Courtney made the lovely suggestion of each of us putting up our 5-10 favourite books. A little intro to each of our reading habits I suppose. So put your comments below. I'll start thinking on mine...
Margaret Laurence- The Diviners Joseph Heller- Catch 22 John Steinbeck- East of Eden Carson McCullers- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Roald Dahl- Matilda
BTW I am happy to see some familiar names on other people's lists.
@Jess: I heard so much about "Catch 22" but can never get "into it" enough to keep reading (mind you I only read 5 first pages)
@Court: I really liked Kundera (I read it in Russian several years ago) and Mistry. Tom Robbins and Margaret Atwood and "Middlesex" are on my "to read" list.
Since I'm looking for any excuse to avoid studying, I'll start. These are probably my top 10 at the moment.
ReplyDeleteMilan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Dave Eggers
What is the What?
How we are Hungry! (short stories)
Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake
The Robber Bride
Camilla Gibb
Sweetness in the Belly
Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance
Irène Némirovsky
Suite Française
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
Margaret Laurence- The Diviners
ReplyDeleteJoseph Heller- Catch 22
John Steinbeck- East of Eden
Carson McCullers- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Roald Dahl- Matilda
John Steinbeck - pretty much anything and everything. He is probably my favorite writer at this point.
ReplyDeleteRobertson Davies - The Salterton Trilogy, The Deptford Trilogy
Peter Hoeg - "Smilla's sense of snow", "Borderliners"
Joanne Harris - most of her works (I consider it a lighter reading)
Ian McEwan - I only read "On Chesil Beach" but can't wait to read more of him.
Jennifer Johnston - "Two Moons", "Shadows on our skin"
Anna
BTW I am happy to see some familiar names on other people's lists.
ReplyDelete@Jess: I heard so much about "Catch 22" but can never get "into it" enough to keep reading (mind you I only read 5 first pages)
@Court: I really liked Kundera (I read it in Russian several years ago) and Mistry. Tom Robbins and Margaret Atwood and "Middlesex" are on my "to read" list.
Here's my list! :)
ReplyDeleteCharlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Timothy Findley - The Wars
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
Ann Marie Macdonald - The Way the Crow Flies
Jonathan Safran Foer - Exremely Loud and Incredibly Close
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
E.L. Doctrow - Ragtime
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Any collection of short stories by Alice Munro
Wow. So many titles I haven't even heard of!
ReplyDeleteA few of my favorite fiction books:
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Samuel Beckett - L'innommable -- although not a leisurely read...
Gaétan Soucy - La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
Conan Doyle - Any Sherlock Holmes adventure!