Also 'stolen' from Jenica, this is the College Board's list.
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
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre see previous entry
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights see previous entry
Camus, Albert - The Stranger assigned
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales If not all, a good portion of them, in high school, looking for the dirty bits.
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening One of my favorite books
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness assigned
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans I'm marking this because I tried really really hard to read this, and just hated every word; think I made it halfway before telling the prof I'd rather have the 'F' than read more of it.
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno Love it
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities assigned
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment assigned
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass I think...?
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss assigned
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man assigned
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays Well, this is a bit vague, don't you think?? Did I read the 'correct' ones?
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby see previous entry
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary assigned
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann - Wolfgang von Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies see previous entry
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles assigned
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter assigned
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22 see previous entry
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 see previous entry
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw assigned
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis assigned (I've actually been feeling a little metamorphed lately...)
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 Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick see previous entry
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible assigned, but loved it
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night I think...?
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago oh oh oh, I looooove this book...oh boy Omar Sharif, Julie Christie...sniff
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allen - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front assigned, but I should reread it since I liked it so much; wonder if GWB has read this?? or Rummy??
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 assigned
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion [Does "My Fair Lady" count? I have all the songs memorized--"In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire/Hurricanes hardly happen/"How kind of you to let me come"...]
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone assigned
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex assigned
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath This is another one I loathed, and eventually took the 'F' rather than finishing it.
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels (uhm, listening to an unabridged recording counts, right?)Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden assigned
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn assigned
Voltaire - Candide I think...?
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five ...but I don't remember much of it...
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Warton, Edith - The House of Mirth assigned
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass assigned
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie assigned
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse assigned, should read again
Wright, Richard - Native Son
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
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