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[mitjalovse]

Patti Labelle's solo career made us forget about the fact she was a part of a successful group before that. Nonetheless, she did return to Labelle much later, though she already tested a possibility of a reunion on her Burnin'. Sure, there were only two tracks that she worked with Mrs. Hendryx and Mrs. Dash on that LP, which does fit, because the disc does resemble a typical 90's album of a veteran superstar, i.e. there is just too much of everything. While one can do interesting stuff with that notion, Mrs. Labelle sadly doesn't do that. However, she could've done a reunion of her old band then, since their tunes might be two of the more intriguing ones here. Then again, she probably sensed the time wasn't right that during that time.

[mylittledarkag3]

How many have you read out of the hundred?

Me: 64/100

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1. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

2. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

4. "1984" by George Orwell

5. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

6. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez

7. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

8. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

9. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy

10. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

11. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville

12. "The Odyssey" by Homer

13. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

14. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

15. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16. "The Iliad" by Homer

17. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

18. "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo

19. "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes

20. "Middlemarch" by George Eliot

21. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

22. "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

23. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

24. "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen

25. "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo

26. "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells

27. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

28. "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

29. "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James

30. "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling

31. "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

32. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

33. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

34. "The Trial" by Franz Kafka

35. "Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen

36. "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas

37. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

38. "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

39. "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

40. "Emma" by Jane Austen

41. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe

42. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy

43. "The Republic" by Plato

44. "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

45. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle

46. "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson

47. "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

48. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka

49. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

50. "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens

51. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

52. "The Plague" by Albert Camus

53. "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

54. "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

55. "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal

56. "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

57. "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand

58. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

59. "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

60. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

61. "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle

62. "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins

63. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

64. "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson

65. "Ulysses" by James Joyce

66. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

67. "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray

68. "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett

69. "Walden Two" by B.F. Skinner

70. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams

71. "White Fang" by Jack London

72. "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys

73. "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne

74. "Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor

75. "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" by Margaret Fuller

76. "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence

77. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

78. "The Aeneid" by Virgil

79. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton

80. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

81. "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

82. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin

83. "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

84. "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler

85. "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

86. "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk

87. "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov

88. "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

89. "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

90. "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

91. "The Clue in the Crumbling Wall" by Carolyn Keene

92. "The Code of the Woosters" by P.G. Wodehouse

93. "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

94. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

95. "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller

96. "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon

97. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

98. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy

99. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon

100. "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells

[ashintheairlikesnow]

I went through a phase where I was literally ONLY reading books published in the late 1700s through, like, the start of WWI at one point during high school. We're talking months of nothing but The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins, the various Bronte sisters, The Monk by Matthew Lewis, Sherlock Holmes, E.M. Forster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe, all that shit.

Having been a reader since I was a kid, my vocabulary was already kind of weird compared to my classmates, but in high school I absolutely started to get this weirdly old fashioned way of structuring sentences and word usage. Echoing what I'm reading is a huge thing my brain does, and it STILL does it. But I often had contextual knowledge of words without knowing their exact definition, and that was something I would go and look up on my own.

Reading is such a great way to expand your range of knowledge, and having characters who are fully settled within their world helps make it seem real enough for the suspension of disbelief required for imagination to work! Like, our brains know that a botanist isn't going to speak in childlike explanations to other botanists - that'll set off your 'bzzzzt this is fake' light in your thoughts. But a botanist who uses correct terminology, even if YOU don't know it, will work better as a believable expert.

Just. Do the research for your characters, give them the knowledge and intelligence they would need for what and who they are. Don't write down, let readers find their way along the path.

This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

[ezikial13]

In 2023 I have read 68 books. Here they are:

Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

The Devil and Dark Water by Stuart Turton

Orphans of the tide by Struan Murray

Ironside by Holly Black

Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes

The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents by Terry Pratchett

Tin Princess by Philip Pullman

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

Moby Dick By Herman Melville

Moonblood by Alastair MacNeill

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Seven Dials by Agatha Christie

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Fredrich Nietszche

The woman in white by Wilkie Collins

The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson

Destination Unkown by Agatha Christie

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie

The City of God by Augustine

Longarm and the Wendigo by Tabor Evans

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Ghost Drum by Susan Price

The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett

Man's search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith

Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'e

Flatland by E. A. Abbot

The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells

The Piano Teacher by J.Y.K. Lee

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Goblin Fruit by D.M. Chan

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Three-Body Problem by Cixian Liu

The Man who was Thursday by G.K.Chesterton

Didache

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Dune:Messiah by Frank Herbert

Tarzan of the Apes by E.R. Burroughs

Eric by Terry Pratchett

1913 by Florian Illies

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett

Hour of the Wolf by A.J. Gallows

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Little House on the Prairie by L.l. Wilder

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in five parts by Douglas Adams

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

Round the Moon by Jules Verne

American gods by Niel Gaiman

Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackery

The Master of the World by Jules Verne

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

A Season in Hell by Jack Higgins

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The Price By A. Sokoloff

The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

The Bible as your GPS by K. Genis

[bookmaven]

“Well, it seemed like a good idea.” (Part 3)

PETER PAN (J.M. Barrie); THE MOONSTONE (Wilkie Collins); OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (Charles Dickens)

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (Fyodor Dostoyevsky); THE LOST WORLD (Arthur Conan Doyle); THE SCARLET LETTER (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

METAMORPHOSIS (Franz Kafka); MACBETH (William Shakespeare); THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Oscar Wilde)

[justforbooks]

The 100 best novels written in English: the full list

After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at his list.

1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678)

A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple clarity and beauty of Bunyan’s prose make this the ultimate English classic.

2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)

By the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions, spin-offs and translations. Crusoe’s world-famous novel is a complex literary confection, and it’s irresistible.

3. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)

A satirical masterpiece that’s never been out of print, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in English

4. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)

Clarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her unscrupulous nouveau-riche family to marry a wealthy man she detests, in the book that Samuel Johnson described as “the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human heart.”

5. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)

Tom Jones is a classic English novel that captures the spirit of its age and whose famous characters have come to represent Augustan society in all its loquacious, turbulent, comic variety.

6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759)

Laurence Sterne’s vivid novel caused delight and consternation when it first appeared and has lost little of its original bite.

7. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)

Jane Austen’s Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility.

8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)

Mary Shelley’s first novel has been hailed as a masterpiece of horror and the macabre.

9. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock (1818)

The great pleasure of Nightmare Abbey, which was inspired by Thomas Love Peacock’s friendship with Shelley, lies in the delight the author takes in poking fun at the romantic movement.

10. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838)

Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel – a classic adventure story with supernatural elements – has fascinated and influenced generations of writers.

11. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845)

The future prime minister displayed flashes of brilliance that equalled the greatest Victorian novelists.

12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)

Charlotte Brontë’s erotic, gothic masterpiece became the sensation of Victorian England. Its great breakthrough was its intimate dialogue with the reader.

13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)

Emily Brontë’s windswept masterpiece is notable not just for its wild beauty but for its daring reinvention of the novel form itself.

14. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1848)

William Thackeray’s masterpiece, set in Regency England, is a bravura performance by a writer at the top of his game.

15. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)

David Copperfield marked the point at which Dickens became the great entertainer and also laid the foundations for his later, darker masterpieces.

16. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s astounding book is full of intense symbolism and as haunting as anything by Edgar Allan Poe.

17. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)

Wise, funny and gripping, Melville’s epic work continues to cast a long shadow over American literature.

18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)

Lewis Carroll’s brilliant nonsense tale is one of the most influential and best loved in the English canon.

19. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)

Wilkie Collins’s masterpiece, hailed by many as the greatest English detective novel, is a brilliant marriage of the sensational and the realistic.

20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868-9)

Louisa May Alcott’s highly original tale aimed at a young female market has iconic status in America and never been out of print.

21. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-2)

This cathedral of words stands today as perhaps the greatest of the great Victorian fictions.

22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875)

Inspired by the author’s fury at the corrupt state of England, and dismissed by critics at the time, The Way We Live Now is recognised as Trollope’s masterpiece.

23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884/5)

Mark Twain’s tale of a rebel boy and a runaway slave seeking liberation upon the waters of the Mississippi remains a defining classic of American literature.

24. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

A thrilling adventure story, gripping history and fascinating study of the Scottish character, Kidnapped has lost none of its power.

25. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889)

Jerome K Jerome’s accidental classic about messing about on the Thames remains a comic gem.

26. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)

Sherlock Holmes’s second outing sees Conan Doyle’s brilliant sleuth – and his bluff sidekick Watson – come into their own.

27. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891)

Wilde’s brilliantly allusive moral tale of youth, beauty and corruption was greeted with howls of protest on publication.

28. New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891)

George Gissing’s portrayal of the hard facts of a literary life remains as relevant today as it was in the late 19th century.

29. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)

Hardy exposed his deepest feelings in this bleak, angry novel and, stung by the hostile response, he never wrote another.

30. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)

Stephen Crane’s account of a young man’s passage to manhood through soldiery is a blueprint for the great American war novel.

31. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

Bram Stoker’s classic vampire story was very much of its time but still resonates more than a century later.

32. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)

Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece about a life-changing journey in search of Mr Kurtz has the simplicity of great myth.

33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900)

Theodore Dreiser was no stylist, but there’s a terrific momentum to his unflinching novel about a country girl’s American dream.

34. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)

In Kipling’s classic boy’s own spy story, an orphan in British India must make a choice between east and west.

35. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)

Jack London’s vivid adventures of a pet dog that goes back to nature reveal an extraordinary style and consummate storytelling.

36. The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904)

American literature contains nothing else quite like Henry James’s amazing, labyrinthine and claustrophobic novel.

37. Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904)

This entertaining if contrived story of a hack writer and priest who becomes pope sheds vivid light on its eccentric author – described by DH Lawrence as a “man-demon”.

38. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)

The evergreen tale from the riverbank and a powerful contribution to the mythology of Edwardian England.

39. The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells (1910)

The choice is great, but Wells’s ironic portrait of a man very like himself is the novel that stands out.

40. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911)

The passage of time has conferred a dark power upon Beerbohm’s ostensibly light and witty Edwardian satire.

41. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)

Ford’s masterpiece is a searing study of moral dissolution behind the facade of an English gentleman – and its stylistic influence lingers to this day.

42. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)

John Buchan’s espionage thriller, with its sparse, contemporary prose, is hard to put down.

43. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence (1915)

The Rainbow is perhaps DH Lawrence’s finest work, showing him for the radical, protean, thoroughly modern writer he was.

44. Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915)

Somerset Maugham’s semi-autobiographical novel shows the author’s savage honesty and gift for storytelling at their best.

45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)

The story of a blighted New York marriage stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture.

46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

This portrait of a day in the lives of three Dubliners remains a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare.

47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)

What it lacks in structure and guile, this enthralling take on 20s America makes up for in vivid satire and characterisation.

48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924)

EM Forster’s most successful work is eerily prescient on the subject of empire.

49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925)

A guilty pleasure it may be, but it is impossible to overlook the enduring influence of a tale that helped to define the jazz age.

50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

Woolf’s great novel makes a day of party preparations the canvas for themes of lost love, life choices and mental illness.

51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

Fitzgerald’s jazz age masterpiece has become a tantalising metaphor for the eternal mystery of art.

52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926)

A young woman escapes convention by becoming a witch in this original satire about England after the first world war.

53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

Hemingway’s first and best novel makes an escape to 1920s Spain to explore courage, cowardice and manly authenticity.

54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929)

Dashiell Hammett’s crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré.

55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)

The influence of William Faulkner’s immersive tale of raw Mississippi rural life can be felt to this day.

56. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)

Aldous Huxley’s vision of a future human race controlled by global capitalism is every bit as prescient as Orwell’s more famous dystopia.

57. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932)

The book for which Gibbons is best remembered was a satire of late-Victorian pastoral fiction but went on to influence many subsequent generations.

58. Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932)

The middle volume of John Dos Passos’s USA trilogy is revolutionary in its intent, techniques and lasting impact.

59. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)

The US novelist’s debut revelled in a Paris underworld of seedy sex and changed the course of the novel – though not without a fight with the censors.

60. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938)

Evelyn Waugh’s Fleet Street satire remains sharp, pertinent and memorable.

61. Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938)

Samuel Beckett’s first published novel is an absurdist masterpiece, a showcase for his uniquely comic voice.

62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)

Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled debut brings to life the seedy LA underworld – and Philip Marlowe, the archetypal fictional detective.

63. Party Going by Henry Green (1939)

Set on the eve of war, this neglected modernist masterpiece centres on a group of bright young revellers delayed by fog.

64. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939)

Labyrinthine and multilayered, Flann O’Brien’s humorous debut is both a reflection on, and an exemplar of, the Irish novel.

65. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

One of the greatest of great American novels, this study of a family torn apart by poverty and desperation in the Great Depression shocked US society.

66. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse (1946)

PG Wodehouse’s elegiac Jeeves novel, written during his disastrous years in wartime Germany, remains his masterpiece.

67. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)

A compelling story of personal and political corruption, set in the 1930s in the American south.

68. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947)

Malcolm Lowry’s masterpiece about the last hours of an alcoholic ex-diplomat in Mexico is set to the drumbeat of coming conflict.

69. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948)

Elizabeth Bowen’s 1948 novel perfectly captures the atmosphere of London during the blitz while providing brilliant insights into the human heart.

70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

George Orwell’s dystopian classic cost its author dear but is arguably the best-known novel in English of the 20th century.

71. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)

Graham Greene’s moving tale of adultery and its aftermath ties together several vital strands in his work.

72. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)

JD Salinger’s study of teenage rebellion remains one of the most controversial and best-loved American novels of the 20th century.

73. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)

In the long-running hunt to identify the great American novel, Saul Bellow’s picaresque third book frequently hits the mark.

74. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)

Dismissed at first as “rubbish & dull”, Golding’s brilliantly observed dystopian desert island tale has since become a classic.

75. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Nabokov’s tragicomic tour de force crosses the boundaries of good taste with glee.

76. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)

The creative history of Kerouac’s beat-generation classic, fuelled by pea soup and benzedrine, has become as famous as the novel itself.

77. Voss by Patrick White (1957)

A love story set against the disappearance of an explorer in the outback, Voss paved the way for a generation of Australian writers to shrug off the colonial past.

78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

Her second novel finally arrived this summer, but Harper Lee’s first did enough alone to secure her lasting fame, and remains a truly popular classic.

79. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1960)

Short and bittersweet, Muriel Spark’s tale of the downfall of a Scottish schoolmistress is a masterpiece of narrative fiction.

80. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

This acerbic anti-war novel was slow to fire the public imagination, but is rightly regarded as a groundbreaking critique of military madness.

81. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)

Hailed as one of the key texts of the women’s movement of the 1960s, this study of a divorced single mother’s search for personal and political identity remains a defiant, ambitious tour de force.

82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)

Anthony Burgess’s dystopian classic still continues to startle and provoke, refusing to be outshone by Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant film adaptation.

83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)

Christopher Isherwood’s story of a gay Englishman struggling with bereavement in LA is a work of compressed brilliance.

84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)

Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel, a true story of bloody murder in rural Kansas, opens a window on the dark underbelly of postwar America.

85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966)

Sylvia Plath’s painfully graphic roman à clef, in which a woman struggles with her identity in the face of social pressure, is a key text of Anglo-American feminism.

86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)

This wickedly funny novel about a young Jewish American’s obsession with masturbation caused outrage on publication, but remains his most dazzling work.

87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971)

Elizabeth Taylor’s exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s.

88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971)

Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, Updike’s lovably mediocre alter ego, is one of America’s great literary protoganists, up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby.

89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)

The novel with which the Nobel prize-winning author established her name is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the African-American experience in the 20th century.

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

VS Naipaul’s hellish vision of an African nation’s path to independence saw him accused of racism, but remains his masterpiece.

91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

The personal and the historical merge in Salman Rushdie’s dazzling, game-changing Indian English novel of a young man born at the very moment of Indian independence.

92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981)

Marilynne Robinson’s tale of orphaned sisters and their oddball aunt in a remote Idaho town is admired by everyone from Barack Obama to Bret Easton Ellis.

93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis (1984)

Martin Amis’s era-defining ode to excess unleashed one of literature’s greatest modern monsters in self-destructive antihero John Self.

94. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about a retired artist in postwar Japan, reflecting on his career during the country’s dark years, is a tour de force of unreliable narration.

95. The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald (1988)

Fitzgerald’s story, set in Russia just before the Bolshevik revolution, is her masterpiece: a brilliant miniature whose peculiar magic almost defies analysis.

96. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1988)

Anne Tyler’s portrayal of a middle-aged, mid-American marriage displays her narrative clarity, comic timing and ear for American speech to perfection.

97. Amongst Women by John McGahern (1990)

This modern Irish masterpiece is both a study of the faultlines of Irish patriarchy and an elegy for a lost world.

98. Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)

A writer of “frightening perception”, Don DeLillo guides the reader in an epic journey through America’s history and popular culture.

99. Disgrace by JM Coetzee (1999)

In his Booker-winning masterpiece, Coetzee’s intensely human vision infuses a fictional world that both invites and confounds political interpretation.

100. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2000)

Peter Carey rounds off our list of literary milestones with a Booker prize-winning tour-de-force examining the life and times of Australia’s infamous antihero, Ned Kelly.

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[godzilla-reads]

Classics TBR

I have a separate TBR List solely for classic books! And here it is: 

“Moby Dick” by Herman Melville

“Emma” by Jane Austen

“The Red and the Black” by Stendhal

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell

“Tess of the d’Ubervilles” by Thomas Hardy

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith

“In a Glass Darkly” by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

“Jude the Obscure” by Thomas Hardy

“Diaries” by Franz Kafka

“To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf

“The Scarlet Letter”  by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas

“Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes

“Women in Love” by D.H. Lawrence

“The Moonstone” by Wilkie Collins (Family Curse)

“The Phantom of the Opera” by Gaston Leroux

“The Italian” by Ann Radcliffe

“The Castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole

“Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller

“Maurice” by E.M. Forester

P.S. I’m so close to finishing Emma it hurts. 

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My Big Ass TBR List

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish - Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

Emma - Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Lady Susan - Jane Austen

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

Five Little Pigs- Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd- Agatha Christie

Curtain - Agatha Christie

The A.B.C. Murders - Agatha Christie

The Big Four - Agatha Christie

The Body in the Library - Agatha Christie

A Caribbean Mystery - Agatha Christie

Crooked House - Agatha Christie

A Murder is Announced- Agatha Christie

Murder is Easy - Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie

Sad Cypress - Agatha Christie

Sleeping Murder - Agatha Christie

The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories - Agatha Christie

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

The Carrow Haunt - Darcy Coates

The Folcroft Ghosts - Darcy Coates

The House Next Door - Darcy Coates

The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't Look Now - Daphne Du Maurier

My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Grimm's Fairy Tales - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

The Mystery of the Three Quarters - Sophie Hannah

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The Iliad - Homer

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

Circe - Madeline Miller

Paradise Lost - John Milton

Classic Stories of Edgar Allen Poe

Fire From Heaven - Mary Renault

The Last of the Wine - Mary Renault

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Othello - William Shakespeare

King Lear - William Shakespeare

Macbeth- William Shakespeare

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan

I Might Regret This - Abbi Jacobson

Why Not Me? - Mindy Kaling

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling

The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem From History's Most Notorious Serial Killers - Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski

My Life on the Road- Gloria Steinem

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions - Gloria Steinem

Shrill - Lindy West

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CKUA - Fill-In Playlists: 2020 Summer

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Below are the playlists for shows where I filled-in as guest host on CKUA during summer 2020.

Explore my playlist history for other dates and programs.

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TITLE • PERFORMING ARTIST • ALBUM • AIRTIME

2020-06-24 - 12:00-14:00 - Noontide (fundraiser edition)

^^ Listener recommendations/requests ++ Appears on this week’s CKUA top 30 chart

Sky Blue Sky • Wilco • SKY BLUE SKY • 12:02

Mr. Blue Sky • Electric Light Orchestra • ELO'S GREATEST HITS • 12:07

Chanson D'amour • David Wilkie & Gaye Delorme • BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS: VOL.1 • 12:12 ^^

When My Blue Moon Turns Gold Again • Roy Forbes • ______ • 12:19 ^^

Baby Blue • The Velveteins • A HOT SECOND WITH THE VELVETEINS • 12:22

In the Blue Moonlight • Joel Plaskett • THREE • 12:27

Hallelujah • k.d. lang • HYMNS OF THE 49TH PARALLEL • 12:33 ^^

Interview with Brian Beresh • Grant Stovel • CKUA ARTS • 12:39

I Can Help • Billy Swan • THE BEST OF • 12:41

Piano Blink • Hawksley Workman • BETWEEN THE BEAUTIFULS • 12:44 ^^

Stuck Inside Of Mobile... • Cat Power • I'M NOT THERE (SOUNDTRACK) • 12:49 ^^

No Control • Basia Bulat • ARE YOU IN LOVE? • 12:57 ^^

Time Of The Season • The Zombies • POP MUSIC: THE GOLDEN ERA • 13:03

Oj u Haju Pry Dunaju • Marenych Trio • SINGS • 13:12 ^^

Zebra • Beach House • TEEN DREAM • 13:12

Zebra • John Butler Trio • CMJ NEW MUSIC MONTHLY, VOL. 132 • 13:18 ^^

Living In The Future • John Prine • GREAT DAYS • 13:22 ^^

Sleepwalk • Jeff Beck • BECKOLOGY • 13:28

Double Barrel Blues • Blue Moon Marquee • GYPSY BLUES • 13:32 ^^

Bright Side of the Road • Van Morrison • AT THE MOVIES: SOUNDTRACK HITS • 13:38 ^^

Painter In Your Pocket • Destroyer • DESTROYER'S RUBIES • 13:44 ^^

Hey Bulldog • The Beatles • YELLOW SUBMARINE • 13:51 ^^

War Pigs • Ruthie Foster • JOY COMES BACK • 13:54 ^^

2020-06-25 - 12:00-14:00 - Noontide (post-fundraiser all-request show)

^^ Listener recommendations/requests

Wasting Time • Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats • S/T • 12:00 ^^

Jaquima to Freno • Ian Tyson • AND STOOD THERE AMAZED • 12:04 ^^

Lost Together • Blue Rodeo • LOST TOGETHER • 12:08 ^^

Real Love • David Myles • REAL LOVE • 12:15 ^^

Rubberband Of Life • Miles Davis (w/ Ledisi) • RUBBERBAND • 12:19 ^^

Smithsonian • The Avett Brothers • TRUE SADNESS • 12:26 ^^

This Storm • Tara MacLean & Catherine MacLelleland • THIS STORM (SINGLE) • 12:33 ^^

Swingin' With The Cats • Jim Campilongo • ______ • 12:39 ^^

Muffin Top • Jim & Penny Malmberg • WE'RE HERE FOR • 12:42 ^^

Right Before Your Eyes • Ian Thomas • A LIFE IN SONG • 12:45 ^^

Together • The Raconteurs • BROKEN BOY SOLDIERS • 12:52 ^^

I Can't Wait • Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch... • LOST JOHN DEAN • 12:56 ^^

45 Years • Stan Rogers • IN CONCERT • 13:02 ^^

Crazy As A Loon • John Prine • FAIR & SQUARE • 13:08 ^^

Coffee & TV • Blur • 13 • 13:13 ^^

Tangled Up In Blue • Bob Dylan • BLOOD ON THE TRACKS • 13:21 ^^

We Are Family • Sister Sledge • SISTER SLEDGE • 13:28 ^^

I Wanna Thank You • Sloan • NAVY BLUES • 13:34 ^^

Trapeze • Patty Griffin • CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH • 13:38 ^^

