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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Mortimer Adler

 

 

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A woman who reads, writes, listens, and likes to sit back and watch.  Mine is the alternative bird's-eye view from the Midwest.

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Before Modern/Pre-Modern:

Don Quixote: Cervantes

Evelina: Burney

Pride and Prejudice: Austin

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Stowe

Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky

Modern/Post Modern:

Collected Stories: Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Hurston

As I Lay Dying: Faulkner

To Kill a Mockingbird: Lee

The Old Forest and Other Stories: Taylor

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Marquez

The Tin Drum: Grass

The Astronomer: Betts

Monkeys: Minot

Love Medicine: Erdrich

Liar's Club: a Memoir: Karr

THe Woman Warrior: Kingston

Beloved: Morrison

Midnight's Children: Rushdie

The Kitchen God's Wife: Tan

Critical/Theory

One Writer's Beginning: Welty

Fiction and the Figures of Life: Gass

The Art of Fiction: Gardner

Writing Fiction: Burroway

The Common Reader: Woolf

Electives

The Poisonwood Bible: Kingsolver

The House of the Spirits: Allende

The House on Mango Street: Cisneros

The Golden Apples: Welty

Gorilla, My Love: Bambara