Nutley Public School District

Choose three of the following books and read thoroughly, paying special attention to the way each author constructs meaning through the use of literary devices, such as dialogue, mood, setting, theme, tone, etc. Be prepared for writing/discussion on the first day of class.  Please bring the texts to class, and any notes taken during reading.

Bellow, Saul – Henderson the Rain King

Cather, Willa – My Antonia

Crane, Stephen – Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying

                                             Light in August

Fitzgerald, F. Scott – This Side of Paradise

Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Blithedale Romance

                                                  The House of the Seven Gables

Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell To Arms

                                               The Sun Also Rises

Kesey, Ken – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes

Melville, Herman – Billy Budd

Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye

O’Brien, Tim – In the Lake of the Woods

Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar

Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle

Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath

                                         The Winter of Our Discontent

Vonnegut, Kurt– Slaughterhouse 5

Wharton, Edith  – The House of Mirth