The Biblio Brat's List

J.C. Montgomery's List
Cross-Posted on The Biblio Blogazine

To Be Read:

Allende, Isabel
-- Portrait In Sepia (Diversity)
-- Daughter of Fortune (Diversity)

Angelou, Maya
-- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Banned/Challenged)

Atwood, Margaret
-- Alias Grace (1001 Book)
-- The Blind Assassin (Man Booker Prize 2000)
Ackerman, Diane

-- The Zookeeper’s Wife (Notable Book 2008)
Bellow, Saul
-- Humboldt’s Gift (Pulitzer Winner 1976)

Boyne, John
-- The Boy In the Striped Pajamas (Notable Book 2007)

Brookner, Anita
-- Hotel du Lac (Man Booker Prize 1984)

Buck, Pearl S.
-- The Good Earth (Pulitzer Winner 1932)
-- Pavilion of Women

Cather, Willa

-- My Antonia (Western Canon)
-- One of Ours (Pulitzer Winner 1923)

Cervantes, Miguel
-- Don Quixote (Classics)

Chabon, Michael
-- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Pulitzer Winner 2001)
-- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union (Notable Book 2008)

Chekhov, Anton
-- The Cherry Orchard (Literature I should read)

Chopin, Kate
-- The Awakening (1001 Book)

Coehlo, Paulo
-- The Devil and Miss Prym (1001 Book)

Cunningham, Michael
-- The Hours (Pulitzer Winner 1999)

Díaz, Junot
-- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Winner 2008)

Dillard, Annie
-- The Maytrees (Notable Book 2007)

Dreiser, Theodore
-- Sister Carrie (Literature I should read)

Egan, Jennifer

-- A Visit From The Goon Squad (Pulitzer 2011)

Erdrich, Louise
-- The Plague of Doves (Notable Book 2008)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
-- The Great Gatsby (Western Canon)

Ford, Richard
-- Independence Day (Pulitzer Winner 1996)

Faulkner, William
-- As I Lay Dying (Banned/Challenged)
-- The Sound and the Fury

Frazier, Charles
-- Cold Mountain (National Book Award)

French, Tana
-- The Likeness (Notable Book 2008)

Gibbons, Kaye

-- Ellen Foster (Modern Classic)

Guterson, David
-- Snow Falling On Cedars (Banned/Challenged)

Paul Harding-- Tinkers (Pulitzer Winner, 2010)

Hemingway, Ernest
-- A Farewell To Arms (Banned/Challenged)
-- The Sun Also Rises (Banned/Challenged)

Hill, Joe
-- Heart-Shaped Box (Notable Book 2007)

Hosseini, Khaled
-- A Thousand Splendid Suns (Banned/Challenged)

Hurston, Zora Neale
-- Their Eyes Were Watching God (Banned/Challenged)

Ishiguro, Kazuo
-- The Remains of the Day (Man Booker Prize 1989)
-- The Unconsoled (1001 Book)
-- When We Were Orphans (Notable Book 2000)

Johnson, Denis
-- Tree of Smoke (National Book Award)

Jones, Edward P.
-- The Known World (Pulitzer Winner 2004)

Kafka, Franz
-- The Metamorphosis (Classic)

Kantor, MacKinlay
-- Andersonville (Pulitzer Winner 1956)

Kincaid, Jamaica
-- Annie John (1001 Book)

Kingsolver, Barbara
-- The Poisonwood Bible (1001 Book)

Lahiri, Jhumpa
-- The Namesake (1001 B00k)

Lawrence, D.H.
-- Women In Love (Banned/Challenged)

Lippman, Laura
-- What the Dead Know (Notable Book 2007)

Lurie, Alison
-- Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer Winner 1985)

Márquez, Gabriel García
-- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Banned/Challenged)
-- Love In the Time of Cholera (Banned/Challenged)

McCourt, Frank
-- Angela’s Ashes (Pulitzer for Biography)

McEwan, Ian
-- Atonement (1001 Book)

McMurtry, Larry
-- Lonesome Dove (Pulitzer Winner 1986)

Morrison, Toni
-- Beloved (Pulitzer Winner 1988)

Nabokov, Vladimir
-- Lolita (Banned/Challenged)

Oates, Joyce Carol
-- The Falls (Prix Femina Étranger Award 2005)
-- We Were The Mulvaneys (A Must Read Author)
-- The Gravedigger’s Daughter (A Must Read Author)

Patchett, Ann
-- Bel Canto (PEN/Faulkner 2002)
-- Run (Notable Book 2007)

Porter, Katherine Ann
-- Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Classic)
-- Ship of Fools (Classic)

Pratchett, Terry
-- Nation (Notable Book 2008)

Proulx, E. Annie
-- The Shipping News (Pulitzer Winner 1994)

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
-- The Yearling (Pulitzer Winner 1939)

Roth, Philip
-- American Pastoral (Notable Book 2007)
-- Exit Ghost (Pulitzer Winner 1998)
-- The Human Stain (1001 Book)

Russo, Richard
-- Empire Falls (Pulitzer Winner 2002)
-- Bridge of Sighs (Notable Book 2007)

Stout, Elizabeth
-- Olive Kitteridge (Pulitzer Winner 2009)

Styron, William
-- Sophie’s Choice (National Book Award)

Taylor, D.J.
-- Kept (Notable Book 2007)

Tinti, Hannah
-- The Good Thief (Notable Book 2008)

Ulinich, Anya
-- Petropolis (Notable Book 2007)

Updike, John
-- Rabbit, Run (1001 Book)

Walker, Alice
-- The Color Purple (Pulitzer Winner 1983)

Waugh, Evelyn
-- Brideshead Revisited (1001 Book)

Wharton, Edith
-- The Age of Innocence (1001 Book)

Wiggins, Marianne
-- The Shadow Catcher (Notable Book 2007)

Wroblewski, David
-- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Notable Book 2008)

Xingjian, Gao
-- Soul Mountain (Nobel Winner 2000)

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Books Read:

001. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Notes From the Underground
002. Shelley, Mary -- Frankenstein
003. Esquivel, Laura -- Like Water For Chocolate
004. Eugenides, Jeffrey -- Middlesex
005. Kesey, Ken -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
006. Bolano, Roberto -- The Savage Detectives
007. Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights
008. McCullers, Carson -- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (DNF)
009. Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice

010. Capote, Truman -- Breakfast at Tiffany’s

011. Atwood, Margaret -- The Handmaid’s Tale 

012. Gaiman, Neil -- The Graveyard Book

013. Hemingway, Ernest -- The Old Man and the Sea