My daughter asked me today, “What are your favorite books?” Now, this is my list of favorites, which in no way has to do with “what makes a good book” in terms of the literary canon. Here are my top 10 fiction books (not necessarily in order) plus some other favorites. I wonder what my daughter could infer from this.
2) July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
3) The Good Wife by Doris Lessing
4) Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
5) The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
6) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
7) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
8) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
9) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
10) Bastard Out of
11) The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Top 8 Non-Fiction Books and articles
1) The Tao te Ching by Lao Tse
2) The Religions of Man by Huston Smith
3) The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
4) Space and Place by Yi-Fu Tuan
5) Man, Myth, and Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of mythology, religion, and the unknown by Richard Cavendish
6) Flora of the
7) Troublemakers by Malcolm Gladwell
8) The Idea of a Local Economy by Wendell Berry
Top 8 Plays:
1) The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkov
2) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by
3) Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
4) The Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
5) Loot by Joe Orton
6) Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
7) Death of a Salesman by Henry Miller
8) Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepherd
Top 8 Short Stories or poetry:
1) Tiger Mending by Aimee Bender
2) To Room 19 by Doris Lessing
3) Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4) The Cask of Amantillado by Edgar Allen Poe
5) Poems of Emily Dickinson
6) The Case of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7) The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams
8) Leaves of Grass by Walt व्हित्मन
1 comment:
Hah! Now something for me to ponder - and compile - instead of doing the work I really should do this morning!
Your daughter will infer that you are widely read and have excellent taste.
(bird)
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