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Sunday, February 8, 2009

The Book List - Initial Take

Here's the book list, in no particular order. I'm also open to suggestions, via either comment or e-mail:

Definite:
King Lear
Macbeth
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Travels with Charley
Leaves of Grass
Eat, Pray, Love
Hamlet
Roughing It
Christian Community Bible, OT
Christian Community Bible, NT
The Life of Thomas More
Emerson: Selected Essays
Godel, Escher, Bach
American Lion
Notes of a Native Son
Moby-Dick
The Great Gatsby
Parliament of Whores
Team of Rivals
Catch-22
Heart of Darkness
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
Uncle Vanya
The Three Sisters
The Peloponnesian War
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Corrections
Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me
Loser Goes First
Infinite Jest
Army at Dawn
The Post-American World
A Tale of Two Cities

Maybes (These are under consideration but may be cut for space, time, lack of interest...):
Practical Ethics
Plato's Republic
The Once and Future King
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
A People's History of the United States
Don Quixote
Ulysses
Dante's Inferno
The Prince
Underworld
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Parable of the Talents
Aristotle's Poetics

Authors (I want to read something by each of these authors):
Cormac McCarthy
Jonathan Lethem
José Saramago
John Updike (likely a Rabbit book)