Books I Want to Read (When I Actually Have Time)
Submitted by shan2001 on Thu, 11/03/2005 - 02:52
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- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer (I read an excerpt of this for a creative writing class years ago and loved it.)
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- Lost in the City by Edward P.Jones
- Maus by Art Spiegelman (I love Marjane Satrapi's books so much, and Spiegelman's works are the only that have been compared to hers, so why not?)
- Eight Men by Richard Wright
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (I've never read a Faulkner novel, and I feel horribly ashamed)
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
- Insomnia by Stephen King
- Needful Things by Stephen King
- the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (I'll get to this one day, sight)
- the Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Davinci Code by Dan Brown (I must know what all the fuss is about...)
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Salt by Earl Lovelace
- At the Full and Change of the Moon by Dionne Brand (I was supposed to read this for a class, but never finished it. Sounds really great though.)
- Gorilla, my Love by Toni Cade Bambara
- The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
Re: The disappearance of The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor from this list
Did you read the book? Have you read (or considered reading) Linden Hills? It's freaky. In a good way. Freaky good. Desperate Housewives is ripping it off in big chunks.
Yep, I just read "Women of Brewster Place". I have "Linden Hills" checked out from the library, I hope to read it soon!