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Literature

Poems, stories, novels and plays, from the Book of Songs to now.

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The number is the librarian’s score, out of ten, from Claude, an AI. Readers’ scores appear beside it once five people have rated. Claude has not heard the albums: their scores come from what is documented about them.

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  1. 1 Dream of the Red Chamber紅樓夢 Cao Xueqin 1760 9.8
  2. 2 The Divine ComedyDivina Commedia Dante Alighieri c. 1320 9.7
  3. 3 The IliadἸλιάς Homer c. 750 BCE 9.6
  4. 4 To the Tune Shuidiao Getou: How Long Has the Bright Moon Been There水調歌頭（明月幾時有） Su Shi 1076 9.6
  5. 5 The Red Cliff Rhapsody (the first)前赤壁賦 Su Shi 1082 9.6
  6. 6 To Autumn John Keats 1820 9.6
  7. 7 Classic of Poetry詩經 Anonymous 600 BCE 9.5
  8. 8 A Spring River on a Night of Flowers and Moonlight春江花月夜 Zhang Ruoxu 710 9.5
  9. 9 HamletThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare c. 1600 9.5
  10. 10 Don QuixoteDon Quijote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes 1605, 1615 9.5
  11. 11 Peach Blossom Spring, with its Poem桃花源記并詩 Tao Yuanming c. 421 9.4
  12. 12 Bring in the Wine將進酒 Li Bai c. 752 9.4
  13. 13 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Walt Whitman 1856 9.4
  14. 14 Kong Yiji孔乙己 Lu Xun 1919 9.4
  15. 15 Songs of the South楚辭 Qu Yuan 300 BCE 9.3
  16. 16 Odes III.30: A Monument More Lasting than BronzeCarmina III.30 Horace 23 BCE 9.3
  17. 17 Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Poems蘭亭集序 Wang Xizhi 353 9.3
  18. 18 Home Again: a Rhapsody, with Preface歸去來兮辭并序 Tao Yuanming 405 9.3
  19. 19 Drinking Wine (V)飲酒·其五 Tao Yuanming 417 9.3
  20. 20 Writing My Thoughts on a Night Journey旅夜書懷 Du Fu 765 9.3
  21. 21 The Tale of Genji源氏物語 Murasaki Shikibu c. 1010 9.3
  22. 22 To the Tune Dingfengbo: Do Not Listen to the Rain定風波（莫聽穿林打葉聲） Su Shi 1082 9.3
  23. 23 The Student Anton Chekhov 1894 9.3
  24. 24 My Old Home故鄉 Lu Xun 1921 9.3
  25. 25 The OdysseyὈδύσσεια Homer c. 725 BCE 9.2
  26. 26 Reeds蒹葭 Anonymous 600 BCE 9.2
  27. 27 Yellow Crane Tower黃鶴樓 Cui Hao 730 9.2
  28. 28 River Snow江雪 Liu Zongyuan c. 806 9.2
  29. 29 Yueyang Tower岳陽樓記 Fan Zhongyan 1046 9.2
  30. 30 To the Tune Qingyu’an: The Lantern Festival青玉案·元夕 Xin Qiji 1175 9.2
  31. 31 Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley 1818 9.2
  32. 32 I Have Raised Myself a Monument Not Made by HandsЯ памятник себе воздвиг нерукотворный Alexander Pushkin 1836 9.2
  33. 33 Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842 9.2
  34. 34 Anna KareninaАнна Каренина Leo Tolstoy 1878 9.2
  35. 35 In Search of Lost TimeÀ la recherche du temps perdu Marcel Proust 1913–1927 9.2
  36. 36 Call to Arms吶喊 Lu Xun 1923 9.2
  37. 37 Gathering Ferns采薇 Anonymous 600 BCE 9.1
  38. 38 And Now My Work Is Done: The Last Lines of the MetamorphosesMetamorphoses XV, 871–879 Ovid c. 8 9.1
  39. 39 Journey to the West西遊記 Wu Cheng'en 1592 9.1
  40. 40 Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds William Shakespeare 1609 9.1
  41. 41 Moby-DickMoby-Dick; or, The Whale Herman Melville 1851 9.1
