān is the Word of God as revealed to Muhammad (Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah 'Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim) over a 23-year period.
C. A D 650-655, the 'Uthmanic text', named for Uthman, the Third Caliph (A D 644-655). This official published text is based upon various collections of the verses. The first such collection goes back as early as the reign of the First Caliph (A D 632-634), Abu Bakr.

The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights)
Alf Layla wa-Layla
Unknown. Product of a long oral tradition.
A collection of tales, realistic or fantastic, of ancient Indian, Greek, Mesopotamian and Persian, and more recent Arabic origins that have been told and retold for thousands of years, especially in the Arabic-speaking Middle East.
These tales belonged to a primarily oral tradition, the core of which was probably written down in the tenth century. Other tales were added to the corpus over the centuries.

Shahnameh
Shāhnāma (The Book of Fings) 
Abo'l-Qāsem Ferdowsi (Firdawsi or Ferdausi: 'The Paradisal')
Completed in 1010 

The Ring of the Dove
Tawq al-ḥamāmah (The Neck-ring of the Dove)
Abu Muhammad 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Ḥazm 
c. 1030

Maqāmāt al-Hammadhānī
Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad b. al-Husayn (nicknamed Badi' al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī: Marvel or Wonder of the Age from Hamadhān)

Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim b. 'Alī b. Muhammad b. Uthmān (usually known as al-Ḥarīrī, an attribute derived from his or family profession, either the making or trading of silk [ḥarīr means silk in Arabic])

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Conference of the Birds
Manteq at-Tair
Farīd ud-Dīn 'Aṭṭar
1177

The Poetry of Nezami
Elyas ebn Yusuf Nezami 
Major Works: Khamzeh ('Quintet'); Makhzan al-Asrar ('The Treasure of Secrets'); Khosrow and Shirin; Leili and Majnun; Haft Paykar ('The Seven Portraits'); The Book of Alexander (consisting of two parts; Sharafnameh and Eqbalnameh)

The Poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Jalāl al-Dīn Mohammad Balkhi
Major Works: Masnavi (Mathnavi), Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi, Fihi ma Fihi (Prose Discourses)

The Poetry and Prose of Sa'di
Sheikh Nuslih-uddin Sa'di Shirazi 
Major Works: Golestan (The Rose Garden), Bustan (The Orchard), Ghazaliyat (Lyric Poems)

The Divan of Ḥafez
Hafez (Ḥāfiẓ of Shiraz) (Shams al-Din Mohammad Shirazi)
Probably compiled in late fourteenth century

Muqaddimah (Introduction or Prolegomena) 
Ibn Khaldūn ('Abd ar-Rahman Abu Zayd ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldūn)
Completed 1377

The Poetry and Prose of Jāmī
Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Raḥmān Jami
Major Works: The Seven Thrones (includes 'Salaman and Absal' and 'Joseph and Zuleikha'), Baharistan (The Garden in Spring)

The Works of Ṭāhā-Ḥusayn
Major Works: [Autobiography] (1927, 1932, 1955), Recalling Abū al-'Alā' [al-Ma'arrī] (1914), On Pre-Islamic Poetry (1925), The Future of Culture in Egypt (1938), The Call of the Karawān (1942)

The Works of Tawfīq al-Ḥakim
Tawfīq al-Ḥakim (also transliterated as Tewfik el-hakeem)
Major Works: The Men of the Cave (1933), Shahrazad (1934), The Maze of Justice (1937), Pygmalion (1942), The Sultan's Dilemma (1960), The Tree Climber (1962)

The Novels and Stories of Sadeq Hedayat
Major Works: Buried Alive (short stories) (1930), Three Drops of Blood (short stories) (1932), Chiaroscuro (short stories) (1933), Mrs. Alaviyyeh (novel) (1933), Mr. Bow Wow (satirical sketches), The Blind Owl (novel) (1937), The Stray Dog (short stories) (1942), Haji Aqa (novel) (1945), Parvin, Daughter of Satan (drama) (1930), Maziyar (drama) (1933)

The Novels of Ghassan Kanafani
Major Novels: Men in the Sun (1962), All That's Left to You (1966), Return to Haifa (1969), Umm Sa'ad (1969)

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12 October
David Byrne's recent <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/11/david-byrne-internet-content-world">editorial</a> for the Guardian seems to be an update of the 'Busines and Finance' chapter of his book, How Music Works. I recommend the latter. It presents a lot of statistics, especially in comparing the recording and promotional processes of two of his albums, Grown Backwards [2004] and Everything That Happens Will Happen Today [2008; w/ Brian Eno]. His assessment of the potential benefits of internet-centric self-distribution model is more positive than the editorial would suggest, but--first--he notes in the editorial that an established artist with a long history of record-label and promotional-company support has an advantageous position relative to younger artists with no such career and--second--his opinion, of course, might have changed in the meantime. Perhaps he has been influenced by the writings in the last year from David Lowry (at <a href="https://thetrichordist.com/">The Trichordist</a>) and Damon Krukowski ('<a href="https://pitchfork.com/features/article/8993-the-cloud/">Making Cents</a>', '<a href="https://pitchfork.com/features/oped/9178-free-music/">Free Music</a>', both at Pitchfork).


13 October
Some films I'd like to see eventually get canonized or which will likely show up on later editions of the major lists of the greatest movies (and which aren't on any of the lists noted so far):

Les Yeux Sans Visage, 1960, dir. Georges Franju

Carnival of Souls, 1962, dir. Herk Harvey

Tini Zabutykh Predkiv (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors), 1964, dir. Sergei Parajanov

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, 1969, dir. Paul Mazursky

Deathdream, 1972, dir. Bob Clark

Jeder f&uuml;r Sich und Gott Gegen Alle - Kaspar Hauser, 1974, dir. Werner Herzog

Eraserhead, 1977, dir. David Lynch

Martin, 1978, dir. George Romero

Being There, 1979, dir. Hal Ashby

Altered States, 1980, dir. Ken Russell

Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984, dir. Michael Radford

Idi i Smotri (Come and See), 1985, dir. Elem Klimov

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, 1985, dir. Paul Schrader

Caravaggio, 1986, dir. Derek Jarman

Jacob's Ladder, 1990, dir. Adrien Lyne

Trust, 1990, dir. Hal Hartley

The Player, 1992, dir. Robert Altman

In the Company of Men, 1997, dir. Neil LaBute

Donnie Darko, 2001, dir. Richard Kelly

Russkij Kov&ccirc;eg (Russian Ark), 2002, Alexander Sokurov

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), 2007, Julian Schnabel

Enter the Void, 2009, dir. Gaspar Noé

Antichrist, 2009, dir. Lars Von Trier

Black Swan, 2010, dir. Darren Aronofsky 


14 October
D V D Beaver, besides links to the Amazon pages for many Blu-Ray and D V D releases, offers short reviews of each disc's digital transfer, often comparing different releases. Those comparisons include side-by-side screenshots and technical specs. Truly a remarkable resource.


15 October
Another fine essay on film canons, '<a href="https://offscreen.com/view/sight_sound">The "Sight & Sound" of Canons</a>' by Donato Totaro, from the excellent e-zine <a href="https://offscreen.com/">Offscreen</a> for which he is the editor, which pointed me to the previously-noted Adrian Martin article.


16 October
Another long-standing bastion of the "Web 1.0" era that I'd forgotten about until just now: <a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/index.html">The Victorian Web</a>. I sometimes work grading writing assessments given to students throughout Georgia; recently a student misspelled valedictorian as valid victorian. Perhaps this site could be used as a standard for interconnectivity within a web site (as they put it in their <a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/misc/vwintro.html">explanation</a> of why the site's different from search engines as well as archives like Project Gutenberg: "images and documents, including entire books, as nodes in a network of complex connections") so that in the future we'll call a similarly-impressive site a "valid victorian."


17 October
The second part of the McGreal list comes from the predecessor to Great Literature of the Western World, published four years prior and entitled Great Thinkers of the Western World. As the introduction of the Literature book states, the first of the duo "emphasizes ideas and their place in philosophical and religious perspectives; the present volume concerns itself with the expression of human experience through literature--through the use of images, recitals of significant events or moments, and reflection on what has happened in life" [original emphasis]. A few works are discussed in both books, but the essays in each discuss different aspects of those works.

China:
Confucius (Kongfuzi/K'ung Fu-tzu)
Major Works: Many classics were attributed to the editorship of Confucius, yet most scholars agree that the only work that can represent the ideas of Confucius is the Analects (Lunyu/Lun-yü), a collection of notes and quotations written down by his disciples and edited after his death.

Laozi (Lao Tzu)
Major Work: Daode jing (Tao Te Ching) (Classic of the Way and Its Power)

Mozi (Mo Tzu)
Major Work: Mozi (Mo Tzu). This work was not composed by Mozi, but rather was the product of the Mohist tradition (c. 390-221 B C). It contains numerous sayings of Mozi, along with chapters on the later tradition's teaching on defensive warfare (chapters 51-79) and discourses on logical method (chapters 40-45).

Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)
Major Work: Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)

Mencius (Mengzi/Meng Tzu)
Major Work: Mengzi (Meng Tzu) (The Book of Mencius)

Gongsun Long (Kung-sun Lung)
Major Work: Gongsun Longzi (Kung-sun Lung Tzu)

Xunzi (Hsün Tzu)
Major Work: Xunzi (Hsün Tzu), in thirty-two chapters, edited by Liu Xiang (Liu Hsiang) (77 B C)

The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Lu (Lüshi Chunqiu/Lü-shih Ch'un-ch'iu)
Presumably compiled by Lu Buwei (Lü Pu-wei)
Third century B C

Han Fei
Major Work: Hazi Fei Zi (Han Fei Tzu) (Date of compilation unknown.)

The Great Learning (Da Xue/Ta Hsüeh)
Attributed to Zengzi (Tseng Tzu) or Zi Si (Tzu Ssu)
Between third and second centuries B C

The Doctrine of the Mean (Zhong Yong/Chung Yung)
Attributed to Zi Si (Tzu Ssu), but author unknown
Between third and second centuries B C

Yi Jing (I Ching) (Book of Changes)
Unknown. According to tradition, the book was composed in several layers over many centuries. The discovery of the eight component "trigram" (three-line) symbols is attributed to the first of the legendary Five Emperors, Fu Xi (Fu Hsi) (ruled 2852-2737 B C). The creation of the sixty-four "hexagram" (six-line) symbols and the composition of the hexagram statements is ascribed to Ji Chang (Chi Ch'ang), posthumously known as King Wen, founder of the Zhou (Chou) dynasty (c. 1027 B C). Ji Dan (Chi Tan), younger son of Ji Chang, better known as Zhou Gong (Chou Kung), or the Duke of Zhou, is credited with the formulation of the individual line statements (six per hexagram). Finally, the "Ten Wings," a body of commentaries attached to the above texts, were supposedly written by Confucius (Kongfuzi/K'ung Fu-tzu) (551-479 B C)
Historical events mentioned in the lines of the hexagrams pertain to the period just before and after the founding of the Zhou dynasty, that is, the end of the second and beginning of the first millennium B C. However, the first recorded reference to the book is much later. A passage dated 672 B C, from the work of history known as the Zuozhuan (Tso-chuan), quotes from a divination manual called the Zhouyi (Chou i), "The Changes of Zhou (Chou)." This text, with its appended commentaries, was finally canonized as the Yi jing (the Book of Change) in 136 B C. The commentaries alone date from the third and fourth centuries B C. Therefore the composition of the Yi jing as we now know it spans a period of approximately eight centuries.

