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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 (Thomas C. Foster)
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A&P (John Updike)
A&P (John Updike)
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Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
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The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler)
The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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Ahab's Wife (Sena Jeter Naslund)
Ahab's Wife (Sena Jeter Naslund)
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The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Northrop Frye)
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Northrop Frye)
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Antigone
Antigone
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The Art of Fiction (David Lodge)
The Art of Fiction (David Lodge)
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As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
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ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL by E. M. Forster
ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL by E. M. Forster
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Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
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The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)
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Beowulf
Beowulf
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Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
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Blindness (Henry Green)
Blindness (Henry Green)
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The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
The Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
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Bogland (Seamus Heaney)
Bogland (Seamus Heaney)
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The Bridge
The Bridge
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Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe)
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Cathedral
Cathedral
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A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
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Clearances (Seamus Heaney)
Clearances (Seamus Heaney)
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
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Daisy Miller (Henry James)
Daisy Miller (Henry James)
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David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Anne Tyler)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Anne Tyler)
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Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
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Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners (James Joyce)
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Easter, 1916 (William Butler Yeats)
Easter, 1916 (William Butler Yeats)
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The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
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The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
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The Far Field (Theodore Roethke)
The Far Field (Theodore Roethke)
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
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Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)
Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)
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