Favorite Authors & Texts
Ideas, experiences, visions, beautiful or repugnant - I marvel at how easily all are transferred through ink scrawled across a page.
For anyone whose life has been changed by a book or poem, I encourage you to share some of those authors and titles with me. Here are some pieces that shaped me. . .
1. Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God. (no, it's not a religious book.)
2. Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon. (This isn't a religious book either.)
3. Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye.
4. S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
5. Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat
6. E. Pound - "In a station of the metro"
7. Langston Hughes - Black Is
8. Buscaglia - Love
9. Edwin Morgan - "Strawberries"
10. C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
11. C.S. Lewis - Surprised by Joy
12. Brian Sibley - Through the Shadowlands
13. Miller - "Death of a Salesman"
14. Miller - "Broken Glass"
15. Miller - "After the Fall"
16. D. Coupland - Microserfs
17. Allen Ginsberg - "Supermarket in California"
18. N. Scott Momaday -
19. Joyce Carol Oates - "Where are you going? Where have you been?
20. Jack Welch - Jack
21. Oe Kenzaburo - A Personal Matter
22. Yukio Mishima - Kokoro
23. Fumiko Enchi - The Waiting Years
I'd have to agree with Ms. Boombastic, "Sonny's Blues" needs to be on the list at #24.
25. In addition to Haley's Malcolm X, I'd suggest: Passport to Freedom: Education, Humanism, & Malcolm X by Charles Hurst, Malcolm X by Jack Slater, and Lives in Education: A narrative of People and Ideas by Glenn Smith.
26. Jason Splichal - "Water Street after 4 Years"
27. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
28. Hemingway - "Hills like white elephants"
29. Guy de Maupassant - "The Necklace"
30. Gilman - "The Yellow Wallpaper"
31. Rod McKuen - Caught in the Quiet
32. Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
33. Ries & Trout - 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
34. Ries & Trout - Positioning
35. Hanif Kureishi - Buddha of Suburbia
36. Maxine Hong Kingston - The Woman Warrior
more as I remember them . . .
Posted by Amanda at October 30, 2002 09:03 PM
