Speaking of resolutions: in November I posted a tentative list of books to read over 52 weeks, now due for an update. I'm thrilled to announce that based on explosive feedback, some soul-searching, and the (grudging) cooperation of Paley Library, I have a (more) complete list of jaw-dropping, inspiring, thrilling, hilarious books! TO READ.
Let me assure you this list is in no way complete. You guys have sent me awesome suggestions from your own libraries, and I would love to hear more!
THUS AND SO: "The 2010 Book List (so far)" after the jump!
xoxo Anne
(Also I'm playing with the "jump" feature. Tech MAVEN in the house, you guys.)
The 2010 Book List (so far)!
Definitely subject to revision! YOUR AWESOME REVISION!- *Atwood - A Handmaid's Tale
- Atwood - Cat's Eye
- Austen - Emma (and Northanger Abbey, and Mansfeld Park, and Pride and Prejudice)
- Barrie - Peter Pan
- Beck - Arguing with Idiots
- Brontë, Agnes Grey
- Butler, Gender Trouble
- Byatt - Possession
- Card - Ender's Game
- Carter - Nights at the Circus
- Carter - The Bloody Chamber
- Carter - The Wise Children
- Darwin - The Origin of Species
- Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Dickens - Bleak House
- Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
- Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
- Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
- Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Einstein - Relativity
- *Eliot - Middlemarch
- Faulkner - Absalom Absalom!
- Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
- Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
- Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms
- Homer - The Iliad
- Hughes - Birthday Letters
- James - The Bostonians
- Joyce - Ulysses
- Kafka - Metamorphosis
- *Lawrence - Lady Chatterly's Lover
- Marx - Communist Manifesto
- Meek - The People's Act of Love
- *Morrison - Beloved
- Morrison - Sula
- Morrison - A Mercy
- Mortenson and Relin, Three Cups of Tea
- Munro - Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage
- Nguyen, Stealing Buddha's Dinner
- Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra
- O'Neill, Netherland
- Page - How I Became Stupid (en français?)
- Palin - Going Rogue: An American Life
- Patterson - Cross Country
- Proust - Swann's Way
- Pullman - His Dark Materials Omnibus
- Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
- Rushdie, Midnight's Children
- Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet
- Steinbeck - East of Eden
- Strachey - Eminent Victorians
- Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy - War and Peace
- Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Voltaire - Candide (en français, bien sûr)
- Wallace - Infinite Jest
- Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
- Woolf - The Waves
- Woolf - The Years
- Woolf - The Complete Shorter Fiction
- Woolf - Night and Day
- Woolf - Three Guineas
* Indicates read since program inception
Please send me thoughts and suggestions as you read! After I finish Push, I'm beginning To The Lighthouse, and I am certainly excited!
ReplyDeleteLovely list, Annie. I wasn't planning to do anything like this, but you've inspired me--I always plan my reading lists, but perhaps not far enough in advance to stick to my guns. I end up pushing the much-needed classic aside to re-read something like Memoirs of a Geisha (which I unabashedly love, so sue me). So I've decided to follow your lead here.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if you get through Anna Karenina AND War and Peace by the end of the year, I will be forever and ever envious of your prowess--indeed, I'm envious of your courage for including both. I'm too scared to attempt the Russian classics, still. I think Crime & Punishment, AP English, senior year of HS, may have ruined me.
Also, you desperately need to join goodreads.com. I want to be friends with you there.