For class

• Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh (Sp 2008)
• Complete Poems by Marianne Moore (Sp 2010)
• The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide (Su 2010)
• The Metamorphosis by Kafka (Su 2010)
• The Trial by Kafka (Sp 2009)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Su 2010)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Su 2010)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Su 2010)
• A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes (Sp 2009)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Sp 2010)
• Heart of Darkness (Sp 2010)
• The Rattlebag (Su 2011)
• Poetry by Baudleaire, T.S. Eliot, Rilke (Su 2010)
• Poetry by Coleridge and Wordsworth (W 2011)
• Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser (W 2010)
• David Shields' coursepack (W 2011, Au 2011)
• Writing Poetry by Barbara Drake (W 2010)

Extracurricular

• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (second reading Fall 2011)
• Summer Sisters by Judy Blume (something reading Su 2009)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (Sp 2009)
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Sp 2010)
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Sp 2009)
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (Su 2009)
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (W 2010)
• The Great Gatsby (second reading Sp 2012)
• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (Sp 2010)
• Less Than Zero by Bret Eason Ells (Sp 2010)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Sp 2011)
• Crush by Richard Siken (poetry)
• The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert (poetry)

Parts

• Visions of Excess by Bataille
• Violence and the Sacred by Girard
• The Gift by Mauss