My dear wonderful friend, PolCat, talked with me in earnest in December of 2006 and convinced me that it would be a good idea to make a list of books that I intend to read in the coming year. I don't have to be rigid about it. Just use it as a guideline and it will help focus my reading. Especially that I'm trying to write a story about a lesbian in the 50's in New York City. So you'll see this list has lots of books about New York City, working class people, lesbians, women, and books about the 40's and 50's. Plus, there are lots of other books mixed in for variety.
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Shame - Salman Rushdie
Prep: A Novel - Curtis Sittenfeld
Missing Men - Joyce Johnson
More Stories by Canadian Women - Edited by Rosemary Sullivan
Queerly Classed: Gay Men and Lesbians Write about Class - Edited by Susan Raffo
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
Proof a play - David Auburn
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
The Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
Longtitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession - Studs Terkel
Ellis Island Interviews: Immigrants and Their Stories In Their Own Words - Peter Morton Goan
Our Town -Thornton Wilder
All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913 - 1930 - Andrea Barnet
Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City - Jennifer Toth
Small Craft Advisory: A Book About the Building of a Boat - Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
New York Panorama: The Best of 1930’s New York, as seen by the Federal Writers’ Project -- Federal Writers’ Project
New York 365 Days - From the Photo Archives of The New York Times
Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture - Rick Beard and Leslie Cohen Berlowitz editors
The New York World’s Fair 1939/1940 in 155 Photographs by Richard Wurts and Others - Selection, Arrangement and Text by Stanley Applebaum
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Jazz - Toni Morrison
Call it Sleep -- Henry Roth [re-read]
You Can't Go Home Again - Thomas Wolfe
Underworld - Don Delillo
Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passo
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
Irish Writers on Writing - Edited by Eavan Boland
The Poems of Emily Dickinson - Edited by R.W. Franklin
This Year You Write Your Novel - Walter Mosley
Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West - Edited by Daniel Ladinsky
Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist - Walter Bernstein
The Irish Americans: The Immigrant Experience - William D. Griffin
Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century - Editor in Chief: Lorraine Glennon
This Fabulous Century, Vol. V 1940 to 1950 - Editors of Time-Life Books
This Fabulous Century, Vol. V 1950 to 1960 - Editors of Time-Life Books
New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance - Charlayne Hunter-Gault
The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945 - Harvey Green
To Prove My Blood: A Tale of Emigrations & the Afterlife - Philip Brady
The American Irish Revival - edited by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D.
The Portable Beat Reader - edited by Ann Charters
Letters on Literature and Politics 1912 - 1972 - Edmund Wilson; Selected and edited by Elena Wilson
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang - Joyce Carol Oates
Candyman - Simone Poirier-Bures
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist - Dorothy Day
Something in the Air - Marc Fisher
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America - Russell Shorto
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age - Amanda MacKenzie Stuart
On Doing Time - Morton Sobell
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. - Ron Chernov
Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, and Fugitive Cultures - John Leonard
Bronx Primitive: Portraits in Childhood - Kate Simon
Beneath the Naked Sun Poetry by Connie Fife
Riding in Cars with Boys - Beverly Donofrio
Story and Structure - Laurence Perrine
Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers - Carolyn See
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing - Margaret Atwood
The Gangs of New York - Herbert Asbury
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology - edited by Philip Lopate
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Them - Francine Prose
The Fate of Elephants - Doug Chadwick
Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled and edited by Howard Kissel (Applause Acting Series) (Hardcover)
by Howard Kissel, Stella Adler
The Road Past Altamont - Gabriel Roy
Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distractions, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life - Bonnie Friedman
James Joyce - Edna O'Brien
The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
The Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - John Grisham (nonfiction)
Meena: Heroine of Afghanistan - Melody Ermachild Chavis
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir - Vivian Gornick
(re-read)
American Hollow - Rory Kennedy
The Tree - John Fowles (text) and Frank Horvat (photographs)
Continues my obsession with trees
New York, New York : The City in Art and Literature [Hardcover]
By: Metropolitan Museum Art
Lucky Eyes and a High Heart: The Life of Maud Gonne - Nancy Cardozo
Up in the Old Hotel - Joseph Mitchell
Eamon DeValera - Tim Pat Coogan
Charming Billy - Alice McDermott
Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They're Really Saying - Michael Riera
Gods and Heroes of the Celts - Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
The Music Lesson - Katharine Weber
The Romance of American Communism - Vivian Gornick
Simple Living - Jose Hobday
Writing a Novel - Dorothy Bryant
The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
How to Write a Damn Good Novel - James Frey
The Echo Maker - Richard Powers
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
Memoir of a Race Traitor - Mab Segrest
Ireland: A Social, Cultural, and Literary History 1791 - 1891 - James H. Murphy
A Leg to Stand On - Oliver Sachs
R is for Richochet - Sue Grafton
The Burglar on the Prowl - Lawrence Block
Little Scarlet - Walter Mosley
Cinnamon Kiss - Walter Mosley
Like Sound Through Water: A Mother's Journey Through Auditory Processing Disorder - Karen J. Foli
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe - Thomas Cahill
The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence - Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
The Everything Guide to Writing a Novel - Joyce and Jim Lavene
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love - edited by Anne Fadiman
A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland - Rebecca Solnit
The Healing - Gayle Jones [re-reading]
The Empress of Ireland: A Chronicle of an Unusual Friendship - Christopher Robbins
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative - Vivian Gornick
Juno and the Paycock - Sean O'Casey
Plough and Stars - Sean O'Casey
Ireland: A Novel - Frank Delaney
Catholic Girls: Stories, Poems, and Memoirs - Edited by Amber Coverdale Sumrall and Patrice Vecchione
All Will Be Well: A Memoir - John McGahern
Grace Notes - Bernard MacLaverty [re-read]
Lamb - Bernard MacLaverty
Cal - Bernard MacLaverty
Tales from Bective Bridge - Mary Lavin
The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays - Martin McDonagh
The Cripple of Inishmaan - Martin McDonagh
Triptych and Iphegenia: Two Plays - Edna O'Brien
Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan - Phillip Lopate
The Irish: A Treasury of Art and Literature - Edited by Leslie Conron Carola
The Illustrated History of New York - Ric Burns and James Sanders, with Lisa Ades
The Transformation of Ireland - Diarmaid Ferriter
The Story of the Irish Race - Seumas MacManus
Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now - Helen Hayes and Anita Loos
Crown of Empire: The Story of New York State - Paul Eldridge
The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History - Edward Robb Ellis
The Fifties - David Halberstam
Working Class New York - Joshua B. Freeman
The Illustrated History of Canada - edited by Craig Brown
Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922 - 2002 - Terence Brown
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker - edited by David Remnick
We Too Are Drifting - Gale Wilhelm
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community - Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America - Lillian Faderman
The New York Irish - Edited by Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher
The New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century - Jed Perl
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga - Edward Rutherford
Saturday, January 5, 2008
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2 comments:
Ohmigod. Dollink! Diz iz great. You are the wonderfullest.
ur sekrit admirer
oh, gosh ... go on with ya.
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