Very good suggestion, crich!
Another way could be to search the internet sites of universities/colleges. Literature classes often have their reading lists online.
One example with rich stuff for this and your next life is the Open Courseware Project of MIT.
- They have a lot of literature courses online:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/
- As an example, this link shows you the reading list of the course "Foundations of Western Culture II":
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literatur...2003/readings/