Berkeley required reading lists (and a high school too)

[SoCalDem]

Just in case people are sad that the Potter series is done.. Here are some books you may want to read or re-read.. probably no magic wands, but these are probably available free at libraries or "on sale" at Amazon :)

Link to other years' lists
http://reading.berkeley.edu/


1985

Selected by Distinguished Teaching Award recipients

The Bone People: A Novel
Keri Hulme, 1983
"Fiction. Set in New Zealand. Brilliant first novel--Maori aspects, psychological, mystical, introspective, violent, exciting, humane."
J.D. Jackson, Physics

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Alexander Brown, 1970
"This book examines in detail one of the last great battles of the wars between the whites and Native American--the battle at Wounded Knee. When the book first appeared, it was shocking and horrifying as it exposed the 'heart of darkness' of the government's treatment of Indians. It remains shocking and horrifying today."
Steve Tollefson, Subject A

The Call of the Wild
Jack London, 1903
"The strength of 'Buck' will give any incoming freshman courage to face student days at Berkeley."
Marian C. Diamond, Physiology-Anatomy

Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai, 1980
"A wonderful written novel about an Indian family in New Delhi (contemporary). A fine example of the use of literacy fiction as a window into how people of other countries live; the meaning of home to them; daily life in a complex society. Excellent preparation for architectural studies."
Raymond Lifchez, Architecture

The Death of Woman Wang
Jonathan Spence, 1978
"History from the macro- and the micro-perspectives; takes an obscure set of events in an obscure corner of China and makes them riveting."
David Kirp, Public Policy

Deep Blues
Robert Palmer, 1981
"Few have written with greater clarity and understanding on the origins and evolution of the Mississippi Delta Blues. It is a book about music and American history."
Leon F. Litwack, History

Dispatches
Michael Herr, 1977
"This is a personal and hallucinatory account on the Vietnam war as seen by the American soldiers who fought it. To tell the truth about a new (and horrible) kind of reality, Herr created a new (and captivating); kind of prose. Beautiful, gripping, convincing."
David Littlejohn, Journalism

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Samuel C. Florman, 1976
"A discussion of the pleasure of creating outstanding structures."
C.A. Desoer, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons
John Wesley Powell, 1875
"John Wesley Powell's expedition through the last great unwrapped and unknown part of the Continental U.S. in 1869."
J. K. Mitchell, Civil Engineering

The Genealogy of Morals
Fredrich Nietzsche, 1887
”A book that turned the world upside down for me when I was a freshman, deeply disturbing and exhilarating."
Stephen Greenblarr, English

A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
Spiro Kostof, 1985
"Terrific book not just of the historical information, but on how social and political context influences building."
Sam Davis, Architecture

How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff, 1954
"Fun book on elementary statistics."
Steve Selvin, Biomedical and Environmental Health Sciences (Biostatistics)

The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt, 1958
"Basic reading in political and social science of Western Europe, Rome to modern age."
Anne Middleton, English

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison, 1952
"This novel captures in all of its terror, tension, and beauty the Afro-American odyssey--the paradox of black life in America, the racial rites of passage, the mechanisms of white supremacy."
Leon F. Litwack, History

The Life of Plants
E.J.H. Corner, 1964
"A beautifully written general essay on the biology of plants. Some B.S.--but very stimulating."
Donald R. Kaplan, Botany

Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game)
Herman Hesse, 1943
"Inspirational. So are a number of other Hesse books, e.g. Siddhartha."
Manuel Blum, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Modern Time: The World From the Twenties to the Eighties
Paul Johnson, 1983
"A provocative, at times appalling history of the twentieth century from a committed moral point of view."
Frederick Crew, English

Mr. Tompkins in Paperback
George Gamow, 1967
"Short scientifically fantastic stories (not science fiction) explaining modern physics ideas by exaggerating actually exiting phenomena in relativity, curved space, quantum physics, etc."
Sumner Davis, Physics

The Naturalist in Nicaragua
Thomas Belt, 1911
"Praised by Charles Darwin as the best natural history book he had ever read."
Herbert G. Baker, Botany

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, 1970
"If you're going to write fiction, why not go all the way and invent a totally new world? This book made almost all other novels since Faulkner's seem trivial and under-imagined: It's unforgettable. (Rivals: Jorge-Luis Borges, Italo Calvino.)"
David Littlejohn, Journalism

Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures
Michael Baxandall, 1985
"Bazandall's book is the best methodological investigation yet written, I think, of the ways which works of art can validly be related to outside circumstance. After a general introduction ("Language and Explanation") he devotes four chapters to test cases, which exemplify his arguments about right and wrong ways to write about works of art."
James Cahill, Art History

Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black American's Struggle for Equality.
Richard Kluger, 1975
"A study of the evolution of Brown v. Board of Education and how the Supreme Court declared racial segregation in the the public schools unconstitutional."
William Muir, Political Science

Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata, 1956
"Kawabata, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, opens up a whole new world, especially for readers steeped in western traditions. The writing is different, even in translation; it's precise, languid, almost hypnotic. And the story itself reveals much about Japanese character and attitudes, not in the technological-Pacific Rim-business context that most Americans have become accustomed to, but in a way that is quite personal."
Steve Tollefson, Subject A

The White Nile
Alan Moorehead, 1960
"The exploration of central Africa in the nineteenth century. A book I literally could not put down."
Donald Hanson, Chemical Engineering

The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
J.S. Holliday, 1981
"This book opened my eyes to the settlement of California by the forty-niners in a manner not provided by any other book I have read on this mass migration. It is essential reading for anyone interested in California history."
W.M. Laetsch, Botany

The Zero-Sum Solution
Lester Thurow, 1985
"A book that focuses on the U.S. and Japanese economies in ways that are provocative and accessible to a popular audience. Addresses themes that should be important to many undergraduates."
Laura Tyson, Economics

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2002....Banned Books


Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
New York: Dutton/Plume, 1987, ©1977
I read this book on the recommendation of a friend I hardly knew while I was sojourning in Brooklyn one year; the friend was a literatus and book reviewer himself, so I thought he'd know a great book when he read one. I plowed through the book quickly, enjoying it a great deal myself. A few years later I found the book on the reading list of a course at San Jose State, "Literature and Personality," along with books by Dostoyevsky and Cather, among other great writers. Reading this book with a teacher to help me (with Biblical and other social/racial references I had missed) showed me that this book is indeed a piece of great literature; Morrison has constructed not only a wonderful narrative with ties to the social injustices suffered by African Americans, but a story of a young person's search for himself within history-as well as giving the book a beautiful, and very ambiguous, ending. I read this book last in 1984; I remember it with awe and love.

Kirsten Schwartz
Lecturer
College Writing Programs


The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
New York: Viking/Penguin, 1986, ©1885
This book has been celebrated since it was first published in 1885, and it has been in trouble, with one early critic calling it "a pitiable exhibition of irreverence and vulgarity." More recently, it has been challenged by readers offended by Mark Twain's characters' realistic use of the language of racism. The story is told in the first person by Huck Finn, the most famous runaway in American literature-a boy, according to Mark Twain, with a good heart but an ill-trained conscience. Huck talks his story as he journeys down the Mississippi River with his friend Jim, who has escaped from slavery. Much of what the reader discovers the narrator does not seem to understand. The technique and the language of the book gave rise to a strain in American literature that is still so comfortable and familiar for the modern reader, it is hard to realize just how innovative it once was. Some of Huck's talk is lulling, some hilarious, and some deeply unsettling as the reader recognizes all-too familiar issues of class and culture and racism that are still a part of American life. But most of all, it is a treat to read this book just for the pleasure of it.

Victor Fischer
Associate Editor
Mark Twain Project


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
New York: Bantam Books, 1986, ©1876
Tom Sawyer gives the reader a graphic portrait of early 19th century life in a small Mississippi River town through the escapades of a young, mischievous boy and his best friend, Huck Finn. Lazy, hazy days of summer; the lure of the River and its potential for adventures free of adult supervision; a cave; a girlfriend. And best of all the whitewashed fence, surely the best account in American literature of conning someone else into doing your work for you.

Rebecca G. Lhermitte
Government Documents Librarian
Doe/Moffitt Reference


The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
New York: Bantam, 1998, ©1985
This dystopian novel is set in a not-so-distant future. A poisoned environment has led to sharply reduced fertility rates, and extreme right-wing Christians have taken over the country and transformed it into a religious state following a literal interpretation of the Bible. With religious extremism growing around the globe, this is a timely and important book to read.

