How many of these literary works commonly found on English exams have you read? Surprisingly few? Grab a couple at your local library and further your education. (Linked titles should direct you to some information about the work that you may find useful or interesting.)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)
The Age of Innocence
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
All My Sons
All the Pretty Horses
America is in the Heart
An American Tragedy
Anna Karenina
Another Country
Antigone
Antony and Cleopatra
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
As I Lay Dying
As You Like It
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Bear
Beloved
Benito Cereno
Billy Budd
The Birthday Party
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bless Me, Ultima
Brave New World
The Bluest Eyes
The Brothers Karamazov
Candide (Voltaire)
The Caretaker
Catch 22
Cat's Eye
Ceremony
The Centaur
The Color Purple
Crime and Punishment
The Crucible
Cry, the Beloved Country
Daisy Miller
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
The Dead
Death of a Salesman
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Delta Wedding
Desire Under the Elms
The Deviners
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
The Dollmaker
A Doll's House
Don Quixote
Emma
An Enemy of the People
Equus
Ethan Frome
The Eumenides
The Fall
A Farewell to Arms
Fathers and Sons
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Go Tell It On the Mountain
The Glass Menagerie
The Grapes Of Wrath
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Gulliver's Travels
The Hairy Ape
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Handmaid's Tale
Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Hedda Gabler
Henry IV
The Homecoming
House Made of Dawn
The House of Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
Invisible Man
J.B.
Jane Eyre
Joseph Andrews
The Joy Luck Club
Jude the Obscure
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
The Jungle
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Light in August
The Little Foxex
Long Day's Journey into the Night
Lord Jim
Lord of the Flies
Love Medicine
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
The Loved One
Lysistrata
M. Butterfly
Main Street
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Madame Bovary
Major Barbara
Man and Superman
Mansfield Park
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Medea
The Member of the Wedding
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
The Metamorphosis
Middlemarch
The Mill on the Floss
The Misanthrope
Miss Lonleyhearts
Moby Dick
Moll Flanders
Mother Courage
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Much Ado About Nothing
Murder in the Cathedral
"My Last Duchess"
Native Son
Nineteen Eighty-Four
No Exit
No-No Boy
Notes from the Underground
Obasan
The Odyssey
Oedipus Rex
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Optimist's Daughter
The Oresteia
Othello (Shakespeare)
Our Mutual Friend
Our Town
Pamela
Paradise Lost (Milton)
A Passage to India
Persuasion
Phedre
The Piano Lesson
Pnin
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
The Portrait of a Lady
Praisesong for the Widow
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pygmalion
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
A Raisin in the Sun
Redburn
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead
The Rape of the Lock
Saint Joan
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
A Separate Peace
The Shipping News
Sister Carrie
Slaughterhouse Five
Song of Solomon
Sons and Lovers
The Sound and the Fury
The Stone Angel
The Stranger
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sula
The Sun Also Rises
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Tartuffe
The Tempest
Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To the Lighthouse
Tom Jones
The Trial
Tristam Shandy
The Turn of the Screw (James)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe)
Victory
Volpone
Waiting for Godot
The Warden
Washington Square
The Waste Land
Watch on the Rhine
The Watch the Ends the Night
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Winter's Tale
Winter in Blood
Wise Blood
The Woman Warrior
Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
The Zoo Story
Zoot Suit
As of March 5, 2001, I have personally read 47 of these works.
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