A section in the Literature Lover's Book of Lists reveals a compilation of books and short stories that are required reading by colleges and universities across the U.S. Take a gander and see how many you've read!
You might think that as an English teacher I have an unfair advantage in this exercise, but there are actually quite a few here that I was never asked to read (and did not take up on my own). My total: 21 out of 44.
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Go Tell It On the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Adam Bede (George Eliot)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
The Unvanquished (William Faulkner)
Joseph Andrews (Henry Fielding)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
Dubliners (James Joyce)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)
The Magic Barrel (Bernard Malamud)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
1984 (George Orwell)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Vanity Fair (William Thackeray)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Am I troubled by the lack of diversity in this list? Of course. For a start, I can't imagine how Edith Wharton and Charlotte Bronte were left off. But that's for another post . . .
How did you fare in the college-bound reading?
0 Yorumlar