Dong Zhongshu (Tung Chung-shu)
Major Work: Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu Fanlu/Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu)

Wang Chong (Wang Ch'ung)
Major Works: Luheng (Lun-heng) (Discursive Equilibrium), in eighty-five chapters (A D 82-83); chapter 85, an autobiography, mentions three shorter works, none of which survives

Liezi (Lieh Tzu)
Attributed to Liezi (Lieh Tzu), but probably not written by him
c. A D 300, contains material from earlier sources

Guo Xiang (Kuo Hsiang)
Major Work: Zhuangzi zhu (Chuang Tzu Chu) (Commentary on the Zhuangzi/Chuang Tzu)

Jizang (Chi-Tsang)
Major Works: Zhongguanlun shu (Chung-kuan lun-shu) (Commentary on the Mādhyamika shastra); Erdi zhang (Erh ti chang) (Essay on the Two Levels of Discourse); Bailun shu (Pai lun shu) (Commentary on the Shata Shastra); Shi er men lun shu (Shih erh men lun shu) (Commentary on the Twelve Gate Treatise); Sanlun xuanyi (San-lun hsüan-i) (Profound Meaning of the Three Treatises); Erdi yi (Erh ti i) (Meaning of the Two Levels of Discourse); Dasheng xuanlun (Ta sheng hsüan-lun) (Treatise on the Mystery of the Mahāyāna)

Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang)
Major Works: Xi yu li (Hsi yü chi) (Record of Western Lands) (646); Chengweishi lun (Ch'eng-wei-shih lun) (Establishment of the Consciousness-Only System) (659)

Huineng
Major Work: Liuzu Tanjing (Liu-tsu t'an-ching) (The Platform Scripture of the Sixth Patriarch)

Fazang (Fa-tsang)
Major Works: An incredibly prolific writer, Fazang produced more than sixty original works, commentaries on a wide variety of Buddhist texts, and meditation manuals, and participated in at least some of the Buddhist translation projects of his time. Much of his work centers on the exegesis of the Huayan jing (Hua-yen ching) (Flower Garland Scripture), which is sometimes referred to in Sanskrit as the Avatamsaka Sutra. A complete list of his works would be impractical, but a few of the major works are: Huayan wujiao zhang (Hua-yen wu-chiao chang) (Essay on the Five Teachings of the Huayan); Huayan yihai baimen (Hua-yen i-hai po-men) (The Hundred Gates to the Unfathomable Meaning of the Huayan); Huayan fa putixin zhang (Hua-yen fa p'u-t'i-hsin chang) (Essay on the Arousal of the Bodhi Mind in the Huayan); Qixinlun yiji (Ch'i-hsin-lun i-chi) (Commentary on the Mahāyāna Awakening of the Faith)

Zhou Dunyi (Chou Tun-i)
Major Works: Taijitu shuo (T'ai-chi-t'u shuo) (An Explanation of the Diagram of the Great Ultimate); Tongshu (T'ung-shu) (Penetrating the Book of Changes)

Zhang Zai (Chang Tsai)
Major Works: Zhengmeng (Cheng-meng) (Correcting Youthful Ignorance. Also translated as: Correct Discipline of Beginners); Ximing (Hsi-ming) (The Western Inscription. Part of chapter 17 of the Zhengmeng); Jingxue liku (Ching-hsüeh li-k'u) (Assembled Principles of Classical Learning); Yishou (I-shou) (Commentaries on the Book of Changes)

Cheng Hao (Ch'eng Hao) and Cheng Yi (Ch'eng I)
Major Works: Er-Cheng quanshu (Erh-Ch'eng Ch'uan-shu) (The Complete Works of the Two Chengs). This collection, which has not been translated into English except for brief selections, includes miscellaneous surviving works of the two brothers (commentaries, poems and letters), including the Yi chuan (I ch'uan) (Commentary of the Yi jing/I Ching) by Cheng Yi and the Cuiyan (Ts'ui-yen) (Pure Words), which records conversations of the two brothers.

Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi)
Major Works: Recorded Sayings, Commentary on the "Four Books", Commentary on the Book of Changes, Commentary on the Book of Odes

Wang Yangming (Wang Yang-ming)
Major Works: Chuanxi lu (Ch'uan hsi lu) (Instructions for Practical Living), Part I composed in 1514, Part II in 1521-1527; Daxue wen (Ta-hsüeh wen) (Questions on the Great Learning), (1527)

Dai Zhen (Tai Chen)
Major Works: Yuanshan (Yüan-shan) (Inquiry into Goodness) (1754-66); (Mengzi ziyi shuzheng) (Meng Tzu tzu-i shu-cheng) (An Evidential Study of the Meaning of Terms in the Mencius) (1772-77).

Kang Youwei (K'ang Yu-wei)
Major Works: Xinxue Weijing Kao (Hsin Hsüeh Wei Ching K'ao) (Study of the Classics Forged During the Hsin Period) (1891); Kungzi Gaizhi Kao (K'ung Tzu Kai-chih K'ao) (Study of Confucius as Reformer) (1896; published in 1913); Zhongyong Zhu (Chung-yung Chu) (Commentary on the Doctrine of the Mean) (1900); Lunyu Zhu (Lun-yü Chu) (Commentary on the Analects) (1902); Liyun Zhu (Li-yün Chu) (Commentary on the Evolution of Rites) (1913); Da Tong Shu (Ta-t'ung Shu) (Book of the Great Unity) (1935)

Tan Sitong (T'an Ssu-t'ung)
Major Work: Ren xue (Jen-hsüeh) (An Exposition of Benevolence, or A Study of Humanity) (1896-97)

Sun Yat-sen (Sun Yixian/Sun I-hsien) 
Major Works: Sun Wen Xue Shuo (Sun Wen Hsüeh Shuo) (Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary: A Program of National Reconstruction for China) (1918); Sanmin Zhuyi (San Min Chu I) (The Three Principles of the People) (1924); Jian Guo Dagang (Chien Kuo Ta-kang) (Fundamentals of National Reconstruction) (1924)

Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
Major Works: 'On Practice' (1937), 'On Contradiction' (1937), 'On New Democracy' (1940), 'On Literature and Art' (1942), 'On the Correct Handling of the Contradictions Among the People' (1957)

Fung Yu-lan
Major Works: History of Chinese Philosophy (1930, 1934); New Rationalism (Xin lixue/Hsin Li-hsüeh) (1939); China's Road to Freedom (Xin shilun/Hsin shih-lun) (1939); A New Treatise on the Way of Life (Xin shixun/Hsin shih hsün) (1940); A New Treatise on the Nature of Man (Xin yuanren/Hsin yüan-jen) (1943); The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy (Xin yuanduo/Hsin yüan-tao) (1944); A New Treatise on the Methodology of Metaphysics (Xin zhiyan/Hsin chih-yen) (1946)

 
India:
Upanishads
Unknown. The work of many Indian philosophers and teachers.
c. 600-c. 400 B C
Philosophical and religious reflections expressed in prose and poetry. The prose Upanishads are: Brihad-Āranyaka, Chāndogya, Taittirīya, Aitareya, Kaushītaki, Kena, Prashna, Maitri, and Māndūkya. The poetic Upanishads are: Katha, Shvetāshvatara, Īsha, and Mundaka.

Buddha (Siddhārtha Gautama)
Major Works: The Buddha's sayings were recollected and written down many years after his death. The sūtras (dialogues), which form a part of the Pali Tripitaka, are generally conceded to be the closest approximation to what the Buddha actually taught.

Mahāvīra

Bādarāyana
Major Work: Brahmasūtras (Aphorisms on The Brahman)

Bhagavad Gītā
Attributed to Vyāsa
Between fifth and first centuries B C

Patanjali
Major Work: Yoga Sūtras

Nāgārjuna
Major Works: Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā (Verses on the Fundamental Middle Way), Vigrāha-vyāvartani (Refutation of Objections)

Vasubandhu
Major Works: Abhidharma-kosha, Twenty Verses, Thirty Verses (Trimshikā), One Hundred Dharmas Treatise

Īshvarakrishna
Major Work: Sānkhya Kārikās (Verses on the Sānkhya)

Kumārila Bhatta
Major Works: Shlokavārtika (Exposition on the Verses) [Commentary on Shabara's Commentary on Jaimini's Mīmāmsa Sūtras, Books 1, Chapter 1]; Tantravārtika (Exposition on the Sacred Science) [Commentary on Shabara's Commentary on Jaimini's Mīmāmsa Sūtras, Book 1, Chapters 2-4; Books 2 and 3]; Tuptika (Full Exposition) [Commentary on Shabara's Commentary on Jaimini's Mīmāmsa Sūtras, Books 4-9]

Jayarāsi Bhatta
Major Work: Tattvopaplavasimha (The Lion That Devours All Categories or The Upsetting of All Principles) (seventh century A D)

Guadapāda
Major Work: Kārikā (Exposition) on Māndūkya Upanishad

Haribhadra
Major Works: Anekāntajayapatākā (The Victory Banner of Relativism), Ashtakaprakarana (The Eightfold Explanation), Dhūrtākhyāna (The Rogue's Stories), Samarāiccakahā (The Story of Samarāicca), Sāstravārtāsamuccaya (The Array of Explanatory Teachings), Yogabindu (The Seeds of Yoga), Yogadrishtisamuccaya (The Array of Views on Yoga)

Shankara
Major Works: Aitareyopanishadbhāshya (Commentary on the Aitareya Upanishad), Ātmabodha (Self-knowledge), Bhagavadagītābhāshya (Commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā), Brahmasūtrabhāshya (Commentary on the Brahma Sūtra), Brihadāranyakopanishadbhāshya (Commentary on the Brihadāranyaka Upanishad), Chāndogyopanishadbhāshya (Commentary on the Chāndogya Upanishad), Īshopanishadbhāshya (Commentary on the Īsha Upanishad), Kathopanishadbhāshya (Commentary on the Katha Upanishad), Kenopanishadbhāshya (Commentary on the Kena Upanishad), Upadeshasāhashrī (The Thousand Teachings)

Vācaspati Mishra
Major Works: Bhāmatī ("The Lustrous:" [Commentary of Shankara's Brahmasūtrabhāshya]), Brahmatattvasamīksha (Examination of the Brahman as Truth), Nyāyakanikā (Brief Outline of the Nyāya School), Tattvabindu (Quintessence of the Truth)

Sureshvara
Major Works: Brihadāranyakopanishadbhāshya Vārtikā (Explanation of the Commentary on the Brihadāranyaka Upanishad), Naishkarmyasiddhi (Establishment of Non-action), Sambandha Vārtikā (Explanation of Relations), Taittirīyopanishadbhāshya Vārtikā (Explanation of the Commentary on the Taittirīya Upanishad)

Rāmānuja
Major Works: Shrībhāshya (Commentary on the Brahma Sūtra), Gītābhāshya (Commentary on the Gītā), Vedāntasāra (The Essence of Vedanta), Vedārthasamgraha (Compendium of the Vedic Topics)

Madhva
Majof Works: Madhva-bhāshya (Comentary on Brahma-sūtra), Gītābhāshya (Commentary on the Gītā), Mahābhārata-tātparya-nirnaya (Determination of the Meaning of the Māhābhārata), Anubhāshya (Short Commentary [on the Brahma Sūtra]), Anuvyākhyāna (Supplemental Explanation [of the Brahma Sūtra])

Jayatīrtha
Major Works: Nyāyasudha (Nectar of Logic) [Commentary on Madhva's Anuvyākhyāna Commentary on the Brahma Sūtras]; Tattvaprakāshikā (Light on the Truth) [Commentary on Madhva's Comentary on the Brahma Sūtras]; Vādāvali (Lineage of Controversies)

Nānak
Major Works: Asa Di Var [Hymns], Japji [Poetry] 

Jīva Gosvāmin
Major Works: Bhāgavatasandarbha (The Collection of the Bhāgavata Purāna) [This work as six parts: 'Tattvasandarbha' ('Collection on Reality'), Bhāgavatsandarbha' ('Collection on the Lord'), 'Paramātmasandarbha' ('Collection on the Great Soul'), 'Krishnasandarbha' ('Collection on Krishna'), 'Bhaktisandarbha' ('Collection on Devotion'), and the 'Prītisamdarbha' ('Collection on Love')]; Sarvasamvādini (The Harmonization of All); Kramasandarbha (Commentary on the Bhāgavata Purāna)

