| Hannah Webster Foster | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Henry David Thoreau |
From 鈥淲here I Lived and What I Lived for鈥� |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Preface to |
| Herman Melville |
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| Harriet Jacobs | |
| Walt Whitman |
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| Emily Dickinson |
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| Mark Twain | |
| Henry James |
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| Robert Frost | |
| William Faulkner | |
| Ernest Hemingway | |
| T. S. Eliot: | |
| Langston Hughes | ; |
| Zora Neale Hurston | |
| James Baldwin | 鈥淣otes of a Native Son鈥� |
| Allen Ginsberg | |
| Sylvia Plath | 鈥淐耻迟鈥� |
| Flannery O'Connor |
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| Tim O'Brien | |
| Amy Tan | |
| August Wilson |
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| Maxine Hong Kingston | |
| Leslie Marmon Silko |
鈥淟andscape, History, and Pueblo Imagination鈥� |
| Sandra Cisneros | |
| Jhampa Lahiri |
The Namesake |
| Natasha Tretheway |
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| Unknown | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer |
From |
| William Shakespeare |
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| John Milton |
From |
| Aphra Behn |
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| Jonathan Swift |
From |
| Jane Austen | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft |
From |
| William Wordsworth | |
| John Keats | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | From Aurora Leigh: , , and |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | |
| Charles Dickens | |
| Christina Rossetti | |
| Oscar Wilde | |
| William Butler Yeats | |
| Wilfred Owen | 鈥� |
| E. M. Forster | |
| James Joyce | |
| Virginia Woolf | |
| Dylan Thomas | |
| Samuel Beckett | |
| Doris Lessing | |
| Oliver Sacks | "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go |
| Ian McEwan | Atonement |
| Zadie Smith | White Teeth |
For a printable copy of the reading list, email Dr. Paola Gemme.