Well, summer is finally here! That’s right, Spring semester is over, and that means four long months of writing. This also means four months jam packed full of reading, too! While my opinion of reading in the creative writing classroom is mixed (more on that in a following post), I’m a firm believer in the idea and practice of a writer supplementing his/her arduous work with lots and lots of reading. Case in point: I present to you my summer reading list! I haven’t read any of these yet - much to my own shame, since many of them are considered old and modern classics in respective circles. I’m looking forward to reading each and every one of these.
In no particular order:
Maggie: A Girl in the Streets - Stephen Crane
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Heart of Darkness and Other Stories - Joseph Conrad
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrative of the LIfe of Fredrick Douglass - Fredrick Douglass
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
1984 - George Orwell
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
One Foot in Eden - Ron Rash
Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
What are my fellow writers reading over the summer?
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lifeworldsanddreamscapes answered:
An amazing summer awaits you, obviously!
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allsicklike answered:
glad you got the brains cuz
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