#Rebecca Potok

[celluloidrainbow]

LES BRÉSILIENNES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (1984) dir. Robert Thomas Antonia, a Brazilian trans woman prostitutes herself for her “mac” (who she is madly in love with) in the Bois de Boulogne. Her brother José arrives in Paris to try to become a professional dancer. At first, he completely ignores his sister's gender transition, but soon finds himself tangled in her life and in various jobs (a drag dancer at a cabaret, a gigolo for wealthy elderly ladies, etc). As Antonia's situation as a prostitute becomes more and more burdensome, she tries to return clandestinely to Brazil with her brother's help. (link in title)

[annemariewrites]

List of all the books I’ve read

just wanted to keep a list of what I’ve read throughout my life (that I can remember)

Fiction:

“Where the Red Fern Grows,” Wilson Rawls

“The Outsiders,” SE Hinton

“The Weirdo,” Theodore Taylor

“The Devil’s Arithmetic,” Jane Yolen

“Julie of the Wolves series,” Jean Craighead George

“Soft Rain,” Cornelia Cornelissen

“Island of the Blue Dolphins,” Scott O’Dell

“The Twilight series,” Stephanie Mayer

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee

“Gamer Girl,” Mari Mancusi

“Redwall / Mossflower / Mattimeo / Mariel of Redwall,” Brian Jacques

“1984,” and  “Animal Farm,” George Orwell

“Killing Mr. Griffin,” Lois Duncan

“Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain

“Rainbow’s End,” Irene Hannon

“Cold Mountain,” Charles Frazier

“Between Shades of Gray,” Ruta Sepetys

“Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Edgar Allen Poe

“Lord of the Flies,” William Golding

“The Great Gatsby,” F Scott Fitzgerald

“The Harry Potter series,” JK Rowling

“The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska,” and “Paper Towns,” John Green

“Thirteen Reasons Why,” Jay Asher

“The Hunger Games series,” Suzanne Collins

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Stephen Chbosky

“Fifty Shades of Grey,” EL James

“Speak,” and “Wintergirls,” Laurie Halse Anderson

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood

“Mama Day,” Gloria Naylor

“Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Bronte

“Wide Sargasso Sea,” Jean Rhys

“The Haunting of Hill House,” Shirley Jackson

“The Chosen,” Chaim Potok

“Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman

“Till We Have Faces,” CS Lewis

“One Foot in Eden,” Ron Rash

“Jim the Boy,” Tony Earley

“The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox,” Maggie O’Farrell

“A Land More Kind Than Home,” Wiley Cash

“A Parchment of Leaves,” Silas House

“Beowulf,” Seamus Heaney

“The Silence of the Lambs / Red Dragon / Hannibal / Hannibal Rinsing,” Thomas Harris

“Cry the Beloved Country,” Alan Paton

“Moby Dick,” Herman Melville

“The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings trilogy / The Silmarillion,” JRR Tolkien

“Beren and Luthien,” JRR Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien

“Children of Blood and Bone / Children of Virtue and Vengeance,” Tomi Adeyemi

“Soundless,” Richelle Mead

“The Girl with the Louding Voice,” Abi Dare

“A Song of Ice and Fire series / Fire and Blood,” GRR Martin

“A Separate Peace,” John Knowles

“The Bluest Eye,” and “Beloved,” Toni Morrison

“Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley

“The Giver / Gathering Blue / Messenger / Son,” Lois Lowry

“The Ivory Carver trilogy,” Sue Harrison

“The Grapes of Wrath,” and “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck

“The God of Small Things,” Arundhati Roy

“Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury

“The Night Circus,” Erin Morgenstern

“Sunflower Dog,” Kevin Winchester

‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Betty Smith

“The Catcher in the Rye,” JD Salinger

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” Sherman Alexie

“Bridge to Terabithia,” Katherine Paterson

“The Good Girl,” Mary Kubica 

“The Last Unicorn,” Peter S Beagle

“Slaughterhouse Five,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The Joy Luck Club,” Amy Tan

“The Sworn Virgin,” Kristopher Dukes

“The Color Purple,” Alice Walker

“Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston

“The Light Between Oceans,” ML Stedman

“Yellowface,” RF Kuang

“A Flicker in the Dark,” Stacy Willingham

“One Piece Novel: Ace’s Story,” Sho Hinata

“Black Beauty,” Anna Seawell

“The Weight of Blood,” Tiffany D. Jackson

“Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China,” Hualing Nieh, Sau-ling Wong

