🐻 Cornell English unofficial reading list 2026
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| Junior level | |
|---|---|
| American Theatre Stage & Screen I ENGL 3360 (fa26) |
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams • Waiting for Lefty & Other Plays by Clifford Odets • Machinal by Sophie Treadwell • The American Dream, The Sandbox, The Death of Bessie Smith, FAM and YAM by Edward Albee • The Crucible by Arthur Miller • A Raisin in the Sun & The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry • At Home at the Zoo by Edward Albee |
| Zora Neale Hurston & Langston Hughes ENGL 3505 (fa26) |
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston • Tar Baby by Toni Morrison • Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes • Mule Bone by Hurston & Hughes • Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston • Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen |
| Diasporas, Disasters & Dissent: Re-Thinking Puerto Rican Studies in the 20th & 21st Centuries ENGL 3678 (fa26) |
• Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez • The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer |
| Senior level | |
|---|---|
| The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937 ENGL 4505/6515 (fa26) |
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston • Passing by Nella Larsen • The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by Alain Locke • The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes • Cane by Jean Toomer • Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay • Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral by Jessi Redmon Fauset • Black No More by George S. Schuyler • Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman |