Winter Reading List 2022-23

Winter Reading List 2022-23, with previous lists included

• “My Antonia” by Willa Cather, done

• “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly, done

• “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis, reading

• “Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown” by Pat Farabaugh

• “The Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania: A Study in Nativism” by Emerson Hunsberger Loucks

• “Augie: Stalag Luft VI to the Major Leagues” by John Bacchia

• “March” by John Lewis

• “Ellen Foster” by Kaye Gibbons, completed part of it

• “Night” by Elie Wiesel

• “Cry, the Beloved Country” by Bryce Stephenson

• “Something More: Reflections on a Bountiful Life” by Dr. Alexander Kalenak

• “The Giver” by Lois Lowry

• “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood

Summer/Fall 2022

• “The Odyssey” by Homer, different translation. Done

• “The Island of Doctor Moreau” by H.G. Wells, done

• “Kaffir Boy” by Mark Mathabane, done

• “Circle” by Dave Eggars, done

• “Mercy Street” by Jennifer Haigh, finished about half of it

• “Accidental” by Alex Richards, done

• “Julius Caesar” by Shakespeare, reread, done

• “Maus” by Art Spiegelman, completed most of it

Read, Winter/Spring

• “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen, done, Re-read

• “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, done, Re-read

• “Persepolis” by Margin Satrapi, done, first time

• “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, done, R

• “Slaughterhouse-5” by Kurt Vonnegut, done R

• “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton, done, R

• “The House on Mango Street,” by Sandra Cisneros, done first time

• “Dracula” by Brad Stocker, done, first time.

• “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, re-read, done R

Shakespeare

• “Othello” — done Read

• “The Merchant of Venice” — done, R

• “Midsummer Night’s Dream” — currently, R

• “Much Ado About Nothing” — currently, R

• “Romeo and Juliet” — done, R

• “The Tempest” — done, R

Short Stories

• “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, done

• “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, done

• “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, done

• “The Pomegranate Seeds” by Nathanial Hawthorne, done

• “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, R

• “Night Calls” by Lisa Fugard, done

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe