Intro to Literature Reads

It’s that time of year where the course catalog is sent out, where I agonize over what courses to take because there are so many options, and where I help everyone else figured out how to take chemistry, biology, statistics, and psychology 102 in a semi-reasonable fashion. This Thursday is the day I register for spring classes, and it looks like I’ll be taking Introduction to Literature. I need a “verbal expression” class for my liberal arts requirements, and speculative fiction sounds way too much like political science fiction. Therefore, it looks like I’ll be reading these books come next spring:

I’ve heard great things about Complete Persepolis, and Oscar Wao, which won a Pulitzer Prize, was quite popular on the blogosphere a while back. The others, though, I’ve never even heard of before.