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Evelina Galang's Reading List:

Asian-Anglo/Asian-American Writers

  • Jen, Typical American
  • Ishiguro, Pale View of Hills
  • Santos, Scent of Apples
  • moy, Sour Sweet
  • Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rainforest
  • Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior
  • Tan, Joy Luck Club
  • Hagedorn, Dogeaters
  • Jose, Mass
  • Sasaki, The Loom and Other Short Stories
  • Rosca, Twice Blessed
  • Cheong, Scent of the Gods
  • Henson, Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny


    The Immigrant Exprience


  • Hijuelos, Our House in the Last World
  • Anaya, Bless Me Ultima
  • Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
  • Ondaatje, Running in the Family
  • Dybeck, The Coast of Chicago
  • Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
  • Ley, Dark Child
  • Dinesen, Out of Africa
  • Kadohata, The Floating World
  • Cisneros, House on Mango Street
  • Hoffman, Lost in Translation
  • Jen, Mona in the Promised Land


    Pre-20th Century


  • Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • Bronte, E. Wuthering Heights
  • Bronte, C. Jane Eyre
  • Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
  • Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Hawthorne, The Scarlet letter
  • Chekhov, Collected Short Stories
  • Gaskelll, North and South
  • Chopin, The Awakening
  • Flaubert, Madame Bovary
  • Tolstoy, Anna Karenia


    Contemporary Women Writers


  • Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
  • munro, The Beggar Maid
  • O'Brien, Time and Tide
  • Morrison, Beloved
  • Winterson, Written on the Body
  • Bloom, Come to Me
  • Peery, The River Beyond
  • Obejas, Memory Mambo
  • Hagedorn, Gangster of Love
  • Nelson, Talking in Bed
  • Ortiz-Cofer, The Lion of the Sun
  • Lei-lanilau, Ono Ono Girls Hula
  • Slowitz, Blood and Milk


    Miscallaneous Books I love


  • Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy
  • Connell, Mrs. Bridge
  • Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
  • Jordan, Civil Wars
  • Moore, Self Help
  • Carver, Where I'm Calling From
  • Paul, What's Called Love
  • Shea, Hula
  • Sandor, A Night of Music
  • Schwartz, Therapy
  • Woolfe, A Room of One's Own