Comp Exam Readings

1.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,625 ratings
2.
The Book of Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe 3.30 avg rating — 4,810 ratings
3.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,147 ratings
4.
Macbeth
Macbeth 3.89 avg rating — 992,095 ratings
5.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,031 ratings
6.
King Henry IV, Part 1
King Henry IV, Part 1 3.80 avg rating — 32,532 ratings
7.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,792 ratings
8.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,925 ratings
9.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,108 ratings
10.
Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross 3.87 avg rating — 18,295 ratings
11.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl
by: Unknown
3.98 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
12.
The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene 3.58 avg rating — 17,146 ratings
13.
Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy
Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy 3.63 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
14.
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia 3.59 avg rating — 740 ratings
15.
Henry IV, Part Two
Henry IV, Part Two 3.77 avg rating — 20,898 ratings
16.
The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania (MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEXTS AND STUDIES, Volume 140)
The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania (MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEXTS AND STUDIES, Volume 140) 3.56 avg rating — 34 ratings
17.
The Tempest
The Tempest 3.78 avg rating — 222,555 ratings
18.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.94 avg rating — 568,064 ratings
19.
The Complete Poems of John Donne ...
The Complete Poems of John Donne ... 4.15 avg rating — 9,888 ratings
20.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,949 ratings
21.
Volpone
Volpone 3.49 avg rating — 10,221 ratings
22.
The Masque of Blackness
The Masque of Blackness 2.16 avg rating — 166 ratings
23.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 3.84 avg rating — 511 ratings
24.
English Poems of John Milton
English Poems of John Milton 3.96 avg rating — 112 ratings
25.
Samson Agonistes
Samson Agonistes 3.75 avg rating — 2,875 ratings
26.
Areopagitica
Areopagitica 3.85 avg rating — 2,546 ratings
27.
Pamela
Pamela 2.76 avg rating — 13,354 ratings
28.
Essay on Man and Other Poems
Essay on Man and Other Poems 3.70 avg rating — 1,836 ratings
29.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 3.74 avg rating — 14,418 ratings
30.
Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Poems of Phillis Wheatley 3.86 avg rating — 431 ratings
31.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,917 ratings
32.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,993 ratings
33.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,857 ratings
34.
Poems of Frances E. W. Harper
Poems of Frances E. W. Harper 3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings
35.
The Works of William Wordsworth
The Works of William Wordsworth 4.16 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
36.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,222 ratings
37.
The Complete Walt Whitman
The Complete Walt Whitman 4.43 avg rating — 527 ratings
38.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 4.28 avg rating — 105,232 ratings
39.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,976 ratings
40.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,742 ratings
41.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,557 ratings
42.
The Waste Land and Other Poems
The Waste Land and Other Poems 4.22 avg rating — 72,694 ratings
43.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,180 ratings
44.
George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel
George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel 3.84 avg rating — 959 ratings
45.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,789 ratings
46.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,732 ratings
47.
The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.25 avg rating — 49,686 ratings
48.
The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.14 avg rating — 5,069 ratings
49.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,090 ratings
50.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,933 ratings
51.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
52.
Emplumada (Pitt Poetry Series)
Emplumada (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.15 avg rating — 303 ratings
53.
The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry
The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry 4.30 avg rating — 134 ratings
54.
Loving in the War Years
Loving in the War Years 4.21 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
55.
Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)
Fences (The Century Cycle, #6) 3.88 avg rating — 29,473 ratings
56.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,958 ratings
57.
Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology 3.97 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
58.
Dissemination
Dissemination 4.09 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
59.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating — 35,774 ratings
60.
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge 3.81 avg rating — 5,740 ratings
61.
Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,970 ratings
62.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,453 ratings
63.
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 4.26 avg rating — 2,265 ratings
64.
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire 4.07 avg rating — 633 ratings
65.
Epistemology of the Closet
Epistemology of the Closet 4.10 avg rating — 2,260 ratings
66.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,777 ratings