Thursday, September 20, 2007

Book List

I've been meaning to compile a to-read list for ages. However, every time I try to do so, it turns out to be a disorganized nightmare. I'm thinking that if I do it in the blog, I'll have the ability to access it more often. Now, let's hope I can re-remember what I want/need to read! In fact, I think I might turn this blog into a book blog! Woo hoo! I'd love it, but I feel sorry for anyone who tries to read it...






Edit: If the title is in green, that means I own it. Hooray!




Acheve, Chinua
Things Fall Apart

Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Adams, Richard
Watership Down

Addams, Jane
Twenty Years at Hull House

Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women (again)
Little Men

Alexander, Robert

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

Anita, Tarr C.
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan In and Out of Time: A Children's Classic at 100

Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid's Tale

Austen, Jane
Emma
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility

Baldwin, James
Go Tell it on the Mountain

Bawdin, Nina
Carrie's War

Beagle, Peter S.
The Last Unicorn

Bennett, Alan
The Complete Talking Heads
The History Boys
The Uncommon Reader

Berendt, John
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Blume, Judy
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret

Bradbury, Ray
Farenheit 451

Braddon, M. E.
Lady Audley's Secret

Bradley, James
Flags of Our Fathers

Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Erye

Browne, Hester
The Little Lady Agency

Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange

Caldwell, Laura
The Year of Living Famously

Calloway, Colin
Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America

Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood

Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Canterbury Tales

Chevalier, Tracy
Girl with a Pearl Earring

Chopin, Kate
The Awakening (again)

Clancy, Tom

The Hunt for Red October

Coelho, Paulo
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

Colt, George Howe
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness (again)

Davies, Peter Ho
The Welsh Girl

Dew, Robb Forman
The Evidence Against Her

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Story
A Tale of Two Cities
Bleak House
Great Expectations (again)
Oliver Twist

Doctorow, E. L.
Ragtime (again)

Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Silas Marner

Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Self-Reliance (again)

Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex: A Novel

Faulkner, William

As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury

Fischer, David Hackett
Paul Revere's Ride (again)
Washington's Crossing

Fitch, Janet
White Oleander (again)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby (again)

Foer, Jonathan Safran
Everything is Illuminated

Follett, Ken
The Pillars of the Earth

Forester, E. M.

A Room With a View
Howards End

Fresan, Rodrigo
Kensington Gardens

Gibbons, Kaye
Ellen Foster

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

The Yellow Wallpaper

Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha

Goldman, William
The Princess Bride

Golding, William

Lord of the Flies (again)

Gregory, Philippa
The Constant Princess
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Queen's Fool

Gruen, Susan
Water for Elephants (again)

Hansberry, Lorraine
A Raisin in the Sun

Hardy, Thomas
Jude the Obscure
Tess of D'Ubervilles

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter

Heller, Joseph
Catch-22

Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Nick Adams Stories
The Sun Also Rises

Herbert, Frank
Dune

Hosseini, Khaled
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner

Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World

Irving, John
A Prayer for Owne Meany
The World According to Garp

Isenberg, Nancy

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

James, Henry
The Aspern Papers (again)
The Bostonians
The Portrait of a Lady

Joyce, James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Dubliners
Ulysses

Kerouac, Jack
On the Road

Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kidd, Sue Monk
The Mermaid Chair
The Secret Life of Bees


Kingsolver, Barbara
Prodigal Summer

Kinsella, Sophie
Remember Me?

Kipling, Rudyard

Kim

Kostova, Elizabeth
The Historian

L'Engle, Madeleine
A Wrinkle in Time

Lalwani, Nikita
Gifted

Lamb, Wally
She's Come Undone

Lamott, Anne
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird (again)

London, Jack
The Call of the Wild

Kingsolver, Barbara
The Poisonwood Bible

Maguire, Gregory

Lost
Mirror Mirror
Son of a Witch
What-the-Dickens
Wicked (again)

Mansfield, Katherine
The Collected Stories (again)

McCourt, Frank

Angela's Ashes
Teacher Man: A Memoir


McCullough, David
1776
John Adams
Truman

McEwan, Ian
Attonement
On Chesil Beach

Middlebrook, Diane

Anne Sexton: A Biography

Miller, Arthur
Death of a Salesman (again)

Milton, John
Paradise Lost

Mintz, Steven
Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood

Mitchell, Margaret
Gone With the Wind

Montgomery, L. M.
Anne of Green Gables series (again)
Kilmeny of the Orchard

Morrison, Toni

Beloved

Nabokov, Vladimir
Lolita

Nemirovsky, Irene
Suite Francaise

Niffenegger, Audrey
The Time Traveler's Wife

Notaro, Laurie
Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive

O'Brien, Tim

The Things They Carried (again)

Orwell, George
1984
Animal Farm

Packer, Ann
The Dive From Clausen's Pier

Pearl, Matthew
The Dante Club

Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar

Rand, Ayn

Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead

Rivenbark, Celia
Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom


Rotundo, E. Anthony
American Manhood

Russo, Richard
Bridge of Sighs
Empire Falls

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
The Little Prince

Salinger, J. D.
Catcher in the Rye (again)
Franny and Zooey

Schocket, Eric
Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature

Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe
Waverly

Sebold, Alice

The Lovely Bones

Sedaris, David
Me Talk Pretty One Day (again)
Naked

Seton, Anya

Green Darkness

Sinclair, Upton
The Jungle

Steinbeck, John
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath (again)

Tolkien, J. R. R.
Lord of the Rings

Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina

Updike, John
Rabbit, Run

Vivante, Arturo
Truelove Knot: A Novel of World War II

Walker, Alice
The Color Purple

Warren, Robert Penn
All the King's Men

Waugh, Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
Brideshead Revisited

Welsh, Irvine
Trainspotting

Wharton, Edith

The Age of Innocense
The House of Mirth

Wick, Lori
The Princess

Whiteley, Opal
Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart

Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass (again)

Wiesel, Elie
Night (again)

Wilde, Oscar
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilder, Thorton
Our Town (again)

Winsor, Kathleen
Forever Amber

Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Divert Thine Eyes

Disclaimer: On the off chance that anyone reads this.... don't bother this post. I just needed some sort of typing program thingie to compile my homework for the semester, since Kresge doesn't have Word at the front desk. Bah humbug.

Or, if you'd like to pity me, please continue reading.
Friday, September 7th:
HST 390:
- Read Lears, Something for Nothing, Intro (p. 1 - 24)

Weekend of September 8th:
HST 390:
- Print and read Gene Wise, "'Paradigm Dramas' in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement," American Quarterly 31 (1979) from JSTOR.
- Print and read Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., "A New Context for a New American Studies?" American Quarterly 43 (1991).
- Print and read Steven Watts, "The Idiocy of American STudies: Poststructuralism, Language, and Politics in the Age of Self-Fulfilment," American Quarterly 43 (1991). (For Wednesday)
- See two optional articles listed in the syllabus.
ENG 401:
- Read Hamilton's Biography: A Brief History (page 128 by Tuesday, finished by Thursday).
- Read Menard's "The Biography Business" on e-reserve.
HST 322:
- Read Ellen Carol DuBois's "Outgrowing the compact of the Fathers: Equal Rights, etc" on JSTOR.
- Begin reading Gender and Jim Crow.