
RECOMMENDED READING
Choose ten works from this list to read by the end of the program. On average you should be reading a book per week. It is recommended that you keep a reading log.
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2021 UPDATED RECOMMENDED READING
Periodicals
1. New York Times
2. Atlantic monthly
3. Harper’s
4. National Geographic
5. The Smithsonian
6. Scientific America
7. Omni Science Magazine
8. The New Yorker
Books
1. Fahrenheit 451
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. Light in August
4. Catch -22
5. Invincible man
6. The Confessions of Nor Jensen
7. Their eyes were watching God
8. Wise blood
9. Modern cruelty
10. The coquette
11. The Prairie
12. Wieland
13. Hope Leslie
14. The Narrative of Author Godson Pym of Nantucket
15. Redburn
16. Swallow Barn
17. Sheppard Lee
18. Some Adventives of Captain Simon Suggs
19. Scarlet Letter Moby Dick
20. The Confident Man
21. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
22. Little Women
23. The Bostonians
24. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
25. A Hazard of new fortunes
26. The Cliff Dwellers
27. The Red Badge of Courage
28. McTeague
29. Sister Cassie
30. The Awakening
31. The Wings of the Dove
32. The Virginian
33. The House of Mirth
34. O Pioneers!
35. Main Street
36. The Great Catsby
37. The Sun also Rises
38. Manhattan Transfer
39. Nightwood
40. USA!
41. The Way of the Locus
42. Native Son
43. The Hear is a lonely place
44. Farewell My Lovely
45. All the things men needed pure
46. Go tell it on the Mountain
47. The Adventure of Augie March
48. The Wapshot chronicle
49. Rabbit Rum
50. Lolita
51. The Bluest Eye
52. Angle of Repose
53. White Noise
PAST RECOMMENDED READING
101 Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
1984 by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick
A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
As I lay Dying by William Faulkner
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
Candide by Voltaire
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dune by Frank Herbert
Emma by Jane Austin
Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
Everyman by Phillip Roth
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Generosity by Richard Powell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grendel by John Gardner
Invisible Man y Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Kindred by Ocatavia Butler
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lord of the Flies
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Matilda by Roald DahlMidsummer by Derek
Walcott
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My name is by Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Night by Elie Wiesel
Oedipus by Sophocles
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
One Flow Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriela
Garcia Marquez
Our Town by Thornton Wilde
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rabbit by John Updike
Rosencrantz and Guildstern are Dead by Tom
Stoppard
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island BY Andrea Levy
Some People, Some other Place by J. California
Cooper
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-
Time by Mark Haddon
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson
McCullers
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Kite Runner by Khahled Hosseini
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Odessey of Homer
The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips
The Raven & Other Works by Edgar Allen Poe
The Red Badge of ourage by Stephen Crane
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Stone Diaries by CAROL Shields
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
The Visit by Freidrich Durrenmatt
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale
Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The following plays by William Shakespeare:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night