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Young people, to build our intellectual capital, to get us thinking beyond the video world, we must put down our electronic toys and read. This is what I do during the day and at night—I read for pleasure and to enforce what I think is important—language used right. Here are some of my favorite titles fit for high school students and older readers. Search them out.
Mrs.
Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Dark and Bloody Ground by F. Perez Lopez
The Feud by Thomas Berger
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee
Sneaky People by Thomas Berger
The Complete Novels by Dashiell Hammett
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Madam Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
The Forsythe novels by John Galsworthy
This Thing Don’t Lead to Heaven by Harry Crews
Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl
Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson
Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
The Altruists by Nicky Silvers
Like Life by Lorrie Moore
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
The Lice by W.S. Merwin
Heaven’s My Destination by Thorton Wilder
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Dismantling the Silence by Charles Simic
Alabanza by Martin Espada
Crow by Ted Hughes
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
My Antonia by Wila Cathers
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cass Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis
Reflections of the Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
Clock without Hands by Carson McCullers
Ironweed by William Kennedy
The Wrong Case by James Crumley
Author, Author by David Lodge
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Pan by Knut Hamsun
The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams
The Pigeon by Peter Suskind
Loot by Joe Orton
The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates
Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
In the Wilderness by Kim Barnes
Sylvia by A.R. Gurney
The Cocktail Hour by A.R. Gurney
The Loneliness of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, edited by Ilan Stavans
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Day of the Locusts by Nathaniel West
Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Allan Silltoe
History by Elsa Morante
Life of Johnson by James Boswell
Twilight of the Elephant by Elio Vittorini
Three Plays by Alan Ayckbourn
Mere Mortals by David Ives
The Moviegoers by Percy Walker
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
Cane by Jean Toomer
America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
The Man Who Cried I am by John A. Williams
Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa by Jacques E. Levy
Black Betty by Walter Mosley
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Factories in the Fields by Carey McWilliams
Palm at the End of the Mind by Wallace Stevens
The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Ludmila’s Broken English by DBC Pierre
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