READING SELECTION

ACADEMIC WORKS (PERIODS OF LITERATURE)

OLD ENGLISH OR ANGLO SAXON ERA

Beowulf , anonymous

The wanderer, anonymous

MIDDLE ENGLISH (1066-1500)

The Canterbury tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

Sir Gawain and the Green knight, anonymous

ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1500- 1660)

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

The merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare

Richard III, William Shakespeare

The tempest, William Shakespeare

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

King Lear, William Shakespeare

A midsummer night’s dream, William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Othello, William Shakespeare

As you like it, William Shakespeare

Or any other play or compilation of sonnets by Shakespeare

NEO CLASSICAL PERIOD

ENGLAND 1660-1785 USA 1750- 1800

Paradise lost, John Milton

Gulliver’s travels, Jonathan Swift

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

Sense and sensibility, Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Or any other novel by Jane Austen

ROMANTIC PERIOD

ENGLAND 1785-1830 USA 1800- 1860

Faust – Goethe ( not originally in English)

The first book of Urizen, William Blake

Don Juan, Lord Byron

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott

The legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

Edgar Allan Poe’s selected tales: The murders in the rue Morgue, The fall of the house of Usher,
The black cat, The masque of the red death, The tell-tale heart, The pit and the pendulum.

The last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

The Scarlet letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Leaves of grass , Walt Withman

VICTORIAN PERIOD

ENGLAND 1832- 1901

Great expectations, Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

A Christmas’ Carol, Charles Dickens

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

A tale of two cities, Charles Dickens

The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling

Alice’s adventures in wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The importance of beign Earnest, Oscar Wilde

The picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

REALISTIC PERIOD

AMERICA 1860-1914

The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

The devil’s dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

EDWARDIAN PERIOD

ENGLAND 1901 -1914

War of the worlds, H.G. Wells

The time machine, H.G. Wells

The island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells

The invisible man, H.G. Wells

MODERN PERIOD 1914-1945

The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams

Dubliners, James Joyce

Ulysses, James Joyce

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

The Trial, Franz Kafka

The Old man and the sea, Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to arms, Ernest Hemingway

The sun also rises, Ernest Hemingway

As I lay dying, William Faulkner

The sound of the fury, William Faulkner

The great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald

The grapes of wrath, John Steinback

To the lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

The voyage out, Virginia Woolf

ADDITIONAL READING (CONTEMPORARY WORKS)

EPIC/ FANTASY

Stardust- Neil Gaiman

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

American gods, Neil Gaiman

Anansi boys, Neil Gaiman

The graveyard book, Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

Or any other novel or compilation of stories by Neil Gaiman

The silmarillion, J.R.R Tolkien

The Hobbit, J.R.R TOLKIEN

The fellowship of the ring, J.R.R TOLKIEN

The two towers, J.R.R TOLKIEN

The return of the King, J.R.R TOLKIEN

A game of thrones, George R.R Martin

A clash of kings, George R.R. Martin

A Storm of swords, George R.R. Martin

A feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin

Any book of The Harry Potter Saga

Any book of the Narnia Chronicles

Nicholas Saint North and the battle of the Nightmare King, William Joyce

E. Aster Bunnymund and the warrior eggs at the earths’ core, William Joyce

Toothiana, Queen of the tooth fairy armies, William Joyce

The wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Any book of the Discworld saga, by Terry Pratchett

Truckers, Terry Pratchett

Diggers, Terry Pratchett

HORROR/ SUSPENSE/ THRILLERS/ADVENTURE

IT , Stephen King

The shining, Stephen King

The mist, Stephen King

Duma Key, Stephen King

Any book of the dark tower series, Stephen King

The stand, Stephen King

Worl war Z, Max Brooks

Rosemary´s baby, Ira leving

Exorcist,William Peter Blatty

The road, Corman Mc Carthy

Selected tales of HP Lovecraft: The call of Cthulhu, At the mountains of madness, Dagon,The
terrible old man, The music of Erich Zann

Sherlock Holmes: the hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes: A study in scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

King Solomon’s mines, Henry Ridder Haggard

Science Fiction

Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, Douglas Adams

Foundation, Isaac Asimov

Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov

Second foundation, Isaac Asimov

The caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov

Ringworld, Larry Niven

1984, George Orwell

Animal farm, George Orwell

Brave New world, Aldous Huxley

Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

The illustrated man , Ray Bradbury

The martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Complete poetry, Ray Bradbury

Do androids dream of electric sheep?, Philip K. Dick

The minority report and other tales, Philip K. Dick

The man in the high castle, Philip K. Dick

Starship troopers, Robert A. Heinlein

The number of the beast, Robert A. Heinlein

Neuromancer, Willian Gibson

Count zero, William Gibson

Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson

Burning Chrome, William Gibson

Virtual light, William Gibson

Idoru, William Gibson

GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Watchmen, Alan Moore

The league of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore

V for Vendetta, Alan Moore

300, Frank Miller * ( short story, if you select this, you need to read an additional short graphic
novel)

Kingdome Come, Mark Weid and Alex Ross

The pride of Baghdad, Brian K. Vaughan

Sandman: Preludes and nocturnes, Neil Gaiman

Sandman: The doll’s house, Neil gaiman

Sandman: dream country, Neil Gaiman

Sandman:Season of mists, Neil Gaiman

A history of violence, Matt Wagner

Maus, Art Spiegelman

Palestine, Joe Sacco

The dark Knight returns, Frank Miller

The Crow, James O’ Barr

Uncle Sam, Steve Darnall , Alex Ross

Superman : Peace on earth, Alex Ross* ( short story, if you select this, you need to read an
additional short graphic novel)

Batman: war on crime, Paul Dini- Alex Ross* ( short story, if you select this, you need to read an
additional short graphic novel)

Wonder woman: Spirit of truth, Paul Dini-Alex Ross ( short story, if you select this, you need to
read an additional short graphic novel)

Shazam: The power of Hope, Paul Dini-Alex Ross ( short story, if you select this, you need to read
an additional short graphic novel)

Any compilation of Lone Wolf and Cub

Hellboy: Seed of destruction

Preacher, Garth Ennis

Hitler: A graphic novel

Logicomix: an epic search for truth, Apostolos Doxadis

All Star Superman

The Joker, Death of the family

The Joker, Endgame

Batman: The killing joke

From Hell, Alan Moore

Fables , Bill Willingham

Most recent options:

Towards Zero – Agatha Christie

Lord Edward Dies- Agatha Christie

They came to Baghdad- Agatha Christie

At Bertram’s Hotel- Agatha Christie

Lord of the flies- William Golding

The number of the beast- Robert A. Heinlein

The Hunt for the red October- Tom Clancy

The vampire lestat- Anne Rice

On the road- Jack Kerouac

Big sur, Jack Kerouac

The Dharma bums, Jack Kerouac

Visions of Cody, Jack Kerouac

Book of blues, Jack Kerouac

Junky, William Burroughs

The naked lunch, William Burroughs

Queer, William Burroughs

Howl, Allen Ginsberg

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

The satanic verses- Salman Rushdie

The fight club – Chuck Palahniuk

The neverending story- Michael Ende

The Strain- Guillermo del Toro

Oil, Upton Sinclair

Savages, Don Winslow

Irish folk and fairy tales, W.B. Yeats

A knight of the seven kingdoms, George R.R. Martin

The Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

Make something up, Chuck Plahniuk

Conan, The Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard

Women, Charles Bukowski

On love, Charles Bukowski

Factotum, Charles Bukowski

Collected stories, William Faulkner

The house of the seven gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne