Upcoming Semester's Reading List

[Garth]

So, out of curiosity, what reading have you guys been assigned for the upcoming semester(s)? Fortunately, my professors posted all of their books online for the students to see, so that makes it a little easier to know how much they're all going to cost (assuming we haven't read/purchased them prior to class starting). I've been assigned:

• The Crucible
  
• Tuesdays with Morrie
  
• Eight Habits of the Heart
  
• The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  
• The House of Seven Gables
  
• Nature, and other Essays
  
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  
• Leaves of Grass
  
• Clotel
  
• Wigwam and the Cabin
  
• The Song of Hiawatha
  
• Pride and Prejudice
  
• The Monk
  
• Mrs. Dalloway
  
• Henry IV, Part I
  
• Life of Henry V
  
• Paradise Lost
  
• Dracula
  

Many of these I'd never even heard of. Many of them I'd heard of, but had simply never had a chance to read - like Paradise Lost, Dracula, and Pride and Prejudice. So I think this will be a great chance to read a lot of novels that I'd otherwise never had any time to read. I'm really looking forward to Dracula and Paradise Lost, since I've heard so much about them for so long now. And of course Uncle Tom's Cabin, since it's such an important work in American literature.

Goodness gracious, I am out of the loop.

[rayyychul]

I haven't registered for courses yet in the fall, so I'll post my reading lists from last semester:

20th Century Literature (Apocalypse)
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 1894 by George Orwell
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (which, funnily enough, I never actually read)
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Issues in Literature and Culture (Rock 'n' Roll)
- Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Toches
- Angel Riots by Ibi Kaslik
- Never Mind the Pollacks by Neal Pollack
- Hardcore Logo by Michael Turner
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- The Commitments by Roddy Doyle

[Gina]

I'm only in high school, and I'm not sure about all of the books we are reading, but I do know some:

- Hamlet
- The Kite Runner
- Frankenstein

I'm looking forward to a great year!

P.S.- Garth, if you haven't already read The Crucible, you will LOVE it! It's one of my favorite plays.

[Dodger Thirteen]

Going into my final year of uni, but still have a good many books to read. Taking that damned grammar course finally, and one other English class next semester (in addition to an anthropology course, beginner's Italian, and finishing up my Math/Science credits).

That being said, I'll be reading:

-The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston
-Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
-Epicoene by Ben Jonson
-Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
-Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
-The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd


I've never read any of these, so it should be interesting.

[cyanea]

I'm only taking two English courses this semester as I catch up with my History minor/potential second major. Of those two, only one has posted its reading list. It's some class on 20th Century Lit focusing on AIDS literature. It's not really my kind of thing, but I'm taking it with a few friends of mine and a professor that comes highly recommended, so I don't think it'll be that bad.

Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories (1990) [selections]
Rebecca Brown, The Gifts of the Body (1995)
Mark Doty, My Alexandria: Poems (1993) [selections]
Essex Hemphill, Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry (1992) [selections]
Amy Hoffman, Hospital Time (1997)
Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother (1998)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1992)
Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988)
Sonia Sanchez, Does Your House Have Lions? (1998)

[krista]

May 29, 2011 22:50:37 GMT -5 Garth said:

So, out of curiosity, what reading have you guys been assigned for the upcoming semester(s)? Fortunately, my professors posted all of their books online for the students to see, so that makes it a little easier to know how much they're all going to cost (assuming we haven't read/purchased them prior to class starting). I've been assigned:

• The Crucible
  
• Tuesdays with Morrie
  
• Eight Habits of the Heart
  
• The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  
• The House of Seven Gables
  
• Nature, and other Essays
  
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  
• Leaves of Grass
  
• Clotel
  
• Wigwam and the Cabin
  
• The Song of Hiawatha
  
• Pride and Prejudice
  
• The Monk
  
• Mrs. Dalloway
  
• Henry IV, Part I
  
• Life of Henry V
  
• Paradise Lost
  
• Dracula
  

Many of these I'd never even heard of. Many of them I'd heard of, but had simply never had a chance to read - like Paradise Lost, Dracula, and Pride and Prejudice. So I think this will be a great chance to read a lot of novels that I'd otherwise never had any time to read. I'm really looking forward to Dracula and Paradise Lost, since I've heard so much about them for so long now. And of course Uncle Tom's Cabin, since it's such an important work in American literature.

Goodness gracious, I am out of the loop.

I just graduated college so this is the first summer I won't be buying my books ahead of time to try and read them over the next few months! I'm in denial...let's not discuss it.

Anyway, I'm thrilled you're reading Tuesdays with Morrie, The Canterbury Tales and Paradise Lost. I personally would not have liked The Canterbury Tales or Paradise Lost if I hadn't read them in school.

