summer reading list (2006)

Uncategorized — Katharine Beutner on 8 May 2006 at 1:51 pm

Read:

  1. Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue
  2. Life Mask, Emma Donoghue
  3. The Crimson Petal & the White, Michel Faber
  4. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (re-read)
  5. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
  6. A Conspiracy of Paper, David Liss
  7. The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos
  8. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
  9. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  10. Kalpa Imperial, Angélica Gorodischer (transl. Ursula K. Le Guin)
  11. The Mount, Carol Emshwiller
  12. My Life in France, Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme
  13. Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
  14. Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, Alice Munro
  15. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
  16. Negotiating with the Dead, Margaret Atwood (abandoned halfway through; not as interesting as I’d hoped)
  17. A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
  18. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
  19. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  20. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
  21. How to Suppress Women’s Writing, Joanna Russ
  22. Life of Johnson, James Boswell (re-read and finish)
  23. The Mrs. Dalloway Reader, ed. Francine Prose
  24. The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf

To be read:

    • Sermons, Samuel Johnson
    • The Rambler, Samuel Johnson
    • Bleak House, Charles Dickens
    • Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
    • (more) A. S. Byatt
    • The Waves, Virginia Woolf
    • Maurice, E. M. Forster
    • Iris Murdoch
    • Nadine Gordimer
    • A Feeling for Books: the Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire, Janice Radway
    • Flying in Place, Susan Palwick
    • The Virtu, Sarah Monette
    • Pictures and Tears, James Elkins
    • Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
    • The Carpet Makers, Andreas Eschbach
    • The Mysteries of Udolpho, Anne Radcliffe
    • The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
    • C. J. Cherryh
    • Francine Prose
    • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
    • Night Watch, Sarah Waters
    • The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow

    (Authors without specified titles mean that I haven’t read any of their work and am not sure where to begin — so suggestions are welcome.)

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