Gail Offen-Brown
Lecturer
College Writing Programs

The Color Purple
Alice Walker
New York: Pocket Books, 1990, ©1982
Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning prose explores the possibilities that life can offer. The protagonist, Celie, is a young woman broken down by tough circumstances. Yet when she meets a blues singer, Celie begins to recognize the value that she has, despite the numerous oppressions she faces. Celie comes to redefine and discover her own version of family, sexuality, and economy. This novel is an engaging and inspiring story. Walker's poetic language flows like a song through the pages of this novel; the tune of which stays with you long afterwards.

Megan Keane
Library Assistant
Library Technical Services

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999, ©1960
I read this book during the summer before college, and the characters of Scout, Boo Radley, and Atticus are as vivid in my mind as they were almost 40 years ago. I ended up going to graduate school and doing research in the South for a while, and that book was the best preparation a kid from New York could have had. This was Harper Lee's only novel; but how could she ever top this one? The movie version is fantastic as well, and presents a wonderful comparison between what the two media do best.

Vince Resh
Professor
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

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Beloved
Toni Morrison
New York: Dutton/Plume, 1987
Forget anything you thought you knew about slavery. This book will open your eyes. Toni Morrison won the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes when she wrote this novel, because she made something so beautiful, so terrifying, and so true. You have to give yourself over to it, not to expect to understand everything right away. This is a mystery, a ghost story, a love story, and a story of the fundamental events of American life. How can a person heal from the unimaginable? Toni Morrison takes us into the country of real-life nightmare, and then, brilliantly, she brings us back out again.

Sarah Stone
Lecturer
College Writing Programs

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Boston: Little, Brown, 1991, ©1951
Written over fifty years ago, The Catcher in the Rye introduced readers to the musings and misadventures of Holden Caulfield, an affluent, white, sixteen-year-old recently expelled from his third prep school, stumbling through a long, lost weekend in Manhattan. As a product of a specific time and place-post World War II America and upper-class values - Holden Caulfield is a bright, sensitive soul searching for idealism, sincerity, and decency in an imperfect world. This novel will resonate with all who have survived, or are attempting to survive, adolescence, although it is a richly rewarding read at any time in life. The Catcher in the Rye is deep and edgy, thrilling and sad, all at once.

Phoebe Janes
History Librarian
Doe Library

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
New York: Bantam Books, 1986, ©1985
"Emotion and memory are living things," someone once told me, and Chilean exile Isabel Allende's first novel powerfully creates a world where past, present, and future exist together as three generations of women try to live with integrity amid unchecked power and sudden violence. We gradually learn that the narrator, Alba (Dawn), is telling her family's stories to come to terms with the terror she's endured, and in doing so she finds remarkable healing and forgiveness. Allende understands the complex causes of the tragedies that befall her characters in their country's "unending tale of sorrow, blood, and love" and allows them to move to reconciliation with the past and with each other.

Jean Barker
Administrative Analyst
Undergraduate Education

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
New York: Harper, 1998, ©1932
When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932, he lived in a world where there was no pervasive culture of advertising, no widespread use of antidepressants, not a hint of cloning, or a whisper of genetic manipulation. Somehow Aldous Huxley foresaw that the future of humanity would lie down the path of technology and media. His guesses proved to be chillingly accurate. What was the most outrageous science fiction in 1934 remains a compelling examination of issues that fill the pages of our news magazines. To make this book all the more amazing, Huxley was a serious and gifted author. It is as if a contemporary literary giant like Saul Bellow had written a work of over-the-top science fiction. The beauty of Huxley's words still shines through. The questions of government control, media manipulation, and status remain unresolved. Do we have Alphas and Epsilons in our society? Have we found a drug like soma to help us avoid negative thinking? Have our governments figured out ways to keep us passive? Brave New World takes a bold, disturbing look at what it means to be human in a world gripped by technological change and the manipulation of the media. It is one of the most potent combinations of a good read and a disturbing, thought provoking statement that I know.

Robert C. Berring
Professor of Law and Law Librarian
School of Law (Boalt Hall)

Lord of the Flies
William Golding
New York: Penguin Books, 1982, ©1954
Lord of the Flies is a remarkable work of art. As with all good fiction, it transports the reader into a separate reality: it is a story that is lived, so to speak, as it is read, giving the reader the sensation that something is happening to him/her in the process; the feeling of being changed while reading. The story has to do with a group of adolescent boys who find themselves stranded on a desert island, and the turns in plot and interaction between characters make a kind of allegory, reflecting the author's rather grim view of human nature, perhaps. Or perhaps Golding is making the point that civilization is but a thin and fragile veneer laid over a fundamentally primitive and backward species-humankind. Or is it the writer's jaundiced view of children we are seeing as we read? Or something else altogether? I read this work only once, as a high school student, and many of its scenes are as vivid, compelling, and thought-provoking to me today as they were then, so it seems to me a literary experience that is not to be missed. An excellent motion picture based on this novel was made but, as always, the book is better.

