I will ready just about anything; I read YA fiction, narrative non-fiction, novels (of all varieties), short stories, graphic novels, comic books, essays, ceral boxes, lables on shampoo, and the mta website.
Here is the MASTER LIST
Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke
The Geek Mafia (1-3) by Rick Dakan
Open to Desire by Mark Epstein
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Pashazade by Jon Courtney Grimwood
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
League of Extraordinary Gentleman by Alan Moore
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
Emptiness Dancing by Adyashanti
Any book of poetry by Mary Oliver.
Tai-Pan by James Clavell
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
1000 Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
My Year of Meat by Ruth L. Ozek
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Mechanization takes command by Sigfried Gideon
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquive
Enigma by Robert Harris
Race Matters by Cornel West
Magic Mountain by Th Mann
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Madame Bovary by Flaubert
The Omnivores Dilema by Michale Pollan
No Logo by Klein.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisah Pessl
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Manned Missiles by Kurt Vonnegut
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Of Human Bondage William Somerset Maugham
Great Expectations (this was on twice)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Eon by Alison Goodman
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The London Eye by Siobhan Dowd
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Beggar King and The Secret of Happiness by Joel ben Izzy
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
September 7, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Dylan,
I am the friend of your Mom and Dad’s who currently lives in the Virgin Islands. Anyway, now that I don’t work for a living, I mostly read. I just finished Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and guess I missed the point. Have you ever read it? I am puzzled why it’s thought to be such a great book.
Margaret
September 8, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Margaret, you didn’t miss anything.
I read On the Road my senior year of high school, right before I left for college. I thought it’d be the perfect time to read Kerouac. You know get into the spirit of freedom. I finished the book with the same question.
The way he wrote about his travel made him sound arrogant and glib. He was speeding back and forth across the country without taking the time to explore where he was. He rarely comes up with anything insightful to say about where he is or what he’s doing. And the women in the book are totally disposable.
I’m open to hearing about why the book is important, and considered a classic from the Beat generation. But in my opinion, Kerouac is missing the observations and insights to qualify him as a great writer.
January 3, 2009 at 4:52 am
There is a new author (Alikzandria James)that has come up (her book is only available online as of right now) called MilkyMay Mooberry’s Amazing Adventures: Marauders a’la Mode. It is a GREAT book. You should check it out. A friend turned me on to it. She is supposed to be writing a series of adventures. I hope the next one will be much longer! You can find it at www2.xlibris.com