And now that I have a commute that's an hour each way, I have a lot more free time in which to do that. Summer is typically when I get the bulk of my leisurely reading done (since I don't have to read for classes- woohoo!), and I've made quite a list for myself this year. I've taken suggestions from friends, best-new-fiction lists, and other assorted sources. Hopefully I'll be able to get them all at Bobst, so I don't have to buy them!
So here's my list (the starred books are ones that I've finished):
- Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides*
- Atonement by Ian McEwan*
- A Member of the Family by Susan Merrell*
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen*
- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke
- Unaccustomed Earth by Juhmpa Lahiri
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
- Runaway by Alice Munro
- Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro*
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson*
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
I'm also trying to read some of the classics that I've never gotten through for one reason or another, including:
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov*
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley*
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood*
Any more suggestions?
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