summer reading list (2006)
Read:
- Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue
- Life Mask, Emma Donoghue
- The Crimson Petal & the White, Michel Faber
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (re-read)
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
- A Conspiracy of Paper, David Liss
- The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos
- The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- Kalpa Imperial, Angélica Gorodischer (transl. Ursula K. Le Guin)
- The Mount, Carol Emshwiller
- My Life in France, Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme
- Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
- Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, Alice Munro
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
- Negotiating with the Dead, Margaret Atwood (abandoned halfway through; not as interesting as I’d hoped)
- A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
- Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
- How to Suppress Women’s Writing, Joanna Russ
- Life of Johnson, James Boswell (re-read and finish)
- The Mrs. Dalloway Reader, ed. Francine Prose
- 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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