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Question: Can you recommend good books to a college freshman that might help her attain an A+ in English!?
I just started college last week and I have one major problem right now!. English professors are already expecting that I have read classic books!.!.!. which obviously I haven't!. When I attended primary and secondary education, they didn't provide us long reading lists!. There were no even book reports!!! I've read J!.R!.R Tolkien, Khaled Hosseini, J!.K!. Rowling and some YA novels by myself due to my interests!. That's it!
Concerning the books (a list, if possible) please please start recommending books from the era of Aristotle, Plato and others up until to the 21st century!. I hope you could help me!.
I am suffering at this moment!.!.!.!. staked through my heart 'cause of this situation!.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Here's a complete list for you:-
Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner by George Eliot
Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, A tale of Two Cities and Bleak House by Charles Dickens!.
The Grapes of wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl,Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck
Tess of the Duberville, Jude the Obscure, The return of the Native, Under the Greenwood tree, A Pair of Blue eyes,The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Madding Crowd and The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Villette, Shirley, The Professor,and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Agnes Grey, The tenant of Windfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Alchemist and Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
The Great Gatsby by F!. Scott Fitzgerald
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Diary of Anne Frank
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth and any other play by Shakespeare
The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart and other stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Sun also Rises by Earnest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury and Light in August by William Faulkner
All Quite on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque
Night by Elie Wiesel
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost, Salome, Vera Or The Nihilists,The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles
Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malroy
The Metamorphosis by Kafka
Candide by Voltaire
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Lost world and the Time Machine by H!.G!.Wells
Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry and Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor
A Grain Of Wheat, Matigari and Devil on the Cross by Ngugi
Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
The Grass is Singing by Dorris Lessing
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe!.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
A Room with A View and A Passage to India by E!.M!.Forster
Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez
A House For Mr Biswas and Mr Stone and the Knights companion by V!.S!.Naipaul
The Guide, The English Teacher, Waiting for the Mahatma and Malgudi Days by R!.K!.Narayan
A Streetcar named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennesse Williams
All My Sons, Death of A Salesman, The Crucible and A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Mary Barton and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Actually, what I sometimes did was to read other books by the authors I was studying but which were not on my syllabus!. That really helped me in better understanding the style of the author as well as their interests while writing their books!. It might also help to read books by authors who are contemporaries of the author you are studying, just to get a grasp of the different schools of thought at that time!. It would be interesting to draw out a list of similarities and differences between the different authors!.
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Here's where I'd start:
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
King Lear
Othello
Then,
The Great Gatsby
Invisible Man
Animal Farm and/or 1984
Pride and Prejudice
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Start there, any of those books will have themes and ideas that you can apply to almost any writing prompt!. You've got your work cut out for you, good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com