Course Readings

*these lists would have been easier to make if I hadn't just packed up my entire office in anticipation of the English Dept's move to a new building (therefore, they are not yet complete)

Books I've Taught in Various Graduate Fiction Workshops:


Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter (craft book)
The Mystery Guest by Gregoire Bouillier (a memoir)
Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin (short stories)
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis (novel)
White Noise by Don DeLillo (novel)
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (novel)
Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (novel)
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead ed. Jeffrey Eugenides (short story anthology)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (novel)
Howard's End by E.M. Forster (novel)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (novel)
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (novel)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (novel)
The Known World by Edward P. Jones (novel)
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan (short stories)
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (novel)
Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso (a memoir)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (novel)
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken (novel)
The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (novel)
Selected Stories by Alice Munro (short stories)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (novel)
The Art of Time by Joan Silber (craft book)
Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley (novellas)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (novel)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (novel)

Individual Short Stories I've Taught in Various Graduate Fiction Workshops:


"One of Star Wars, One of Doom" by Lee K. Abbott
"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin
"The Children in the Forest" by A.S. Byatt
"Big Me" by Dan Chaon
"Crazy Glue" by Etgar Keret
"The Progress of Love" by Alice Munro
"Sea Oak" by George Saunders
"The Deep" by Mary Swann
"Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff

Things I've Taught in the Undergraduate Fiction Workshops:


The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (novel)
Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway (textbook)
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead ed. Jeffrey Eugenides (short story anthology)

Books I've Taught in Writing for Young Adults:


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Books I've Taught in Literature of Adolescence:


Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Diary of Anne Frank
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain