List

44 books

American

The Testaments
The Handmaid’s Tale
Snow White
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
In Cold Blood
Emily Dickinson Selected Poems

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79 books

British

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Middlemarch
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
Frankenstein
Persuasion
Dracula

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2 books

Chinese

The Dream of the Red Chamber
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

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11 books

Classical

Prometheus Bound
Lysistrata and Other Plays
The Aeneid
The Metamorphoses
The Odyssey
The Golden Ass
Phaedo

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2 books

Enlightenment

On Liberty
Candide

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23 books

Existentialism

The Brothers Karamazov
Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil
Crime and Punishment
Fear and Trembling
Neither Victims Nor Executioners
A Happy Death
The Idiot

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12 books

Favorites

Hamlet
Les Misérables
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
Four Quartets
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights

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7 books

Feminism

Mrs Dalloway
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Bell Jar
Orlando
Intercourse

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23 books

French

Madame Bovary
Les Misérables
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Swann's Way
Nadja
Against Nature

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10 books

German

Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
Hyperion oder der Eremit in Griechenland
Selected Poems and Fragments
Kabale und Liebe
Die Räuber
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Trial

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12 books

Gothic

Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein
Carmilla
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Jane Eyre
Villette
The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte

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3 books

Italian

The Book of the Courtier
Leopardi: Selected Poems
The Divine Comedy

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4 books

Japanese

No Longer Human
1Q84
Strangers
The Life of a Stupid Man

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1 book

Korean

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

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1 book

Latin American

Omeros

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14 books

Lit Crit

Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil
What Happens in Hamlet
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in 'War and Peace'
On Moral Fiction
Against Interpretation and Other Essays

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2 books

Medieval

The prologue to the Canterbury tales
The Divine Comedy

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9 books

Modernism

Mrs Dalloway
The Waste Land And Other Poems
Four Quartets
Ulysses
James Joyce
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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21 books

Owned

The Handmaid’s Tale
Hamlet
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Brideshead Revisited
The White Album
Julius Caesar