Feeling Good • Nina Simone • TO BE FREE • 13:43 ^^

Carry On • Doug Hoyer • CHARACTER WITNESS • 13:48 ^^

No Wrong • King of Foxes • SALT & HONEY • 13:51 ^^

2020-06-26 - 12:00-14:00 - Noontide

^^ Listener recommendations/requests ++ Appears on this week’s CKUA top 30 chart

Rose Coloured Frames • Mariel Buckley • DRIVING IN THE DARK • 12:00

A Hundred Shades of Blue • Whitney Rose • WE STILL GO TO RODEOS • 12:03 ++

Any Fool With a Heart • Tami Neilson • CHICKABOOM! • 12:07

Where Have All The Flowers Gone • Peter, Paul & Mary • THE VERY BEST • 12:10

Shelter from the Storm • Bob Dylan • BLOOD ON THE TRACKS • 12:14 ^^

Ne Me Quitte Pas • Jesse Cook • THE BLUE GUITAR SESSIONS • 12:22 ^^

The Rambling Irishman • Dervish • THE GREAT IRISH SONGBOOK • 12:29

The Look of Love • ABC • THE LOOK OF LOVE • 12:35

Disco 2000 • Pulp • DIFFERENT CLASS • 12:39

Born Under a Bad Sign • Richard Hawley • COLES CORNER • 12:43

Summers Around Here • Mike Plume • LONESOME STRETCH OF HIGHWAY • 12:48 ++

New Day • Pharis & Jason Romero • BET ON LOVE • 12:52 ++

Havava • The Jerry Cans • ECHOES • 12:57 ++

Let Me Take You To the Beach • Frank Zappa • STUDIO TAN • 13:04

Hold the Line • Osyron • HOLD THE LINE • 13:08

And I Love Her • Pat Metheny • WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT • 13:12 ^^

Tender Lullaby • Roy Forbes • ALMOST OVERNIGHT • 13:18 ^^

Cover Your Eyes • Jess Knights • BEST KIND OF LIGHT • 13:20 ++

Stranger • Emily Rockarts • LITTLE FLOWER • 13:24 ++

Get You Back • Ariel Posen • HOW LONG • 13:30

Wreckless Abandon • The Dirty Knobs • WRECKLESS ABANDON • 13:37

Domino • Nicole Atkins • ITALIAN ICE • 13:42

Do It All the Time • I Don't Know How They Found Me • 1981 EP • 13:46

Angel • Lucette • DELUXE HOTEL ROOM • 13:50

Roundabout • Yes • FRAGILE • 13:53

2020-07-08 - 12:00-15:00 - Thoroughfare

^^ Listener recommendations/requests ++ Appears on this week’s CKUA top 30 chart

Euphoria (Firefly) • Delerium • KARMA • 12:00

The Ecstasy of Gold • Carolina Eyck • MUSIC FOR VOICE AND THEREMIN • 12:07

Seductress Of Bums • Raveonettes • PRETTY IN BLACK • 12:10

Apocalypse • Cigarettes After Sex • CIGARETTES AFTER SEX • 12:14

Rocket To The Moon • Adrian Nation • ANARCHY AND LOVE • 12:19

Andy • Frank Zappa & the Mothers • ONE SIZE FITS ALL • 12:28

The New Pollution • Beck • ODELAY • 12:35

Make Me Feel • Janelle Monae • DIRTY COMPUTER (CLEAN) • 12:39

Digital Witness • St. Vincent • ST. VINCENT • 12:42

We Used To Have Fun • Doug Hoyer • WE USED TO HAVE FUN • 12:48

Dancing Tonight • Christina Quesada • DANCING TONIGHT • 12:51

Nunca Es Suficiente • Natalia Lafourcade • HASTA LA RAIZ • 12:55

Havava • The Jerry Cans • ECHOES • 13:02 ++

Trigger • The New Haunts • THE NEW HAUNTS • 13:07

Source Blips • Matthew Cardinal • PIECES: 2011-2019 • 13:11

Come Hell Or High River • Tim Isberg • TEARS ALONG THE ROAD • 13:13

I'm Okay • Kimberley MacGregor • I AM MY OWN • 13:19

Get You Back • Ariel Posen • HOW LONG • 13:26

Yes, I Have Ghosts • David Gilmour & Romany Gilmour • YES, I HAVE GHOSTS • 13:34

So Long, Marianne • Leonard Cohen • SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN • 13:37

In Dreams • Roy Orbison • IN DREAMS • 13:44

Eulogy, End of the World • Evergreen • WHOLE • 13:47

Old Star • Devonian Gardens • OLD STAR • 13:55

Hanging On a Line • Begonia • FEAR • 14:01

Magpie • Caribou • SUDDENLY • 14:07 ++

Tu Mundo de Cristal • Capsula de Suenos • TU MUNDO DE CRISTAL • 14:12

Pegaso • Single • HOLA • 14:15

The Ballad Of Fred And Barney • Brad Bucknell & the oHNo Band • OHNO • 14:21

New Day • Pharis & Jason Romero • BET ON LOVE • 14:25 ++

Leaving Edmonton • Geoff Hawryluk • LEAVING EDMONTON • 14:32

Dark Road • Richard Hawley • LADY'S BRIDGE • 14:37

Elephant in the Room • Le Superhomard • MEADOW LANE PARK • 14:40

Give It Back • The Hearts • GIVE IT BACK • 14:45

Come With Me • Amy van Keeken • IN DREAMS • 14:50

Little White Lines • Sweet Vintage Rides • ROAD TRIP • 14:53

Rose of the Valley • Duane Eddy • ROAD TRIP • 14:56

2020-07-23 - 06:00-09:00 - Alberta Morning

^^ Listener recommendations/requests ++ Appears on this week’s CKUA top 30 chart

Mannish Boy • Muddy Waters • HARD AGAIN • 06:00

Sister Mavis • Tami Neilson • CHICKABOOM! • 06:06

The Devil is a Blue-Eyed Man • Celeigh Cardinal • STORIES FROM... • 06:08

Rose Coloured Frames • Mariel Buckley • DRIVING IN THE DARK • 06:14

Three Cheers to the Calgary Stampede • Dirty Dirty Devil’s • SATIN DEVIL DIARIES • 06:17

90 Seconds of Your Time • Corb Lund • AGRICULTURAL TRAGIC • 06:22 ++

Just Because You Can Don't Mean You Should • John Moore • JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN... • 06:25

Things • Bobby Darin • ANTHOLOGY • 06:31

Waking Light • Beck • MORNING PHASE • 06:38

Memoir • Charlotte Gainsbourg • STAGE WHISPER • 06:41

Welcome Home • My Morning Jacket • THE WATERFALL II • 06:44 ++

Te Queria • Lido Pimienta • MISS COLOMBIA • 06:49 ++

Temeles • Alemayehu Eshete & Hirut Begele • ETHIOPIAN SOUL AND GROOVE VOL 1 • 06:53

18 • Moscow Apartment • BETTER DAUGHTER (EP) • 06:59 ++

Loneliness • Rebekah Higgs • SHA LA LA • 07:04

Heart of an Animal • The Dears • LOVERS ROCK • 07:07

Time (You and I) • Khruangbin • MORDECHAI • 07:14 ++

Wherever You Go (Visualizer) • The Avalanches • WHEREVER YOU GO • 07:20

Summer Girl • HAIM • WOMEN IN MUSIC PT. III • 07:27

Tierra • Freak Motif • HOT PLATE • 07:31

Got Lucky • The Dice Cubes • MAKE ME MOTOR • 07:36 ^^

How To Forget • Jason Isbell • SOMETHING MORE THAN FREE • 07:41

That's How Rumors Get Started • Margo Price • THAT'S HOW RUMORS GET STARTED • 07:45 ++

Cold Fire • Begonia • FEAR • 07:49

Royals • Doug Organ • ROYALS (SINGLE) • 07:55

Scarlet (featuring Jimmy Page) • The Rolling Stones • GOAT'S HEAD SOUP 2020 • 08:00

House Music All Night Long • Jarv Is • BEYOND THE PALE • 08:08

I Want To Be a Robot • Eva Hurychova • DNES NA TOM ZALEZI • 08:13

Computerlove • Kraftwerk • COMPUTERWORLD • 08:21

Talk • Coldplay • X&Y • 08:22

Good Vibes • J. Findlay & M. Xu • I SEE • 08:27

Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth • Neko Case • MIDDLE CYCLONE • 08:31

