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The New "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" List

The Reading List Appendix of the Revised Edition of "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster.
According to Foster: "All I would claim for these works is that if you read them, you will become more learned."
My list omits a few reference books and individual poems mentioned in the original list.
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Thomas C. Foster)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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Thomas C. Foster
A&P (John Updike)
A&P
2
John Updike
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
3
William Faulkner
The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler)
The Accidental Tourist
4
Anne Tyler
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5
Mark Twain
Ahab's Wife (Sena Jeter Naslund)
Ahab's Wife
6
Sena Jeter Naslund
The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell)
The Alexandria Quartet
7
Lawrence Durrell
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland
8
Lewis Carroll
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Northrop Frye)
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
9
Northrop Frye
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
10
Sophocles
The Art of Fiction (David Lodge)
The Art of Fiction
11
David Lodge
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
12
William Faulkner
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
As You Like It
13
William Shakespeare
ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL by E. M. Forster
ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL by E. M. Forster
14
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
15
The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Bean Trees
16
Barbara Kingsolver
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
17
Anonymous
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
18
Charles Dickens
Blindness (Henry Green)
Blindness
19
Henry Green
The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber
20
Angela Carter
Bogland (Seamus Heaney)
Bogland
21
Seamus Heaney
The Bridge
The Bridge
22
Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
Bridget Jones's Diary
23
Helen Fielding
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
24
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Cask of Amontillado
25
Edgar Allan Poe
Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
Cathedral
26
Raymond Carver
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
27
Charles Dickens
Clearances (Seamus Heaney)
Clearances
28
Seamus Heaney
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
29
Thomas Pynchon
Daisy Miller (Henry James)
Daisy Miller
30
Henry James
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
31
Charles Dickens
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Anne Tyler)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
32
Anne Tyler
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
33
Bram Stoker
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
34
James Joyce
Easter, 1916 (William Butler Yeats)
Easter, 1916
35
William Butler Yeats
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
36
Edmund Spenser
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher
37
Edgar Allan Poe
The Far Field (Theodore Roethke)
The Far Field
38
Theodore Roethke
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
39
Ernest Hemingway
Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)
Fern Hill
40
Dylan Thomas
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