Christopher's "Books to contemplate the weight of being"

Add to my lists | Print this list

I am discovering that alchemy and weight and lightness are not so very different.

  1. 1.
    A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Rohinton Mistry

  2. 2.
    Power of One
    by Bryce Courtenay

  3. 3.
    The Stone Diaries
    by Carol Shields

  4. 4.
    The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Clarice Lispector

  5. 5.
    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago

  6. 6.
    Kim (Penguin Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

  7. 7.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

  8. 8.
    The Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

  9. 9.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton

  10. 10.
    I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
    by Rigoberta Menchú

  11. 11.
    So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)
    by Mariama Ba

  12. 12.

  13. 13.
    Encyclopaedia of Snow
    by Sarah Emily Miano

  14. 14.
    Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell

  15. 15.
    The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
    by Fernando Pessoa

  16. 16.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
    by Salman Rushdie

  17. 17.
    The I Ching or Book of Changes

  18. 18.
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy

  19. 19.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  20. 20.
    Autobiography of Red
    by Anne Carson

  21. 21.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  22. 22.
    The Inheritance of Loss
    by Kiran Desai

This is Christopher's list. Only Christopher can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by Christopher on Mar 17, 2006.
 

Comments

Untitled — 5 years ago

This list is dedicated to the recently-departed Namelessgirl.




or
Login with Facebook