Experiences | Literature | TV & Film

Experiences

Tutoring at Highland Residential Center: Tut

Literature

• The Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Kness
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• Candide: or, Optimism by Voltaire, translated by Theo Cuffe (I prefer the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition because of the wonderful comic-like illustrations)
• The Bregdan Chronicles by Ginny Dye & Virginia Gaffney
•  The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• 1984 by George Orwell

TV & Film

Television

• The Handmaid’s Tail
• Good Trouble
• Outlander
• This Is Us
• The Good Place
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Man in the High Castle
• Mad Men
• New Girl
• The Crown
• Planet Earth
• Stranger Things

Film

• Funny Girl
• Selma
• The Help
• Saving Mr. Banks
• Lincoln
• Spotlight
• Hidden Figures
• The Godfather
• Thelma & Louise
• Harold and Maude
• Children of Men
• Beautiful Boy