Another book list, yesssssssss
Jan. 14th, 2015 05:23 pmFICTION
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje- In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje
- If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
- Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels (using this for the reading challenge)
- The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
1984, George Orwell- In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
- Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham
The Hours, Michael Cunningham- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (also using for the reading challenge)
- Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
- The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia
- Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers- The Princess Bride, William Goldman
- Crapalachia: A Biography of Place, Scott McClanahan
- A Burnt Out Case, Graham Greene
- The Tenth Man, Graham Greene
White Oleander, Janet FitchLolita, Vladimir Nabokov- The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (using for challenge)
- Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan- The Collector, John Fowles
- The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
- The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Suskind- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- A Convergence of Birds, edited by Jonathon Safran Foer
- Translations, Brian Friel
POETRY / ON THE SUBJECT OF POETRY
- No, Ocean Vuong
- Love, an Index, Rebecca Lindenberg
- The City in Which I Love You, Li-Young Lee
- Everything Begins Elsewhere, Tishani Doshi
- Radical Symmetry, Katherine Larson
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
- Heavy Petting, Gregory Sherl
- The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail, Gregory Sherl
- i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, mira gonzalez
- Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan Shire
- Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Stephen Mitchell
- Here, Wislawa Szymborska
- Bluets, Maggie Nelson
- The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
- Crush, Richard Siken
- The Cinnamon Peeler, Michael Ondaatje
- The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich
- The Weight of Oranges / Miners Pond / Skin Divers, Anne Michaels
- Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux
- The Making of a Poem, Eavan Boland & Mark Strand
NONFICTION
- Just Kids, Patti Smith
- Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
- Truth & Beauty: A Friendship, Ann Patchett
The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls- Half Broke Horses, Jeanette Walls
- Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Ronald Takaki
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
- The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit
- The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
- Henry and June, Anaïs Nin
From here
Need to try some poetry. Think I will use audiobooks for that
Need to try some poetry. Think I will use audiobooks for that