A list of books that have contributed to my understanding, with the understanding that it could be different on the next blue moon.
Homer: The Iliad (850 B.C.)
Herodotus: Histories (480-425 B.C.)
Plato: Dialogues (427-348 B.C.)
Aeschylus: Oresteia (459 B.C.)
Sophocles: Oedipus (496-406 B.C.)
Lycophron: Alexandra (285-247 B.C.)
Vergil: Aeneid (19 B.C.)
The Bible
Petronius: The Satyricon (66)
Damascius the Diadoque: The First Principles (533?)
The I Ching
Confucius and Mencius: The Four Books
Lao-tse: Tao te Ching
Li-Po: The Poetry and Career of Li Po
Murasaki Shikibu: Tale of Genji (1015?)
Sei Shonogon: Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
Dante: Divina Commedia (1321)
Villon: Le Petit et Le Grand Testament (1456 & 1461)
Rabelais: The Five Books (1532-1564).
Montaigne: Essays (1580)
Cervantes: Don Quixote (1605)
Shakespeare: Complete works (1590-1612)
Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Molière: Théatre (1661-1673)
Pascal: Pensèes (1670 & 1844)
DeFoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719-20)
Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
Richardson: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740-42)
Fielding: Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)
Rousseau: Confessions (1775-76)
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789-94)
Hegel: The Phenomenology of the Spirit (1807)
Fourier: Théorie des Quatre Mouvements (1808)
Equiano: The Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
Goethe: Faust (1808)
Goethe: Conversations (1836)
Poe: Complete works (1809-1849)
Stendhal: Le Rouge et le Noir (1830)
Stendhal: La Chartreuse de Parme (1839)
Gogol: Dead Souls (1842)
Whitman: Leaves of Grass (1855)
Baudelaire: Les Fleurs de Mal (1857)
Dostoyevsky: The Idiot (1868)
Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Marx: Capital (1867)
Lautrèmont: Les Chants de Maldoror (1868)
Flaubert: L’Education Sentimentale (1869)
Flaubert: Bouvard et Pècuchet (1881)
Rimbaud: Une Saison en Enfer (1873)
Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra (1883-92)
Mallarmè: Oeuvres Complètes (1893)
Wilde: The Importance of being Earnest (1895)
Valèry: Monsieur Teste (1896)
Jarry: Oeuvres Complètes (1900)
Freud: Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
Cavafy: Poems (1904)
H. James: Notebooks.
Grahame: The Wind in the Willows (1908)
G. Stein: Three Lives (1909)
G. Stein: The Making of Americans (1911)
R. Roussel: Impressions d’Afrique (1910).
Proust: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (1913-27).
Vaihinger: The Philosophy of ‘As if” (1924)
Herriman: Krazy Kat (1913-44)
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
Joyce: Ulysses (1921)
Joyce: Finnegans Wake (1939)
Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Cather: My Mortal Enemy (1926)
Suzuki: Essays in Zen Buddhism (1927)
Breton: Nadja (1928)
Musil: Man without Qualities (1930-42)
Celine: Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (1932)
Celine: Mort à Credit (1936)
H. Green: Party Going (1939)
Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)
Garcia Lorca: Poeta en Nueva York (1940)
M. Moore: Collected Poems (1951)
Adorno: Minima Moralia (1951)
Tutuola: The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)
O’Connor: Wise Blood (1952)
Queneau: La Dimanche de la Vie (1952)
W. Stevens: The Necessary angel (1951)
W. Stevens: Collected Poems (1954)
Beckett: Watt (1953)
Mann: Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1954)
Nabokov: Lolita (1955)
Achebe: Things Fall Apart (1958)
Southern: The Magic Christian (1960)
Cabrera Infante: Tres Tristes Tigres (1965)
Capote: In Cold Blood (1966)
Stoppard: Travesties (1975)
Portis: The Dog of the South (1979)
Von Rezzori: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (1981)
R.F. Thompson: The Flash of the Spirit (1983)
Chatwin: The Songlines (1987)
Arenas: Before Night Falls (1993)