Titles by Topics: Literature Reading List II
From Angl-Am
needs more consideration
Contents
- 1 Gender Relations
- 2 Creating the Future
- 3 Creating the Past
- 4 Sexuality
- 5 Religion
- 6 The First Person
- 7 Arthurian Literature and Movies
- 8 Utopias and Distopias
- 9 Women Authors
- 10 Postmodern Fiction
- 11 Postcolonial Fiction
- 12 Campus and Academic
- 13 Adolescence
- 14 Representations of London
- 15 The British Museum Reading Room
- 16 Magical Realism in English
- 17 Robinson Crusoe and Variations
Gender Relations
Creating the Future
- Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred, [1771] translated from the French by W. Hooper, vol. 1 (London: G. Robinson, 1772).
- Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826).
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895).
Creating the Past
Sexuality
- John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1749).
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004).
Religion
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).
- Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights (2006).
The First Person
Arthurian Literature and Movies
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485).
- John Dryden, King Arthur (1691), opera composed by Henry Purcell.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King (1856-1885).
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
- Knights of the Round Table (USA, 1953), film directed by Richard Thorpe
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), film directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
- First Knight (1995), film directed by Richard Thorpe
Utopias and Distopias
Women Authors
- Aphra Behn, Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-1687).
- A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).
Postmodern Fiction
- Robert Coover, Pricksongs & Descants (1969). (collection of short stories)
- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969).
- A.L Kennedy, Looking for the Possible Dance (1993).
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2001).
- Nicola Barker, Darkmans (2007).
Postcolonial Fiction
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958).
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981).
- Caryl Phillips, The Final Passage (1985).
- V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections (1987).
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991).
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997).
Campus and Academic
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945).
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957).
- David Lodge, Small World: An Academic Romance (1984).
- Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985).
- A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).
- Zadie Smith, On Beauty (2005).
Adolescence
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990).
- Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993).
- Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love (1995).
- DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little (2003).
- Jonathan Trigell, Boy A (2004).
Representations of London
- Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (1722).
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).
- Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head (1961).
- Peter Ackroy, Hawksmoor (1985).
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990).
The British Museum Reading Room
- George Gissing, New Grub Street (1881).
- David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965).
- A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).
Magical Realism in English
- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977).
- Graham Swift, Waterland (1983).
- Peter Carey, Illywhacker (1985).
- Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989).
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991).
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).
Robinson Crusoe and Variations
- Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
- J. M. Coetzee, Foe (1986).
- Castaway, Dir. Robert Zemeckis (2000).
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).
