Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Some of my favorite books


As promised in my post about writers from a few days ago--some of my favorite authors and their books:

·         Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure; Tess of the d’Urbervilles; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Far from the Madding Crowd
·         Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady; The Golden Bowl; Washington Square; The Wings of the Dove; The Turn of the Screw
·         Charles Dickens: Great Expectations; A Christmas Carol; A Tale of Two Cities; David Copperfield
·         Francois Mauriac: Viper’s Tangle; Therese; The Woman of the Pharisees; The Desert of Love
·         C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters; Mere Christianity; Surprised by Joy; Miracles; The Problem of Pain
·         Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea; Good Morning, Midnight; Smile Please; Quartet
·         John Le Carre: A Perfect Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
·         John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent; Of Mice and Men; Cannery Row
·         Dorothy Sayers: Whose Body?; Strong Poison; Have His Carcase; Hangman’s Holiday; Gaudy Night; Busman’s Honeymoon
·         Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Life is Elsewhere; Immortality
·         Rollo May: The Meaning of Anxiety; Love and Will; Man’s Search for Himself; The Courage to Create
·         George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner  
·         Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
·         Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
·         Henry David Thoreau: Walden; Civil Disobedience
·         Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles; Something Wicked This Way Comes; Fahrenheit 451; Dandelion Wine; The Illustrated Man
·         Michael Crichton: The Andromeda Strain; The Terminal Man; Timeline
·         Stanislaw Lem: Solaris


Celebrating fifty years in America

Apropos my last post, my friend Haika’s husband Ashok is celebrating fifty years since his arrival in the USA from India. He moved to the US...