Chat domestique • Jill Barber • ENTRE NOUS • 08:33 ++

Little Birds • Brenna Lowrie • LOSS LEADER • 08:38 ++

Hasta La Vista • Richard Inman • ______ • 08:40 ++

Saskatchewan (Eleanor's) • Zachary Lucky • SASKATCHEWAN • 08:44

Old Souls • William Prince • RELIEVER • 08:50

Hammer Into Anvil • Ikebe Shakedown • KINGS LEFT BEHIND • 08:54

2020-07-24 - 06:00-09:00 - Alberta Morning

++ Appears on this week’s CKUA top 30 chart

Traveling Light • Leonard Cohen • YOU WANT IT DARKER • 06:00

Save the Whale • Jarv Is • BEYOND THE PALE • 06:05

Tu Mundo de Cristal • Capsula de Suenos • TU MUNDO DE CRISTAL • 06:11

Cosmic Dancer • Nick Cave • ANGELHEADED HIPSTER • 06:15

Goodbye To A Friend • Dirty Dirty Devil's • SATIN DEVIL DIARIES • 06:21

Leaving Edmonton • Geoff Hawryluk • LEAVING EDMONTON • 06:28

The Business • Freak Motif • HOT PLATE • 06:31

Dangerous Heart • Joey Landreth • HINDSIGHT • 06:37

Wake Up the Ghosts • Leisure Cruise • LEISURE CRUISE • 06:42

Postcards From Paradise • Ringo Starr • POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE • 06:47

Nos Retrouvailles • Jill Barber • ENTRE NOUS • 06:53 ++

Backsliders • King Of Foxes • SALT & HONEY • 06:59

Dead End Kid • Altameda • DIRTY RAIN • 07:03

Chase The Sun • Lab Coast • THE SLED ISLAND LEMONADE STAND • 07:06

Interesting Times • Thomas Thomas • THE SLED ISLAND LEMONADE STAND • 07:08

What A Great Day • Jr. Gone Wild • PULL THE GOALIE • 07:13

The Other Man • Sloan • PRETTY TOGETHER • 07:19

Somnabulist • Nehiyawak • LIVE AT CKUA • 07:24

Braids • Anachnid • DREAMWEAVER • 07:27 ++

Nanya Tamgu • Sinistrio • RIDE THE DRAGON • 07:30

Building A Case • Kimberley MacGregor • I AM MY OWN • 07:34

Body • Julia Jacklin • CRUSHING • 07:43

Cherry Blossom Girl • Air • TALKIE WALKIE • 07:48

Survivor's Guilt • Danny Michel • BLACK BIRDS ARE DANCING OVER ME • 07:51

Yes, I Have Ghosts • David Gilmour & Romany Gilmour • YES, I HAVE GHOSTS • 07:57

Dreams Tonite • Alvvays • ANTISOCIALITES • 08:02

Jody • A Girl Called Eddy • JODY • 08:06

Nuestro Momento • Band a Part • NUESTRO MOMENTO • 08:12

Sunshine • Cayley Thomas • HOW ELSE CAN I TELL YOU? • 08:15 ++

Resisto Y Ya • Lido Pimienta • MISS COLOMBIA • 08:19 ++

Just Circumstance • Whitney Rose • WE STILL GO TO RODEOS • 08:22 ++

New Girl • Moscow Apartment • BETTER DAUGHTER • 08:27 ++

Pattern Recognition • Noveller • ARROW • 08:32

Day After Day • Badfinger • DAY AFTER DAY • 08:33

Black Velvet Band • Irish Rovers • VERY BEST • 08:36

24 Frames • Jason Isbell • SOMETHING MORE THAN FREE • 08:41

New Day • Pharis & Jason Romero • BET ON LOVE • 08:44

Highway Two • Tim Isberg • RUNNING ON THE EDGE • 08:50

The Tourist Song • Brad Bucknell • OHNO • 08:53

2020-07-30 - 06:00-09:00 - Alberta Morning

++ Appears on this week’s CKUA top 30 chart

As the Dawn Breaks • Richard Hawley • TRUELOVE'S GUTTER • 06:01

Little Birds • Brenna Lowrie • LOSS LEADER • 06:05 ++

The Birds • Elbow • BUILD A ROCKET BOYS! • 06:08

Birds and Ships • Billy Bragg & Wilco • MERMAID AVENUE • 06:16

Comme les fleurs • Jill Barber • ENTRE NOUS • 06:19 ++

Summer Girl • HAIM • WOMEN IN MUSIC PT. III • 06:22 ++

Left Right Left • Ashes & Dreams • HEART OF STONE • 06:26

Coffee Creek • The Slocan Ramblers • COFFEE CREEK • 06:30

Pachagon • Djely Tapa • BAROKAN • 06:34 ++

Our Hell • Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton • KNIVES DON'T HAVE YOUR BACK • 06:37

Dirty Blvd. • Lou Reed • NYC MAN - THE COLLECTION • 06:42

Wendy’s House • Brad Bucknell • OHNO • 06:46

Bizarre Love Triangle • Give 'Em Hell Boys • BARN BURNER • 06:50

Love Will Tear Us Apart • Oysterband • THE BIG SESSION: VOLUME 1 • 06:54

Stay • Justine Vandergrift • STAY (SINGLE) • 07:01

Mr. Bojangles • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band • NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND • 07:05

I'm Still Loving You • Blackie & The Rodeo Kings • SOUTH • 07:09

Collaboratoins Don't Work • FFS • FFS • 07:13

Shape Shifter • Lera Lynn • RESISTOR • 07:20

Bowling Green • Neko Case • THE VIRGINIAN • 07:25

Plaid Suit • Gitkin • 5 STAR MOTEL • 07:28

Fireproof • The National • TROUBLE WILL FIND ME • 07:31

You Want It Darker • Leonard Cohen • YOU WANT IT DARKER • 07:33

Dividido • Alex Cuba • SUBLIME • 07:42

Moon Of Honey • Billie ZiZi • MOON OF HONEY • 07:46

The Ridge • Julian Taylor • THE RIDGE • 07:50 ++

No Control • Basia Bulat • ARE YOU IN LOVE? • 07:55

Goodbye Jimmy Reed • Bob Dylan • ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS • 08:01 ++

18 • Moscow Apartment • BETTER DAUGHTER (EP) • 08:07 ++

Everyday Robots • Damon Albarn • EVERYDAY ROBOTS • 08:11

West End Girls (Lockdown Version) • Pet Shop Boys • LOCKDOWN • 08:15

Vitamin C • Can • THE SINGLES • 08:19

Blistered • That Pedal Show Band • OX EP • 08:22

Try • Ariel Posen • HOW LONG • 08:27

Blues Of The Prairies • Oscar Peterson • CANADIANA SUITE • 08:30

Qui Je Suis • Thomas Dutronc • QUI JE SUIS • 08:35

Pull Away • Leon Bridges • COMING HOME • 08:38

Resisto Y Ya • Lido Pimienta • MISS COLOMBIA • 08:41 ++

Shangri-La • EOB • EARTH • 08:44

Pacheco • Beirut • NO NO NO • 08:50

Forgotten Worlds • Delerium • KARMA • 08:53

2020-07-31 - 06:00-09:00 - Alberta Morning

Standing at the Sky's Edge • Richard Hawley • LIVE AT THE DEVIL'S ARSE • 06:01

Rocket To The Moon • Adrian Nation • ANARCHY AND LOVE • 06:06

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea • Neutral Milk Hotel • IN THE AEROPLANE... • 06:12

Impossible Germany (live, 2012) • Wilco • ASHES OF THE AMERICAN FLAG • 06:16

Scarlet (featuring Jimmy Page) • The Rolling Stones • GOATS HEAD SOUP 2020 • 06:22

Save the Whale • Jarv Is • BEYOND THE PALE • 06:28

Guitar Rumba • Sue Foley • BACK TO THE BLUES • 06:32

Don't Delete the Kisses • Wolf Alice • VISIONS OF A LIFE • 06:36

My Future • Billie Eilish • MY FUTURE • 06:40

One to Remember • Khruangbin • MORDECHAI • 06:44 ++

Excuses • Olivia Jean • BATHTUB LOVE KILLINGS • 06:48

Domino • Nicole Atkins • ITALIAN ICE • 06:52

Sound & Color • Alabama Shakes • SOUND & COLOR • 06:56

Dragonfly • Fleetwood Mac • DRAGONFLY • 07:01

Too Many Wrongs • The Dears • LOVERS ROCK • 07:05

Let Me Be A Flower Child • Fionn • EVERYONE'S A CRITIC • 07:09 ++

Jody • A Girl Called Eddy • JODY • 07:14

I'll Meet You There • Carbon Poppies • RAIN ON MY FACE • 07:19

So Sweet • Bad Buddy • BAD BUDDY • 07:22 ++

Dancing with Sue • Wyatt C. Louis • DANCING WITH SUE • 07:26

Reflect • Matthew Cardinal • PIECES: 2011-2019 • 07:29 ++

Any Fool With A Heart • Tami Neilson • CHICKABOOM • 07:31

Two Minds • Cayley Thomas • TWO MINDS • 07:34

Runaway • Doug Hoyer • CHARACTER WITNESS • 07:41

Old Father Time • John Moore • OLD FATHER TIME • 07:44

Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance • Loreena McKennitt • NIGHTS FROM THE ALHAMBRA • 07:48

