Favorite Books: Erin O'Connor

 

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.

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