Reposted with final books:

As an English major and bibliophile, I have read hundreds of books, journals, poems, and essays. Many friends who are fellow English majors at other colleges and non-English majors alike always ask me what I’m currently reading for class.

I thought, ‘why not make a huge list of diverse literature that I loved from my courses’! The title is stylized as published. There is no particular order although I did group the same author together!

*This list is constantly growing as I continue my studies. Feel free to bookmark this page to revisit! 🙂

Poems

• “Some Women” by Alice Munro
• “In an Artist’s Studio” by Christina Rosetti
• “Goblin’s Market” by Christina Rosetti
• “To the White Fiend” by Claude McKay
• “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
• “Mother and Son” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• “Sonnet to the Portuguese” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• “In a station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound
• “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” by Gerald Manly Hopkins
• “Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy’s Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota” by James Wright
• “Ode to Melancholy” by John Keats
• “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats
• “On Seeing Elgin Marbles” by John Keats
• “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes
• “Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” by Langston Hughes
• “Theme for English B.” by Langston Hughes
• “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes
• “Wishes for Sons” by Lucille Clifton
• “Working Title” by Mahogany Browne
• “Magical Negro #607: Gladys Knight on the 200th Episode of The Jeffersons” by Morgan Parker
• “Mutability” by Percy Shelley
• “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
• “A Red, Red, Rose” by Robert Burns
• “[he placed his hands]” by Rupi Kaur
• “Journey of the Magi” by T.S. Eliot
• “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
• “Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy
• “Easter, 1916” by William Butler Yeats
• “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth
• “The world is too much with us” by William Wordsworth
• “Lyrical Ballads” by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley
• “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth” by Phillis Wheatley
• “To Roosevelt” by Ruben Dario
• “I Cultivate a White Rose” by Jose Marti
• “Instructions for Crying” by Julio Cortazar
• “Ode to the Sea” by Pable Neruda
• “Tonight I can Write the Saddest Line” by Pablo Neruda
• “Morning” by Pablo Neruda
• “I Like for You to Be Still” by Pablo Neruda
• “Leaning into the Afternoon” by Pablo Neruda

Short Stories, Flash Fiction (FF), and Novellas

• “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
• “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan
• “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan
• “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
• “Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D. H. Lawrence
• “Stepping Out” by David Sedaris
• “One of these Days” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (FF)
• “Araby” by James Joyce
• “After Life” by Joan Didion
• “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
• “Mark on the Wall” by Virginia Woolf
• “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf
• “Borges and I” by Jorge Luis Borges
• “Rain of Fire” by Leopoldo Lugones
• “The Feathered Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga
• “El Hijo” by Horacio Quiroga
• “Continuity of Parks” by Julio Cortazar

Memoir, Nonfiction, Speeches and Letters

• How Teacher’s Make Children Hate Reading by John Holt
• Letters from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
• Writing the Australian Crawl by William Stafford
• “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth

Plays and Theatre (Noh and Loa)

• A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
• Loa to Divine Narcissus by Juana Inés de la Cruz
• Matsukaze by Kan’ami
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Fiction

• “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
• “Love and Friendship” by Jane Austen
• “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
• “Quicksand” by Nella Larsen

Additional literature can be found in reviews here.