Vijnānabhikshu
Major Works: Vijnānāmritabhāshya (The Nectar of Knowledge Commentary) [Commentary on the Brahma Sūtras of Bādarāyana], Īshvaragītābhāshya (Commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā), Sānkhyasāra (Quintessence of Sānkhya), Sānkhysūtrabhāshya (Commentary on the Sānkhyasūtras [of Kapila]), Yogasārasamgraha (Compendium on the Quintessence of Yoga), Yogabhāshyavārttika (Explanation of the Commentary [of Vyāsa] on the Yoga Sūtras)

Madhusūdana Sarasvatī
Major Works: Advaitasiddhi, Siddhāntatattvabindu, Vedāntakalpalatikā

Dharmarāja Adhvarin
Major Work: Vedānta Paribhāshā

Rabindranath Tagore
Major Works: Gitānjali (1912), Sādhnā (1913), Personality (1917), Gorā (1924), The Religion of Man (1931)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Major Works: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927), Satyāgraha in South Africa (1938), Selections From Gandhi (edited by N K Bose) (1948)

Aurobindo
Major Works: The Life Divine (1949), Letters on Yoga (1971), The Supramental Manifestation (1972)

K C Bhattacharyya
Major Works: Studies in Vendāntism (1907), The Subject as Freedom (1930), 'The Concept of Philosophy', 'The Absolute and Its Alternative Forms', 'The Concept of Value' (1939)

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Major Works: Indian Philosophy (1923, 1927), The Hindu Way of Life (1927), An Idealist View of Life (1932), Eastern Religions and Western Thought (1939), The Brahma Sūtras (1959)

Jawaharlal Nehru
Major Works: Soviet Russia (1928), Statements, Speeches and Writings (1929), Letters from a Father to His Daughter (1930), Glimpses of World History (1934), An Autobiography (1936), The Discovery of India (1946)

 
Japan:
Shōtoku Taishi
Major Works: Jūshichijō kempō (Seventeen-Article Constitution) (604), Sangyō gisho (Commentaries on Three Sūtras), Shōmangyō gisho (Commentary on the Sūtra of Queen Shrīmālā) (c. 609-611), Yukimakyō gisho (Commentary on the Vimalakirtī Sūtra) (c. 612-613), Hokkekyō gisho (Commentary on the Lotus Sūtra) (c. 614-615)

Kūkai
Major Works: Indications of the Goals of the Three Teachings (797), The Difference Between Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism (814), Attaining Enlightenment in This Every Existence (817), The Meanings of Sound, Word, and Reality (817), The Precious Key to the Secret Treasury (830)

Genshin (Eshin Sōzu)
Major Works: Ōjōyōshū (The Essentials for Birth in Amida's Paradise) (985), Kanjin ryaku yōshū (Essentials of Self-Insight) (997), Hongakusan shaku (Essay on [Ryōgen's] Hymn to Original Enlightenment), Shinyo kan (Seeing Thusness), The Yokawa hōgo (Yokawa Tract)

Hōnen
Major Works: Senchakushū (Selected Passages on the Original View) (1198), One Page Testament (1212)

Jien (Jichin)
Major Works: Gukanshō (Miscellany of Ignorant Views) (1219), Jichin kashō [or oshō] jikaawase (The Personal Poetry Contest of the Venerable Jichin) (c. 1199), Shūgyokushū (Collection of Gleaned Jewels) (compiled in 1346; expanded in 1594)
Note: Kankyo no tomo (Companion for a Solitary Retreat) (1222), a setsuwa collection by the monk Keisei was until recently attributed to Jien.

Myōe
Major Works: Smashing the Heretical Chariot (1212), Illustrated Account of the Origins of Kegon (early thirteenth century), Entering the Kegon Gate of Liberation Through the Practice of Zen Illumination (1220), The Meaning of the Divine Influences Received Through the Mantra of Radiance (1228), Dream Diary (1230)

Shinran
Major Works: The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way (popularly known as Kyōgyōshinshō; draft written in 1224; completed c. 1247)

Dōgen
Major Works: Shōbōgenzō (Treasury of the True Dharma-Eye) (1231-53), Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki (Miscellaneous Talks) (1233), Eithei Kōroku (Recorded Sayings at Eiheiji Temple) (1243-53), Fukanzazengi (Universal Recommendation for Zazen Practice) (1227)

Nichiren
Major Works: Risshō ankoku ron (Treatise on the Establishment of the Orthodox Teaching and the Peace of the Nation) (1260), Hokke daimoku shō (Treatise on the Recitation of the Title of the Lotus Sūtra) (1264), Kaimoku shō (Opening of the Eyes) (1272)

Ippen
Major Works: 'Sacred Poem on the Unity of the Ten and One' (1271), 'Sacred Poem on the Six Hundred Thousand People' (1274), 'Hymn on the Specific Vow [of Amida]' (1287)

Kitabatake Chikafusa
Major Work: Jinnō Shōtōki (Chronicle of the Direct Descents of Gods and Sovereigns) 

Fujiwara Seika
Major Works: Bunshō tattoku kōryō, Chiyo motogusa (1591), Kana Seiri (Plainly Written Truths and Principles), Seika mondō (Seika's Dialogues), Suntetsu roku (A Record of Pithy Sayings) (1606), Daigaku yōryaku (Epitome of the Great Learning) (1619)

Suzuki Shōsan
Major Works: Banmin tokuyō (Right Action for All) (1661), Ninin bikuni (Two Nuns) (1664), Roankyō (Donkey Saddle Bridge) (1648), Mōanjō (A Safe Staff for the Blind) (1619)

Hayashi Razan
Major Works: Hai Yaso (The Anti-Jesuit) (1606), Santokushō (Notes on the Three Virtues) (c. 1629), Honchō jinja kō (Study of Our Shinto Shrines), Honchō tsugan (Comprehensive Mirror of Our Nation), Shintō denju (Shintō Initiation), Shunkanshō (Spring Mirror Notes) (1629)

Nakae Tōju
Major Works: Okina mondō (Dialogues with an Old Man), Jikei Ausetsu (The Diagram of Holding Fast to Reverence, Explained), Genjin (Inquiry into Man)

Yamazaki Ansai
Major Works: Hekii (Refutation of Heresies) (1647), Bunkai hitsuroku (Reading Notes), Hakurokudō gakukishūchū (Collected Commentaries on Zhu Xi's [Chu Hsi's] Regulations for the White Deer Grotto School) (1650), Yamato shōgaku (Japanese Elementary Learning) (1658)

Yamaga Sokō
Major Works: Bukyō shogaku (Little Learning of the Warrior's Creed) (1656), Seikyō yōroku (Essential Teachings of the Sages) (1665), Gorui (Classified Discourses) (1665), Chūchō jijitsu (True Facts of the Central Kingdom) (1669), Haisho zampitsu (Autobiography in Exile) (1675)

Itō Jinsai
Major Works: Dōjimon (Boys' Questions) (1707), Go-Mō jigi (The Meaning of Terms in the Analects and Mencius) (1683)

Kaibara Ekken
Major Works: Yamato zokkun (Precepts for Daily Life in Japan) (1708), Yamato honzō (Plants of Japan) (1709), Yōjōkun (Precepts for Health Care) (1713), Taigiroku (Record of Grave Doubts) (1714)

Ogyū Sorai
Major Works: Bendō (Distinguishing the Way) (1717), Seidan (Discourses on Government) (1725?)

Motoori Norinaga
Major Works: Ashiwake obune (A Small Boat Punting Through the Reed Brake) (1756), Shibun yōryō (The Essence of the Tale of Genji) (1763), Isnokami Sasamegoto (My Personal View of Poetry) (1763), Kuzubana (Arrowroot Blossoms) (1780), Uiyamabumi (The First Step on the Mountain of Learning) (1799), Naobi no mitama (The Rectifying Spirit) (1771), Tamakushige (The Jeweled Comb-Box) (1786), Kojikiden (A Commentary on the Kojiki) (1798), Genji monogatari tama no ogushi (The Small Jeweled Comb: A Study of the Tale of Genji) (1796)

Hirata Atsutane
Major Works: Kōdo taii (Summary of the Ancient Way) (1811), Koshichō (1811), Shitsunoiwaya (1811), Tama no mihashira (Pillar of the Soul) (1812), Tamadasuki (1829), Koshiden (Commentaries on Ancient History) (1825), Shutsujō shogo (A Laughing Discourse on the Everyday World) (1811), Hongyō gaihen (Supplementary Compilation of Shinto) (1806)

Nishida Kitarō
Major Works: A Study of Good (1911), Intuition and Reflection in Self-Awakening (1917), From the Acting to the Seeing (1927), The Self-Conscious Determination of Nothingness (1932), Logic and Life (1936), The Logic of Basho and the Religious World View (1945)

Tanabe Hajime
Major Works: Collected Essays on the Logic of Species (1932-41), Philosophy as Metanoetics (1946), The Dialectics of the Logic of Species (1946), A Dialectical Demonstration of the Truth of Christianity (1948)

Uehara Senroku
Major Works: Shishin-shō (The Heart of History: Selections) (1940), Gakumon he no Gendaiteki Danso (Contemporary Reflections on Scholarship) (1946-55), Heiwa no Sōzō: Jinrui to Kokumin no Rekishiteki Kadai (Building Peace: Historical Tasks of the Human Race and of the Japanese People) (1950), Sekaishi-Ninshiki no Shin-Kadai (New Tasks Toward a Global Historical Consciousness) (1963-68), Shisha Seisha: Nichiren Ninshiki no Hassō to Shiten (The Dead and the Living: The Notion and Standpoint of Nichiren Consciousness) (1970), Kureta no Tsubo: Sekaishi-zō Keisei no tame no Shidoku (The Cretan Jar: Readings Toward the Formation of Global Historical Consciousness) (1975)

Nishitani Keiji
Major Works: Kongenteiki Shutaisei no Tetsugaku (The Philosophy of Fundamental Subjectivity) (1940), Nihirizumu (The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism) (1946; English translation, 1990), Shūkyō to wa Nanika (What Is Religion? Translated as Religion and Nothingness) (1961; English translation, 1982), Nishida Kitarō (1985; English translation, 1991); Zen no Tachiba (The Standpoint of Zen) (1986)

 
Korea:
Wŏnhyo
Major Works: Commentary and Supplementary Notes on the Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna (c. 622-676), Treatise on Ten Approaches to the Reconciliation of Doctrinal Controversy (date unknown), Arouse Your Mind and Practice! (date unknown), Exposition of the Adamantine Absorption Scipture (c. 685)

Chinul
Major Works: Encouragement to Practice: The Compact of the Concentration and Wisdom Community (1190), Secrets on Cultivating the Mind (1203-05), Admonitions to Beginning Students (1205), Straight Talks on the True Mind (c. 1205), Abridgement of the Commentary of the Flower Garden Sūtra (1207), Excerpts from the Dharma Collection and Separate Circulation Record with Personal Notes (1209)

Yi T'oegye
Major Works: Chyonmyongdo (Revision of Chong Chi-Un's Old Diagram of the Mandate of Heaven) (1553), Chujasojolyo (Essentials of Master Chu's Letters) (1556), Jasongnok (Self-Reflections) (1558), T'oegye Kobong Wangbokso (The T'oegye-Kobong Correspondence) (1559-67), Songhakshipdo (Ten Diagrams of Confucianist Learning) (1567)

Hyujŏng
Major Works: The Mirror of the Three Teachings, The Mirror of the Meditation School (1564)

Yi Yulgok (Yi I)
Major Works: Donghomundap (Conversations on Politics Between Host and Guest) (1569), Hyangyak (On the Community Pact) (1571), Dap Songhowon (The Yulgok-Ugye Correspondence) (1572), Songhakjibjo (Essentials of Confucianist Learning) (1575), Kyokmongyokyol (A Primer of Neo-Confucianism) (1577), Sohakjipchu (Collected Annotations on the Small Learning) (1579), Kyongyonilki (A Diary of Royal Lectures) (1581)

