2019 Reading List

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  1. **Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall. Harper Perennial. 2009. Print. (Jan 14)
  2. Eagleton, Terry. After Theory. Penguin Books. 2004. ebook. (Jan 16)
  3. Waugh, Evelyn. Sword of Honour Trilogy. Penguin. 1965. Kindle. 2012. (Feb. 4)
  4. Chesterton, G.K.. The Man Who was Thursday: A Nightmare. 1908. Kindle. 2012. (Feb. 16)
  5. *Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Norton Anthology: English Literature: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Century. 10th Ed. 2018. (Feb. 18)
  6. Wilson, Robert Charles. Vortex. Tom Doherty Associates. 2011. Print. (Feb. 19)
  7. Wister, Owen. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains. 1902. Kindle. (Mar. 1)
  8. Tigar, Michael E. Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power. Monthly Review Press, 2018. Kindle. (Mar. 21)
  9. Milner, Marion.  A Life of One's Own. 1934. Routledge. 2011. Print. (Mar.30)
  10. Howey, Hugh. Wool. Self-published. 2011. Kindle. (Apr. 4)
  11. Wilson, Margaret. The Able McLaughlins. 1923. Library of America E-Book Classics. Kindle. 2019. (Apr. 7)
  12. Barnet, Sylvan and William E. Cain. A Short Guide to Writing About Literature. Pearson, 2012. Print. (Apr. 8)
  13. **The Arabian Nights trans. by Husain Haddawy. Norton, 1990. Kindle. 2008. (Apr. 18)
  14. **Flaubert, Gustav. Madame Bovary. 1857. trans. by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Amazon Classics, 2017. Kindle. (May 3)
  15. **Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, 1750 trans. by Ian Johnston, 2012. Univ. of Adelaide. Web. (May)
  16. **Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 1755. Gutenberg.net, 2004. (May)
  17. **Kant, Immanuel. An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment.  1784. Web. (May)
  18. **Engels, Friedrich. The Communist Manifesto. 1888. Kindle. (May)
  19. Hammett, Dashiell. Red Harvest. 1929. The Collected Dashiell Hammett. Penguin Random House, 2015. Kindle. (May 17)
  20. *Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 1. 1678. OUP, 2008. (May 21)
  21. *MacDonald, George. The Princess and the Goblin. Penguin Random House UK  2010. Print. (May 26)
  22. **Baudelaire, Charles. Paris Spleen. 1869. trans. by James Huneker, et. al. Digireads, 2015. (Jun. 4)
  23. *Barrie, J.M.. "Peter and Wendy". Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy. OUP, 2008. (Jun. 16)
  24. Vonnegut, Kurt. Basic We Are What We Pretend to Be: First and Last Works. Vanguard Press, 2012. (Jun. 17)
  25. Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death. 1968. Penguin Random House, 2019. (Jun. 21)
  26. Hammett, Dashiell. The Dain Curse. 1929. The Collected Dashiell Hammett. Penguin Random House, 2015. Kindle. (Jun 23)
  27. *Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Hobbit or There and Back Again. 1937. Harper Collins, 2006. (Jun 25)
  28. *Hoban, Russell. The Mouse and His Child. Harper & Row, 1967. (Jun 30)
  29. Hersh, Seymour M.. Reporter. Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. (Jul 8)
  30. Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. 1929.  The Collected Dashiell Hammett. Penguin Random House, 2015. Kindle. (Jul 10)
  31. *Dahi, Roald. Danny the Champion of the World. 1975. Puffin Books, 2013. (Jul 19)
  32. Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key. 1931. The Collected Dashiell Hammett. Penguin Random House, 2015. Kindle. (Jul 20)
  33. Wilson, Elizabeth. Love Game: A History of Tennis from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014. PDF. (Aug 4)
  34. Hammett, Dashiell. The Thin Man. 1933.  The Collected Dashiell Hammett. Penguin Random House, 2015. Kindle. (Aug 4)
  35. Hammett, Dashiell. Woman in the Dark. 1933. The Collected Dashiell Hammett. Penguin Random House, 2015. Kindle. (Aug 8)
  36. Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s &70s. David Rieff, Ed. The Library of America, 2013. Print. (Aug 11)


*Assigned as a course reading
**MOOC Recommended Reading



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