Updated list of some suggested works for final projects (as of 9/1/08)
Ajami,
Fouad. The Dream Palace of the Arabs
(Pantheon Books, 1998).
Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays
with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and the Last Great
Lesson.
Amdur, Ellis. Dueling
with O-Sensei: Grappling with the Myth of the Warrior Sage,
Old School: Essays on Japanese Martial
Traditions. Available from
www.ellisamdur.com.
Alexie, Sherman. The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
(The movie "Smoke Signals" is based on this)
Becker,
Ernest. The Birth and Death of Meaning,
The Denial of Death,
and other works.
Belenky, et al. Women's
Ways of Knowing.
Berne, Eric. Games
People Play, What
Do
You Say After You Say Hello? - The Psychology of Human Destiny,
and other works.
Brown, Claude. Manchild in
the Promised Land.
Brown, Christy. My
Left Foot.
Bujold, Lois McMaster.
Cordelia's Honor,
and
other works.
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of
the Sower, and other works.
Campbell,
Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Second ed.
Card, Orson Maps in a Mirror:
The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card,
Ender's Game, and
other works.
Chandler, Raymond. The Simple
Art of Murder, and other works.
Chesbro,
George. Shadow of a Broken Man.
Cross,
Amanda. Death in a Tenured Position,
and other works.
Ushpizin (2004, directed by Giddi Dar).
Davies,
Robertson. The Deptford Trilogy : Fifth
Business/the Manticore/World of Wonders, and
other works.
DeWitt, Helen. The Last
Samurai.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Brothers
Karamazov, The Idiot,
Notes from the Underground,
"The Crocodile, " and other works.
Effinger, George
Alec. When Gravity Fails,
Budayeen Nights, and other works.
Elgin,
Suzette Haden. Native Tongue,
The Judas Rose, The
Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense and other
works.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible
Man.
Eugenides,
Jeffrey. Middlesex.
Frankl,
Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning.
Pocket Books Washington Square Press printing, 1985.
Friedman,
C.S. This Alien Shore,
and other works..
Gardner, John. The Art of
Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers.
Gilligan,
Carol. In a Different Voice: Psychological
Theory and Women's Development.
Gilman,
Dorothy The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax,
Tightrope Walker,
Incident at Badamya,
and other works.
Goldman, William. The
Princess Bride.
Goldstein, Lisa.
Dream Years, The
Red Magician, Travellers
in Magic and other works..
Goodkind,
Terry. Sword of Truth series, which begins with Wizard's
First Rule.
Haley, Alex, and Malcolm X.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Hammett,
Dashiel. The Maltese Falcon
(the book and the
movie). You should look at his other novels as well.
Hargrove,
Anne C. Getting Better: Conversations with
myself and other friends while healing from breast cancer.
Heinlein,
R. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,
Stranger in a Strange Land,
Citizen of the Galaxy,
Double Star and
other
works.
Henderson, Zenna. Ingathering:
The Complete People Stories (NESFA Press, 1995).
Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha,
The Journey to the East,
The Glass Bead Game,
Steppenwolf, and
other
works.
Hitchens, Christopher. Letters
to a Young Contrarian.
Hoeg, Peter.
Smilla's Sense of Snow,
Borderliners.
Hong
Kingston, Maxine. The
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts.
Howie,
Noelle. Dress Codes: Of
Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine.
Howatch,
Susan. Glamorous Powers,
and other works.
Irving, John. A Prayer for
Owen Meany, The
World
According to Garp.
Jarmusch, Jim. Ghost
Dog: The Way of the Samurai.
Jewell,
Lisa. One-Hit Wonder.
Kafka, Franz. "Penal Colony, " "Hunger Artist, "
The Trial, The
Castle, and other works.
Kagan, Michael .
Educating Heroes
(Durango, Colorado: Hollowbrook, 1994).
Kamenetz, Rodger.
The Jew in the Lotus : A Poet's Rediscovery of
Jewish Identity in Buddhist India, and
Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's
Jewish Mystical Masters.
Kaye, Ronnie.
Spinning Straw into Gold.
King,
Stephen. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon,
Hearts in Atlantis,
Bag of Bones, and
other works.
Kiyosaki, Robert T., and Sharon Lechter. Rich
Dad, Poor Dad.
Kress, Nancy.
Beggars in Spain,
Maximum Light.
Leonard,
George. Mastery (New York: Penguin/Plume, 1992).
Lowry,
Dave. Autumn Lightning,
Persimmon Wind.
Le
Guin, Ursula K. The Telling,
Left Hand of Darkness,
The Lathe of Heaven,
The Dispossessed, and
other works.
Levine, Gail Carson. Ella
Enchanted.
Martinez, Guillermo. The
Oxford Murders (New York: Penguin Books,
2006).
Monroe, Kristen Renwick. The
Heart of Altruism, The
Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral Choice during the Holocaust,
and other works (recommended by Lowell A. Dunlap,
Ph.D.).
Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon,
and other works.
Morrow, James. Towing
Jehovah, Blameless
in
Abaddon, and other works.
Mosley, Walter.
47, Always
Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, Devil
in a Blue Dress, Fearless
Jones, and other works.
Noddings, Nel.
Caring.
McBride,
James. The Color of Water: A Black Man's
Tribute to His White Mother.
Oates, J. C.
On Boxing.
Parker,
Robert B. Mortal Stakes,
and other works.
Plato. The Republic,
and other works.
Pohl, Frederik. Gateway.
Polster, Miriam F. Eve's Daughters : The
Forbidden Heroism of Women.
Pullman,
Philip. The Golden Compass
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).
Raffa, Jean Benedict. The
Bridge to Wholeness: A Feminine Alternative to the Hero Myth.
Rand,
Ayn. The Fountainhead,
Atlas Shrugged, The
Virtue of Selfishness.
Rollin, B. First,
You Cry.
Rosenbaum, Lisa Pearl. A
Day of Small Beginnings.
Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Rubin,
Henry Alex, and Dana Adam Shapiro (directors). Murderball.
Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow,
and Children of God.
Salmonson,
Jessica Amanda. A Silver Thread of Madness,
and other works.
Sapphire. Push: A
Novel.
Silverberg, Robert. Lord
Valentine's Castle.
Smith, Dominic. The
Beautiful Miscellaneous (New York: Atria
Books, 2007).
Steiner,
Claude M. Scripts People Live: Transactional
Analysis of Life Scripts.
Suzuki, D.T. Zen
and Japanese Culture.
Sturgeon, Theodore.
More than Human, and
other works.
Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon,
Snow Crash, and
other
works.
Scriptures, religious tales and teachings of interest to
the student, from a variety of traditions (including, but not limited
to, African, Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Native American,
Taoist, Vedic.)
Stout, Martha. The Myth of
Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness.
Tan,
Amy. The Joy Luck Club,
The Hundred Secret Senses.
Tremayne,
Peter. The Spider's Web: A Celtic
Mystery.
Tolstoy, Leo. The
Death of Ivan Ilyich, and other
works.
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt. Mother Night,
Slaughterhouse Five, and other works.
Walker,
Alice. The Color Purple.
Wachowski,
Andy and Larry. The Matrix
and its sequels (including The Animatrix).
.
Wiesel, Elie. Dawn,
The Accident, and
other works.
Willis, Connie. Passages,
Doomsday Book,
Bellwether, and
other
works..
Yoshikawa. Musashi.
Zettel,
Sarah. Fool's War.
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