Behold, my summer reading list (FICTION only). Those in bold at the bottom have already been read/re-read or reviewed at some point within this past year. If you have a suggestion, a novel I've overlooked, please feel free to remind me.
Recommended authors have a * by them!
George Elliot*, Middlemarch - in process
Douglas Adams, The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Ted Dekkar*, Thr3e
John Grisham, The Runaway Jury
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (re-read)
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Sandi Layne, Garrison's Girl
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsong
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Amanda Quick, Mistress (and several others interspersed for comic relief)
Francine Rivers*, The Scarlet Thread
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Frank Peretti*, Visitation; House; This Present Darkness (re-read)
Ayn Rand, Anthem (re-read)
Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Virginia Woolf , To the Lighthouse (re-read)
Richard Wright, Native Son
Paul Zindel, The Pigman
Already read or reviewed :
Jane Austen*, Emma; Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion; Northanger Abbey
Jeremy Bentham, PANOPTICON
Beowulf
Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Henrik Ibsen, Doll's House
C.S. Lewis*, The Four Loves; The Great Divorce
Lois Lowry*, The Giver
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Toni Morrison, Sula
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Gary Paulsen*, Dogsong
Frank Peretti*, Monster
William Shakespeare*, The Tempest
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
J. R. R. Tolkien*, The Hobbit & the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Thornton Wilder, Our Town
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iguana
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
OK ... time to get back to Miss Brooke! lol
~ B
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