LMC Majors - Reading Recommendations

[u/gourmetfaucet]

Hi! I’m a recent student (2nd year) who just started at tech as an LMC major. I absolutely love all my classes and teachers and have been passionate about literature, however, it seems like the teachers refer to some books that I haven’t read in high school or my first year of college, like The Iliad etc. do you guys have any recommendations for me to up my reading game?

I would appreciate it, thank you!

[u/Main-Concern-6461]

You could probably Google and find various lists of what's commonly assigned in high school. It will vary, especially if you take any AP language or literature classes, because the teachers have a lot more freedom when assigning reading.

Here's a mixture of things I read in high school (or remember other classes reading):

Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and various sonnets by Shakespeare

The Iliad and The Odyssey

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

George Orwell's 1984

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

The Great Gatsby

To Kill a Mockingbird

As I Lay Dying

Lord of the Flies

Scarlett Letter

Catcher in the Rye

Huckleberry Finn

Fahrenheit 451

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Awakening

Excerpts of the Bible

The Yellow Wallpaper (short story)

The Lottery (short story)

Essays from MLK, JR., W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass

Frankenstein

However, as an LMC grad, I would say you should only pick ones from this list/other lists that you're interested in and read at your own leisure. You don't want to burn yourself out. LMC is already a lot of reading.

P.s. sorry for the lack of formatting

[u/gourmetfaucet → u/Main-Concern-6461]

This looks like a great list, thank you!!

[u/rockenman1234]

Not LMC - just an avid reader. If you want something a little more nonfiction/political try picking up Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis