Books Worth Reading
The Lyric
(authors)
Sappho |
Petrarch |
Catallus |
O.T. Wisdom Literature |
Coleridge |
Dickinson |
Spenser |
Blake |
Eliot |
Donne |
Byron |
Robert Penn Warren |
Shakespeare |
Keats |
Allen Tate |
Wordsworth |
Yeats |
Frost |
Langston Hughes |
Poe |
Robert Hayden |
William Carlos Williams |
John Crowe Ransom |
Tragedy
Author
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Work
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Aeschylus
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Agamemnon (The Oresteia) Prometheus Bound |
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Sophocles
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Oedipus (Theban plays) | |
Euripides
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Medea | |
Shakespeare
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King Lear Hamlet Othello Julius Ceasar Romeo & Juliet |
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Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein | |
Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Scarlet Letter | |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby | |
William Faulkner
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The Sound and the Fury Absalom, Absalom Light in August |
Comedy
Author
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Work
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Jane Austin |
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Aristophanes |
Frogs Lysistrata Birds |
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Charles Dickens |
Great Expectations Tale of Two Cities Christmas Carol |
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Shakespeare |
The Tempest The Merchant of Venice Marry Wives of Windsor Much Ado About Nothing A Comedy of Errors Twelfth Night Taming of the Shrew A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Crime & Punishment | |
Leo Tolstoy |
Anna Karenina | |
Toni Morrison |
Beloved | |
Bible |
Song of Solomon | |
Henry Fielding |
Tom Jones | |
Marilynne Robinson |
Gilead |
The Epic
Author
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Work
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Unknown |
The Epic of Gilgamesh | |
Unknown
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Beowulf | |
Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, etc. |
The Bible | |
Homer |
The Iliad The Odyssey |
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Virgil |
The Aeneid | |
Dante |
The Divine Comedy | |
Milton |
Paradise Lost | |
Goethe |
Faust | |
Herman Melville |
Moby-Dick | |
Mark Twain |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
The Brothers Karamazov | |
Leo Tolstoy |
War and Peace | |
William Faulkner |
Go Down, Moses |
Other
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Satires |
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Author
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Work
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James Joyce |
Ulysses | |
Rabelais |
Gargantua and Pantagruel | |
Miguel de Cervantes |
Don Quixote | |
Voltaire |
Candide | |
Jonathan Swift |
Gulliver's Travels | |
Laurence Sterne |
Tristram Shandy | |
Lewis Carroll |
Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass |
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Allegory
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John Bunyan
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Pilgrim's Progress | |
Biography
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Augustine |
Confessions | |
James Boswell |
Life of Dr. Johnson | |
Frederick Douglass |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
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Anne Frank |
The Diary of Anne Frank | |
Elie Wiesel |
Night | |
Fairy Tales/Fantasy
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George MacDonoald |
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Madeline L'Engle |
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C.S. Lewis |
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Charles Williams |
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Erin Colfer |
Artemis Fowl | |
Stephen Lawhead |
The Pendragon Cycle | |
Frame Story
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Giovanni Boccaccio |
The Decameron | |
Edmund Spenser |
The Faerie Queene | |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
Canterbury Tales | |
Christian 20th
Century
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Eudora Welty |
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Flannery O'Conner |
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C.S. Lewis |
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