Planned Novel Selections for IB Lit

The following is the planned novel selection set for IB English diploma programme at Woodrow.

11th Grade Year:

Part 1: Works in Translation (3 works from PLT)

• The Inferno by Dante Alighieri ISBN 9780451531391
• Candide by Voltaire (Norton Critical Edition) ISBN 9780393960587
• Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (Norton Edition) ISBN 9780393956238

Part 2: Detailed Study (3 works from different genres from PLA)

• Macbeth by Wm. Shakespeare (Folger Library Ed.) ISBN 0743477103
• The Poetry of William Blake (Blake’s Poetry & Designs—Norton Critical Ed.) 9780393924985
• Walden by Thoreau (Modern Library Classics Ed.) ISBN 0679783342

12th Grade Year:

Part 4: Options (3 works freely chosen)

• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (Bantam Classics Ed.) ISBN 9780553212785
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu ISBN 9780195014761
• The Complete Short Stories by Flannery O’Connor ISBN 9780374515362

Part 3: Literary Genres (4 works from any genre from PLA)

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood ISBN 9780307264602
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Norton Critical Ed.) ISBN 9780393926361
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien ISBN 9780318706419
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics Ed) ISBN 9780143105039