50 books for a PhD- Top 3 loathed books

Kinda crazy the bible isn’t on this list lol anyway… 1. Beowulf (Old English, MS c. 1000 2. Geoffrey Chaucer, selections from Canterbury Tales (Middle English, 1387-1400) 3. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1592) 4. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) 5. William Shakespeare, Richard II (1595) 6. William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595 7. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (1598) 8. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1601) 9. William Shakespeare, Othello (1604) 10. William Shakespeare, King Lear (1605) 11. The Pilgrim’s Progress, (1678) 12. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) 13. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (c. 1630-50; 1856) 14. Constitution of the United States (1787) 15. Jonathan Edwards, selected writings: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741) 16. Tom Paine, Common Sense (1776) 17. John Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630) 18. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868-69) 19. Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) 20. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) 21. Ralph Waldo Emerson, selected writings: "Nature" (1836), "The American Scholar" (1837), "The Divinity School Address" (1838), "Experience" (1844),"The Poet" (1844) 22. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) 23. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) 24. Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851) 25. Edgar Allan Poe, selections from Fall of the House of Usher and Other Works: 26. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) 27. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) and "Resistance to Civil Government [Civil Disobedience]" (1849) 28. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) 29. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, (1891 edition) 30. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814) 31. Jane Austen, Emma (1816) 32. Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) 33. George Gordon Byron, Don Juan (1819-1824) 34. Olaudah Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 35. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) 36. Charlotte Bronte, Villette (1853) 37. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847) 38. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) 39. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1872) 40. Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) 41. H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (1886) 42. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) 43. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) 44. Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) 45. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) 46. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) 47. William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959) 48. Don De Lillo, White Noise (1985) 49. W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 50. Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) 51. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952) 52. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) 53. Frank Herbert, Dune (1965) 54. William James, selected lectures and essays: “The Stream of Thought”, “Association”, “The Perception of Time” (all 1890) “A World of Pure Experience” (1904), and “What Pragmatism Means” (1907) 55. Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957) 56. Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (1990) 57. Art Spiegelman, Maus and Maus II (1986-91) 58. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) 59. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) 60. Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) 61. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1986) 62. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902) 63. George Orwell, 1984 (1949) 64. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1959), Africa 65. • Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines (1988), South Asia 66. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1998), South Asia 67. Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993) 68. Edward Said, Orientalism (1979) 69. Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis (2000) #gabtheory #books #literature #reading #fyp