List To Read (The English Undergrad List)
Submitted by alberkin on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 05:06
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- Abelard, Peter Sic et Non (Yes and No)
- Achebe Things Fall Apart
- Aeschuylus Agememnon
- Alcott, Louisa May A Modern Cinderella
- Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg Ohio
- Atwood, Margaret Handmaid Tales
- Auden, W.H. Musee de Beaux Arts
- Austen, Jane Oh! Mr. Best You're Very Bad
- Austen, Jane Sense & Sensibility
- Austen, Jane Emma
- Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan
- Becketts, Samuel End Game
- Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
- Brock, Van K Driving by Dawn
- Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
- Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange
- Byron, Lord Don Juan
- Calvino, Italo Our Ancestors
- Calvino, Italo If On a Winter Night a Traveler
- Capote, Truman In Cold Blood
- Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury Tales
- Chopin, Kate The Awakening
- Coetzee, J.M. Barbarian at The Gates
- Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Connelly, Michael Blood Work
- Conrad Heart of Darkness
- Danielewski, Mark Z. House Of Leaves
- Dante The Divine Comedy
- Dante The Inferno
- Darwin, Charles The Origin of Species
- de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
- Descartes, Rene Mieditationes de Prima Philosophia
- Dickens, Charles Great Expectations
- Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol
- Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens, Charles David Copperfield
- Dickens, Charles Hard Times
- Dickinson, Emily My Life closed twice, before it's close
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor Notes from the Underground
- Douglass, Frederick Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- Douglass, Frederick Oratory from Slavery
- Doyle, Arthur Conan The Parasite
- Dubois, W.E.B. Souls Of Black Folks
- Eliot, T.S. The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
- Eliot, T.S. Whispers of Immortality
- Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land
- Eliot, T.S. Ash Wednesday
- Elliot, T.S. Wasteland
- Ellis, Bret Easton American Psycho
- Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Literary Ethics
- Faulkner, William The Sound And The Fury
- Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
- Faulkner, William A Rose for Emily
- Feinberg, Leslie Stone Butch Blues
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
- Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
- Frey, James A Million Little Pieces
- Gaiman, Neil American Gods
- Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying
- Gay, John The Beggar's Opera
- God The Bible
- Golden, Aurthur Memoirs of a Geisha
- Golding, William Lord Of The Flies
- Harrigan, Stephan The Gates of the Alamo
- Harris, E. Lynn An This Too Shall Pass
- Harris, E. Lynn If This World Were Mine
- Harris, Thomas Red Dragon
- Hawthorne, Nathanial Minister's Black Veil
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
- Heller, Joseph Catch 22
- Hemingway, Ernest Hills Like White Elephants
- Henry, O. The Gift of the Magi
- Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha
- Hitler, Adolf Mein Kampf
- Homer Iliad
- Hughes, Langston I, Too, Sing America
- Hugo, Victor Les Miserables
- Huxley Aldous Brave New World
- Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
- James, Henry Prefaces
- James, Henry Portrait of a Lady
- Joyce, James A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
- Joyce, James Finnegan's Wake
- Kafka The Trial
- Keneally, Thomas Schindler's Ark
- Keourac, Jack On the Road
- Keyes, Daniel Flowers fro Algernon
- King, Stephen It
- Kipling, Rudyard The Mark of the Beast
- Knipfel, Jim Slackjaw
- Kushner Angels in America
- Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterly's Lover
- Leather, Stephen The Chinaman
- Levi, Primo Survival in Auschwitz
- London, Jack White Fang
- Lowry, Lois The Giver
- Machiavelli, Niccolo The Prince
- Malory, Sir Thomas Morte D'Arthur
- Markandaya, Kamala Nectar in a Sieve
- Marks, John War Torn
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Love in the Time of Cholera
- Maugham, W. Somerset Of Human Bondage
- Melville, Herman Moby Dick
- Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman
- Milton, John Paradise Lost
- Moore, Alan The Watchmen
- Moore, Sir Thomas Utopia
- Morrison, Tony The Bluest Eyes
- Morrison, Tony Beloved
- Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita
- Oates, Joyce Carol Black Girl White Girl
- Olds, Sharon I Go Back to May, 1937
- Orwell, George 1984
- Orwell, George Animal Farm
- Paine, Thomas Common Sense
- Patrick, John The Curious Savage
- Peral, Matthew The Dante Club
- Percy, Walker The Moviegoer
- Petrarch, Francesco Il Canzonier
- Petronius, Gaius Satyricon
- Plath, Sylvia Lady Lazarus
- Plato The Republic
- Poe, Edgar Allen Complete Works
- Pope, Alexander Eloisa to Abelard
- Pope, Alexander An Essay on Man
- Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's Rainbow
- Pynchon, Thomas V
- Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged
- Rand, Ayn The Fountainhead
- Rolling Stone Magazine, The The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll: The Definitive History Of The Most Important Artists and Their Music
- Rossetti, Christina Goblin Market
- Roy, Arundhati God of Small Things
- Rushdie, Salaman Collected Works
- Salinger, J.D. Catcher In The Rye
- Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones
- Shakespeare, William Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Shaw, G. B. St. Joan
- Shaw, George Bernard Caesar and Cleopatra
- Silverstein, Shel God's Wheel
- Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
- Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- St. Augustine Confessions
- Steinbeck, John East of Eden
- Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath
- Stern, Lawrence Tristram Chandy
- Stevenson, Robert Louis The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Stoker, Bram Dracula
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher The Ghost in the Mill
- Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
- Tagore, Rabindranath Home and The World
- Tennyson, Lord The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Thackeray, William Makepeace Vanity Fair
- Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
- Tolstoy, Leo Life and Death of Ivan Illitch
- Twain, Mark Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- unknown Beowulf
- Various Arabian Nights
- Various Gnostic Gospels
- Virgil Aeneid
- Voltaire The Philosophical Dictionary
- Voltaire Candide
- Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five
- W.B. Yeats The Second Coming
- Walker, Alice The Color Purple
- Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery
- Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds
- Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome
- Wharton, Edith Edith Reckoning
- Whitman, Walt Leaves Of Grass
- Whitman, Walt O Captain! My Captain!
- Wiesel, Elie Night
- Wilde, Oscar The Model Millionaire
- Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Ernest
- Wilde, Oscar Picture of Dorian Gray
- Woolfe, Virginia To The Lighthouse
- Wordsworth/Coleridge Lyrical Ballads
- Yeats, W.B. The Celtic Twilight
Author Comments:
Based on a project we did in our Intro to English Studies class this semester a reading list of literary works that groups believed every English major should have read by graduation. This list is of works I have yet to read
are there more to the list that was created that you have read?
also which school does this list come from?