So, in no particular order, here are Braddy's Favorite Books (for Right Now):
FAVORITE NOVELS:
- Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
- Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
FAVORITE POETRY COLLECTIONS:
- Billy Collins, The Trouble with Poetry
- Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
- William Stafford, Even in Quiet Places
- E.E. Cummings, E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962
- Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
FAVORITE YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE:
- Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
- Walter Dean Myers, Monster
- Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion
- Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
- Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451
FAVORITE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE:
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
- Neil Gaiman, Coraline
- Sharon Creech, Love That Dog
FAVORITE GRAPHIC NOVELS:
- David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp
- Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale
- Grant Morrison, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth
- Jonathan Hickman, The Nightly News
- Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo v. 22: Tomoe's Story
MISCELLANEOUS FAVORITES:
- Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon (memoir)
- Keith Johnstone, Impro for Storytellers (textbook)
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play)
- Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia (nonfiction)
- Shaun Tan, Tales from Outer Suburbia (picture book)
2 comments:
Maniac McGee is an AMAZING book. Definitely my favorite when I was younger!!
loved house of the scorpion! Also, I'd see your candyland movie- I go for anything with Cillian Murphy in it, the time movie looks okay (I hate dakota fanning and JT) but only because Murphy's in it.
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