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September 2, 2023

Master Reading list for 2023-2024

by NancyElin

 

Goal:   Read  the  all the novels/plays  by  some of my favorite  authors in chronological  order.

  1. Charles Portis
  2. Jon Fosse (Septology series)
  3. Toni Morrison
  4. Cormac McCarthy
  5. Hoke Moseley
  6. Margaret Atwood
  7. Charles Dickens
  8. Shakespeare
  9. John Steinbeck
  10. Kurt Vonnegut
  11. Graham Greene
  12. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  13. Mario Vargas Llosa
  14. Isabel  Allende

 

Charles Portis  – Novels – 0/5

 Norwood (1966) – READ – bah…
 True Grit (1968)
 The Dog of the South (1979)
 Masters of Atlantis (1985)
 Gringos (1991)

Jon Fosse  0/3    (Septology series)

   1. The Other Name (2019) 
   2. I is Another (2020)
   3. A New Name (2021)

 

Toni Morrison – Novels –   1/11

 The Bluest Eye (1969)
   Sula (1971)
   Song of Solomon (1977) – READ
   Tar Baby (1981)
   Beloved (1987)
   Jazz (1992)
   Paradise (1997)
   Love (2003)
   A Mercy (2008)
   Home (2012)
   God Help the Child (2015)

Corman McCarthy – Novels – 0/7
Suttree (1979) – – READ…bah
Blood Meridian (1985) – READ..but should re-read
The Road (2006)
Charles WillefordNovels – 0/4

 Miami Blues (1984) 
  New Hope for the Dead (1985)
  Sideswipe (1987)
  The Way We Die Now (1988)

 

M. ATWOOD – Novels – 0/15

The Edible Woman (1969)
Surfacing (1972)
Lady Oracle (1976)
Up in the Tree (1978)
Life before Man (1979)
Bodily Harm (1981)
Unearthing Suite (1983)
The Labrador Fiasco (1986)
Cat’s Eye (1988)
For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
The Robber Bride (1993)
Alias Grace (1996)
The Blind Assassin (2000)
The Heart Goes Last (2015)
Fourteen Days (2023) (with others)

 

Charles Dickens – Novels – 10/23

Shakespeare

Plays –  11/38

STEINBECK – Novels – 3/19

   Cup of Gold (1929) 
   The Pastures of Heaven (1932)
   The Red Pony (1933) – READ
   To A God Unknown (1933)
   Tortilla Flat (1935)
   In Dubious Battle (1936)
   Nothing So Monstrous (1936)
   Of Mice and Men (1937) – READ
   The Grapes of Wrath (1939) – READ
   The Forgotten Village (1941)
   The Moon Is Down (1942)
   The Wayward Bus (1947)
   The Pearl (1948) – READ
   Burning Bright (1950)
   East of Eden (1952)
   The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
   The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) – READ
   The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
   Zapata (1993)

 

Vonnegut – Novels – 0/15

   Player Piano (1952) 
   The Sirens of Titan (1959)
   Cat’s Cradle (1960)
   Mother Night (1961)
   God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
   Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
   Breakfast of Champions (1973)
   Slapstick (1976)
   Deadeye Dick (1981)
   Jailbird (1983)
   Galapagos (1985)
   Bluebeard (1987)
   Between Time and Timbuktu (1990)
   Hocus Pocus (1990)
   Timequake (1997)

 

 

 

Graham Greene – Novels – 4/26

   The Man Within (1929) 
   The Name of Action (1930)
   Rumour At Nightfall (1931)
   Stamboul Train (1932)
   It’s a Battlefield (1934)
   England Made Me (1935)
   A Gun for Sale (1936)
   Brighton Rock (1938)
   The Confidential Agent (1939)
   The Power and the Glory (1940)
   The Ministry of Fear (1943)
   The Heart of the Matter (1948) – READ
   The Third Man (1950)
   The End of the Affair (1951) – READ
   Loser Takes All (1955)
   The Quiet American (1955) – READ
   Our Man in Havana (1958)
   A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
   The Comedians (1966)
   Travels with My Aunt (1969)
   The Honorary Consul (1973)
   The Human Factor (1978) – READ
   Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1980)
   Monsignor Quixote (1982)
   The Tenth Man (1985)
   The Captain and the Enemy (1988)

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Novels –  2/10     Hispanic Heritage Month  15 Sept – 15 Oct

   One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) – READ
   In Evil Hour (1968)  – READ
   The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
   Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1982)
   Fragrance of Guava (1983)
   Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) – READ
   The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1986)
   The General in His Labyrinth (1990)
   News of a Kidnapping (1997)
   Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005)

 

 

 

Mario Vargas Llosa –   Novels – 1/19     Hispanic Heritage Month  15 Sept – 15 Oct

 

   The Green House (1965) –  READING
   The Time of the Hero (1966)
   Conversation in the Cathedral (1975) – READ
   Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1978)
   Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982)
   The War of the End of the World (1984)
   The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1986)
   Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1987)
   The Storyteller (1989)
   In Praise of the Stepmother (1990)
   Death in the Andes (1996)
   The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1998)
   The Feast of the Goat (2001) – READ
   The Way to Paradise (2003)
   The Bad Girl (2007)
   The Dream of the Celt (2012)
   The Discreet Hero (2015)
   The Neighborhood (2018)
   Harsh Times (2021)

 

 

 

Isabel  Allende – Novels – 0/15     Hispanic Heritage Month  15 Sept – 15 Oct

 

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