Reading list
According to no particular grouping, noteworthy writers & poets and selected works:
Auden, W. H.: "In Praise of Limestone"
Baldwin, James: "Sonny's Blues"
Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
Beowulf
Boyle, T. Goraghessan: Water Music, "The Overcoat II", World's End
Brookner, Anita: Hotel du Lac
Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland*, Through the Looking Glass*
Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus, Wise Children
Carver, Raymond: "Cathedral"*
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
Coover, Robert: "The Gingerbread House"
Crane, Hart: The Bridge
Dexter, Colin: The Remorseful Day
Dickens, Charles: The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations
Doctorow, E. L.: Ragtime
Durrell, Lawrence: The Alexandria Quartet
Eliot, T.S.: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste Land
Erdrich, Louise: Love Medicine
Faulkner, William: The Sound and The Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!
Fielding, Helen: Bridget Jone's Diary*
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby*, "Bablylon Revisited"
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E.M.: A Room with a View, Howards End, A Passage to India
Fowles, John: The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman
Frost, Robert: "After Apple Picking", "The Woodpile", "Out, Out--", "Mowing"
Gas, William H.: "The Pedersen Kid", "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country"
Green, Henry: Blindness, Living, Party Going, Loving
Hammett, Dashiel: The Maltese Falcon
Hardy, Thomas: "The Three Strangers", The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: "Young Goodman Brown", "The Man of Adamant", The Scarlet Letter*, The House of the Seven Gables
Hearney, Seamus: "Bogland", "Clearances", North
Hemingway, Ernest: "Big Two-Hearted River", "Indian Camp", "The Battler", A Farewell to Arms*, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", The Old Man and the Sea*
Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey*
James, Henry: The Turn of the Screw, "Daisy Miller"
Joyce, James: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz: "The Metamorphosis", "A Hunger Artist", The Trial
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, The Poisonwood Bible
Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter", "The Fox", Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Virgin and the Gypsy, "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
Malory, Sir Thomas: Le Morte D'Arthur
Murdoch, Iris: A Severed Head, The Unicorn, The Sea, The Sea, The Green Knight
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
O'Brien, Tim: Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried*
Poe, Edgar Allan: "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Mystery of the Rue Morgue", "The Pit and the Pendulum"*, "The Tell-Tale Heart"*, "The Raven"*, "The Cask of the Amontillado"
Pynchon, Thomas: The Crying Lot of 49
Roethke, Theodore: "In Praise of Prairie", The Far Field
Shakespeare, William: anything
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Sir Gaiwain and the Green Knight
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Spenser, Sir Edmund: The Faerie Queen
Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde*, The Master of Ballantrae
Stroker, Bram: Dracula
Thomas, Dylan: "Fern Hill"
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*
Tyler, Anne: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Updike, John: "A&P"*
Walcott, Derek: Omeros
Weldon, Fay: The Hearts and Lives of Men
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse
Yeats, William Butler: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "Easter 1916", "The Wild Swans at Coole"
Thank Thomas C. Foster for the list, taken from his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor. *shrugs* I was curious!
*Books, etc. that I have read
Auden, W. H.: "In Praise of Limestone"
Baldwin, James: "Sonny's Blues"
Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
Beowulf
Boyle, T. Goraghessan: Water Music, "The Overcoat II", World's End
Brookner, Anita: Hotel du Lac
Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland*, Through the Looking Glass*
Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus, Wise Children
Carver, Raymond: "Cathedral"*
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
Coover, Robert: "The Gingerbread House"
Crane, Hart: The Bridge
Dexter, Colin: The Remorseful Day
Dickens, Charles: The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations
Doctorow, E. L.: Ragtime
Durrell, Lawrence: The Alexandria Quartet
Eliot, T.S.: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste Land
Erdrich, Louise: Love Medicine
Faulkner, William: The Sound and The Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!
Fielding, Helen: Bridget Jone's Diary*
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby*, "Bablylon Revisited"
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E.M.: A Room with a View, Howards End, A Passage to India
Fowles, John: The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman
Frost, Robert: "After Apple Picking", "The Woodpile", "Out, Out--", "Mowing"
Gas, William H.: "The Pedersen Kid", "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country"
Green, Henry: Blindness, Living, Party Going, Loving
Hammett, Dashiel: The Maltese Falcon
Hardy, Thomas: "The Three Strangers", The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: "Young Goodman Brown", "The Man of Adamant", The Scarlet Letter*, The House of the Seven Gables
Hearney, Seamus: "Bogland", "Clearances", North
Hemingway, Ernest: "Big Two-Hearted River", "Indian Camp", "The Battler", A Farewell to Arms*, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", The Old Man and the Sea*
Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey*
James, Henry: The Turn of the Screw, "Daisy Miller"
Joyce, James: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz: "The Metamorphosis", "A Hunger Artist", The Trial
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, The Poisonwood Bible
Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter", "The Fox", Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Virgin and the Gypsy, "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
Malory, Sir Thomas: Le Morte D'Arthur
Murdoch, Iris: A Severed Head, The Unicorn, The Sea, The Sea, The Green Knight
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
O'Brien, Tim: Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried*
Poe, Edgar Allan: "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Mystery of the Rue Morgue", "The Pit and the Pendulum"*, "The Tell-Tale Heart"*, "The Raven"*, "The Cask of the Amontillado"
Pynchon, Thomas: The Crying Lot of 49
Roethke, Theodore: "In Praise of Prairie", The Far Field
Shakespeare, William: anything
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Sir Gaiwain and the Green Knight
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Spenser, Sir Edmund: The Faerie Queen
Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde*, The Master of Ballantrae
Stroker, Bram: Dracula
Thomas, Dylan: "Fern Hill"
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*
Tyler, Anne: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Updike, John: "A&P"*
Walcott, Derek: Omeros
Weldon, Fay: The Hearts and Lives of Men
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse
Yeats, William Butler: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "Easter 1916", "The Wild Swans at Coole"
Thank Thomas C. Foster for the list, taken from his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor. *shrugs* I was curious!
*Books, etc. that I have read