| Some Men Do Read Fiction |
| The Guardian released a list of "most relevatory books" for men, which noted that men didn’t have the same connection as women with fiction, and that a number of men described non-fiction books as their "watershed" books even though they were told to focus on fiction. Some friends of mine and I have decided to work on remedying our own "fiction deficiencies" this summer. Here were my suggestions (not in order)—many of which came from Emilie’s suggestions to me over the years. And yes, I clearly focused almost exclusively on male authors, but we could certainly eventually add some Virginia Woolf or Jane Austen (I loved Mansfield Park when I read it in college), or Brontë or Atwood that appeared on the women’s list.(By the way, we’re starting with Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, because, seriously, somone in the group hadn’t read it. Ever. (And hadn’t even seen the movie.)) Shorter Works: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Brighton Rock or The Quiet American by Graham Greene Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey A Farewell to Arms or The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Medium: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Dracula by Bram Stoker The Lords of Discipline or The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (b/c if you’re from South Carolina, as the rest of this group is, you really need to have read one or both of these). Epics: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Shogun by James Clavell Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Roots by Alex Haley The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Great Expectations or A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| Posted in 01/03/2010 by Jake in Books |
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