Reading List 22-23

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking its stupid." ~Einstein

English Literature Reading List

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Fall Semester

Kindred by Octavia Butler
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahisi Coates
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Spring Semester

Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Go Tell It on a Mountain by James Baldwin
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Collection of Classic and Contemporary Prose/Drama
A Collection of Classic and Contemporary Poems

Winter Breaks and Spring Break Films

Fences by August Wilson
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Collection of Classic and Contemporary Prose/Drama*

Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston by Mary Lyons
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Shame by Dick Gregory
The Destructors by Graham Greene
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Just Walk on By: Black Men in Public Space by Brent Staples
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Truffles by Susan Glaspell
The Things They Carried by Tim O'brien
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Where is the Voice Coming From by Eudora Welty

Collection of Classic and Contemporary Poetry*

A Poison Tree by William Blake
Respiration by Mos Def
Mike Check by Suheir Hammad
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Harlem Sweeties, Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
Son to Mother by Maya Angelou
If These Walls Could Talk by Kendrick Lamar
The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Harlem Dancer by Claude McKay
Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye
On the Subway by Sharon Olds
An Anthem by Sonia Sanchez
Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
White Man'z World by Tupac Shakur
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sunflower Sonnet Number Two by June Jordan
Formation by Beyonce
Out, Out by Robert Frost
Ego Trippin', Love Is, Choices, Life Cycles, When I Die by Nikki Giovanni
A Barred Owl by Richard Wilbur
The History Teacher by Billy Collins
Youth's Progress by John Updike
Sonnet #5 by Seamus Heaney
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
American Hero by Essex Hemphill
Ogun by E. K. Braithwaite

Videos/TED Talks/Movie Clips

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Why Some of us Don't Have One True Calling by Emilie Wapnick
The Danger of the Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jordan Peele's The Twiglight Zone: "Replay" by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds

Supplemental Texts

How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Dr. Thomas C. Foster
Perrine's Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry*
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by the British Council*
The Holy Bible, King James Version**

**Note: I have included the Bible to our required texts because Western literature commonly draws upon knowledge from the Bible that is not familiar to everyone. The King James version is considered highly poetic which will sync with our focus on the stories that are frequently alluded to in such diverse literature as listed above. We will not be reading various selections in terms of faith but rather in terms of analyzing literature.