English 102: Literature and Composition

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• "The American Embassy"
• "The Thing Around Your Neck"

Sherman Alexie

• "Amusements"
• "The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore"

T.C. Boyle

• "The Love of my Life"

Michael Chabon

• "Werewolves in Their Youth"

John Cheever

• "The Swimmer"

Kate Chopin

• Désirée’s Baby
• "The Storm"
• “The Story of an Hour”

Sandra Cisneros

• "The House on Mango Street"
• "Little Miracles, Kept Promises"
• "My Name"

Roald Dahl

• "Lamb to the Slaughter"

Edwidge Danticat

• "Sunrise, Sunset"

Juan de la Cabada

• "The Mist"

Junot Diaz

• "Fiesta"
• "No Face"

Edith Hamilton

• "Hercules" [Greek mythology]
• "The Adventures of Odysseus" [Greek mythology]
• "Oedipus" [Greek mythology]
• "The Trojan War" [Greek mythology]

Shirley Jackson

• "The Lottery"

James Joyce

• "Eveline"

Etgar Keret

• "Bad Karma"

Jhumpa Lahiri

• "This Blessed House"

Katherine Mansfield

• "Miss Brill"

Yann Martel

• "We are the children last"

Joyce Carol Oates

• "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

Flannery O'Connor

• "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

Geoff Peck

• "Graduation"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Edgar Allen Poe

• "The Cask of Amontillado"
• "The Tell-Tale Heart"

George Saunders

• "Puppy"
• "The Semplica-Girl Diares"

Eudora Welty

• "A Worn Path"

Anton Chekhov

• The Cherry Orchard

Susan Glaspell

• Trifles

Lorraine Hansberry

• A Raisin in the Sun

Henrik Ibsen

• A Doll's House

Stephen Karam

• The Humans

David Lindsay-Abaire

• Rabbit Hole

Dominique Moriseau

• Detroit 67

Lynn Nottage

• Sweat

Suzan-Lori Parks

• Topdog/Underdog

Jean Paul Sarte

• No Exit

William Shakespeare

• Hamlet
• Romeo and Juliet