Compiled Reading List

I know I already posted about what books are on my list for post-graduation but it's much more convenient for me if they are in one place and updated. They are in some kind of order, with most wanted near the top. From here on I'll just modify this post as the list expands rather than add new posts.

Round 1 (immediate):
V.S. Naipaul: Guerillas
Hesse: Steppenwolf
Goethe: Faust part 1
Keats
Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
Auster
Jonathan Culler: Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature
Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality, Social Contract
Wilde: Dorian Gray
Mishima: Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Round 2:
Homer: the Iliad and/or Odyssey
Dylan Thomas
Hesse: The Glass Bead Game
Rupert Brooke: Collected poems
Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned
Plath
Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five
Kafka: The System, The Metamorphosis

Round 3:
Faulkner: Light in August, A Fable
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Dante: Divine Comedy
Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Moveable Feast
Shakespeare: sonnets, King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet
Lord Tennyson: Ulysses
Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals
Emily Dickinson
Wittgenstein: Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik (Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics), or Philosophische Bemerkungen
Mann: The Magic Mountain
Sophocles: Antigone
Vasilii Semenovich Grossman: Life and Fate
Tennyson: suggestions?
Shaw: Pygmalion (maybe)
Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen
Oppen
Carver: Will you Please be Quiet, Please?, Cathedral
Bertrand Russell: Principles of Mathematics
Schiller: William Tell

Summer list addendum

Reading This Side of Paradise has added some members to my reading list [1][2]:

Rupert Brooke: Collected poems
Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
Tennyson: suggestions?
Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality, Social Contract
Shaw: Pygmalion (maybe)
Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned
Oppen
Faulkner: A Fable
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

Summer reading list

Going through Daniel Marcus' book on Number Fields, completing the proofs of the elementary results about number rings in Microsoft Word is getting tedious so I'm extending my break again. In the same vain as the post on my summer poetry list, I'm starting to compile another list. The two are really one list, but we can think of them as subgroups or, more aptly, orders. ok -

Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen, and maybe Faust part 1


Bertrand Russell: Principles of Mathematics

Wittgenstein: Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik (Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics), or Philosophische Bemerkungen (Philosophical Remarks) if I don't like Russell's

Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise, The Last Tycoon


Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Mann: The Magic Mountain
Hesse: Steppenwolf(!), The Glass Bead Game


Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals

Secondaries:

Schiller: William Tell (maybe)
Sophocles: Antigone
Vasilii Semenovich Grossman: Life and Fate

Have any recommendations?

Poets to read

I'm taking a break from writing my thesis, which is due in a week, and I started thinking about all the post-graduation reading I'd like to do. And this got me thinking about poetry. With the internet at my fingertips, I searched for poets I'd like to invite to sit on my never-ending reading list. Given the sheer volume of the poetic repertoire, one can easily imagine the difficulty anyone has in narrowing down the potentials to a manageable collection. I've come up with the following poets so far. Feel free to add or subtract, keeping in mind my position as a genuine new-comer to the world of poetry and the limited amount of time and energy I have to gobble up these works. (Remember, this is not a complete list, but rather a realistic list of the poets I can approach this summer and next year)

Homer: the Iliad and/or Odyssey
Dante: Divine Comedy
Shakespeare: sonnets
Lord Tennyson: Ulysses

Emily Dickinson

Dylan Thomas

Keats

Sylvia Plath


What does your list look like?