Han Yongun
Major Works: Treatise on the Reform of Korean Buddhism (1913), 'A Discourse on the Independence of Korea' (1919), The Silence of Love (1926)


World of Islam:
Rābi'a al-Adawiyya
Major Works: Sayings compiled by later biographers, especially Fariduddin 'Attar (d. c. 1230) in his Memorial of the Friends of God

Al-Kindī
Major Works: Fī al-Falsafat al-Ūlā (On First Philosophy), Risāla fī Kammiyyat Kutub Arisṭūṭālīs wa mā yuḥtāj ilaih fī Taḥṣīl al-Falsafa (Treatise on the Number of Aristotle's Books and What Is Needed to Attain Philosophy), Risāla fī al-Ḥīla li-Daf' al-Aḥzan (Treatise on the Device for Driving Away Sorrows), Risāla fī Alfāẓ Suqrāṭ (Treatise on the Utterances of Socrates)

Abū Bakr al-Rāzī
Major Works: Book of the Philosophic Life, Book of Spiritual Medicine

Al-Fārābī
Major Works: al-Madīna al-fāḍilah (The Opinion of the People of the Virtuous City), Short Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics, About the Scope of Aristotle's Metaphysics, On the Intellect, The Harmony Between the Views of the Divine Plato and Aristotle, The Attainment of Happiness, Aphorisms of the Statesman

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā)
Major Works: Kitāb al-Shifā (The Book of Healing), Kitāb al-Najāt (The Book of Deliverance), Risālah fi'l-'ishq (Treatise on Love), Ḥayy in Yaqzān (The Son of the Awake), Risālah al-ṭa'īr (Treatise on Birds), Fountains of Wisdom, al-Ishārāt wa'l tanbīhāt (The Book of Directives and Remarks), Manṭiq al-mashriqiyīn (Logic of the Orientals)

Qushayri 
Major Works: Risālah (The Treatise on Sufism), Lat'aif al-Ishārāt (Subtlest Indications)

Al-Ghazālī
Major Works: Intentions of the Philosophers, The Deliverer from Error, Incoherence of the Philosophers, The Just Mean in Belief, Revival of Religious Sciences, The Elixir of Happiness

Shahrastānī
Major Works: Kitab al-Milal wa'l-Nihal (The Book of Religions and Philosophical Communities) (1127); Nihayat al-'Iqdam (The Culmination of Demonstration in Scholastic Theology)

Averroes (Ibn Rushd)
Major Works: The Decisive Treatise, The Incoherence of the Incoherence, Commentary on Plato's Republic, Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric

Suhrawardī
Major Works: Philosophy of Illuminations (Ḥikmat al-ishrāq), The Book of Intimations, The Book of Oppositions, The Book of Conversations, The Flashes of Light, The Knowledge of God, Treatise on Illumination

Ibn 'Arabī
Major Works: Interpreter of Desires (1214-15), The Ringsettings of Wisdom (begun in 1229), Meccan Openings (1201-38)

Sirhindī
Major Works: Maktūbāt (Letters), Mabda'-ō-Ma'ād (Origin and Return), Ithbāt al-Nubuwwa (The Affirmation of Prophecy)

Mullā Ṣadrā (Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī)
Major Works: al-Asfār al-arba'ah (The Four Journeys of the Soul), al-Mabda' wa'l-ma'ād (The Book of Origin and Return), al-Shawāhid al-rubūbiyyah (Divine Witnessess), al-Hikmat al-'arshiyyah (Descending from the Divine Throne), Commenary on Avicenna's Shifa', Commentary on Suhrawardī's Hikmat al-Ishrāq 

Shāh Walĩ Allāh
Major Works: Ḥujjat Allāh al-Bāligha (The Conclusive Argument From God), al-Budūr al-Bāzigha (Full Moons Rising)

Muhammad Iqbal
Major Works: Asrar-i Khudi (Secrets of the Self) (1915), Rumuz-i Bikhudi (Mysteries of Selflessness) (1918), Payam-i Mashriq (Message of the East) (1923), Zubur-i 'Ajam (Persian Hymns) (1927), Six Lectures on the Lectures on the Reconstruction of Islamic Thought (1930), Javid Namah (Book of Eternity) (1932), Bal-i Jibril (Gabriel's Swing) (1936), Armaghan-i Hijaz (Gift of Hijaz) (1938)

Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusain Tabāṭabā'ī
Major Works: Al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Qur'an (Balance in Qur'anic Commentary) (n.d.), Qu'ran dar Islam (Qur'an in Islam), Rawabit-i Ijtima'i dar Islam (Social Relations in Islam) (n.d.), Usul Falsafah wa Rawish-i Realism (Foundations of Philosophy and Method of Realism) (1953-85), Tafsir a-Mizan (Qur'anic Commentary) (1965), Shi'ah dar Islam (Shi'ism in Islam) (1969), Shi'ah: Majmu'ah-i Muzakrat ba Professor Henry Corbin (Shi'ism: Collection of Discussions with Professor Henry Corbin) (1976), Usul-i Falsafah-i Realism (Foundations of Realist Philosophy) (1976), Falsah-i Iqtisad-i Islam (Philosophy of Islam's Economics) (1982), Nahayah al-Hikmah (Ultimates of Knowledge) (1984)


18 October
To continue with what I started in the 5 October post, the films ranked 6-10 (and which are not ranked 1-5) in the five lists that rank the entries which appeared on...

...7 of the 8 lists:
Lawrence of Arabia
The Wizard of Oz

...5 of the 8 lists:
La Dolce Vita
Rashoman
Schindler's List
Some Like It Hot

...4 of the 8 lists:
L'Atalante
8 1/2
Gone With the Wind
The Passion of Joan of Arc

...2 of the 8 lists:
Au Hasard Balthazar


19 October
The films ranked 11-15 (and which are not ranked 1-10) in the five lists that rank entries which appeared on...

...8 of the 8 lists:
Psycho
Star Wars

...6 of the 8 lists:
Battleship Potemkin
City Lights
Dr. Strangelove

...5 of the 8 lists:
The Gold Rush
Goodfellas

...4 of the 8 lists:
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Apocalypse Now
Breathless
Pather Panchali
The Third Man

...1 of the 8 lists:
Late Spring


20 October
And finally (for now) the films ranked 16-20 (and not ranked 1-15) in the five lists that rank entries which appeared on...

...6 of the 8 lists:
The General
Intolerance
On the Waterfront
Sunset Boulevard

...5 of the 8 lists:
E T - The Extra-Terrestrial
It's a Wonderful Life

...4 of the 8 lists:
The Graduate

...2 of the 8 lists:
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Ordet
Persona
Solaris

...1 of the 8 lists:
Mirror


21 October
A chronological list of films, consisting of those films that ranked at least once in positions, 1-20, in any of the five lists with ranked entries, and which appeared on at least four of the eight lists (Wikipedia links provided):

Intolerance
1916 
D W Griffith, director

Battleship Potemkin
1925
Sergei Eisenstein, director

The Gold Rush
1925
Charlie Chaplin, director

The General
1926
Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, directors

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927
F W Murnau, director

The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer, director

City Lights
1931
Charlie Chaplin, director

L'Atalante
1934
Jean Vigo, director

Gone With the Wind
1939
Victor Fleming, director

The Rules of the Game
1939
Jean Renoir

The Wizard of Oz
1939
Victor Fleming, director

Citizen Kane
1941
Orson Welles, director

Casablanca
1942
Michael Curtiz

It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Frank Capra, director

The Third Man
1949
Carol Reed

Rashoman
1950
Kurosawa Akira

Sunset Boulevard
1950
Billy Wilder, director

Tokyo Story
1953
Ozu Yasujiro, director

Seven Samurai
1954
Kurosawa Akira

Singin' in the Rain
1952
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, directors

Some Like It Hot
1959
Billy Wilder, director

On the Waterfront
1954
Elia Kazan, director

Pather Panchali
1955
Satyajit Ray

The Searchers
1956
John Ford, director

Vertigo
1959
Alfred Hitchcock, director

Breathless
1960
Jean-Luc Godard, director

Psycho
1960
Alfred Hitchcock, director

La Dolce Vita
1960
Federico Fellini, director

Lawrence of Arabia
1962
David Lean, director

8 1/2
1963
Federico Fellini, director

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
Stanley Kubrick, director

The Graduate
1967
Mike Nichols, director

2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Stanley Kubrick, director

Aguierre, the Wrath of God
1972
Werner Herzog, director

The Godfather
1972
Francis Ford Coppola, director

The Godfather Part II
1974
Francis Ford Coppola, director

Chinatown
1974
Roman Polanski, director

Star Wars
1977
George Lucas, director

Apocalypse Now
1979
Francis Ford Coppola, director

Raging Bull
1980
Martin Scorsese, director

E T the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
Steven Speilberg, director

Goodfellas
1990
Martin Scorsese, director

Schindler's List
1993
Steven Speilberg, director


22 October 
Several of the films in the informal canon I've constructed were based on novels, as indeed such a large number of films tend to be. Do these books get elevated to a particular kind of quasi-canonical status? Presumably, a bad film adaptation won't make a book less esteemed (though you do have to wonder about The Bonfire of the Vanities...) if only because we can all state with certainly that any untalented schmuck could exploit a great novel to make a crappy film. The opposite scenario, though, is certainly intriguing. Does Kubrick's The Shining, which seems to become more canonical by the day, make Stephen King's The Shining more significant? Not better, of course, but more canonical: that is, do we recommend it as the first King novel to read (if any) or rank it as an important genre-fiction work? There's also the possibility that the two works in question could mutually benefit from a film adaptation. That is, the film causes readers to reconsider the book; this elevation of the book's status in turn makes the film seem more significant.

A list of literary works on which some of our canonical films have been based (if the titles aren't the same, the film is listed first---Wikipedia links provided):

Rules of the Game:
Alfred de Musset - Les Caprices de Marianne [1833]

The Wizard of Oz:
L Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [1900]

Ryunosuke Akutagawa - 'Rashoman' [1915] and 'In a Grove' [1922]: stories used as the basis for the film Rashoman  

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans:
Hermann Sudermann - 'Die Reise Nach Tilsit' (Trip to Tilset), part of Lithuanian Stories [1917]

Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay - Pather Panchali [1929]

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind [1936]

It's a Wonderful Life:
Philip Van Doren Stern - The Greatest Gift [1944]
Privately published as a monograph at first, this story was featured in Reader's Scope and Good Housekeeping magazines (in the latter as 'The Man Who Was Never Born').

Vertigo:
Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud, under the pseudonym Thomas Narcejac - D'Entre les Morts (The Living and the Dead) [1954]

Alan Le May - The Searchers [1954]

Robert Bloch - Psycho [1959]

Dr. Strangelove:
Peter George [under the pseudonym, Peter Bryant] - Two Hours to Doom; later re-titled Red Alert [1958]

Charles Webb - The Graduate [1963]

Arthur C Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] Developed in tandem with the film

Mario Puzo - The Godfather [1969]

Jake LaMotta - Raging Bull: My Story [1970]

Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark; titled Schindler's List for U S version [1982]

Goodfellas:
Nicholas Pileggi - Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family [1986]

Murray Bennett and Joan Alison's Everbody Comes to Rick's was meant to be a play, but had not been performed when it was sold to Warner Brothers and was adapted to film as Casablanca.

Graham Greene wrote the screenplay for The Third Man, but had also written a novella version to prepare for writing the script; the novella was published after the film.

On the Waterfront is based on a series of New York Sun articles by Malcolm Johnson entitled 'Crime on the Waterfront'; these have been published in book form.

