The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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last updated March, 2026
Rapunzel
Jacob Grimm
Hansel and Gretel
Snow White
The Wild Swans at Coole
W.B. Yeats
Easter, 1916
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
The Hearts and Lives of Men
Fay Weldon
Omeros
Derek Walcott
A&P: Lust in the Aisles
John Updike
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Fern Hill
Dylan Thomas
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Sophocles Sophocles
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Unknown Unknown
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Complete Sonnets
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
As You Like It
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
Much Ado About Nothing
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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