College Reads (Lit Edition)

Description
Books read throughout the process of pursuing an English degree
1
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
67,973 members
1,017 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Explanations
ManWithAnAgenda: There was an emphasis on Writing for mine, hence all the non-fiction
2
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,391 members
519 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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3
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
6,407 members
87 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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4
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
23,270 members
376 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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5
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,379 members
1,236 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
2,385 members
116 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
43,872 members
478 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
94,044 members
1,511 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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9
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
47,176 members
749 reviews
4
3 Members
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10
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,819 members
428 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
20,778 members
368 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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12
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
6,005 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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13
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
12,397 members
203 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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14
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
10,778 members
144 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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15
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
14,107 members
204 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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16
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
11,437 members
97 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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17
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
20,195 members
485 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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18
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
29,886 members
261 reviews
4
2 Members
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19
The Analects
by Confucius
6,981 members
66 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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20
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
10,431 members
104 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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21
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
33,123 members
707 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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22
The Power
by Naomi Alderman
6,025 members
300 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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23
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
49,410 members
585 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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24
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
26,627 members
478 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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25
Feed
by M. T. Anderson
5,612 members
444 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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26
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
24,890 members
305 reviews
4
2 Members
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27
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
29,249 members
362 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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28
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
15,253 members
62 reviews
4
2 Members
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29
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
9,234 members
107 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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30
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
19,664 members
367 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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31
Utopia
by Thomas Morus
13,686 members
135 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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32
No-No Boy
by John Okada
881 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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33
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
20,357 members
197 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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34
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
16,713 members
131 reviews
4
2 Members
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35
The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
2,862 members
27 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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36
Nervous Conditions
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
2,397 members
51 reviews
4
2 Members
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37
Dreaming in Cuban
by Cristina García
1,704 members
33 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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38
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
14,003 members
98 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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39
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
51,199 members
811 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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41
Revelations of Divine Love
by Julian of Norwich
2,721 members
15 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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42
The Book of Margery Kempe
by Margery Kempe
1,602 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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43
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
62,100 members
812 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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44
Zoot Suit and Other Plays
by Luis Valdez
259 members
8 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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45
Sand Opera
by Philip Metres
39 members
½ 4.3
2 Members
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46
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
5,468 members
75 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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47
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
5,988 members
159 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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48
Philosophy of Religion
by John H. Hick
594 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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49
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
25,496 members
614 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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50
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
3,733 members
59 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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51
The Mirror Crack'd
by Agatha Christie
4,420 members
86 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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52
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
6,189 members
112 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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53
The Symposium
by Plato
7,579 members
84 reviews
4
2 Members
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54
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
11,968 members
271 reviews
4
2 Members
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55
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
by bell hooks
1,514 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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56
Language in Thought and Action
by S. I. Hayakawa
1,036 members
11 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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57
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk
21,876 members
206 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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58
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays
by Michel de Montaigne
5,579 members
57 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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59
Cathedral: Stories
by Raymond Carver
3,421 members
98 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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60
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
26,371 members
431 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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61
In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
by Judith Kitchen
240 members
1 review
½ 3.6
2 Members
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62
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,340 members
460 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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63
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition, Volume 1 (A, B, C)
by Stephen Greenblatt
975 members
3 reviews
4.2
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65
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
9,459 members
272 reviews
½ 3.6
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66
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by T. S. Eliot
1,173 members
15 reviews
4.2
Member
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67
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
13,638 members
243 reviews
3.9
Member
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68
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,248 members
313 reviews
4
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69
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
22,339 members
203 reviews
4
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70
Selected Poems
by William Wordsworth
195 members
1 review
3.9
Member
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71
Tennyson: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
by Alfred Tennyson
574 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
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72
Three Guineas
by Virginia Woolf
1,640 members
19 reviews
3.9
Member
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73
Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories
by James Thomas
439 members
10 reviews
3.8
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