BigMamaBird Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 My goal for 2013 is to read some really good lit. from the 20th Century. What are some of your favorites? I'm open to any genre but tend to lean toward Science Fiction. Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 animal farm fahrenheit 451 ender's game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Beloved by Toni Morrison My most favorite fiction. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Here are a few: McTeague by Frank Norris Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser Hunger by Knut Hamsun Death in Venice by Thomas Mann The Trial by Franz Kafka Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Plague by Albert Camus Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren Ask the Dust by John Fante Thurso's Landing by Robinson Jeffers (epic poem) The Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferinand Céline A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass 1984 by George Orwell Invisable Man by Ralph Ellison Day of the Locusts by Nathaniel West Native Son by Richard Wright One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marcia Marquez The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov City of Salt by Abdulrahman Munif The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry Midaq Alley by Naguib Mafuz Naked Lunch by William Burroughs The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera This Earth of Mankind by Pramoeda Ananta Toer A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Mousie Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Short story collections: Cathedral by Raymond Carver Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piraterose Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 End of Eternity or The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov Riverworld series by Philip José Farmer Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 In addition to some of the things that have already been named, I've always been a lover of the magical realism that the 20th century gave us... Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 I just read To Kill a Mockingbird. It was brilliant. Highly recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 I read a great deal but honestly, I don't think I have read ANY of the books listed. I have read one but Faulkner--The Sound and the Fury but not any of the books mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in TX Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Some personal favorites, in addition to what's been mentioned already: any of Isak Dinesen's story collections any of Jorge Luis Borges' story collections In the First Circle by Solzhenitsyn A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth anything by Irene Nemirovsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMamaBird Posted December 25, 2012 Author Share Posted December 25, 2012 Wow! Thank you for all the great ideas. I haven't read much "quality" lit. from the 20th Century. Usually just brain candy fiction. This will be a great experiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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