Core Curriculum 66 books by Michael Mullins

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

ByKen Kesey

1962 • 1,076 Readers • 336 pages • 4

East of Eden

ByJohn Steinbeck

1952 • 1,374 Readers • 601 pages • 4.5

The Catcher in the Rye

ByJ. D. Salinger

1951 • 3,126 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

Brave New World

ByAldous Huxley

1900 • 3,231 Readers • 332 pages • 3.9

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

ByHunter S. Thompson

589 Readers • 4

One Hundred Years of Solitude

ByGabriel García Márquez,Gregory Rabassa(Translator)

1967 • 1,886 Readers • 422 pages • 4.1

1984

ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 6,178 Readers • 328 pages • 4.2

Critical Insights

Slaughterhouse 5

ByKurt Vonnegut

1968 • 2,606 Readers • 292 pages • 4.1

#10

For Whom the Bell Tolls

ByErnest Hemingway

1940 • 566 Readers • 484 pages • 3.9

#11

David Copperfield

ByCharles Dickens

1849 • 518 Readers • 882 pages • 4

#12

The Jungle

ByUpton Sinclair

1905 • 344 Readers • 388 pages • 3.7

#13

Long Day's Journey into Night

ByEugene O'Neill

1956 • 56 Readers • 196 pages • 4

#14

The Iceman Cometh

ByEugene O'Neill

2006 • 26 Readers • 248 pages • 4.3

#15

The Grapes of Wrath

ByJohn Steinbeck

1939 • 1,325 Readers • 496 pages • 3.8

#16

Underworld

ByDon DeLillo

1997 • 180 Readers • 832 pages • 3.4

#17

#6 of 9 in Complete Nathan Zuckerman

American Pastoral

ByPhilip Roth

1997 • 213 Readers • 434 pages • 3.7

#19

A House for Mr Biswas

ByV.S. Naipaul

1961 • 75 Readers • 564 pages • 3.6

#20

The Recognitions

ByWilliam Gaddis

1955 • 133 Readers • 956 pages • 4.6

#21

Cat's Cradle

ByKurt Vonnegut

1963 • 1,249 Readers • 192 pages • 4.1

#22

Nostromo

ByJoseph Conrad

1904 • 49 Readers • 463 pages • 3.4

#23

Absalom, Absalom!

ByWilliam Faulkner

1936 • 214 Readers • 305 pages • 3.9

#24

Europe Central

ByWilliam T. Vollmann

2005 • 35 Readers • 832 pages • 4

#25

All About H. Hatterr

ByG.V. Desani

1948 • 8 Readers • 316 pages

#26

The Princess Bride

ByWilliam Goldman

1973 • 1,420 Readers • 426 pages • 4.2

#27

The Master and Margarita

ByMikhail Bulgakov,Katherine Tiernan O'Connor(Translator),+1 more

1918 • 1,069 Readers • 424 pages • 4.2

#28

Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition

ByJames Joyce

1920 • 715 Readers • 656 pages • 3.8

#29

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

ByFriedrich Nietzsche

1883 • 450 Readers • 356 pages • 3.9

#30

Ordinary People

ByJudith Guest

37 Readers • 3.4

#31

Four Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth

ByWilliam Shakespeare

1606 • 8 Readers • 760 pages • 3.3

#32

Three Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet/Hamlet/Macbeth

ByWilliam Shakespeare

1 Reader • 526 pages

#33

Romances

ByWilliam Shakespeare

1623 • 1 Reader • 666 pages

#34

The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

ByWilliam Shakespeare

1609 • 6 Readers • 207 pages • 4.3

#35

Plays (Antony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus / Julius Caesar)

ByWilliam Shakespeare

2 Readers

#36

King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry VIII

ByWilliam Shakespeare

2004 • 1 Reader

#37

All the President's Men

ByCarl Bernstein,Bob Woodward

1974 • 121 Readers • 3.9

#38

ByWilliam Gaddis

1975 • 61 Readers • 752 pages • 4.7

#39

#1 of 3 in The Theban Plays

Sophocles' Three Theban Plays

ByJamey Hecht(translator),Sophocles

-450 • 1 Reader • 189 pages

#40

Oliver Twist

ByCharles Dickens

1838 • 618 Readers • 511 pages • 3.7

#41

The Odyssey

ByHomer,Robert Fagles(Translator)

-800 • 1,663 Readers • 541 pages • 3.8

#42

Oxford Bookworms

A Tale of Two Cities

ByCharles Dickens

19 • 1,224 Readers • 544 pages • 3.6

#43

The Complete Maus

ByArt Spiegelman

1994 • 725 Readers • 295 pages • 4.7

#44

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil

ByJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

1808 • 376 Readers • 354 pages • 3.9

#45

Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

Paradise Lost

ByJohn Milton

1667 • 576 Readers • 512 pages • 3.6

#46

Prometheus Bound

ByAeschylus,E.H. Plumptre(Translator)

-480 • 46 Readers • 4

#47

1985

ByAnthony Burgess

1978 • 9 Readers • 240 pages • 3

#48

#1-3 of 12 in A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

ByAnthony Powell

1955 • 57 Readers • 718 pages • 4

#49

Assassins

ByStephen Sondheim,John Weidman

1993 • 2 Readers • 107 pages

#50

#1 of 2 in Don Quijote de la Mancha

The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

ByMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra,John Rutherford(Translator)

1605 • 935 Readers • 1,023 pages • 3.8

#51

The Bonfire of the Vanities

ByTom Wolfe

1987 • 178 Readers • 753 pages • 3.9

#52

Lysistrata

ByAristophanes,Sarah Ruden(Translator)

-423 • 82 Readers • 132 pages • 3.7

#53

Our Mutual Friend

ByCharles Dickens

1865 • 96 Readers • 322 pages • 3.8

#54

Rimbaud Complete

ByArthur Rimbaud

2013 • 1 Reader • 656 pages

#55

The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky

ByPaddy Chayefsky

1 Reader

#56

The Defense

ByVladimir Nabokov,Владимир Набоков,+1 more

57 Readers • 3.6

#57

Eye of the Needle A Novel

ByKen Follett

1978 • 134 Readers • 354 pages • 4.1

#58

Graffex

Great Expectations

ByCharles Dickens

1860 • 1,023 Readers • 548 pages • 3.5

#59

Song of Myself

ByWalt Whitman

1856 • 28 Readers • 80 pages • 4.1

#60

#2 of 8 in Wars of the Roses

Henry IV, Part 1

Byet al. David Bevington

1592 • 67 Readers • 148 pages • 4

#61

#1 of 3 in Oresteia

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

ByAeschylus,Robert Fagles(Translator)

-500 • 112 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

#62

#3 of 3 in Oresteia

Aeschyli Eumenides

ByAeschylus(contributor)

-458 • 8 Readers • 66 pages • 3

#63

Tolkien and the West: Recovering the Lost Tradition of Europe

ByM.D.C. Drout

2012 • 2 Readers • 5

#64

#1 of 4 in Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove

ByLarry McMurtry

1985 • 665 Readers • 858 pages • 4.6

#65

Trump and a Post-Truth World

ByKen Wilber

2017 • 1 Reader • 160 pages • 5

#66

Literary Life: A Second Memoir

ByLarry McMurtry

2009 • 1 Reader • 192 pages • 5

#67

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

ByMartin E.P. Seligman

1990 • 3 Readers • 5

#68

The War of Art

BySteven Pressfield

2002 • 411 Readers • 168 pages • 3.8

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