Charles Stewart
Senior Photographer
Library Photographic Service

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
New York: Dell, 1991, ©1969
Perhaps the most personal novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five is an antiwar story published in 1969, a year which saw escalating anti-Vietnam war protests sweep across America. The novel was daring in its condemnation of an event from the "good war" (WWII), the 1945 British and American fire-bombing of Dresden which killed 135,000 people. Vonnegut, a POW in Dresden at the time of the bombing, survived and went on to write what many consider to be one of THE finest antiwar novels ever written. Told in typical dark satiric Vonnegut style, the novel follows optometrist Billy Pilgrim as he becomes "unstuck" in time. Whether revisiting the safety of his mother's womb or witnessing the atrocity of Dresden or finding himself kidnapped by the extraterrestrial Tralfamadorians, Billy takes the reader on a disjointed journey through his life, where chronological time has no meaning. Billy's benign acceptance of everything which happens to him has led some to condemn what they see as Vonnegut's acceptance of the injustice of war. Yet, throughout the novel, the phrase "so it goes" appears whenever someone dies. By the end of the novel, "so it goes" has become the author's maddening rallying cry against Billy's (and the reader's) benign acceptance of the status quo.

Jean Smith
Assistant to the Assistant Vice Chancellor
Public Affairs

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Required Reading List for White Station High School
2006-­2007
Call #
Author
Title
FIC HUN
Hunt
Across Five Aprils
FIC TWA
Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry
FIC WHA
Wharton
Age of Innocence
92 HER
Herriot
All Creatures Great and Small
FIC REM
Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
812 BAL
Baldwin
The Amen Corner
SC AME
Raffel
American Short Stories
FIC MIS
Mistry
A Fine Balance
873 VIR
Virgil
The Aeneid
FIC ORW
Orwell
Animal Farm
FIC TOL
Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
92 FRA
Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank
FIC RAN
Rand
Anthem
822.3 SHA
Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
882 SOP
Sophocles
Antigone, Oedipus, Electra
812.52 KES
Kesselring
Arsenic and Old Lace
FIC FAU
Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
92 FRA
Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
301.451 JOH
Johnson
Autobiography of an Ex­Colored Man
SC or FIC
CHO
Chopin
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
FIC LEW
Lewis
Babbit
813.54 MEY
Meyers
Bad Boy: A Memoir
FIC KIN
Kingsolver
The Bean Trees
FIC PLA
Plath
The Bell Jar
829 BEO
Beowulf
SC MEL
Melville
Billy Bud, Sailor, and Other Short Stories
92 WRI
Wright
Black Boy: A Record of Child Hood and Youth
301.45 GRI
Griffin
Black Like Me
FIC SWA
Swarthout
Bless the Beasts and Children
812.52 BLI
Blinn
Brian’s Song
FIC WIL
Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
822.912 SHA
Shaw
Caesar and Cleopatra
FIC LON
London
The Call of the Wild
843 VOL
Voltaire
Candide
821 CHA
Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
FIC HEL
Heller
Catch­22
FIC POT
Potok
The Chosen
FIC WAL
Walker
The Color Purple
FIC SAL
Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
92 MOO
Moody
Coming of Age in Mississippi
FIC DUM
Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
FIC DOS
Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
PAGE 2
Page 2
2
Call #
Author
Title
812 MIL
Miller
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
FIC PAT
Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country
842.8 ROS
Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts
FIC BRA
Bradbury
Dandelion Vine
822 MAR
Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
FIC STE
Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
FIC STO
Stoker
Dracula
812 MIL
Miller
Death of a Salesman
92 GUN
Gunther
Death Be Not Proud
FIC ZIN
Zindel
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man­In­The­Moon
811.3 LON
Longfellow
Evangeline
FIC WHA
Wharton
Ethan Frome
822 EVE
Everyman and other Miracle and Morality Play
SC POE
Poe
18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
SC POE
Poe
Great Tales and Poems
FIC BRA
Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
FIC MCD
McDonald
Fall On Your Knees
FIC HEM
Hemingway
A Farewell To Arms
FIC TOL
Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First
305.896 BAL Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
FIC KEY
Keyes
Flowers of Algernon
FIC RAN
Rand
The Fountain Head
FIC HEM
Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
822.3 SHA
Shakespeare
Four Great Tragedies
822.3 SHA
Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
FIC SHE
Shelley
Frankenstein
92 CAR
Carson
Gifted Hands
FIC LOW
Lowry
The Giver
FIC BAL
Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man
FIC MIT
Mitchell
Gone With the Wind
FIC BUC
Buck
The Good Earth
FIC STE
Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
SC GRE
Great American Stories
SC GRE
Great British Stories
FIC DIC
Dickens
Great Expectations
FIC FIT
Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
FIC GAR
Gardner
Grendel
812.54 WIL Williams
The Glass Menagerie
FIC BAK
Baker
Growing Up
FIC SWI
Swift
Gulliver’s Travels and Other Writings
822.33 SHA Shakespeare
Tragedy of Hamlet
92 DEL
Delany
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 10
822.912 SHA Shaw
Heartbreak House
FIC MCC
McCullers
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
