The Graphic Canon

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The classic canon of Western civilization meets the artists and illustrators who have remade reading in the last years of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon, volumes 1, 2, and 3. - Amazon

This list was originally published in 2012 and was added to this site over 11 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17117 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
1123 The Symposium Plato -385 Greek Ancient greek
14787 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
14787 The Tibetan Book of the Dead Padmasambhava, Karma Lingpa 1350 Tibetan Tibetan
1556 The Poems of Francois Villon François Villon 1489 French Middle french
15897 Apu Ollontay Peru 1780 Peruvian Quechua
15897 Hagoromo Japan 1450 Japanese Japanese
1151 The Water Margin Shi Naian 1370 Chinese Chinese
2501 Popol Vuh Dennis Tedlock 1985 Mayan K'iche'
15897 The Works of George Peele George Peele 1593 British English
3582 Selected Poems Andrew Marvell 1681 British English
705 Oroonoko Aphra Behn 1688 British English
1915 A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works Jonathan Swift 1729 Irish English
15897 The life and letters of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1817 American English
15897 Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 James Boswell 1950 British English
1541 The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 1967 American English
15897 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
10626 Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense Edward Lear 1846 British English
913 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1845 American English
15897 The Drunken Boat Arthur Rimbaud 1871 French French
15897 The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll 1876 British English
4722 Venus in Furs Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch 1870 Austrian German
15897 The Hasheesh Eater Fitz Hugh Ludlow 1857 American English
2750 Struwwelpeter, Or, Merry Rhymes and Funny Pictures... Heinrich Hoffmann 1845 German German
4631 Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti 2001 British English
15897 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce 1890 American English
1436 Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 Austrian German
15897 The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1915 British English
9696 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
901 Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby 1964 American English
15897 Best Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells H. G. Wells 1933 British English
2101 Collected Short Stories of Saki Saki 1930 British English
15897 The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky Maxim Gorky 1899 Russian Russian
14851 If Rudyard Kipling 1910 British English
14983 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London Jack London 1993 American English
4610 Complete Short Stories D. H. Lawrence 1950 British English
17117 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
14895 The Collected Works Kahlil Gibran 1920 Lebanese Arabic
1235 Cheri Colette 1920 French French
17117 The Complete Stories Zora Neale Hurston 1995 American English
1985 Black Elk Speaks John G. Neihardt 1932 American English
4461 Collected Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956 American English
11544 Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral 1922 Chilean Spanish
2576 The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934 Anaïs Nin 1966 French English
1633 In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
1217 Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
14983 Wild at Heart Barry Gifford 1990 American English
14232 Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman 1992 American English
14882 Poems of Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1207 Persian Persian
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
111 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922 British English