“The Weight of Blood,” Laura McHugh

Non-fiction:

“Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl,” Anne Frank

“Night,” Elie Wiesel

“Invisible Sisters,” Jessica Handler

“I Am Malala,” Malala Yousafzai

“The Interesting Narrative,” Olaudah Equiano

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Harriet Jacobs

“The Princess Diarist,” Carrie Fisher

“Adulting: How to Become a Grown Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps,” Kelly Williams Brown

“How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Dale Carnegie

“Carrie Fisher: a Life on the Edge,” Sheila Weller

“Make ‘Em Laugh,” Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway

“How to be an Anti-Racist,” Ibram X Kendi

“Maus,” Art Spiegelman

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou

“Wise Gals: the Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage,” Nathalia Holt

“Persepolis,” and “Persepolis II,” Marjane Satrapi

“How to Write a Novel,” Manuel Komroff

“The Nazi Genocide of the Roma,” Anton Weiss-Wendt

“Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz,” Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel

“Two Watches,” Anita Tarlton

“The Ages of the Justice League: Essays on America’s Greatest Superheroes in Changing Times,” edited by Joseph J. Darowski

[writingwell]

I have read all your Castle fic, some multiple times and need something new to read. I was wondering if you had any favorite Castle fics or authors you love/would recommend?

I'm bad about remembering fic I've read, but I do have some faves marked on my ffnet page, if you want to suss that out.

But authors! I will always hold a few especially dear:

Jennifer Egan (Visit from the Goon Squad, The Keep, etc) - Each of her novels have affected me in different ways, but the consistency of the quality of her writing is what sucks me in each time I start a new one.

NK Jemisin, Naomi Novik, Tracy Deonn, Rachel Yoder - a quick run through of some women in sci-fi/fantasy whose books are STELLAR and who don't get enough play in the usual round-up. For me, I'm not always gonna talk about them because I don't know how formative they've been yet, but damn they have some awesome story-telling, and I am SUCKED IN.

Mary Stewart (Touch Not the Cat, This Rough Magic, Merlin series) - Gothic romance for most of her career, MS wrote a Merlin series which I read grudgingly: they were the last books of hers I hadn't read. And I adored them, lol. She's easier to read than Daphne DuMaurier (Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel) but if you want to jump in, then I would suggest her short stories which are deliciously Gothic.

Edith Wharton (House of Mirth, Glimpses of the Moon, etc) - Gillian Anderson was going to be in HoM, I think, and she was interviewed in Entertainment Weekly magazine back in the day, and she quoted this book. I was perhaps 19? and I snatched it up the first chance I could get, wrote a paper for college, kept reading Wharton. As my twitter and ffnet handles show, Lily Bart, a woman fighting against the strictures of her society, absolutely had my heart. Want to know the quote GA used? "What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath." Holy shit, how can you not be immediately caught?

Madeleine L'Engle (Wrinkle in Time et al, Certain Women, A Severed Wasp) - What most people don't know is that L'Engle wrote adult fiction as well as what is now termed YA (or Children's, depending). Her adult stuff is poignant and devastating and just as hope-filled as her literature written for younger audiences, and I don't think even those books can be said to be just for children. A Swiftly Tilting Planet still makes me think about how righteous is pacifism in this day and age (ie, maybe it's not, and that's horrendous) plus A Wind in the Door is this really beautiful grappling with childhood disease/death/mental health. It's very lovely to have a gentle-handed author shape elemental Truths around your imagination and plant the seeds for both questioning the world and also loving it, flaws and all. And that both of those things can exist.

Chaim Potok (The Gift of Asher Lev, Book of Lights) - I realize I have a lot of women on this list, but Potok is a man who gets the creative experience inexorably tangled with the spiritual one. If you're not of some kind of seeking orientation, I don't know that Potok would resonate with you as it did and does with me, but there's something wholesome and agonizing about a man who knows he is put on this earth to create and yet everything in the earth is an obstacle to that calling. Even God, who ostensibly called him. It's really quite impressive a theme.

