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Foundational Books

Literary Philosophy 

Augustine, Confessions

Boethius, On the Consolation of Philosophy

Descartes, René, Meditations on First Philosophy 
Du Bois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk 
Kierkegaard, Either/Or

Montaigne, Michel de, Essays
Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Gay Science
Pascal, Blaise, Pensées
Plato, Phaedrus

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, Emile, or On Education
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations

Philosophical Fiction 

Beauvoir, Simone de, The Blood of Others
Beckett, Samuel, Three Novels 
Borges, Jorge Luis, Fictions 
Calvino, Italo, t-zero
Camus, Albert, The Fall
Coetzee, J. M., Elizabeth Costello
Diderot, Denis, Jacques the Fatalist 
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Brothers Karamazov 
Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man
Kafka, Franz, The Trial 
Knausgaard, Karl Ove, My Struggle
Kundera, Milan, Ignorance
Lessing, Doris, The Golden Notebook 
McEwan, Ian, Atonement
Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon
Musil, Robert, The Man Without Qualities 
Nabokov, Vladimir, Pale Fire
Nelson, Maggie, Bluets
Proust, Marcel, In Search of Lost Time
Sartre, Jean-Paul, Nausea
Smith, Zadie, On Beauty

Stevens, Wallace, Collected Poems
Wallace, David Foster, Infinite Jest
Woolf, Virginia, The Waves 

Philosophers on Literature

Aristotle, Poetics

Hegel, Lectures on Fine Arts
Heidegger, Martin, The Origin of the Work of Art 
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of the Power of Judgment
Murdoch, Iris, Existentialists and Mystics 
Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy
Schopenhauer, Arthur, The World as Will and Representation

Contemporary Writings 

Booth, Wayne, The Company We Keep
Cavell, Stanley, Must We Mean What We Say?
Carroll, Noël, Beyond Aesthetics
Danto, Arthur, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
de Bres, Helena, Artful Fictions
Descombes, Vincent, Proust: Philosophy of the Novel
Felski, Rita, The Uses of Literature 
Fisher, Philip, Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, Production of Presence
Hagberg, Garry, Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory
Hickey, Dave, Air Guitar 
Jackson, Jeanne-Marie, The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing
John, Eileen and Dominic Lopes, eds., The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings
Kitcher, Philip, Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
Kundera, Milan, The Art of the Novel

Lamarque, Peter and Stein Haugom Olsen, Truth, Fiction, and Literature
Landy, Joshua, How to Do Things with Fictions 
Moi, Toril, The Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

Nehamas, Alexander, Nietzsche: Life as Literature 

Nguyen, C. Thi, Games: Agency As Art

Nussbaum, Martha, Love's Knowledge 
Oeler, Karla, A Grammar of Murder:  Violent Scenes and Film Form

Ong, Yi-Ping, The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy

Pavel, Thomas, Fictional Worlds 
Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia, Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws
Perloff, Marjorie, Edge of Irony
Pippin, Robert, Henry James and Modern Moral Life ; Philosophy By Other Means
Rorty, Richard, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity

Serpell, Namwali, Seven Modes of Uncertainty
Tamen, Miguel, Friends of Interpretable Objects 
Thomasson, Amie, Fiction and Metaphysics
Vermeule, Blakey, Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?
Walton, Kendall, Mimesis and Make-Believe
Zumhagen-Yekplé, Karen, A Different Order of Difficulty

Zunshine, Lisa, Why We Read Fiction

An Edited Collection from the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature at Stanford

The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age, ed. Michael Saler & Joshua Landy. Stanford University Press, 2009.