Recommended Reading List : English
Epics
- BeowulfCall Number: PR1583 .K4
Nonfiction
Democracy in America by ISBN: 9780394421865Publication Date: 1945-06-12Volume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by ISBN: 9780140390124Publication Date: 1982-08-26Details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838 - how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die.
The Prince by ISBN: 0672612445Publication Date: 1976-01-01Classic, Renaissance-era guide to acquiring and maintaining political power. Today, nearly 500 years after it was written, this calculating prescription for autocratic rule continues to be much read and studied.
Novels
A Farewell to Arms by ISBN: 0684717972- Catcher in the Rye byCall Number: PS3537.A426 C3 1951
- Crime and Punishment byCall Number: PG 3326 .P7 G2 1971
- Cry the Beloved Country byCall Number: PZ3.P2738 Cr
- Doctor Zhivago byCall Number: PZ3.P268 Do4
- Gulliver's Travels byCall Number: AC1 .G72 V.36
- Heart of Darkness byCall Number: PZ3.C764 He14 1972
Lord of the Flies by ISBN: 0399501487- Moby Dick byCall Number: PS2384 .M6
- Pride and Prejudice byCall Number: PZ3.A93 Pr67
- Slaughterhouse Five byCall Number: PZ4.V948 Sl
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn byCall Number: PS 1305 .A1 1960
- The Grapes of Wrath byCall Number: PS3537.T3234 G8 1986
- The Return of the Native byCall Number: PZ3.H222 Re5
- Ulysses byCall Number: PR6019.O9 U4 1961x
- War and Peace byCall Number: AC1 .G72 V.51
To Kill a Mockingbird by Call Number: PS3562.E353 T6 1995ISBN: 006017322XPublication Date: 1995-09-01Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much."
Short Stories
Ambrose Bierce - "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge"
William Faulkner - "Barn Burning" ; "A Rose for Emily"
Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Young Goodman Brown"; "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
Ernest Hemingway - "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"; "Hills Like White Elephants"
O. Henry - "The Gift of the Magi"; "The Ransom of Red Chief"
Washington Irving - "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Shirley Jackson - "The Lottery"
James Joyce - "Araby"
Franz Kafka - "Metamorphosis"; "The Hunger Artist"
D.H. Lawrence - "The Rocking Horse Winner"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Herman Melville - "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Flannery O'Connor - "A Good Man is Hard to Find"; "Everything that Rises Must Converge"; "Good Country People"
Edgar Allan Poe - "The Cask of Amontillado"; "Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Masque of Red Death"; "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Katherine Ann Porter - "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
John Steinbeck - "The Red Pony"
James Thurber - "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Eudora Welty - "Why I Live at the P.O."; "The Worn Path"; "The Petrified Man"