  42. 42 Walden: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Henry David Thoreau 1854 9.1
  43. 43 God’s Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins 1877 9.1
  44. 44 Epic of GilgameshGilgameš Anonymous c. 1200 BCE 9.0
  45. 45 Returning to Live in the Country (I)歸園田居·其一 Tao Yuanming c. 406 9.0
  46. 46 Song on Climbing the Youzhou Terrace登幽州臺歌 Chen Zi’ang 696 9.0
  47. 47 Autumn Evening in the Mountains山居秋暝 Wang Wei 745 9.0
  48. 48 Seeing Off Yuan the Second on a Mission to Anxi送元二使安西 Wang Wei 750 9.0
  49. 49 Song of White Snow, Seeing Off Secretary Wu on His Return to the Capital白雪歌送武判官歸京 Cen Shen c. 754 9.0
  50. 50 For Wei the Eighth, a Gentleman Living Retired贈衛八處士 Du Fu 759 9.0
  51. 51 A Night Walk at Chengtian Temple記承天寺夜遊 Su Shi 1083 9.0
  52. 52 To the Tune Tianjingsha: Autumn Thoughts天淨沙·秋思 Ma Zhiyuan c. 1300 9.0
  53. 53 The Peony Pavilion牡丹亭 Tang Xianzu 1598 9.0
  54. 54 Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore William Shakespeare 1609 9.0
  55. 55 Watching the Snow from the Mid-Lake Pavilion湖心亭看雪 Zhang Dai 1644 9.0
  56. 56 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio聊齋志異 Pu Songling 1700 9.0
  57. 57 The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories Hans Christian Andersen 1844 9.0
  58. 58 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871–1872 9.0
  59. 59 Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins 1877 9.0
  60. 60 One Hundred Years of SolitudeCien años de soledad Gabriel García Márquez 1967 9.0
  61. 61 A New Account of the Tales of the World世說新語 Liu Yiqing 430 8.9
  62. 62 At Yellow Crane Tower, Seeing Off Meng Haoran to Guangling黃鶴樓送孟浩然之廣陵 Li Bai c. 730 8.9
  63. 63 Drinking Alone Under the Moon (I)月下獨酌·其一 Li Bai c. 744 8.9
  64. 64 The Little Rock Pool West of the Knoll至小丘西小石潭記 Liu Zongyuan c. 809 8.9
  65. 65 Night Rain, Sent North夜雨寄北 Li Shangyin c. 851 8.9
  66. 66 Shahnameh (The Book of Kings)شاهنامه Ferdowsi 1010 8.9
  67. 67 The Old Drunkard’s Pavilion醉翁亭記 Ouyang Xiu 1046 8.9
  68. 68 The Story of the Western Wing西廂記 Wang Shifu 1300 8.9
  69. 69 Water Margin水滸傳 Shi Nai'an 1500 8.9
  70. 70 Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? William Shakespeare 1609 8.9
  71. 71 The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy 1900 8.9
  72. 72 Wild Grass野草 Lu Xun 1927 8.9
  73. 73 Romances傳奇 Eileen Chang 1944 8.9
  74. 74 On and On You Go行行重行行 Anonymous 150 8.8
  75. 75 Birdsong Ravine鳥鳴澗 Wang Wei 740 8.8
  76. 76 Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments William Shakespeare 1609 8.8
  77. 77 The Scholars儒林外史 Wu Jingzi 1750 8.8
  78. 78 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 8.8
  79. 79 Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art John Keats 1819 8.8
  80. 80 The brain is wider than the sky Emily Dickinson 1896 8.8
  81. 81 Border Town邊城 Shen Congwen 1934 8.8
  82. 82 Tales of Hulan River呼蘭河傳 Xiao Hong 1941 8.8
  83. 83 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 1955 8.8
  84. 84 Teahouse茶馆 Lao She 1957 8.8
  85. 85 Taipei People臺北人 Pai Hsien-yung 1971 8.8
  86. 86 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 8.8
