🐯 Princeton Comparative Literature suggested reading list -- Works I've read
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The Department of Comparative Literature publishes a suggested reading list.
I use this page to track works on that list that I’ve read ✔️
Fiction (including novels & short story collections)
I’ve read the following from the list:
- Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
- Jane Austen: Sense & Sensibility
- Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby / The Beautiful & the Damned
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara & the Sun
- Henry James: The Outcry
- Min Jin Lee: Pachinko
- Toni Morrison: Beloved
- Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Drama
I’ve seen or read the following from the list:
- William Shakespeare:
- Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / The Tempest / The Winter’s Tale
- Tragedies: Coriolanus
- Histories: Henry V / Henry VIII
Nonfiction (essays, criticism, memoirs, travelogues & so on)
I’ve read the following from the list:
- Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (my highlights)
- Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
- Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto
- Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own (my highlights)
Film & other visual media
I’ve compiled a Letterboxd list of the films in this section
I’ve seen the following from the list:
- Michelangelo Antonioni: L’Avventura
- Ingmar Bergman: The Virgin Spring / Winter Light
- Charlie Chaplin: Gold Rush / The Kid
- Bernardo Bertolucci: The Last Emperor
- Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now
- Federico Fellini: La Dolce Vita
- Werner Herzog: Grizzly Man / Cave of Forgotten Dreams / Into the Inferno
- Alfred Hitchcock: North by Northwest / The Birds
- Peter Jackson: The Lord of the Rings
- Buster Keaton: The General / Sherlock Jr.
- Fritz Lang: Metropolis
- Spike Lee: 4 Little Girls / Inside Man
- George Lucas: Star Wars
- Chris Marker: La jetée
- Georges Méliès: A Trip to the Moon / The Impossible Voyage
- Hayao Miyazaki: Spirited Away
- Christopher Nolan: The Dark Knight
- Park Chan-wook: Oldboy
- Orson Welles: Citizen Kane / Chimes at Midnight
- Wong Kar-wai: The Grandmaster