Colette (The Vagabond, Cheri, Claudine series) - Like I said, a lot of women, but these are the authors I go back to. The Vagabond, when I read it over again just a few years ago, was this huge light bulb moment for me: oh THIS is why I'm like this. I read it the first time in SF, plucked from my aunt's shelves (she was, I thought, so very cool, and if my aunt had this book, I should be reading it). It was both a book about a single woman writing a book, but also a book about a woman determining her own selfhood, and I latched onto both those concepts. Made for me. This led me to many of her others, but also to Anaïs Nin (also on my aunt's shelves), at about 18 years old, also formative. Delta of Venus is her erotica, and I will admit I skip some of the body violence/horror shorts and the child molesting stories, but others are expansive and sensual forays into women's sexuality that I just had never read before. Not outside of fanfic, anyway. Nin has some short novels that are also in that vein—a woman exploring herself—but I think you'll have seen mostly quotes from her letters and diaries. If you want nonfiction, and something of an epic read, go there.

Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down, About a Boy, High Fidelity, Funny Girl, Just Like You) - I've been reading him since early college, and I can't even remember what got me started first. High Fidelity? Because it was a movie about music and starred John Cusack? Who knows. Anyway, I think his novels stand up against time, and I met him at a book reading once and he was both hilarious and deep. I'd been working with a boy with autism at that point, and I had just read A Long Way Down, and it was evident to me that this author knew what it was to Suffer™ and sure enough, I found out later that he has a child with autism. He just seemed to understand, in both speaking and in print, that life isn't easy for anyone, that we all have a story, and books/stories/music are often the only ways we get any relief. Also he's hilarious. I said that, but it bears repeating. And if you want to understand Brexit at all, Just Like You was eye-opening for me about that. (Being American, I got it in the way of like, oh shit we elected This Cheesehead, but I didn't get it in the way of like, culture and national health care etc).

John Scalzi (Old Man's War, Locked In, Kaiju Preservation Society) - Sci-fi standby. I mean, if I want to read science fiction and I want to laugh and also Get Something Out of It, then I pick up Scalzi. He has a funny twitter presence and a blog and all that, but I don't have much to do with it. I just read his books and laugh and feel like I've managed to escape while also not ingesting something totally bullshit patriarchal. He's aware, he's looking around at the world, and he's imagining a future where that shit, yes, does happen, because we are people, but also like, more and more people or aliens are striving to eradicate that shit. So I like that. Becky Chambers is doing some really good, captivating sci-fi as well, if you want less humor in it (not that she's not funny, she's just not as tongue in cheek or expressly sardonic as Scalzi) and I have one of hers on my TBR shelf.

Ungggg, I feel like this is getting TL;DR and so I need to rattle off a few more names and go: Howard Thurman (meditations), David Maine, Neal Stephenson, Toni Morrison, Larry Niven, Ben Bova, Lucille Clifton (poetry), CS Lewis, Rainbow Rowell, Flannery O'Connor, Maggie Stiefvater, James Baldwin, Celeste Ng, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Richard Castle (lol but not lol, I seriously love those books).

[ulkaralakbarova]

