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Jim's Lit. Class Blues: Stuff They Made You Read Whether You Wanted to or Not - Page 2

Here are 72 books from my high school and undergraduate days(I.e., the dark ages before YA literature and alternative reading lists) that were the constant required reading in English and Lit. Courses. In several instances, I was assigned the same book in high school AND college, which was particularly irritating because they were always rhe books I avoided the first time in secondary school. Some of these books I liked when I first read them, some I developed an appreciation for later on, and some I couldn't stand then and I can't stand now. A couple, notably the ones by Joyce, caused me to redefine "higher education " as that which I received by reading obscure books while firing up the biggest doobie I could get my hands on.
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
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Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
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The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
44
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)
45
The Outcasts of Poker Flats (Harte)
The Outcasts of Poker Flats (Harte)
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The Ox-Bow Incident (Clark, Walter Van Tilburg)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Clark, Walter Van Tilburg)
47
A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
48
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
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The Portrait of Dorian Gray
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
50
Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw)
Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw)
51
The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories (Stephen Crane)
52
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
53
A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner)
A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner)
54
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
55
A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace
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Shane (Schaefer)
Shane (Schaefer)
57
She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)
She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)
58
Siddhartha (Hesse)
Siddhartha (Hesse)
59
Silas Marner (George Eliot)
Silas Marner (George Eliot)
60
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall (Editor))
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall (Editor))
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
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The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
65
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
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A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
67
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
68
Three Novels (Beckett)
Three Novels (Beckett)
69
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare (Signet))
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare (Signet))
70
Ulysses (Joyce)
Ulysses (Joyce)
71
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
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Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)
Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)
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