Literary studies reading lists
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Reading Lists for the School of Literature & English Studies
- English Literature - Read and discuss - participants form discussion groups
- English Literature - Read and write - participants read and then write essays
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[edit] Collaborators
- ...Alexander Tirk
[edit] Fiction
- Major Authors
- Chinua Achebe
- Louisa May Alcott
- Margaret Atwood
- Jane Austen
- James Baldwin
- Ray Bradbury
- Anne Bronte
- Charlotte Bronte
- Emily Bronte
- William S. Burroughs
- Willa Cather
- Michael Chabon
- Raymond Chandler
- Kate Chopin
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Philip K. Dick
- Ralph Ellison
- James Ellroy
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- William H. Gass
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert Heinlen
- Joseph Heller
- Ernest Hemingway
- Frank Herbert
- Aldous Huxley
- Henry James
- John Kennedy O'Toole
- Jack Kerouac
- Ken Kesey
- Ursula LeGuin
- Doris Lessing
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jack London
- Herman Melville
- Arthur Miller
- Henry Miller
- George Orwell
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Ayn Rand
- Tom Robbins
- Richard Russo
- J.D. Salinger
- William Shakespeare
- Gertrude Stein
- John Steinbeck
- Neal Stephenson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Mark Twain
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Robert Penn Warren
- Edith Wharton
- Jeanette Winterson
- Important Works
- The Age of Innocence
- Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Atlas Shrugged
- Big Sur
- Cannery Row
- Catch 22
- Catcher in the Rye
- Confederacy of Dunces
- Demon Box
- Dr. Sax
- Dune
- East of Eden
- Elmer Gantry
- Empire Falls
- Fahrenheit 451
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- the Handmaid's Tale
- Herland
- Invisible Man
- Kings Blood Royal
- Last of the Mohicans
- the Lathe of Heaven
- LIttle Women
- Lost Horizon
- Main Street
- Memoirs of a Survivor
- Moby Dick
- My Antonia
- Naked Lunch
- Neuromancer
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Pride and Prejudice
- Of Mice and Men
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- On The Road
- the Song of the Lark
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- The Beautiful and Damned
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Great Gatsby
- The Lord of the Flies
- The Love of the Last Tycoon
- The Martian Chronicles
- The Old Man and the Sea
- The Rosy Crucifixion
- Sense and Sensibility
- Sexing the Cherry
- The Sun Also Rises
- Things fall apart
- The Town and the City
- This Side of Paradise
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Tortilla Flat
- Walden
- The Yellow Wallpaper
[edit] Poetry
- Major Authors
[edit] Major Authors and Works in Languages other than English
Ancient -- for a more extensive list, please visit the Classics Department
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- Chuang Chou, Chuang Tzu
- Gilgamesh
- Homer: the Iliad and the Odyssey
- Plato: The Apology of Socrates
- Sappho: lyric poetry
- Tu Fu: lyric poetry
Early Modern/The Renaissance -- Prose and Drama
The 18th Century -- Prose and Drama
The 19th Century -- Prose and Drama
Major 20th Century writers -- Prose and Drama
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- Tadeusz Borowski: This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
- Calvino: Cosmicomics
- Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Fall, The Plague
- Colette: The Vagabond, Cheri, Gigi
- Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima, mon Amour
- Gunther Grass: The Tin Drum
- Elfriede Jelinek: The Piano Teacher
- Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis
- Kazantzakis: The Last Temptation of Christ
- Haruki Murakami: The Windup Bird Chronicle
- Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
- Elie Wiesel: Night Trilogy
[edit] Poets
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