Top Ten Tuesday is an event hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. These books are in no particular order.
1) Du côté de chez Swann (Swann’s Way) by Marcel Proust
This is the first book in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time series. I have to read it for school.
2) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
3) The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
4) Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
5) The Waves by Virginia Woolf
6) Selected Letters From a Stoic by Seneca
7) The Nature of Things by Lucretius (prose translation)
8) Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
9) A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
10) Vol de nuit (Night Flight) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You have some serious reading ahead of you.
yes 🙂 I love books that make me work, that are like puzzles.
Swift cracks me up. I bet that one is going to be interestingly entertaining.
That’s one Woolf I’ve not read.
And I bet Twelve Years a Slave will be an excellent read. I loved the movie. Amazing story!
I’ve read Twelve Years a Slave. Extremely good. 🙂
I’m familiar with several of these authors, but not these works. I expect you’ll find them interesting. I wish I had read A Portrait of the Artist before Ulysses. I think I would have appreciated Ulysses more. Enjoy!
Thanks. I got A Portrait of the Artist because I heard that it is very accessible
I enjoyed Exupery’s Night Flight very much. Seemed like I was on the plane with him. His reflection on the universe is superb; deep and beautiful.
Joyce’s A Portrait has always been dreadful to me. I have wanted to order a copy many times, but always cancelled at the last time. Look forward to reading your review.
Proust,,, I have given up with him. Swann’s Way was nightmare; it was mostly tedious and after finishing it (though skipping many pages), I still didn’t get what he wanted to tell me. Anyway, good luck to you 🙂