January and February Reads

Bimonthly shelf updates? I'm going to try.

During these past two months, most of what I've read has been for some class or another, but I've still enjoyed just about all of it. I see assigned reading not as a tedious requirement, but as an open door to discover new authors and stories that I normally wouldn't have picked up on my own. Because of the classes I'm taking this semester, the majority of this January/February list is plays and short stories, but it has quite a bit of variety.

Highly-recommended pieces are in bold:

• Wonders of the Invisible World (Christopher Barzak, 2015)
• "The Story of an Hour" (Kate Chopin, 1894)
• "Clothes" (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, 1995)
• "Killings" (Andre Dubus, 1979)
• "A Rose for Emily" (William Faulkner, 1930)
• "Love in L.A." (Dagoberto Gilb, 1993)
• "Soldier's Home" (Ernest Hemingway, 1925)
• "Hill's Like White Elephants" (Ernest Hemingway, 1927)
• A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen, 1879)
• "The Cranes" (Peter Meinke, 1987)
• "Three Girls" (Joyce Carol Oates, 2004)
• "The Cask of Amontillado" (Edgar Allan Poe, 1846)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare, 1600)
• Antigone (Sophocles, 441 B.C.)
• "Mines" (Susan Straight, 2003)
• "A & P" (John Updike, 1961)

To read/finish for March/April:

• More Than This (Patrick Ness)
• Hidden Figures (Margot Lee Shetterly)
• The Outsiders (S. E. Hilton)