Question:
I’ve been trying to think of books to read this summer, I have quite a few authors that I love and have read most of their works but I’m trying to broaden my range of reading.
Authors I like/have read: Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, George Eliot, Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, Laurell K. Hamilton, Christine Feehan, Tennessee Wiliams, Albert Albee, Alice Hoffman, Alice Sebold, Flannery O’Connor, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Milan Kundera, Virginia Woolf, Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you could recommend books or authors based off this list, I would be extremely grateful. Thanks for your help.
I guess I should add the fact that I’m a COLLEGE student… Please no more recommendations of Harry Potter… I might cry.
Tags: Books, Creative, English, junior, major, recommendations, writing
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frank_d22
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the COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexander Dumas is a great one and so is the the original three musketeers
STEPHEN KING’S ON WRITING is nice little book that talks about his life as a writer.
The new HARRY POTTER WHEN IT COMES OUT
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
and the last one i just read was Grapes of Wrath…I loved it so much.
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ask away
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For College or high school?
Does your school have a reading list?
Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harper Lee, Jack London,Mary Shelley,
John Steinbeck. etc.
I found this list on the website http://www.greatschools.net.
(Thought I might read some of the books myself.)
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speranzacampbell
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James Alan Gardner’s Expendable Series
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere and Sandman.
O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.
Voltaire’s Candide.
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Persiphone_Hellecat
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I recommend everything on your list!! But I have another recommendation for you. The Novelist by Angela Hunt. In this book, a famous author teaches a CW class in a small local college. As she goes through the semester, she writes a book for the class. She goes through all the steps she uses to write – from her outline, character analysis right through to the end. In between, there is a backstory about her troubled teenage son which becomes part of the book she is writing. It is a wonderful book and you will learn a lot about writing from it. It’s a very simple and quick read and if you are a CW major, you should have it on your bookshelf. Pax – C