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More novels that have been made into films that were critically acclaimed or at least are of significance to cinematic history, and well-regarded novels whose cinematic adaptations have not necessarily been successful:

Warren Adler - The War of the Roses
John Ball - In the Heat of the Night
Larry Beinhart - American Hero [Wag the Dog]
Peter Benchley - Jaws
John Boland - The League of Gentlemen
Pierre Boulle - La Planète des Singes (The Planet of the Apes); Le Pont de la Rivière Kwa (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Lothar-Günther Buchheim - Das Boot
James M Cain - Double Indemnity
Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Camilo Jose Cela - La Colmena (The Hive)
Pat Conroy - The Great Santini; The Prince of Tides
Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [Blade Runner]
Alan Duff - Once Were Warriors
Umberto Eco - Il Nome Della Rosa (The Name of the Rose)
Ivan Efremov - Tumannost' Andromedy (The Andromeda Nebula)
Mircea Eliade - Tinereţe Fără Tinereţe (Youth Without Youth)
Hans Fallada - Kleiner Mann, Was Nun? (Little Man, What Now?)
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
Jack Finney - The Body Snatchers [Invasion of the Body Snatchers]
Vardis Fisher - Mountain Man [Jeremiah Johnson]
Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
James Fogle - Drugstore Cowboy
Neil Gaiman - Stardust
Benito Perez Galdos - Tristana
Brian Garfield - Death Wish
Telman Gdlyan and Evgeny Dodolev - Piramida (The Pyramid: The Soviet Mafia)
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
Harry Grey - The Hoods [Once Upon a Time in America]
Robert Groom - Forrest Gump
Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter
Judith Guest - Ordinary People
Arthur Hailey - Airport
Craig Harrison - The Quiet Earth
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
Oscar Hijuelos - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
S E Hinton - The Outsiders; Rumble Fish
Hirotsu Kazuo - Chichi to Musume (Father and Daughter) [Late Spring]
P D James - Children of Men
Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
W P Kinsella - Shoeless Joe [Field of Dreams]
C J Koch - The Year of Living Dangerously
Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky - Teni Zabytyh Predkov (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors)
Milan Kundera - Nesnesitelna Lehkost Byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
Norman Maclean - A River Runs Through It
Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song
Bernard Malamud - The Natural 
Whit Masterson - Badge of Evil [Touch of Evil]
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend [Omega Man]
W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge
Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Rick Moody - The Ice Storm
Alberto Moravia - Il Confirmista (The Conformist)
David Morrell - First Blood
Robert C O'Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH [The Secret of NIMH]
Rex Pickett - Sideways
Charles Portis - True Grit
Barry Reed - The Verdict
Suzuki Koji - Ringu (Ring)
Leonardo Sciascia - Il Giorno Della Civetta (The Day of the Owl); A Ciascuno il Suo (To Each His Own)
Hubert Selby, Jr. - Last Exit to Brooklyn
Dr. Seuss - The Lorax
Wladyslaw Spzilman and Jerzy Waldorff - Śmierć Miasta (Death of a City)
William Styron - Sophie's Choice
Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
Roderick Thorp - Nothing Lasts Forever [Die Hard]
F X Toole - Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner [Million Dollar Baby]
Armitage Trail - Scarface
B Traven - Der Schatz der Sierra Madre (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Anne Tyler - The Accidental Tourist
Gore Vidal - Myra Breckinridge
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
E B White - Charlotte's Web
Gary K Wolf - Who Censored Roger Rabbit? [Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]
Marguerite Yourcenar - L'Oeuvre au Noir (The Abyss)
Stefan Zweig - Ungeduld des Herzens (Beware of Pity)

Several of August Le Breton's and Joseph Kessel's novels have become films, though Elmore Leonard and Stephen King are the true titans in this category. 

Jerzy Kosinski's Being There [1970], basis for the Hal Ashby film of the same name, caused much controversy, as it's apparently based (excessively... as in plagiarism) on the Polish novel, The Career of Nikodem Dyzma, by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz

While Stanley Kubrick is probably the greatest filmmaker who made literary adaptations almost exclusively, another brilliant cinematic interpreter of literature is the Japanese director Kon Ichikawa, who adapted among other novels Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (as Enjo, 1958) and Natsume Soseki's I Am a Cat.

Of television series adapting literary works, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz is commonly seen as a masterpiece. A recent project of note is the Brazilian television network Rede Globo's soap opera version of José Marqia de Eça de Queirós's Os Maias. 


Back to the cinema, a series of books by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, The Destroyer, birthed only a single film, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. Further installments never came to be.

Similar to On the Waterfront, Urban Cowboy was based on a magazine article, in this case of the same name, written by one of the two screenwriters, Aaron Latham, published in Esquire; James Bridges worked with Latham on the adaptation.

Similar to Wiseguy, other non-fictionworks have become "based on real events" films: Born Free; Le Scaphandre et le Papilion (The Diving Bell and the Butterly); A Beautiful Mind; Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 [Apollo 13]; Girl, Interrupted; Empire of the Sun; Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game; Dead Man Walking; The Basketball Diaries; The Untouchables; All the President's Men; I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang! [I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang]; Into the Wild; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; The Longest Day; The Orchid Thief [Adaptation]; Jarhead; Flags of Our Fathers; Picture Letters From Commander in Chief [Letters From Iwo Jima]; Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream; Out of Africa.

Russian Ark is based in part on La Russie en 1839 by the Marquis de Custine.

Short stories become movies:
George Langelaan's story 'The Fly', first published in Playboy, Jun. 1957, has spawned several films, while H P Lovecraft's 'Herbert West: Reanimator' inspired the Re-Animator movie series. 

Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain' was originally published in the New Yorker, 1997 and then expanded for its inclusion in Close Range: Wyoming Stories. 

Jonathan Nolan's 'Memento Mori', published in Esquire, began to be adapted by his brother Christopher while Jonathan was still working on the story. 

Deathdream was inspired by the W W Jacobs story 'The Monkey's Paw'. 

'Don't Look Now', a story by Daphne Du Maurier, originally appeared in the collection Not After Midnight.

Of course, playwrights, naturally enough, write screenplays, or adapt their own works for the cinema: e.g., David Rabe's Streamers, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation, and Tony Kusher's Angels in America, Kaj Munk's Ordet.

The playwright and screenwriter Chayefsky wrote the screenplay for his only novel, Altered States.

Michael Tolkin has worked more as a screenwriter than a novelist; he adapted his novel, The Player, for the Robert Altman film.

An example of a novelist who switched to writing films is William Goldman; several of the films he scripted are noteworthy, but for this discussion his novels, Marathon Man and The Princess Bride, are most relevant: he adapted both for the cinema.

Carl Sagan's Contact began as a screenplay, became a novel when a film couldn't be made; and was finally adapted for the cinema nearly two decades later. 

Michael Blake's novel Dances With Wolves was written with its adaptation in mind and indeed he went on to write the screenplay.

Henri La Barthe worked on the screenplay version of his novel, Pépé le Moko.

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Flavorwire's <a href="https://www.flavorwire.com/387561/10-great-movies-based-on-poems">10 Great Movies Based on Poems</a>, though it's one of those dumb list-articles (the popularity of which Buzz Feed seems to be most blame-worthy) from one of those awful advertisement-laden sites that are the equivalent of the free magazines on airplanes, is certainly interesting.


23 October
A nice short piece published at The Awl about the criticisms directed at Penguin for their decision to release Morrissey's Autobiography in their Classics line. As with so many articles on the web, it has two titles: <a href="https://www.theawl.com/2013/10/classic-morrissey/">Is Morrissey a Classic?</a> and Classic Morrissey. 


24 October
The master list for the "great books" project, however much it is expanded to include other lists already extant, would not serve in any way as a good introductory guide to history books. A list I constructed a few years back of history professors associated with the University of Wisconsin—Madison, which in the second half of the Twentieth Century was arguably the source of more innovative historical scholarship than any other U S university, suggests a way of constructing mini-canons within the larger canon: lists defined by a certain place, profession (or instead subject matter), genre, era, and context.

professors:
Paul Boyer:
Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America From the Gilded Age to the Computer Age [1968]

(with Stephen Nissenbaum) Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft [1974]

Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 [1978]

By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age [1985]

When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture [1992]

Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter With Nuclear Weapons [1998]

William Cronon:
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England [1983]

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West [1991]

Merle Curti:
The American Peace Crusade 1815-1960 [1929]

Bryan and World Peace [1931]

The Social Ideas of American Educators [1932]

Peace or War: The American Struggle 1636-1936 [1936]

The Growth of American Thought [1943]

The Roots of American Loyalty [1946]

The Making of an American Community: A Case Study of Democracy in a Frontier County [1959]

Human Nature in American Thought [1980]

Fred Harrington:
God, Mammon, and the Japanese: Dr. Horace N Allen and Korean-American Relations, 1884-1905 [1944]

Fighting Politician: Major General N P Banks [1948]

[Harrington is largely remembered as a long-time head of the University's History department and, later, the University itself; arguably, he is the single individual most responsible for U W--Madison's standing in the History field, most of all for hiring leftist academics (Williams, Goldberg) and defending academic freedom.]

Gerda Lerner:
The Grimke Sisters From South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery [1967]

The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History [1979]

The Creation of Patriarchy [1986]

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy [1993]

Why History Matters [1997]

Fireweed: A Political Autobiography [2002]

Alfred McCoy:
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia: C I A Complicity in the Global Drug Trade [1972]

Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organized Crime in Australia [1980]

Priests on Trial [1984]

Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy [1999]

A Question of Torture: C I A Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror [2006]

Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State [2009]

George Mosse:
The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich [1964]

Germans and Jews: The Right, the Left, and the Search for a 'Third Force' in Pre-Nazi Germany [1970]

The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany From the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich [1975]

Nazism: A Historical and Comparative Analysis of National Socialism [1978]

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism [1978]

Masses and Man: Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality [1980]

German Jews Beyond Judaism [1985]

Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe [1985]

Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars [1990]

Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism [1993]

The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity [1996]

Confronting History [2002]

Stanley Payne:
A History of Spain and Portugal [1973]

Basque Nationalism [1975]

Fascism: Comparison and Definition [1980]

Spanish Catholicism: An Historical Overview [1984]

Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-1936 [1993]

A History of Fascism 1914-1945 [1996]

Fascism in Spain 1923-1977 [2000]

The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism [2004]

The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936 [2006]

Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II [2008]

Spain: A Unique History [2011]

The Spanish Civil War [2012]

doctoral students and professors:
Harvey Goldberg:
American Radicals: Some Problems and Personalities [1957]

French Colonialism: Progress or Poverty? [1959]

The Life of Jean Jaurès [1962]

[Goldberg achieved his renown primarily as a lecturer; visit the Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History]

William Appleman Williams:
American-Russian Relations, 1781-1947 [1952]

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy [1959]

The Contours of American History [1961]

The United States, Cuba, and Castro: An Essay on the Dynamics of Revolution and the Dissolution of Empire [1962]

The Great Evasion: An Essay on the Contemporary Relevance of Karl Marx and on the Wisdom of Admitting the Heretic Into the Dialogue About AmericaÂ’s Future [1965]

The Roots of the Modern American Empire: A Study of the Growth and Shaping of Social Consciousness in a Marketplace Society [1969]

Some Presidents: Wilson to Nixon [1972]

America Confronts a Revolutionary World: 1776-1976 [1976]

Americans in a Changing World: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century [1978]

Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament, Along with a Few Thoughts About an Alternative [1980]

doctoral students:
Carl Becker [before Harrington's time]
Allen Freeman Davis
Lloyd Gardner
John Higham
Richard Hofstadter
Walter LaFeber
Roderick Nash


25 October 2013
A mini-canon broader in scope than the list of books by Wisconsin historians: the "long Sixties" beginning in 1955, the year following McCarthy's fall and which witnessed Rock-and-Roll's rise and James Dean's death, ending in 1973 after the failure of McGovern's presidential campaign and the Vietnam war finally, excruciatingly wrapping up. These are the books—some obvious omissions undoubtedly are still outstanding—one would need to study, alongside many music albums, films, art books, and retrospective historical accounts, to understand what happened just in the U S (a few non-American books are included because of their transnational significance). Some helpful Wikipedia links are provided for broader subjects pertaining to the work in question.

