literature I love

Novels:

  • War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
  • Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
  • The Cloister (James Carroll)
  • The Betrayals (Bridget Collins)
  • The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
  • Old School (Tobias Wolff)
  • The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
  • The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
  • Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld)
  • After Sappho (Selby Wynn Schwartz)
  • Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)

Short stories:

  • “Fitting Ends” (Dan Chaon)
  • “Carried Away” (Alice Munro)
  • Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)

Drama:

  • The Crucible (Arthur Miller)

Poetry:

  • Sonnets of William Shakespeare
  • “Dirge Without Music” (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  • “Eloisa to Abelard” (Alexander Pope)
  • In Memoriam (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
  • Poem 101 (Catullus)
  • “I stood tip-toe upon a little hill” (John Keats)

Nonfiction:

  • The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (Abraham Joshua Heschel)

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