literature I love
Novels:
- War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
- The Cloister (James Carroll)
- The Betrayals (Bridget Collins)
- The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
- Old School (Tobias Wolff)
- The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
- The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld)
- After Sappho (Selby Wynn Schwartz)
- Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
Short stories:
- “Fitting Ends” (Dan Chaon)
- “Carried Away” (Alice Munro)
- Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
Drama:
- The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
Poetry:
- Sonnets of William Shakespeare
- “Dirge Without Music” (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- “Eloisa to Abelard” (Alexander Pope)
- In Memoriam (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
- Poem 101 (Catullus)
- “I stood tip-toe upon a little hill” (John Keats)
Nonfiction:
- The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (Abraham Joshua Heschel)
- excerpts that inspire
- les amants maudits de la bibliothèque (10/8/2023)