Literature Reading List
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The following list is work in progress. To be added: a list of Titles by Topics: Reading List II.
Before 1450
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1386-1400)
plus one of the following
- Beowulf (in modern translation)
- Sir Gawayn and the Green Night
- Mandeville; Travels (1370)
1450 - 1499
- Malory, Le Morte Darthur (London William Caxton, 1485).
plus one of the following
- Sir John Mandeville, Travels (early printed edition)
1500 - 1549
- Thomas Morus, Utopia (1515)
plus one of the following
1550 - 1599
- Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe (c. 1590).
- Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe (1594 [published in 1604]).
plus one of the following
1600 - 1649
- William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra (c. 1607 [published in 1623]).
plus one of the following
- John Fletcher, The Wild Goose Chase (c.1621 [published in 1652]).
1650 - 1699
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678).
- Aphra Behn, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684).
plus one of the following
- Richard Head, The English Rogue vol.1 (1665).
- William Congreve, The Country Wife (1675).
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667).
- John Donne - Selected Poems
1700 - 1749
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
- Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740).
plus one of the following
- Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719-1720).
- Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers (1722).
- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick (1729).
- Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
- Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (1734).
- John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1748).
1750 - 1799
- Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768).
- James McPherson, Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem [...] composed by Ossian [...], translated from the Gaelic Language (1761).
plus one of the following
1800 - 1849
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1819).
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838).
plus one of the following
- Walter Scott, Waverley (1814).
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
- Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1828).
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813).
- Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (?)
1850 - 1899
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854).
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, revised edition: 1891)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895).
plus one of the following
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851).
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (1852).
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855).
- George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-72).
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest (1895).
1900 - 1949
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922).
- Ernest Hemingway, "Hills like White Elephants" and "The Killers" from Men Without Women (1927).
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
plus one of the following
- D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow (1915).
- James Joyce, Ulysses (1922).
- John Dos Passos, U.S.A. trilogy, comprising: The 42nd Parallel (1930), Nineteen Nineteen (1932), and The Big Money (1936).
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925).
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932).
1950 - 1999
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot [originally written in 1948/49 under the title En attendant Godot] (1952).
- David and Janet Peoples [authors], Terry Gilliam [director], Twelve Monkeys [movie] (1995).
plus one of the following
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955).
- Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988).