This afternoon I did what any sensible person would do on their sixth consecutive day off, and organized my entire library.
The next step, obviously, was to make a reading list. Follows are books that I own, which I have not yet read, and intend in some way to actually read at some point. The list is incomplete, for your sake.
Fiction:
- Agnes Grey (A. Bronte)
- Jane Eyre (finish) (C. Bronte)
- O Pioneers! (Cather)
- The Awakening (Chopin)
- Mountain Ice (Derouin)
- Nicholas Nickelby (finish) (Dickens)
- Short Stories (Dostoevsky)
- The Seven Sisters (Drabble)
- A Light in August (Faulkner)
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Austen and Grahame-Smith)
- The Same Kind of Different as Me (Hall)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Hemingway)
- The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
- The Ambassadors (James)
- Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak)
- The Tale of Genji (finish) (Shikibu)
- Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
- Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
Some Non-Fiction:
- Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin)
-Oracle Bones (Hessler)
- Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafisi)
- Marie Antoinette (finish) (Fraser)
- Napolean’s Buttons (Le Couteur)
- Plagues and Peoples (McNeill)
What do you think? Have you read any of them? Recommendations? Words of caution? I do not intend to read them all, but I would like to read a good few over the summer.
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i loved jane eyre and i think ive read agnes grey too..
i must say i did not enjoy the awakening
The Awakening was recommended to me ages ago…I forget by who. Did you have to read it for school?
I was about your age when I first read Dostoyevsky and it had a real impact. Not the short stories, though — Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov. And Dr. Zhivago is also a favorite, but the poetry (in Russian) is an important part of the book. All in all, you present quite a list — good photographs too. GF
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I have read half of Crime and Punishment; it was assigned my senior year in high school. I really need to finish it. I have heard the Brothers Karamazov is good too. Alas, I don’t know Russian…that makes one of us.
Good list! Just finishing Napoleon’s Buttons, a worthwhile undertaking. Not a huge fan of O Pioneers or The Awakening for that matter, especially in for summer reading. Might I recommend. I would go with the Dostoevsky short stories, particularly the Gambler or the Double. Both great.