Since I am re-starting school in January, I thought of checking out the latest reading list so I can do some preparatory work. And I almost fainted when I saw the list. Just for set books alone, not counting reference and academic books, I have to read about ninety in order to fulfil the requirements of the entire course!
Since I will be taking sixteen modules, minus away four modules of English Language, that leaves twelve modules of English Literature, which makes an average of eight books per module. Now I think my previous tertiary course is more relaxed in comparison, since I only need to read an average of five books per module.
Just in case something happens to the hardcopy of the list, I may as well have a copy of the reading list so there will always be easy reference. And here goes... a time for stress and headaches....
1. Medea and Other Plays, Euripedes (trans. P. Vellacott) (Penguin)
2. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw (Penguin)
3. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (ed. Angela Smith) (Penguin)
4. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (Why not include Troilus and Criseyde instead?)
5. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (Oxford World's Classics)
6. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818 text (Oxford World's Classics)
7. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (Oxford World's Classics)
8. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev (Oxford World's Classics)
9. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen (Dover - Constable)
10. Top Girls, Caryl Churchill (Methuen Student Edition)
11. Henry V
12. Othello
13. As You Like It
all by William Shakespeare (New Penguin Shakespeare)
14. The Colour Purple, Alice Walker (The Women's Press)
15. The Rover, Aphra Behn
16. A Misummer Night's Dream
17. Richard II
18. Macbeth
19. Antony and Cleopatra
20. Hamlet
21. Measure For Measure
22. Twelfth Night
23. King Lear
24. The Tempest
25. Cymbeline
26. The Sonnets
all by William Shakespare (Norton Shakespeare)
(WAIT A MINUTE! NO ROMEO AND JULIET?! WHY??????????????)
27. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (Flamingo - an imprint of Harper Collins)
28. A Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce (Flamingo)
29. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (Penguin Books)
30. Cousin Bette, Honore de Balzac (Penguin Books)
31. On The Eve, Ivan Turgenev (Penguin Books)
32. Middlemarch, George Eliot (Penguin Books)
33. What Maisie Knew, Henry James (Penguin Books)
34. Tess Of The D'Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Books)
35. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Penguin Books)
36. Germinal, Emile Zola (Penguin Books)
37. Anna Karenin, Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Books)
38. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (Penguin Books)
39. Three Novellas, D H Lawrence (Penguin Books)
40. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (Oxford University Press World Classics)
41. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (Minerva Books - an imprint of Reed International)
42. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (Oxford World's Classics)
43. The Awakening, Kate Chopin (Oxford World's Classics)
44. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (Oxford World's Classics)
45. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins (Oxford World's Classics)
46. Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens (Oxford World's Classics)
47. Madam Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (Penguin)
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (Oxford World's Classics)
49. Portrait Of A Lady, Henry James (Oxford World's Classics)
50. Dracula, Bram Stoker
51. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (Heinemann International)
52. Empire Of The Son, J. G. Ballard (Grafton)
53. Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht (Methuen)
54. The Outsider, Albert Camus (Penguin)
55. The Waste Land and Other Poems, T. S. Eliot (Faber & Faber)
56. A Passage To India, E. M. Forster (Penguin)
57. England Made Me, Graham Greene (Penguin)
58. The Virgin And The Gypsy, D H Lawrence (Penguin)
59. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison (Vintage)
60. In A Free State, V. S. Naipaul (Picador)
61. The Painter Of Signs, R. K. Narayan (Penguin)
62. Madmen and Specialists, Wole Soyinka (Methuen)
63. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (Penguin)
64. Officers and Gentlemen, Evelyn Waugh (Penguin)
65. Five Plays, Anton Chekhov (Oxford University Press)
66. Selected Stories, Katherine Mansfield (Oxford University Press)
67. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic-Gibbon (Canongate)
68. Poetry of the Thirties, Robin Skelton (ed.) (Penguin)
69. Prufrock and Other Observations, T. S. Eliot (Faber & Faber)
70. Life of Galileo, Bertolt Brecht (Methuen Student Edition)
71. Orlando, Virginia Woolf (Oxford University Press)
72. Labyrinths With Path Of Thunder, Christopher Okigbo
73. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (Virago)
74. HOWL and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg (City Lights)
75. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K. Dick (SF Masterworks)
76. Kiss Of The Spiderwoman, Manuel Puig (Vintage)
77. Waiting For Godot, Samuel Beckett (Samuel French Ltd)
78. New Selected Poems 1966 - 1987, Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
79. Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury)
80. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (Penguin)
81. The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer (Penguin)
82. Hinterland : Afro Caribbean and Black British Poetry, E. A. Markham (ed.) (Bloodaxe Books)
83. Have You Seen Zandile?, G Mhlope, T. Mitshali, M. Vanrenen (Heinemann / Methuen)
84. Rich Like Us, Nayantara Sahgal (Sceptre)
85. The Port Elizabeth Plays, Athol Fugard, ed. D. Walder (Oxford University Press)
86. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer (Penguin)
87. The Lonely Londoners, Sal Selvon (Longman)
88. Selected Poems, Rabindranath Tagore, ed. and trans. W. Radice (Penguin)
89. Poems selected by Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats (Faber)
90. The Iliad, Homer, translated by R. Lattimore (University of Chicago Press)
91. The Odyssey of Homer, Homer, translated by R. Lattimore (Harper Perennial)
Whew! Is it any wonder why I used to be called a nerd and geek?
