Recommended Reading (A Starting Point)

Fictions by Established Authors:

Sandra Cisneros House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, Caramelo

Martin Cruz Smith Gorky Park, Polar Star, Red Square, Havana Bay, Stallion’s Gate, December 6^th

Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway ** Joseph Conrad The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim ** William Golding Lord of the Flies **Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird ** Yasunari Kawabata The Master of GO ** Banana Yoshimoto Kitchen ** Arthur C. Clarke 2001-, 2010-, 2061-, 3001- A Space Odyssey (the series) ** Akira Yoshimura One Man’s Justice ** Joseph Heller Catch-22 ** Kobo Abe The Woman in the Dunes ** William Faulkner The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion (trilogy) ** Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea ** John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath ** James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ** Guntar Grass The Tin Drum ** Yukio Mishima The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Fictions by New Authors:

Ø Jay Basu  The Stars can Wait

Ø Terence Cheng  Sons of Heaven

Ø David Czuchlewski  The Muse Asylum

Ø Marc Dunn  Ella Minnow Pea

Ø Abby Bardi  The Book of Fred

Ø Jonathan Safran Foer  Everything’s Illuminated

Ø Chip Kidd  The Cheese Monkeys

Ø John Wray  The Right Hand of Sleep 

Ø Dai Sajie  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Ø Jonathan Falla  Blue Poppies

Ø Julie Otsuka When the Emperor was Devine

Non-Fiction:

Stephen J. Gould  Ever Since Darwin, The MisMeasure of Man, The Flamingo’s Smile, The Panda’s Thumb** Michael Moore  Stupid White Men ** Robert Bakker The Dinosaur Heresies ** Stephen Hawkings The Theory of Everything ** Brian Greene The Elegant Universe

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