PAGE 3
Call #
Author
Title
FIC CON
Conrad
Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
Page 3
3
FIC HER
Hersey
Hiroshima
823 JOH
Johnson
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
FIC TOL
Tolkien
The Hobbit
FIC HAM
Hamilton
The House of Dies Drear
FIC CIS
Cisneros
The House on Mango Street
FIC LET
Letts
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
FIC HUG
Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
92 ANG
Angelou
I Know Why The Cadged Bird Sings
821 TEN
Tennyson
Idylls of the King
FIC BEA
Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk
FIC AND
Andrews
If There Be Thorns
883 HOM
Homer
The Iliad
FIC BRA
Bradbury
The Illustrated Man
822.8 WIL
Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
FIC ZIN
Zindel
I Never Lover Your Mind
851.1 DAN
Dante
The Inferno
FIC LAW
Lawrence and
Lee
Inherit The Wind
FIC ELL
Ellison
Invisible Man
FIC WEL
Wells
The Invisible Man
FIC BRO
Bronte
Jane Eyre
FIC BUN
Bunyan
The Pilgrims Progress
822.3 SHA
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
FIC GOR
Gordimer
July’s People
FIC SIN
Sinclair
The Jungle
FIC LEE
Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
822.3 SHA
Shakespeare
King Lear
FIC STE
Stevenson
Kidnapped
FIC MAR
Martel
Life of Pi
FIC GOL
Golding
Lord of the Flies
FIC SEG
Segal
Love Story
FIC FLA
Flaubert
Madame Bovary
812.54 BLI
Blinn
Brian’s Song
822.33 SHA Shakespeare
Tragedy of Macbeth, Prince of Denmark
812.08 BOL
Bolt
A Man of All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
FIC DUM
Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask
FIC KAF
Kafka
The Metamorphosis
822.33 SHA Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
812 GIB
Gibson
The Miracle Worker
398.2 MAL
Malory
Le Morte D’ Arthur
FIC HAM
Hamilton
A Map of the World
FIC HAR
Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge
822.2 SHA
Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
FIC CHR
Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
PAGE 4
Call #
Author
Title
812 ELI
Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral
FIC CAT
Cather
My Antonia
Page 4
4
FIC ZIN
Zindel
My Darling My Hamburger
92 THU
Thurber
My Life and Hard Times
292 HAM
Hamilton
Mythology
973.7092
DOU
Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
FIC WRI
Wright
Native Son
599.773
MOW
Mowat
Never Cry Wolf
940.5318
WEI
Wiesel
Night
FIC KIN
King
Night Shift
FIC LAW
Lawrence
The Night Thoreau Went to Jail
FIC ORW
Orwell
1984
FIC AUS
Austen
Northanger Abbey
FIC HOM
Homer
The Odyssey
FIC STE
Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
974.4 BRA
Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation
FIC HEM
Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
FIC DIC
Dickens
Oliver Twist
FIC WHI
White
The Once and Future King
FIC WOL
Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
822.3 SHA
Shakespeare
Othello
812.52 WIL Wilder
Our Town
FIC HIN
Hinton
The Outsiders
FIC CLA
Clark
The Ox­Box Incident
FIC ZIN
Zindel
Pardon Me You’re Stepping On My Eyeball
FIC STE
Steinbeck
The Pearl
FIC WIL
Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
FIC ZIN
Zindel
The Pigman
FIC AUS
Austen
Pride and Prejudice
822 SHA
Shaw
Pygmalion
812 .54 HAN Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun
808.8 REA
Readings in World Literature
FIC CRA
Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
FIC STE
Steinbeck
The Red Pony
FIC HAR
Hardy
The Return of the Native
FIC TAY
Taylor
The Road to Memphis
822.3 SHA
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet ­ West Side Story
822 STO
Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
FIC SMU
Smucker
Runaway to Freedom
822 SHA
Shaw
Saint Joan
FIC HAW
Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
FIC ORE
Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel
FIC SHE
Sheridan
The School of Scandal
PAGE 5
Call #
Author
Title
FIC CON
Conrad
The Secret Sharer
Page 5
5
FIC AUS
Austen
Sense and Sensibility
FIC KNO
Knowles
A Separate Peace
FIC HES
Hesse
Siddhartha
FIC VON
Vonnegut
Slaughter House Five
FIC ELL
Elliot
Silas Marner
808.2 SIX
Six Great Modern Plays
FIC GUR
Guterson
Snow Falling on Cedars
FIC BRA
Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
FIC HEM
Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
FIC MOR
Morison
The Bluest Eye
FIC MOR
Morrison
Song of Solomon
92 CLE
Cleaver
Soul on Ice
FIC FAU
Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
FIC GRE
Greenlee
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
973.738
CAT
Catton
Stillness at Appomattox
812 WIL
Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
FIC MOR
Morrison
Sula
FIC GRE
Greene
Summer of My German Soldier
FIC DIC
Dickens
A Tale Of Two Cities
822.33
SHA
Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew
FIC FIT
Fitzgerald
Fender is the Night
FIC HIN
Hinton
That Was Then This is Now
FIC HUR
Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
FIC STU
Stuart
The Thread That Runes So True
FIC ACH
Achebe
Things Fall Apart
FIC WEL
Wells
The Time Machine
92 WAS
Woolf
To The Lighthouse
SC POE
Poe
Great Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
FIC JAM
James
The Turn of the Screw and other Short Fiction
92 WAS
Washington
Up From Slavery
FIC GOR
Gordon
Waiting for the Rain
814 WAL
Walden
Walden and Civil Disobedience
FIC WEL
Wells
The War of the Worlds
FIC CON
Conroy
The Water is Wide
812 BAU
Bernstein
West Side Story
FIC BAU
Baum
The Wizard of Oz
FIC BRO
Bronte
Wuthering Heights
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WOR
World Drama

