Recommended Reading List
O’Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night
– Beowulf Orwell, George Animal Farm
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Agee, James A Death in the Family Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Poe, Edgar Allan Selected Tales
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Camus, Albert The Stranger Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales Shakespeare, William Macbeth
Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Chopin, Kate The Awakening Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Dante Inferno Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
Robinson Crusoe Sophocles Antigone
Defoe, Daniel
A Tale of Two Cities Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Dickens, Charles
Crime and Punishment Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Douglass, Frederick Douglass Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury Finn
Tom Jones Voltaire Candide
Fielding, Henry
The Great Gatsby Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Madame Bovary Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Flaubert, Gustave
The Good Soldier Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Ford, Ford Madox
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
Goethe, Johann
Faust Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Wolfgang von
Lord of the Flies Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Golding, William
Tess of the d’Urbervilles Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
Hardy, Thomas
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
Catch 22 Wright, Richard Native Son
Heller, Joseph
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
