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99 Books Sarah Needs to Read (After the Dissertation)

Inspired by the Humiliation List trend, I've been thinking about the reading gaps I need to fill in to be a better literature teacher (and scholar). I've studied a lot of medieval and nineteenth-century literature in English, so there aren't quite as many texts in those categories. I also didn't include anything by authors in my dissertation, though I certainly won't have read all of their works by the time I finish it. I've organized it by the types of survey courses I might teach someday, so texts 1-33 are World Literature, 34-66 are British Literature, and 67-99 are American Literature. While making this list, though, I thought of many more books to read...
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The Orestia Trilogy (Aeschylus)
The Orestia Trilogy
1
Aeschylus
Medea (Euripides)
Medea
2
Euripides
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Lysistrata
3
Aristophanes
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
4
Virgil
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
5
Ovid
Symposium (Plato)
Symposium
6
Plato
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetics
7
Aristotle
Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nichomachean Ethics
8
Aristotle
Ramayana (Valmiki)
Ramayana
9
Valmiki
The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
The Mahabharata
10
Vyasa
The Analects (Confucius)
The Analects
11
Confucius
Daodejing (Laozi)
Daodejing
12
Laozi
Quran
Quran
13
Consolation of Philosophy
Consolation of Philosophy
14
The Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
The Thousand and One Nights
15
Anonymous
Epic of Sundiata (Anonymous)
Epic of Sundiata
16
Anonymous
The Prose Edda (Snorri Sturluson)
The Prose Edda
17
Snorri Sturluson
The Poetic Edda (Anonymous)
The Poetic Edda
18
Anonymous
Tristan (Gottfried Von Strassburg)
Tristan
19
Gottfried Von Strassburg
Parzival (Wolfram Von Eschenbach)
Parzival
20
Wolfram Von Eschenbach
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
21
Giovanni Boccaccio
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
Faust
22
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
23
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Home and the World (Rabindranath Tagore)
The Home and the World
24
Rabindranath Tagore
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
Eugene Onegin
25
Alexander Pushkin
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
26
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
27
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
28
Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
29
Gustave Flaubert
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
30
James Joyce
Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners
31
Joyce
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)
Six Characters in Search of an Author
32
Luigi Pirandello
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
33
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Bede)
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
34
Bede
The Shewings of Julian of Norwich (Julian of Norwich)
The Shewings of Julian of Norwich
35
Julian of Norwich
The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe)
The Book of Margery Kempe
36
Margery Kempe
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
37
Edmund Spenser
Sir Philip Sidney – Sonnet 5, 15, 31 and 29 From Astrophil and Stella
Sir Philip Sidney – Sonnet 5, 15, 31 and 29 From Astrophil and Stella
38
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
39
William Shakespeare
The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy
40
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