Recommended Reads - Fiction(ish)
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Brandy
Apr 23, 2011, 10:30:23 PM4/23/11
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Thought I'd share the collaborative list I started of book
recommendations. Add on your own and read at your leisure! (If leisure
exists in grad school...)
From Me:
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
From Jessica:
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Autobiography of an ex-colored man- James Weldon Johnson
The entire Stieg Larsson Series
Fear of Flying- Erica Jong
ANYTHING by Paulo Coehlo, but especially:
The Witch from Portobello
The Zahir
The Pilgrimage
and The Alchemist
Zami- Audre Lorde
From Kelsi (I have probably classified some of these wrongly; my bad!)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave
Eggers
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
Others:
Devil in the White City by Eric Larson
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Anything by Milan Kundera
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man (A cookbook that literally has a
medical warning that if you cook and eat all the recipes in the book,
you'll die.)
Rilke and Larkin poetry
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Numb by Sean Ferrell
recommendations. Add on your own and read at your leisure! (If leisure
exists in grad school...)
From Me:
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
From Jessica:
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Autobiography of an ex-colored man- James Weldon Johnson
The entire Stieg Larsson Series
Fear of Flying- Erica Jong
ANYTHING by Paulo Coehlo, but especially:
The Witch from Portobello
The Zahir
The Pilgrimage
and The Alchemist
Zami- Audre Lorde
From Kelsi (I have probably classified some of these wrongly; my bad!)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave
Eggers
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
Others:
Devil in the White City by Eric Larson
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Anything by Milan Kundera
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man (A cookbook that literally has a
medical warning that if you cook and eat all the recipes in the book,
you'll die.)
Rilke and Larkin poetry
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Numb by Sean Ferrell
Timothy Knickerbocker
Apr 23, 2011, 11:38:57 PM4/23/11
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From Tim
My Recommended Fiction List
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark
She by H. Rider Haggard
Harry Potter Series
Anything Neil Gaiman Ever Wrote
Anything And Everything Edgar Allan Poe (particularly The Sandman and
Neverwhere)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grimm Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Once and Future King by T. H. White (Or really any other Arthurian
Tales)
I Robot by Isaac Asimov
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Wow this is such a guy list, and it does make me seem kind of dark.
My Recommended Fiction List
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark
She by H. Rider Haggard
Harry Potter Series
Anything Neil Gaiman Ever Wrote
Anything And Everything Edgar Allan Poe (particularly The Sandman and
Neverwhere)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grimm Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Once and Future King by T. H. White (Or really any other Arthurian
Tales)
I Robot by Isaac Asimov
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Wow this is such a guy list, and it does make me seem kind of dark.
Emily
Apr 24, 2011, 12:47:40 AM4/24/11
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Anything by Terry Pratchett! Also...
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gábriel García Márquez
Fool by Christopher Moore
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gábriel García Márquez
Fool by Christopher Moore
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