World Literature

Faust, Prometheus, The Boundaries of Humanity Goethe

Metamorphosis and Short stories ( Up in the Franz Kafka
Gallery, An Imperial Message, Before the Law)
The Grand Inquisitor Fyodor Dostoevsky
Short Stories (‘Fairy Tale’, ‘If Sharks were Men’), Bertolt Brecht
Poems (The Tailor of Ulm, Questions from a
Worker who Reads, To Posterity)

Literature in Translation

Our Teacher Sundara Ramaswamy

Draupadi Mahasweta Devi
Tiger Artiste Ashokamitran
Rain Raavi Sastry
Taatayya Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao
Annayya’s Anthropology AK Ramanujan
Gulabi Talkies Vaidehi
Chauthi ka Jaura, Lihaaf Ismat Chugtai
The Postmaster Rabindranath Tagore
The Poisoned Bread Bandumadhav
Seasons of the Palm Perumal Murugan

Literature and Values

Siddhartha Herman Hesse

The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus
Thinking Like a Mountain Aldo Leopold
The Ghat’s Story Rabindranath Tagore
Wasteland TS Eliot
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
Conversation with a Stone Wislawa Szymborska

Fiction

The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger

Too Much Happiness Alice Munro
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
1984, Animal Farm George Orwell
Love in the Time of Cholera, Short Stories Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby Scott J. Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and H. Finn Mark Twain
The Trial Franz Kafka
The Motorcycle Diaries Che Guevara
Deception Point, Angels and Demons Dan Brown
Raise the Red Lantern Su Tong
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemmingway
The Yelllow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Indian Fiction

Malgudi Days RK Narayan

God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Chanakya’s Chant Ashwin Sanghi
Gora Rabindranath Tagore
Waves Sundara Ramaswamy
Colors of Evil Ashokamitran
Short Stories Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao
Maha Prasthanam Sri Sri
Short Stories (In a Forest, Yellow Fish) Ambai

Non-Fiction (and Marxist Literature)

Conquest of Happiness, Marriages and Morals, Bertrand Russell

What I Believe
Marxism and Literary Criticism, Meaning of Life Terry Eagleton
Introduction to Capital Michael Heinrich
The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell
Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky
Making Movies Sidney Lumet