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Lady Gray's "Literary Sciences Reading List"

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This Fall, I’m starting my Literary Sciences study in The Netherlands. We were given this list to read before we start. 150 days for 113 books: Let the race begin!

  1. 1.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics)
    by Anonymous
  2. 2.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer
  3. 3.
    ?
    Oedipus the King
    by Sophocles
  4. 4.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil (trans. Robert Fagles)
  5. 5.
    ?
    Roelandslied
    by Anonymous
  6. 6.
    ?
    Il Canzoniere
    by Petrarca
  7. 7.
    ?
    The Thousand and One Nights (complete collection)
    by Anonymous
  8. 8.
    ?
    Beowulf

  9. 9.
    ?
    La Divina Commedia
    by Dante Alighieri
  10. 10.
    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio
  11. 11.
    ?
    Yvain, knight of the lion
    by Chretien de Troyes
  12. 12.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  14. 14.
    The Lus'iads (The World's Classics)
    by Luis De Camoes
  15. 15.
    The Book of the Courtier (Dover Value Editions)
    by Baldassare Castiglione
  16. 16.
    ?
    Lof der Zotheid
    by Desiderius Erasmus
  17. 17.
    Montaigne: Essays
    by Michel de Montaigne
  18. 18.
    ?
    Utopia
    by Thomas More
  19. 19.
    ?
    Gargantua et Pantagruel
    by Rabelais
  20. 20.
    ?
    Gerusalemme Liberate
    by Torquato Tasso
  21. 21.
    ?
    The Man in the Moon
    by Francis Godwin
  22. 22.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes
  23. 23.
    ?
    Le Cid
    by Pierre Corneille
  24. 24.
    Marlowe - The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus
    by Christopher Marlowe
  25. 25.
    ?
    Paradise Lost
    by John Milton
  26. 26.
    ?
    Pensees
    by Blaise Pascal
  27. 27.
    ?
    Contes de ma mère l’Oye (Stories of Mother Goose)
    by Charles Perrault
  28. 28.
    Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  29. 29.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  30. 30.
    Hyperion
    by Friedrich Holderlin
  31. 31.
    ?
    Lettres Persanes
    by Montesquieu
  32. 32.
    An Essay on Man
    by Alexander Pope
  33. 33.
    ?
    The Mysteries of Udolpho
    by Ann Radcliffe
  34. 34.
    ?
    Confessions
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  35. 35.
    Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  36. 36.
    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire
  37. 37.
    ?
    The Sorrows of Young Werther
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  38. 38.
    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe
  39. 39.
    ?
    Een nagelaten bekentenis (Dutch Edition)
    by Marcellus Emants
  40. 40.
    ?
    Effi Briest
    by Theodor Fontane
  41. 41.
    ?
    Verzen
    by Herman Gorter
  42. 42.
    ?
    The Book of Songs
    by Heinrich Heine
  43. 43.
    ?
    Nachtstücke
    by E.T.A. Hoffmann
  44. 44.
    ?
    Heinrich von Kleist
    by Der Zerbrochene Krug
  45. 45.
    Collected Poems
    by Stéphane Mallarmé
  46. 46.
    ?
    Lelia
    by George Sand
  48. 48.
    ?
    Les Illusions perdues
    by Balzac
  49. 49.
    ?
    Les Fleurs du Mal
    by Baudelaire
  50. 50.
    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  51. 51.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
  52. 52.
    Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman
  53. 53.
    ?
    Turn of the Screw
    by Henry James
  56. 56.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë
  57. 57.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  58. 58.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  59. 59.
    Moby-Dick
    by Herman Melville
  60. 60.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  61. 61.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  62. 62.
    The House of the Spirits: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende
  63. 63.
    The New York Trilogy (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Paul Auster
  64. 64.
    ?
    Malina
    by Ingeborg Bachmann
  65. 65.
    ?
    Le Sang Des Autres
    by Simone De Beauvoir
  66. 66.
    De Kapellekensbaan
    by Louis Paul Boon
  67. 67.
    The Man Outside
    by Wolfgang Borchert
  68. 68.
    ?
    Bint
    by F. Bordewijk
  69. 69.
    ?
    Mother Courage
    by Bertold Brecht
  70. 70.
    Nadja
    by Andre Breton
  71. 71.
    ?
    The Plague
    by Camus, Albert
  72. 72.
    ?
    Het verdriet van België : roman
    by Hugo Claus
  73. 73.
    ?
    Foe
    by J M Coetzee
  74. 74.
    ?
    Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartements
    by Assia Djebar
  75. 75.
    Hiroshima mon amour.
    by Marguerite Duras
  76. 76.
    My Son's Story
    by Nadine Gordimer
  77. 77.
    The Piano Teacher: A Novel
    by Elfriede Jelinek
  78. 78.
    ?
    Verzen
    by J.H. Leopold
  79. 79.
    Survival In Auschwitz
    by Primo Levi
  80. 80.
    Call To Arms
    by Lu Xun
  81. 81.
    ?
    Apocrief
    by Lucebert
  82. 82.
    Children of the Alley: A Novel
    by Naguib Mahfouz
  83. 83.
    ?
    Kamen (Stone)
    by Osip Mandelstam
  84. 84.
    Arturo's Island: A Novel (Italia Series)
    by Elsa Morante
  86. 86.
    ?
    Requiem
    by Rainer Maria Rilke
  87. 87.
    No Exit
    by Jean-Paul Sarte
  88. 88.
    Death and the King's Horsemen
    by by Wole Soyinka
  89. 89.
    ?
    Poezie
    by Georg Trakl
  90. 90.
    ?
    The Buccaneers
    by Edith Wharton
  91. 91.
    ?
    The Aleph
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  92. 92.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  93. 93.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett
  94. 94.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann
  95. 95.
    The Waves
    by Virginia Woolf
  96. 96.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  97. 97.
    Dubliners
    by James Joyce
  98. 98.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka
  99. 99.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  100. 100.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  102. 102.
    Shame: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
  103. 103.
    T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land

  104. 104.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  105. 105.
    This Blinding Absence of Light
    by Tahar Ben Jelloun
  106. 106.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen
  107. 107.
    Kensington Gardens
    by Fresan Rodrigo
  108. 108.
    Inez (Harvest Book)
    by Carlos Fuentes
  109. 109.
    The Raw Shark Texts: A Novel
    by Steven Hall
  110. 110.
    ?
    De Toverfluit
    by Bohumil Hrabal
  111. 111.
    A Tale of Love and Darkness
    by Amos Oz
  112. 112.
    Plowing the Dark
    by Richard Powers
  113. 113.
    The Night Watch
    by Sarah Waters
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