Literary Analysis


How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
An Experiment in Criticism
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
The Power of Myth
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Tolkien On Fairy-stories
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Snape by Lorrie KimWizard! by Stephen BrownFrom Here to Hogwarts by Christopher E. BellReading Harry Potter Again by Giselle Liza AnatolHarry Potter for Nerds II by Kathryn N. McDaniel
Harry Potter Scholarship
26 books — 2 voters
Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovEast of Eden by John SteinbeckO conde de Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyA Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Man Carrying Thing
12 books — 1 voter

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Thug Notes
42 books — 6 voters

Lily King
“ I would want kids to talk and write about how the book makes them feel, what it reminded them of, if it changed their thoughts about anything. I’d have them keep a journal and have them freewrite after they read each assignment. What did this make you think about? That’s what I’d want to know. I think you could get some really original ideas that way, not the old regurgitated ones like man versus nature. Just shoot me if I ever assign anyone an essay about man versus nature. Questions like that ...more ”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

Lucy  Carter
“ Yeah,” I agreed, “the author just immediately tries to write down as many emotions as possible. Initially, I thought that the method of writing was ineffective, but eventually, I realized how the structure potently manifested her passion for her own thoughts about mental illness and the restrictions of herself and the woman in the yellow wallpaper. First off, the experience-oriented writing was relevant to the conveyance of the author’s ideas, because since the writing was, well, about experienc ...more ”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

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