recommended reading
------------ the schoolroom recommended reading freshman writing "canadian" irony or as my mother would say ------------ [home]	These are the books I keep on the TOP shelf: that is, the shelf the babies can't reach! There's fiction and non-fiction, serious and funny, educational and entertaining—and all of them great reads! Listed alphabetically by author, 'cause that's how I arrange my books. Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Dave Barry Does Japan, Dave Barry Jakob der Lügner, Jurek Becker Come to Me, Amy Bloom Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll Against our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, Susan Brownmiller On Love, Alain de Botton Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens The Van, Roddy Doyle Middlemarch, George Eliot Zwei Zärtliche Lammchen weiss wie Schnee, Hans Fallada Backlash, Susan Faludi A Room with a View, E.M. Forster Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Sigmund Freud Lover of Horses, Tess Gallagher Victory over Japan, Ellen Gilchrist Gray's Anatomy, Spalding Gray Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?, Cynthia Heimel The Iliad, Homer The Will to Believe, William James Dubliners, James Joyce Drei Männer im Schnee, Erich Kästner Modern Movements in European Philosophy, Richard Kearney Decalogue, Krystoff Kieslowski Die Marquise von O..., Heinrich von Kleist Metropolitan Life , Fran Liebowitz Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Giant's House, Elizabeth McCracken Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne The Passion of Michel Foucault, James Miller Das Schlampenbuch, Milena Moser Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Friedrich Nietzsche Complete Stories, Dorothy Parker Nobody's Fool, Richard Russo The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Jose Saramago Naked, David Sedaris Frankenstein, Mary Shelly The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein Maus, Art Spiegelman Arcadia, Tom Stoppard The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope Collected Short Stories, Anthony Trollope The Children, Edith Wharton The Buccaneers, Edith Wharton And here's what I'm reading now, arranged by size ('cause that's how they fit on the bedside table). The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon The Big Book of Knitting, Katharina Buss