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Quentin: Gérard Depardieu Ruby: Jean Reno Commissioner Vernet: Richard Berry Prison psychiatrist: André Dussollier Vogel: Jean-Pierre Malo Katia / Sandra: Leonor Varela Lambert: Jean-Michel Noirey Mauricet: Laurent Gamelon Rocco: Aurélien Recoing Raffi: Vincent Moscato Martineau: Ticky Holgado Nosberg: Michel Aumont Jambier: Loïc Brabant Bourgoin: Arnaud Cassand Vavinet: Edgar Givry Teenager Becca: Adrien Saint-Joré Teenager Bryana Fletcher: Johan Libéreau Maximillian Lefevbre: Guy Delamarche Isabel Lefebvre: Rebecca Potok Chief Warden: Stéphane Boucher Fat jailbird: Ludovic Berthillot West Indian prisoner: Thierry René A cop: Pierre Rousselle A cop: Michaël Troude A cop: Norbert Haberlick A cop: Antoine Blanquefort Bank cashier: Eric Vanzetta Exchange office employee: Dominique Parent Exchange office employee: Luq Hamet Police Sergeant: Gérard Renault Prison hospital nurse: Pétronille Moss Prison hospital intern: Guillaume de Tonquédec Mental Home Radiologist: Jean Dell Mental Home Garden Nurse: Stéphane Jacquot Mental Home Garden Patient: Philippe Brigaud Bistrot Customer: Thierry Nenez Bistrot Owner: François Gamard Driver of the car with the broken roof: Julien Cafaro Thug: Valentin Merlet Thug: Romain Redler Girl on mobile: Armelle Deutsch Opel Driver: Alain Fourès Cop in Unmarked Van: Arnaud Le Bozec Police Inspector: Léon Clémence Prison Hospital Old Man: Michel Caccia Nurse at the secretariat: Luc Bernard Policeman in Unmarked Light Van: Fabrice Bousba Vogel’s man: Patrick Médioni Vogel’s man: Gilles Conseil Mental patient (uncredited): Eric Moreau (uncredited): Patrice Cols (uncredited): Pierre-Olivier Scotto Film Crew: Casting: Françoise Menidrey Sound: Jean Gargonne Original Music Composer: Marco Prince Editor: Georges Klotz Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gérard Lamps Director: Francis Veber Stunt Coordinator: Philippe Guégan Director of Photography: Luciano Tovoli Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd Executive Producer: Gérard Gaultier Script Supervisor: Isabelle Thévenet Costume Design: Jacqueline Bouchard Idea: Serge Frydman Sound: Bernard Bats Production Design: Dominique André Key Makeup Artist: Karina Gruais Key Makeup Artist: Turid Follvik First Assistant Director: Christopher Gachet Movie Reviews:

[agardenandlibrary]

March 2022 Books

Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee I'll be doing a podcast episode about this one soon. It was good! Also, because it's Lee, it's dark and complicated and no one has an uncomplicated love life.

All Systems Red by Martha Wells Fun, quick read. Not sure when/if I'll pick up the rest. A few people said it gets better with the introduction of another character in novella 2.

The Chosen by Chaim Potok Another one for the podcast. A book about friendship, tradition, Judaism, fathers - very very good.

Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country by Emily Tesh I enjoyed Silver in the Wood a bit more than Drowned Country, as I mentioned. They're both good though. I loved the folklore elements.

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala Murder mystery with lots of food. Not terrible, not amazing.

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross Magical island mystery. I preferred the side characters and found the writing style to be repetitive. I'll also be doing a podcast episode about this one.

[whosafraidofvirginiawoolf]

39, 36, 34 and 23 for the ask!

Five books you absolutely want to read next year?

The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

The City We Became by NK Jemisin

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (being unrealistic here idk why I cannot pick this book up to read for some reason and just keep it on my mental tbr every year lol)

How many books did you buy?

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

The Chosen by Chaim Poktok

Affinity by Sarah Waters

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf

The Collected Prose of Elizabeth Bishop

most of these I bought with a B&N giftcard I got for my birthday! I don't usually buy so much

What’s a book you’ve recommended the most this year?

either The Broken Earth series by NK Jemisin or Affinity by Sarah Waters

The book with the prettiest cover

idk i don't usually remember covers but the streetcar from my library I read had this cover:

and it cracks me up like yeah sure gotta sell the books ya know

[grandhotelabyss]

This semi-viral Tweet is a useful exercise in place of the very impressionistic discussions of what’s read in high school and in what era and in what kind of school. I ransacked my memory and came up with an archive of full-length works I was assigned. There were plenty of short stories and poems, too, a great deal of Edgar Allan Poe in both categories as I recall, but I decided only to list books. For context, I attended a massive suburban public high school from 1996 to 2000; these were advanced English classes. Titles are listed in no particular order until 12th grade, which was, I believe, a historical survey.