I Move Around • Lee Hazlewood • 13 • 07:56

Singin' the Blues (live) • Ruthie Foster • LIVE AT THE PARAMOUNT • 08:01 ++

Hey Child • Margo Price • THAT'S HOW RUMORS GET STARTED • 08:05 ++

Joue avec le feu • Jill Barber • ENTRE NOUS • 08:09 ++

Eso Que Tu Haces • Lido Pimienta • MISS COLOMBIA • 08:12 ++

Anna (Go To Him) • Arthur Alexander • ULTIMATE COLLECTION • 08:18

Holdin' Me Down • Dead Ghosts • AUTOMATIC CHANGER • 08:20

What You're Doing • The Beatles • BEATLES FOR SALE • 08:23

The Shining Sea • Cory Weeds • DAY BY DAY • 08:26 ++

Bear the Cold • Mitch Holtby • BEAR THE COLD • 08:32

Everybody's Coming to My House • David Byrne • AMERICAN UTOPIA • 08:35

West End Girls (Lockdown Version) • Pet Shop Boys • LOCKDOWN • 08:39

Pink Lemonade • James Bay • ELECTRIC LIGHT • 08:42

All Of Me • That Pedal Show Band • OX EP • 08:46

The Battle of the Thames • Osyron • FOUNDATIONS • 08:53

2020-08-25 - 12:00-15:00 - Thoroughfare

^^ Listener recommendations/requests ++ Appears on this week’s CKUA top 30 chart

Celebration Day • Led Zeppelin • III • 12:00 ^^

Live In Favor of Tomorrow • The Lemon Twigs • SONGS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC • 12:04

Rain on My Face • Carbon Poppies • RAIN ON MY FACE • 12:07

Seductress Of Bums • Raveonettes • PRETTY IN BLACK • 12:10

Diamonds Are Forever (Mantronic Remix) • Shirley Bassey • THE REMIX ALBUM • 12:14

Firelight • Thievery Corporation • SAUDADE • 12:18

Spanish Light • The Jim Findlay Trio • LIVE AT THE BLUE CHAIR • 12:21

Carry On • Coeur De Pirate • ROSES • 12:27

Just the Two of Us • Alex Cuba • JUST THE TWO OF US • 12:32

Libertad • Ventanas • ARRELUMBRE • 12:35

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A Quaint and Curious Volume: Tales and Poems of the Gothic, introduced by Sarah Perry, William Collins, 2019. Cover design by Jo Walker, info: harpercollins.com.

Uncanny. Mysterious. Eerie. Gothic. It draws us in with its air of mystery and repels us with its violence and darkness. But who were the first practitioners of the now-prevalent genre? This curated book collects the works of such masters as Edgar Allan Poe, Christina Rossetti and Mary Shelley, who with flickering candles, mysterious castles and chilling ravens first frightened and delighted readers. With a brilliantly insightful introduction by Sarah Perry, the contemporary master of the gothic genre, this book will immerse and entangle you in the roots of the gothic. Just be careful not to get lost.

Contents: Introduction by Sarah Perry     Part I: The Lovers ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe ‘Porphiria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’ by William Butler Yeats ‘Berenice’ by Edgar Allan Poe ‘The Wedding Knell’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne     Part II: Wheel of fortune ‘The Darkling Thrush’ by Thomas Hardy ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’ by Elizabeth Gaskell     Part III: The Tower Extract from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole ‘The Fall of the House of Husher’ by Edgar Allan Poe Extract from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman     Part IV: The Magician Extract from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ‘The Body Snatcher’ by Robert Louis Stevenson ‘The Dream Woman’ by Wilkie Collins     Part V: The Devil ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti ‘The Tapestried Chamber’ by Sir Walter Scott ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe About the Publisher

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Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible - Council of Nicea Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Paradise Lost - John Milton The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain White Fang - Jack London The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Call of the Wild - Jack London The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum Don Quixote — Miguel De Cervantes Where the Wild Things Are — Maurice Sendak The Cat in the Hat — Dr Seuss The Giver — Lois Lowry Inkheart — Cornelia Funke Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri Macbeth — William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare The Child Called ‘It’ — Dave Pelzer The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank Night — Elie Wiesel Les Misérables — Victor Hugo The Odyssey — Homer The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne The Brothers Karamasov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Eragon — Christopher Paolini

[mmel]

books read in 2019

january

1.The Little Mermaid — Hans Christian Andersen (1837) (audio) 

2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922) (audio)

3. Jungle River — Howard Pease (1938) 

4. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 

5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence — Robert M. Pirsig (1974) 

6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) 

7. Crome Yellow — Aldous Huxley (1921) 

8. The Story of the Eye — George Bataille (1921) 

february

9. The Immoralist — Andre Gide (1902) 

10. 1984 — George Orwell (1949) (audio) (2nd time) 

11. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger (1951) (audio) (2nd time) 

12. Animal Farm — George Orwell (1945) (audio) (2nd time) 

13. The Woodlanders — Thomas Hardy (1877) 

14. Descartes in 90 Minutes — Paul Strathern (1996) 

15. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847) 

march

16. Discourse on the Method (1637) (in Heffernan) & 16.5 The Search After Truth by the Light of Nature — René Descartes 

17. Bilingual “Discourse on the Method” & Essays — Descartes & George Heffernan (1994) 

18. Autobiography — John Stuart Mill (1873) 

19. Méditations — René Descartes (1641) 

20. Discourse on Method and Related Writings — René Descartes (Penguin Classics) incl. le monde et les règles 

21. Meno — Plato (385 BC) (audio) 

22. Crito — Plato (audio) 

23. Poetics — Aristotle (audio) 

24. The Apology — Plato (audio) 

25. Phaedo — Plato (audio) 

26. Five Dialogues — Plato (euthyphro, apology, crito, meno, phaedo) (2nd time except euthyphro) 

27. Ion - Plato 

28. The Art of Loving — Erich Fromm (1956) 

29. On Liberty — J.S. Mill (1859) 

april

30. A History of Knowledge — Charles Van Doren (1991) 

31. Why I am So Wise — Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin abridged Ecce Homo) (1908) 

32. The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James (1902) 

33. Pragmatism — William James (1907) 

34. Candide — Voltaire (1759) 

35. Short stories by Voltaire — Zadig, Micromegas, The World as it Is, Memnon, Bababec, Scarmentados Travels, Plato’s Dream, Jesuit Berthier, Good Brahman, Jeannot and Colin, An Indian Adventure, Ingenuous, One-Eyed Porter, Memory’s Adventure, Chaplain Goudman (1747-1775) 

36. The Great Conversation — Robert M. Hutchins (1952) 

may

37. Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy & Prometheus Bound (458 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965) 

38. Sophocles’ Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes (~400 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965) 

39. Euripides’ Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchae (~430 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965) 

40. Mythology — Edith Hamilton (1940) 

41. Erewhon — Samuel Butler (1872) 

42. The Iliad — Homer (850 BC) 

43. The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint Exupery (1943) 

44. Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (2nd time), The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians (Penguin Classics) 

45. Teaching From the Balance Point — Edward Kreitman (Suzuki guide — 1998) 

june

46. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (2nd time), Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (2nd time) (Penguin Classics) 

47. The Odyssey — Homer (850 BC) 

48. The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) 

49. Coraline — Neil Gaiman (2002) 

50. The Lost Art of Reading — David Ulin (2010) 

51. Sophocles’ Ajax, Electra (2nd time), Women of Trachis, Philoctetes (2nd time) (Penguin Classics) 

52. The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) 

53. The Awakening — Kate Chopin (1899) (audio) 

54. Straight is the Gate — André Gide (1924) 

55. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (1847) 

56. Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne (1864) (audio) 

57. East of Eden — John Steinbeck (1952) 

58. Sons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence (1913) 

59. Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck (1939) (audio) 

july 

60. Attached — Amir Levine (2010) (audio) 

61. The Prophet — Khalil Gibran (1923) (audio) 

62. The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz (1997) (audio) (2nd time) 

63. The Transparent Self — Sidney Jourard (1964) 

64. The Return of the Native — Thomas Hardy (1878) 

65. The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B Du Bois (1903) (audio) 

66. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) (audio) 

67. The Call of the Wild — Jack London (1903) (audio) 

68. The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde (1895) (audio) (2nd time) 

69. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum (1900) (audio) 

70. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890) (audio) 

71. Justine — Marquis de Sade (1791) 

72. Love and Will — Rollo May (1969) 

73. Nine Stories — J.D. Salinger (1953) 

74. The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution — P.D. Ouspensky (1950) 

75. The Good Earth — Pearl S. Buck (1931) (audio) 

76. The Symposium — Plato (385-370 BC) 

77. Children’s Stories by Oscar Wilde (1888) 

august 

78. Plato’s Apology (3rd time), Crito (3rd time) ; Laches, Gorgias (audio) 

79. Plato’s Greater Hippias, Phaedrus (audio) 

80. The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) (audio) 

81. Plato’s Phaedo (3rd time), Euthyphro (3rd time); Charmides 

82. Eyeless in Gaza — Aldous Huxley (1936) 

83. A Little History of the World — E. F. Gombrich (1936) (audio) 

84. Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett (1953) 

85. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1877) 

86. A Little History of Literature — John Southerland (2013) 

87. Sartor Resartus — Thomas Carlyle (1831) 

88. Macbeth — Shakespeare (1606) 

september

89. An Apology for Idlers — Robert Louis Stevenson (Penguin Great Ideas collection of essays) (1877) 

90. The Cloister and the Hearth — Charles Reade (1861) 

91. How to Read a Book — Mortimer Adler & Charles van Doren (1972) (audio) 

92. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe (1719) (audio) 

93. The Story of Art — E. H. Gombrich (1950) 

94. The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins (1868) 

95. Emma — Jane Austen (1816) 

96. Daughters & Mothers: Mothers & Daughters — Signe Hammer (1975) 

97. Looking Back — Edward Bellamy (1888) 

98. Franny & Zooey — J.D. Salinger (1955) 

99. Persuasion — Jane Austen (1817)

100. Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen (1811) (audio and 2011 Annotated edition!!!) 

101. The Aspern Papers — Henry James (1888) 

october

102. Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller (1949) 

103. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (1932) (audio) 

104. Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delaney (1974) 

105. Mansfield Park — Jane Austen (1814) 

106. Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen (1817) 

107. Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier (1938) 

108. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813) (second time) (audio) 

109. The American — Henry James (1877) 

110. Washington Square — Henry James (1880) 

111. The Europeans — Henry James (1878) 

112. Watch and Ward — Henry James (1871) 

113. Roderick Hudson — Henry James (1875) 

114. Confidence — Henry James (1879)

115. Portrait of a Lady — Henry James (1881)

116. I’ll Never Be French — Marc Greenside (2008)

117. The Bostonians -- Henry James (1886)

118. Henry James short stories Vol. I 1864-1874 -- A Tragedy of Error; The Story of a Year; A Landscape Painter; A Day of Days; My Friend Bingham; Poor Richard, The Story of a Masterpiece; The Romance of Certain Old Clothes; A Most Extraordinary Case; A Problem; De Grey: A Romance; Osbourne’s Revenge, A Light Man, Gabrielle de Bergerac, Travelling Companions, A Passionate Pilgrim, At Isella, Master Eustace, Guest’s Confession, The Madonna of the Future, The Sweetheart of M. Briseaux, The Last of the Valerii, Madame de Mauves, Adina

119. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul -- Douglas Adams (1988)

120. French Children Don’t Throw Food -- Pamela Druckerman (2012)

121. Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French -- Asselin & Mastron (2001)

122. Henry James: The Young Master -- Sheldon Novick (1997)

123. Henry James short stories Vol. II 1875-1884 Professor Fargo, Eugene Pickering, Benvolio, Crawford’s Consistency, The Ghostly Rental, Four Meetings, Rose-Agathe, Daisy Miller, Longstaff’s Marriage, An International Episode, The Pension Beaurepas, The Diary of a Man of Fifty, A Bundle of Letters, The Point of View, The Siege of London, The Impressions of a Cousin, Lady Barberina, The Author of Beltraffio, Pandora

124. The Trail of the Serpent -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1860)

125. The Silent Language -- Edward T. Hall (1959)

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October Reads

Some recommendations on spooky, weird, or just plain scary novels/short stories for October reading:

Affinity – Sarah Waters

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories – Angela Carter

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories – HP Lovecraft

Carmilla – J Sheridan Le Fanu

The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Coraline – Neil Gaiman

The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson

Don’t Look Now – Daphne Du Maurier

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson

A Head Full of Ghosts – Paul Tremblay

Hell House – Richard Matheson

Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi

Horns – Joe Hill

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer – Michelle McNamara

In a Glass Darkly – J Sheridan Le Fanu

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

In the Woods – Tana French

Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice

IT – Stephen King

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

The Lifted Veil – George Eliot

The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters

Meddling Kids – Edgar Cantero

A Mere Interlude – Thomas Hardy

Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

A Pale View of the Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

‪Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay‬

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

The Séance – John Harwood

The Shining – Stephen King

Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

Teatro Grottesco – Thomas Ligotti

The Thief of Always – Clive Barker

The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

Valerie and her Week of Wonders – Vietslav Nezval

Universal Harvester – John Darnielle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

The Woman in Black – Susan Hill

Young Goodman Brown and other Short Stories – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Zodiac – Robert Graysmith

[w-o-o-l-f]

19th & 20th century English-language classics tbr

19th century

Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen - Emma

Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James - The Turn of the Screw

Herman Melville -  Moby Dick

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Bram Stoker - Dracula

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Anne Bronte - The Tennant of Widefell Hall

H.G.Wells - The Time Machine

Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Study in Scarlet

20th century

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence

J.D.Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

E.M. Forster - A Room with a View

E.M. Forster - Howards End

D.H.Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love

D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

George Orwell - 1984

George Orwell - Animal Farm

William Golding - On the Road

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5

Kurt Vonnegut- Cat's Cradle

James Joyce - Ulysses

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf - The Waves

Virginia Woolf - Orlando

William Faulkner - The Sound and Fury

William Faulkner - Light in August

William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

John Fowles - The French Liutenant's Woman

John Fowles - The Magus

John Fowles - The Collector

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Bret Easton Elis - American Psycho

Italo Calvino - If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Don Dellilo - White Noise

Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House

Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides

Ursula K. Leguin - The Left Hand of Darkness

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

[thebookwormsnest]

Ho controllato il New York Times. Ho controllato il Telegraph. Ho controllato Le Monde. Ho controllato la BBC. Ho confrontato le proposte delle migliori case editrici italiane. Ho setacciato mezzo internet per poter stilare una lista al contempo più completa e più varia possibile.

E, alla fine, ce l'ho fatta.

