I graduated in May as an English major, and I realized today just how much I miss reading books from my class syllabi. I’m a fiction girlie and in need of recommendations, so I was curious what everyone’s favorite book they had to read for a class was. 🙂
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Ulysses by James Joyce
Jude the Obscure
Oh, wait, Villette.
Are works in translation allowed? The Idiot.
This isn’t great literature, but for all its problems, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a page-turner. I can see why Abraham Lincoln said to Harriet Beecher Stowe, “So you’re the little lady who started this great war.”
my favorite book ever
The Shadow of the Wind
kate chopin’s the awakening
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES by Thomas Hardy. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES by Nathaniel Hawthorne. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD by Oliver Goldsmith. HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson. BRAIDED LIVES by Marge Piercy. FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley. IDYLLS OF THE KING by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Sula by Toni Morrison
I did a children’s lit class in Uni and I LOVED When You Reach Me. Also Alice in Wonderland and Anne of Green Gables. I’d never read them before even though they’re classics and they’re absolutely worth reading!
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. I had to read it in University about 20+ years ago and it has been a favourite ever since!
Congratulations on graduating! My program focused heavily on post-colonial lit, and some of my favorites were Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and The Hungry Tide by Amitov Ghosh.