My to-read list is always long, yet I’m somehow still always wanting more recommendations. Comment below to add something to either list, or encourage something already on the list (i.e. make me read it sooner than I already would)! Right now, my list looks something like…
Currently Reading
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theatre by Marc Acito
Short (Summer Reading-type) List
Ticking is the Bomb, Nick Flynn
How Did You Get This Number, Sloane Crosley
Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
Dharma Burns, Jack Kerouac
Longer (Bucket-Type) List
White Teeth, Zadie Smith (as well as On Beauty)
Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
**More to be added/transferred from my actual list**
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Don’t be shy! And now, a chart:
For Your Reference Purposes.
Here are some recommendations!
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Hopscotch – Julio Cortazar
High Tide In Tucson: Essays – Barbara Kingsolver (also every other thing she’s ever written, especially Animal Dreams)
Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
Reading Lolita In Tehran – Azar Nafisi
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Black Boy by Richard Wright, and Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth.
sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs by chuck klosterman. i wouldn’t be surprised if you have already read it. it is hilarious and i find it pretty insightful.
http://dulyquoted.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/sex-drugs-and-cocoa-puffs/ you have good taste :).
” PERSIST In Praise of The Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad With Commerce ” by Peter Clothier.
For all of us,writers, musicians,visual artists, actors, dancers, inventors… great tips from a veteran writer who had a day job for many years ( academia ).