Reading List
From Literepetition
Have you never heard of some of the writers reincarnated for this game? Are you wondering what to read by them to get familiar with their work? In this pretty table, players can add any of their PCs' original incarnations and mention a few titles to help inquiring minds get started. Bear in mind this is the players' opinion, not necessarily the canonical literary view, but we're more important anyway!
| Character/Writer | Recommended Reading |
| Louisa May Alcott (Louie) | Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins, Rose In Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack And Jill, Garland For Girls |
| Jane Austen (Jane) | Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Emma, Lady Susan, The Sandiltons |
| J. M. Barrie (James) | Peter Pan |
| L. Frank Baum (Frankie) | The Wizard of Oz |
| George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron (Byron) | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, The Corsair, Don Juan, "Darkness," "Farewell to the Muse," "John Keats," "The Isles of Greece," "The Prisoner of Chillon," "When We Two Parted" |
| Truman Capote (Truman) | Other Voices, Other Rooms, In Cold Blood, "A Christmas Memory," Answered Prayers |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Sammie) | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan |
| Charles Darwin (Bobby) | On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex |
| John Donne (Jack) | "The Fever," any of the Holy Sonnets, "Song: Sweetest Love I Do Not Go," "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star," "The Dream," "The Ecstasy," "The Undertaking" |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Doyle) | Any of the Sherlock Holmes books/stories |
| T. S. Eliot (Tom) | "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Hollow Men," The Waste Land, "Portrait of a Lady," "Preludes," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "La Figlia che Piange," "Ash Wednesday", Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Four Quartets |
| Ian Fleming (Ian) | Casino Royale, other assorted James Bond novels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| Dashiell Hammett (Dash) | Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man, The Continental Op |
| Robert Heinlein (Woody) | "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Methusalah's Children", "Time Enough for Love", "To Sail Beyond the Sunset", The Rolling Stones, Citizen of the Galaxy, Starship Troopers, Friday |
| Ernest Hemingway (Hemi) | The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast |
| Victor Hugo (Victor) | Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), literally any of his poetry |
| Aldous Huxley (Ailey) | Brave New World, Brave New World Revisited (essays), The Doors of Perception (essays), Island; a more extensive bibliography is [available here]. |
| Shirley Jackson (Shirley) | The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, "The Lottery" |
| Omar Khayyam (Omar) | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (I'm personally eh-ish about the translation by Edward Fitzgerald. You can find more literal translations here.) |
| Sinclair Lewis (Harry) | Babbitt, Main Street, Elmer Gantry |
| H. P. Lovecraft (Howard) | "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," "At the Mountains of Madness," "Hypno," "Pickman's Model," "The Thing at the Doorstep," "The Dunwich Horror," The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
| Niccolò Machiavelli (Nicole) | The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Dell'arte della guerra |
| Molière (Jon-Baptiste) | Le misanthrope (The Misanthrope), Tartuffe ou L'imposteur (Tartuffe/The Hypocrite), Le malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid/The Hypochondriac) |
| L. M. Montgomery (Lucy) | Anne of Green Gables (series,), Emily of New Moon (trilogy), The Blue Castle, Pat of Silver Bush, Mistress Pat, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, various short stories |
| George Orwell (Eric) | 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London |
| Dorothy Parker (Dot) | Sunset Gun, Enough Rope, "Big Blonde," The Parker Portable |
| Mervyn Peake (Minnie) | Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone |
| Edgar Allan Poe (Poe) | "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Raven," "Tamarlane," "Annabel Lee," "The Black Cat," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Telltale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado" |
| John Polidori (John) | The Vampyre, Doctor Polidori's Journal |
| Ezra Pound (Ezra) | Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, "In a Station of the Metro," "Portrait d'une Femme," The Cantos |
| Sappho (Sappho) | Go here. |
| William Shakespeare (Will) | Henry V, Macbeth, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Twelfth Night |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Mary) | Frankenstein |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley (Shelley) | "Ozymandias," The Cenci, Zastrozzi, "To a Skylark," "Ode to the West Wind," "Adonais" |
| Gertrude Stein (Trudie) | Not actually recommended, but The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| Bram Stoker (Bram) | Dracula |
| Sun Tzu (Wu) | The Art of War |
| Dylan Thomas (Dylan) | Under Milk Wood, "Do not go gentle into that good night," "Fern Hill," A Child's Christmas in Wales |
| J. R. R. Tolkien (Ron) | The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Book of Lost Tales, The Lays of Beleriand, The Children of Húrin |
| Evelyn Waugh (Evelyn) | Brideshead Revisited, Vile Bodies, Decline and Fall, Scoop |
| P.G. Wodehouse (PJ) | The Jeeves and Wooster, Blandings Castle and Psmith stories |
| William Butler Yeats (Ava) | "The Stolen Child", "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "The Song of Wandering Aengus", "Sailing to Byzantium", "The Second Coming" |
