Books I want to investigate further (in continuous progress)

Submitted by burneyfan on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 05:22
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  • More stuff by Pete Dexter
  • The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee
  • At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman (the woman could write about lint and it would be interesting!)
  • More Angela Thirkell novels
  • The Good, the Bad, and Me, Eli Wallach
  • Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Spike Milligan
  • Kindergarten, Peter Rushforth
  • Everything by Theodore Dreiser not counting Sister Carrie
  • The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
  • The Half Sisters, Geraldine Jewsbury
  • With, Donald Harington or other good Harington books
  • Calamity Jane, James D. McLaird
  • The Half Life, Jonathan Raymond
  • Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education, Richard Kluger
  • Something by V.S. Naipaul
  • Instead of a Letter, Diana Athill
  • Men Giving Money, Women Yelling, Alice Mattison
  • Peter Dickinson mysteries (I've read one or two)
  • Within the Fetterlock, Brian Wainwright
  • Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, Mick LaSalle
  • A Gun for Sale, Graham Greene
  • The Story of an African Farm, Olive Schreiner
  • First Love, Ivan Turgenev
  • The Young Visiters, Daisy Ashton
  • Something by R.K. Narayan
  • Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke
  • Blue Suit, Richard Rayner
  • Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant
  • A biography of Wilfred Owen
  • The Last Summer of Reason, Tahar Djaout
  • More Richard Yates (loved Revolutionary Road )
  • Pobby and Dingan, Ben Rice
  • More Saki
Author Comments: 

If you've read any of them, or can steer me on some titles, I'm happy to learn!

listology4708/31/2007

I would recommend Nervous Conditions

burneyfan08/31/2007

Thanks! I'll put it high on my list when I go scavenging in the bookstores and libraries. :-) (And remember it when I'm trolling for internet purchases...)

Nance09/16/2007

The only one I've read is Germinal, one of my top favorites.
Very visual, good portrayal of the misery, workers versus bourgeois.

burneyfan09/19/2007

Thanks, Nance! I'll hunt it down the next time I go out "booking." :-)