reading list

[erraticflirty1]

i am not a very well read person. so i am making a reading list. feel free to add books to it, go ahead and assume that i have not read any classics- modern or antiquated.

1984, Orwell
Catch-22, Heller
Invisible Man, Ellison
Metamorphisis, Kafka
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey
The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
The Grapes of

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[purplemoocow]

HI DIANE.

[dryerraver]

ahhh lolita is so good!
also anything by Jane Austen - pride and prejudice, northsomethingsomething abbey, persuasion....
sense&sensibility...

[lovelondon]

The Little Prince
The Glass Menagerie
The Portrait of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, or anything else by Oscar Wilde (but those two are my favorites)
Of Mice and Men
The Tao of Pooh

I personally love As I Lay Dying and Portrait of an Artist as A Young Man but a lot of people don't and they are really hard to get through

Also, I'm assuming you've read Great Gatsby and All The King's Men for school, but if you haven't for some reason you really really should.

Also, Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorites and so is To Kill A Mockingbird

[jadedinoblivion]

complete collections of ee cummings, fahrenheit 451, if you're feeling up to a challenge steppenwolf by hesse. i think you might really like the poisonwood bible, or white oleander. the latter of those especially.

as for the more modern, you could pick up some murakami (hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world), vonnegut (i'm reading breakfast of champions right now and it's lovely) or palahniuk (probably my favorite author, wrote Fight Club which is Excellent.) read Diary by palahniuk, excellently written and i think you'd find the plot really riveting (i don't know if you'll like the style or not --only one way to find out.)

you might also like beloved by toni morrison, and ayn rand is Incredibly interesting but takes a while to get through and you might not want to put up with it (but atlas shrugged is so gooddddddddd and the fountainhead is arguably even betterrrrrrr)

[jadedinoblivion]

to sum up: white oleander by janet fitch and diary by chuck palahniuk should both be read this summer. they are fairly short and summer-esque.

[jadedinoblivion]

p.s. i've read most of the books on your list and they are great choices. :)

[fafnir314]

Something by a Bronte. I liked Jane Eyre and I'm planning on reading Wuthering Heights this summer.

[fafnir314]

Graham Greene is good, too. The Power and the Glory is nice, but Monsignor Quixote is better.