9th GRADE

Rinehart, The Bat

Frank, Alas, Babylon

Steinbeck, The Pearl

Orwell, Animal Farm

Wilder, Our Town

Du Maurier, Rebecca

Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident

Stevenson, Treasure Island

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Homer, The Odyssey

10th GRADE

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Shaw, Arms and the Man

Wilder, The Matchmaker

Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Golding, Lord of the Flies

Knowles, A Separate Peace

Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Lawrence and Lee, Inherit the Wind

Dickens, Great Expectations

Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Assignments for Multicultural Literature Project:

Conroy, The Water Is Wide

Tan, The Joy Luck Club

11th GRADE (AMERICAN LITERATURE FOCUS)

Miller, The Crucible

Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Edwards and Stone, 1776

Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Wharton, Ethan Frome

Miller, Death of a Salesman

Twain, Huckleberry Finn

Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Selections for Book Reports on Fiction and Biography:

Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Donald, Lincoln

Selection for Research Paper:

Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

12th GRADE (WORLD LITERATURE FOCUS)

Sophocles, Antigone

Beowulf

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (excerpts)

Shakespeare, Macbeth

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Shakespeare, King Lear

Congreve, The Way of the World

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

Ibsen, The Doll's House

Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

Selection for Presentation and Essay on English Poetry:

Keats, Odes

Selection for Research Paper:

Milton, Paradise Lost

Observations and Reminiscences:

—Strange omissions compared to other people in my generation—no Catcher in the Rye, no Brave New World, no Frankenstein.

—Many, many, many plays, including some that must have fallen out of the repertoire by now. (Before high school I’d read, maybe in Steranko’s History of Comics, that Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Bat had helped to inspire Batman, so I took it up with enthusiasm in the 9th grade, but it was, as I recall, some kind of dull drawing-room mystery.) There are non-cynical reasons to teach so many plays—the performance element gets students interested who might otherwise fall asleep—but also one cynical reason: they’re shorter than novels!

—The 10th grade multicultural project: we had to read two books from two of five minority cultures (African-American, Asian, Jewish, Native American, Latino) and do an oral report about one of the cultures (not the specific books—the cultures!) and a research paper on the other. The teacher hauled a dusty box of books out of the closet and randomly distributed them. Even back in benighted 1998, I knew it was ironic that my “African-American” selection was a white man’s memoir of teaching English to an isolated community of black children, though The Water Is Wide wasn’t bad as such, and it inspired me to read, extracurricularly, Conroy’s exquisite and unforgettable middlebrow extravaganza The Prince of Tides (“Lowenstein, Lowenstein”). My other assigned text was originally a Chaim Potok novel, I don’t remember which one, but the jock next to me got The Joy Luck Club and wanted to switch since he knew they’d made that into a “chick flick.” I’d seen and enjoyed the movie—my mother had rented it from Blockbuster—so I readily agreed; Tan’s novel is also excellently middlebrow, and I have nothing but fond memories of it. I’ve still never read Chaim Potok, alas.

—In 11th and 12th grades, we were given some freedom to choose our own reading. In 11th grade we had to do two books reports, one on an American novel and one on a biography of a famous American. Showing no imagination, I first leaned in to the prevailing Steinbeck fixation and chose The Winter of Our Discontent (I’d already read The Grapes of Wrath—a masterpiece—and East of Eden—a white elephant—on my own) and then plucked the then-newest biography of the most famous American of them all from my local branch library’s shelves (in my defense, Lincoln lived a hell of a life). I don’t know what made me choose Hemingway instead of Faulkner for the research paper, which had to be on a great American novel or play picked from a badly photocopied list originally banged out on a manual typewriter probably in the ’70s. I was never assigned Faulkner in school but read As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury in the magic summer between 11th and 12 grades, when, loosed into literature as never before, I read masterpiece after masterpiece for three months in a heated daze (Hamlet, Billy Budd, The Sun Also Rises, Underworld, A Streetcar Named Desire, Beloved, Paradise, The Satanic Verses…). By that time, I was into Harold Bloom, which also explains the Keats and Milton selections in 12th grade.

In sum, if you throw out some of the plays and genre fiction—though not Rebecca; I loved Rebecca—add a couple more older classics (Dante, Virgil), and, yes, diversify (at least swap in Morrison or Hurston or Soyinka or Achebe for the weepy white liberals Alan Paton and Harper Lee), it wasn't a bad education at all.

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So @redsandsshoes tagged me to do a thing, which is really nice of them! Thank you! ❤

Ok so the thing:

Top 3 ships:

Jake & Amy (Brooklyn Nine Nine)

Crowley & Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Rebecca & Nathaniel (Crazy Ex Girlfriend)

Last song I listened to:

"On the Threshold of Eternity" by @starrymusical (which is amazing and you should really listen to it. Please. Its so good.)

