# Wereldliteratuur/Engelse literaire canon

Enkele aanbevolen werken (gebaseerd op 'The Book of Great Books, a guide to 100 classics' van W. John Campbell).
Een mooie 'must read'-lijst voor liefhebbers van Engelstalige literatuur (zowel Engelse als Amerikaanse). Veelvraat Shakespeare is vertegenwoordigd met 14 werken. Deze lijst wordt onderaan vervolledigd met een aantal andere bekende Engelstalige romans die vaak in anthologieën worden opgenomen.
* All the King’s Men: Robert Penn Warren
* Animal Farm: George Orwell
* As I Lay Dying: William Faulkner
* As You Like It: William Shakespeare
* The Awakening: Kate Chopin
* Beowulf: anoniem
* Billy Budd: Herman Melville
* The Bluest Eye: Toni Morrison
* Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
* The Call of the Wild: Jack London
* The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer
* Catch-22: Joseph Heller
* The Color Purple: Alice Walker
* The Crucible: Arthur Miller
* Daisy Miller: Henry James
* David Copperfield: Charles Dickens
* Death of a Salesman: Arthur Miller
* Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe
* Ethan Frome: Edith Wharton
* A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway
* For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway
* Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: Mary Shelley
* The Glass Menagerie: Tennessee Williams
* The Good Earth: Pearl S. Buck
* The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck
* Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
* The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Gulliver’s Travels: Jonathan Swift
* Hamlet: William Shakespeare
* Hard Times: Charles Dickens
* Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad
* Henry IV, Part 1: William Shakespeare
* House Made of Dawn: N. Scott Momaday
* The House of the Seven Gables: Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain
* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
* Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison
* Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë
* The Joy Luck Club: Amy Tan
* Julius Caesar: William Shakespeare
* The Jungle: Upton Sinclair
* King Lear: William Shakespeare
* Light in August: William Faulkner
* Lord Jim: Joseph Conrad
* The Lord of the Flies: William Golding
* The Lord of the Rings: J. R. R. Tolkien
* Macbeth: William Shakespeare
* The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy
* The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare
* A Midsummer Night’s Dream: William Shakespeare
* Moby-Dick: Herman Melville
* Native Son: Richard Wright
* 1984: George Orwell
* Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck
* The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway
* Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Ken Kesey
* Othello: William Shakespeare
* Paradise Lost: John Milton
* The Pearl: John Steinbeck
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce
* Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
* The Red Badge of Courage: Stephen Crane
* The Return of the Native: Thomas Hardy
* Richard III: William Shakespeare
* Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare
* The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne
* A Separate Peace: John Knowles
* Silas Marner: George Eliot
* Sons and Lovers: D. H. Lawrence
* The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner
* The Sun Also Rises: Ernest Hemingway
* The Taming of the Shrew: William Shakespeare
* The Tempest: William Shakespeare
* Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy
* Their Eyes Were Watching God: Zora Neale Hurston
* Tom Sawyer: Mark Twain
* Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson
* Twelfth Night: William Shakespeare
* Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett
* Walden: Henry David Thoreau

## Aanvullend

* To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf
* Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
* The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
* To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee