Scott R. Stankey

Teaching Professor of English

Anoka-Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus

Recommended Reading List:

Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits

Julia Alvarez: In the Time of the Butterflies

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey

Elizabeth Bishop: Geography III, The Complete Poems

Anne Bronte: Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall

Charlotte Bronte:Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

Gwendolyn Brooks: A Street in Bronzeville, The Complete Poems

Caleb Carr: The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness

Raymond Carver: Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Willa Cather: My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Professor's House, O Pioneers

Kate Chopin: The Awakening, The Complete Short Stories

Darby Conley: Get Fuzzy

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Hard Times

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Robert Frost: The Complete Poems

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years of Solitude

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles, The Return of the Native

Jon Hassler: Staggerford, Four Miles to Pinecone, Simon's Night, Jemmy, The Love Hunter, A Green Journey, Grand Opening, North of Hope, Dear James, Rookery Blues, The Dean's List, My Staggerford Journal, Keepsakes and Other Stories, Underground Christmas, Rufus at the Door and Other Stories, Good People ... From an Author's Life, The Staggerford Flood, The New Woman

David Haynes: Right By My Side, Heathens, Live at Five, Somebody Else's Mama

Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises, The Complete Short Stories

Langston Hughes: The Complete Poems

Victor Hugo: Les Miserables (unabridged)

David Lodge: Changing Places, Small World, The British Museum is Falling Down, Out of the Shelter, Home Truths, Therapy, Souls and Bodies

Alison McGhee: Rainlight, Shadow Baby

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

Sheila O'Connor: Where No Gods Came

Tyler Page: Stylish Vittles (volumes 1, 2, 3), Nothing Better (volumes 1, 2, on-going)

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar, The Complete Poems

Richard Russo: Straight Man

Neil Simon: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Lost in Yonkers

Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres, Moo, Duplicate Keys

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

James Thurber: The Complete Works

Adrian Tomine: Shortcomings, Sleepwalk and Other Stories, Summer Blonde and Other Stories

Anne Tyler: Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist

Mario Vargas Llosa: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Who Killed Palomino Molero?, The Feast of the Goat

Wendy Wasserstein: Third

Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire

August Wilson: Fences, The Piano Lesson, Gem of the Ocean, Radio Golf, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Richard Wright: Black Boy

Last revised on 03 Jul 2011 by SRS
Please address comments to scott.stankey@anokaramsey.edu