To read

Fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah, Foster Bible. Via Wikimedia.
The Bible

Canterbury Tales, Woodcut 1484. Via Wikimedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess
Satan presiding at the Infernal Council. 1824. John Martin. Via Wikimedia.
John Milton: Paradise Lost Areopagitica
Shakespeare

Etching of Joseph O. Eaton’s portrait of Herman Melville. Via Wikimedia.
Herman Melville: Typee,Omoo,Moby-Dick
William Faulkner
Flannery O’Connor Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Thomas Pynchon: V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason & Dixon
MacKinlay Kantor: Andersonville, If the South Had Won the Civil War

Portrait of Dostoyevsky (Ф.М.Достоевского) by Vasily Perov, 1872. Via Wikimedia.