List of books used to train our TalkB.I.G. bot.

Life is indeed too big for small talk. That’s why we skipped the pleasantries, spared the trivia, left out the well-trodden paths, and went straight for the substance of 5,300 years of written word when training our TalkB.I.G. bot . Here are all the books we’ve used for that. That's right, we brought out the heavy hitters.

Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant –
Aesop's Fables – Aesop
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
Andersen's Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes – Anonymous
The Upanishads – Anonymous
The Mahabharata – Anonymous
Beowulf – Anonymous
Bhagavad-Gîtâ – Anonymous
Shih-ching – Anonymous
Summa Theologica – Thomas Aquinas
Orlando Furioso – Lodovico Ariosto
Lysistrata – Aristophanes
The Frogs – Aristophanes
The Birds – Aristophanes
The Clouds – Aristophanes
The Acharnians – Aristophanes
The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
Poetics – Aristotle
Politics: A Treatise on Government – Aristotle
The Enchanted April – Elizabeth Von Arnim
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
A Compendium on the Soul – Avicenna
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugenie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
Cousin Betty – Honoré de Balzac
A Book – Djuna Barnes
Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
The Flowers of Evil – Charles Baudelaire
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz – L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz – L. Frank Baum
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell – William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience – William Blake
The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio
The Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Browning's Shorter Poems – Robert Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
The Mother – Pearl S. Buck
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage – Lord Byron
Don Juan – Lord Byron
The Lusiad – Luís de Camões
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll
On the Nature of Things – Titus Lucretius Carus
The Book of the Courtier – Baldassare Castiglione
Don Quijote – Miguel de Cervantes
The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems – Geoffrey Chaucer
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Sea-Gull – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Uncle Vanya – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Man Who Was Thursday – G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy – G. K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man – G. K. Chesterton
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems – William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Analects – Confucius
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
On the Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection – Charles Darwin
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year – Daniel Defoe
Discourse on the Method – René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete – Emily Dickinson
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave – Frederick Douglass
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Black Tulip – Alexandre Dumas
The Sport of the Gods – Paul Laurence Dunbar
Mrs. Spring Fragrance – Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton)
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Prufrock and Other Observations – T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land – T. S. Eliot
Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays — First Series – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays — Second Series – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct of Life – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels
In Praise of Folly – Desiderius Erasmus
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Salammbo – Gustave Flaubert
A Simple Soul – Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man – Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man – Gustave Flaubert
A Room with a View – E. M. Forster
A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
Howards End – E. M. Forster
The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud
Selected Poems – Robert Frost
Mountain Interval – Robert Frost
Cranford – Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
The Madman: His Parables and Poems – Kahlil Gibran
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
New Grub Street – George Gissing
Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
Grimms' Fairy Tales – Brothers Grimm
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Iola Leroy – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Science of Logic – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
In our time – Ernest Hemingway
Men without Women – Ernest Hemingway
The Histories – Herodotus
The Histories – Herodotus
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
Demian – Hermann Hesse
The Confessions of St. Augustine – Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
The Iliad – Homer
The Odyssey – Homer
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
How It Feels to Be Colored Me – Zora Neale Hurston
Three Plays: Lawing and jawing; Forty yards; Woofing – Zora Neale Hurston
A Doll's House – Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
Daisy Miller: A Study – Henry James
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
The Aspern Papers – Henry James
Washington Square – Henry James
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Federalist Papers – Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Ulysses – James Joyce
Dubliners – James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Psychology of the Unconscious – Carl Jung
The Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals – Immanuel Kant
Letters of a Javanese Princess – Raden Adjeng Kartini
Poems – John Keats
The Economic Consequences of the Peace – John Maynard Keynes
The Rubaiyat – Omar Khayyam
The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King – Rudyard Kipling
Tao Te Ching – Laozi
The Rainbow – D. H. Lawrence
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – John Locke
Two Treatises of Government – John Locke
The Call Of the Wild – Jack London
White Fang – Jack London
The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table – Thomas Malory
Death In Venice – Thomas Mann
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Moon and Sixpence – W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
Moby Dick – Herman Mellville
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street – Herman Mellville
On Liberty – John Stuart Mill
On Liberty – John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism – John Stuart Mill
Paradise Lost – John Milton
The Imaginary Invalid – Molière
Tartuffe – Molière
Essays of Michel de Montaigne – Michel de Montaigne
Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery
Utopia – Thomas More
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche
The Metamorphoses – Ovid
Common Sense – Thomas Paine
35 Sonnets – Fernando Pessoa
The Republic – Plato
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
The Masque of the Red Death – Edgar Allan Poe
The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems – Alexander Pope
Swann's Way – Marcel Proust
Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais
Poems – Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems – Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Mesnevi – Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi
The Wisdom of Life – Arthur Schopenhauer
Counsels and Maxims – Arthur Schopenhauer
Studies in Pessimism – Arthur Schopenhauer
On Human Nature – Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Idea – Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Idea – Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Idea – Arthur Schopenhauer
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
Romeo & Juliet – William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark – William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream – William Shakespeare
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
The Tempest – William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of King Lear – William Shakespeare
Othello, the Moor of Venice – William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
Sonnets – William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis – William Shakespeare
Man and Superman – Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion – Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus – Mary Shelley
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley – Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
The Wealth Of Nations – Adam Smith
Oedipus the King – Sophocles
Ethics – Benedictus de Spinoza
Tender Buttons – Gertrude Stein
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
On Love – Stendhal
The Chartreuse of Parma – Stendhal
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom's Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Gulliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Poems & Ballads – Algernon Charles Swinburne
Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore
The Gardener – Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World – Rabindranath Tagore
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Barry Lyndon – William Makepeace Thackeray
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
Walking – Henry David Thoreau
Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy
First love, and other stories – Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – Mark Twain
Roughing It – Mark Twain
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today – Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
The Art of War – Sun Tzǔ
The Bridal Wreath – Sigrid Undset
The Arabian Nights – Unknown
The Ramayana – Valmiki
Poems of Paul Verlaine – Paul Verlaine
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon – Jules Verne
Michael Strogoff – Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne
The Aeneid – Virgil
Candide – Voltaire
The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance – H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau – H. G. Wells
A Short History of the World – H. G. Wells
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country – Edith Wharton
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral – Phillis Wheatley
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince, and Other Tales – Oscar Wilde
De Profundis – Oscar Wilde
Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act – Oscar Wilde
Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems – William Carlos Williams
Carry On, Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse
The Inimitable Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room – Virginia Woolf
Michael Robartes and the dancer – W. B. Yeats
Poems – W. B. Yeats
The Tower – W. B. Yeats
Hungry Hearts – Anzia Yezierska
Theresa Raquin – Émile Zola
Germinal – Émile Zola