N.Vasillis's "Vasilly" list
Thursday, August 9, 2007 by Vasilly
I signed up more than a month ago and I cannot believe that I haven't posted my list. (Maybe because it took me forever to figure out what I'm going to read.) Here goes:
1. The Singing - C.K. Williams
2. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
3. Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
4. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
5. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. Vernon God Little- DBC Pierre
7. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
8. anything by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk
9. anything by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. anything by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck
11. anything by Nobel Prize winner Shmuel Yosef Agnon
12. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Alternates:
1. Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
2. Vandal Love - Dy Bechard
3. Collected poems of Howard Nemerov
4. New and selected poems - Mary Oliver
5. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
6. The year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
7. The Echo Maker- Richard Powers
8. The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan
9. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
10. Passing Through: the Later Poems - Stanley Kunitz
11. Out Stealing Horses - Per Patterson
12. When I lived in modern times - Linda Grant
13. The Penderwicks - Jeanne Birdsall
14. Small Island - Andrea Levy
15. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
16. anything by Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky
17. This Blinding Absence of Light - Tahar Ben Jelloun
18. The Elementary Particles - Michael Houellebecq
Read:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
1. The Singing - C.K. Williams
2. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
3. Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
4. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
5. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. Vernon God Little- DBC Pierre
7. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
8. anything by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk
9. anything by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. anything by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck
11. anything by Nobel Prize winner Shmuel Yosef Agnon
12. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Alternates:
1. Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
2. Vandal Love - Dy Bechard
3. Collected poems of Howard Nemerov
4. New and selected poems - Mary Oliver
5. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
6. The year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
7. The Echo Maker- Richard Powers
8. The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan
9. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
10. Passing Through: the Later Poems - Stanley Kunitz
11. Out Stealing Horses - Per Patterson
12. When I lived in modern times - Linda Grant
13. The Penderwicks - Jeanne Birdsall
14. Small Island - Andrea Levy
15. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
16. anything by Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky
17. This Blinding Absence of Light - Tahar Ben Jelloun
18. The Elementary Particles - Michael Houellebecq
Read:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck