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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) 592 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Get ready to relive these times soon!
+ Take in the magic of Steinbeck's writing
+ A handsome edition
+ A master storyteller
+ [Good] required reading
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Lie Down in Darkness 20 reviews
William Styron
Vintage, 1992
This MASTERPIECE of writing,
+ Exhausting but worth the read
+ A Hauntingly Beautiful, Yet Painful Novel
+ Blazing Forever
+ Tortured lives
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Light in August (The Corrected Text)76 reviews
William Faulkner
Vintage International/Random House, 1990
Faulkner's Best (One of them, anyway)
+ Epiphany of Gail Hightower
+ Light in August (The Corrected Text)
+ My first Faulkner
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West310 reviews
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, 1992
Unflinching Crimson Epic of the Old West
+ A very good, dark read...
+ unbridled havoc
+ The best of McCarthy
+ Great read, not an "easy" read, but worth the effort
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Fat City (California Fiction) 18 reviews
Leonard Gardner
University of California Press, 1996
A minor masterpiece
+ A Masterpiece of Modern American Literature
+ Gritty Fat City
+ Knockout-Must Read
+ An amazing literary work
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Angels: A Novel19 reviews
Denis Johnson
Harper Perennial, 2002
A Life of Wonders...
+ Resuscitation of a gassed man
+ One of the Best Books Out There
+ Johnson before he really opens up
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Sometimes a Great Notion119 reviews
Ken Kesey
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1977
One of the all time great books
+ "Never Give A Inch"
+ The Great American Novel Revealed
+ It never gets better.
+ Sometimes a Great Notion
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The Dead Fish Museum: Stories6 reviews
Charles D'Ambrosio
Knopf, 2006
read it
+ I love this book
+ Beauty, insight, and rare eclecticism
+ Fairly good short story collection, dull at times though...
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Look Homeward, Angel62 reviews
Thomas Wolfe
Scribner, 2006
A tour de force of pure emotion
+ Oh Lost!
Thomas Wolfe reminds me of the eager kid who was smarter than the rest, surging ahead for pure love of learning and life itself. This transcendental outlook pervades this meandering story which in lesser hands would become saccharine, but veers away from that precipice with carefully constructed ...
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The Waves33 reviews
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 1950
Pam "Book Club Sin Nombre"
+ Woolf's response to Plato
+ A glorious book
Our book club in Cancun read it for April. We can be a critical group, but this one received nothing but praise from those of us who actually FINISHED it. Through the night the message was "It's well worth it! Stick with it!" It is confusing at the beginning for those of us who've been reading ...
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Housekeeping: A Novel151 reviews
Marilynne Robinson
Picador, 2004
A beautiful, haunting book
+ profundity at your fingertips
+ Moving and memorable (mostly)
Marilynne Robinson's masterfully told story of an atypical "housekeeping" arrangement is strange, funny, sad, lyrical, and inspiring. It is one of the most beautiful books I have read in a long time. I found myself savoring the words, reading aloud to myself. This is a wonderful book.
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Pale Fire86 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
brilliant
+ everyman's decisions
+ Enjoyable at Multiple Levels
+ Mind bending!
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Geek Love: A Novel246 reviews
Katherine Dunn
Vintage, 2002
indescribable, amazing,my favorite book of all time. no contest
+ Absolutely Stunning Masterpiece
+ It IS Different, Thank God
+ Mesmerizing yet stomach-churning
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The Truth About Celia12 reviews
Kevin Brockmeier
Vintage, 2004
I LOVED this book
+ Well Done!
+ What IS the truth about Celia?
I picked this book up to read on vacation to fill time at the airport only to find that I couldn't put it down!! I highly recommend it for it's beautiful writing and haunting story line. LOVED IT!!!
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The Bell Jar486 reviews
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
The most famous book you've never read
+ how did I miss this one??
+ Believe the Hype
+ "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
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Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions1 review
Robert Coover
Grove Press, 2000
An under-the-radar masterpiece
Somehow, over the years, Robert Coover has been denied the status he deserves as one of America's most original and celebrated satirists of all things red white & blue. Although almost 40 years old now, this collection of short stories still displays Coover's protean talents at their most ...
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty17 reviews
Eudora Welty
Harvest Books, 1982
Don't Neglect Eudora Welty
+ Wonderful reading.
+ Lots of Gothic Here
+ Mysterious Power
+ Buy A Large Highlighter
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Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin6 reviews
William Golding
Harvest Books, 2002
As usual, Golding ponders the dark side
+ Pincher Martin
+ An excellent read.
+ The mind of a man revealed in the worst of circumstances.
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House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)38 reviews
N. Scott Momaday
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Powerful!!!
+ Awesome-ness
+ Enigmatic Story
N.Scott Momaday like myself is a Native Oklahoman, and that makes me proud. His work is a work of Native power; it breathes in and breathes out as if it were a living being. The Pulitzer Prize was definitely well-deserved in the case of this book.
There is an almost magical sense of being to the ...
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Bad Behavior33 reviews
Mary Gaitskill
Vintage, 1989
Exposing external and internal wounds of happiness and normality
+ Caustic stories about the emotionally dark side of sex.
+ fantastic.
+ Your Neighbor's Secret Life?
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