Last movie I saw:

Do netflix specials count? If so, "Make Happy" by Bo Burnham

what food I'm craving right now:

Sleep.

Reading:

Im in the middle of a book of short stories and poems by Poe, and also re-reading "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

Thank you so much for tagging me!

Here are some people whose answers I would like to know:

@moragishere @imsureiminvisible @morbidlycrunchy @pettycrustacean @samael-the-angel

Hope that youre having a great day!

[coffintanz]

Tanz characters and books they like

Herbert: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Graf von Krolock: Die Fledermaus by Professor Abronsius

Alfred: Dating for Dummies by Joy Browne

Sarah: Beauty and the Beast Novelization by Elizabeth Rudnick

Magda: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Koukol: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Chagal: The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Rebecca: The Widow by Fiona Barton

Professor Abronsius: Aristoteles, Empedokles, Aeneas, Parmenides, Nikomachos, Diogenes, Antiochos, Maimonides, Mark Aurel, Augustinus, Tacitus, Tibull, Plato, Peregrinus, Taquinus, Caesar, Cicero, Cato, Spinoza,  Kopernikus, Paracelsus, Leibniz, Crusius, Hume, Locke, Hobbes, Mendelssohn, Descartes, Montaigne, Hamilton, William Shakespeare, Humbold, Eckhart, Moliere, Macchiavelli, Erasmus, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Hans Sachs, Mary Shelly, La Fontaine, Tagore, Plinius, Da Gama, Bottecelli, Herder, Marlowe, Poe, Livius,Leinen, Pappe, Broschur, Robespierre, Bocaccios, Dantes, Marquis de Sade, Don Juan, Frivoles, Galantes, Lord Byron, Goethe, Eckermann, Giordano Bruno, Lessing and Thomas Moore.

[elizabethkiem]

One Smart Judge

1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 2. Native Son by Richard Wright 3. Exodus by Leon Uris 4. Mitla 18 by Leon Uris 5. Trinity by Leon Uris 6. My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok 7. The Chosen by Chaim Potok 8. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 9. Night by Elie Wiesel 10. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 11. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 12. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 13. Things Falls Apart by Chinua Achebe 14. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 15. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 16. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 17. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 18. Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks 19. Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle 20. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 21. A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind 22. Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas 23. Black Boy by Richard Wright 24. The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates 25. Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt 26. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 27. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi 28. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang 29. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 30. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 31. The Help by Kathryn Stockett 32. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 33. Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton 34. A Dry White Season by Andre Brink 35. Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides

[jennieliang]

Instead of fines or jail time for 5 teenagers who vandalized a historical Black schoolhouse with racist graffiti, a judge has ordered them read a list of 35 books over the next year. 

THE READING LIST 

"The Color Purple," Alice Walker 

"Native Son," Richard Wright 

"Exodus," Leon Uris 

"Mila 18," Leon Uris 

"Trinity," Leon Uris 

"My Name Is Asher Lev," Chaim Potok 

"The Chosen," Chaim Potok 

"The Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway 

"Night," Elie Wiesel 

"The Crucible," Arthur Miller 

"The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini 

"A Thousand Splendid Suns," Khaled Hosseini 

"Things Fall Apart," Chinua Achebe 

"The Handmaid’s Tale," Margaret Atwood 

"To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee 

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou 

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," Rebecca Skloot 

"Caleb’s Crossing," Geraldine Brooks 

"Tortilla Curtain," T.C. Boyle 

"The Bluest Eye," Toni Morrison 

"A Hope in the Unseen," Ron Suskind 

"Down These Mean Streets," Piri Thomas 

"Black Boy," Richard Wright 

"The Beautiful Struggle," Ta-Nehisi Coates 

"The Banality of Evil," Hannah Arendt 

"The Underground Railroad," Colson Whitehead 

"Reading Lolita in Tehran," Azar Nafisi 

"The Rape of Nanking," Iris Chang 

"Infidel," Ayaan Hirsi Ali 

"The Orphan Master’s Son," Adam Johnson 

"The Help," Kathryn Stockett 

"Cry the Beloved Country," Alan Paton 

"Too Late the Phalarope," Alan Paton 

"A Dry White Season," André Brink 

"Ghost Soldiers," Hampton Sides 

Knowing the difference between ignorance and hate, fighting ignorance with education, and the true definition of rehabilitation. Beautiful. 

