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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

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    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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    Oedipus the King
    by Sophocles

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    The Aeneid
    by Virgil (trans. Robert Fagles)

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    Roelandslied
    by Anonymous

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    Il Canzoniere
    by Petrarca

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    The Thousand and One Nights (complete collection)
    by Anonymous

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    Beowulf

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    La Divina Commedia
    by Dante Alighieri

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    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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    Yvain, knight of the lion
    by Chretien de Troyes

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    The Lus'iads (The World's Classics)
    by Luis De Camoes

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    The Book of the Courtier (Dover Value Editions)
    by Baldassare Castiglione

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    Lof der Zotheid
    by Desiderius Erasmus

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    Montaigne: Essays
    by Michel de Montaigne

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    Utopia
    by Thomas More

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    Gargantua et Pantagruel
    by Rabelais

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    Gerusalemme Liberate
    by Torquato Tasso

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    The Man in the Moon
    by Francis Godwin

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    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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    Le Cid
    by Pierre Corneille

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    Marlowe - The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus
    by Christopher Marlowe

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    Paradise Lost
    by John Milton

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    Pensees
    by Blaise Pascal

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    Contes de ma mère l’Oye (Stories of Mother Goose)
    by Charles Perrault

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    Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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    Hyperion
    by Friedrich Holderlin

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    Lettres Persanes
    by Montesquieu

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    An Essay on Man
    by Alexander Pope

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    The Mysteries of Udolpho
    by Ann Radcliffe

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    Confessions
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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    Gulliver's Travels (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire

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    The Sorrows of Young Werther
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe

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    Een nagelaten bekentenis (Dutch Edition)
    by Marcellus Emants

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    Effi Briest
    by Theodor Fontane

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    Verzen
    by Herman Gorter

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    The Book of Songs
    by Heinrich Heine

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    Nachtstücke
    by E.T.A. Hoffmann

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    Heinrich von Kleist
    by Der Zerbrochene Krug

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  44. 45.
    Collected Poems
    by Stéphane Mallarmé

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    Lelia
    by George Sand

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    Les Illusions perdues
    by Balzac

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    Les Fleurs du Mal
    by Baudelaire

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    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  50. 52.
    Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

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    Turn of the Screw
    by Henry James

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    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    Moby-Dick (Enriched Classics Series)
    by Herman Melville

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    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  57. 61.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  58. 62.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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    Malina
    by Ingeborg Bachmann

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    Le Sang Des Autres
    by Simone De Beauvoir

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    De Kapellekensbaan
    by Louis Paul Boon

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    The Man Outside
    by Wolfgang Borchert

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    Bint
    by F. Bordewijk

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    Mother Courage
    by Bertold Brecht

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    Nadja
    by Andre Breton

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    The Plague
    by Camus, Albert

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    Het verdriet van België : roman
    by Hugo Claus

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    Foe
    by J M Coetzee

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    Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartements
    by Assia Djebar

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    Hiroshima mon amour.
    by Marguerite Duras

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  71. 76.
    My Son's Story
    by Nadine Gordimer

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  72. 77.
    The Piano Teacher: A Novel
    by Elfriede Jelinek

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    Verzen
    by J.H. Leopold

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  74. 79.
    Survival In Auschwitz
    by Primo Levi

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  75. 80.
    Call To Arms
    by Lu Xun

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    Apocrief
    by Lucebert

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  77. 82.
    Children of the Alley: A Novel
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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    Kamen (Stone)
    by Osip Mandelstam

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    Arturo's Island: A Novel (Italia Series)
    by Elsa Morante

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    Requiem
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

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    No Exit: A Play in One Act
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    Death and the King's Horsemen
    by by Wole Soyinka

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    Poezie
    by Georg Trakl

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    The Buccaneers
    by Edith Wharton

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    The Aleph
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  86. 92.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

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  88. 94.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

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  89. 95.
    The Waves
    by Virginia Woolf

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  90. 96.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  91. 97.
    Dubliners
    by James Joyce

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  92. 98.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  93. 99.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  94. 100.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  95. 102.
    Shame: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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  96. 103.
    T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land

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  97. 104.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  98. 105.
    This Blinding Absence of Light
    by Tahar Ben Jelloun

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  99. 106.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  100. 107.
    Kensington Gardens
    by Rodrigo Fresan

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  101. 108.
    Inez (Harvest Book)
    by Carlos Fuentes

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    The Raw Shark Texts
    by Steven Hall

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    De Toverfluit
    by Bohumil Hrabal

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  104. 111.
    A Tale of Love and Darkness
    by Amos Oz

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  105. 112.
    Plowing the Dark
    by Richard Powers

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  106. 113.
    The Night Watch
    by Sarah Waters

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Created by Lady Gray on Mar 26, 2009.