SLS Reading List

Reading Lists for the Department of Literary Studies


 * Please note: This list is in its primary stages.  Please be patient!

Fiction

 * Major Authors
 * Ray Bradbury
 * William S. Burroughs
 * Micheal Chabon
 * Raymond Chandler
 * James Fenimore Cooper
 * Philip K. Dick
 * Ralph Ellison
 * James Ellroy
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * Robert Heinlen
 * Joseph Heller
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * Frank Herbert
 * Henry James
 * John Kennedy O'Toole
 * Jack Kerouac
 * Ken Kesey
 * Sinclair Lewis
 * Jack London
 * Herman Melville
 * Arthur Miller
 * Henry Miller
 * Edgar Allen Poe
 * Tom Robbins
 * Richard Russo
 * J.D. Salinger
 * William Shakespeare
 * John Steinbeck
 * Neal Stephenson
 * Henry David Thoreau
 * Mark Twain
 * Kurt Vonnegut
 * Robert Penn Warren


 * Important Works
 * Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
 * Big Sur
 * Cannery Row
 * Catcher in the Rye
 * Confederacy of Dunces
 * Demon Box
 * Dr. Sax
 * Dune
 * East of Eden
 * Elmer Gantry
 * Empire Falls
 * Fahrenheit 451
 * For Whom the Bell Tolls
 * Invisible Man
 * Kings Blood Royal
 * Last of the Mohicans
 * Lost Horizon
 * Main Street
 * Moby Dick
 * Naked Lunch
 * Neuromancer
 * Of Mice and Men
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 * On The Road
 * Stranger in a Strange Land
 * The Beautiful and Damned
 * The Grapes of Wrath
 * The Great Gatsby
 * The Lord of the Flies
 * The Love of the Last Tycoon
 * The Martian Chronicles
 * The Rosy Crucifixion
 * The Sun Also Rises
 * The Town and the City
 * This Side of Paradise
 * To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Tortilla Flat
 * Walden

Poetry

 * Major Authors
 * John Ashberry
 * John Berryman
 * E.E. Cummings
 * Emily Dickinson
 * John Donne
 * Thomas Stearns Eliot
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Robert Frost
 * Langston Hughes
 * Kenneth Koch
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * Frank O'Hara
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Ezra Pound
 * Arthur Rimbaud
 * Wallace Stevens
 * Dylan Thomas
 * Walt Whitman