A history of reading in e-cubed

2012-2013 [monthly meetings; discussion of book and short story/poem at each session]

October:

Book: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Short Story: The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe (http://www.poemuseum.org/works-morgue.php)

December:

Book: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Poem: The poem from the book (http://hidden-release.tripod.com/perks_of_being_a_wallflower_poem.html)

January:

Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Short story: The Spectacles by Edgar Allen Poe (http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/eapoe/bl-eapoe-spec.htm)

February:

Book: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Poem: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (http://www.online-literature.com/donne/755/)

March:

Book: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Poem: Comin Thro' the Rye by Robert Burns (http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/translations/coming_through_the_rye.htm)

April:

Book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Short story: The Trial For Murder by Charles Dickens (http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TriaMurd.shtml)

May:

(Note: There will only be one discussion.)

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (http://staff.bcc.edu/faculty_websites/jalexand/Williams--The_Glass_Menagerie.htm)

2011-2012 [monthly meetings; discussion of book, short story and poem at each session]

September

Fahrenheit-451 by Ray Bradbury. (Optional reading being 1984 by George Orwell and/or A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)

The short-story is All Summer in a Day also by Ray Bradbury.

And the poem is The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats.

October

Animal Farm by George Orwell

short story by Luck-Mark Twain

The poem is The Battle of Frogs and Mice-Anonymous

November

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

Short story A Diamond as big as the Ritz by F.Scott Fitzgerald

Poem Telegram Boy by Kathleen Lowe Oliver

December

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.

Short story The Birthmark by Nathanial Hawthorne

Poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry W. Longfellow

February

Knights by Aristophanes.

Short story Perseus

Poem A Lament for Adonis by Sappho

March

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Earnest Hemingway

Short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place-Earnest Hemingway

Poem Captives-Earnest Hemingway

April

The Mysterious Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allen Poe

Short story The Mask of Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

Poem The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allen Poe

May

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Poem We Wear the Mask by Laurence Dunbar

June

Watchmen by Allan Moore.

Short story

Poem http://uuwestport.org/Readings/dyingisfine.htm by e.e. cummings

2010-2011[monthly meetings; short stories alternate with longer works]

Short Stories

The Yellow Wallpaper—Gilman

To Build a Fire—London

Some Words with a Mummy—Poe

Plays

The Importance of Being Earnest—Wilde

Novels

Life of Pi—Martel

Things Fall Apart—Achebe

2009-2010 [bi-monthly meetings]

Dracula

Fellowship of the Rings

Kite Runner

The Call of the Wild

From the beginning thru spring 2009

Norby the Mixed-Up Robot

Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

Over Sea, Under Stone

The Thief of Always

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman

The Captain’s Dog

So You Want to Be a Wizard

Peter and the Starcatchers

Holes

Frindle

The Sword in the Stone

Nine Princes in Amber

Animal Farm

Sweet Blood

Casino Royale

The Golden Compass

Good Omens

Stardust

The Daughter of Time

Catch-22

Carry on Mr. Bowditch

Of Mice and Men

The Mouse That Roared

1984

ABC Murders