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Saturday, October 06, 2007

U of A Recommended Reading

From a list given to Bradley while in high school in Page, Arizona.

Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Aesop: Fables
Agee: A Death in the Family
Anaya: Bless me, Ultima
Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio
Austin: Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin: Notes to a Native Son
Bellow: Henderson the Ram King; Mr. Sammler's Planet
*: Bible
Borges: Dr. Brodie's Report
Boswell: Life of Johnson
Bronte, C: Jane Eyre
Bronte, E: Wuthering Heights
Buck: The Good Earth
Capote: In Cold Blood, The Grass Harp, and other short stories
Carson: The Sea Around Us
Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
Cather: Death comes to the Archbishop
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Conrad: Heath of Darkness, the Secret Sharer
Cooper: last of the Mohicans
Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Dickens: David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; Tale of Two Cities
Dickenson: Collected poems
Dostsyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Elliot, George: Adam Bede
Elliot, T.S.: Collected Verse: Murder in the Cathedral
Ellsion: Invisible Man
Emerson: Essays
Euripedes: Medea
Faulkner: The Bear: The unvanquished
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Franklin: Autobiography
Frost: Collected Poems
Gaines: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
Grimm: Household Tales
Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Return of the Native
Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms
Homer: Iliad, Odyseey
Huxley: Brave New World
Isben: A Doll's House, Enemy of the People
James: The Turn of the Screw, Portrait of a Lady
Kipling: Jungle Books, Kim, Captain Courageous
Lewis, C.S.: The Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet
Lewis, Oscar: The Children of Sanchez
Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt, Arrowsmith
London: Call of the Wild
Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
McCullers: Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Melville: Moby Dick, Billy Budd
Millay: Collected Poems
Miller: Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
Milton: Paradise Lost
Mishima: The Sound of Waves
Mitford: American Way of Death
Momday: House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Morehead: The Blue Nile, The White Nile
Murasaki: Tale of Genji
O'Neill: Emperor Jones, Beyond the Horizon
Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm
Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
Plath: The Bell Jar
Poe: Tales
Polo: Travels of Marco Polo
Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars
Riesman: The Lonely Crowd
Rivera: "..and the earth did not part."
Roth: Call It Sleep
Sagan: Dragons of Eden
Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
Sandburg: Lincoln
Saroyan: The Human Comedy
Sekaquaptewa, H.: Me and Mine
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream
Shaw: Pygmalion, Saint Joan
Singer: Gimpei the Fool and other stories
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Antigone
Sheridan: The Rivals
Solzhenitsya: One Day in the Life of Ivan Devnisovich
Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Stevens: Collected Poems
Stevenson: Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Strachey: Victoria
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Thacheay: Vanity Fair
Thorau: Walden
Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Tuchman: The guns of August, The Distant Mirror
Twain: Huckleberry Finn, Tom sawyer
Virgil: Aeneid
Welty: Collected Stories
Wharton: Ethan Frome
White, T.H.: The Once and Future King
Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Whittier: Selected Poems
Wilder: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth
Williams: The Glass Menagerie

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