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Poetry
Scan through the
table of contents in The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Vol 2: Contemporary Poetry
and note the poets and/or poems you know from past experience you would
like to read and study for this class. Also note the
titles that sound intriguing or interesting, and then scan
through the poems themselves. Spend a few minutes flipping
pages and see what catches your interest. List below up to six poets or poems you would especially like us to study
this semester.
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Novels
Choose two novels from the list below that you think would be interesting for us to read. Follow links provided to quick reviews of each novel.
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Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
1992 National Book Award Winner, 302 pages.
NY Times review. |
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Cormac McCarthy, The Road
2007 Pulitzer Prize, 241 pages.
NY Times review.
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Robert McEwan, Atonement
2003 National Book Critics Circle Award, 351 pages,
Times Magazine named it one of the 100 greatest novels of all time.
London Review of Books review. |
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Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner.
2004 South African Boeke Prize, 2006 and 2007 Reading Group Book of the Year
NY Times review |
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Robert Morgan, Gap Creek.
(2000) Oprah Book Club selection, 326 pages.
NY Times review |
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Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake.
2003 short-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 384 pages
(London) Guardian review |
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Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
2000 Pulitzer Prize,
NY Times review. |
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Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists.
2010, 272 pages.
NY Times review. |
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