Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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I work in publishing and I like to read things. Herewith: free association on books, nice things I ate, publishing, editing, and other nice things I ate.
Red means "read" (past tense)
1. Native Son, Richard Wright (04/19/09)
2. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon (11/30/09)
3. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
4. Watership Down, Richard Adams (09/20/10)
5. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow (03/12/10)
6. Middlemarch, George Eliot (06/12/09)
7. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (06/15/09)
8. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
9. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
10. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson (12/08/09)
11. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon (05/26/09)
12. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
13. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
14. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
16. House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
17. Persuasion, Jane Austen (01/10/11)
18. Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
19. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
20. Kindred, Octavia Butler (10/05/10)
21. Underworld, Don DeLillo
22. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
23. Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
24. Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham
25. Bless the Beasts and Children, Glendon Swarthout
26. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (05/06/09)
27. While I Was Gone, Sue Miller
28. American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld (04/09/09)
29. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. Horace, George Sand
31. Digging to America, Anne Tyler
32. Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (09/07/09)
33. War & Peace, Leo Tolstoy
34. East of Eden, John Steinbeck (03/24/11)
35. A Light in August, William Faulkner
36. The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer
37. The Good Terrorist, Doris Lessing
38. Memoirs of a Good Daughter, Simone DeBeauvoir
39. Carry On, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (01/02/10)
40. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong-Kingston (12/31/09)
41. Gotham, Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace
42. A Fable, William Faulkner
43. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
44. American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
45. Finnigan’s Wake, James Joyce
46. Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
47. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver (04/02/11)
48. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
49. The Plague, Albert Camus
50. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West (04/20/09)
51. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
52. Charming Billy, Alice McDermott (04/11/11)
53. Push, Sapphire (08/14/09)
54. Farming the Bones, Edwidge Danticat (12/27/11)
55. Silence, Shusaku Endo
56. Ulysses, James Joyce
57. Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima
58. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (04/18/11)
59. The Known World, Edward P. Jones (09/18/11)
60. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki (06/25/09)
61. The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot (04/08/09)
62. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (04/05/09)
63. My Antonia, Willa Cather (08/26/10)
64. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
65. The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende (01/29/10)
66. Herzog, Saul Bellow (02/19/10)
67. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
68. The Boat, Nam Le
69. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (08/09/11)
70. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
71. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (06/20/09)
72. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
73. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (04/28/09)
74. Possession, A.S. Byatt (10/30/10)
75. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
76. Housekeeping, Marilyn Robinson (03/20/10)
77. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
78. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami (05/05/11)
79. Runaway, Alice Munro
80. In America, Susan Sontag
81. The Stories of John Cheever
82. God’s War, Christopher Tyerman (10/30/10)
83. Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
84. A Model World, Michael Chabon (09/21/11)
85. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (07/21/09)
86. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos
87. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
88. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
89. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx (09/27/10)
90. The Book Borrower, Alice Mattison (04/04/09)
91. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
92. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (06/07/09)
93. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (04/15/11)
94. Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill (04/03/11)
95. Empire Falls, Richard Russo
96. Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier (03/30/09)
97. March, Geraldine Brooks
98. The Second Sex, Simone DeBeauvoir
99. Gilead, Marilyn Robinson
100. Werewolves in Their Youth, Michael Chabon (01/01/12)
Total: 45/100
13 comments:
Creation.
Vodka is nearly invisible. I'll take vodka.
froog!! i had NO IDEA you were one of us!!
Crap. Froog beat me to it.
How do you measure a year?
hmm, i would say either in sunsets or in cups of coffee. and you?
Well, I saw it once in Toronto years and years ago.
Another romantic disaster story for me: I queued all afternoon to get the tickets, and then got stood up by the girl I wanted to take to it because she'd been to it before with her recent ex and..... you know, that whole thing.
So, you can FedEx my vodka?
It's creation.
Viva la vie boheme!
In laughter mostly...occasionally in strife. :)
gasp, i dont think i can take much more bad news this week..
i'll need the postcode, of course. to send invisible vodka via invisible USPS.
i am SO TICKLED to discover my readership consists almost entirely of rentheads.
Full disclosure--I'm rather more a Les Miz-head. But Rent is definitely a fav.
I prefer Les Miz but I knew the answer too.
But to be honest, I prefer Ave Q and Spamalot!
Not-war. Heh, heh.
I saw it in Denver several years ago. I'm not sure if I preferred Les Mis or not -- kind of apples and oranges, I think.
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