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January 09, 2007
Reading List
In case you had yet to notice, I sometimes use this blog as a repository for all the scraps of info I have floating around in my life...and in my head. Going through some old files today (evocatively named "Things I like" and "Cool Design!"), I found this old reading list that a professor of Mike's gave him during his semester in England. I'm going to put it after the jump, but it's a nice reference to have next time you're wondering what to pick up at the bookstore.
The professor's intro: "Miscellaneous not-to-be missed reading (a list almost impossible to assemble and full of holes, but with the guarantee that any time spent reading any of the following will not be wasted, and may have a profound effect on your ways of thinking.")
Allende, Isabel: The Stories of Eva Luna
Amis, Martin: Money
Atwood, Margaret: Cat's Eye, Bluebeard's Egg, The Handmaid's Tale
Barnes, Julian: Flaubert's Parrot
Bellow, Saul: Herzog
Calvino, Italo: If On a Winter's Nights a Traveller
Byatt, A.S.: Possession (Bonus five word review for the movie: Sucks so so so bad! - Ed.)
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Dickinson, Emily: Poetry
Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
Eliot, T.S.: Poems 1919-20
Ellison, Ralph: The Invisible Man
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: The Yellow Wallpaper
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
Joyce, James; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
McCullers, Carson: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (or as we witty punsters of Mrs. Ames' 10th grade English class used to call it: The Salad of the Bad Cafe)
McEwan, Ian: The Cement Garden
Mansfield, Katherine: The Garden Party and Other Stories
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera
Morrison, Toni: Sula, The Bluest Eye, Beloved - Ed.
Munro, Alice: Short Stories
Murdoch, Iris: The Sea, The Sea
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire
Rhys, Jean: Voyage in the Dark
Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Suskind, Patrick: Perfume
Tyler, Anne: Breathing Lessons, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, A Room of One's Own
Posted by Bree at January 9, 2007 04:24 PM