Chabot College/2012
FICTION: Drama, Poetry and Short Story Collections commonly taught in English 4*
Drama
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Dutchman by LeRoi Jones
Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
Fences by August Wilson
MacBeth by Shakespeare
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
Telling Tales: An Anthology of One Act Plays edited by Eric Lane
Twilight Los Angeles: 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith
Zoot Suit and Other Plays by Luis Valdez
Poetry Collections
Bum Rush the Page edited by Tony Medina, et al.
Premier Book of Major Poets edited by Anita Dore
Sarajevo Blues by Semezdin Mehmedinovic and Ammiel Alcalay
Unsettling America edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan
Short Stories
“A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan
“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
“Columbus in Chains” by Jamaica Kincaid
“Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
“Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie
“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
“Everything that Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor
“Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason
“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
“The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin
“The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich
“The Things We Carry” by Tim O’Brien
“What We Talk about when We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver
Short Story Collections
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Drown by Junot Diaz
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Krik? Krak by Edwidge Danticat
Sudden Fiction by Shapiro and Thomas
The Elephant Vanishes: Stories by Haruki Murakami
The Moths by Helena María Viramontes
Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros
*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.