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keep reading. I've read the following books -- I am open for suggestions for new ones

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Finished Jane Eyre and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 18 months ago

Jane Eyre was interesting and I didn’t want to put it down once I started it, but it’s really not my kind of reading. I did like the part about the mad woman in the attic. I identified with Kesey’s novel more. So sad, but so bitterly true. When a person sees all the sadness and suffering of humanity, it drives one mad. It’s amazing how most people just blithely obliviously go along with their own lives and ignore the suffering of others. I guess ignorance is really bliss. “Little pink houses for you and me.”

Perhaps, the answer is to not let the suffering and sadness that permeates the human condition get one down. Perhaps, all one can do is help wherever and whenever possible. However, sometimes it all seems so hopeless and mad.



I started Jane Eyre. So far, so good. One of my students read it, and ... 19 months ago

she said she hated the book. I didn’t think I’d like it, but so far I do.



Short stories I want to read: 21 months ago

Nine Billion Names for God – Arthur C. Clarke



Books I want to read once I've read more of my TBR books. 22 months ago

Authors:

Diane Ackerman

David McCullough

Books:

All Families are Psychotic – Douglas Coupland

Annals of the Former World

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water – Marc Reisner

Chaos: Making a New Science – James Gleick

Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture – Douglas Coupland

Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell

Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy.

Living My Life (Penguin Classics)

Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present – Howard Zinn

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist – Sasha Berkman

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)- Richard Feynman.

The Courage to Be – Paul Tillich

The Dubliners – James Joyce

The Jane Austen Book Club

The Journey to the East and Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse

The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken – Laura Schenone

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

The Planets – Dava Sobel

The Power of Stillness – Tobin Blake

The Stranger – Albert Camus

The Thirteenth Tale

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time -

Undoing Perpetual Stress – Richard O’Connor

War of Art

The other two Lois Lowry books in the Giver trilogy.



Books I've read --- I would love to have suggestions from other people for new ones to read 2 years ago

A Room Of One’s Own – Virgina Woolf

A Separate Peace – John Knowles

A Sentimenal Journey – Laurence Sterne

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

All’s Well That Ends Well – William Shakespeare

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson – Louise Rennison

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Antigone – Sophocles

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

Bartleby the Scrivener – Herman Melville

Benito Cereno – Herman Melville

Bless Me Ultima – Rudolfo Anaya

Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson

Candide – Voltaire

Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World – Mark Kurlansky

Dead Men Tapping: The End of the Heather Lynne II – Kate Yeomans

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Anne Tyler

Dust of the Desert – Jack Weadock (my greatuncle)

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Fear of Flying – Erica Jong

Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes

Franny and Zoey – J.D. Salinger

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Ghost Soldiers -

Go Ask Alice – Anonymous

God is Red – Vine Deloria

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared M. Diamond

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Heidi – Johanna Spyri

Hiroshima – John Hersey

House Made of Dawn – N. Scott Momaday

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez – Richard Rodriguez

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

King Lear – William Shakespeare

Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel

Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

Love Medicine – Louise Erdich

Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass

Night – Elie Wiesel

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

Paradise Lost – John Milton

Oedipus Rex – Sophocles

Oedipus at Colunus – Sophocles

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

On the Road – Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

Othello – William Shakespeare

Our Town – Thornton Wilder

Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded – Samuel Richardson

Pudd’Nhead Wilson – Mark Twain

Riding Between the Worlds – Linda Kohanov

Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

Romiette and Julio – Sharon Draper and Adam Lowenbein

Sherlock Holmes (All of the Adventures)- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

So Big – Edna Ferber

Son of the Black Stallion – Walter Farley

Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy – Jostein Gaarder

Soul on Ice – Eldridge Cleaver

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

The Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Art of War – Sun-tzu

The Autobiography of Malcolm X – as told to Alex Haley

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

The Bhagavad Gita – Anonymous

The Black Stallion – Walter Farley

The Black Stallion’s Blood Bay Colt – Walter Farley

The Book of Lamentations – Rosario Castellanos

The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder

The Country of the Pointed Firs – Sarah Orne Jewett

The Crucible – Arthur Miller

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman -

The Devil’s Highway – Luis Alberto Urrea

The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom

The Giver – Lois Lowry

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Green Mile – Stephen King

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

The Killer Angels – Micheal Shaara

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt

The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Oresteia – Aeschylus

The Odyssey – Homer

The Pearl – John Steinbeck

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran

The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich – William L. Shirer

The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher

The Scarlett Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Tale of Genji – Lady Murasaki

The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare

The Tempest – William Shakespeare

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

The Third Deadly Sin – Lawrence Sanders

The Tortilla Curtain – T.C. Boyle

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

Titus Andronicus – William Shakespeare

To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee

To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

Tristam Shandy – Laurence Sterne

Uncomfortable With Uncertainty – Pema Chodron

Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

West with the Night – Beryl Markham

What My Mother Doesn’t Know – Sonya Sones

Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak

Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education And The Recovery Of Greek Wisdom – Victor Davis Hanson & John Heath

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig

The Divine Comedy – (the Inferno and the Purgatorio-I haven’t made it to Paradisio yet.) Dante Alighieri



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