Bored at home due to unemployment so decided to make a list of books I recommend to people. Credentials: BA in Literature and History, MA in American Literature. Poetry: Spring and All - William Carlos Williams The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot Harmonium - Wallace Stevens Complete Works of John Keats - John Keats The Prelude - William Wordsworth The Complete Works of Alexander Pope - Alexander Pope The Complete Works of Sergei Esenin - Sergei Esenin The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Observations - Marriane Moore Ariel - Sylvia Plath Howl - Allen Ginsberg Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes The Tower - W.B. Yeats My Life - Lyn Hejinian Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman The Sonnets - William Shakespeare The Bridge - Hart Crane White Buildings - Hart Crane Plays Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen Miss Julie - August Strindberg Oedipus Rex - Sophocles Hamlet - William Shakespeare MacBeth - William Shakespeare King Lear - William Shakespeare Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare Othello - William Shakespeare The Tempest - William Shakespeare The Jew of Malta - Christopher Marlow Tamburlaine - Christopher Marlow Volpone - Ben Jonson The Alchemist - Ben Jonson Bartholomew Fair - Ben Jonson Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchid - Anton Chekhov The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett A Street Car Named Desire - Tennessee Williams All My Sons - Arthur Miller The Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller The Emperor Jones - Eugene O'Neill The Hairy Ape - Eugene O'Neill Novels Animal Farm - George Orwell 1984 - George Orwell Waterland - Graham Swift Guillvers Travels - Jonathan Swift Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll King Solomon's Mines - H.R. Haggard War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad A Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway - Vriginia Woolf Dubliners - James Joyce A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce The Poor Mouth - Flan O'Brien The Third Policeman - Flan O'Brien Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgeald The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemmingway The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinback The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Naked Lunch - William Bouroughs The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pychon Underworld - Don DeLillo Blood Merian - Cormac McCarthy The Road - Cormac McCarthy Lord of the Flies - William Golding Metamophsis - Franz Kafka The Trial - Franz Kafka American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Foe - J.M. Coetzee A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien The Periodic Table - Primo Levi In Cold Blood - Truman Capote The Shinning - Stephen King Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams That seems about it...
Glad to see Flan O"Brien on there. He's one of my favorite authors, and his books are probably the funniest books I've ever read.
