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Frankenstein
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The Canterbury Tales
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Jane Eyre
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Gulliver’s Travels
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The Yellow Wallpaper
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Wuthering Heights
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Heart of Darkness
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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Macbeth
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Pride and Prejudice
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The Merchant of Venice
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Dracula
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Othello
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Beowulf
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The Great Gatsby
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The Iliad
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The Tempest
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The Odyssey
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Waiting for Godot
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The Scarlet Letter
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Paradise Lost
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Death of a Salesman
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King Lear
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The Turn of the Screw
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A Doll's House
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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Northanger Abbey
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Hard Times
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Twelfth Night
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Metamorphosis
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3.90 avg rating — 1,364,410 ratings
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Robinson Crusoe
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 368,566 ratings
score: 814,
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The Aeneid
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3.87 avg rating — 140,925 ratings
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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4.04 avg rating — 92,365 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 115,288 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
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Inferno
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Candide
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Emma
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Dubliners
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Rip Van Winkle
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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To the Lighthouse
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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Lord of the Flies
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Lyrical Ballads
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3.95 avg rating — 12,968 ratings
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The Crucible
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
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The Glass Menagerie
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Don Juan
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Richard III
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Hamlet
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
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Medea
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A Tale of Two Cities
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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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Madame Bovary
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The Bell Jar
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The Federalist Papers
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Faust, First Part
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Plato's Republic
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Songs of Innocence
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Henry V
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Selected Poems
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The Age of Innocence
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Much Ado About Nothing
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1984
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Great Expectations
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North and South
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The Faerie Queene
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King Henry IV, Part 1
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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Our Town
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Songs of Experience
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Tartuffe
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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Bhagavad Gita
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Oroonoko
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Steppenwolf
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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The Uncanny
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Salem's Lot
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Lol, I recognize nine of these books! The funny thing is, I'm a Sophomore in High School:D
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I had more than a few of these in high school - I went to rather old-fashioned schools, though...
I read some of these in high school (all the Shakespeare), but none in college. Some I read while I was in high school/college; not because they were assigned but because they fit my interests at the time. Many are classics I have more recently challenged myself to read. Others I have never heard of!
The novels I read were because I was doing English Literature papers. Women's fiction, Modern (20th century) Fiction, Romantic Literature, Renaissance Literature etc etc. And later on, some were for my 3 Writing diplomas - Diploma in Creative Writing, Advanced Diploma in Creative Writing (Novel) and Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing (Novel). We looked at very eclectic ranges of work from popular fiction to what is often termed 'classic'. I didn't enjoy them all but I'm glad I can say I've read them!
I've read a number of these, but most of them weren't in college. I read most of them either before or after my college years (mostly before). lol
Echord wrote: "I've read a number of these, but most of them weren't in college. I read most of them either before or after my college years (mostly before). lol"Lucky, or perhaps unlucky (in some cases) you!
Lucky, or perhaps unlucky (in some cases) you! "Mostly lucky since I liked a good chunk of them, though there's def a few standout exceptions that I absolutely hated. lol
deleted user wrote: "Lol, I recognize nine of these books! The funny thing is, I'm a Sophomore in High School:D"
I also had to read many of these in high school. I can't imagine being asked to read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in college.
I also had to read many of these in high school. I can't imagine being asked to read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in college.
Sometimes a book is set at University level to show as a 'what not to do' when it comes to writing. You read a book and then you pick it apart...
That is certainly the case in grad school (I'm thinking of a historiography course in particular).
I could only envision reading Harry Potter in grad school if one were doing a specialization in children's literature.
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "I could only envision reading Harry Potter in grad school if one were doing a specialization in children's literature."
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
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