Source: New York Times

[allbestnet]

All-Time 1000 Books  (600-700)

601. A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh

602. Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates

603. Franny and Zooey (1961) by J.D. Salinger

604. Sorrows of Young Werther (1787) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

605. The Reader (1995) by Benhardq Schlink

606. Wise Blood (1952) by Flannery O'Connor

607. Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad

608. Shutter Island (2003) by Dennis Lehane

609. The Power of Myth (1988) by Joseph Campbell

610. Noughts & Crosses (2001) by Malorie Blackman

611. Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson

612. Cutting for Stone (2009) by Abraham Verghese

613. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005) by Lisa See

614. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) by Rebecca Skloot

615. Ella Enchanted (1997) by Gail Carson Levine

616. Chosen (1967) by Chaim Potok

617. Disgrace (1999) by J.M. Coetzee

618. The Man Without Qualities (1942) by Robert Musil

619. Master and Commander (1969) by Patrick O'Brian

620. Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960) by Scott O'Dell

621. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark

622. Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955) by Crockett Johnson

623. Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

624. American Pastoral (1997) by Philip Roth

625. The Zombie Survival Guide (2003) by Max Brooks

626. The Great Divorce (1945) by C.S. Lewis

627. Room (2010) by Emma Donoghue

628. Jacques the Fatalist (1796) by Denis Diderot

629. Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis

630. Patriot Games (1987) by Tom Clancy

631. Maximum Ride by James Patterson

632. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (1978) by Judi Barrett

633. V (1963) by Thomas Pynchon

634. Solaris (1961) by Stanislaw Lem

635. Harriet the Spy (1964) by Louise Fitzhugh

636. The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

637. The Second Sex (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir

638. Sex (1992) by

639. Dead Sea Scrolls by

640. Malazan Book of the Fallen (2011) by Steven Erikson

641. Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey

642. Nineteen Minutes (2007) by Jodi Picoult

643. Firm (1991) by John Grisham

644. John Adams (2001) by David G. McCullough

645. Narziss and Goldmund (1930) by Hermann Hesse

646. On Writing (2000) by Stephen King

647. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. Clarke

648. The Westing Game (1978) by Ellen Raskin

649. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960) by William L. Shirer

650. The Exorcist (1971) by William Peter Blatty

651. Sarah's Key (2006) by Tatiana de Rosnay

652. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) by Flannery O'Connor

653. Fablehaven (2010) by Brandon Mull

654. Art of War by Sunzi

655. Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck

656. Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) by John Le Carre

657. Summer by Jenny Han

658. Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan

659. The Winds of War (1971) by Herman Wouk

660. Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James

661. Eugene Onegin (1833) by Aleksandr Pushkin

662. Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

663. The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) by H.G. Wells

664. Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon

665. A Moveable Feast (1964) by Ernest Hemingway

666. Red Storm Rising (1986) by Tom Clancy

667. Villette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte

668. The Tipping Point (2000) by Malcolm Gladwell

669. Pedro Paramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo

670. I Know This Much Is True (1998) by Wally Lamb

671. Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz

672. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

673. Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot

674. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

675. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon

676. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (2008) by Joseph Campbell

677. George's Marvellous Medicine (1981) by Roald Dahl

678. Beowulf by

679. The Third Man by Graham Greene

680. Georgina Kincaid by Richelle Mead

681. Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre

682. Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

683. A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Arthur Conan Doyle

684. The Tale of Despereaux (2003) by Kate DiCamillo

685. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997) by David Foster Wallace

686. Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970) by Roald Dahl

687. Politics by Aristotle

688. A Bend in the River (1979) by VS Naipaul

689. Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

690. An Abundance of Katherines (2006) by John Green

691. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

692. Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

693. Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev

694. Abhorsen (2003) by Garth Nix

695. Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958) by Elizabeth George Speare

696. The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy

697. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (1976) by Mildred D. Taylor

698. It's a Magical World by Bill Watterson

699. Novels by Jane Austen

700. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

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hi! which books you recommended for someone who’s close to turning 20 and has read mostly YA but wants to ~discover new things~ (lol)? thanks!

Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler

We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Eileen and Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

this is a super random list of books I just thought of, enjoy!