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Canonical English Literature

Literature every English major should read: some of the highlights up through the modernist era, delving briefly into early postmodernism.
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Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
1
Anonymous
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage (Translator))
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2
Simon Armitage (Translator)
The Book of Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe
3
Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman
4
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
5
Geoffrey Chaucer
Le Morte D'Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory)
Le Morte D'Arthur
6
Sir Thomas Malory
Everyman
Everyman
7
Utopia (Thomas More)
Utopia
8
Thomas More
Amoretti and Epithalamion
Amoretti and Epithalamion
9
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
10
Edmund Spenser
An Apology for Poetry
An Apology for Poetry
11
Astrophel and Stella
Astrophel and Stella
12
Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
Doctor Faustus
13
Thomas Mann
Shakespeare's Sonnets (William Shakespeare)
Shakespeare's Sonnets
14
William Shakespeare
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
15
William Shakespeare
Richard III (William Shakespeare)
Richard III
16
William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare)
Henry IV, Part I
17
William Shakespeare
Henry V (William Shakespeare)
Henry V
18
William Shakespeare
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
19
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
Twelfth Night
20
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
21
William Shakespeare
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest
22
William Shakespeare
Songs and Sonnets
Songs and Sonnets
23
Holy Sonnets
Holy Sonnets
24
The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi
25
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Alchemist
26
Paulo Coelho
The Temple
The Temple
27
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
28
John Milton
Absalom and Achitophel
Absalom and Achitophel
29
Pilgrim's Progress
Pilgrim's Progress
30
The Country Wife
The Country Wife
31
The Rover (Joseph Conrad)
The Rover
32
Joseph Conrad
Oroonoko (Aphra Behn)
Oroonoko
33
Aphra Behn
The Way of the World
The Way of the World
34
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
35
Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
36
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)
A Modest Proposal
37
Jonathan Swift
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope)
The Rape of the Lock
38
Alexander Pope
The Dunciad
The Dunciad
39
The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera
40
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