Mfa program in creative writing at fresno state
FICTION Reading List
Adopted Fall 2009
American (8-10)
1.
James Baldwin – Going to Meet the Man (stories)
2.
Willa Cather (My Antonia)
3.
William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)
4.
Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time: Stories)
5.
Toni Morrison (Sula)
6.
Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
7.
Flannery O’Connor (Wise Blood)
8.
Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49)
9.
Tomas Rivera (And the Earth Did not Devour Him)
10.
Edith Wharton (House of Mirth)
UK (5-7)
1.
James Joyce (Dubliners)
2.
William Trevor (Collected Stories)
3.
Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway)
4.
Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea)
World Lit in Translation (5-7)
1.
Franz Kafka (Collected Stories)
2.
Anton Chekhov (Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904)
3.
Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
4.
Jorge Luis Borges (Labyrinths)
5.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories)
6.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)