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Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
3. Emma - Jane Austen
4. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen - English Major Starter Kit -
5. Persuasion - Jane Austen

Essential Books All

6. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

English Majors Should

8. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
9. Villette - Charlotte Brontë
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11.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Dracula - Bram Stoker Read
12. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
14. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
15. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
16. The Legend Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
17. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
18. Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
58. Wide Sargaso Sea - Jean Rhys
19. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
59. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
20. Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
60. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammet
21. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stephenson
61. Frannie and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
22. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
62. Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
23. Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Ann
63. Iliad - Homer
Jacobs
64. Odyssey - Homer
24. A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
65. Lady Chatterley’s Lover- D.H. Lawrence
25. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolfe
66. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
26. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
67. Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
27. That Summer in Paris - Morley Callaghan
68. The Complete Poems by John Keats
28. Le Morte d’Arthur - Thomas Malory
69. The Fairie Queene - Edmund Spenser
29. Paradise Lost - John Milton
70. Songs and Sonnets by John Donne
30. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
71. Little Women - Louisa Alcott
31. Beowulf
72. Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
32. Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
73. Leaves of Grass - Mark Twain
33. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
74. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
34. Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
75. The Glass Menagerie - Tennesse Williams
35. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
76. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
36. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
77. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
37. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
78. Daisy Miller - Henry James
38. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
79. Howl - Allen Ginsberg
39. Songs of Innocence and Experience -
80. Evelina - Frances Burney
William Blake
81. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
40. Astrophil and Stella - Philip Sidney
82. Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
41. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
83. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
42. Poetics - Aristotle
84. Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
43. The Bell Jar - Slyvia Plath
85. Tess of the d’Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
44. Ariel - Sylvia Plath
86. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
45. Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
87. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Gawain Poet
46. Hamlet - William Shakespear
88. The Book of Margery Kempe - Margery Kempe
47. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
89. Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
48. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
90. Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
49. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
91. The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
50. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
92. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
51. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -
93. The Lady of Shalott - Alfred Tennyson
Mary Wollstonecraft
94. Walden - Henry James Thoreau
52. Utopia - Thomas Moore
95. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Henry James
53. Everyman - Unknown
96. Middlemarch - George Eliot
54. Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
97. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
55. Love Poems - Ovid
98. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
56. The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
99. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
57. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit -
Jeanette Winterson