Reading List

Here's our reading list compiled from all my 090 classes this year...get reading! (I copied straight from your lists, so there could be misspellings)

Nancy Stohlman's Spring 090 Classes
(Student's name in parenthesis)

090-009
The Physic of Impossible—(Dai Tran)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X—(Ryan Rhoades)
Stephen King novels—(Portia Trujillo)
A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks—(Morgan Speichinger)
The Diary of Anne Frank—(Stephanie Lovato)
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell—(Stephanie Lovato)
Todd Richards—P3—(Cody Brewster)
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiosky—(Richard Brown)
Divine Revelations of Hell—Ann Baxton—(Richard Brown)
Daniel Goiness—(Collin Ball)
The Lovely Bones
Night
The Outsiders
A Child Called It
My Bloody Life by Raymurda Sanchez
Man’s Search for Meaning
Harry Potter 1-7—(Alessandra Buttiglione)
Tenderness—(Patricia Tafoya)

090-011
The Art of War by Sun Tzy
The Great Pretender by Millenia Black
God Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe
Maneater by Noire and Mary B. Morrison
www.stumbleupon.com
The Earth Chronicles by Zacharia Zitchin
Rule By Secrecy by Jim Maars
Beltold Apple Horse by William Cooper
The Twilight Series
Midnight
Across Your Message in 30 Seconds
On the Road—Jack Kerouac
True Lies
The Audacity of Hope
The Giver
The Kite Runner

090-017
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Thunderbolt Kid—Bill Bryson
Nickel and Dimed—Barbara Ehrenreich
Survivor or any book by Chuck Palahniuk
Art of War by Sun Tzu
Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbot
Singularity by William Sleator
Galapagos
Langoliers—Stephen King
1984 by George Orwell
THX-1138
Brazil
Doubt by Anthony Browder—(Brandon Ramsey)
Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun—(Gary Molock)
Interstellar Pig—William Sleator—(Jason Torbet)
La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.—(Jason Torbet)
The 16th Round—(Nathan Levey)
Love in the Time of Cholera—Gabriel Garcia Marquez—(Denisse Basurto)

090-024
The Perks of Being a Wallflower—(Landon Gallegos)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson—(Landon Gallegos)
A Child Called It—(Monika Ulrick)
A Long Way Down—(Ciarra Torrez)
Chronicles of Death Foretold—(Uziel Garcia)
The Prince—Niccolo Machiavelli—(Raul Esparza)
The Longest Day—(Raul Esparza)
The Hatchet—(Raul Esparza)
The Art of Racing in the Rain—(Diane Gugel)
The Tao of Physics
Your Brain on Music
Anything by David Sederis
Celestine Prophecy—(Aaron Maynes)
Pendragon—(Aaron Maynes)
Christopher Pike—(Aaron Maynes)
Lost World
48 Laws of Power
80/20 Principle
The Art of Seduction
Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper
Reposition Yourself by T.D. Jakes
The Biography of Angela Davis
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Nancy Stohlman’s Picks
Fiction:
Lolita—Vladamir Nabokov (twisted but his use of language is stunning)
For Whom the Bell Tolls—Ernest Hemingway (set during Spanish Civil War)
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez (magical realism)
The Lover—Margarite Duras
The Pink Institution—Selah Saterstrom (weird but cutting edge)
1984—George Orwell (for those of you who like Science Fiction)
Tropic of Cancer—Henry Miller (vulgar, often funny)
Gazelle—Rikki Ducornet (young girl coming of age in Egypt)
Beloved—Toni Morrison (awesome, disturbing, deals with issues of slavery)
Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain (not just for kids, trust me)
Unbearable Lightness of Being—Milan Kundera (insightful, particularly about relationships)
On the Road—Jack Kerouac (the original road trip book)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas—Hunter S. Thompson
Breakfast at Tiffany’s—Truman Capote (different than the movie)
Frankenstein—Mary Shelley (you have to read the originals—totally different than movies)
Dracula—Bram Stoker (for those of you who like the modern day vampires)
The Last Bongo Sunset—Les Plesko

Nonfiction:
Coyotes—Ted Conover (awesome—he goes undercover to cross the border illegally with the Mexicans)
The Art of Happiness—Dalai Lama (for those of you who like interpersonal/self-help—this is the best!)
In The Shadow Of Man—Jane Goodall (the first of her books working with chimps in Africa)
The Diary of Anne Frank—Anne Frank (if you haven’t read, you should)

Books by Nancy Stohlman:
Searching For Suzi: A Flash Novel (2009)
Fast Forward: The Mix Tape (due out June 2010)
Fast Forward: A Collection of Flash Fiction Vols I and II
Live From Palestine (2003)