Fiction
- Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
- Jane Austen: Emma
- Honoré de Balzac: Old Goriot
- Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
- Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
- E.T.A. Hoffmann: The Devil’s Elixir
- Heinrich von Kleist: Michael Kohlhaas
- John Le Carré: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Richard Llewellyn: How Green Was My Valley
- Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
- Anon: The Nibelungenlied
Non-fiction
- Alexander Alekhine: My Best Games of Chess (2 volumes)
- Robert Edgerton: Sick Societies
- David Hume: Treatise of Human Nature
- Paul Johnson: Churchill
- Myron Magnet: The Dream and the Nightmare
- Robert Massie: Peter the Great
- Tom Sowell: A Conflict of Visions
- E.M. Wilkinson and L.A. Willoughby: Goethe, Poet and Thinker
- William K Wimsatt: The Verbal Icon
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
John M. Ellis is professor emeritus of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and president of the California Association of Scholars. He is a founder and former governing council member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