Since I will be taking sixteen modules, minus away four modules of English Language, that leaves twelve modules of English Literature, which makes an average of eight books per module. Now I think my previous tertiary course is more relaxed in comparison, since I only need to read an average of five books per module.
Just in case something happens to the hardcopy of the list, I may as well have a copy of the reading list so there will always be easy reference. And here goes... a time for stress and headaches....
1. Medea and Other Plays, Euripedes (trans. P. Vellacott) (Penguin)
2. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw (Penguin)
3. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (ed. Angela Smith) (Penguin)
4. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (Why not include Troilus and Criseyde instead?)
5. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (Oxford World's Classics)
6. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818 text (Oxford World's Classics)
7. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (Oxford World's Classics)
8. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev (Oxford World's Classics)
9. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen (Dover - Constable)
10. Top Girls, Caryl Churchill (Methuen Student Edition)
11. Henry V
12. Othello
13. As You Like It
all by William Shakespeare (New Penguin Shakespeare)
14. The Colour Purple, Alice Walker (The Women's Press)
15. The Rover, Aphra Behn
16. A Misummer Night's Dream
17. Richard II
18. Macbeth
19. Antony and Cleopatra
20. Hamlet
21. Measure For Measure
22. Twelfth Night
23. King Lear
24. The Tempest
25. Cymbeline
26. The Sonnets
all by William Shakespare (Norton Shakespeare)
(WAIT A MINUTE! NO ROMEO AND JULIET?! WHY??????????????)
27. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (Flamingo - an imprint of Harper Collins)
28. A Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce (Flamingo)
29. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (Penguin Books)
30. Cousin Bette, Honore de Balzac (Penguin Books)
31. On The Eve, Ivan Turgenev (Penguin Books)
32. Middlemarch, George Eliot (Penguin Books)
33. What Maisie Knew, Henry James (Penguin Books)
34. Tess Of The D'Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Books)
35. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Penguin Books)
36. Germinal, Emile Zola (Penguin Books)
37. Anna Karenin, Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Books)
38. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (Penguin Books)
39. Three Novellas, D H Lawrence (Penguin Books)
40. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (Oxford University Press World Classics)
41. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (Minerva Books - an imprint of Reed International)
42. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (Oxford World's Classics)
43. The Awakening, Kate Chopin (Oxford World's Classics)
44. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (Oxford World's Classics)
45. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins (Oxford World's Classics)
46. Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens (Oxford World's Classics)
47. Madam Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (Penguin)
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (Oxford World's Classics)
49. Portrait Of A Lady, Henry James (Oxford World's Classics)
50. Dracula, Bram Stoker
51. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (Heinemann International)
52. Empire Of The Son, J. G. Ballard (Grafton)
53. Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht (Methuen)
54. The Outsider, Albert Camus (Penguin)
55. The Waste Land and Other Poems, T. S. Eliot (Faber & Faber)
56. A Passage To India, E. M. Forster (Penguin)
57. England Made Me, Graham Greene (Penguin)
58. The Virgin And The Gypsy, D H Lawrence (Penguin)
59. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison (Vintage)
60. In A Free State, V. S. Naipaul (Picador)
61. The Painter Of Signs, R. K. Narayan (Penguin)
62. Madmen and Specialists, Wole Soyinka (Methuen)
63. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (Penguin)
64. Officers and Gentlemen, Evelyn Waugh (Penguin)
65. Five Plays, Anton Chekhov (Oxford University Press)
66. Selected Stories, Katherine Mansfield (Oxford University Press)
67. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic-Gibbon (Canongate)
68. Poetry of the Thirties, Robin Skelton (ed.) (Penguin)
69. Prufrock and Other Observations, T. S. Eliot (Faber & Faber)
70. Life of Galileo, Bertolt Brecht (Methuen Student Edition)
71. Orlando, Virginia Woolf (Oxford University Press)
72. Labyrinths With Path Of Thunder, Christopher Okigbo
73. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (Virago)
74. HOWL and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg (City Lights)
75. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K. Dick (SF Masterworks)
76. Kiss Of The Spiderwoman, Manuel Puig (Vintage)
77. Waiting For Godot, Samuel Beckett (Samuel French Ltd)
78. New Selected Poems 1966 - 1987, Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
79. Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury)
80. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (Penguin)
81. The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer (Penguin)
82. Hinterland : Afro Caribbean and Black British Poetry, E. A. Markham (ed.) (Bloodaxe Books)
83. Have You Seen Zandile?, G Mhlope, T. Mitshali, M. Vanrenen (Heinemann / Methuen)
84. Rich Like Us, Nayantara Sahgal (Sceptre)
85. The Port Elizabeth Plays, Athol Fugard, ed. D. Walder (Oxford University Press)
86. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer (Penguin)
87. The Lonely Londoners, Sal Selvon (Longman)
88. Selected Poems, Rabindranath Tagore, ed. and trans. W. Radice (Penguin)
89. Poems selected by Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats (Faber)
90. The Iliad, Homer, translated by R. Lattimore (University of Chicago Press)
91. The Odyssey of Homer, Homer, translated by R. Lattimore (Harper Perennial)
Whew! Is it any wonder why I used to be called a nerd and geek?
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