2010-2011 Reading List Poll

• Nick Hornby – Juliet, Naked

• Jeanette Winterson – The Stone Gods

• Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kittredge

• Joyce Carol Oates – We Were the Mulvaneys

• Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

• Moshin Hamid – the Reluctant Fundamentalist

• Nicole Krauss – History of Love

• Nicole Krauss - Man Walks Into a Room

• Octavia Butler – Kindred Son

• William Golding – Lord of the Flies

• Yevgeny Zamiatin – WE

• Paolo Bacigalupi – Short story selections (TBD)

• Ooku by Fumi Yoshinaga

• The Passion of New Eve

• The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

• Blasted (Sarah Kane)

• Reflections in a Golden Eye

• Joe Wenderoth – Letters to Wendy’s

• Osage Country (Tracy Letts)

• The Abstinence Teacher (Tom Perrotta)

• Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)

• Selections from Shirley Jackson (besides or including “The Lottery”)

• Selections from Graham Greene

• Selections from Jamaica Kincaid

• Shutter Island (adaptation, but still)

• Ursula K. LeGuin – Left Hand of Darkness

• Joan Didion (selections from Slouching Towards Bethlehem

• Ursula K. LeGuin – Left Hand of Darkness

• Joanna Russ – The Female Man

• Marge Piercy – Woman on the Edge of Time

• The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl (selections)