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Books You Should Read as an English Major

Here is a list of books that I read in both the classroom and personal time. These are a lot of great books that my professors assigned.
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The American Scholar (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The American Scholar
1
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet
2
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Art of War
3
Sun Tzu
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
4
William Faulkner
The Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin)
The Autobiography
5
Benjamin Franklin
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
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Kate Chopin
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Zora Neale Hurston)
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
7
Zora Neale Hurston
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Bartleby, the Scrivener
8
Herman Melville
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
9
Anonymous
Billy Budd, Sailor (Herman Melville)
Billy Budd, Sailor
10
Herman Melville
The Birthmark (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Birthmark
11
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Black Cat
12
Edgar Allan Poe
Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
Braiding Sweetgrass
13
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Brothers Karamazov
14
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
15
Geoffrey Chaucer
Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
Civil Disobedience
16
Henry David Thoreau
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
17
Alexandre Dumas
Dante's Divine Comedy
Dante's Divine Comedy
18
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
19
Death in the Woods (Sherwood Anderson)
Death in the Woods
20
Sherwood Anderson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
21
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
22
Bram Stoker
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
23
Emily Dickinson
The English Teacher (R.K. Narayan)
The English Teacher
24
R.K. Narayan
Ethan Brand (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Ethan Brand
25
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher
26
Edgar Allan Poe
Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot)
Four Quartets
27
T.S. Eliot
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
28
Mary Shelley
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Gilead
29
Marilynne Robinson
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Giver
30
Lois Lowry
Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses
31
The Golden Apples (Eudora Welty)
The Golden Apples
32
Eudora Welty
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
Goodbye to Berlin
33
Christopher Isherwood
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
34
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Green Road (Anne Enright)
The Green Road
35
Anne Enright
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
36
William Shakespeare
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
37
J.R.R. Tolkien
Holy the Firm (Annie Dilard)
Holy the Firm
38
Annie Dilard
The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The House of the Seven Gables
39
Nathaniel Hawthorne
HOW TO WRITE a BLACKWOOD ARTICLE (Edgar Allan Poe)
HOW TO WRITE a BLACKWOOD ARTICLE
40
Edgar Allan Poe
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