Taken from his 2003 book How to Read Literature Like a Professor. The books in green are the ones that I have already read.
- My Reading Stats
- 2014: 25 of 142 read (17.6%)
- 2015: 31 of 142 read (21.8%)
- 2016: 35 of 142 read (24.6%)
- 2017: 35 of 142 read (24.6%)
- 2018: 35 of 142 read (24.6%)
- 2019: 35 of 142 read (24.6%)
- 2020: 35 of 142 read (24.6%)
- 2021: 35 of 142 read (24.6%)
- 2022: 35 of 142 read (24.6%)
- 2023: 37 of 142 read (26.0%)
- (1940) Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
- (1951) In Praise of Limestone by W. H. Auden
- (1957) Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin
- (1954) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- (1st Cent.) Beowulf by Seamus Heany (2000 Translation)
- (1981) Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- (1985) The Overcoat II by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- (1987) World’s End by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- (1984) Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
- (1865) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- (1871) Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
- (1979) The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
- (1984) Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
- (1992) Wise Children by Angela Carter
- (1981) Cathedral by Raymond Carver
- (1384) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- (1899) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- (1900) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- (1969) The Gingerbread House by Robert Coover
- (1930) The Bridge by Hart Crane
- (1999) The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
- (1841) The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
- (1843) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- (1850) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- (1853) Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- (1861) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- (1975) Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
- (1957-60) The Alexandra Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea) by Lawrence Durrell
- (1917) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
- (1922) The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
- (1986) Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- (1929) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- (1930) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- (1936) Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- (1999) Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
- (1741) Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- (1925) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- (1931) Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- (1915) The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- (1908) A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
- (1910) Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
- (1924) A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- (1966) The Magus by John Fowles
- (1969) The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
- (1913-16) After Apple Picking by Robert Frost
- (1913-16) The Woodpile by Robert Frost
- (1913-16) Out, Out – by Robert Frost
- (1913-16) Mowing by Robert Frost
- (1968) The Pedersen Kid by William H. Gass
- (1968) In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
- (1926) Blindness by Henry Green
- (1929) Living by Henry Green
- (1939) Party Going by Henry Green
- (1945) Loving by Henry Green
- (1929) The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- (1883) The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
- (1886) The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- (1891) Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- (1835) Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- (1837) The Man of Adamant by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- (1850) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- (1851) The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- (1969) Bogland by Seamus Heaney
- (1986) Clearance by Seamus Heaney
- ( 1925) Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway
- (1925) Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway
- (1925) The Battler by Ernest Hemingway
- (1926) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- (1927) Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
- (1929) A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- (1936) The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
- (1952) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- (8th Cent.) The Iliad by Homer
- (8th Cent.) The Odyssey by Homer
- (1898) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- (1878) Daisy Miller by Henry James
- (1914) Dubliners by James Joyce
- (1916) Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
- (1915) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- (1924) A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
- (1925) The Trial by Franz Kafka
- (1988) The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- (1998) Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
- (1998) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- (1913) Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- (1920) Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
- (1922) The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence
- (1923) The Fox by D. H. Lawrence
- (1928) Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- (1930) The Virgin and the Gypsy by D. H. Lawrence
- (1932) The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
- (15th Cent.) Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory
- (1961) A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
- (1963) The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
- (1978) The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
- (1992) The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch
- (1958) Lolita by Vladimire Nabokov
- (1978) Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
- (1990) The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- (1839) The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
- (1841) The Mystery of the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
- (1842) The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
- (1843) The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
- (1845) The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
- (1846) The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
- (1965) The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- (1941) In Praise of Prairie by Theodore Roethke
- (1964) The Far Field by Theodore Roethke
- (16th Cent.) Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) King Lear by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) Henry V by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) A Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- (16th Cent.) Sonnets by William Shakespeare
- (1818) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- (14th Cent.) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
- (5th Cent. B.C.) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- (5th Cent B.C.) Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
- (5th Cent. B.C.) Antigone by Sophocles
- (1596) The Faerie Queen by Sir Edmund Spenser
- (1886) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- (1889) The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
- (1897) Dracula by Bram Stroker
- (1946) Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
- (1885) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- (1982) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
- (1985) The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
- (1962) A & P by John Updike
- (1990) Omeros by Derek Walcott
- (1988) The Hearts and Lives of Men by Fay Weldon
- (1925) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- (1927) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- (1892) The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
- (1916) Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats
- (1917) The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats
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