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Poetry

• Auden, W.H. “Musee des Beaux Arts.” “In Praise of Limestone.”
• Crane, Hart. The Bridge.
• Eliot, T.S. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” The Waste Land.
• Frost, Robert. “After Apple Picking.” “The Woodpile.” “Out, Out-.” Mowing.”
• Heaney, Seamus. “Bogland.” “Clearances.”
• Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven.”
• Yeats, William Butler. “The Lake of Isle of Innisfree.” “Easter 1916.” “The Wild Swans at Coole.”
• Shakespeare, William. Sonnets.

Short Stories

• Baldwin, James. “Sonny’s Blues.”
• Boyle, T. Coraghessan. “The Overcoat II.”
• Carver, Raymond. “Cathedral.”
• Coover, Robert. “The Gingerbread House.”
• Gass, William H. “The Pedersen Kid.” “In the Heart of the Country.”
• Hardy, Thomas. “The Three Strangers.”
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “Young Goodman Brown.” “The Man of Adamant.”
• Hemingway, Ernest. “Big Two-Hearted River.” “Indian Camp.” “The Battler.” “Hills like White Elephants.” “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”
• James, Henry. “Daisy Miller.”
• Joyce, James. Dubliners.
• Kafka, Franz. “The Metamorphosis.” “A Hunger Artist.”
• Lawrence, D. H. “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter.” “The Fox.” “The Rocking-horse Winner.”
• Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Fall of the House of Usher.” “The Mystery of the Rue Morgue.” “The Pit and the Pendulum.” “The Tell-Tale Heart.” “The Cask of Amontillado.”
• Roethke, Theodore. “In Praise of Prairie.”
• Thomas, Dylan. “Fern Hill.”
• Updike, John. “A&P.”

Plays

• Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot.
• Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. King Lear. Henry V. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Much Ado About Nothing. The Tempest. A Winter’s Tale. As You Like It. Twelfth Night.

Novels

• Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Water Music. World’s End.
• Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac.
• Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. Through the Looking-Glass.
• Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber. Nights at the Circus. Wise Children.
• Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Lord Jim.
• Dexter, Colin. The Remorseful Day.
• Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. A Christmas Carol. David Copperfield. Bleak House. Great Expectations.
• Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime.
• Durrell, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.
• Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine.
• Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. As I Lay Dying. Absalom, Absalom!
• Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones’s Diary (abandoned).
• Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones.
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
• Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier.
• Forster, E.M. A Room With a View. Howards End. A Passage to India.
• Fowles, John. The Magus. The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
• Green, Henry. Blindness. Living. Party Going. Loving.
• Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon.
• Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. The House of Seven Gables.
• Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. A Farewell to Arms. The Old Man and the Sea.
• James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw.
• Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man.
• Kafka, Franz. The Trial.
• Kingslover, Barbara. The Bean Trees. Pigs in Heaven. The Poisonwood Bible.
• Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers. Women in Love. Lady Chatterly’s Lover. The Virgin and the Gypsy.
• Murdoch, Iris. A Severed Head. The Unicorn. The Sea, the Sea. The Green Knight.
• Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.
• O’Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. The Things They Carried.
• Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49.
• Roethke, Theodore. The Far Field.
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
• Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Master of Ballantrae.
• Stoker, Bram. Dracula.
• Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. The Accidental Tourist.
• Walcott, Derek. Omeros.
• Weldon, Fay. The Hearts and Lives of Men.
• Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway. To the Lighthouse.

Really Old Classics

• Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.
• Homer. Iliad. Odyssey.
• Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte Darthur.
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
• Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone.
• Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queen.
• Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty. Snow White. Hansel and Gretel. Rapunzel. Rumpelstiltskin.

Movies

• Citizen Kane.
• The Gold Rush.
• Modern Times.
• Notorius. North by Northwest. Psycho.
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Pale Rider
• Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
• Shane.
• Stagecoach.
• Star Wars. The Empire Strikes Back. Return of the Jedi.
• Tom Jones.

Secondary Sources

• Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms.
• Ciardi, John. How Does a Poem Mean?
• Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel.
• Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism.
• Gass, William H. Fiction and the Figures of Life.
• Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction.
• Pinsky, Robert. How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.
• Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.

Master Class

• Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.
• Joyce, James. Ulysses.
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
• Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon.