Literature About the Law: A List of Books
Compiled by
Daniel J. Solove
I. Novels and Plays
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Aeschylus
Oresteia
James Agee
A Death in the Family
Jean Anouilh
Antigone
Aristophanes
Wasps
Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale
John Barth
The Floating Opera
John Barth
The End of the Road
Robert Bolt
A Man for All Seasons
Bertolt Brecht
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Albert Camus
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Fall
Albert Camus
The Plague
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
James Fennimore Cooper
The Pioneers
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
James Gould Cozzens
The Just and the Unjus
James Gould Cozzens
Guard of Honor
Philip K. Dick
The Minority Report
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
E.L. Doctorow
The Book of Daniel
E.L. Doctorow
Ragtime
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Demons
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Traps
Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Visit
Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Execution of Justice
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
George Eliot
Felix Holt
George Eliot
Middlemarch
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
Romola
George Eliot
Silas Marner
William Faulkner
The Town
William Faulkner
The Hamlet
William Faulkner
The Mansion
William Faulkner
The Hamlet
William Faulkner
Requiem for a Nun
William Faulkner
Sanctuary
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
Light in August
William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust
Athol Fugard
Statements
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Autumn of the Patriarch
William Gaddis
A Frolic of His Own
Susan Glaspell
A Jury of Her Peers
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
David Guterson
Snow Falling on Cedars
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Victor Hugo
Les Miserables
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler
Franz Kafka
The Trial
Franz Kafka
The Complete Stories
Franz Kafka
The Castle
Heinrich von Kleist
Michael Kohlhaas
Milan Kundera
The Joke
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ivan Klima
Judge on Trial
Bernard Malamud
The Fixer
Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed
Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville
Billy Budd
Herman Melville
Benito Cereno
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Sula
John Nichols
The Milagro Beanfield War
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Walker Percy
The Thanatos Syndrome
Katherine Ann Porter
Noon Wine
Katherine Ann Porter
Ship of Fools
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
King Lear
William Shakespeare
Othello
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
A Winter’s Tale
William Shakespeare
Othello
William Shakespeare
Henry V
William Shakespeare
Henry VI
William Shakespeare
Henry VIII
William Shakespeare
Richard II
William Shakespeare
Richard III
Sophocles
Antigone
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Stendahl
The Red and the Black
Ivan Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
Mark Twain
Pudd’nhead Wilson
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Robert Penn Warren
All The King’s Men
Eudora Welty
The Ponder Heart
Richard Wright
Native Son
II. Anthologies and Short Stories
Elizabeth Gemmette (ed.)
Legal Themes in Drama
Elizabeth Gemmette (ed.)
Legal Themes in Novellas
Elizabeth Gemmette (ed.)
Legal Themes in Short Stories
Ephraim London (editor)
The Law in Literature
Ephraim London (editor)
The Law as Literature
Fred Shapiro & Gane Garry (editors)
Trial and Error
Jay Wishingrad (editor)
Legal Fictions: Lawyers and the Law