Preparatory Reading List for Literature & Psychology Undergraduate Program

This post is primarily intended Hridita and Ramisa, both of who are heading for MHC this fall. Every College/University has its own reading materials for the incoming freshmen. Mount Holyoke College for example, maintains a page where titles are listed for ALL college students to engage with. Here is the LINK.

However, for the Literature and Psychology students, a selective reading list can be immensely helpful. I am breaking down the reading list under a few headings. 

1. A Short History of English Literature (Ifor Evans): One of the shortest and most readable history of literature written in English. 
2. Norton Anthology of English Poetry: This can be replaced with poem reading from Poetry Foundation website. 
3. A Selection of Novels: Tess (Thomas Hardy), Emma (Jane Austen), Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), Moby Dick (Melville), Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro). All these are available online. 
4. Non-fiction: A good introduction to Non-fiction is provided by the anthology titled Norton Short Prose. And then you can read regularly from Aeon.com
5. Having regular interaction with the newspaper Guardian Unlimited is also definitely worthwhile. 
6. Shakespeare: Watch the following Shakespeare of films = Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet (Directed by Branagh), Macbeth (Denzel Washington acted), The Tempest (Helen Mirren). For a good introduction to Shakespeare's Life watch this wonderful film Shakespeare in Love. 
7. 
   Check your college's Summer Reading List of previous 2 years and you will have a fair idea of what is coming. 
8. For Psychology go through any Wikipedia entry on Psychoanalysis and Freud. But then you must shift to Jacque Lacan.