This literature list is floating around!
This list of essential books is floating around in the blogosphere, and I thought I would keep it going. I have bolded the books that I have read.
- Beowulf
- Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
- Agee, James - A Death in the Family
- Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
- Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
- Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
- Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
- Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Camus, Albert - The Stranger
- Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
- Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
- Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
- Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
- Dante - Inferno
- de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
- Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
- Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
- Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
- Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
- Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
- Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
- Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
- Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
- Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
- Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
- Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
- Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
- Homer - The Iliad
- Homer - The Odyssey
- Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
- James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
- James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
- Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
- Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
- Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
- Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
- Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
- Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
- Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
- O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
- Orwell, George - Animal Farm
- Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
- Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
- Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
- Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
- Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
- Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
- Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
- Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
- Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
- Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
- Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Sophocles - Antigone
- Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
- Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
- Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
- Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
- Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
- Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
- Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Voltaire - Candide
- Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
- Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
- Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
- Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
- Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
- Wright, Richard - Native Son
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