Department of English Language and Literature
Summer Reading Contract
Display Period:8 May - 14 May 2015
Books on display can be looked at BUT no borrowing is allowed.
Borrowing Period:15 May - 30 September 2015
Students from the Department of English Language and Literature can borrow the books on display and make contracts with their lecturers to read them during the summer vacation.
Exhibition Area: 2/F Library Complex


Verifying LecturerAuthorTitles
Clint EttingerSteve ToltzA Fraction of the Whole
Maria ChanJames JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Amy ChanKhaled Hosseini.A Thousand Splendid Suns
Amy ChanBell HooksAll about Love: New Visions
Clint EttingerTony KushnerAngels in America
Sharanya JayawickramaColm Tóibín Brooklyn
Josephine YamDonald SnowCantonese as Written Language: The Growth of Written Chinese Vernacular
Clint EttingerDavid MitchellCloud Atlas
Amy ChanJonathan Safran FoerEating Animals
Sherman LeeAlan LightmanEinstein's dreams
Sherman LeeWang GangEnglish
Amy ChanBell HooksFeminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Josephine YamDaniel KeyesFlowers for Algernon
K.Y. WongMary ShelleyFrankenstein
Clint EttingerDavid MitchellGhostwritten: A novel in nine parts
Michelle ChanMitch AlbomHave A Little Faith
Amy ChanAudrey NiffeneggerHer Fearful Symmetry
Clint EttingerMiguel SyjucoIllustrado
Sam LiuMona BakerIn Other Words: A course book on translation
K.Y. WongAnne RiceInterview with the Vampire
Sam LiuJeremy MundayIntroducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications
Amy ChanItalo CalvinoInvisible Cities
Sharanya JayawickramaRalph Ellison Invisible Man
Josephine YamDavid CrystalLanguage and the Internet
Josephine YamDonna Jo NapoliLanguage Matters - A guide to everyday questions about language
Sherman LeeCatherine LimLittle Ironies: Stories of Singapore
Amy ChanSalman Rushdie.Luka and the fire of life
Stephen WeningerDavid HwangM. Butterfly
Maria ChanSimone de BeauvoirMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Amy ChanVirginia WoolfMrs. Dalloway
Amy ChanMargaret AtwoodOryx and Crake
Maria ChanJean RhysQuartet
Letty Chan David CrystalRediscover Grammar with David Crystal
Stephen WeningerRichard YatesRevolutionary Road
K.Y. WongJeffrey KlugerSimplexity: The simple rules of a complex world
Clint EttingerKurt VonnegutSlaughterhouse Five
Amy ChanStanislaw LemSolaris
Letty Chan C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Amy ChanBell HooksTeaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
Amy ChanThomas HardyTess of the D'urbervilles
Michelle ChanPaulo CoelhoThe Alchemist
Letty Chan Aitchison Jean The Articulate Mammal
Michelle ChanMarkus ZusakThe Book Thief
Clint EttingerJunot DiazThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Sherman LeePaulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym
Kacey LiuDoris LessingThe Golden Notebook
Kacey LiuPearl BuckThe Good Earth
Clint EttingerTash AwThe Harmony Silk Factory
Sharanya JayawickramaJhumpa Lahiri The Interpreter of Maladies
Amy ChanKhaled Hosseini.The Kite Runner
Letty Chan Steven Pinker The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
Sharanya JayawickramaAlice MunroThe Lives of Girls and Women
Michelle ChanDan BrownThe Lost Symbol
Sherman LeeMark AbbeyThe Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the future of English
Maria ChanPhilippa GregoryThe Red Queen
Sharanya JayawickramaCormac McCarthyThe Road
Maria ChanIan CaldwellThe Rule of Four
Michelle ChanJostein GaarderThe Solitaire Mystery
Letty Chan David CrystalThe Story of English in 100 words
Stephen WeningerAlbert CamusThe Stranger
Stephen WeningerH.G. WellsThe Time Machine
Amy ChanAudrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife
Sherman LeeMilan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
Amy ChanAravind AdigaThe White Tiger
Amy ChanMargaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood
Clint EttingerDan RhodesTimoleon Vieta Come Home
Sam LiuChristiane NordTranslating as Purposeful Activity: Functionalist Approaches Explained
Kacey LiuLuise VonFlotowTranslation and Gender: Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism’
Sherman LeeHa JinWaiting
Clint EttingerZadie SmithWhite Teeth
Josephine YamDavid CrystalWords, Words, Words
Amy ChanEmily BrontëWuthering Heights