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99 Books Sarah Needs to Read (After the Dissertation)

Inspired by the Humiliation List trend, I've been thinking about the reading gaps I need to fill in to be a better literature teacher (and scholar). I've studied a lot of medieval and nineteenth-century literature in English, so there aren't quite as many texts in those categories. I also didn't include anything by authors in my dissertation, though I certainly won't have read all of their works by the time I finish it. I've organized it by the types of survey courses I might teach someday, so texts 1-33 are World Literature, 34-66 are British Literature, and 67-99 are American Literature. While making this list, though, I thought of many more books to read...
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The Orestia Trilogy (Aeschylus)
The Orestia Trilogy (Aeschylus)
2
Medea
Medea
3
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
4
Aeneid
Aeneid
5
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
6
Symposium
Symposium
7
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetics (Aristotle)
8
Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
9
Ramayana (Valmiki)
Ramayana (Valmiki)
10
The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
11
The Analects (Confucius)
The Analects (Confucius)
12
Daodejing (Laozi)
Daodejing (Laozi)
13
Quran
Quran
14
Consolation of Philosophy
Consolation of Philosophy
15
The Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
The Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
16
Epic of Sundiata (Anonymous)
Epic of Sundiata (Anonymous)
17
The Prose Edda (Snorri Sturluson)
The Prose Edda (Snorri Sturluson)
18
The Poetic Edda (Anonymous)
The Poetic Edda (Anonymous)
19
Tristan (Gottfried Von Strassburg)
Tristan (Gottfried Von Strassburg)
20
Parzival (Wolfram Von Eschenbach)
Parzival (Wolfram Von Eschenbach)
21
The Decameron
The Decameron
22
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
23
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther
24
The Home and the World (Rabindranath Tagore)
The Home and the World (Rabindranath Tagore)
25
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
26
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
27
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
28
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
29
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
30
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
31
Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners (Joyce)
32
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)
33
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
34
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Bede)
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Bede)
35
The Shewings of Julian of Norwich (Julian of Norwich)
The Shewings of Julian of Norwich (Julian of Norwich)
36
The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe)
The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe)
37
The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene
38
Sir Philip Sidney – Sonnet 5, 15, 31 and 29 From Astrophil and Stella
Sir Philip Sidney – Sonnet 5, 15, 31 and 29 From Astrophil and Stella
39
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
40
The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy
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