Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Books To Read If You Have The Time...

Just before graduation last May my literary capstone class met to discuss books they would recommend to each other. This is that list. Though I have read only a few of the books below I am sure most of them are worth reading. There was at least one screwball in the class, though. She recommended "Two Weeks with my Brother."

  • Bless Me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya
  • Cat's Cradle / Kurt Vonnegut
  • Exodus (& Mila 18) / Leon Uris
  • The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas
  • Shogun / James Clavell
  • V. / Thomas Pynchon
  • Two Weeks with My Brother / Nick Sparks
  • Fall On Your Knees / Anne Marie MacDonald
  • The poetry and short stories of Dorothy Parker
  • Cat's Eye / Margaret Atwood
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / Robert M. Pirsig
  • Burning Chrome / William Gibson
  • Into the Wild / Jon Krakauer
  • Owning It All / William Kittredge
  • Anansi Boys / Neil Gaiman
  • All the Pretty Horses / Cormac McArthy
  • The Far Pavilions / M. M. Kaye
  • Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell
  • Cry, the Beloved Country / Alan Paton
  • White Teeth / Zadie Smith
  • The Harvester / Gene Stratton Porter
  • Mind Gym / Gary Maek
  • Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Shirley Jackson
  • Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin
  • Nicholas and Alexandra / Robert K. Massie

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