What’s a well-written, gripping, yet breezy novel (something that will engage students who would otherwise be distracted by late April weather)?
A colleague has chosen The Virgin Suicides.
What about The Secret Life of
Bees? The Hunger Games? Little Brother? (Yes, I know Cory Doctorow is Canadian)
I’ll likely need to trim some of these works, but so far..
- Frost, poems (assorted)
- Fitzgerald, short stories (assorted)
- Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
- London, “To Build a Fire”
- Glaspell, “Trifles”
- O’Neill, The Great God Brown
- Treadwell, Machinal
- modernist poems (assorted)
- Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Harlem Renaissance (assorted)
- Wiliams, A Streetcar Named Desire
- O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
- Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
- Heller, Catch-22
- Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay
- Miller, Resurrection Blues
- [TBA final novel]
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Thanks for the suggestion, Daniel.
I’ve had good luck with McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and the Road. Not American-authored, but Watchmen is thematically American and fun. Doing Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close next semester.