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Literature

A list of literature books mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
The Catcher In The Rye
by J.D. Salinger
1984
by George Orwell
Sherlock Holmes series
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
The Ticket That Exploded
by William S. Burroughs
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Beowulf
by Seamus Heaney (Translator)
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
The Big Sky
by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
The Adventures of Pinocchio
by C Collodi
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Tropic of Capricorn
by Henry Miller
Men Like Gods
by H. G. Wells
When The Sleeper Wakes
by H. G. Wells
The Possessed (Devils)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
White Fang
by Jack London
On The Road
by Jack Kerouac
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
by William Blake
At Play In The Fields of the Lord
by Peter Matthiessen
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Dead Poets Society
by N. H. Kleinbaum
The Man Who Would Be King
by Rudyard Kipling
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
by Dante Alighieri
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

philosophy
Island
by Aldous Huxley

science fiction
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lord of the Flies
by William Goldling
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Ken Kesey
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
by Eugene O’Neill
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Republic
by Plato

philosophy
Clouds
by Aristophanes
The Frogs
by Aristophanes
In The Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
Selected Poems and Prose (Ozymandias)
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Plague
by Albert Camus
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
The Iliad
by Homer
The Odyssey
by Homer
The Hymn to Demeter
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
by Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
by Albert Camus
The Symposium
by Plato
The Allegory of the Cave
by Plato
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Darkness at Noon: A Novel
by Arthur Koestler
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I
by Henry Miller
Plexus: The Rosy Crucifixion II
by Henry Miller
A River Runs Through It
by Norman Maclean
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Aeneid
by Virgil
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosiński
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The Fall
by Albert Camus
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ask the Dust
by John Fante