... Russian Literature at Vanderbilt, and it was fascinating. Among the selections were:

Tolstoy - 'War and Peace'

Dostoyevsky - 'Crime & Punishment', 'The Brothers Karamazov' & 'The Idiot'

Turgenev - 'Fathers and Sons'

Chekhov - 'The Cherry Orchard' (a play) & several short stories

Later on, I read Solzhenitsyn's 'The Gulag Archipelago'.

Other great books that I have read:

All Thomas Hardy novels

Somerset Maugham - 'Of Human Bondage', 'Liza of Lambeth', 'Rain' (fantastic short story), 'The Summing Up', 'The Moon and Sixpence' (The story of artist Paul Gauguin), 'Cakes and Ale' and 'The Razor's Edge'

Jane Austen - 'Pride and Prejudice'

Gustave Flaubert - 'Madame Bovary'

William L. Shirer - 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' (totally awesome)

John Kennedy Toole - 'A Confederacy of Dunces' (funnier'n shit)

Emily Brontë - 'Wuthering Heights'

Charlotte Brontë - 'Jane Eyre'

Truman Capote - 'In Cold Blood'

Victor Hugo - 'Les Misérables' (read in English and French)

Joseph Conrad - 'Heart of Darkness'

Albert Camus - 'L'Étranger' (read in French)

George Eliot - 'Silas Marner'

William Faulkner - 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'The Sound and the Fury'

Ernest Hemingway - 'The Sun Also Rises' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'

James Fenimore Cooper - 'The Last of the Mohicans'

Stephen Crane - 'The Red Badge of Courage'

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 'The Scarlet Letter'

F. Scott Fitzgerald - 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Tender Is the Night'

John Steinbeck - 'Grapes of Wrath' and 'Of Mice and Men'

Charles Dickens - 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Great Expectations' and 'David Copperfield'

Herman Melville - 'Moby Dick'

George Orwell - '1984'

Laurence Sterne - 'Tristram Shandy'

J. D. Salinger - 'The Catcher in the Rye' (hilarious)

Edgar Allen Poe - 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'A Cask of Amontillado'

Several of the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming

Several 'Dirk Pitt' novels by Clive Cussler

Homer's 'Odyssey' and 'The Iliad'

Lots of Greek Mythology

The following in Latin: 'Julius Caesar', Virgil's 'Aeneid, Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', the poetry of Catullus and Horace, and the works of Cicero

Lots of plays, sonnets and poetry by Shakespeare, Milton, Shelley, Keats, Pound, Frost, Auden, William Carlos Williams, Dickinson, Neruda, Whitman, Eliot, Wordsworth, Nash, Blake, Housman, Wallace Stevens, Cummings

Lots of writings by the famous Philosophers, including Socrates (as portrayed by Plato), Plato, Descartes, Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, James, Santayana, Dewey, Mill, Aquinas, Hobbes, Sartre, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Marx, Hegel, Kant, Bacon, Locke, Spinoza, Hume

The entire 'Holy Bible' (King James Version)