What Might We Read?
* Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
* As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
* The Awakening by Kate Chopin
* Beloved by Toni Morrison
* Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
* Bleak House by Charles Dickens
* The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
* The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
* The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
* Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin
* Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
* The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
* The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Hamlet by William Shakespeare
* The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
* Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
* Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
* Jazz by Toni Morrison
* King Lear by William Shakespeare
* Light in August by William Faulkner
*Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
* Lolita by Nabokov
* Middlemarch by George Eliot
* Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
* Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
* The Odyssey by Homer
* Poems for Poetry Evening
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
* The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
* Ragtime by E.L. Doctrow
* The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
* A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
* To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
* Ulysses by James Joyce
* Vanity Fair by William Thackery
* White Teeth by Zadie Smith
* The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Other books that may be studied include: Henry IV, Poetry of TS Eliot, Daniel Deronda, The Transcendentalists, Twelfth Night, Pride & Prejudice, Beowulf, Contemporary Poetry, Poetry Writing Workshop…
If you have a particular text in mind, email me and perhaps we can construct a salon.