Syllabus: Classic Literature

Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women

  • The Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, and Liz Parker (Historical)
  • Jo by Kathleen Gros (MG Graphic Novel)
  • Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Tess Sharpe, and Jessica Spotswood (Historical YA)
  • *Beth March Returns Home from the Dead by Emily St. James (Litfic)

Austen, Jane

Emma

  • Mismatched by Anne Camlin (YA GN)
  • Recommended Reading by Paul Coccia (M/M YA Romance)
  • Emma by the Sea by Sarah G. Levine (F/F Romance)
  • If I Loved You Less by Tamsen Parker (F/F Romance)
  • Emmett by L.C. Rosen (M/M YA Romance)

Mansfield Park

Northanger Abbey

  • Northranger by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo (Contemporary YA graphic novel)

Persuasion

Pride & Prejudice

Barrie, J.M.

Peter Pan

  • Peter Darling by Austin Chant (M/M Fantasy)
  • Tink and Wendy by Kelly Ann Jacobson (YA)

Brontë, Charlotte

Jane Eyre

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

The Secret Garden

Carroll, Lewis

Alice in Wonderland

  • The Nightmare-verse series by L.L. McKinney (YA Fantasy)
  • Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta (YA Fantasy)

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Sherlock Holmes

Dumas, Alexandre

The Count of Monte Cristo

DuMaurier, Daphne

Rebecca

  • House of Beth by Kelly Cullen
  • The Needfire by MK Hardy
  • *TBD by Nita Tyndall

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Rappaccini’s Daughter

  • Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell

Homer

The Odyssey

Melville, Herman

Moby Dick

Montgomery, L.M.

Anne of Green Gables

Poe, Edgar Allan

Annabel Lee

The Fall of the House of Usher 

Hop-Frog

Ligieia

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

  • “The Murders in the Rue Apartelle, Boracay” by Rin Chupeco in His Hideous Heart

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Purloined Letter

Rossetti, Christina

The Goblin Market

Shakespeare, William

As You Like It

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

  • “Dreaming of the Dark” by Lindsay Smith in That Way Madness Lies
  • Take Her Down by Lauren Emily Whalen

King Lear

  • King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, and Jamie Green (YA graphic novel)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Romeo & Juliet

  • Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan (Contemporary YA)
  • Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig (YA Historical)

The Tempest

Twelfth Night

Shelley, Mary

Sheridan Le Fanu, Joseph

Carmilla

Steinbeck, John

East of Eden

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron (Historical YA)
  • The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven (YA Thriller)

Treasure Island

Stoker, Bram

Dracula

Tolstoy, Leo

Anna Karenina

Twain, Mark

The Prince and the Pauper

  • The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston (YA)

Wilde, Oscar

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Woolf, Virginia

Mrs. Dalloway

  • Three Parties by Ziyad Saadi
  • All-Nighter by Cecilia Vinesse (YA)

Queering up your shelf, one rec at a time!