Building a Reading List

I'm teaching Introduction to Global Literature in the spring, and would like to move away from the anthology-based model. (I've used anthologies in the past, but I usually don't like the translations or the selection available.)

The way "global literature" is defined at my university is "any literature which is not American literature." This is because we also have a two-semester American Lit class, so students get that there.

Anyway, this is my tentative reading list at this point. I'm also going to add in some works that are available for free online -- Catullus, for example, and maybe Iphigenia at Aulis.

What I'm looking for is suggestions to add to the list, so if you see something I've missed, please comment!

Books for Global Lit 2013 Fall 2022

 

Gilgamesh

Trans. Steven Mitchell                                                             $11.00

ISBN 978-0743261692

 

The Symposium                                                                          $10

Plato

ISBN 978-0199540198

 

Beowulf                                                                                      $17

Trans. Maria Dahvana Headley

ISBN 978-0374110031

 

 Persopolis                                                                                  $15

Marjane Satrapi

ISBN: 978-0375714573

 

Night                                                                                           $12

Eli Weisel

ISBN 978-0374500016

 

Jo Walton,                                                                                  $19

My Real Children                          

ISBN 978-0765332684