This is what I am planning, quite tentatively, to read this fall:
Recommended books about writing. I've compiled a list of books I may read before NaNoWriMo begins on November 1st. Here are some I might read:
Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (reread)
Bird by Bird (reread)
A Writer by M. B. Goffstein
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyl
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story
Writing with Pictures by Uri Shulevitz
If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
Mo Willems: Don't Pigeonhole Me
The Ode Less Traveled by Stephen Fry
Books nominated for the Cybils Fiction Picture Books and Board Books. I don't know what these are yet, because nominations don't open until October 1st.
Books written by authors who are coming to Houston this fall. So far, I'm hoping to read books by these authors:
Esi Edugyan (Washington Black, Half-Blood Blues)
Meg Wolitzer (The Female Persuasion)
Anne Lamott (Almost Everything: Notes on Hope)
Barbara Kingsolver (Unsheltered)
Jonathan Lethem (The Feral Detective)
Gary Shteyngart (Lake Success)
Books from my Classics Club list. I haven't decided which books I might read yet, but I hope to read at least a book a month this fall. Here are some I am considering:
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Basho
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
White Fang by Jack London
The Wonderful "O" by James Thurber
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Anything else that wanders my way this fall.
What are you hoping to read this fall?
Do you have any suggestions for me?
Does anything on my list look good to you?
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Wow! That's quite a list! Hope you get to read them all this fall!
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I'd like to read The War of Art, too. Nice choice there.
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Wow, that's a lot of reading. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteGreat list! I'm envious that you'll get to see Meg Wolitzer this fall.
ReplyDeleteEek! I want to read all the books on your list from authors visiting your area. And lucky you that you may meet them. Jealous.
ReplyDeleteI read these lists and I start to panic. There are so many books out there that I haven't even heard of and now I want to look into them. But my TBR is already over 100 books long. If I just read them it would take me over a year to finish the list without adding new titles (which I do all the time.) Eek! My Fall TBR list
This is quite an ambitious list! I wish you the best of luck and happy reading!
ReplyDeleteBig Magic is one I'm really looking forward to as well! I don't know if I'll get to it this year - I'm such a mood reader! Happy Tuesday!
ReplyDeleteThis seems quite ambitious. Good luck getting to some/all of these. I'm like you and don't really like feeling constrained by a TBR too.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week. - Katie
I read "Writing Down the Bones" a couple of times - the first being in a college writing class and the second a few years ago. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI think you are a bit more disciplined than I am about reading what you plan to read. I read Bird by Bird and Writing Down the Bones years and years ago. Big Magic was overhyped to me, but not bad, and Don't Pigeonhole me was fun. I am super jealous of you seeing Kingsolver and Lamott speak. Of your classics list, the only one I can get much enthusiasm going for is the Miller. I think I did my junior "term paper" on him in high school, so I've read most of his plays. That one is so sad! Well, they all are. I do like Thurber, but haven't read that one. High school ruined Wharton for me (I will never get over resenting Ethan Frome) and I think I didn't love The Quiet American either. At any rate, you have a lot of interesting books in your future!
ReplyDeleteI am so excited to be a CYBILS judge this year! I've got to go post about it. :-) Seeing Barbara Kingsolver in person would be so much fun.
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