1955
Robert Conquest, ed. - Poets of the 1950s [The Movement]
Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud
Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita
Sloan Wilson - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1956
Eugene Burdick - The Ninth Wave
Robert Conquest, ed. - New Lines
Allen Ginsburg - Howl and Other Poems [Six Gallery reading]
C Wright Mills - The Power Elite
John Osborne - Look Back in Anger [The angry young men]
William H Whyte - The Organization Man
Colin Wilson - The Outsider

1957
Lawrence Durrell - Justine (The Alexandria Quartet)
Jack Kerouac - On the Road [The Beat generation]
Tom Maschler, ed. - Declaration
John Osborne - The Entertainer
Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party
Nevil Shute - On the Beach

1958
Peter Bryant [Peter George] - Two Hours to Doom [U S title: Red Alert]
Eugene Burdick and William Lederer - The Ugly American
Shelagh Delaney - A Taste of Honey
Lawrence Durrell - Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet)
Lawrence Durrell - Mountolive (The Alexandria Quartet)
John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - A Coney Island of the Mind
Robert Frank - The Americans
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
Martin Mayer - Madison Avenue, U S A
Linus Pauling - No More War!
Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

1959
Kenneth Anger - Hollywood Babylon
John Arden - Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, An Un-historical Parable
Norman O Brown - Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
William S Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Norman Mailer - Advertisements for Myself
C P Snow - The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Terry Southern/ Mason Hoffenberg - Candy
Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

1960
Donald Allen, ed. - The New American Poetry 1945-1960
Ansel Adams/ Nancy Newhall - This Is the American Earth
Lawrence Durrell - Clea (The Alexandria Quartet)
Paul Goodman - Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
R D Laing - The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness [Anti-psychiatry]
C Wright Mills - Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba
Harold Pinter - A Night Out
William L Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Terry Southern - The Magic Christian
Glendon Swarthout - Where the Boys Are [Spring break]
Sheldon Wolin - Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought [The Berkeley school of political theory]

1961
John Cage - Silence: Lectures and Writings
Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth
Waldo Frank - Prophetic Island: A Portrait of Cuba [The Fair Play for Cuba Committee]
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Thomas Szasz - The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Colin Wilson - Adrift in Soho

1962
Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Daniel Boorstin - The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
Helen Gurley Brown - Sex and the Single Girl
Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler - Fail-Safe
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Michael Harrington - The Other America
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1963
Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Leonard Cohen - The Favourite Game
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique [The Second Wave of Feminism]
Dag Hammarskjold - Vagmarken
Mary McCarthy - The Group
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

1964
Eric Berne - Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships
Edward Bond - Saved
J P Clark - America, Their America
Leonard Cohen - Flowers for Hitler
Dick Gregory/ Richard Lipsyte - Nigger: An Autobiography
Stuart Hall/ Paddy Whannel - The Popular Arts
John Lennon - In His Own Write
Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Why We Can't Wait [The civil-rights movement]
Timothy Leary/ Ralph Metzner - The Psychedelic Experience: A Manuel Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Michael McClure - The Beard
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Harold Pinter - The Homecoming
Idries Shah - The Sufis

1965
Gypsy Boots/ Jerry Hopkins - Barefeet and Good Things to Eat
Lenny Bruce - How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
Eugene Burdick - The 480
Frank Herbert - Dune
Pauline Kael - I Lost It at the Movies
John Lennon - A Spaniard in the Works
John McPhee - A Sense of Where You Are
Ralph Nader - Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile
Gary Snyder - Six Sections From Mountains and Rivers Without End
Tom Wolfe - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby [New Journalism]
Malcolm X/ Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X

1966
Peter L Berger and Thomas Luckmann - The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Kenneth Burke - Language as Symbolic Action
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers
Tom Hayden/ Staughton Lynd - The Other Side [The anti-war movement]
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Mark Lane - Rush to Judgment: A Critique of the Warren Commission's Inquiry Into the Murders of President John F Kennedy, Officer J D Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald
William H Masters/ Virginia E Johnson - Human Sexual Response [The sexual revolution]
Carl Sagan/ I S Shklovski - Intelligent Life in the Universe
Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls
Robert Venturi - Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

1967
Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America
Stokely Carmichael/ Charles V Hamilton - Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
J William Fulbright - The Arrogance of Power
Thomas A Harris - I'm O K – You're O K
Tom Hayden - Rebellion in Newark: Official Violence and Ghetto Response
Marshall McLuhan/ Quentin Fiore - The Medium Is the Massage
Jonathan Schell - The Village of Ben Suc
Valerie Solanas - The SCUM Manifesto
Hunter S Thompson - Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Howard Zinn - Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawl

1968
Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Eldridge Cleaver - Soul on Ice
Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Ed Dorn - Gunslinger
Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb
Frederick Exley - A Fan's Notes
Free [Abbie Hoffman] - Revolution for the Hell of It [The Youth International Party (Yippies)]
Paulo Freire - Pedagogia do Oprimido
Saint Geraud [Bill Knott] - The Naomi Poems: Book One: Corpse and Beans
James Simon Kunen - The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary
Staughton Lynd - The Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism
Norman Mailer - The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/The Novel as History
N Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn [The Native American renaissance]
Andrew Sarris - The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 [The auteur theory]
Jonathan Schell - The Military Half
Gore Vidal - Myra Breckinridge
Erich Von Däniken - Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past
Andy Warhol - a, A Novel [The Factory]
Leonard and Deborah Wolf - Voices From the Love Generation
Tom Wolfe - The Pump House Gang
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

1969
Penelope Ashe - Naked Came the Stranger
H Rap Brown - Die Nigger Die!
James H Cone - Black Theology and Black Power [Liberation theology]
Brion Gysin - The Process
Thomas Anthony Harris - I'm O K, You're O K
Abbie Hoffman - Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album
J [Terry Garrity] - The Sensuous Woman
Ursula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Carlos Marighella - Minimanual do Guerrilheiro Urbano
Joe McGinnis - The Selling of the President 1968
Kate Millett - Sexual Politics
N Scott Momaday - The Way to Rainy Mountain
Theodore Roszak - The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
Gary Snyder - Four Changes
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five

1970
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
James H Cone - A Black Theology of Liberation
Shulamith Firestone - The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
Jerry Farber - The Student as Nigger
Dario Fo - Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Stephen Gaskin - Monday Night Class
Lois Goul - Such Good Friends
Albert Hirschman - Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
Hal Lindsey and C C Carlson - The Late, Great Planet Earth
William H Masters/ Virginia E Johnson - Human Sexual Inadequacy
Don McNeill - Moving Through Here
Charles A Reich - The Greening of America
Jerry Rubin - DO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution
Lynn Schroeder/ Sheila Ostrander - Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain
Telford Taylor - Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy
Eric Weber - How to Pick Up Girls!

1971
Anonymous [Beatrice Sparks] - Go Ask Alice
Ram Dass - Be Here Now
Bob Dylan - Tarantula
Gustavo Gutiérrez - A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
J [Terry Garrity, John Garrity, and Len Forman] - The Sensuous Man
Abbie Hoffman - Steal This Book
Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society
John McPhee - Encounters With the Archdruid
Michael Murphy - Golf in the Kingdom
William Powell - The Anarchist Cookbook
Colin Wilson - The Occult: A History

1972
John Berger - Ways of Seeing
Alex Comfort - The Joy of Sex
David Halberstam - The Best and the Brightest
Ira Levin - The Stepford Wives
Robert Masters and Jean Houston - Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space
Donnella H Matthews, Dennis L Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W Behrens III - The Limits to Growth
Nena O'Neill and George O'Neill - Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples
Alix Kates Shulman - Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

1973
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective - Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women
Rita Mae Brown - Rubyfruit Jungle
Jill Johnston - Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution 
Erica Jong - Fear of Flying 


26 October
Though the Village Voice Pazz and Jop poll doesn't contribute to the music-albums list I developed here, it's undoubtedly another major factor to consider in any sort of canon of Rock and a few other music genres. Unfortunately, the page [previously found] at the Village Voice site only goes back to 2008, while the archive available at the <a href="http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/index.php">page</a> at Robert Christgau's site includes only the top-ranking albums. Perhaps some of those extremely-long lists made from every participant's list being thrown into one master list, as well as the individual lists (each consisting of only 10 albums), are available via the Internet Archive.


27 October
The Newsweek issue of September 20, 1937, featured a brief report about St. John's College's announcement of a new curriculum based on "the world's greatest 126 books." The college's new president, Stringfellow Barr, and its dean, Scott Buchanan, based their choice of books "on their experience at Columbia, Chicago, Virginia and Oxford universities." To obtain their degree in this four-year plan, students "must prove they know the 126 books forward and backward, show a competence in the liberal arts, ability to read at least two foreign languages, know mathematics through elementary calculus, and have passed 300 hours of laboratory science." Robert Hutchins no less, of the University of Chicago and later to become co-editor of The Great Books of the Western World, joined the college's "board of visitors and governors" and praised the new curriculum as a potential turning point in liberal-arts education. 

We're not including any St. John's list, or any syllabi/ curricula, in this project, given that they are essentially ongoing projects persistently changing, at least in principle. Granted, a course that has ended or at least changed its name, for example Columbia's General Honors course, the first "great books" class, which morphed into the Colloquium on Important Books fairly early in that program's history, could be included, but generally speaking such a project would require original archival research. For now, we can compare the <a href="https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list">current reading lists</a> [see 26 February post] to this original 126-item canon (transcribed as it is presented in the Newsweek article):

Homer, Iliad and Odyssey;
Æschylus, Oresteia;
Herodotus, History;
Sophocles, Œdipus Rex;
Hippocrates, Selections;
Euripides, Medea and Electra
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars;
Old Testament;
Aristophanes, Frogs, Clouds, Birds;
Aristarchus, on the Distance of the Sun and Moon;
Aristoxenus, Harmony;
Plato, Mena, Republic, Sophist;
Aristotle, Organon and Poetics;
Archimedes, Works;
Euclid, Elements;
Apollonius, Conics;
Lucian, True History;
Plutarch, Lives;
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things;
Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic
Ptolemy, Almagest;
Virgil, Æneid;
Strabo, Geography;
Livy, History of Rome;
Cicero, De Officiis; 
Horace, Ars Poetica;
Ovid, Metamorphoses;
Quintillian, Institutes;
Marcus Aurelius, To Himself;
New Testament
Galen, On the Natural Faculties;
Plotinus, Enneads;
Augustine, De Musica and De Magistro;
Song of Roland;
Volsunga Saga;
Bonaventura, On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology;
Thomas, Summa Theologica.

Roger Bacon, Opus Maius;
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales;
Leonardo, Note-books;
Erasmus, Colloquies;
Rabelais, Gargantua;
Copernicus, De Revolutionibus;
Machiavelli, The Prince;
Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart;
Gilbert, On the Magnet;
Kepler, Epitome of Astronomy;
Galileo, Two New Sciences;
Descartes, Geometry;
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum;
Hobbes, Leviathan;
Montaigne, Essays;
Cervantes, Don Quixote;
Shakespeare, Hamlet, King Lear;
Calvin, Institutes;
Grotius, The Law of War and Peace;
Corneille, Le Cid;
Racine, Phedre;
Moliere, Tartuffe;
Spinoza, Ethics;
Milton, Paradise Lost;
Leibniz, Mathematical Papers;
Newton, Principia;
Boyle, Skeptical Chymist;
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws;
Swift, Gulliver's Travels;
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

Voltaire, Candide;
Fielding, Tom Jones;
Rousseau, Social Contract;
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations;
Hume, Treatise of Human Nature;
Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire;
Constitution of the United States;
Federalist Papers;
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason;
Goethe, Faust;
Hegel, Science of Logic;
Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea;
Coleridge, Biographia Literaria;
Bentham, Principles of Morals and of Legislation;
Malthus, Essay on the Principles of Population;
Mill, System of Logic;
Marx, Capital;
Balzac, Père Goriot;
Thackeray, Henry Esmond;
Dickens, David Copperfield;
Flaubert, Madame Bovary;
Dostoyevski, Crime and Punishment;
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Zola, Experimental Novel;
Ibsen, The Doll's House.

