Fifty-Book List
Below are the titles on my list for Penn's Fifty-Book Exam.
- Homer, Odyssey
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Horace, Ars Poetica
- Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
- Chaucer, selections from The Canterbury Tales
- The Book of Margery Kempe
- More, Utopia
- Spenser, The
Faerie Queene
- Shakespeare, King
Lear
- Shakespeare, The
Tempest
- Bacon, Essays
- Jonson, The Alchemist
- Herbert, The Temple
- Milton, Areopagitica
- Milton, Paradise
Lost
- Behn, Oroonoko
- Behn, The City Heiress
- Dryden, "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy," "An Essay Concerning
the Original & Progress of Satire," "Preface to Fables"
- The Broken Spears
- Williams, Key into the Language of America
- Bradstreet, selected poems
- Taylor, selected poems
- Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity
- Wheatley, selected poems
- Pope, An Essay
on Criticism, The
Rape of the Lock, Windsor Forest
- Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Swift, Gulliver's
Travels
- Gay, The
Beggar's Opera
- Johnson, selected Ramblers and the "Preface" to
Shakespeare
- Sterne, Tristram Shandy
- Boswell, The Life of Johnson
- Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman
- Austen, Emma
- Shelley, Alastor & Other Poems
- Shelley, Frankenstein
- Bronte, Jane
Eyre
- Eliot, Mill
on the Floss
- Douglass, Narrative
of the Life of an American Slave
- Conrad, Heart
of Darkness
- Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
- Woolf, Orlando
- Joyce, Finnegans
Wake
- Sontag, Against Interpretation
- O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
- Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California," "America,"
"Homework," Howl, "The Lion for Real," "Nov. 23, 1963: Alone,"
"Come All Ye Brave Boys"
- Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
- Albee, Tiny Alice
- Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
- Kingston, The Woman Warrior
- Kincaid, Lucy