22 April 2011

Books to Read

First off let me say that I have no idea why I am still awake.  It's 3:35.  It might be because the scary movie I just watched (Exorcism of Emily Rose) shocked my senses to a point of total alertness.  But besides that there is no other explanation..  I've been working on this list for a long time but up until very recently I've decided to put it to paper (so to speak).  A couple of these books I was forced to read in school but either stopped reading after I had all the questions answered or did a very poor job of grasping the material so I put them back on the List.  The list is in no particular order, Although I think I'll start with The Invisible Man because I have that in my possession.

So with out further adieu:


Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms
Irving – The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
C.S. Lewis – Chronicles of Narnia
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Richard Ford - The Sportswriter
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Philip K. Dick - Ubik
James AgeeA Death in the Family
Saul Bellow - Herzog
James Joyce – Ulysses, The Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnigan’s Wake
Dickens – Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishent
Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tolstoy – War and Peace
Martin Luther King Jr. - Why We can’t Wait 

So there ya have it folks.  Feel free to add on to the list but bear in mind I'll have my hands full, especially when I get to Joyce.  But I figure I have till I'm dead to finish these so who really knows how far I'll get.



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