With all the countless hours I spent reading in college (some of which included interesting music history textbooks and 19th century novels that made me want to rip out my eyeballs), I barely had time to read for pleasure. Now that I have all this free time being an intern and working for resume cred, I FINALLY get to pick up books I’ve been wanting to read for a long time now. So far this year, I’ve read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, (part of) The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and (in the process of) Born Standing Up by Steve Martin. All have been really great, but I needed more of a list. So I complied a list of what I’ve been wanting to read/books I should have read a while ago (kind of embarrassed to admit some of these). I hope to complete it soon:
Galapagos-Vonnegut
The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald (clam down, I’ve read this before. I just didn’t enjoy it when I was 16. I hope to have my mind changed)
Confederacy of Dunces- Kennedy Toole
Infinite Jest-Foster Wallace
The Diary of a Madman- Gogol
The Devil and Miss Prym- Coelho
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union-Chabon
Catch 22-Heller
I’m sure this list will expand, given more time to think about it.
