Posted by Steven on 2/11/2007, 9:19:15, in reply to "2008 Reading List"
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Since no one had any specific suggestions, I've just thrown together a proposed reading schedule. Let me know if this is okay. It is rather arbitrary and based simply on mixing up time periods and not reading two books over 350pp back to back. I didn't have to worry about mixing up nationalities - our 13 authors come from 12 different countries (2 from England). Lastly, I put the most easily obtained book first, the least easiest last.
We still need volunteers to be discussion leaders.
January:
Jane Austen (English, 1775-1817)
Persuasion (1817, 272pp)
February:
Kiran Desai (Indian living in the United States, b. 1971)
The Inheritance of Loss (2006, 336pp)
March:
Bruno Schulz (Polish, 1892-1942)
The Street of Crocodiles (1934, 160pp)
AND
Ivan Turgenev (Russian, 1818-1883)
Home of the Gentry (1858, 208pp)
April:
John Kennedy Toole (American, 1937-1969)
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, 416pp)
May:
Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish, 1864-1936)
Mist (Spanish: Niebla, 1914, 352pp)
June:
Irčne Némirovsky (Ukrainian-French, 1903-1942)
Suite Francaise (2004, 448pp)
July:
Sandor Marai (Hungarian, 1900-1989)
Embers (1942, 224pp)
August:
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian, b. 1936)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977, 384pp)
September:
Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek, 1883-1957)
Zorba the Greek (1946, 335pp)
October:
Juan Rulfo (Mexican, 1917-1986)
Pedro Páramo (1955, 254pp)
November:
Julian Barnes (English, b. 1946)
Arthur and George (2005, 464pp)
December:
Giovanni Verga (Italian, 1840-1922)
The Malavoglias (aka The House by the Medlar Tree, 1881, 275pp)
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