  87. 87 Quiet Night Thoughts靜夜思 Li Bai c. 726 8.7
  88. 88 On Stork Tower登鸛雀樓 Wang Zhihuan 730 8.7
  89. 89 Night Mooring at Maple Bridge楓橋夜泊 Zhang Ji 756 8.7
  90. 90 Thinking of My Brothers on a Moonlit Night月夜憶舍弟 Du Fu 759 8.7
  91. 91 To the Tune Linjiangxian: Returning at Night to Lingao臨江仙·夜歸臨皋 Su Shi 1082 8.7
  92. 92 To the Tune Yumeiren: Listening to Rain虞美人·聽雨 Jiang Jie 1290 8.7
  93. 93 One Thousand and One Nightsألف ليلة وليلة Anonymous 9th–15th c. 8.7
  94. 94 The Engine at LagadoGulliver’s Travels, Part III, Chapter V (the engine at Lagado) Jonathan Swift 1726 8.7
  95. 95 Old China Charles Lamb 1823 8.7
  96. 96 Walden: The Pond in Winter Henry David Thoreau 1854 8.7
  97. 97 The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats 1890 8.7
  98. 98 Village Opera社戲 Lu Xun 1922 8.7
  99. 99 Autumn Night秋夜 Lu Xun 1924 8.7
  100. 100 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 8.7
  101. 101 Hope希望 Lu Xun 1925 8.7
  102. 102 Wandering彷徨 Lu Xun 1926 8.7
  103. 103 Fortress Besieged圍城 Qian Zhongshu 1947 8.7
  104. 104 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 8.7
  105. 105 Far Away, the Herdboy Star迢迢牽牛星 Anonymous 150 8.6
  106. 106 Returning to Live in the Country (III)歸園田居·其三 Tao Yuanming c. 406 8.6
  107. 107 Glad of Rain on a Spring Night春夜喜雨 Du Fu 761 8.6
  108. 108 Caught in Snow, Staying with the Master of Lotus Mountain逢雪宿芙蓉山主人 Liu Changqing 770 8.6
  109. 109 The Pillow Book枕草子 Sei Shōnagon c. 1002 8.6
  110. 110 To the Tune Queqiaoxian: Fine Clouds Work Their Patterns鵲橋仙（纖雲弄巧） Qin Guan 1090 8.6
  111. 111 To the Tune Yijianmei: The Red Lotus Fades一剪梅（紅藕香殘玉簟秋） Li Qingzhao 1103 8.6
  112. 112 Romance of the Three Kingdoms三國演義 Luo Guanzhong 1400 8.6
  113. 113 On Going a Journey William Hazlitt 1822 8.6
  114. 114 A light exists in spring Emily Dickinson 1896 8.6
  115. 115 Adlestrop Edward Thomas 1917 8.6
  116. 116 Snow雪 Lu Xun 1925 8.6
  117. 117 The Kite風箏 Lu Xun 1925 8.6
  118. 118 The Sight of My Father’s Back背影 Zhu Ziqing 1925 8.6
  119. 119 From the Hundred-Plant Garden to the Three-Flavour Study從百草園到三味書屋 Lu Xun 1926 8.6
  120. 120 Second Farewell to Cambridge再別康橋 Xu Zhimo 1928 8.6
  121. 121 The Master and MargaritaМастер и Маргарита Mikhail Bulgakov 1966–1967 8.6
  122. 122 Viewing the Blue Sea觀滄海 Cao Cao 207 8.5
  123. 123 Seeing Off Vice-Prefect Du to His Post in Shu送杜少府之任蜀州 Wang Bo 668 8.5
  124. 124 Visiting an Old Friend’s Farm過故人莊 Meng Haoran 735 8.5
  125. 125 Gazing at the Moon and Thinking of One Far Away望月懷遠 Zhang Jiuling c. 737 8.5
  126. 126 Wine in Hand, I Ask the Moon把酒問月 Li Bai 745 8.5
  127. 127 The Bamboo Grove Lodge竹里館 Wang Wei 750 8.5
  128. 128 Sitting Alone on Jingting Mountain獨坐敬亭山 Li Bai c. 753 8.5
  129. 129 Reply to Letian, Who Gave Me a Poem When We First Met at a Feast in Yangzhou酬樂天揚州初逢席上見贈 Liu Yuxi 826 8.5
  130. 130 Remembering Mianchi: Matching Ziyou’s Poem和子由澠池懷舊 Su Shi 1061 8.5
  131. 131 To the Tune Jiangchengzi: Hunting at Mizhou江城子·密州出獵 Su Shi 1075 8.5
  132. 132 For Huang Jifu寄黃幾復 Huang Tingjian 1085 8.5
  133. 133 To the Tune Yujia’ao: Recording a Dream漁家傲·記夢 Li Qingzhao c. 1130 8.5
