winter reading list
My favorite genre of writing is short stories, more specifically those of the American Gothic persuasion. The ones I have read are too numerous to mention but my favorites include The Rocket Man by Ray Bradbury, A Rose For Miss Emily by William Faulkner, and The Promise of America by Thomas Wolfe.
Here is the list of novels I've read, at least those I can remember. As some will notice my strong suit is American Literature of the 20th century which is my love and as anyone who has been there knows its very hard to turn attention away from true love. I do try to branch out from Sinclair, Steinbeck, Bradbury and a league of other amazing American born writers; from time to time I'll dip my toes into the classics or French literature but its hard to be gone so long from the scribes who can romanticize even the darkest parts of the land of free.
Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Anthem - Ayn Rand The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand Lord of the Flies - William Golding The Stand - Stephen King Carrie - Stephen King Misery - Stephen King The Green Mile - Stephen King Gerald's Game - Stephen King The Jungle - Upton Sinclair World's End - Upton Sinclair Oil! - Upton Sinclair As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner The Vampire Chronicles (the first seven) - Anne Rice Belinda - Anne Rice Cry to Heaven - Anne Rice Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros The secret Life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman Hiroshima - John Hersey The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan White Oleander - Janet Finch The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Crucible - Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekov Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury Farewell Summer - Ray Bradbury Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury From the Dust Returned - Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - CS lewis The Horse and his Boy - CS Lewis Prince Caspian - CS lewis Alice in wonderland/Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll Rebeccas World - Terry Nation The Prydain Chronicles - Lloyd Alexander The Iron Ring - Lloyd Alexander The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines Dear Mr. Henshaw - Beverly Cleary Hatchet - Gary Paulsen Henry and June - Anais Nin Delta of Venus - Anais Nin Winter of Artifice - Anais Nin The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen Dragonlance Chronicles - Margaret Weis,Tracy Hickman Summer Sisters - Judy Blume Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Charlotte's Web - E.B. White The Trumpet of the Swan - E. B. White The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt The Stranger - Albert Camus The Old man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl The BFG - Roald Dahl The Witches - Roald Dahl Redwall - Brian Jacques Mossflower - Brian Jacques To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman Harry potter series - J. K. Rowling Dolls House - Henrik Ibsen The Giver - Lois Lowry Number the Stars - Lois Lowry Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell The winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck East of Eden - John Steinbeck Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence Slaughter-House-5 - Kurt Vonnegut Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene Animal Farm - George Orwell Dubliners - James Joyce White Noise - Don Delillo Americana - Don Delillo The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold In Cold Blood - Truman Capote Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote The Best American Non Required Reading 2007 - ED. Dave Eggers A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith My Sister, My Love - Joyce Carol Oates
Also check out my bookshelf. I'm quite the bibliophile and searching antique stores is my favorite way to find books.
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sing_song_girl) wrote,
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