English Books

Subfreshman English
Freshman English
Sophomore English
Shakespeare - Suslick Section
Shakespeare - Rayburn Section
African-American Literature
The Nineteenth-Century Novel
Utopia and Dystopia in Literature
The Hero's Journey-Suslick Section
The Hero's Journey-Rayburn Section
The Coming-of-Age Novel
Creative Writing
Journalism
Advanced Journalism
Social Advocacy I
Social Advocacy II

Subfreshman English

Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Dover Thrift

Title: Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud
Author: Ed. Robert Pinsky
Edition: Paper
Publisher: W.W. Norton

Title: Webster's Handy Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
Author: N/A
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Random House Reference

Title: Songs on Bronze
Author: Nigel Spivey
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Title: Romeo & Juliet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Washington Square Press

Title: Essential Literary Terms
Author: Sharon Hamilton
Edition: Paper
Publisher: W.W. Norton

Title: Night
Author: Elie Wiesel
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Hill and Wang

Title: Whale Rider
Author: Witi Ihimaera
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.

Title: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Author: Salman Rushdie

Title: MLA Handbook
Edition: 7th Paper
Publisher: Modern language Association

Freshman English

Title: Siddhartha
Author: Hermann Hesse
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Bantam

Title: Joy Luck Club
Author: Amy Tan
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Ivy Books

Title: Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Title: The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Sparknotes

Title: The House on Mango Street
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Random House (Vintage)

Title: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Author: Sherman Alexie
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Little Brown

Title: Black Boy
Author: Richard Wright
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Title: The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edition: Any
Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Title: Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding
Publisher: Perigree

Title: MLA Handbook
Edition: 7th Edition
Publisher: Modern Language Assoc.

Title: The Norton Anthology of American Literature
Author: Nina Bayam (ed.)
Edition: 6th Shorter
Publisher: Norton

Sophomore English

Title: Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Anchor Books

Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: Shakespeare
Edition: Folger
Publisher: Washington Square Press

Title: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Dover Thrift

Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Signet Classic

Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Signet Classics

Title: Withering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Signet Classics

Title: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Author: Joseph Gibaldi
Edition: 6th Paper
Publisher: Modern Language Assoc.

Asian American Literature

Title: Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of An American People
Author: Helen Zia
Edition: Paper

Title: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Author: Lisa See
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Random House

Title: The Elements of Style
Author: Wm. Strunk and E.B. White
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Macmillian

Title: Farewell to Manzanar
Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books

Title: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
Author: Mohja Kahf
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Carroll and Graf

Title: Interpreter of Maladies
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Mariner

Title: Native Speaker
Author: Chang-Rae Lee
Edition: Paper
Publisher: SBREAK

Title: Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Author: Joseph Gibaldi
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Modern Language Assoc.

Title: Reasoning and Writing Well
Author: Betty Dietsch
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: McGraw Hill

Shakespeare - Suslick Section

Title: As You Like It
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: Othello
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Spark Notes

Title: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Author: Joseph Gibaldi
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Modern Language Assoc.

Title: Reasoning and Writing Well
Author: Betty Dietsch
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: McGraw Hill

Shakespeare - Rayburn Section

Title: The Elizabethian World Picture
Author: EMW Tilyard
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Vintage

Title: As You Like It
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Dover

Title: The Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Norton Critical Edition

Title: Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Folger
Publisher: Washington Spring Press

Title: Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Folger
Publisher: Washington Spring Press

Title: Henry V
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Folger
Publisher: Washington Spring Press

Title: Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Washington Spring Press

Title: MLA Handbook
Author: Joseph Gibaldi (ed.)
Edition: 6th Paper
Publisher: Modern Language Assoc.

African-American Literature

Title: Native Son (unabridged)
Author: Richard Wright
Edition: Any
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Title: Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison
Edition: Any
Publisher: Vintage

Title: Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass
Author: Fredrick Douglass
Edition: Any
Publisher: Dover Thrift

Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Edition: Any
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern classics

Title: A Lesson Before Dying
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Edition: Any
Publisher: Vintage

Title: The Autobiography of Malcom X
Author: Malcolm X with Alex Haley
Edition: Any
Publisher: Ballantine

Title: Beloved
Author: Tony Morrison
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Vintage

Title: The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry
Author: Arnold Rampersad (ed.)
Edition: Any
Publisher: Oxford UP

Title: A Raisin in the Sun
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Edition: Any
Publisher: Vintage

Title: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Author: Joseph Gibaldi
Edition: 6th Paper
Publisher: Modern Language Assoc.

The Nineteenth-Century Novel

Title: Mary Barton
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Title: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Oxford World's Classics

Title: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Author: T. Hardy
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Oxford World's Classics

Title: MLA Handbook
Author: Joseph Gibaldi (ed.)
Edition: 6th Paper
Publisher: Modern Language Assoc.

Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Bantam Classic

Title: Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Bantam Classic

Utopia and Dystopia in Literature

Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Signet Classics

Title: Herland
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gillman
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Signet Classics

Title: Handmaids Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Anchor

Title: Player Piano
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Dial Press

Title: The Utopia Reader
Author: Claeys & Sargent
Edition: Paper
Publisher: NYU Press

The Hero's Journey-Suslick Section

Title: Beowulf
Author: Seamus Heaney (Translator)
Edition: Any
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Title: Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer (Nevill Coghill, Translator)
Edition: Any
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Title: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Edition: Any
Publisher: N/A

Title: Gilgamesh
Author: Stephen Mitchell (Translator)
Edition: Any
Publisher: N/A

Title: Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan Swift
Edition: Any
Publisher: N/A

Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K. Rowling
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Scholastic

Title: The Odyssey
Author: Homer
Edition: Any
Publisher: N/A

Title: Oedipus Cycle of Sophocles
Author: Sophocles (Fitts, Dudley & R. Fitzgerald, Translators)
Edition: Any
Publisher: Harcourt

Title: Reasoning and Writing Well
Author: Betty Dietsch
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: McGraw Hill

Title: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Author: Joseph Gibaldi
Edition: 6th Paper
Publisher: Modern Language Assoc.

The Hero's Journey-Rayburn Section

Title: The Odyssey
Author: Homer
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Penguin

Title: The Inferno
Author: Dante (Hollander Translation)
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Doubleday

Title: As I Lay Dying
Author: William Faulkner
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Vintage

Title: The Memory of Running
Author: Ron McLarty
Edition: Paper
Publisher: Penguin

The Coming-of-Age Novel

Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce
Edition: Any
Publisher: Penguin 20th Century Classics

Title: The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J. D. Salinger
Edition: Any
Publisher: Little Brown

Title: Black Boy
Author: Richard Wright
Edition: Any
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern

Title: The Bell Jar
Author: Sylvia Plath
Edition: Any
Publisher: Harper Perennial Classics

Title: A Lesson Before Dying
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Edition: Any
Publisher: Vintage

Title: Housekeeping
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Edition: Any
Publisher: Picador

Title: Girl in Landscape
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Edition: Any
Publisher: Vintage

Title: Black Swan Green
Author: David Mitchell
Edition: Any
Publisher: Random House

Creative Writing

There are no books required for this class at this time

Journalism

Title: Inside Reporting: A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism
Author: Tim Harrower
Edition: Paper, 2007
Publisher: McGraw Hill

Title: The Overachievers
Author: Alexandra Robbins
Edition: Paper, 2007
Publisher: Hyperion

Advanced Journalism

There are no books required for this class at this time

Social Advocacy I

There are no books required for this class at this time


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