1 January 2012
The following is a list of books I read during the course of 2011. I’m not sure anyone else would be particularly interested, but I started keeping track of the books I read, so I figured I’d post the list.
Many are “classics” that were on the reading list for my PhD comprehensive exams. The asterisks indicate books I’ve read before, but re-read in 2011.
Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart
Atwood, Margaret, A Handmaid’s Tale
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice
Bacon, Francis: various essays
Behn, Aphra, Oronooko
*Beowulf
Book of John Mandeville
Brand, Dionne, The Map to the Door of No Return
Cavendish, Margaret, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
*Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury Tales
*Conrad, Joseph, The Heart of Darkness
Croxton Play of the Sacrament, The
*Crystal, David, Stories of English
Defoe, Daniel, Moll Flanders
*Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol
*Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations
*Dickinson, Emily: various poems
*Donne, John: various poems
Eliot, George, Middlemarch
*Eliot, T. S.: various poems
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: various essays
Fielding, Henry, Joseph Andrews
Gay, John, Beggar’s Opera
Gray, Thomas: various poems
Herbert, George: various poems
*Hoccleve, Thomas, The Complaint
*Hoccleve, Thomas, The Dialogue
Johnson, Ben: various poems
Johnson, Samuel, Rasselas
Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
*Keats, John: various poems
Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior
Langland, William, Piers Plowman
Lanyer, Aemilia: various poems
Lyly, John, Gallathea
Macdonald, Ross, The Blue Hammer
Marlowe, Christopher, Dr. Faustus
Marlowe, Christopher, The Jew of Malta
Marvell, Andrew: various poems
*Melville, Herman, Moby Dick
Middleton, Thomas and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl
Middleton, Thomas, The Chaste Maid of Cheapside
Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman
Milton, John, Areopagitica
Milton, John, Paradise Lost
More, Thomas, Utopia
Morrison, Toni, Beloved
*Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita
Pope, Alexander: various poems
Richardson, Samuel, Pamela
Shakespeare, William, 1 Henry IV
*Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
*Shakespeare, William, King Lear
*Shakespeare, William, Othello
Shakespeare, William, The Winter’s Tale
Shaw, Bernard, Major Barbara
Shaw, Bernard, Pygmalion
*Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
*Sheridan, Richard, The School for Scandal
Sidney, Philip, The Defense of Poesy
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sterne, Laurence, A Sentimental Journey
*Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels
*Twain, Mark, Huckleberry Finn
*Whitman, Walt: various poems
Wilde, Oscar, Salome
Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee, A Streetcar Named Desire
Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Woolf, Virginia, Between the Acts
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway
*Wordsworth, William: various poems
Wycherley, William, The Country Wife
*Yeats, William Butler: various poems
York Cycle: various plays