Dalton, A New System of Chemical Philosophy;
Clifford, The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences;
Fourier, Mathematical Analysis of Heat;
Faraday, Experimental Researches Into Electricity;
Peacock, Algebra;
Lobachevski, Theory of Parallels;
Darwin, Origin of Species;
Mendel, Papers;
Bernard, Introduction to Experimental Medicine;
Galton, Enquiries Into the Human Mind and Its Faculties;
Joule, Scientific Papers;
Maxwell, Electricity and Magnetism;
Gauss, Mathematical Papers;
Galois, Mathematical Papers;
Boole, Laws of Thought;
Hamilton, Quarternions;
Riemann, The Hypotheses of Geometry;
Cantor, Transfinite Numbers;
Virchow, Cellular Pathology;
Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis;
Hilbert, Foundations of Geometry;
James, Principles of Psychology;
Freud, Papers on Hysteria;
Russell and Whitehead, Principia Mathematica;
Veblen and Young, Projective Geometry.


28 October
Seeing the band, Cave, in concert Saturday, reminded yet again of the Chicago record label, Drag City, and its extraordinary role in Indie music, or whatever you might want to call most contemporary song-composing music. A lesson to learn: the label heads listened to Neil Hagerty of Royal Trux when he told them to sign up Will Oldham; they listened again when Oldham told them about Joanna Newsom. The artist as talent scout.

Instead of a chronological list of the label's releases like you can get at Discogs or Rate Your Music, I've come up with this list of most of the artists with a long-standing working relationship with Drag City, arranged chronologically by the year the artist first released an L.P on the label. If their debut L.P came out on another label, the year that debut was released is noted in brackets.

1990
Royal Trux [1988]

1992
Smog

1993
King Kong [1991]
The Palace Brothers/ Will Oldham/ Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

1994
Gastr del Sol
Ghost [1990]
The Red Krayola [1967]
The Silver Jews

1995
Flying Saucer Attack [1994]

1996
Neil Hamburger [1992]

1997
Edith Frost
Jim O'Rourke [1989]
Mick Turner

1998
David Grubbs [1997]

1999
Brother J T [1991]
Papa M
U S Maple [1995]

2000
The Fucking Champs [1994]

2003
Azita
Alasdair Roberts [2001]

2004
Espers
Faun Fables
Joanna Newsom

2005
Six Organs of Admittance [1998]

2006
White Magic

2007
Sir Richard Bishop [1998]
Major Stars [1998]
P G Six [2001]

2009
Magik Markers [2002]
Monotonix
Om [2005]
Sic Alps [2006]

2010
Scout Niblett [2001]

2011
Cave [2007]
Ty Segall [2008]


29 October
Amid all the talk of a current golden age of television, which, if we're to date it by the premieres of shows, reached a peak in the years, 2005-10 (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead; The Colbert Report; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Louie, Eastbound and Down), another golden age, roughly spanning the years 1986-93, gets short shrift. Of course, given that such a large number of Americans have grown obsessed with televisual entertainment—internet, cable, what-have-you—if those same individuals granted past classics (say, The Fugitive, The Monkees, The Bob Newhart Show, Hill Street Blues) the same kind of obsessive watching granted the crappy shows of this recent era (Dexter, Modern Family) they'd decide television is one giant golden specter rightly taking its place as the godhead of our computer age. Perhaps they won't. So let's review the programs that truly paved the way for the current post-Big Three era.

[It's Garry Shandling's Show, 1986-90, Showtime, Fox]
Pee-Wee's Playhouse, 1986-91, C B S
Star Trek: The Next Gernation, 1987-94, syndicated
Kids in the Hall, 1988-95, C B C, H B O, and C B S
China Beach, 1988-91, A B C
Roseanne, 1988-97, A B C
The Adventures of Pete and Pete, 1989-96, Nickelodeon
Cops, 1989-present, Fox, Spike/ Paramount Network
The Simpsons, 1989- present, Fox
Seinfeld, 1990-98, N B C [The pilot for Seinfeld, called The Seinfeld Chronicles, aired in 1989 and tends to be counted as a Seinfeld episode, annoyingly ignoring obvious continuity problems.]
Twin Peaks, 1990-91, A B C
The Larry Sanders Show, 1992-98, H B O
Homicide: Life on the Street, 1993-99, N B C
The X-Files, 1993-2002, Fox
Politically Incorrect, 1993-2002, Comedy Central, A B C
[It's Garry Shandling's Show, which I inexplicably left off the original post despite loving it when I was a kid [on second thought, I suppose that I considered it to be an "Eighties" show, but given that some of these programs left the air in 1991, we can include both of Shandling's programs], is, as far as I'm concerned, still ahead of its time, our time, your time—whenever. The lead character breaks the fourth wall, yes, but so much more is going on than that. To some extent, the mysterious nature of this show's fictional world is due to what the creators of the show did not explain.]

So what makes these shows so significant? We can obviously say that Curb Your Enthusiasm would've never existed if not for Seinfeld. Moreover, Seinfeld's influence on Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Louie is not only obvious, but, more tellingly, manifests itself in many ways.

Politically Incorrect's serious but humorous take on topical and political issues paved the way for the Daily Show's take on Saturday Night Live's 'Weekend Update' skits: not just the most obvious of jokes (and Jon Stewart, with his excessive reliance on facial gestures and yelling, is more predictable than most admit), but also pointed commentary and at least signs pointing viewers to where they could get insightful analysis.

The Simpsons obviously led to Family Guy (hardly something to be proud of) but its anti-realist, awkward, over-loaded use of references, obscure or not, in the the characters' dialogue was directly copied by 30 Rock and a host of other shows.

Cops is a pioneering "reality" show—and, to date, the only relevant one.

Since all of the late-night talk shows, besides The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, follow the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson set-up, The Larry Sanders Show warrants more serious consideration. David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Jimmy Kimmel already offer quite a "meta" approach to the genre, so why not go all the way? (The Colbert Report in its host being a quasi-fictional character, expands upon the 'Weekend Update' template in a way more impressive aesthetically and certainly more significant to the history of comedy than The Daily Show).

As for television drama series being more cinematic in scope and technique, China Beach, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Homicide, despite difficulties experienced in maintaining a consistent level of quality amid commercial pressures, clearly gave young filmmakers a sign that television was no longer merely crowded with the second-rate. And of course there's the Homicide-Wire connection.

Network television, with the exception of P B S, went into a tailspin decline in the later half of the '90's and the early Aughts. H B O (Mr. Show, The Sopranos, The Wire), Comedy Central (South Park, Strangers With Candy), and others (Ricky Gervais, Adult Swim) picked up the slack. Of shows premiering in the years, 1994-2004, three of them (South Park, The Wire, and Arrested Development) have arguably had a greater influence than the current "golden age" programs, so historically what's really happening here? A lot of talented, but not brilliant, copycats?


30 October
The third edition of A Guide to Oriental Classics [1989], edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Ainslie Embree, and Amy Vladeck Heinrich, and "prepared by the staff of the Committee on Oriental Studies, Columbia University," offers another Columbia-related list of classics, except in this case Eastern classics. Indeed, the Guide to Oriental Classics grew out of a counterpart to the "great books" classes: namely, the Oriental Humanities course; according to the book's Introduction, "the assumptions of this course, inherited from the parent Humanities course in the Western tradition, have been basically two: that there were certain great works of intellectual and artistic achievement in the Oriental world which any educated person, whatever his own field of specialization, ought to have read; and that these books could be understood and appreciated without prior initiation into the complexities of scholarly research in each field." That is, the same approach used in the "great books" courses and reading plans—scholars from different disciplines making literature accessible to a general public not devoted to those disciplines—applies here, except of course that the East doesn't diametrically correspond to the West'. Ideally, over time, the Islamic Tradition ('Near East' perhaps) will be understood better as the link between the Orient and the Occident, while the Buddhist, Hindu, and Chinese realms can be given their proper, distinct place, interacting of course with other Indian as well as Korean and Japanese (and Indonesian, and other Asian/ Pacific) traditions.

The Guide provides lists of complete and partial translations of each work, and secondary readings on the work, as well as some Topics for Discussion. Each of the four traditions begins with a General Works section listing bibliographies and secondary works about the tradition generally. A few chapters deal with areas of literature so broad that they cannot even count as indeterminate selections for our project. They tend to list secondary works first, followed by the literary works, usually anthologies. Those chapters are: 'Supplementary Readings on Indian Buddhism'; 'Sanskrit Lyric Poetry'; 'Indian Devotional Poetry'; 'Indo-Islamic Poetry'; 'Supplementary Readings on Chinese Buddhism'; 'Chinese Drama'; 'Chinese Poets and Poetry' and 'Supplementary Readings on Japanese Buddhism'. 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' from the Chinese poetry chapter has been included; this is just one example of how this list could expand in the future. The 'Chinese Drama' chapter includes several anthologies that obviously consist of monographical works.


Classics of the Islamic Tradition:
The Seven Odes (Al-Muʼallaqāt)

The Quʼrān (Al-Quʼrān)

The Ring of the Dove (Ṭawq al-Ḥamāma), by Ibn Ḥazm (994-1064)

The Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī (Maqāmāt al-Hamadhānī) (968-1008)

The Assemblies of al-Ḥarīrī (Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī) (1054-1122)

The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla)

Deliverance From Error (Al-Munqidh min al-Ḍalāl), by al-Ghazālī (1058-1111)

On the Harmony of Religoin and Philosophy (Kitāb faṣl al-Maqāl), by Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126-1198)

The Conference of the Birds, by Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (ca. 1142-ca. 1220)

The Mystical Poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207-1273)

The Prolegomena (Al-Muqaddima) of Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406)

The Shāhnāma

The Rubāʼiyyāt of ʻUmar Khayyām (eleventh century)

The Book of Dede Korkut (Kitab-i Dede Korkut)

The Mystical Poetry of Yunus Emre (d. ca. 1320)

Leylā and Mejnūn, by Fuzūlī (ca. 1495-1556)


Classics of the Indian Tradition:
The Vedas

Upanishads (ca. 900-500 B C)

Mahābhārata (ca. fifth century B C-fourth century C E)

Bhagavadgītā (ca. 100 B C-A D 100)

Rāmāyana of Vālmīki (ca. 200 B C)

Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali (ca. A D 300)

The Vedānta Sūtra with the Commentary of Shankārāchārya (ca. 780-820)

Theravāda Buddhism: The Tipiṭaka

Theravāda Buddhism: The Dhammapada (ca. 300 B C)

Theravāda Buddhism: The Milindapañhā (ca. first century C E)

Theravāda Buddhism: The Mahāsatipaṭṭhana Sutta

Mahāyāna Buddhism: Prajñāpāramitā (ca. 100 B C-A D 400)

Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Śrīmālādevisimhanāda Sūtra

Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra

Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Sukhavativyūha Sūtras [Infinite Life Sutra and Amitābha Sutra]

Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Bodhicaryāvatāra of Shāntideva

Shakuntalā (Abhijñānaśakuntalā) of Kālidāsa (ca. 400)

The Little Clay Cart (Mṙrcchakaṭika) of Shūdraka (ca. 400)

Pañcatantra (ca. 200 B C) According to Pūrṇabhadra (ca. 1199)

Gītagovinda of Jayadeva (ca. twelfth century)

Kālidāsa's Meghadūta (The Cloud Messenger)

Bhartṙihari's Śatakatraya: Nīti, Śrñgāra, Vairāgya

Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) [incl. Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore [incl. The Crescent Moon; The Gardener; Sacrifice; The Post Office [1912]; Chitra [1913]; Fruit-Gathering; Stray Birds; The Cycle of Spring; The Fugitive among other works]]

Autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)


Classics of the Chinese Tradition:
The Analects (Lun-yü) of Confucius (551-479 B C)

Mo Tzu, or Mo Ti

Lao Tzu, or Tao-te Ching

Chuang Tzu

Mencius (Meng Tzu, 372-289 B C)

The Great Learning (Ta-hsüeh)

The Mean (Chung-yung)

