Rich McAllister

10:08 pm: Literature
Lin and I were talking over dinner about how hard it must be to be a freshman college English teacher. Come up with 4 novels each quarter than you are sure are worth the time it takes to read them, and which lead to interesting discussions in class; that requires them to be thematically linked.  Here's what we came up with:

--- Q1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Beloved, Toni Morrison

-- Q2
 Catch 22, Joseph Heller
War and Peace, Leon Tolstoy
Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
The Lord of the Rings, J R R Tolkien

-- Q3

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin