2011 READING LIST 


0417 LITERATURE GENRE 202
Three Readings 
Required Reading: 
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Read any ONE of the following:
For One More Day – Mitch Albom
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
Chasing the Dream – Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
Growing Up– Russell Baker

0416 LITERATURE GENRE 101
Two Readings
Required Reading:
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

In addition to the Advanced Genre list, students may also read any ONE of the following:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith 
My Dog Skip– Willie Morris
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’engel

0425 AMERICAN LITERATURE 202
Two Readings
Required Reading:
Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom 

Read one of the following:
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd 
The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
God on the Starting Line: The Triumph of a Catholic School Running Team and Its Jewish Coach – Marc Bloom
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
0431 BRITISH LITERATURE 303
Two Readings
Required Reading:
To Sir with Love – E.H. Braithwaite

Read at least ONE of the following:
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

0440 ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION 454
Required Readings:
Othello – Shakespeare
An Enemy of the People – Ibsen
Death of a Salesman – Miller
Glass Menagerie – Williams
Native Son – Wright
Things Fall Apart – Achebe
The Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde
A Doll House – Ibsen
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston

World Literature 12: Two Readings 
Required Reading:
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini 
Read one of the following:
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Alvarez
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
1984 – George Orwell
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

WRITING PROCESS BCC 121/454
The nuts & bolts of college writing -- by Michael Harvey ISBN 0872205738 

THE SHORT STORY BCC 155/454
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: a Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines – by Thomas C. Foster ISBN 006000942X