The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Why Poetry

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition

Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism

Literary Theory: The Complete Guide: Edition 2

The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present

Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature