Titles by Topics: Literature Reading List II
From Angl-Am
needs more consideration
Gender Relations
- J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (1999).
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
- Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991).
- Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001).
- John Banville, The Sea (2005).
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).
