summer reading list
By category (for the most part):
Biography: something on Radclyffe Hall
Memoir: Brick by Brick, We Took to the Woods, Cherry, Boy
Classics: D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterly's Lover, Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions, Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway(and then I want to read Michael Cunningham's The Hours, E.M. Forester: Howard's End
Writing Books: Voice Lessons, Starting from Scratch, The Writing Life
History Book: The Madman and the Professor
Poetry Book: What is Found There
1 book by James Baldwin
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
New Discovery or Field of Interest: Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
International/Intercultural: Ana Castillo: Loverboys, Junot Diaz: Drive
By authors I've never read before: David Sedaris: Naked and Me Talk Pretty...., Dorothy Allison: Bastard out of Carolina
Young Adult Fiction: Karen Hesse: Phoenix Rising
I know it will take me ten summers or more to read all of this, but hey...I'll try.
Any more suggestions?
Where should I begin?
Biography: something on Radclyffe Hall
Memoir: Brick by Brick, We Took to the Woods, Cherry, Boy
Classics: D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterly's Lover, Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions, Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway(and then I want to read Michael Cunningham's The Hours, E.M. Forester: Howard's End
Writing Books: Voice Lessons, Starting from Scratch, The Writing Life
History Book: The Madman and the Professor
Poetry Book: What is Found There
1 book by James Baldwin
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
New Discovery or Field of Interest: Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
International/Intercultural: Ana Castillo: Loverboys, Junot Diaz: Drive
By authors I've never read before: David Sedaris: Naked and Me Talk Pretty...., Dorothy Allison: Bastard out of Carolina
Young Adult Fiction: Karen Hesse: Phoenix Rising
I know it will take me ten summers or more to read all of this, but hey...I'll try.
Any more suggestions?
Where should I begin?