Honors students must read the following books (and, of course, everyone else is also invited to read them):

Chinua Achebe  Things Fall Apart
James Joyce  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
William Shakespeare  Othello
George Bernard Shaw  Saint Joan
Virginia Woolf  Mrs.Dalloway

18th and Earlv l9th Century Fiction

Jane Austen  Emma
Charles Dickens  Hard Times
George Eliot  The Mill on the Floss
Oliver Goldsmith  The Vicar of Wakefield
Anthony Trollope  The Warden or Barchester Towers

Late 19th and Early 20th Century Fiction

Wilkie Collins  The Moonstone
Joseph Conrad  Lord Jim
John Galsworthy  The Man of Property
D. H. Lawrence  Women in Love
Somerset Maugham  Of Human Bondage or The Moon and Sixpence

Contemporary Works

Kingsley Amis  Lucky Jim
Maeve Binchy   The Lilac Bus or The Copper Beech
Christy Brown   My Left Foot
A. S. Byatt  Possession
G. K. Chesterton  The Man Who Was Thursday:  A Nightmare
A. C. Cronin  The Citadel
Daphne Du Maurier  Rebecca
E. M. Forster  Maurice
Graham Greene  Heart of the Matter or The Human Factor
P. D. James  Devices and Desires
Gish Jen  Typical American
Charles Johnson  Middle Passage
William Melvin Kelley  A Different Drummer
Gus Lee  China Boy
Cormac McCarthy  All the Pretty Horses
Brian Moore  Black Robes
Toni Morrison  The Bluest Eye
Iris Murdoch  The Green Knight
Gloria Naylor  Linden Hills
Edna O'Brien  Country Girls
Ellis Peters  Monk's Hood or A Morbid Taste for Bones
Barbara Pym  Jane and Prudence or Some Tame Gazelle
Henry Roth  Call It Sleep
Isaac Bashevis Singer  Enemies: A Love Story
Monica Sone Nisei Daughter
Evelyn Waugh  Brideshead Revisited
Fay Weldon  Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen
Edith Wharton  Age of Innocence
Marianne Wiggins  John Dollar
Virginia Woolf  To the Lighthouse

Drama

Fania Fenelon  Playing for Time
Athol Fugard  Master Harold and the Boys
Brian Friel  Translations
Oliver Goldsmith  She Stoops to Conquer
Sean O'Casey  Juno and the Paycock
Richard Sheridan  The School for Scandal
Tom Stoppard  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
J. M. Synge  The Playboy of the Western World

Non-Fiction

Brendan Behan  Confessions of an Irish Rebel
Dominic Behan  My Brother Brendan
Wilfred Blunt  The Dream King
Anthony Burgess  Shakespeare
Ellis Close  The Rage of the Privileged Class
Jill Ker Conway  The Road from Coorain: An Autobiography
Joan Didion  Miami
Christopher Hibbert  The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici
Elspeth Huxley  The Flame Trees of Thika
Nancy Mitford  Frederick the Great or The Sun King
Frank O'Connor An Only Child
A. L. Rouse  William Shakespeare
Albert Speer  Inside the Third Reich
Barbara Tuchman  The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam or Guns of August

NOTES ON SUMMER READING

Use this format for recording your notes on each of the five books you read this summer.

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