1 Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel
2 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
3 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
4 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5 The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
6 Let The Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
7 The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
8 Sophie's Choice - William Styron
9 The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
10 The Magus - John Fowles
11 God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
12 Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
13 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
14 The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
15 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest - Stieg Larsson
16 The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
17 Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
18 Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
19 Hero - Robin Mckinley
20 Bonk - Mary Roach
21 Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
22 Manifesta - Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
23 Second Nature: A Gardeners Education - Michael Pollan
24. The Strain - Guillermo Del Toro
25 Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
26 The Enormous Room - e. e. cummings
27. Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness - Edward Butscher
28 The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone De Beauvoir
29 The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
30. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
31. Through A Glass Darkly - Karleen Koen
32. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
33. The Piano Teacher - Janice Y. K. Lee
34. The Gendered Society - Michael Kimmel
35. The Second Sex - Simone De Beauvoir
35. The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
36 The Purity Myth - Jessica Valenti
37. What to Eat - Marion Nestle
44. The Hangmans Daughter - Oliver Pötzsch and Lee Chadeayne
45. The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
38. Orlando - Virginia Wolf
39. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Wolf
40. A Room of Ones Own - Virginia Wolf
41. Survival of the Prettiest - Nancy L. Etcoff
42. The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
43. Middlemarch - George Eliot
44. The Shining - Stephen King
45 The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
46 The Drowned Life - Jeffrey Ford
47. A Murderous Procession - Ariana Franklin
48. The World According to Monsanto - Marie-Monique Robin
49. Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
50. Spook - Mary Roach
That is a great list of books, good luck with your reading. If you would like another idea to complement a number of your books about woman's history including "The Feminine Mystique" try Stephanie Coontz's new book "A Strange Stirring - The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960's". It examines the changing status of women from the 1920s through the 1950s, compares the dilemmas of working-class and middle-class women, white and black, in the early 1960s, and illuminates the new mystiques and new possibilities facing men and women today.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Alex
Thanks! I love the suggestion! Im definitely throwing that on my amazon list. Who is this btw?
ReplyDeleteOne thing that was a big help to getting to 50 for me was having plenty of "easy" books in addition to the big heavy ones I wanted to get through. I don't know if weighty classics are easy for you, but I definitely had to have them outnumbered by fun stuff.
ReplyDeleteYeah I tried to keep the heavy classics to a minimum...Theres a good lot of fun books. I dont think I could do 50 like you did thats why Im shooting for 30 and if I can exceed it then hells yeah thats awesome. I hope you dont mind that I stole your idea :)
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