3: Fiction Readings

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Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap
City College of San Francisco via ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative

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Assigned Readings

Supplemental Readings

(links to external websites)

Novels

To conserve space in this textbook and keep it printable, there are not any novels included in the textbook. Students are recommended to use online resources or their library to find novels to read. Below are a few recommendations.

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1831)

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851)

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899)

Jean Toomer's Cane (1923)

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927)

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970)

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (1989)

For an extensive list of American fiction, ordered chronologically, please refer to Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865- present by Berke, Bleil, & Cofer, sourced from University of North Georgia Press, CC-BY-SA.