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Literature - GRE Recommended Books

This is a list of books recommended to be read before taking the optional literature portion of the GRE exam--are you ready to test your knowledge?
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Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
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Chinua Achebe
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia
2
Aeschylus
Poetics
Poetics
3
Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold)
Dover Beach
4
Matthew Arnold
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
5
Musée Des Beaux Arts (W.H. Auden)
Musée Des Beaux Arts
6
W.H. Auden
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
7
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
8
Jane Austen
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
9
Samuel Beckett
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
10
Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
11
Emily Bronte
My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)
My Last Duchess
12
Robert Browning
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
13
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus)
The Myth of Sisyphus
14
Albert Camus
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
15
Lewis Carroll
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
My Antonia
16
Willa Cather
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
17
Miguel De Cervantes
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
18
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
19
Kate Chopin
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
20
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Kubla Khan
21
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
22
Joseph Conrad
The Open Boat (Stephen Crane)
The Open Boat
23
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage
24
Stephen Crane
The Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
The Inferno
25
Dante Alighieri
The Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill Of
The Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill Of
26
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
27
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
28
Charles Dickens
The Flea (John Donne)
The Flea
29
John Donne
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (John Donne)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
30
John Donne
Batter My Heart (John Donne)
Batter My Heart
31
John Donne
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
32
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
33
Frederick Douglass
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
Sister Carrie
34
Theodore Dreiser
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
35
George Eliot
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land
36
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
37
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
38
Ralph Ellison
Nature
Nature
39
Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Self-Reliance
40
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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