Need Suggestions For A 25-30 Book Reading List For Grad School
I'm starting a Fiction program in January, and I need to make a first draft of a proposed reading list. Suggestions of what to include would be awesome, and if anyone wants to actually think of 25-30, then you deserve a quick peck on the cheek and maybe a shoulder rub. I haven't been on these forums in forever, but I knew this would be the place to go for help.
And please don't include any Chuck stuff. I've read it all and I'd only be cheating myself. Or at least that's what they taught me.
Thanks in advance.
[B]"Answer this/When all is said and done/Are you a memorable trooper or just a lab rat on the run/Choose one"[/B]
Aesop Rock
well, here is a list of my favorite authors
stephen king - it, the stand, talisman, gunslinger
palahniuk - you've read it all
craig clevenger - both
will christopher baer - all three
ray bradbury - so many
robert heinlein - ditto
douglas coupland - again
f. paul wilson - maybe too easy
Haruki Murakami - Wind-Up Bird, Kafka, etc.
hunter s. thompson - any
philip k. dick - any
there's always the new york times best seller list
also, maybe you can crib from here (5 best books) as well:
[url]http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=11856&highlight=books[/url]
or here (last 5 books you've read)
[url]http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=26882[/url]
good luck,
richard
ps-i'd also suggest reading anything by a favorite author that you haven't yet - i haven't read all of bradbury or heinlein or dick or murakami or coupland, but i like them a lot - also, if there are any classics you haven't read that you've always wanted to (just google 100 best books ever) such as ayn rand ( i still haven't read atlas shrugged or fountainhead), or vonnegut, etc.
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House of Leaves by Mark Daneilewski
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave (yes, that Nick Cave)
You Can't Win - Jack Black (no, not that Jack Black)
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
Freedom in Exile - The Dalai Lama
The F*ck-Up - Arthur Nersesian
Anything by Bukowski
Do not speak- unless it improves on silence.
vote #2 for The Wasp Factory and House of Leaves!
Only Revolutions - Danielewski
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
When I Was Five I Killed Myself - Howard Buten
Paradise - Toni Morrison
The Wasteland - Francesca Lia Block
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (translated by Lucia Graves)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan
You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. You all helped to 2nd and 3rd vote some choices others had given me. I also remembered to take a couple off the really sweetly layed-out author's favorites on this site...
Here's what the first draft of the list looks like:
Edward Abbey
1. The Monkey Wrench Gang
Douglas Coupland
2. Hey Nostradamus
3. JPod
4. Eleanor Rigby
Ray Bradbury
5. The Martian Chronicles
J.D. Salinger
6. Nine Stories
7. Franny And Zooey
Irvine Welsh
8. Porno
9. Acid
10. Glue
Charles Bukowski
11. Factotum
12. Women
13. Ham On Rye
Hubert Selby
14. Requiem For A Dream
15. Last Exit To Brooklyn
Philip Roth
16. Portnoy’s Complaint
17. The Human Stain
Nick Hornby
18. High Fidelity
19. Speaking With The Angel
Bret Easton Ellis
20. Less Than Zero
21. The Informers
Amy Hempel
22. The Dog Of The Marriage
23. At The Gates Of The Animal Kingdom
William Burroughs
24. Naked Lunch
Ken Kesey
25. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Chuck Palahniuk
26. Rant
Junot Diaz
27. Drown
Mark Richards
28. The Ice At The Bottom Of The World
Tom Spanbauer
29. The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon
30. In The City Of Shy Hunters
Anthony Burgess
31. A Clockwork Orange
Philip K. Dick
32. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Tim O’Brien
33. The Things They Carried
Patrick Suskind
34. Perfume
[B]"Answer this/When all is said and done/Are you a memorable trooper or just a lab rat on the run/Choose one"[/B]
Aesop Rock
It seems to me that you'd like Lanark, by Alasdair Gray. Look it up. It's an important book in the UK, and damn good one too.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
try hari kunzru's transmission. it's pure transgressive fiction, it does for the 90's what american psycho did for the 80's, and its easier to aprove from an academic standpoint because its multicultural.
also, i heard james gunns the toy collector is pretty good.
oh, and i absolutely love calleb carrs the alienist
how many students do you expect to teach? 30 books seems pretty intense for a semester, or even two semesters.
I'm not teaching; I'm being taught. And I believe the 25-30 pace is held up for 3 of the 4 semesters.
[B]"Answer this/When all is said and done/Are you a memorable trooper or just a lab rat on the run/Choose one"[/B]
Aesop Rock
[QUOTE=bartleby;902475]I'm not teaching; I'm being taught. And I believe the 25-30 pace is held up for 3 of the 4 semesters.[/QUOTE]
american psycho by BEE has to be in the list, if you haven't read it, over LTZ IMO
great list though
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Good luck getting ahold of those Amy Hempel books.
And a serious Good Luck for your reading. But what's Grad School?
Thanks again everyone, this list is turning golden right in front of my eyes...
Core, Grad School = Graduate School
If you were kidding, har har, very funny...
If not, then sorry for being snarky...
As for the Amy Hempel books, I'm pretty sure both groups of stories are availible in her new Collected Stories that just came out...And if not, I'll ask her for a copy, she's a teacher in the program I'm in...
Wicker, American Psycho isn't there because I've read it as well as Glamorama...
[B]"Answer this/When all is said and done/Are you a memorable trooper or just a lab rat on the run/Choose one"[/B]
Aesop Rock
no HOL ?
you could spend 3-4 semesters discussing that book alone
HOL?
(forgive my ignorence if this is an obvious one)
[B]"Answer this/When all is said and done/Are you a memorable trooper or just a lab rat on the run/Choose one"[/B]
Aesop Rock
House of Leaves. It's a popular book around here.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
It's one of those books that, were you to write an essay on, could constitute a epic novel.
for Amy Hempel: Dog of the Marriage is easy to order at any bookstore. but you won't need to. everything is in her new collected works and is available at borders and i'm sure most other places.
love,
your local bookseller.
Interesting, they let you pick your own reading list? Is it in any way related to your thesis or is this just something to get you to keep reading for fun?
[URL=http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showpost.php?p=833687&postcount=43]here[/URL]
although I just noticed I listed the same one for 93 and 81 so just replace one of those with Hardcore Troubadoure: the Life and Near Death of Steve Earle by Lynn St John