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tknowlton's "2009 Reading List"

40 Books I intend to read in 2009
1. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
  
2. Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
3. Anton Chekov's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  
4. Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
by Jonathan Swift
  
5. The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
by John Bunyan
  
6. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
7. The Music of Chance
by Paul Auster
  
9. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
by Jose Saramago
  
10. Ethan Frome (Enriched Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
11. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
by Jeanette Winterson
  
12. Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
  
13. Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
14. Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
  
15. Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
by Ovid
  
16. Drown
by Junot Diaz
  
17. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold  
18. All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
  
19. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
20. The Blind Assassin: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
21. Atonement
by Ian McEwan
  
22. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
23. The Assistant: A Novel
by Bernard Malamud
  
24. I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International)
by Robert Graves
  
25. Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
  
26. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
27. The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
28. Père Goriot (Norton Critical Editions)
by Honoré de Balzac
  
29. The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
30. The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas
  
31. Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Wallace Stegner
  
32. Loving; Living; Party Going (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Henry Green
  
33. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
  
34. Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
  
35. Up in the Old Hotel
by Joseph Mitchell
  
36. V. (Perennial Classics)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
37. Claude Debussy (20th Century Composers)
by Paul Roberts
  
38. Complete Idiot's Guide to European History (Complete Idiot's Guide to)
by Nathan Barber
  
39. Sviatoslav Richter : Notebooks and Conversations
by Bruno Monsaingeon
  
40. Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training
by Karen Pryor
  
41. The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by Leonard Bernstein
  
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Created by tknowlton on Jun 17, 2008.