[datasuspect]

1. good selections

thanks!

[SoCalDem]

2. I would add this one (the only time a movie was better than the book)

The 25th Hour

Gheorghiu's best-known book depicts the plight of a naive young farmhand, Johann Moritz, under German and Soviet occupation. Johann is sent to a labor camp by a police captain who covets his wife, Suzanna. Traian, son of the priest Koruga, is a famous novelist and minor diplomat whose first internment comes when he is picked up as an enemy alien by the Yugoslavs. Once imprisoned, the two heroes begin an odyssey of torture and despair. In the end, Traian dies in a concentration camp, while Johann enlists in the army, just as World War III is about to start.

In 1967, Carlo Ponti produced a film based on Gheorghiu's book. The movie was directed by Henri Verneuil, with Anthony Quinn as Johann, Virna Lisi as Suzanna, and Serge Reggiani as Traian.

Books

* Ora 25, 1949. The twenty-fifth hour (translated from the Romanian by Rita Eldon), Alfred A Knopf, NY, 1950

[JVS]

3. Too many books. I stopped counting at 80 and there were plenty more...

probably around 120 or so. Who the fuck is requiring this and how much time do the students have left for reading what they want rather than what they're told to read. Pfeh!

[SoCalDem]

4. These are books they expect a freshman to have read or as suggestions

for catching up:)

In 1968, when I went off to Kansas University, the list was as long (if not longer) and included some Shakespeare & Greek literature too :)

but back then we had no electronic entertainment and only 3 channels on tv (many still had only black & white tv), and most teens did not have their own cars, so we did read more back then :)

[MilesColtrane]

5. God, when will teachers stop inflicting "Ethan Frome" on poor kids?