- The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick (2007)
- Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare (c. 1601-02)
- Coriolanus – William Shakespeare (c. 1608-09)
- Shakespeare: The World as Stage – Bill Bryson (2007)
- Death Comes to Pemberley – P.D. James (2011)
- The Haunted Hotel – Wilkie Collins (1878)
- Death in a Strange Country – Donna Leon (1993)
- The Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolaño (1998, translation 2007)
- Kenny & the Dragon – Tony DiTerlizzi (2008, written & illustrated)
- The World of Downton Abbey – Jessica Fellowes, Julian Fellowes introduction (2011)
- The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco (1980, translation 1983)
- “On Fairy-stories” – J.R.R. Tolkien (1947)†
- The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien (1977, posthumous)
- From Ficciones: – Jorge Luis Borges (1962, Argentina)
- “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940, Alastair Reid, translator)
- “The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim” [“El acercamiento a Almotásim”] (1936, Anthony Kerrigan, translator)
- “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” [“Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote”] (1939, Anthony Bonner, translator)
- “The Circular Ruins” [“Las Ruinas Circulares”] (1940, Anthony Bonner, translator)
- The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 1 – Hergé (Belgium)
- Tintin in America (1931-32, 1945)
- Cigars of the Pharaoh (1932-34, 1955)
- The Blue Lotus (1934-35, 1946)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
- The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 2– Hergé (Belgium)
- The Broken Ear (1935-37, 1943)
- The Black Island (1937-38, 1943)
- King Ottokar’s Sceptre (1938-39, 1947)
- The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 3 – Hergé (Belgium)
- The Crab with the Golden Claws (1940-41, 1943)
- The Shooting Star (1941-42, 1942)
- The Secret of the Unicorn (1942-43, 1943)
- The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 4 – Hergé (Belgium)
- Red Rackham’s Treasure (1943, 1944)
- The Seven Crystal Balls (1943-46, 1948)
- Prisoners of the Sun (1946-48, 1949)
- Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks (2001)
- The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 5 – Hergé (Belgium)
- Land of Black Gold (1948–1950, 1950)
- Destination Moon (1950–1953, 1953)
- Explorers on the Moon (1950–1953, 1954)
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
- The Adventures of Tintin Reporter for “Le Petit Vingtième” In the Land of the Soviets – Hergé (1929-30, Belgium)
- The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 6 – Hergé (Belgium)
- The Calculus Affair (1954-56, 1956)
- The Red Sea Sharks (1956-58, 1958)
- Tintin in Tibet (1958-59, 1960)
- The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 7 – Hergé (Belgium)
- The Castafiore Emerald (1961-62, 1963)
- Flight 714 (1966-67, 1968)
- Tintin and the Picaros (1975-76, 1976)
- Old Testament (KJV) – Post 1 — Post 2
- From Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories – L.M. Montgomery (1995, Rea Wilmshurst, editor)
- “Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves” from Anne of Green Gables (1908)
- “Christmas at Red Butte” (1909)
- “The End of the Young Family Feud” (1907)
- “Aunt Cyrilla’s Christmas Basket” (c. 1903)
- “The Osbornes’ Christmas” (1903)
† 2008 Expanded Edition with Commentary and notes, Verlyn Flieger & Douglas A. Anderson, eds.
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