A LIST OF TEXTS I’VE TAUGHT

 

Edward Abbey                       Desert Solitaire

Aristosphanes                          Lysistrata

Jane Austen                             Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice

J.G. Ballard                             The Atrocity Exhibition

James M. Cain                         The Postman Always Rings Twice

G. Chaucer                              The Miller’s Tale

Raymond Chandler                 The Big Sleep

Douglas Coupland                  Girlfriend in a Coma

Daniel Defoe                           Moll Flanders

Don DeLillo                            Point Omega

Mark Haddon                         The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Eliza Haywood                       Love in Excess

Ernest Hemingway                 The Sun Also Rises

Thompson Highway                The Rez Sisters

Aldous Huxley                        Brave New World

Henry James                            The Turn of the Screw

Samuel Johnson                      The History of Rasselas

Franz Kafka                            The Metamorphosis

David Lodge                           Changing Places

Yann Martel                            Life of Pi

Steve Martin                           Shopgirl

Peter Matthiessen                    The Snow Leopard

Michael Pollan                        The Botany of Desire

Alexander Pope                      The Rape of the Lock

Ann Radcliffe                         The Mysteries of Udolpho

Samuel Richardson                 Pamela

Marjane Satapi                        Persepolis:The Story of a Childhood

Muriel Spark                           The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Robert L. Stevenson               Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde                   

Tom Stoppard                         Travesties

William Shakespeare               Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night

Oscar Wilde                            The Importance of Being Earnest

Tennessee Williams                 A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Horace Walpole                      The Castle of Otranto

Nathaniel West                       The Day of the Locust

Edith Wharton                                    Ethan Frome

Virginia Woolf                        Mrs. Dalloway