My Reading List

Submitted by kadin on Mon, 03/21/2005 - 13:39
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  • Mrs. Darroway by Virginia Woolfe
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Holes
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
  • Concert Photography by Jon Sievert
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  • The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

  • Page a Day Book Lovers Books that have piqued my interest
  • A NOVEL OF FAME, HONOR AND REALLY BAD WEATHER, by Jincy Willett
  • EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES: THE ZERO TOLERANCE APPROACH TO PUNCTUATION, by Lynne Truss (Gotham Books, 2004)
  • MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES by James Thurber
  • ARISTOTLE’S CHILDREN: HOW CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS AND JEWS REDISCOVERED ANCIENT WISDOM AND ILLUMINATED THE DARK AGES, by Richard E. Rubenstein
  • 1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE, by Patricia Schultz
  • SUNSHINE, by Robin McKinley
  • KIM, by Rudyard Kipling
  • FOREVER AMBER, by Kathleen Windsor
  • HUMMINGBIRD HOUSE, by Patricia Henley
  • Love, by Toni Morrison
  • DEPRAVED AND INSULTING ENGLISH, by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea
  • THE DITCHED BLONDE: A CARL WILCOX MYSTERY, by Harold Adams
  • THE SCARLET LETTERS, by Louis Auchincloss
  • Manhunt by James L. Swanson
  • ME AND SHAKESPEARE: ADVENTURES WITH THE BARD, by Herman Gollob
  • L'AFFAIRE, Diane Johnson
  • Le Divorce, Diane Johnson
  • THE SWORD OF SHANNARA TRILOGY, by Terry Brooks
  • APRIL MORNING, by Howard Fast
  • THE CREATIVE HABIT: LEARN IT AND USE IT FOR LIFE, by Twyla Tharp ?
  • FAT GIRLS AND LAWN CHAIRS, by Cheryl Peck ?
  • THE SNOW FOX, by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer ?
  • Rumpole Rests His Case, by John Mortimer
  • RUMPOLE AND THE PRIMROSE PATH, by John Mortimer
  • THE KEEPER?S SON, by Homer Hickam
  • ALL PASSION SPENT, by Vita Sackville-West?
  • THE SEVEN AGES OF PARIS, by Alistair Horne ? - Mom - Birthday?
  • WIVES AND DAUGHTERS, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • OVER THE MOAT: LOVE AMONG THE RUINS OF IMPERIAL VIETNAM, by James Sullivan
  • A RUINED LAND: THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR, by Michael Golay
  • THE WHITE ROCK: AN EXPLORATION OF THE INCA HEARTLAND, by Hugh Thomson
  • TRIANGLE: THE FIRE THAT CHANGED AMERICA, by David Von Drehle?
  • LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY, by Peter Ackroyd?
  • ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN: THE JOURNALS OF MAY DODD: A NOVEL, by Jim Fergus
  • THE LAST SORCERERS: THE PATH FROM ALCHEMY TO THE PERIODIC TABLE, by Richard Morris ?
  • TREASURE ISLAND, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • BLACK SUN: THE BRIEF TRANSIT AND VIOLENT ECLIPSE OF HARRY CROSBY, by Geoffrey Wolff
  • NICKEL AND DIMED: ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA, by Barbara Ehrenreich
  • CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE, by Kaye Gibbons
  • AND THE DEAD SHALL RISE: THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN AND THE LYNCHING OF LEO FRANK, by Steve Oney
JohnnyW04/13/2005

I may be going out on a limb here, but maybe you love Jane Austen? ;)

I've tried a couple of times over the years (Pride and Prejudice in high school, Northanger Abbey in my mid-twenties) to get into Austen, but I just wasn't able to. I haven't given up though. Which is your favorite of her novels, and is there a particular one you'd recommend as an ideal starting point?

Johnny Waco

kadin04/14/2005

Sadly, it's just the opposite.
The closest I've come to reading a Jane Austen is watching the various movies, and listening to Pride and Prejudice on cd on a long drive. I really liked the 1995 Sense and Sensibility movie, but I really have no idea which book to start with. I'm probably going to read either Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility first because I'm most familiar with them.

Kadin

Penny04/14/2005

For what it's worth, I recommend Pride and Prejudice -- by a furlong. I found Sense and Sensibility to be Austen's weakest, unless you count Lady Susan (novella) and Sanditon (fragment).