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Post by Tori on May 31, 2011 18:32:31 GMT -5
We're compiling a list of "essential" English Major literature to post to the blog!  Make suggestions here! We'll use some of the post popular! Also, how many items do you think the list should have? 10? 20? 50? 100? |
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invision
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Post by invision on May 31, 2011 18:42:33 GMT -5
Let's just make the list as high as we can get it. *shrug* It seems silly to assign a number to it when there are so many good books to read.
Or a cap of 100. Whichever.
James
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Post by Silva on May 31, 2011 21:51:17 GMT -5
Here's my list that I narrowed down some:
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
East of Eden, "Of Mice and Men"- John Steinbeck
The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde
Hamlet- William Shakespeare (and other works such as Macbeth)
The Iliad- Homer
Oedipus Rex, Antigone- Sophocles
The Master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
"The Metamorphosis"- Franz Kafka
"The Waste Land" and Other Poems- T.S. Eliot
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Post by tastyink on May 31, 2011 21:56:12 GMT -5
Here is my short list. I hope it's ok if I come back to add more The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (just give it a chance!) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard Macbeth by Shakespeare I think 50 is pretty good. Then just redirect people to this post if they want more recommendations. |
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Post by alyoshka on May 31, 2011 23:43:44 GMT -5
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
Crime and Punishment
Gravity's Rainbow
The Merchant of Venice
hmm I can think of more later..
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Post by afontofnothing on Jun 1, 2011 0:18:59 GMT -5
The Picture of Dorian Gray
If I Stay by Gayle Forman (not incredibly popular or anything, but it's good for YA fiction)
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Great Gatsby
all of the Harry Potter books
LOTR
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Post by Epif on Jun 1, 2011 10:49:37 GMT -5
I think we shouldn't have a cap on this list.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
Claudine at School by Colette
The poems of Sappho
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Dante's The Divine Comedy
Prayers for Bobby by Leroy Aarons
Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Homer's The Iliad
Homer's The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
How to Kill a Mockingbird by
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (or at least the first installment)
Into the Woods by Tara French
The Sagas of Icelanders (published by Penguin)
Because we have poems, novels, and stage plays in here:
A Raisin in the Sun by (a screen play)
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Post by Silva on Jun 1, 2011 21:05:00 GMT -5
I agree with the no cap!
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Post by krista on Jun 1, 2011 23:58:46 GMT -5
I also agree that there should be no cap! We could just keep a running list. 1984 Brave New World Hamlet The Divine Comedy Oryx and Crake It's almost 1am so those are the only ones that I can think of at the moment. A few of my favorites! |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 2, 2011 0:44:33 GMT -5
Is there room on this list for Out of Africa? It is, in my opinion, a most undervalued book. Any other armadillos backing me up on this?
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 2, 2011 1:54:48 GMT -5
Is there room on this list for Out of Africa? See, you say that, and my mind just immediately jumps into Lion King-mode. |
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Post by flute88 on Jun 2, 2011 2:36:56 GMT -5
My quick little list I jotted down today while I was bored:
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Botchan - Natsume Soseki
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
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Post by leonwingstein on Jun 2, 2011 12:04:00 GMT -5
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
1984 George Orwell
The Stand Stephen King
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies William Golding
I Am Legend Richard Matheson
I'd love to see some shorter works on the list, like short stories or novellas, too, but I'm not very well-versed in that line of literature.
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Post by Sarah on Jun 2, 2011 12:34:30 GMT -5
I saw a few of my favorite books were not mentioned, so: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury How I Became Stupid by Martin Page Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Bell Jar and Ariel by Sylvia Plath The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead Currently, I'm reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel, and it is incredible. <3 Also, I'm with the "no cap" camp. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 2, 2011 15:00:52 GMT -5
Is there room on this list for Out of Africa? See, you say that, and my mind just immediately jumps into Lion King-mode. See, you say that, and my mind just immediately jumps to this: |
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