FICTION & NONFICTION RECOMMENDATIONS

Fiction

19th Century Classics

1. Bronte, Jane Eyre
2. Stendahl, The Red and The Black
3. Eliot, Middlemarch (counts as two)
4. Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (counts as two)
5. Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
6. Flaubert, Madame Bovary
7. Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged edition)
8. Bronte, Wuthering Heights
9. Zola, Germinal
10. Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

20th Century Classics

1. Chopin, The Awakening
2. Kafka, The Trial
3. Kafka, The Castle
4. Nabokov, Lolita
5. Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
6. Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
7. Allende, The House of the Spirits
8. Banks, Rule of the Bone
9. Rushdie, Midnight's Children
10. Erdrich, Tracks
11. Kogawa, Obasan
12. Saramago, Blindness
13. Proulx, Shipping News
14. McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
15. Doctorow, Ragtime
16. O'Brien, Going After Cacciato

Non-Fiction


Capote, In Cold Blood

Carson, Silent Spring

Chatwin, Songlines

Conover, Coyotes

Crick, Watson, The Double Helix

De Beauvior, The Second Sex

Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Dinesen, Out of Africa

DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

Eiseley, The Immense Journey

Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Junger, The Perfect Storm

Krakauer, Into Thin Air

Lamott, Bird by Bird

Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind

Thomas, The Lives of a Cell

Thoreau, Walden

Walker, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

Wolfe, The Right Stuff

Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Yen Mah, Fallen Leaves