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Required Reading: English Major

A List of things I had to read to earn my degree in English. There were more than these but these are the ones I remember. It's a pretty weird list. What have you read??
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
1
Mary Shelley
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
The Things They Carried
2
Tim O'Brien
Letters of a Peruvian Woman (Francoise De Graffigny)
Letters of a Peruvian Woman
3
Francoise De Graffigny
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1 (Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Trans)
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
4
Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Ursula Lyons (Trans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
5
Leo Tolstoy
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
6
Chinua Achebe
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
7
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez)
100 Years of Solitude
8
Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez
Sonnets (Shakespeare)
Sonnets
9
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet
10
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
Julius Caesar
11
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
12
William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
The Taming of the Shrew
13
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
The Merchant of Venice
14
William Shakespeare
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest
15
William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare)
Henry IV, Part I
16
William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part II (Simon Callow)
Henry IV, Part II
17
Simon Callow
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
18
William Shakespeare
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
19
William Shakespeare
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
20
William Shakespeare
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
21
William Shakespeare
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Stephen Greenblatt)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
22
Stephen Greenblatt
Blindness (Jose Saramago)
Blindness
23
Jose Saramago
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
24
Ernest Hemingway
The Rings of Saturn (W.G. Sebald)
The Rings of Saturn
25
W.G. Sebald
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
26
Joseph Conrad
Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)
Women in Love
27
D.H. Lawrence
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
The Yellow Wallpaper
28
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Araby (James Joyce)
Araby
29
James Joyce
The Dead (James Joyce)
The Dead
30
James Joyce
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
31
Albert Camus
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
32
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
33
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
34
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
35
Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
36
Jonathan Swift
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
37
Walt Whitman
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Walden
38
Henry David Thoreau
Emerson: Essays and Lectures (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Emerson: Essays and Lectures
39
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher
40
Edgar Allan Poe
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