A few years ago I became sad when I realised that I wasn't a reader. I had barely read a novel in years. It made me sad to hear people talking about all these classic books, knowing that I had never read them. So feeling like I was missing out, I decided to become a reader, probably around 2003 or 2004.I made a list of authors and books that I wanted to read, and have been working my way through. I am a pretty slow, easily distracted reader, but have gotten through a few. So, I thought I would list the books that I have read and particularly liked since then. By the way, where there are multiple books by an author is where I have particularly loved a book and read more.
Charles Dickens- Great Expectations
Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
William Faulkner- Go Down, Moses, As I Lay Dying, A Soldiers Pay, The Sound and the Fury, The Unvanquished, Absalom, Absalom
F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
Annie Proulx- The Shipping News, Postcards
Harper Lee- To Kill A Mockingbird
John Steinbeck- The Moon Is Down, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row
Daniel Defoe- Robinson Crusoe
Richard Adams- Watership Down
Henry James- The Turn Of the Screw
Ernest Hemmingway- The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom The Bell Tolls
Micheal Ondaatje- In The Skin Of a Lion
Cormac McCarthy- No Country For Old Men
J.D. Salinger- Catcher In the Rhye, Raise High The Roofbeams Carpenters, For Esme- With Love and Squalor
Annie Dillard- An American Childhood, Pilgrim At Tinker Creek (1/2 way through..)
Has anybody got any other recommendations?
5 comments:
Thats a great list you got there! I did the same thing...I wasn't much of a reader 10 years ago but all that has changed and once you start a regular pattern, you can't stop! Extra brain cells! Yeah!
I'm still laughing at manfrog!!!
Nice to have a kindred spirit:)
Why isn't Jane Austen on this list!?!
And what about 'Little Women' - now that's a true classic.
Lu, don't make me come over there..
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