WORDS | Books I Need To Read
Thursday, April 03, 2003
Just for the sake of getting it out of my system, here's an incomplete list of books I want to read. I plan to keep it updated, so as I think of new things and cross off old ones, I'll edit this entry (keeping score of how many I've knocked off, of course). And yes, the comments are active, so you can feel free to scream "HOW can you not have read XXXXXXX?!? It's a SIN!" Make me feel stupid, please, I like it. ;-D
This list is excessively proper and canonical, I know, but I still feel like I have an obligation as someone who plays with words to see how the folks that impressed people did it. Try not to savage me for being an ivory-tower academic, and I'll try not to be snobbish and say you only read crap. That should work out, right?
For more information on my life in letters, check out my AllConsuming profile.
NOVELS (et al):
Amis, Martin - London Fields
Amis, Martin - Money
Austen, Jane - Emma
Borges, Jorge Luis - Collected Short Fictions
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, William S. - Naked Lunch
Cave, Nick - And The Ass Saw The Angel
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Chekhov, Anton - Lady With Lapdog
DeLillo, Don - Americana
DeLillo, Don - Great Jones Street
DeLillo, Don - Libra
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Demons (The Possessed)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Notes From The Underground
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Forster, E.M. - A Room With A View
Forster, E.M. - Maurice
Hardy, Thomas - Jude The Obscure
James, Henry - Washington Square
Joyce, James - Dubliners
Joyce, James - Stephen Hero
Kerouac, Jack - On The Road
Kureishi, Hanif - The Black Album
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Autumn Of The Patriarch
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
Morrison, Toni - Song Of Solomon
Nabokov, Vladimir - Invitation To A Beheading
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pnin
O'Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy Of Dunces
Pirsig, Robert - Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Proust, Marcel - In Search Of Lost Time (Remembrance Of Things Past)
Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow
Rushdie, Salman - East/West: Stories
Rushdie, Salman - Grimus
Rushdie, Salman - Shame
Sedaris, David - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Smith, Zadie - The Autograph Man
Wharton, Edith - The House Of Mirth
Woolf, Virginia - Orlando
Woolf, Virginia - To The Lighthouse
PLAYS:
Beckett, Samuel - Endgame
Beckett, Samuel - Krapp's Last Tape
Brecht, Bertolt - The Threepenny Opera
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov, Anton - The Seagull
Chekhov, Anton - Three Sisters
Chekhov, Anton - Uncle Vanya
Pinter, Harold - The Birthday Party
Shaw, George Bernhard - Ms. Warren's Profession
Shakespeare, William - Othello
BOOKS TO RE-READ:
Camus, Albert - The Plague
Gibson, William - Neuromancer
Golding, William - Lord Of The Flies
Joyce, James - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years Of Solitude
McCabe, Patrick - Breakfast On Pluto
Morrison, Toni - The Bluest Eye
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher In The Rye
Salinger, J.D. - Franny & Zooey
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Confederacy of Dunces and Me Talk Pretty One Day must go to the top of that list right fucking now. Also, Portrait of the Artist and Catcher In the Rye aren't worth a re-read, but Lord Of the Flies totally is. Also, if you haven't read any or have just read A Doll House, you need some Ibsen on that list of plays. I recommend Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Wild Duck (although a lot of people hate The Wild Duck).
That's me speaking authoritatively on something I know basically nothing about.
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Daredevil
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Dude, I just finished To The Lighthouse. It's fucking great. Just make sure you have absolute calm, silence, and isolation to read it--it's slow reading and you really need to not breeze through it, but I'll be damned if the Time Passes section isn't the most efficient, interesting, and potent 18 pages of prose I've read in eons. Highest recommendation.
Posted by: Paul at April 6, 2003 07:15 AM