American Literature Required Texts: *Registered students will be given the specific editions to purchase for class. as well as summer reading requirements.

• Billy Bud, Herman Melville

• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

• To Kill a Mockingbird,  Harper Lee

• Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington

• The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

• The Call of the Wild, Jack London

• Selected poetry and short stories that I will provide or that will be accessible online

British Literature Required Texts: *Registered students will be given the specific editions to purchase for class, as well as summer reading requirements.

• Beowulf

• Selection from The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

• Macbeth, William Shakespeare

• Jayne Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

• 1984, George Orwell

• Favorite Father Brown Short Stories, GK Chesterton

• Selections from C.S. Lewis and other British authors that I will provide or that will be accessible online

World Literature Required Texts: *Registered students will be given the specific editions to purchase for class, as well as summer reading requirements.

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

• The Odyssey

• Julius Caesar

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

• Cry, The Beloved Africa

• The Great Gatsby

• The Book Thief

• Short story and poetry selections that I will provide or that will be accessible online