Erin O’Connor, education blogger and ACTA research fellow
NOVELS
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
A.S. Byatt, Possession
Charlotte Bronte, Villette
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Toni Morrison, Beloved
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
NON-FICTION
Peter Ackroyd, Dickens
Peter Ackroyd, London
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Richard Ellmann, James Joyce
Sander Gilman, Seeing the Insane
Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action
Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic
Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate, The Shadow University
Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
Ruth Richardson, Death, Dissection, and the Destitute
Erin O'Connor is a director of programs at the Moving Picture Institute and research fellow at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. She is the author of the education blog, Critical Mass.