List of Books for Literature Review Assignment

Honors Beauty, Fall 2019

Fiction:

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Orpheo by Richard Powers
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wau by Junot Diaz
If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Warlight by Michael Ondaadje
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Island by Alastair McLeod
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Housekeeping, by Marilyn Robinson
Light in August by William Faulkner
Light Years by James Salter
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausabel
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguru
The Sea by John Banville
The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danicat
White Noise by Don Delillo

Nonfiction (memoir, essays)

Catharsis by Adrzej Szczeklik

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Mortal Lessons from the Art of Surgery by Richard Seltzer
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Twentieth-Century Pleasures OR What Light Can Do by Robert Hass
The Spiritual Life of Children by Robert Coles
A Fortunate Man by John Berger
My Life by Mark Chagall
Against Forgetting by Carolyn Forche
Ex Libris OR At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman
The Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Second Tree at the Corner by E.B. White
The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettleheim
The World of Yesterday by Stephan Zweig
Truth and Beauty by Anne Patchett
Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Tests of Time, William Gass
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
Catharsis  or Kore by Andrzej Szczeklik
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
The Broken Road, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Report from the Interior, Paul Auster
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
Hope Against Hope by Nadesha Mandelstam

Poetry Collections

Anna Ahkmatova, Selected Poems

During or Interglacial by James Richardson (A Heather Favorite!)
Osip Mandelstam, Selected Poems (trans by W.S. Merwin or Meryl
Natchez)
Collected Poems, Amy Clampitt
Quiver of Arrow, Carl Phillips
Syllabus of Errors by Troy Jollimore
Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert
Collected Poems, Seamus Heaney
Collected Poems, Czeslaw Milosz
A New Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell (A Heather’s Favorite)
Core Samples from the World by Forrest Gander
Collected Poems by Robert Pinsky
Elemental Odes by Pablo Neruda
Steal Away: Selected and New Poems by C.D. Wright
Making Certain it Goes On, Richard Hugo(A Heather’s Favorite)
Selected Poems by Rainier Maria Rilke, trans by Stephen Mitchell
Strike Sparks by Sharon Olds (A Heather’s Favorite)
 The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass (A Heather’s Favorite)
The Blue Buick by B.H. Fairchild
Bender by Dean Young
Gabriel by Edward Hirsch
Selected Poetry of Dylan Thomas
Selected Poetry of Randall Jarrell
Selected Poetry of Marianne Moore

**other poetry proposals welcome with Heather’s approval

Ethnographies

Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca

Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nancy
Scheper-Hughes
Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber
On Coming of Age In Samoa by Margaret Mead
The Sorry of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers by Edward
Schieflein
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society by Lila Abu-
Lughod
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss

Make sure you research your choices carefully, as you will need every bit of
time to get this done, and you don’t want to change horses midstream
(whatever that means!!)

**DOUBLE-DIPPING (reading a book you are reading for another class, or a

book you have already read) is considered academically poor behavior
and will not be tolerated; please note that it is not allowed under our
course guidelines. Also please note that the assignment (to follow) will be a
rigorous one; film adaptations will not be sufficient for the level of analysis or
interpretation required. Thanks!

** In the event more than two people choose the same book, those with the
better argument will win.