Booklist 2019-2020
Theme: HEAVEN AND HELL
AUTUMN 2019
1) CATCH-22, Joseph Heller.
Vintage Classic, ISBN 9780099529125.
Published 1961. The story of World War 2 bombardier Yossarian. Catch-22: if he flies, he is crazy, and so he doesn’t have to; but if he doesn’t want to, he is sane, and so …
2) TENTH OF DECEMBER, George Saunders.
Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781408894811.
Published 2013. A prize-winning collection of short stories from this funny, inventive, original American author.
3) GHOSTS, John Banville.
Picador, ISBN 9780330371858.
Published 1993. A party of castaways arrives on a sparsely populated island … One of the best novels by one of the greatest living authors.
SPRING 2020
4) POETRY
A selection of poems on the themes of Heaven and Hell, with discussion of some mythical treatments of these realms.
* POEMS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE CLASSES*
5) PEDRO PÁRAMO, Juan Rulfo.
Serpent’s Tail, ISBN 9781781253168.
Published 1987. This Mexican novel has been hailed as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature.
THE BOOKS WILL BE LOOKED AT IN THIS ORDER, WITH 3 CLASSES BEING GIVEN TO EACH OF THE 5 CHOSEN TEXTS.
PLEASE BE SURE TO GET THE EDITION RECOMMENDED, THE USE OF DIFFERENT EDITIONS SLOWS THE CLASS UP!
