EXTRA CREDIT & RECOMMENDED READING


You are encouraged to read (up to two) additional literary works during the summer. Te recieve extra credit for your reading, you must do a 1/2 page summary and 1/2 page critique (typed) for two books (5pts each).

 

Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Baker

Good Times

Huxley

Brave New World

Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Barth

The End of the Road

Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Booth

Available Light

Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Boyle

World's End

Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

Bronowski

Ascent of Man

Markham

West with the Night

Bronte, C.

Jane Eyre

Melville

Moby Dick

Bronte, E.

Wuthering Heights

Miller

All My Sons

Camus

The Stranger

McCullers

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Cather

My Antonia

Morrison

Beloved

Chopin

The Awakening

Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Clark

Childhood's End

O'Neill

Long Day's Journey into Night

Collins

Woman in White

Plath

The Bell Jar

Conroy

The Great Santini

Potok

The Chosen

Conroy

The Lords of Discipline

Roth

Goodbye Colombus

Dillard

Teaching a Stone to Talk

Shakespeare

King Lear

Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Shakespeare

Othello

Dreiser

An American Tragedy

Silkwood

Ceremony

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Sillitoe

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Sophocles

Antigone

Eiseley

The Immense Journey

Spark

The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie

Eiseley

The Unexpected Universe

Stegner

Crossing to Safety

Faulkner

The Bear

Steinback

East of Eden

Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Styron

Lie Down in Darkness

Forster

A Passage to India

Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Franklin

Autobiography

Tan

The Joy-Luck Club

Fuentes

Old Gringo

Thoreau

Walden

Godwin

any book

Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Twain

Huck Finn

Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Vonnegut

Player Piano

Hesse

Siddhartha

Vonnegut

Welcome to the Monkey House

Hesse

Demian

Walker

The Color Purple

Homer

The Odyssey

Warren

All the King's Men

Homer

The Iliad

Wharton

Ethan Frome

Hugo

The Hunchback of Norte Dame

Wilde

Picture of Dorian Gray

Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Wright

Native Son

Updated 5-29-07

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