Friday, April 5, 2013

4th Nine Weeks Independent Reading Project

The assignment is to read any novel or play of LITERARY MERIT that you have never read but always wanted to read.

Here is a list of suggested titles, however you may choose any book you like as long as it is approved by me.

-          To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

-          Flannery O’Connor

§  Wise Blood

§  The Violent Bear It Away

-          William Faulkner

§  Go Down Moses

-          Ernest Hemingway

§  A Farewell to Arms

§  The Sun Also Rises

-          Dostoyevsky

§  (Crime and Punishment)

§  Notes From the Underground

-          (The Optimist’s Daughter) by Eudora Welty

-          The Color Purple by Alice Walker

      -     Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

-          Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

-          The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

-          Toni Morrison

§  Tarbaby

§  anything else she has written

-          Ralph Ellison

§  Invisible Man

-          Mark Twain novels

-          James Baldwin

§  (Go Tell it on the Mountain)

§  (Giovanni’s Room)

§  Blues for Mister Charlie (play)

-          Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

-          The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

-          The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey

-          John Steinbeck  (To a God Unknown and everything else)

-          Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

-          1984 by George Orwell

-          Life of Pi by Yann Martel

-          Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

-          (The Power and the Glory) by Graham Green

-          A Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

-          On the Road by Jack Kerouac

-          Cormac McCarthy novels

-          A History of the World in 10 and ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes

-          (Catch-22) by Heller

-          (Watership Down) by Richard Adams

-          A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole

-          Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

-          Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

-          Moby Dick by Herman Melville

-          A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick

-          Don Quixote by Cevantes

-          Kurt Vonnegut novels

-          The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wrobeleski

-          James Joyce novels

Any other books that you would like to read can be approved by me on an

individual basis.

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