Readings

Input to My Ramblings

In Progress/In Denial

• When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
• How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton

2019

• "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison
• "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
• "Entropy" by Thomas Pynchon
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Angels in America by Tony Kushner
• "The Babysitter" by Robert Coover
• "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
• "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Daisy Miller by Henry James
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

2018

• Maurice by E.M. Forster
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
• Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
• The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didiom
• Equus by Peter Shaffer
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• “The Night Face Up” by Julio Cortázar
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

2017

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Fences by August Wilson
• Othello by William Shakespeare
• An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
• "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace
• "Rose for Emily" by WIlliam Faulkner
• "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway
• "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

2016

• The Great Conductors by Harold Schonberg
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2015 and Prior

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare