Reading List 2007

With some possible last minute juggling, I think this is my reading list for next year. As for last year, I am furiously reading Atlas Shrugged at the moment to finish up my 2006 list. (Note: the words "furiously reading" and "Atlas Shrugged" should never intentionally be in the same sentence.)


1 biography:
*Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life—Jon Lee Anderson

1 memoir:
Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored—Clifton Taulbert

3-4 classics:
Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austin
Tale of Two Cities—Charles Dickens
To Kill A Mockingbird—Harper Lee
Othello--Shakespeare

2-3 writing books:
On Writing—Stephen King
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel—Jane Smiley
Writing the Breakout Novel—Donald Maass

1 history book:
Haiti—A Slave Revolution—Edited by Pat Chin et. al

2-3 books by authors I’ve never read before:
Slaughterhouse Five—Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Eye—Margaret Atwood

2-3 contemporaries
Sexing the Cherry—Jeannette Winterson
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius—Dave Eggers
The Last Bongo Sunset –Les Plesko

1 book poetry:
Howl and Other Poems—Allen Ginsberg

1 unread book by a favorite author:
New Jack—Ted Conover

2 books in a new discipline or field:
Man and His Symbols –Carl Jung
The Koran
The Lexus and the Olive Branch—Thomas Friedman

1 children’s book:
The Diary of Anne Frank—Anne Frank

2 rereads—any genre:
Unbearable Lightness of Being—Milan Kundera
For Whom the Bell Tolls—Ernest Hemingway

2-3 international/intercultural:
Love in the Time of Cholera—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fear of Mirrors—Tariq Ali
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer—Patrick Suskind

1 inspirational:
This Time I Dance—Tama Kieves

1 political:
Palestine: Peace not Apartheid—Jimmy Carter