{"id":3563,"date":"2006-06-23T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2006-06-23T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T12:52:00","slug":"reading-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3563","title":{"rendered":"Reading Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since studying English Literature at school (up to age 18) I have held on to two recommended reading lists. I was reminded of them the other day, and I thought I would share them with you.<\/p>\n<p><span>List One, called \u2018A Crash Course in English Literature\u2019, listed by J Neil Waddell<\/span><br \/><span>General:<\/span><br \/>The Book of Common Prayer: Orders for Morning and Evening Prayer<br \/>King James Bible: Genesis 1-4, Psalms 9, 19, 23, 24, 46, 90, 100, 137; Ecclesiastes 3; Song of Solomon; Isaiah 9.2-7; Gospel of Matthew; St John 1.1-14; 1 Corinthians 13; The Revelation of St John<\/p>\n<p><span>Early:<\/span><br \/>Beowulf<br \/>The Battle of Maldon<br \/>Chaucer: General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; Knight\u2019s, Franklin\u2019s or Wife of Bath\u2019s Tale<br \/>Gawain and the Green Knight<\/p>\n<p><span>Poetry:<\/span><br \/>Shakespeare: Sonnets 1, 2, 15, 18, 29, 55, 60, 64, 71, 130<br \/>Donne: The Exstasie, A Nocturnal upon St Lucy\u2019s Day<br \/>Herbert: The Agonie, Life<br \/>Vaughan: The Waterfall<br \/>Milton: Lycidas, Paradise Lost books I and II<br \/>Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel<br \/>Pope: The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man<br \/>Gray: Elegy in a Country Churchyard<br \/>Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn<br \/>Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey<br \/>Tennyson: Ulysses, The Lady of Shalott, The Palace of Art, In Memoriam<br \/>WB Yeats: Wild Swans at Coole, Easter 1916, Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium<br \/>TS Eliot: Four Quartets, The Waste Land<\/p>\n<p><span>Drama:<\/span><br \/>Marlowe: Doctor Faustus<br \/>Shakespeare: Love\u2019s Labours Lost, Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, The Tempest<br \/>Tourneur: The Revenger\u2019s Tragedy<br \/>Webster: The Duchess of Malfi<br \/>Congreve: Love for Love<br \/>Wycherley: The Country Wife<br \/>Sheridan: School for Scandal, The Rivals<br \/>Ibsen: Ghosts, The Doll\u2019s House<br \/>Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest<br \/>Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard<br \/>Beckett: Waiting for Godot<br \/>Osborne: Look Back in Anger<br \/>Pinter: The Birthday Party, The Caretaker<br \/>Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead<\/p>\n<p><span>Novels:<\/span><br \/>Defoe: Robinson Crusoe<br \/>Swift: Gulliver\u2019s Travels<br \/>Fielding: Joseph Andrews<br \/>Sterne: Tristram Shandy<br \/>Austen: Emma, Pride and Prejudice<br \/>Scott: Waverley<br \/>Thackeray: Vanity Fair<br \/>Dickens: Great Expectations, Bleak House<br \/>Eliot: Middlemarch<br \/>James: Portrait of a Lady<br \/>Hardy: Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure<br \/>Forster: Howard\u2019s End<\/p>\n<p><span>List Two, called \u2018Novels worth reading\u2019, listed by Andrew Copping 1983<\/span><br \/><span>Selected classics:<\/span><br \/>Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones<br \/>Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy<br \/>Walter Scott: The Heart of Midlothian<br \/>Jane Austen: Emma, Pride and Prejudice<br \/>Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre<br \/>Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights<br \/>George Eliot: Silas Marner, Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch<br \/>WM Thackeray: Vanity Fair<br \/>Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, Bleak House<br \/>Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure<br \/>Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo<br \/>James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<br \/>DH Lawrence: Women in Love, Sons and Lovers<br \/>Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse<br \/>EM Forster: A Passage to India<br \/>Aldous Huxley: Brave New World<br \/>George Orwell: 1984<br \/>Evelyn Waugh: Scoop, The Loved One<\/p>\n<p><span>Post-war novels<\/span><br \/>Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim<br \/>Stanley Barstow: A Kind of Loving<br \/>Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man<br \/>John Braine: Room at the Top<br \/>Joyce Cary: The Horse\u2019s Mouth<br \/>Margaret Drabble: The Millstone<br \/>Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandrian Quartet, Justine<br \/>John Fowles: The French Lieutenant\u2019s Woman, The Collector<br \/>Robert Graves: I, Claudius<br \/>Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory, The Comedians<br \/>William Golding: The Inheritors, The Spire<br \/>LP Hartley: The Go-between<br \/>Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon<br \/>Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano<br \/>Ian McEwan: In Between the Sheets, The Cement Garden<br \/>Compton Mackenzie: Whisky Galore<br \/>Nancy Mitford: Pursuit of Love<br \/>Iris Murdoch: The Bell, The Sandcastle<br \/>Edna O\u2019Brien: Girl with Green Eyes<br \/>Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country<br \/>Tom Sharpe: Wilt<br \/>Nevil Shute: On the Beach<br \/>CP Snow: The New Men<br \/>Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie<br \/>Davie Storey: This Sporting Life<br \/>JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings<br \/>Charles Webb: The Graduate<br \/>Patrick White: Riders in the Chariot<\/p>\n<p><span>The American Novel<\/span><br \/>James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain<br \/>Saul Bellow: Hertzog<br \/>Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<br \/>Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye<br \/>JP Donleavy: The Ginger Man<br \/>Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man<br \/>William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury<br \/>F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby<br \/>Dashiell Hammett: The Thin Man<br \/>Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter<br \/>Joseph Heller: Catch 22<br \/>Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea<br \/>Henry James: Portrait of a Lady<br \/>Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt<br \/>Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter<br \/>Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead<br \/>Bernard Malamud: The Assistant<br \/>Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Billy Budd<br \/>JD Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye<br \/>Upton Sinclair: The Jungle<br \/>John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men<br \/>Mark Twain: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\u2019s Court<br \/>Nathaniel West: The Cool Million<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read perhaps 20% of these! 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