Directed Reading in Fiction

Residency

Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1, Anchor (Nobel Prize Winner) (two weeks)

For online semester (NOT in this order!!!)

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, Vintage (Nobel Prize winner)

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness, Ace (won National Book Award for another book)

Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Harper Perennial (Pulitzer runner-up for another book)

V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas, Vintage (Nobel Prize winner)

Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain, Harper Perennial (Nobel Prize winner) (two weeks)

Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, Anchor (Pulitzer Prize winner) (two weeks)

Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Harper Perennial (won Pulitzer for another book) (two weeks)

Richard Ford, The Sportswriter, Vintage (book one of a trilogy; book two won Pulitzer)

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Anchor (Booker award finalist, Pulitzer finalist for various books)

Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato, Broadway (National Book Award)