Barbara
Tuchman A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th
Century
World Culture/World Literature
Reading List for Book Essays and Oral Presentations
Greece and Rome
The
Middle Ages
The Renaissance
18th Century &
Romanticism
19th Century &
Realism
20th Century
Non-Western Books
Homer The Iliad; The Odyssey
Aristophanes The Birds; The Frogs; The Clouds; Lysistrata; Wasps; Peace
Plato The Republic; The Last Days of Socrates
Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes; Prometheus Bound
Sophocles Antigone; Oedipus at Colonus; Ajax; Electra
Euripides The Medea; Hippolytus;
Heracles; Iphigenia in Aulis; Iphigenia in
Taurus; Helen;
The Trojan Women; Orestes; Electra; The
Bacchae
Ovid The Metamorphoses
Virgil The Aeneid
Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass
Plutarch Lives
Julius Caesar Commentaries on the Gallic Wars; Commentaries on the Punic Wars
Mary
Renault The Mask of Apollo; Fire from Heaven;
The Persian Boy; Funeral
Games; The King
Must Die; The Bull from the Sea; The Last of
the Wine;
The Life of Alexander
Herodotus The Histories
Eugene O’Neill Mourning Becomes Electra
Jean Anouilh Antigone
Jean Cocteau Antigone; Orphee
Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Last Days of Pompeii
Thornton Wilder The Ides of March
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Irving Stone The Greek Treasure
Gore Vidal Julian
Robert Graves I, Claudius; Claudius, the God
Howard Fast Spartacus
Lew Wallace Ben-Hur
George Bernard Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra; Pygmalion; Androcles and the Lion
Thomas B. Costain The Silver Chalice
John Hersey The Conspiracy
June Rachuy Brindel Phaedra: A Novel of Ancient Athens
Boccaccio The Decameron
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Cressida
Thomas Malory Morte d’Arthur
Anonymous The Poem of the Cid
Anonymous Niebelungenlied
Anonymous Everyman
Anonymous Noah’s Flood and the Second Shepherd’s Play
The Pearl Poet Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Mary Stewart The Crystal Cave; The Hollow Hills; The Last Enchantment
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
Italo Calvino The Non-Existent Knight
T.H. White The Once and Future King; The Book of Merlin
Samuel Clemens Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc;
A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur’s Court;
The Prince and the Pauper
George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan
L. Niven/J. Pournelle Inferno
Neil Philip The Tale of Sir Gawain
Barbara
Tuchman A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th
Century
T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
Thomas Berger Arthur Rex
Voltaire The Maid
Jean Anouihl The Skylark
Marina Warner Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Sir Walter Scott The Talisman; Ivanhoe; Redgauntlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The White Company
Christopher Marlowe Edward II
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King
Rosemary Sutcliff The Eagle of the Ninth
Peter David
Knight Life
Dante Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso; La Vita Nuova
Cervantes Don Quixote (Parts 1&2)
Machiavelli The Prince
Christopher Marlowe Tamberlaine; Dr. Faustus
William Shakespeare Richard III; Henry VI Part II;
Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night’s
Dream; The Taming of
the Shrew; The Merchant of Venice; The
Tempest; Julius Caesar;
Hamlet; Macbeth; Othello;
King Lear
Sir Thomas More Utopia; History of Richard III
Ben
Jonson Volpone (or The Fox); Epicene
(or The Silent Woman); The
Alchemist;
Bartholomew Fair
Sir Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy
Martin Fido Shakespeare
A.C.H. Smith Lady Jane
Robert Louis Stevenson The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses
John Milton Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes
Tracy Chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring
William Congreve Love for Love; The Way of the World
William Wycherley The Country Wife
Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year
John Dryden All for Love
Pierre Corneille Le Cid; Horace; Cinna; Andromede; Heraclius; Tite et Berenice
Jean Racine Andromaque; Britannicus; Bajazet; Mithridate; Iohiaenie; Phedre
Moliére Le Tartuffe; Le Misanthrope; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
Josephine Tey The Daughter of Time
Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons
Sir Walter Scott The Abbott
M. Hewlett The Queen’s Quair
Irving Stone The Agony and the Ecstasy
Bertolt Brecht Galileo
Edith Parteger The Bloody Field
P.C. Doherty The Death of a King
John Banville Kepler;
Copernicus
Voltaire Candide
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders
Henry Fielding Tom Jones; Joseph Andrews; Shamela
Samuel Richardson Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
Laurence Stern Tristram Shandy
Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield; She Stoops to Conquer
Samuel Johnson Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock; The Dunciad
Richard Brinsley Sheridan School For Scandal; The Rivals
David Garrick The Clandestine Marriage
John Gay The Beggar’s Opera
William Hogarth The Rake’s Progress (engraving)
Jane
Austen Pride and Prejudice; Sense and
Sensibility; Emma; Persuasion;
Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey
Fay Weldon
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott Rob Roy; Old Mortality; The
Heart of Midlothian; Kenilworth;
Quentin Durward
Emily Brönte Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brönte Jane Eyre; Villette
Mary Shelley The Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary; Sentimental Education
Honore de Balzac Eugenie Grandet; La Cousine Bette; Pere Goriot
Stendahl (Henri Beyle) Le Rouge et le Noir; Charteuse de Parme
Emile Zola Therese Raquin; Germinal; Nana; L’Oevre; Verite
Henrik Ibsen Ghosts; A Doll’s House; The
Master Builder; Hedda Gabler; An
Enemy
of the People; The Wild Duck;
Peer Gynt
August Strindberg The Father; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov; The Idiot
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons
Charles Dickens David
Copperfield; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorritt;
Our
Mutual Friend
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Irving Stone Lust for Life; Depths of Glory
George Eliot Middlemarch; The Mill on the Floss
Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles; The Mayor
of Casterbridge; The Return of
the Native; Jude
the Obscure; The Woodlanders
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone
George Meredith The Egoist; Diana of the Crossways; The Ordeal of Richard Feveral
Samuel Butler Erewhon; The Way of All Flesh
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair; The History of Henry Esmond; The Newcomers
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Henry James The American;
Daisy Miller; Portrait of a Lady; The Turn of the
Screw
William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham; A Modern Instance
Harold Frederick The Damnation of Theron Ware
Stephen Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; George’s Mother
Jack Finney Time and
Again
Robert Heinlein Glory Road
Albert Camus The Plague; The Stranger
Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea; No Exit; The Flies
Marcel Proust Swann’s Way
Thomas Mann The Confessions of Felix Krull; The Magic Mountain
Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
Gunter Grass The Tin Drum
Heinrich Boll The Clown
Par Lagerkvist The Dwarf; Barabas
Karel Capek War with the Newts; R.U.R.
Franz Kafka The Trial; The Metamorphosis
Anton Chekov The Cherry Orchard; The Seagull; Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya
Eugene Zamiatin We
Boris Pasternak Dr. Zhivago
Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch; Gulag Archipelago
Miguel de Unamuno Three Exemplary Novels
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Christa Wolfe Accident
James Gleick Chaos: Making a New Science
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim; The Secret Sharer; Victory; The Secret Agent
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman; The Doctor’s Dilemma; Major Barbara
James Joyce Dubliners; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
C.S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength
W. Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence; Of Human Bondage
H.G. Wells Tono Bungay
G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday
Arthur C. Clarke The City and the Stars; Childhood’s End; 2001: A Space Odyssey
Graham Greene The Power and the Glory; Our Man in Havana
Michael Hastings The Unknown Soldier
Richard Hoyt Head of State
Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own; To The Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway
Willa Cather A Lost Lady; The Professor’s House
Kate Chopin The Awakening
Arthur Koestler Darkness At Noon
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell To Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Slaughterhouse – Five
John Reed Ten Days that Shook the World
Henry Roth Call It Sleep
E.M. Foster Passage to India
Leon Uris Exodus; Trinity; QB VII
Joseph Heller Catch-22
Jean Giraudoux The Madwoman of Chaillot; The Apollo of Bellac
Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
Harold Pinter The Birthday Party
Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
Andre Malraux Man’s Fate
Barbara Tuchman The Guns of August; The Proud Tower;
The Zimmermann Telegram;
Stilwell
and the American Experience in China
Alexander Ramati And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the Gypsy Holocaust
Stanley Shapiro A Time To
Remember
William Finnegan Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
Winnie Mandela Part of My Soul Went with Him
Donald Woods Biko
Mark Salzman Iron and Silk
D. Blundy/A. Lycet Qadafi and the Libyan Revolution
Yossi Melman The Master Terrorist: The True Story of Abu-Nidal
James Gleick Chaos: Making a New Science
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Ying Hong Summer of Betrayal; Daughter of the River
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Naguib Mahfouz Autumn Quail; Respected Sir
Fumiko Enchi Masks
Wole Soyinka AKE
Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior
Yasunari Kawabata Snow Country
J.M. Coetzee Age of Iron
Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet; The Moor’s Last Sigh
Anjana Appachana Listening Now
Amy Tan The Kitchen
God’s Wife; The Joy Luck Club; The Thousand Secret
Senses
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Mistress of Spices; Sister of My Heart
Bharati Mukherjee Jasmine; The Holder of the World
Indira Ganesan Inheritance
Jim Riva The Geographer
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