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[owlectomy]

My project to read classic American literature fell by the wayside as I discovered that reading Faulkner is a horrible fate. Maybe I'll try to pick it up again next year, skipping over the Faulkner.

Asterisked books are the ones that I personally liked best, but there are many books I recommend highly among the non-asterisked!

* Chime, Franny Billingsley
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
* Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi
* The Shattering, Karen Healey
Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor
* Among Others, Jo Walton
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
* The Big Short, Michael Lewis
Conjure Wife, Fritz Leiber
The Country Of The Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
* The End Of Everything, Megan Abbott
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
I Am J, Cris Beam
Sister Mischief, Laura Goode
Like Mandarin, Kirsten Hubbard
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
* Middlemarch, George Eliot
My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Now Habit, Neil Fiore
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
Red Glove, Holly Black
* The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
* We Have Always Lived In the Castle, Shirley Jackson
* Zoo City, Lauren Beukes
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Anya's Ghost, Vera Brosgol
Paper Covers Rock, Jenny Hubbard
* A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
The Queen of Water, Laura Resau and Maria Virginia Farinango
Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys
Imaginary Girls, Nova Ren Suma
* Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
* Queen of Hearts, Martha Brooks
Sidekicks, Jack Ferraiolo
* Fly Trap, Frances Hardinge
* Flesh and Blood So Cheap, Albert Marrin
Karma, Cathy Ostlere
Okay For Now, Gary Schmidt
* Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor
Blink and Caution, Tim Wynne-Jones
Silhouetted by the Blue, Traci Jones
Angry Young Man, Chris Lynch
The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
Fall For Anything, Courtney Summers
Bloody Times, James Swanson

In Japanese:

* The Sound of the Mountain, Kawabata Yasunari
Kiki's Delivery Service, Kadono Eiko
This is the Youkai Newspaper Company! 3: The Mystery of the White Wolf and the Fire Cart, by Fujimoto Rin

Comments

[pinesandmaples]

If you'd like some Southern fiction recommendations that are Not Faulker™, I have a list. My brother and I brainstormed a great list last night before we got to the halfway point in the wine bottle. (After that, the list just got silly.)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd try some Edith Wharton, started ohh whatever it was-- *was* it The House of Mirth?- and found a woman being obscurely threatened for having been seen to leave a man's apartment alone. This cannot end well, I said, and went to read something else.

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

That was The House of Mirth, and it indeed did not end well.

That book needed a lot more mirth.

(That was my problem with the Classic American Literature I tried to read this year -- far too much of it was women having their lives ruined on account of their choices about sex, marriage, or innocently visiting men's apartments.)