  134. 134 To the Tune Xijiangyue: Walking at Night on the Yellow Sand Road西江月·夜行黃沙道中 Xin Qiji 1185 8.5
  135. 135 I wandered lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth 1807 8.5
  136. 136 Six Records of a Floating Life浮生六記 Shen Fu 1808 8.5
  137. 137 A Doll’s HouseEt dukkehjem Henrik Ibsen 1879 8.5
  138. 138 Hope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson 1891 8.5
  139. 139 I’m nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson 1891 8.5
  140. 140 When You Are Old W. B. Yeats 1892 8.5
  141. 141 He Wishes for the Cloths of HeavenAedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W. B. Yeats 1899 8.5
  142. 142 The Garden Party and Other Stories Katherine Mansfield 1922 8.5
  143. 143 Rickshaw Boy駱駝祥子 Lao She 1937 8.5
  144. 144 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie 1981 8.5
  145. 145 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 8.5
  146. 146 Though the Tortoise Lives Long龜雖壽 Cao Cao 207 8.4
  147. 147 Night on the Jiande River宿建德江 Meng Haoran c. 730 8.4
  148. 148 Seeing Off Xin Jian at Lotus Tower芙蓉樓送辛漸 Wang Changling c. 742 8.4
  149. 149 Grass on the Ancient Plain: A Farewell賦得古原草送別 Bai Juyi c. 788 8.4
  150. 150 A Question for Liu the Nineteenth問劉十九 Bai Juyi c. 817 8.4
  151. 151 To the Tune Huanxisha: A New Song, a Cup of Wine浣溪沙（一曲新詞酒一杯） Yan Shu 1040 8.4
  152. 152 To the Tune Rumengling: I Often Remember the Pavilion by the Stream如夢令（常記溪亭日暮） Li Qingzhao c. 1100 8.4
  153. 153 To the Tune Chounu’er: Written on a Wall on the Road to Boshan醜奴兒·書博山道中壁 Xin Qiji 1185 8.4
  154. 154 Go, Little Book: Chaucer to His Scribe and to His PoemChaucers Wordes unto Adam; Troilus and Criseyde V.1786–1799 Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1385 8.4
  155. 155 Auguries of Innocence William Blake c. 1803 8.4
  156. 156 FrankensteinFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 1818 8.4
  157. 157 The Selfish Giant Oscar Wilde 1888 8.4
  158. 158 A Piece of Chalk G. K. Chesterton 1905 8.4
  159. 159 A Good Story好的故事 Lu Xun 1925 8.4
  160. 160 The Rainy Lane雨巷 Dai Wangshu 1928 8.4
  161. 161 Snow Country雪国 Yasunari Kawabata 1935–1948 8.4
  162. 162 If on a Winter’s Night a TravellerSe una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore Italo Calvino 1979 8.4
  163. 163 The Chess Master棋王 Ah Cheng 1984 8.4
  164. 164 To Live活着 Yu Hua 1993 8.4
  165. 165 Mooring Below Beigu Hill次北固山下 Wang Wan c. 712 8.3
  166. 166 On an Autumn Night, to Qiu the Twenty-second秋夜寄丘二十二員外 Wei Yingwu c. 785 8.3
  167. 167 Inscription for a Humble Room陋室銘 Liu Yuxi (attributed) c. 825 8.3
  168. 168 On Loving the Lotus愛蓮說 Zhou Dunyi 1063 8.3
  169. 169 To the Tune Busuanzi: Ode to the Plum卜算子·詠梅 Lu You 1170 8.3
  170. 170 Spring Rain Clearing in Lin’an臨安春雨初霽 Lu You 1186 8.3
  171. 171 An Outing to the Full Well滿井遊記 Yuan Hongdao 1599 8.3
  172. 172 In the Bleak Mid-Winter (A Christmas Carol)A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 1872 8.3
  173. 173 Inversnaid Gerard Manley Hopkins 1881 8.3
  174. 174 Moonlight over the Lotus Pond荷塘月色 Zhu Ziqing 1927 8.3
  175. 175 Ode to the Orange Tree橘頌 Qu Yuan c. 300 BCE 8.2
  176. 176 Looking at the Lingering Snow on Zhongnan終南望餘雪 Zu Yong c. 724 8.2
