Suggested Reading

James Baldwin:

Giovanni's Room        Another Country        Going to Meet the Man        Just Above My Head
If Beale Street Could Talk        Go Tell It On The Mountain        The Fire Next Time
Notes of A Native Son

Ernest Hemingway:       Flannery O'Connor:                    John Updike

The Killers                            A Good Man is Hard to Find            A & P

Guy de Maupassant
The Necklace

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown

Shirley Jackson

The Lottery           Alice Walker

                       Everyday Use           Eudora Welty            William Faulkner
                                                    A Worn Path                Barn Burning
 
 

Dante:    Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio

C. S. Lewis:    Till We Have Faces

Virgil:    The Aeneid





Beowulf    The Canterbury Tales    Paradise Lost    Wordsworth's The Prelude    Robinson Crusoe    Pride and Prejudice
Restoration and 18th Century Drama    Heart of Darkness    The Turn of the Screw    The Sound and the Fury    Uncle Tom's Cabin    Frankenstein    Lord Jim    Sister Carrie    Return of the Native


Plays and Poetry:  Don't just read, but attend poetry readings and plays.

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