“Okay, look, I’m not going to rewrite this paper for you, but I will give you a couple of tips that will help you rewrite it. First, the book title Sons and Lovers does not have an apostrophe in it . . . anywhere. Second, unless your ex-boyfriend is an authority on D.H. Lawrence, don’t base your thesis on something he said while making out.” – Daria Morgendorffer

Much-loved animated sitcom Daria screened on MTV in the United States for five seasons, beginning in March 1997. A spin-off from Mike Judge’s hugely successful Beavis and Butt-head, the series centred on Daria Morgendorffer, a smart, disaffected teenager with a caustic wit.

While Daria’s favourite TV show, Sick Sad World, featured heavily throughout the series, the show was also filled with literary references. Here are 57 books that Daria read or that were mentioned during the episodes, with links to free eBook editions where available in parentheses. As DariaWiki puts it, “If it’s old, morbid, or esoteric, Daria will read the hell out of it.”

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri ( Gutenberg Kindle Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ( Gutenberg City of Glass by Paul Auster Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ( Gutenberg Kindle The Red Badge of Courage by by Stephen Crane ( Gutenberg Kindle Fifth Business by Robertson Davies A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe ( Gutenberg Kindle ) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( Gutenberg The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( Gutenberg Kindle Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ( Gutenberg Kindle As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner On Moral Fiction by John Gardner The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya by Pierre Gassier Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Iliad by Homer ( Gutenberg Kindle Daisy Miller by Henry James ( Gutenberg Kindle The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ( Gutenberg Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant ( Gutenberg Kindle The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence ( Gutenberg Kindle Death in Venice by Thomas Mann Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Moby Dick by Herman Melville ( Gutenberg Kindle Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 1984 by George Orwell ( eBooks@Adelaide Animal Farm by George Orwell ( eBooks@Adelaide The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe ( Gutenberg Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre Black Beauty by Anna Sewell ( Gutenberg Kindle Macbeth by William Shakespeare ( Gutenberg Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ( Gutenberg Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ( Gutenberg Kindle Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis ( Gutenberg Kindle The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli ( Gutenberg The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor ( Gutenberg Kindle Walden by Henry David Thoreau ( Gutenberg Kindle Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ( Gutenberg Kindle War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ( Gutenberg Kindle The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Henry & Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ( Gutenberg Kindle The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain ( Gutenberg Kindle The Art of War by Sun Tzu Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G.Wells ( Gutenberg Kindle Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton ( Gutenberg Kindle )

All five seasons of Daria are available on Hulu Plus and on DVD.

For more book lists see Ernest Hemingway’s Reading List for a Young Writer and Stephen King’s Reading List: 22 Books Recommended via Twitter.