WVU English Department Reading List

Peter Ackroyd, The Plato Papers

Lynda Barry, What It Is

Caroline Bergvall, Drift

Geoffrey Chaucer, Dream Visions (Love Visions is a modern English translation)

Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

Lia Pupura, "Allegories" (a short poem)

Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

William Shakespeare, Pericles

Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X