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1984 – George Orwell

1Q84 – Haruki Murakami

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

A ciascuno il suo – Leonardo Sciascia

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

A me le guardie! – Terry Pratchett

A sangue freddo – Truman Capote

Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie – Lewis Carroll

Alla ricerca del tempo perduto – Marcel Proust

Altri libertini – Pier Vittorio Tondelli 

Amabili resti – Alice Sebold

Amore e Psiche – Apuleio

Anna dai capelli rossi – Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anna Karenina – Lev Tolstoj

Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

Ayla figlia della Terra – Jean Auel

Bar sport – Stefano Benni

Black Beauty: autobiografia di un cavallo – Anna Sewell

Bleak House – Charles Dickens

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

Buchi nel deserto – Louis Sachar 

Buona apocalisse a tutti! – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Caino e Abele – Jeffrey Archer

Canto di Natale – Charles Dickens

Casa Desolata – Charles Dickens

Cent'anni di solitudine – Gabriel García Márquez

Charlotte's Web – EB White

Cime tempestose – Emily Brontë

Comma 22 – Joseph Heller

Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli – Carlo Levi

Cuore – Edmondo de Amicis

Cuore di tenebra – Joseph Conrad

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Delitto e castigo – Fëdor Dostoevskij

Diario – Anne Frank

Dieci piccoli indiani – Agatha Christie

Dio di illusioni – Donna Tartt

Don Chisciotte della Mancia – Miguel de Cervantes

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Dune – Frank Herbert

Emma – Jane Austen

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Favole al telefono – Gianni Rodari

Finzioni – Borges

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Furore – John Steinbeck

Gente di Dublino – James Joyce

Germinale – Emile Zola

Gita al faro – Virginia Woolf

Gli indifferenti – Alberto Moravia

Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake

Grandi speranze – Charles Dickens

Guerra e pace – Lev Tolstoj

Guida galattica per autostoppisti – Douglas Adams

Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling

Ho un castello nel cuore – Dodie Smith

I Buddenbrook – Thomas Mann

I cercatori di conchiglie – Rosamunde Pilcher

I Dolori del Giovane Werther – J. W. Goethe

I figli della mezzanotte – Salman Rushdie

I fiori del male – Charles Baudelaire

I fratelli Karamazov – Fedor Dostoevskij

I Malavoglia – Giovanni Verga

I Miserabili – Victor Hugo

I pilastri della terra – Ken Follett

I Promessi Sposi – Alessandro Manzoni

I Tre Moschettieri – Alexandre Dumas

Il barone rampante – Italo Calvino

Il bianco e il nero – Malorie Blackman

Il buio oltre la siepe – Harper Lee

Il Cacciatore di Aquiloni – Khaled Hosseini

Il canto del cielo – Sebastian Faulks

Il Codice da Vinci – Dan Brown

Il Colore Viola – Alice Walker

Il Commissario Maigret – George Simenon

Il Conte di Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

Il diario di Bridget Jones – Helen Fielding

Il Dio delle piccole cose – Arundhati Roy

Il dottor Jekyll e Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

Il dottor Zivago – Boris Pasternak

Il fu Mattia Pascal – Luigi Pirandello

Il Gattopardo – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini – Giorgio Bassani

Il giardino segreto – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca – Vamba

Il giovane Holden – J. D. Salinger

Il grande Gatsby – Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Il leone, la strega e l'armadio – C. S. Lewis

Il maestro e Margherita – Bulgakov

Il mago – John Fowles

Il Mandolino del Capitano Corelli – Louis De Berniere

Il mondo nuovo – Aldous Huxley

Il Nome della Rosa – Umberto Eco

Il Padrino – Mario Puzo 

Il paradiso degli orchi – Daniel Pennac

Il passaggio segreto – Enid Blyton

Il Piccolo Principe – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Il potere e la glori – Graham Greene

Il Processo – Franz Kafka

Il Profeta – Kahlil Gibran

Il profumo – Patrick Süskind

Il ragazzo giusto – Vikram Seth

Il ritratto di Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Il Rosso e il Nero – Stendhal

Il signore degli anelli – J. R. R. Tolkien

Il signore della magia – Raymond E. Feist

Il signore delle mosche – William Golding

Il vecchio e il mare – Ernest Hemingway

Il velo dipinto – W. Somerset Maughan

Il vento tra i salici – Kenneth Grahame

In culo al mondo – Antonio Lobo Antunes 

Io, robot – Isaac Asimov

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

Katherine – Anya Seton

Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto

La casa degli spiriti – Isabel Allende

La ciociara – Alberto Moravia 

La collina dei conigli – Richard Adams

La coscienza di Zeno – Italo Svevo

La Divina Commedia – Dante Alighieri

La donna in bianco – Wilkie Collins

La fabbrica di cioccolato – Roald Dahl

La famiglia Winshow – Johnathan Coe

La fattoria degli animali – George Orwell

La fattoria delle magre consolazioni – Stella Gibbons

La fiera delle vanità – William Makepeace Thackeray

La lettera scarlatta – Nathaniel Hawthorne

La luna e i falò – Cesare Pavese

La Storia – Elsa Morante

La trilogia della città di K – Agosta Kristof

La verità sul caso Harry Quebert – Joel Dicker

La versione di Barney – Mordecai Richler

L'alchimista – Paulo Coelho

L'amore ai tempi del colera – Gabriel García Márquez

L'arte della guerra – Sun Tzu

L'arte di essere felici – Arthur Schopenhauer 

Le affinità elettive – Goethe

Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie – Lewis Carroll

Le Avventure di Pinocchio – Collodi

Le Avventure di Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Le Cronache del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco – George R. R. Martin

Le notti bianche – Fedor Dostoevski

L'eleganza del riccio – Muriel Barbery

Lessico Familiare – Natalia Ginzburg

Lettera a un bambino mai nato – Oriana Fallaci

L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere – Milan Kundera

L'isola del tesoro – Robert Louis Stevenson

Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte – Mark Haddon

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

L'ombra del vento – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

L'ombra dello scorpione – Stephen King

L'opera completa di Shakespeare

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Mattatoio n. 5 – Kurt Vonnegut 

Memorie di Adriano – Marguerite Yourcenar

Memorie di una geisha – Arthur Golden

Middlemarch – George Eliot

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Morty l'apprendista – Terry Pratchett

Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale – Remarque

Night watch – Terry Pratchett

Noi, i ragazzi dello zoo di Berlino – Christiane F.

Non ora, non qui – Erri De Luca

Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami 

Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

Oceano mare – Alessandro Baricco

Odissea – Omero

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

Opinioni di un clown – Heinrich Boll

Orgoglio e pregiudizio – Jane Austen

Pastorale americana – Philip Roth

Persuasione – Jane Austen

Piccole donne – Louisa May Alcott

Possession – AS Byatt

Preghiera per un amico – John Irving

Quel che resta del giorno – Kazuo Ishiguro

Queste oscure materie – Philip Pulman

Racconto di due città – Charles Dickens

Rebecca, la prima moglie – Daphne du Maurier

Ritorno a Brideshead – Evelyn Waugh

Se questo è un uomo – Primo Levi

Shining – Stephen King

Siddharta – Hermann Hesse

Sostiene Pereira – Tabucchi

Storia di una gabbianella e del gatto che le insegnò a volare – Luis Sepulveda

Suite francese – Irene Nemirovsky

Sulla strada – Jack Kerouac 

Tess dei d'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 

The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

Tre Uomini in Barca – Jerome K. Jerome

Uccelli di rovo – Colleen McCullough

Ulisse – James Joyce

Un Uomo – Oriana Fallaci

Una città come Alice – Nevil Shute

Uomini e topi – John Steinbeck

Via col vento – Margaret Mitchell

Via dalla pazza folla – Thomas Hardy

Vita di Pi – Yann Martel

Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

Mi sembra strano che autori come Baudelaire, Wilde o Shakespeare siano stati citati un'unica volta, così come il Diario di Anna Frank o Ulisse di Joyce - che per carità possono piacere o non piacere, ma sono comunque importanti dal punto di vista storico il primo ed il padre del modernismo inglese il secondo - mentre Harry Potter o Il Signore degli Anelli erano presenti in tutte le liste - anche qui, importantissimi per la storia del fantasy e perfino rivoluzionari, ma paragonarli a Shakespeare?

E voi, cosa ne pensate? Siete d'accordo, anche parzialmente, o ci sono grandi assenti? Fatemelo sapere nei reblog :)

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Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible - Council of Nicea Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Paradise Lost - John Milton (I’ve read parts, maybe every other chapter or a bit more) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain White Fang - Jack London The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Call of the Wild - Jack London The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum Don Quixote — Miguel De Cervantes

Where the Wild Things Are — Maurice Sendak The Cat in the Hat — Dr Seuss The Giver — Lois Lowry Inkheart — Cornelia Funke Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri Macbeth — William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare The Child Called ‘It’ — Dave Pelzer The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank Night — Elie Wiesel Les Misérables — Victor Hugo The Odyssey / The Illiad — Homer The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne The Brothers Karamasov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Eragon — Christopher Paolini Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O’Dell The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare