Semester Book List

Good eve to all and happy new year to everyone!  I got a request from April about what I had to read this semester, so this is my book list for my fall semester.

20th Century Authors class –

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Roman Fever & Other Stories (8 stories in all) by Edith Wharton

1919: Volume 2 of the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Snows of Kilimanjaro & Other Stories (10 stories in all) by Ernest Hemingway

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

 

Great American Authors class –

Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings (6 stories in all) by Henry David Thoreau

A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Minister’s Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

Detective Fiction class –

The Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards

The Fourth Wall by Barbara Paul

Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Killing Orders by Sara Paretsky

Double Deuce by Robert B. Parker

A Cold Dish by Craig Johnson

A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King

Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracey

Plus a book of short stories Death by Pen by Mansfield-Kelley & Marchino (had to read 15 short stories)

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" Edgar Allan Poe

"Silver Blaze" Arthur Conan Doyle

"The Witness for the Prosecution" Agatha Christie

"The House in Goblin Wood" John Dickson Carr

"Deborah’s Judgment" Margaret Maron

"Nine Lives to Live" Sharyn McCrumb

"The Gutting of Couffignal" Dashiell Hammett

"The Parker Shotgun" Sue Grafton

"And Pray Nobody Sees You" Gar Anthony Haywood

"The 87th Precinct" Ed McBain

"Sadie When She Died" Ed McBain

"The Dean Curse" Ian Rankin

"Under Suspicion" Clark Howard

 

Literacy Criticism and Theory class –

MAUS II by Art Spiegelman

Short story packet

"The Gilded Six-Bits" by Zora Neale Hurston

"Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston

"Everything that Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O’Connor

"Good Country People" by Flannery O’Connor

"How it Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston

The Postmodern Reader book of short stories and novel excerpts Edited by Geyh, Leebron, Levy

"Indigo" Ntozake Shange

"Bluegill" Jayne Anne Phillips

"Zami: A New Spelling of My Name" Audre Lorde

"How to Tell a True War Story" Tim O’Brien

"Tlilli, Tlapalli: The Path of the Red and Black Ink&quo

t; Gloria Anzaldua

"Shiloh" Bobbie Ann Mason

"The Youngest Doll" Rosario Ferre

"The Cariboo Cafe" Helena Maria Viramontes

"Feral Lasers" Gerald Vizenor

"Shopping is Not Creating" Douglas Coupland

"Toward a Concept of Postmodernism" Ihab Hassan

"Public Access" Michael Berube

"Simulacra and Simulation" Jean Baudrillard

"Woman, Native, Other" Trinh T. Minh-ha

 

That’s all of them.  I think so at least, hehe.  Needless to say, I didn’t have much time for pleasure reading.  So, in this time between semesters I’ve been going through books like crazy.  But I’ll list those later.  Good eve to all.

-Damian