Reading List for Cultural Literary

Ancient Greek

Iliad—Homer

Odyssey—Homer

Oedipus Rex—Sophocles

Antigone--Sophocles

Ancient Roman

Aneid--Virgil

Early Italian

The Divine Comedy—Dante

Early British

Canterbury Tales—Geoffrey Chaucer

Le Morte D’Arthur--Malory

Shakespeare

Hamlet

Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

The Merchant of Venice

Twelfth Night

Othello

Julius Caesar

King Lear

17^th Century Spanish

Don Quixote

18^th Century British

Gulliver’s Travels—Jonathon Swift

Robinson Crusoe—Daniel Defoe

Tom Jones—Henry Fielding

Joseph Andrews—Henry Fielding

Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austin

Sense and Sensibility—Jane Austin

18^th Century American

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

19^th Century British

Dracula—Bram Stoker

Frankenstein—Mary Shelly

Great Expectations—Charles Dickens

David Copperfield—Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities—Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist--Charles Dickens

Ivanhoe—Sir Walter Scott

Silas Marner—George Elliot

Tess of the D’Urbervilles—Thomas Hardy

The Return of the Native—Thomas Hardy

The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar Wilde

Jane Eyre—Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights —Emily Bronte

19^th Century French

Les Miserables—Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame—Victor Hugo

Cyrano Debergerac—Rostand

Germinal—Emil Zola

19^th Century Russian

Brother Karamazov—Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment—Fyodor Dostoevsky

War and Peace—Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina—Leo Tolstoy

19^th Century American

Billy Budd—Herman Melville

Moby Dick—Herman Melville

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—Mark Twain

Life on the Mississippi —Mark Twain

The Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Call of the Wild—Jack London

White Fang—Jack London

Little Women—Louisa May Alcott

The Red Badge of Color—Stephen Crane

The American—Henry James

Uncle Tom’s Cabin—Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Awakening—Kate Chopin

20^th Century British

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man—James Joyce

Ulysses—James Joyce

Pygmalian—George Bernard Shaw

Arms and the Man—George Bernard Shaw

To the Lighthouse—Virginia Woolf

Animal Farm—George Orwell

1984—George Orwell

Brave New World—Aldous Huxley

The Hobbit—J. R. Tolkien

Lord of the Flies—William Golding

The Time Machine—H. G. Wells

Sons and Lovers--D. H. Lawrence

A Passage to India —E. M. Forster

Howard’s End—E. M. Forster

The Gingerman—J. P. Donleavy

Brideshead Revisited--Evelyn Waugh

20^th Century French

The Plague--Albert Camus

The Stranger--Albert Camus

20^th Century German

The Magic Mountain --Thomas Mann

Death in Venice --Thomas Mann

All Quiet on the Western Front--Erik Remarque

20^th Century American

Black Boy—Richard Wright

I Am the Cheese—Robert Cormier

The Crucible—Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman—Arthur Miller

My Antonia—Willa Cather

Mourning Becomes Electra—Eugene O’Neill

Deliverance—James Dickey

The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gone with the Wind—Margaret Mitchell

Our Town—Thorton Wilder

To Kill a Mockingbird—Harper Lee

The Pearl --John Steinbeck

East of Eden--John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath--John Steinbeck

A Farewell to Arms--Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls--Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises--Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea—Ernest Hemingway

The Sound and the Fury--William Faulkner

Light in August--William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying--William Faulkner

The Assistant—Bernard Malamud

The Natural—Bernard Malamud

Rabbit Run—John Updike

Rabbit Redux—John Updike

A Separate Peace--John Knowles

Breakfast of Champions--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Catch-22—Joseph Heller

Dune—Frank Herbert

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter— Carson McCullers

The Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison

Henderson the Rain King—Saul Bellow

Shane—Jack Schaefer

The Catcher in the Rye —J. D. Salinger

The House of Mirth—Edith Wharton

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Ken Kesey

Tobacco Road—Erskine Caldwell

All the King’s Men—Robert Penn Warren

Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neale Hurston

The Bridge of San Luis Rey— Thornton Wilder

Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles—Ray Brdbury

A Streetcar Named Desire--Tennessee Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof— Tennessee Williams

Lolita—Nabokov

The Chosen —Potok

Beloved—Toni Morrison

Joy Luck Club—Amy Tan

Last Exit to Brooklyn —Hubert Selby