Infamous Ian's Must-Reads:
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote (Favorite)
Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick (JUST read this, love it)
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffengger
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Piccoult
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (Start with this one, changed my life)
Infamous Ian's Need-to-Reads:
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
1984, George Orwell (How have I not read this one yet?)
Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
I'm on a new "Let's read literature so that I know what I'm talking about in my fiction workshop classes and I don't turn into a hypocrite." I love classic literature and I love realism and I love plots that are utterly depressing--it's what I read, it's what I write. If anybody has any good ideas for something I should read, please message me!
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ReplyDeleteI think every book you mentioned is on there! Have fun reading!!!
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A brand new book to me is The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier. I was messaged by my cooperating teacher for student teaching about this book. It's awesome. It's a quick read but very complex. It reminds me of Orwell's Animal Farm, and my teacher is pairing it with Joseph Heller's Catch-22. I'm sure you'll never run out of books on your list, but just in case there are three. Do you ever post your writing; it sounds right up my alley. :)
ReplyDeleteI see that someone above me mentioned "Animal Farm," and I definitely recommend that. It's controversial, involving, a little creepy, and oddly hilarious at points--everything a classic should be. I would also push for "A Clockwork Orange"; the movie is pretty good, but the book really gets you into the protagonist's head, and the epilogue always gets left out of adaptations.
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