Projected Reading List...
First Year
Term One: Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street Plato Symposium Swift, Jonathan A Modest Proposal Pope, Alexander Essay on Man Voltaire Candide Term Two: James, Henry Aspern Papers Woolf, Virginia Street Haunting Woolf, Virginia A Room of One's Own Owen, Wilfred Poems Orwell, George Essays Sartre, Jean-Paul What is Literature? Sartre, Jean-Paul No Exist and Other Or Kleist, Henrich The Marquise of O and Other Stories Kafka, Franz Collected Stories* Summer Reading: Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Second Year Plutarch (Tr. Dryden) Lives (esp. Life of Cicero, Life of Pompey, Life of Caesar) Shakespeare Julius Caesar Keats, John Poems Rilke, Rainer Maria Poems Brecht, Bertolt Mother Courage and Her Children Kleist, Henrich The Marquise of O and Other Stories Kafka, Franz Collected Stories* James, Henry Daisy Miller Woolf, Virginia Short Stories Conrad, Joseph The Heart of Darkness Hemingway, Ernest Short Stories Frost, Robert Poems Supplemenatry Reading List...Homer Illiad*
Homer The Odessey* Plato The Republic* Plato Lysis Plato Phadreus Aristophanes The Clouds (See The Trail and Death of Socrates) Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travel Pope, Alexander Rape of the Lock Shelley, Percy Poems Orwell, George Animal Farm* Camus, Albert The Stranger (The Outsider) Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot Sartre, Jean-Paul Being and Nothingness Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Notes from the Underground James, Henry The Turn of the Screw Rilke, Rainer Maria Letters to a Young Poet |
Recommended Reading List...
Emerson, Ralph Waldo The Essays
Thoreau, David Henry Walden & Civil Disobedience* Hawthrone, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter* Melville, Herman Moby Dick* Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin Poe, Edgar Allan Collected Works* Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* Chopin, Kate The Awakening* Crane, Stephen A Red Badge of Courage* Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest One Man and the Sea* Fritzgerald, Scott The Great Gatsby* Parker, Dorothy The Portable Faulkner, William Absolum, Absolum Stevens, Wallace The Collected Poems Cummings, E.E. Poems Williams, William Carlos Collected Poems Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes are Watching God* Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men* Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath* Kerouac, Jack On the Road Huxley, Aldous A Brave New World* Skinner, B.F. Walden Two* Salinger, J.D. The Cather in the Rye* Warren, Robert Penn All The King's Men Wolfe, Tom From Bauhaus to Our House Williams, Tennessee A Street Car Named Desire* Williams, Tennessee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Williams, Tennesse The Night of the Iguana Capote, Truman In Cold Blood* Miller, Arthur The Crucible* Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman* Vonnegut, Kurt A Breakfast of Champions Tan, Amy Joy Luck Club* Roth, Philip Good-bye Columbus Singer, Isaac Bashevis The Magician of Lubin Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet* Shakespeare, William MacBeth Shakespeare Hamlet* Shakespeare King Lear* Blake, William Songs* Lord Byron Don Juan Trelawny Records of Shelly, Byron and the Author Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility* Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice* Bronte, Emily Wurthering Heights* Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest* Wilde, Oscar A Portrait of Dorian Gray* Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles Orwell, George 1984* Ford, Ford Maddox The Good Soldier Joyce, James Dubliners* Joyce, James A Portrait of an Artist* Joyce, James Ulysses Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot* Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea |
* Often read before graduating from high school
Plato Apology* Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Sophocles Oedipus Rex Sophocles Anigone Vigil Aenied* Cicero Political Speeches (esp.Philippic II) Cicero Selected Works Addison & Steele Selections from the Tatler & the Spectator Johnson, Samuel Selected Essays Pope, Alexander The Major Works Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe* Rousseau, Jean-Jacques A Discourse on Inequality Shelley, Mary Frankenstein* Coleridge, Sameul Taylor The Rime of the Ancient Mariner* Mill, John Stuart On Liberty Smith, Adam The Invisible Hand Hume, David An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Darwin, Charles The Voyage of the Beagle Dickens, Charles A Tale of the two Cities* Dickens, Charles Great Expectations* Pushkin, Alexander The Collected Stories Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment Tolstoy, Leo What Men Live by & TalesTolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina* Tolstoy, Leo What is Art? Chekov, Anton Plays Descartes, Rene Meditations* Hugo, Victor Les Miserables* Dumas, Alexander The Man with the Iron Mask* Dumas, Alexander The Three Musketeers* Baudeliare, Charles Flowers of Evil Baudelaire, Charles Poems and Prose Poems Zola, Emile The Masterpiece Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary Sartre, Jean-Paul Being and Nothingness Camus, Albert The Stranger* Camus, Albert The Myth of Sisyphus* Proust, Marcel Rememberance of Things Past von Goethe, Wolfgang The Sorrow of Young Werther von Goethe, Wolfgang Wilhem Meister von Goethe, Wolfgang Faust von Goethe, Wolfgang The Italian Journey Grimm Tales Hoffman, E.T.A. Tales Freud, Sigmund The Interpretation of Dreams Kafka, Franz The Trial Rilke, Rainer Maria New Poems Rilke, Rainer Maria Sonnets to Orpheus & Duino Elegies Mann, Thomas A Death in Venice and Other Brecht, Bertolt The Three Penny Opera Borge, Jorge Luis Collected Fictions Márquez, Gabriel García On Hundred Years of Solitude Murakami, Haruki Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End Murakami, Haruki The Elephant Vanishes Pirandello, Luis Six Characters in Search of and Author Calvino, Italo If on a winter's night a traveler... Kundera, Milos The Unbearable lightness of Being* Cervantes Don Quixote Andersen, Hans Christian Tales Nagel, Thomas What Does it All Mean?* Brooks & Warren Understanding Poetry Corbett, Edward P.J. A Classical Rhetoric Williams, Joseph M. Style |