A Window Across the River - Brian Morton
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams - Ellen Gilchrist
Ladder of Years - Anne Tyler
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
Such a Pretty Fat - Jen Lancaster
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Don't Bother
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Blankets - Craig Thompson
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Chasing Vermeer - Blue Balliett
Epileptic - David B.
Groves of Academe - Mary McCarthy
Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood - Mary McCarthy
Pretty in Plaid - Jen Lancaster
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
The Double Bind - Chris Bohalian
Then We Can To the End - Joshua Ferris
Things I've Been Silent About - Azar Nafisi
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy - James Paul Gee
Great Story
A Cure for Dreams - Kaye Gibbons
A Man and Two Women - Doris Lessing
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Dracula: The Un-Dead - Dacre Stoker
Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
Peel My Love Like an Onion - Ana Castillo
Starting Out in the Evening - Brian Morton
The Courts of Love - Ellen Gilchrist
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Victory Over Japan - Ellen Gilchrist
Page Turner
A Sword from Red Ice - J. V. Jones
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Doubleback - Libby Fischer Hellmann
Fortress of Grey Ice - J. V. jones
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness - William Bernhardt
The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
Feel Happy and Laugh
Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
Take the Cannoli - Sarah Vowell
Teacher Man - Frank McCarthy
Wallow and Cry
A Cure for Dreams - Kaye Gibbons
American Salvage - Bonnie Jo Campbell
Chanda's Secret - Allan Stratton
Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Nether World - George Gissing
While I'm Falling - Laura Moriarty
Makes You Think
A Cure for Dreams - Kaye Gibbons
Anthology of Modern American Poetry - Cary Nelson Ed.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
Ladder of Years - Anne Tyler
Ladders to Fire - Anais Nin
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Group - Mary McCarthy
The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
While I'm Falling - Laura Moriarty
Silly Fluff
A version of the Truth - Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You - Brian Vaughan, Georges Jeanty, Joss Whedon
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Death of a Gentle Lady: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery - M.C. Beaton
Love the One You're With - Emily Giffin
Schooled - Anisha Lakhani
The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore
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Girl you read like the wind!!
ReplyDeletePerhaps I could be like you if I cancelled the cable....
I have seriously been looking forward to this list all year! Maybe I'll do a similar one, but it would be much, much shorter.
I'm still working my way through Udolpho, it just gets better and better.
Jabba - I definitely increased my reading this year. I probably haven't read this much since college.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I will say that now that I'm am going at a fast clip it is pretty easy to keep it up!
And yes, no cable helps a ton!
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
ReplyDeleteInteresting! Lord of the Flies is on your don't bother list. Why is that? I suppose I'll find out when I read further into your blog. The staged version, when done well, is actually very riveting. Maybe I'm biased because I was Ralph, though.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - Thinly veiled compliment. So I'm going to say...thanks? And also note that to increase naturalism and wit and fluidity in my writing was a main goal of this blog, so I can check that one off.
ReplyDeleteMiranda - OK, I was on the fence about Lord of the Flies. I completely recognize the merit of the writing and the thought provoking subject matter, but I think I read it at the wrong time for me. I just couldn't get past all the violence and shenanigans. I concur that it is an accurate satire / portrayal of society, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. So, good book, but it upset me when I didn't feel like being upset.
Having said that...if I was in the play? Ralph would definitely be the most fun to portray.