Have you heard about the new film adaptation for Paradise Lost? Right now, it lists Bradley Cooper as Lucifer and I truly cannot see him playing the part.

[Lizzie]

Considering I am taking all general requirement classes and an Intro to Digital Processing class for my possible Graphic Design minor, I won't be taking any English courses and therefore will be reading zero novels, plays, or short stories.
It's going to be a long semester.

[casey]

I'm taking a survey course for my major that I hadn't got around to taking for some reason. It's pretty basic, Brit Lit pre-1700. Just working out of a Norton probably. Works include:

- Beowulf
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Canturbury Tales - Chaucer
- Utopia - Sir Thomas Moore
- Faerie Queene - Spenser
- King Lear
- Way of the World - Congreve

etc.

[Dodger Thirteen]

Jun 17, 2011 1:29:36 GMT -5 casey said:

I'm taking a survey course for my major that I hadn't got around to taking for some reason. It's pretty basic, Brit Lit pre-1700. Just working out of a Norton probably. Works include:

- Beowulf
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Canturbury Tales - Chaucer
- Utopia - Sir Thomas Moore
- Faerie Queene - Spenser
- King Lear
- Way of the World - Congreve

etc.

Norton? Hrm...maybe. Doubtful, though. The Faerie Queene is wicked long. Not sure if you'd read the whole thing, though.... More than likely you'll be "assigned" Penguin classics. <3 those

[devilishlybookish]

^Love Penguin. My university always went for Dover or Oxford University, though.

I'm sad to say I won't have any more reading lists. I'll just have to make some for myself...[/color]

[KatjevanLoon]

May 29, 2011 22:50:37 GMT -5 Garth said:

So, out of curiosity, what reading have you guys been assigned for the upcoming semester(s)?

Only one English course for me next semester (trying to finish my First Nations Studies degree), and that's the only class that's posted the assigned reading already.

• Bishop, Anne. Becoming an Ally, Breaking the Cycle of Oppression. Halifax: Fernwood Publishers, 1995.
  
• Clements, Marie. The Unnatural and Accidental Women. Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2005.
  
• Helin, Calvin. Dances with Dependency. Orca Spirit Publishing.
  
• Hill, Barbara-Helen. Shaking the Rattle: Healing the Trauma of Colonization. Penticton, BC: Theytus Books. 1995.
  
• Razack, Sherene. Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race and Culture in the Courtrooms and Classrooms. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
  
• Sterling, Shirley. My Name is Seepeetza. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntrye, 1992.
  

The course is called "The Effects of Colonization on Aboriginal Women."

[ThatsMyPie]

According to my school's website, my Junior Year of High School's AP Lang. and Comp consists of:

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
A Contemporary Novel

and I think we're going to read The Age of Reason.

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On second thought, it says that the Honors English II curriculum is way different than what I read, even though the Honors English I curriculum is exactly what I did. Who knows? Maybe my teacher had pulled some string.

[andy]

Jun 17, 2011 3:12:20 GMT -5 devilishlybookish said:

^Love Penguin. My university always went for Dover or Oxford University, though.

I'm sad to say I won't have any more reading lists. I'll just have to make some for myself...

[/color][/quote]

You should try emailing course conveners and asking them for the reading list, they should be set by now although they're not posted online.

Next term for English Lit, Comp Lit and Classical civilisation, I have to read:

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin - The Dispossessed
John Milton - Paradise Lost
David Greig - Dunsinane
Walter Scott - Redgauntlet
Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida
Andre Gide - If It Die
Thomas Mann - Death In Venice
Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate
Brian Friel - Translations (play)
Karel Capek - Letters from England
Bohumil Hrabal - I Served the King of England
Homer - Odyssey
Hesiod - Theogony and Works and Days
Herodotus - The Histories
Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution

[evermore]

I'm only in high school, but these are what I have to read over the summer. If anyone has every read any of these (especially the more obscure ones) your opinion on them would be greatly appreciated. (:

The Illiad - Homer
Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb
The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem

I'm also reading a book in Italian for my Italian class (I've been speaking Italian for 5 years now) but I forget the title and I doubt anyone would know it. And I also have to read The Hunger Games but I've already read it and thought it was very good. (: Thanks for your reply in advance!

[Meaghan]

I'm only going into my Junior year of high school to take AP Lang, but for summer reading I have The Color of Water and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and for the school year we'll be reading

• The Great Gatsby
  
• The Scarlet Letter
  
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  

Which really doesn't seem like much. I suppose it is a writing-based course though....

I'm surprised at many of your lists, though. It seems like much of what you guys are doing in college we did in high school, while a lot of what other high school students are doing I've never even heard of.