Apr 18, 2005 14:06
The summer after I graduated high school I read several classics (War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, some Hemingway, 1984, Lord of the Flies, etc.), for lack of anything better to do in the final month before I started at UCLA. Since that time, I haven't read much of educational value outside of any classes that I've taken. So, my goal lately is to break away from my beloved genre literature and once again venture into scary non-fiction and classic territory. I've been trying to hit up the public library at least once a week, something I haven't done since I was in my teens.
So, a checklist to follow (italics will indicate the books I've already read):
Summer reads suggested by Borders:
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
Aloft, by Chang-Rae Lee
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Color of Water, by James McBride
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Gifted Hands, by Ben Carson
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Lost in the Forest, by Sue Miller
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Mythology, by Edith Hamilton
Night, by Elie Wiesel
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Sula, by Toni Morrison
Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E. Ambrose
I'm also working on my share of Southern authors, Carl Sagan books, books on the brain, etc. Hopefully I can catch up on some of the stuff I've missed over the years.