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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A big day for our first year writing students! So much energy in the room!
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.