ESL
Reading List
Alexandria Campus
Library
Beginning -- Intermediate Reading Level
Intermediate -- Advanced Reading Level
Beginning to Intermediate Reading Level
Use the Call Numbers to find the books in the tall bookshelves. If you cannot find what you are looking for, ask a Librarian for help at the Reference Desk.
Folklore and Fairy TalesAfrican American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World GR111 .A47 A38 1999
The Classic Fairy Tales GR550 .C57 1999
Cut From the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale GR105.37 .W6 S26x 1993
Nursery Tales Around the World GR74 .N88x 1996
Virginia Folk Legends GR110 .V8 V57 1991
Magazines
Reader’s Digest Magazine: upstairs in the Magazine Area
Read-Along Audio Books
Look in the Read-Along Audio Books section in the ESL Area. You can read along while listening to the story on audiotape.
Other Books
Look in the Literature/Fiction section in the ESL Area. You will find short stories and books there.
Intermediate to Advanced Reading Level
Use the Call Numbers to find the books in the tall bookshelves. If you cannot find what you are looking for, ask a Librarian for help at the Reference Desk.
Kate Chopin, Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie PS1294 .C63 A6 1999
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street PS3553 .I78 H6 1991
Ralph Ellison, Flying Home and Other Stories PS3555 .L625 F58
F. Scott Fitzgerald, short stories PS3511 .I9 A6
Ernest Hemingway, short stories PS3515 .E37 A6; PS3515 .E37 A15
Jumpha Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies: Stories PS3562 .A316 I58 1999
Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Stories PS3565 .C57 A17 1971
Edgar Allen Poe, short stories PS2600; PS2601; PS2602; PS2603; PS2612
Mark Twain, The Complete Short Stories PS1303 .N4 1957
The Best American Short Stories PS507 B45x
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories PS648 .S5 O94
The African American West: A Century of Short Stories PS647 .A35 A38 2000
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories PS647 .A35 C35 1993
Centers of the Self: Stories Told by Black American Women from the Nineteenth Century to the Present PS647 .A35 C46 1994
Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction PS647 .A75 C48 1993
Coming of Age in America PS509 .M5 C66 1994
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers PS647 .A35 C5 1995
The Forbidden Stitch (Poetry and stories by Asian American women writers) PS153 .A84 F66
Growing Up Gay: A Literary Anthology PS509 .H57 G76 1994
Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land PS647 .E85 I45 1991
Post Gibran: An Anthology of New Arab American Writing PS508 .A67 P67 1999
Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States PS647 .H58 S48 1993
Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing PS508 .A8 T55 2000
Dictionaries: Dictionaries are in the ESL Area, and are also in many of the desks in the Library.
Idioms: Books of idioms (for example, “it’s raining cats and dogs”) are in the Reference Area, REF PE2839 .A47
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Created by Anne Anderson. Last updated Feb. 2007.