Harold Bloom's 278 Books You Should Have Read By Now

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The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song 4.05 avg rating — 22,792 ratings
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Living End
Living End 3.54 avg rating — 668 ratings
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The Stories of Bernard Malamud
The Stories of Bernard Malamud 4.10 avg rating — 293 ratings
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American Buffalo: A Play
American Buffalo: A Play 3.75 avg rating — 5,585 ratings
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Speed-the-Plow
Speed-the-Plow 3.65 avg rating — 2,241 ratings
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Sanctuary
Sanctuary 3.63 avg rating — 14,462 ratings
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H.M. Pulham, Esquire
H.M. Pulham, Esquire 3.90 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.24 avg rating — 7,825 ratings
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Children of Darkness
Children of Darkness 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Wild Palms
The Wild Palms 3.86 avg rating — 5,694 ratings
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Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Collected Poems, 1954-2004
Collected Poems, 1954-2004 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Suttree
Suttree 4.20 avg rating — 27,026 ratings
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Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 3.98 avg rating — 5,786 ratings
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Spring Shade: Poetry
Spring Shade: Poetry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Time Remaining
Time Remaining 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,166 ratings
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From the First Nine Poems, 1946-76
From the First Nine Poems, 1946-76 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Barren Ground
Barren Ground 3.73 avg rating — 342 ratings
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The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover 4.25 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Vein of Iron
Vein of Iron 3.86 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 3.99 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Up in the Old Hotel
Up in the Old Hotel 4.33 avg rating — 4,191 ratings
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Ceremony in Lone Tree
Ceremony in Lone Tree 3.85 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Omensetter's Luck
Omensetter's Luck really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,494 ratings
225.
New Selected Poems
New Selected Poems 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected (1979-1991)
The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected (1979-1991) 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems
Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems 4.26 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Old And New Poems
Old And New Poems 4.13 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The One Day / Poems 1947 1990
The One Day / Poems 1947 1990 3.81 avg rating — 72 ratings
230.
The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away 4.07 avg rating — 15,077 ratings
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The Cannibal
The Cannibal 3.80 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Appointment in Samarra
Appointment in Samarra 3.81 avg rating — 16,054 ratings
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Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.28 avg rating — 419 ratings
234.
Collected Stories of John O'Hara
Collected Stories of John O'Hara 4.17 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Collected Earlier Poems of Anthony Hecht: The Complete Texts of The Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows, and The Venetian Vespers
Collected Earlier Poems of Anthony Hecht: The Complete Texts of The Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows, and The Venetian Vespers 4.33 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Lazarus Laughed
Lazarus Laughed 3.33 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.44 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Maximus Poems
Maximus Poems 4.19 avg rating — 1,199 ratings
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Earthly Measures: Poems
Earthly Measures: Poems 3.93 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Riddley Walker
Riddley Walker 4.02 avg rating — 8,554 ratings
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Reflections on Espionage: The Question of Cupcake
Reflections on Espionage: The Question of Cupcake 3.59 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Selected Poetry
Selected Poetry 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Tesserae and Other Poems
Tesserae and Other Poems 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound 4.05 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Findings: Poems
Findings: Poems 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Untitled Subjects: Poems
Untitled Subjects: Poems 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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V.
V. 3.97 avg rating — 24,778 ratings
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Streamers
Streamers 3.57 avg rating — 181 ratings
250.
The Big Sea
The Big Sea 4.22 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
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Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo 3.85 avg rating — 4,796 ratings
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Selected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson
Selected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson 3.97 avg rating — 129 ratings
252.
My Life as a Man
My Life as a Man 3.72 avg rating — 2,616 ratings
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Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke 4.28 avg rating — 180 ratings
254.
Operation Shylock: A Confession
Operation Shylock: A Confession 3.77 avg rating — 4,965 ratings
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Patrimony
Patrimony 4.21 avg rating — 6,018 ratings
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The Counterlife
The Counterlife 3.92 avg rating — 5,447 ratings
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Zuckerman Bound: The Ghost Writer / Zuckerman Unbound / The Anatomy Lesson / The Prague Orgy
Zuckerman Bound: The Ghost Writer / Zuckerman Unbound / The Anatomy Lesson / The Prague Orgy 4.20 avg rating — 1,372 ratings
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Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep 3.81 avg rating — 8,879 ratings
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Light Years
Light Years 4.02 avg rating — 7,803 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,310 ratings
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