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"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
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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.

Life Tools

Book(s)
  • ​Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • Debt-Free Degree by Anthony ONeal
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Podcast
  • ​Business SHET with Mimi G
  • ​​​Rise and Grind with Daymond John
  • Speakeasy with Denene ​

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Audiobooks
  • Do You by Russell Simmons
  • ​Rise and Grind by Daymond John
  • Super Rich by Russell Simmons
  • Crushing It by Gary Vaynerchuk
  • The Power of Broke by Daymond John​

Magazines*
  • Forbes
  • ​Entrepreneur
  • Bloomberg Businessweek
  • Inc.
  • Fast Company
  • Ad Week​
*Excerpts will be provided
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