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English 102 Potential Reading List in Progress

Which would you like to study and write about?

Longer Works

 Beowulf  (author unknown)

Dante's Inferno

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Ramayana by Valmiki

Plays

Othello by William Shakespeare

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare

Tartuffe by Moliere

Candide by Voltaire

Films

Juno

Napoleon Dynamite

The Hunger Games

Short Stories

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck

Compilation of Edgar Allan Poe short stories

Compilation of James Joyce short stories

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad paired with Apocolypse Now--Vietnam War film adaptation

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

A Plethora of Poetry

Emily Dickinson

Walt Whitman

e.e. cummings

Robert Frost

T.S. Eliot