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1 at This Point in Your Life, What Would You Say Are Some of Your Alltime At this point in your life, what would you say are some of your all­time favorite books or stories? To The Wedding ­ John Berger On a Winter's Night A Traveler ­ Italo Calvino I've enjoyed and learned from far too many books and stories to list a limited number of favorites. 'The Shipping News' 'The Handmaid's Tale' Ann Beattie's short stories My all­time favorite books right now are children's books, which I'm rediscovering as I read them to my two­ year­old. 'Pilgermann' by Russell Hoban 'Riddley Walker' by Russell Hoban 'Gormenghast', 'Titus Groan' and 'Titus Alone' by Mervyn Peake 'London Fields' by Martin Amis Can't have 'all­time' favorite. I am a work in progress and enjoy many stories, fiction, non­fiction, short stories, etc. I can relate to, depending on my current consciousness. A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin Still Life by A.S. Byatt Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag The Bone People by Keri Hulme Anna Karenina, The Red and The Black, Moby Dick, Benito Cereno, Farewell to Arms, Typhoon, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness The Haunting by Shirley Jackson Dubliners by James Joyce Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is my favorite, along with 'A Painted House' and 'The Lost Boys' Howard’s End, Passage to India (Forster), The Keep (Egan), ANything by Ian McEwan, Last Orders by Graham Swift, Stories by Carver, Stories by Peter Taylor, Stories by Alice Munro Hard­Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Hocus­ Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut Karate is a Thing of the Spirit by Harry Crews A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews Provinces of Night by William Gay Smonk by Tom Franklin Calvino, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT Jose Saramago, BLINDNESS Fielding, TOM JONES Dante, Divine Comedy Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The African Queen To Kill a Mockingbird any Hornblower any Jack Aubrey 'She's Come Undone' by Wally Lamb 'Second Glance' and 'My Sister's Keeper' by Jodi Picoult 'The Summer of Ordinary Ways' by Nicole Lea Helget Anything by Faulkner, Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Charles Baxter, Amy Hempel, Marjorie Sandor. A huge number of Hemingway and Fitzgerald stories are essentials. You read all that when you're just a 21 year old kid, as I am, and you learn plenty. About people, about writing, and ambitions of being a writer. They've become old friends. Anna Karenina Mrs. Dalloway Somerset Maugham Short Stories all Alice Munro Time Will Darken It, The Chateau, by Wm. Maxwell Nine Gates, Jane Hirschfield The Niagara River, Kay Ryan Virginia Woolf's Writer's Diaries A River Runs Through It etc. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Once and Future King by T.H. White The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Contempt of Court by Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips Confederacy of Dunces, O'Toole A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Cowboys Are My Weakness (short stories by Pam Houston) Just about anything by Sujata Massey though the copy editing is atrocious! Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman Capote In Cold Blood, Capote san mcdonald, [email protected], nashville brave new world, blameless in abaddon, lincoln reconsidered, in the penal colony I re­read Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams every year or two, and now Janet Fitch's Paint It Black is on the shelf next to it waiting to be re­read. Raymond Carver's early short stories are also on my list of all­time favorites. Caren Cote, Portland, OR 'Memories of Old Jack,' 'The Great Gatsby,' 'Of Time and the River,' 'The Road,' 'All the Pretty Horses,' 'Freaky Deaky,' 'Bartleby the Scrivener,' and 'The Cask of Amontillado.' A Prayer for Owen Meanie Pride and Prejudice Charlotte's Web A Wrinkle in Time Anna Karenina Chekov's The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters 'Love in the Ruins' ­ Walker Percy 'Living to Tell the Tale' ­ Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'Maurice' ­ E.M. Forster 'A Pale View of Hills' ­ Kazuo Ishiguro 'Moral Disorder: and Other Stories' ­ Margaret Atwood 'The 1 Accidental' ­ Ali Smith 'All the King's Men' ­ Robert Penn Warren 'The Snare' ­ Elizabeth Spencer Teresa Tumminello Brader New Orleans Atlas Shrugged Elmer Gantry Kate Vaiden Straight Man by Richard Russo The Risk Pool by Richard Russo Money by Martin Amis Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Catcher in the Rye A Separate Peace The Great Gatsby Of Mice and Men Hamlet 'The Raft' by Peter Orner 'The Hand' by Benjamin Percy 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver A Prayer For Owen Meany Stories: Anything by Alice Munro but especially 'Carried Away.' Novels: The late books by Philip Roth. The Demons, Heimito von Doderer The Holy Land, Par Lagerkvist The Awakening Land (trilogy), Conrad Richter I read some 75 books a year, not including periodicals. It's hard to say. So many are favorites. Catcher in the Rye Pirandello's Short stories The Great Gatsby, The Old Man and the Sea, Back Roads I loved John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces. Maybe because it was the first book I read that I felt was so different from everything else. Maybe the tragedy of his death played a part; I don't think so, but maybe. I also love Flannery O'Connor, and especially A Good Man is Hard to Find... Short stories * The Doctor's Son by John O'Hara * Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway Novels * Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather * The Great Gatsby by D. Scott Fitzgerald (It really is as good as it's reputed to be) I would say that, at this juncture, I've found historical fiction and non­fiction to be my favorites. Barbara Taubman wrote an excellent book about life in the Middle Ages; Robert Rutherford wrote excellent historical fiction, covering two different parts of England and Russia; Larry McMurtry and some of his stuff. Time Life books came out with an excellent 30+volume set on the The Civil War. George B. Miller, Jr. Newington, CT The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Jackson Gap Creek by Morgan One Foot in Eden by Rash Before Women Had Wings by Fowler The Shining by King The Road by McCarthy Becoming Madame Mao by Min The Joy Luck Club by Tan these are just some of them : ) Tolkien's Middle Earth stories, nearly all of Terry Pratchett's Disc World stories, Jan Karon's Mitford series. The Wonderful Country, by Tom Lea; The Dancers Dancing, Eilis ni Dhuibne; Star of the Sea, Joe O'Connor; Gentian Hill, Elizaeth Goudge; Libra, Don de Lillo; The Jane Austen Book Club... The Lord of the Rings Harry Potter Jane Austen ­ all of it Anything about King Arthur To Kill a Mockingbird, No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Jane Eyre, all the Spenser books of Robert Parker, all the Donna Leon mysteries in Venice, The Bible, David Copperfield, Bird by Bird, On Writing, Liar's Club, Angela's Ashes, Tis, Teacher Man........ the unbearable lightness of being, lolita, written on the body (jeanette winterson), the bone people (keri hulme), any of t.c. boyle's short stories. just to name a few. Moby Dick Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey) All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) Mama Day (Gloria Naylor) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' by Samuel Clemens; Ethan Fromme by Edith Wharton; Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; A Light in August by William Faulkner;The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago; and many more too numerous to mention! 'Gone with the Wind,' Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner, Anything by Larry Brown or Bill Cobb or Cassandra King. Ninety Two in the Shade ­ Thomas McGuane Panama ­ Thomas McGuane The Sun Also Rises ­ Ernest Hemingway The Great Gatsby ­ F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Jones Street ­ Don DeLillo Farmer ­ Jim Harrison One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ­ Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion ­ Kesey Dog Soldiers ­ Robert Stone Play It As It Lays ­ Joan Didion October in the Railroad Earth ­ Jack Kerouac Absalom Absalom ­ William Faulkner The Moviegoer ­ Walker Percy V. Thomas Pynchon The Catcher in the Rye ­ J.D. Salinger The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth The Meadow ­ James Galvin A bunch of others 2 I think different books coincide with different phases of life. The books listed above go with my current phase. In high school and college, I especially liked Vonnegut, Heller, and John Irving. When I was a kid I liked Tolkein, Madelaine L' Engle, and C.S. Lewis. I won't name all the books, but you could probably guess. complete works of Flannery O'Connor, everything (almost) Faulkner, Capote (pre­Cold Blood), 'Brideshead Revisited', 'Why I Live at the PO', Salinger (gosh, this is so twentieth century) I am sure I will think of other things after I click done. 'Blood Meridien' Portrait of a Lady Henry James poetry by Wislawa Szymborka, Adam Zagajewski, Emily Dickenson, John Donne Works of Albert Camus. Also Pasternak, Sartre, Bapsi Sidhwa's Water, Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, and Man Unknown by Alexis Carrel and of course, Vedanta literature Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Howard Norman, 'The Bird Artist' Virginia Woolf, 'To the Lighthouse' Denis Johnson, 'Jesus's Son' Italo Calvino, 'Invisible Cities' Craig Nova, 'The Good Son' Aimee Bender, 'Girl in the Flammable Skirt' REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier PAPILLION by Henri Charriere THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY by Henry james GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell MY COUSIN RACHEL by Daphne du Maurier JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte THE ONION FIELD by Joseph Wambaugh GLIMMER TRAIN OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M.
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