Anything by Ray Bradbury.
Anything by Isaac Asimov.
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut.
Somthing by Toni Morrison.
The poems of Langston Hughes.
Anything by Mark Twain. Make that Everything by Mark Twain.
Any and all comic books, graphic novels, etc. (but especially MARVEL)
Anything by Shakespeare.
The Norton Anthology of English Poetry.
The Norton Anthology of English Prose.
Some anthology of American poetry.
Anything by Wendell Berry.
Ecotopia (can’t recall author).
Saul Bellow is good; Isaac Bashevis Singer is good; Gabriel Marques LLosa (name perhaps mixed up) is good.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe.
Anything by Ken Kesey, but particularly Sometimes A Great Notion & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Something by Arthur C. Clarke.
Bird By Bird by Anne Lamont.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
The Stranger & The Plague by Albert Camus.
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
the Russian & Scandinavian modern playwrights (Chekov, Ibsen et al).
the American modern playwrights (Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, August Wilson, et al).
Biographies of Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Washington, et al.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Anything by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson.
Nigger by Dick Gregory.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan.
(this should be good for a trimester or two…)
