Recommended Reading

How to Write

On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook
The Art of Styling Sentences by Wadell, Esch and Walker

Reading musts for the serious student of Western Literature

The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Native Son by Richard Wright
Collected Short Stories by Flannery O’Connor
The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Collected Poetry of Robert Penn Warren