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


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