May 26, 2008 22:38
At Stephanie's request I'm listing the books I have so far in my "books to read" journal.
Feel free to suggest any authors/titles or why you liked/did not like a book on my list.
In no particular order of books and authors(or is the order that I randomly wrote them down a particular order?):
Persopolis
Flannery O'Connor (any suggests on what I should start with?)
The Historian
The Age of Innocence
Confesssions - St. Augustine
Jasper Fforde
Freaknomics
The Lovely Bones
Sanditon and Lady Susan - Jane Austen
Life of Pi
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lolita
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (unless someone has another title of hers to suggest)
Go Tell it On the Moutain
On the Road
The Catcher in the Rye
Heart of Darkness
Rudyard Kipling (any suggests besides Jungle book?)
Ray Bradbury
Up From Slavery - Book T. Washington
Out of Africa
Florence Nightengale
Mark Twain (I can't believe I've never read any of his books)
Toni Morrison
East of Eden
The Heavenly Man
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Girl Meets God
The Irresistable Revolution
Family Linen
The Secret Life of Bees
A Severe Mercy
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Nick Hornby
Lies My Teacher Told Me (I'd like to write a book one day titled "lies my students told me" hah..not really)
Jane Eyre
My Side of the Mountain
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Briar Rose - Jane Yolen
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Jack and Rochelle
In Search of Memory
All the Pretty Horses
I am American So Can You
Three Cups of Tea
Crazy for God - Frank Schaeffer
Franny and Zooey
I think I thought of a few more I haven't added yet.