Choose one to read second trimester: one author per two people; first come, first serve.

Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs or Girlfriend in a Coma

Bobby Ann Mason’s In Country

Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity’s Rainbow

Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions, Cat’s Cradle, or Mother Night

Philip Roth’s Goodbye Columbus; Portnoy’s Complaint

Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

Norman Mailor’s Executioner’s Song; The Armies of the Night

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood

Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato or In the Lake of the Woods

E.L. Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate or Ragtime

Paul Auster’s Timbuktu or City of Glass

Joyce Carol Oates’s Zombie

William Gibson’s The Mona Lisa Overdrive, Neuromancer, or The Difference Engine

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest or The Girl with Curious Hair (S.Story Collection)

Ursula LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Preserves

NOTE: I am open to suggestions of other works by authors who are in Norton’s Postmodern Anthology or other novels by the writers on this list. Please feel free to come chat about your choice. Again, you will be putting a lot of time into reading and researching the novel you choose, so choose wisely.

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