| Lists of books/plays I've read in the past and that have shaped me as a person, some more than others... |
| Favorite Books/Plays The Reader--Schlink The Member of the Wedding--McCullers *The Great Gatsby--Fitzgerald 1984--Orwell *Of Mice and Men--Steinbeck *The Scarlet Letter--Hawthorne *The Crucible--Miller *Death of a Salesman--Miller The Bluest Eye--Morrison Sula--Morrison Anything by John Irving White Noise--Don Delillo The Secret History--Tartt To Kill a Mockingbird Catcher in the Rye--Salinger Franny and Zooey--Salinger Waterland--Swift A Separate Peace--Knowles Anything by Raymond Carver An American Tragedy---Dreiser This Boy's Life--Wolfe *Lord of the Flies--Golding A Confederacy of Dunces--Toole *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof--Williams (play) A Midsummer Night's Dream--Shakespeare The Sound and the Fury--Faulkner Light in August--Faulkner As I Lay Dying--Faulker Generation x--Coupland **Great Expectations--Dickens **The Odyssey--Homer The Importance of Being Earnest--Wilde Ethan Frome--Wharton *Les Miserables--Hugo *MacBeth--Shakespeare The Moviegoer--Percy The Last Gentleman--Percy Our Town--Wilder The Road Less Travelled--Peck The Temple of my Familiar--Walker I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings--Angelou King Lear--Shakespeare *Othello--Shakespeare Titus Andronicus--Shakespeare **Romeo and Juliet--Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice--Shakespeare Birds of America--Lorrie Moore A Feather on the Breath of God--Nunez Anything by David Sedaris Letters from a Nut-"Ted. L. Nancy" |
| Good Books/Plays Fahrenheit 451--Bradbury The Old Man and the Sea--Hemingway A Moveable Feast-Hemingway Animal Farm--Orwell Anthem--Rand The Beautiful and Damned--Fitzgerald The Bell Jar--Plath Brave New World--Huxley The Brothers Karamazov--Dostoevsky The Illiad--Homer Jane Eyre--Bronte The Sun Also Rises--Hemingway Little Women--Alcott Lolita--Nabokov *Oedipus Rex--Sophocles Madame Bovary--Flaubert Microserfs---Coupland The Sheltering Sky--Bowles Waiting for Godot--Beckett Hamlet--Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew--Shakespeare Just Desserts: The Real Martha Stewart--??? Rainey--Edgerton The Lovely Bones--Sebold Saint Maybe--Anne Tyler Left Behind--?? Tribulation Force--??? The Hours--Cunningham Ted and Sylvia--Morton |
| I didn't like these or was was just plain disappointed by these books/plays Huckleberry Finn--Twain The Magic Mountain---Mann Rabbit, Run--Updike Tropic of Cancer--Henry Miller Antony and Cleopatra--Shakespeare Canterbury Tales--Chaucer Julius Caesar--Shakespeare Beowulf--Anonymous Moby Dick--Melville Antigone--Sophocles On the Road--Kerouac anything by Camus depresses me The Tempest--Shakespeare Richard III--Shakespeare Nicholae--?? Phantoms--Koontz |
| * means that they are fun to teach (whoo hoo!) |
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