Turning Pages

Now that my reading  schedule has become entirely dominated by prelim-studying craziness, it’s time to rework my plan for letting you know what I’ve been reading.  After all, who was I trying to kid with that “Recently Read ‘Fun’ Books” list that hasn’t had anything added to it in almost a year. Sheesh.  Instead, you can now look here, on my bookshelf, for an up-to-date list of the fiction I’ve been reading.  And it might clue you in to why I so rarely have anything interesting to add to the conversation.

Currently reading:

• The Conjure Woman by Charles Chesnutt
• Dispatches by Michael Herr

Previously Read (from most to least recently):

• Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  
• Lost in the Monkey House by John Barth
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  
• Welcome to the Monkey House (selected stories) by Kurt Vonnegut
  
• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
  
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
  
• American Pastoral by  Philip Roth
  
• Tales of Beetle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris [on cd]
• Marley and Me by John Grogan [on cd / rr]
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor [rr]
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells
• Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed [rr]
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
• Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
• Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
• Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
• Mao II by Don DeLillo
• The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
• Dark Blue Suit by Peter Bacho
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Tracks by Louise Erdrich
• The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
• Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
• Falling Man by Don DeLillo
• Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Moviegoer by Percy Walker
• The Handmade’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

*[rr] = rereading