Trouble is, I don't know where to start. My mental state is in no condition to tackle anything too difficult right now (Iliad!), so I wanted to ask you guys - what book should I read next?
Here's where I'm at right now:
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- The Iliyad - Homer
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
Lord of the Flies - William Golding- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Boat - Nam Le
- My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
- Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
- Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
- Dirt Music - Tim Winton
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton- 1984 - George Orwell
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The White Earth - Andrew McGhan
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- Everything I Knew - Peter Goldsworthy
- Wanting - Richard Flannagan
- A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
Schindlers Ark - Thomas Kennally- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker- The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchel
Bleak House - Charles Dickens- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Anne of Green Gables - LM MontgomeryLove In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- The Monkeys Mask - Dorothy Porter
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Wasp Factory - Iain BanksThe Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
- Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
- Tbe Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
East of Eden - John Steinbeck- The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- March - Geraldine Brooks
- The Thornbirds - Colleen McCullough
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami- Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
- Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
- The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
- Sophie’s Choice - William Styron
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd- The Gathering - Anne Enright
- Life & Times of Michael K - J M Coetzee
- The Sea – John Banville
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
- The Divine Comedy - Dante
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy- The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
- Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
- The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
- Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
- Breakfast at Tiffanys - Truman Capote
6 comments:
The list doesn't have a ton of "light" reading. My choice go with Vanity Fair. Great summer time read.
Congrats on being so close to finishing your degree!!
I see a lot of titles on your list that I highly recommend reading, but most of them aren't something I'd recommend if you are looking to detox. The Chronicles of Narnia is a great series, and although there are some deeper messages going on with the story, they are all quick, fairly easy reads.
My daughter swears by The Color Purple. Try that.
John Irving is darkly funny for the most part - but I do have to say the rest of your list is not light.
Yeah, I was feeling a bit quixotic when I wrote this list. Never mind! I'll see what I can procure at the library. Thanks everyone!!
Congrats on getting your degree!
What 'lightness' did you find at the library?
(Always interested in what others are reading!)
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