What Are English Majors Reading During the Summer of 2017?

Before the Spring Semester ended the English Department sent out a brief survey to our English Majors to see what they planned to read over the summer. Their list included classics, recent New York Times bestsellers and literary works that show our majors’ wide range of interests. 

Here is a list of some of the literature that our English Majors plan to enjoy during the Summer of 2017:

• The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
•  Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Crush by Richard Siken and Louise Glück
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Keep a Quiet Heart by Elizabeth Elliot
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Road Song by Natalie Kusz
• Appetites by Caroline Knapp
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Wings of the Dove by Henry James
• The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Road Out:  A Teacher’s Odyssey in Poor America by Deborah Hicks
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Criss by J.D. Vance
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sanberg
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

-Links courtesy of Amazon.com