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My favorite books:
1. Milan Kundera - Immortality. Kundera always makes my brain expand when I read his writing. The way he views things, and explains emotional things without being overly sentimental, is fabulous to read.
2. Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being. See above. I have also kind of lived the book in ways I don’t wish to think back on. And the structure of the previous sentence is the reason I’m not a famous writer.
3. Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behavior. Not only do I love Mary because she went to University of Michigan for a while and writes about Ann Arbor haunts occasionally, but she writes a KILLER short story. I spent years trying to be 1/4 as good as her storytelling. I’m still trying.
4. Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat. A book I can (and do) read over and over again.
5. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights. Another book I can read over and over again. Totally heartbreaking and romantic, assuming I don’t think too much about how bad Heathcliff must have really smelled.
6. Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner. Opened my eyes and forced me to learn a lot about Afghanistan, something I was never much interested in. Getting past the cruelty was hard, but the book was so worth it.
7. D.M. Thomas - The White Hotel. When a college professor first assigned this, I thought she must have been tripping on acid still. Turns out I fell in love with the book and dammit, just realized someone borrowed my copy and I never got it back. It’s a difficult read but so cool to read a fictional Freud’s investigation of a fictional patient.
8. E.L. Doctorow - The Book of Daniel. Another college book that was punishing to read and rewarding to finish.
9. Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar. Aside from putting my head in an oven, I’d love to have been the person who wrote this book.
10. Margaret Atwood - Cat’s Eye. The subject matter (about a girl dealing with “mean girl” syndrome) hits close to home. When she describes the torment the girls inflict on each other, and how each deal with it, it takes me right back to the days when I was thrown into lockers and mocked for my argyle socks (thanks mom).
11. Alice Sebold - Lucky. Alice’s memoir of her rape as a freshman in college, and the subsequent changes in her life and behavior after it. So realistic and encompassing I nearly threw up. Doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement, but it is.
12. Marya Hornbacher - Wasted. Hornbacher’s autobiography of eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa.
13. Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God. Risa makes fun of me for loving this book, but once you get the dialect down, it’s an amazing read.
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Posted August 14, 2008 in
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