- Caleb Williams - William Godwin
- Wieland - Charles Brockden Brown*
- Radical - David Platt
- Letter's from an American Farmer - J. Hector St. John de Crevcoeur*
- Charlotte Temple - Susanna Rowson*
- The Spy - James Fenimore Cooper
- Through a Screen Darkly - Jeffrey Overstreet
- Aurelia's Colors - Jeffrey Overstreet
- Cyndere's Midnight - Jeffrey Overstreet
- Raven's Ladder - Jeffrey Overstreet
- The Ale Boy's Feast - Jeffrey Overstreet
- Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen*
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen*
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*
- Mansfield Park - Jane Austen*
- Emma -Jane Austen*
- Persuasion - Jane Austen*
- Sanditon - Jane Austen
- Manalive - G. K. Chesterton
- Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- A Jesuit Off Broadway - Father James Martin
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
- A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Mercy - Toni Morrison
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Agamemmnon - Aeschylus*
- Room - Emma Donoghue
- Eumenides - Aeschylus*
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus*
- Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
- Oedipus Tyrannos - Sophocles*
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte*
- Antigone - Sophocles
- Philoctetes - Sophocles
- History of Love - Nicole Krauss
- Hippolytos - Euripides*
- Medea - Euripides*
- The Gangster We're all Looking For - Le Thi Diem Thuy
- Alcestis - Euripides
- Bacchae - Euripides
- A Gesture Life - Chang-rae Lee
- Frogs - Aristophanes
- Hard Times - Charles Dickens*
- Loneliness as a Way of Life - Thomas Dumm
- Surprised by Oxford - Carolyn Webber
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
- Mockningjay - Suzanne Collins
*re-read
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Aside from obvious favorites by Austen and the Bronte's, a few of these I'd recommend are:
- History of Love - A "beautifully sad," multiple-narrator novel about an aged and lonely holocaust survivor named Leopold Gursky and the lives his writing unknowingly changed--including his own.
- Room - The story of Jack, a precocious 5-year-old, who lives with his mother and has never been outside the Room he was born in. Told in his 1st-person, present tense perspective, this intense and gripping narrative reveals the beauty of a mother's love.
- Manalive - G. K. Chesterton's hilarious novel about Innocent Smith--a man who defies religion and convention. Chesterton masterfully demonstrates that to do the truly right thing in modernity, we have to "break the law."
- and Surprised by Oxford - The memoir of a grad student studying English at Oxford, who found herself swept into the deepest Romance she could possibly imagine. Carolyn Webber's original imagery, constant literary allusions, and brilliant prose would be reason enough to read this--the setting and story make it magical.
I'd love to hear what you read this year and here's to many more books in 2012 =)
I love seeing other people's reading lists. I would be interested to know - which of these books were assigned & which were purely for pleasure (and which ones could go in both categories). Also, what are your top recommendations from this list?
ReplyDeleteHi, Rachel. I was wondering about designating which were assigned... I'm going to change it and add a few recommendations =)
ReplyDeleteway to rock it with the books Samara :) I see some good ones in there!
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