Books commonly assigned in courses within the English major (undergrad)
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last updated October, 2026
Under the Feet of Jesus
Helena MarĂa Viramontes
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
Passing
Nella Larsen
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler
Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
Edward W. Said
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century
M.H. Abrams
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
An Essay on Man
Alexander Pope
Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth
The Songs and Sonets of John Donne
John Donne
The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster
Othello
William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
King Lear
Paradise Lost
John Milton
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan D. Culler
The Eclogues
Virgil
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain Poet
Beowulf
Unknown
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
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