Lucy and Gabe’s Reading List - The Light We Lost

Books, plays, and poems have been important to me for as long as I can remember, and in this novel, they’re important to Lucy and Gabe and to their relationship. Some of the book references are rather clear, and others are less so. Below is a list—in order of appearance—of all of the pieces of literature Lucy and Gabe reference throughout The Light We Lost.

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

The Iliad by Homer

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton (the Persephone myth)

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

Metamorphoses by Ovid (the story of Pygmalion and Galatea)

“i like my body when it is with your body” by E. E. Cummings

“Sonnet 30” by William Shakespeare

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond

“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr