Read.
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in
which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.” -Aldous Huxley
Besides the works we study in class, we suggest the following:
Prose and Plays
Informational (Nonfiction) works
Graphic Fiction
Poets
Prose and Plays
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Prisoner’s Dilemma by Richard Powers
- The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
- Pushout by Monique Morris
- A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall
- I'll Give You the Sun or The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
- Eleanor and Park by Rainbowl Rowell
- The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Divine Comedy by Dante
- Angels of the Universe by Einar Mar Gudmundsson
- Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
Informational (Nonfiction) works
- The Art of Self-Directed Learning by Blake Boles
- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Night by Elie Wiesel
Graphic Fiction
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
- Blankets by Craig Thompson
- Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
Poets
- Maya Angelou, Tyler Knott Gregson, William Blake, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Sarah Kay, Claude McKay, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth (The World is Too Much With Us