read all the books on my must read list

1.- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck-
2. A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn
3. Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism Hernandez and Rehman
4. Bleak House Charles Dickens
5. My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Barbara W. Tuchman
7. The Second Sex Simone De Beauvoir
8. The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
9. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi
10. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women Caroline Walker Bynum
11. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
12. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald – I’ve actually read this when I was 16, but I want to reread it now that I actually know what it’s about.
13. The Jungle Upton Sinclair
14. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Noam Chomsky
15. The Land Where the Blues Began Alan Lomax
16. Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally Patti Digh
17. The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
18. -In the Country of Men Hisham Matar-
19. Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson
20. The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
22. The Gangs of New York Herbert Asbury
23. The Color of Water James McBride
24. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood Rashid Khalidi
25. The Diary of Anne Frank (I can’t believe I haven’t read this)

Now to actually read them…

I’m going to do this. It is going to take time, but I am going to do this.

1. Sophie’s World
2. Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time
3. “The Four Loves” by C.S. Lewis
4. “1984” by George Orwell
5. White Oleander
6. Kite Runner
7. Something by Oscar Wilde
8. Lots of crazy, embarassing, dorky philosophy books . . . but I love them soo much!!

The list is growing at a faster pace than my pace of reading books on the list. Mmm, maybe I should get a USB port at the back of my head (like in the Matrix)... Oh, and then I won’t have to settle for translated books either!

... i would read non-stop. but i’ll take it one step at a time. two books at a time that is. at least i don’t have five book started at the same time like before. it’s hard to finish them all. so two at a time works for now. one for home and the other in my bag for whenever i am on the bus or stuck in a boring day :)

Checked this book out from the library yesterday. Haven’t started reading it yet, but will probably start tonight.

I love to read and I have found so many great reading lists. I am working my way through the Feminista list (http://www.feminista.com/archives/v2n3/100.html) at the moment. So far I have read the following:
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
A.S. Byatt, Possession
Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way
Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
Marilyn French, The Women’s Room
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Keri Hulme, The Bone People
Edna O’Brien, House of Splendid Isolation
E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water

I exempt myself from Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House. I just don’t do scary stories.