Which Books Would You Choose for an English Course?
For our April Writing Question of the Month, we asked our instructors: If you could design your own syllabus for an English course without restrictions, what are five books you’d choose to include?
Bestiary
China Men
Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen
Black Jesus and Other Superheroes
Woman Hollering Creek
When My Brother was an Aztec
This Is the Age We End Discoveryturn around, BRXGHT XYXSPOETRY, The American Poetry ReviewThe Poetry ReviewTin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner,Electric Literature,The Kenyon Review
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext
Breakbeat Poets
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Maus I & II
Maus I & II
Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction
Girls in White DressesThe Smart One,The Hopefuls
Bird by Bird
Office of Historical Corrections
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Never Let Me Go
Prep
Catcher in the Rye,PrepCatcher in the Rye
Harvard ReviewTin HouseOxford ReviewThe Travelers
Ms. Muriel and Other Stories
The StreetThe StreetThe Narrows,
Another Country
Another Country
Another CountryThe Sun Also Rises.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also RisesAnother CountryThe Intuitionalist
The Death of Vivek Oji
Freshwater
The EmigrantsSong of SolomonThere, There,The ProphetsThe Sympathizers
In West Mills
The Sheltering Sky
Just As I Am
Sula
Jack
The Color Purple
Are there any titles you would be sure to include if you were designing a course? We’d love to hear your thoughts! Share them with us here or on Twitter (you can tag us at @CatapultStory).
Stella Cabot Wilson is an Associate Editor for Don't Write Alone and Catapult. She grew up in Colorado and Wyoming and lives in New York City. You can find her on Twitter @ssrosecw .
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