Summer Reading List

2012 READING LIST 

LITERATURE GENRE 202
Three Readings
Required Reading:
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Read any ONE of the following:
For One More Day – Mitch Albom
Chasing the Dream – Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
Growing Up– Russell Baker

LITERATURE GENRE 101
Two Readings
Required Reading:
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Read any ONE of the following:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
My Dog Skip– Willie Morris
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’engel

AMERICAN LITERATURE 202
Two Readings
Required Reading:
Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom

Read one of the following:
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
God on the Starting Line: The Triumph of a Catholic School Running Team and Its Jewish Coach – Marc Bloom
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry

BRITISH LITERATURE 303
Two Readings
Required Reading:
To Sir with Love – E.H. Braithwaite
Read at least ONE of the following:
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

WORLD LITERATURE 303
Two Readings
Required Reading:
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Read one of the following:
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Alvarez
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

WRITING PROCESS BCC 121/454
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing -- by Michael Harvey 

THE SHORT STORY BCC 155/454
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: a Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines – by Thomas C. Foster

SETON HALL ENGLISH 1 454
Required:
Othello - Shakespeare
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

SETON HALL GREAT BOOKS II 454
Required:
An Enemy of the People – Henrik Ibsen;
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller;
Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams

INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE BCC 158/454
Poetry 180 (anthology, available on Amazon.com),
Death of a Salesman,
The Best American Short Stories of the Century Edited by John
Updike and Katrina Kenison
The requirements:  Students should read at least five
stories from this anthology (available on Amazon.com)

Any novel of their choice with the exception of the Harry Potter or Twilight series.