  177. 177 Parting from Dong the Elder別董大 Gao Shi c. 747 8.2
  178. 178 A Farewell Preface for Ma of Dongyang送東陽馬生序 Song Lian 1378 8.2
  179. 179 The Lamplighter Robert Louis Stevenson 1885 8.2
  180. 180 By Chance偶然 Xu Zhimo 1926 8.2
  181. 181 The Little PrinceLe Petit Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 8.2
  182. 182 The Legend of the Condor Heroes射鵰英雄傳 Jin Yong 1957 8.2
  183. 183 Red Sorghum红高粱家族 Mo Yan 1987 8.2
  184. 184 Miscellaneous Poems (I)雜詩·其一 Tao Yuanming c. 414 8.1
  185. 185 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee Emily Dickinson 1896 8.1
  186. 186 Yuki-Onna: The Woman of the SnowYuki-Onna Lafcadio Hearn 1904 8.1
  187. 187 The Gift of the Magi O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 1905 8.1
  188. 188 Gitanjali (Song Offerings): a selectionGitanjali (Song Offerings) Rabindranath Tagore 1912 8.1
  189. 189 The Pressed Leaf臘葉 Lu Xun 1925 8.1
  190. 190 The Song of Everlasting Sorrow长恨歌 Wang Anyi 1995 8.1
  191. 191 The Deer Call鹿鳴 Anonymous 600 BCE 8.0
  192. 192 Night Snow夜雪 Bai Juyi c. 815 8.0
  193. 193 The Sorrows of Young WertherDie Leiden des jungen Werthers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774 8.0
  194. 194 Endymion, Book I, lines 1–33: A thing of beauty is a joy for ever John Keats 1818 8.0
  195. 195 This is my letter to the world Emily Dickinson 1890 8.0
  196. 196 A word is dead Emily Dickinson 1894 8.0
  197. 197 There is no frigate like a book Emily Dickinson 1894 8.0
  198. 198 Three Questions Leo Tolstoy 1903 8.0
  199. 199 Sayonara: For a Japanese Girl沙揚娜拉——贈日本女郎 Xu Zhimo 1925 8.0
  200. 200 The Drunkard酒徒 Liu Yichang 1963 8.0
  201. 201 Notes of a Desolate Man荒人手記 Chu T'ien-wen 1994 8.0
  202. 202 The Vegetarian채식주의자 Han Kang 2007 8.0
  203. 203 The Three-Body Problem三体 Liu Cixin 2008 8.0
  204. 204 A Long Song長歌行 Anonymous 100 7.9
  205. 205 Thoughts on Reading觀書有感 Zhu Xi 1166 7.9
  206. 206 O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman 1867 7.9
  207. 207 A Plea for Gas Lamps Robert Louis Stevenson 1878 7.9
  208. 208 How Can I Help Thinking of Her教我如何不想她 Liu Bannong 1920 7.9
  209. 209 Haste匆匆 Zhu Ziqing 1922 7.9
  210. 210 The Last Quarter of the Moon额尔古纳河右岸 Chi Zijian 2005 7.9
  211. 211 Plum Blossoms梅花 Wang Anshi 1080 7.8
  212. 212 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 7.8
  213. 213 I never saw a moor Emily Dickinson 1890 7.8
  214. 214 Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore 1916 7.8
  215. 215 A Small Incident一件小事 Lu Xun 1919 7.8
  216. 216 The Joy of a Snowflake雪花的快樂 Xu Zhimo 1925 7.8
  217. 217 Memories of Peking: South Side Stories城南舊事 Lin Haiyin 1960 7.8
  218. 218 Norwegian Woodノルウェイの森 Haruki Murakami 1987 7.8
  219. 219 To the Tune Jiangchengzi: Seeing Off a Guest in the Snow at Dongwu江城子·東武雪中送客 Su Shi c. 1075 7.7
  220. 220 Reading on a Winter Night: For My Son Ziyu冬夜讀書示子聿 Lu You 1199 7.7
  221. 221 Peanuts落花生 Xu Dishan 1922 7.7
  222. 222 Family家 Ba Jin 1933 7.7
  223. 223 Red Candle紅燭 Wen Yiduo 1923 7.6
  224. 224 Uncle Tom’s CabinUncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 7.4
  225. 225 Stories of the Sahara撒哈拉的故事 Sanmao 1976 7.4