Hsün Tzu, or Hsün Ch'ing

Han Fei Tzu

Records of the Historian: The Shih chi of Ssu-ma Chʼien (ca. 145-ca. 90 B C)

Texts of Chinese Buddhism:
The Lotus Sūtra (Saddharma Pundarīka Sutra, or Miao-fa Lien-hua Ching)

The Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra (Wei-mo-chieh so-shuo ching)

The Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna (Ta-chʼeng chʼin-hsin lun)

Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liu-tsu tʼan ching)

The Record of Lin-chi (d. 866)

Works of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)

Works of Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529) [incl. Instructions for Practical Living; Inquiry on the Great Learning]
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The Water Margin, or All Men Are Brothers (Shui-hu chuan)

Journey to the West, or Monkey (Hsi-yu Chi) by Wu Chʼeng-en (ca. 1506-1581)

The Golden Lotus (Chin Pʼing Mei)

Dream of the Red Chamber (Hung-lou meng), by Tsʼao Hsüeh-ch'in (Tsʼao Chan, d. 1763)

The Book of Songs (Shih ching)

The Songs of the South (Chʼu Tzʼu) by Chʼu Yuan and Other Poets

Three Hundred Tang Poems


Classics of the Japanese Tradition:
Man'yōshū

Court Poetry: The Kokinshū and other Imperial Anthologies

The Pillow Book (Makura no sōshi) of Sei Shōnagon

The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) by Murasaki Shikibu

Poetic Diaries and Poem Tales [incl. The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu; The Confessions of Lady Nijo; The Emperor Horikawa Diary; Izumi Shikibu Diary; Tosa Diary; Sarashina Nikki (As I Crossed the Bridge of Dreams); Kagero Nikki; Yamato Monogatori]

Texts of Japanese Buddhism:
Writings of Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi, 774-835) [incl The Buddhist Tradition in India, China, and Japan, edited by Wm. de Bary; Kūkai: Major Works, translated with an Account of His Life and a Study of His Thought, edited, translated, and written by Yoshito Hakeda]

Writings of Buddhist Masters of the Kamakura Period [incl. Genshin - Ōjōyōshū; Shinran - Tannishō; The Buddhist Tradition in India, China, and Japan, edited by Wm. de Bary; The Major Writings of Nichiren Daishōnin, by the Gosho Translation Committee; Dōgen - Shobōgenzō zuimonki]

Writings of the Zen Master Hakuin (1686-1769) [incl. Orategama; Wild Ivy (Itsumadegusa)]
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An Account of My Hut (Hōjōki) by Kamo no Chōmei (1153-1236)

Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa) by Yoshida Kenkō (1283-1350)

The Tale of the Heike (Heiki monogatari)

The Nō Plays [incl. Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre, edited by Donald Keene; Japanese Noh Dramas, edited by Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai; Le Nō, translated by Noël Peri; The Old Pine Tree and Other Noh Plays, translated by Ueda Makoto; The Nō Plays of Japan, translated by Arthur Waley]

The Fiction of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) [incl. Kōshoku gonin onna (Five Women Who Loved Love); Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century; 'Saikaku's Parting Gift: Translations From Saikaku Okimiyage', by Robert Leutner, Monumenta Nipponica; The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings, translated by Ivan Morris; Some Final Words of Advice; The Japanese Family Storehouse (Nihon Eitagura); or, The Millionaries' Gospel Modernised; This Scheming World]

The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694) [incl. An Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets From Bashō to Shiki; Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century; Oku no hosomichi (Narrow Road Through the Provinces)]

The Plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) [incl. Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century; Major Plays of Chikamatsu; 'A Chronicle of Great Peace Played Out on a Chessboard: Goban Taiheiki', by Jacqueline Mueller, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies; The Love Suicide at Amijima, translated by Donald H Shively]

The Treasure of Loyal Retainers (Chūshingura, ca. 1748), by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shōraku, and Namiki Senryū

Kokoro, by Natsume Sōseki (1867-1914)


31 October
A chronological list of albums I've added to the list of albums made from, first, critics' lists; second, non-compilation best sellers. The 23 February post was a chronological version of the list of the albums from those two groupings, plus a few that I added that seemed like logical extensions or obvious omissions. However, I've moved those added albums into this list, so that the resulting dual informal canons are demarcated clearer: one consisting of best sellers and entrants in the critics' lists, the other my own selections based initially on lower-rung artists in those critics' lists and best-selling artists whose highest-selling albums are compilations, and ultimately on my interpretation of music history. I've made even more additions, indicated by asterisks.

1950
Les Paul/ Mary Ford - The New Sound*

1952
Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown
Hank Williams - Hank Williams Sings*
Hank Williams - Moanin' the Blues*

1953
Nat King Cole Sings for Two in Love*
Eartha Kitt - That Bad Eartha*

1955
Fats Domino - Carry On Rockin'
Doris Day - Love Me or Leave Me*

1956
Harry Belafonte - Calypso
Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport
Peggy Lee - Black Coffee*
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers
Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette*
Dinah Washington - In the Land of Hi-Fi*

1957
The Crickets - The "Chirping" Crickets
Bing Crosby - Bing With a Beat*
Fats Domino - This Is Fats
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book
Anita O'Day - Anita Sings the Most*
Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
Pete Seeger - American Favorite Ballads
Sarah Vaughn - At Mister Kelly's*
The Weavers at Carnegie Hall

1958
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book
Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly

1959
Harry Belafonte - Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
Tony Bennett/ Count Basie and His Orchestra - In Person!
Tony Bennett/ Count Basie and His Orchestra - Bennett and Basie Strike Up the Band
Bo Diddley - Go Bo Diddley
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
Nina Simone at Town Hall*

1960
Joan Baez - Joan Baez
Bo Diddley - Have Guitar Will Travel
Muddy Waters - At Newport 1960

1961
Joan Baez - Vol. 2
Patsy Cline - Showcase
Etta James - At Last!
The Miracles - Hi... We're the Miracles

1962
Joan Baez - In Concert
Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Booker T and the M G's - Green Onions
Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

1963
Joan Baez - In Concert Part 2
The Beatles - Please Please Me
The Beatles - With the Beatles
Tony Bennett - I Wanna Be Around...
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Impressions - The Impressions
Barbara Streisand - The Barbara Streisand Album

1964
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles - Beatles for Sale
Etta James - Etta James Rocks the House
Dusty Springfield - Stay Awhile/ I Only Want to Be With You
Barbara Streisand - People

1965
The Beach Boys - Today!
The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
B B King - Live at the Regal
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Going to a Go-Go
The Temptations Sing Smokey
The Who - My Generation

1966
The Monks - Black Monk Time*
Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators
The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!

1967
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Duke Ellington - The Far East Suite
John Fahey - Blind Joe Death
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks
Loretta Lynn - Don't Come a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Fred Neil - Fred Neil
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Make It Happen
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn*
The Supremes - The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland
The Temptations - The Temptations With a Lot 'o Soul
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Ike and Tina Turner - River Deep - Mountain High*

1968
James Brown - Live at the Apollo, Volume II
The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun
Etta James - Tell Mama
The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes*
Dolly Parton - Just Because I'm a Woman
The Soft Machine
Traffic
The Velvet Underground - White Light/ White Heat*
Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy

1969
The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin
Leonard Cohen - Songs From a Room
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
The Grateful Dead - Live/ Dead
The Flying Burrito Bros. - The Gilded Palace of Sin
Merle Haggard - A Portrait of Merle Haggard
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
The Temptation - Cloud Nine
Scott Walker - Scott 3
Noel Scott Engel - Scott 4
The Who - Tommy
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

1970
The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Chicago - Chicago [II]
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Déjà Vu
Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock
Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can
The Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
The M C 5 - Back in the U S A
Yoko Ono/ Plastic Ono Band - Yoko Ono/ Plastic Ono Band*
Santana - Abraxas
The Soft Machine - Third
Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
T Rex - T Rex
The Velvet Underground - Loaded*

1971
The Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Booker T and the M G's - Melting Pot
Can - Tago Mago*
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band - No Roses
Deep Purple - Fireball
The Doors - L A Women
John Fahey - America
Faust - Faust*
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Merle Haggard - Hag
Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Elton John - Madman Across the Water
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
The Temptations - Sky's the Limit
T Rex - Electric Warrior
Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso*
Yes - Fragile

1972
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
The Carpenters - A Song for You 
Deep Purple - Machine Head
John Denver - Rocky Mountain High
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street
The Grateful Dead - Europe '72
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Neu! - Neu
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
The Temptations - All Directions
T Rex - Slider
Bobby Womack - Understanding
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Yes - Close to the Edge

1973
Big Star - Radio City
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
James Brown - The Payback
Alice Cooper - BIllion Dollar Babies
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me
Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Al Green - Call Me
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
King Crimson - Larks' Tongue in Aspic
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
The New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Bobby Womack - Facts of Life
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
The Wailers - Burnin'
The Who - Quadrophenia
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Zappa/ Mothers - Over-Nite Sensation
Z Z Top - Tres Hombres

1974
John Cale - Fear*
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
Cluster - Zuckerweit*
John Denver - Back Home Again
Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel
Roxy Music - Country Life
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom*

1975
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
The Bee Gees - Main Course
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Earth, Wind and Fire - That's the Way of the World
Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Waylon Jennings - Dreaming My Dreams
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Kiss - Alive!
Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire
Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Parliament - Mothership Conection
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Smokey Robinson - A Quiet Storm
Roxy Music - Siren
Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night

1976
ABBA - Arrival
Aerosmith - Rocks
The Bee Gees - Children of the World
Heart - Heart
Kiss - Destroyer
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Rastoman Vibration
The Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves
Rod Stewart - A Night on the Town
The Upsetters - Scatch the Super Ape*
Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures

1977
David Bowie - Low
Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties!!
Barry Manilow - Live
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus
Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams
Suicide
Talking Heads - 77
Muddy Waters - Hard Again
Wire - Pink Flag*

1978
Big Star - Third
The Cars - The Cars
Chic - C'Est Chique
Eric Clapton - Slowhand
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Dolly Parton - Heartbreaker
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance*
The Plastic People of the Universe - Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned*
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
Wire - Chairs Missing*

1979
A C/ D C - Highway to Hell
Chic - Risqué
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Motörhead - Overkill
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
The Raincoats - The Raincoats
The Specials - The Specials
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Throbbing Gristle - Throbbing Gristle Bring You 20 Jazz Funk Greats*
Wire - 154*
Z Z Top - Degüello

1980
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Judas Priest - British Steel
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
R E O Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity
Diana Ross - diana
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Suicide - Alan Vega/Martin Rev
Talking Heads - Remain in Light

1981
Black Flag - Damaged*
Duran Duran - Duran Duran
Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Foreigner - 4
The Human League - Dare
Japan - Tin Drum
Journey - Escape
The Raincoats - Odyshape
Rush - Moving Pictures
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
This Heat - Deceit*
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much

1982
Alabama - Mountain Music
The Cure - Pornography
Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
Duran Duran - Rio
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
Night Ranger - Midnight Madness*
George Strait - Strait From the Heart

1983
Minor Threat - Out of Step
New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies*
The Police - Synchronicity
R E M - Murmur

1984
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
Sade - Diamond Life

1985
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
The Cure - The Head on the Door
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania!
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

1986
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral... My Trial
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
Run-D M C - Raising Hell
Sonic Youth - Evol*

1987
Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Swans - Children of God

1988
Youssou N'Dour - Immigrés
Enya - Watermark
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

1989
Galaxie 500 - On Fire*
Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Sepultura - Arise

1990
Depeche Mode - Violator
Youssou N'Dour - Set
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics*

1991
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Slint - Spiderland*

1993
The Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)*

1994
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand*

1995
Björk - Post*
Pulp - Different Class
Scott Walker - Tilt

1996
Beck - Odelay*
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup*
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants*

1998
Boredoms - Super æ*
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea*

1999
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness*

2001
Jay-Z - The Blueprint*

2002
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot*

2006
Joanna Newsom - Ys*

2007
Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter*

2009
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion*

2012
Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller