THE LIBRARY

Do You Read?

Here of some of my Recommendations:
FICTION
Aldous Huxley:
   Brave New World  
Harper Lee: 
   To Kill a Mockingbird
George Orwell: 
   Down and Out in Paris and London
   Homage to Catalonia
   1984 
Jeanette Winterson:  
   The Passion
E.M. Forster: 
   Maurice
   A Room with a View
Oscar Wilde: 
   The Picture of Dorian Gray
Anais Nin:  
   Her diaries, essays, letters to Henry Miller, and erotica
Virginia Woolf:  
   Orlando
   A Room of One's Own
Jane Austin: 
   Northanger Abbey
   Persuasion
   Sense and Sensibility
Mark Twain:
   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
   A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Kurt Vonnegut: 
   Slaughterhouse 5
Gertrude Stein:
   The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolklas and other writings
T.H. White:
   The Once and Future King

SOME POETS:
Ovid: The Loves (Ars Amoratia)
Catullus: Poems (how come we never got to read the good
 stuff when I took Latin?)
Gertrude Stein
Hugo Ball and the Dadaist Poets
F.T. Marienetti and the Futurists


SHORT STORIES:
Oscar Wilde: The Sphynx without a Secret, etc.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anais Nin
E.M. Forster
Shirley Jackson: The Lottery
SOME PLAYS:
A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare
6 Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

KIDS BOOKS WHICH ARE STILL AWESOME TO READ 
Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles:
   The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
   Black Hearts in Battersea
   Nightbirds on Nantucket, etc...
Louise Fitzhugh
   Harriet the Spy
   The Long Secret
   Sport
Mary MacDonald
   Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
   (Read her memoirs: The Egg and I and Onions in the Stew for an
     unbalievable and hilarious account of rural American life in the 40's)
Astrid Lindgreen
   Pippy Longstocking series

NON FICTION: 
Studs Terkel:
   Working
   Other essays and interviews
Hans Richter:
   Dada
Hugo Ball:
   Flucht aus Die Zeit (Flight out of Time)
E.B. White:
   Here is New York, and other essays
Paul Fussell:  Writes terribly, but has teriffic ideas on 
American class.
   Class
   Bad, the Dumbing of America
Mark Twain:
   Essays
Vasari:
   Lives of the Artists
Betty Friedan: Feminist Handbook
   The Feminine Mystique
Simone de Beauvoir:
   The Second Sex
Mary Daly: I'm interested in her deconstruction of Language, 
and it's always fun to read radical seperatist feminist texts.
   Gyn/Ecology
Slavenka Drakulic:
   Balkan Express
   How We Survuved Communism and Even Laughed
Francine du Plessix Grey
   Soviet Women, Walking the Tightrope