If anyone wants to donate a Barnes & Noble to me, that' d be great. My to-read list:
Return of the King - JRR Tolkien
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo A. Anaya
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
A Room With a View - EM Forster
Some anthology of William Butler Yeats's poetry
Sagas of the Icelanders
The Agricola and the Germania - Tacitus
Das Nibelungenlied
Volsunga Saga
Njal's Saga
Kalevala
And because I'm not bankrupt quite yet, any recommendations? What is everyone reading?
Also, if anyone really wants the behemoth that is the Mists of Avalon and its sequels (The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, Priestess of Avalon) by Marion Zimmer Bradley, come take mine off my hands. I only recently realized what a fluffy crock they are. In a spurt of New Year's Cleaning mood, I've been going through my library and pulling out everything I don't want, and so far I have a 15 lb pile of wiccan pipe dreams destined for Half Price Books.
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You've got some good ones on your list! I really liked A Room with a View and I read Jacob's Room at some point, although I can't remember much about it.
ReplyDeleteI just bought 38 new novels/plays for this semester of school, and I'm really looking forward to reading some of them!
I have been adding a lot of random novels/plays to my favorites list lately, but I'll spare you of my usuals. Here are some not so popular novels/plays that I have really enjoyed:
A Doll House - Henrik Ibsen
Ghost - Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
Jubilee - Margaret Walker
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
Arsenic and Old Lace - Kesselring
Brighton Beach Memoirs - Neil Simon
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Contrast - Royall Tyler
Charlotte Temple - Susanna Rowson
There are tons more too, but those just happened to come to mind off the top of my head.
I read The Hobbit a while back and will be starting The Fellowship of the Ring tonight or tomorrow. Very exciting.
ReplyDeleteHere is my current book list. It's long, I will warn you. And just ignore my secret symbols:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfw744tf_6x2bshsd5&hl=en
My biggest recommendation is finding a good used bookstore or getting a library card. Read em all.
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