Chabot College/2012
FICTION: full length works commonly taught in English 4*
1984 by George Orwell
American Buffalo by David Mamet
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Kindred by Octavia Butler
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Song of the Hummingbird by Graciela Limon
Soul of a Citizen by Paul Rogat Loeb
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Collector by John Fowles
The Dew Breakers by Edwidge Danticut
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hossein
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
*At the pre-1A level as well as in 1A, we recommend that non-fiction be used; that if fiction or
autobiographical works are assigned, they be analyzed for issues and themes connected to other
readings in the course rather than for literary aspects; that a combination of book-length works and
short essays be used to provide a variety of models.