Texts

Here you will find an alphabetized list of titles I have taught over the years. Feel free to explore. If some links aren’t yet available, they will be shortly!

Novels

  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove by James Maloney
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
  • Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
  • Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
  • Danny’s Inferno by Paul Stewart
  • Deadly Unna  by Phillip Gwynne
  • Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulson
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
  • Night by Elie Wiesel
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • Runner by Robert Newton
  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
  • Stasiland by Anna Funder
  • Strange Objects by Gary Crew
  • Sycorax by Paul Stewart
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
  • The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  • The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
  • The Fault in our Stars by John Green
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  • The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
  • The Martian by Andy Weir
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Outsider by Albert Camus
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Tomorrow Where the War Began by John Marsden
  • Trash by Andy Mulligan
  • True Grit by Charles Portis
  • Wonder by RJ Palacio

Plays

Shakespeare

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Hamlet
  • Henry V
  • Julius Caesar
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Othello
  • Richard III
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • Titus Andronicus

  • Antigone by Sophocles
  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • Freedom of the City by Brian Friel
  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  • The Women of Troy by Euripides

Poetry

  • [love is more thicker than forget] by E.E. Cummings
  • “Hope” is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
  • “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” by Emily Dickinson
  • Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House by Billy Collins
  • Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
  • Daddy by Sylvia Plath
  • Death by William Butler Yeats
  • Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
  • Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
  • Honest Poem by Rudy Francisco
  • How to Eat a Poem by Eve Merriam
  • How to Listen by Major Jackson
  • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
  • If by Rudyard Kipling
  • Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins
  • Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
  • Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
  • Language Lesson 1976 by Heather McHugh
  • Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
  • My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
  • Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Song of Hope by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)
  • Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
  • Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
  • Spoken Word by Reggie Watts
  • Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
  • Telephone Conversation by Wole Salinkya
  • The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service
  • The Kiss by Siegfried Sassoon
  • The Ladder of St. Augustine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
  • The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine   
  • The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
  • The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden
  • There is No Frigate like a Book by Emily Dickinson
  • Trees by Joyce Kilmer
  • Very Like a Whale by Ogden Nash
  • We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
  • What was he saying and to whom by Alan Michael Parker
  • Why Falling in Love is Like Owning a Dog by Taylor Mal

Short Stories

  • All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury
  • Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, JR.
  • Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
  • Ruthless by William de Mille
  • Test by Theodore L Thomas
  • Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes
  • The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Blind Men and the Elephant by James Baldwin
  • The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Chaser by John Collier
  • The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
  • The Landlady by Roald Dahl
  • The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
  • The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
  • The Old Man at the Bridge by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty
  • The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin
  • The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

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