Books I Like.

Some books I like.

Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	Everyone should read Leaves of Grass! Reading Walt Whitman always makes me happy.
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
King Lear	William Shakespeare	The Shakespeare play most representative of the 20th century? Important themes in King Lear: despair, insanity, "nothingness", death. Today, considered to be one of Shakespeare's best plays.
A Study in Scarlet	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock Holmes's debut. See how Holmes and Watson meet, and get to know them both!
The Speckled Band	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	My favorite Sherlock Holmes story! Also Conan Doyle's favorite Holmes story, according to a list published in The Strand in 1927.
Poems of William Blake	William Blake
Sonnets	William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	Really interesting how Kafka treats Gregor Samsa's transformation into a huge bug. Has been very influential in the development of other literary styles: magical realism, etc.
The Pit and the Pendulum	Edgar Allan Poe	My favorite Poe story - great storytelling technique, and completely horrifying and twisted.
Poems by Emily Dickinson	Emily Dickinson
Notes from the Underground	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hamlet	William Shakespeare
Cyrano De Bergerac	Edmond Rostand
The Yellow Wallpaper	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Totally creepy, ha! And important, in terms of ideas of mental health and feminism.
The Call of the Wild	Jack London
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	No, not the albatross! Coleridge is awesome.
Wikipedia Tours: Famous Women Throughout History	DailyLit
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	Considered obscene when first published. Excellent and interesting descriptions and style of writing; important for Realism.