120 books
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Listopia > Franchescanado's votes on the list Book List from "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" (100 Books)
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W. H. Auden Poems
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"For the poems "Musee des Beaux Arts" and "In Praise of Limestone"."
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Going to Meet the Man
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"For the story "Sonny's Blues"."
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Waiting for Godot
by See Review |
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Beowulf
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"Foster mentions the Seamus Heaney translation."
Franchescanado
rated it 4 stars
See Review |
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T.C. Boyle Stories
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"For the short story "The Overcoat II""
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Water Music
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World's End
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Hotel du Lac
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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Nights at the Circus
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Wise Children
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Cathedral
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"For the title story "Cathedral"."
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The Canterbury Tales
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Heart of Darkness
by See Review |
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Lord Jim
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Pricksongs and Descants
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"For the story "The Gingerbread House"."
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The Bridge
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The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)
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"Foster recommends all of the Morse detective novels, but names this one specifically."
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The Old Curiosity Shop
by See Review |
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A Christmas Carol
by See Review |
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David Copperfield
by See Review |
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Bleak House
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Great Expectations
by See Review |
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Ragtime
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The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet, #1-4)
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
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"For the title poem "The Waste Land" and for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock""
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Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
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The Sound and the Fury
by See Review |
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As I Lay Dying
by See Review |
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Absalom, Absalom!
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Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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Tom Jones
by See Review |
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The Great Gatsby
by See Review |
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
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A Room with a View
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Howards End
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A Passage to India
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The Magus
by See Review |
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
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"Specifically for the poems "After Apple Picking", "The Woodpile", "Out, Out--", and "Mowing"."
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
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"For the title story "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" and "The Pedersen Kid"."
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Blindness
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Living
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Party Going
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Loving
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The Maltese Falcon
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Wessex Tales
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"For the story "The Three Strangers"."
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by See Review |
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Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
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"For the stories "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Man of Adamant"."
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The Scarlet Letter
by See Review |
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The House of the Seven Gables
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Opened Ground
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"For the poems "Bogland" and "Clearances"."
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North
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The Sun Also Rises
by See Review |
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A Farewell to Arms
by See Review |
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The Old Man and the Sea
by See Review |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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"For "Big Two-Hearted River", "Indian Camp", "Hills Like White Elephants" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"."
Franchescanado
added it to to-read
See Review |
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The Iliad
by See Review |
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The Odyssey
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The Turn of the Screw
by See Review |
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Dubliners
by See Review |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by See Review |
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The Complete Stories
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"For "The Metamorphosis" and "A Hunger Artist"."
Franchescanado
rated it 5 stars
See Review |
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The Trial
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The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
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Pigs in Heaven (Greer Family, #2)
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The Poisonwood Bible
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Sons and Lovers
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Women in Love
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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The Virgin and the Gipsy
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Selected Short Stories
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"For "The Horse Dealer's Daughter", "The Fox", and "The Rocking-Horse Winner"."
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Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
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A Severed Head
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The Unicorn
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The Sea, the Sea
by See Review |
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The Green Knight
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Lolita
by See Review |
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Going After Cacciato
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The Things They Carried
by See Review |
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The Complete Stories and Poems
by See Review |
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The Crying of Lot 49
by See Review |
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The Collected Poems
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The Far Field
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The Complete Works
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"Foster recommends the following: "Hamlet", "Romeo & Juliet", "Julius Ceasar", "Macbeth", "King Lear", "Henry V", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Much Ado About Nothing", "The Tempest", "A Winter's Tale", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night". And all of the sonnets."
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Frankenstein
by See Review |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by See Review |
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
by See Review |
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The Faerie Queene
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The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales
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"For "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Master of Ballantrae"."
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Dracula
by See Review |
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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Selected Stories
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Omeros
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The Hearts and Lives of Men
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Mrs. Dalloway
by See Review |
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To the Lighthouse
by See Review |
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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"For the poems "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "Easter 1916", and "The Wild Swans at Coole"."
Franchescanado
added it to to-read
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