50 Book Challenge

[suspectclass]

All right, here we go. Though I've been on a reading spree, I haven't actually read a book since the new year began. I am going to take the 50 book challenge and wean myself off of the succubus TV. My first selections are below (as they are already checked out of the library):

1. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
2. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
3. On Illness by Virginia Woolf
4. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
5. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Taking suggestions.

Comments

[bastardpirate.livejournal.com]

haruki murakami - the elephant vanishes
harry mathews - my life in CIA
paul auster - city of glass
jhumpa lahiri - interpreter of maladies
many more if you need them...

[una-sorella.livejournal.com]

ooh, "written on the body" is so gorgeous.

my suggestions:
"why we can't wait" by dr. ml king. very much worth reading if you haven't already.
"forever" pete hamill
"bonfire of the vanities" tom wolfe
jodi picoult is also an interesting writer. well-written mass-market fiction, usually dealing with controversial themes. worth checking out.

[rexlezard.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

All four of Ivan Coyote's, including hir novel Bow Grip, and three collections of short stories.

JW: Oranges are not the only fruit, if you haven't read it.

Audre Lorde, Zami.

Jackie Kay, Trumpet.

Jamison Green's Becoming a Visible Man (Non fiction)

Wait - do you only want fiction? Because if you want non-fiction, that's my area.

Eli Clare, Exile & Pride (not fiction, but it's poetic)

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the city, Babycakes, all the rest. Anything by him.

Peter McGehee - Boys Like Us, Sweetheart, (with David Wilson, I think)Labour of Love (trilogy, in that order, if you like Maupin, you'll like these.)

[peppermintink.livejournal.com]

anything by jeanette winterson (my personal favs are sexing the cherry, the passion, and written on the body.) & the night watch by sarah waters.

[solidbreakdown.livejournal.com]

have you read alison bechdel's "fun home"? i loved it.

seconding pickles on all of the jw. (her favorites are actually mine, too.)

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

Oh of course! It lived by my bed for a month. I thought of the JW in part because of you. I also want to go read Carol Ann Duffy's collections.