books/authors I want to read: literary realism
anthologies * children * classics * comedy/satire * crime * dystopia/apocalypse * fantasy * horror * lit. realism * magical realism * nonfiction * philosophy/religion * sci-fi
(I'm making my best guesses about where I'll put reviews. If and when I read these books, I may change my mind.)
See also books I've read before and reading nostalgia

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (pub. 1963)

A Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton-Porter (pub. 1909)
One day the word "limberlost" popped into my head, and I didn't know what it was, so I googled it. I still have no idea when or where I first heard of it, nor if my hearing of it had anything to do with this book. Still, it made me think I might like to check this out, someday.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (pub. 1925)

The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (pub. 2017)

Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (pub. 1952)

J.D. Salinger
I have read The Catcher in the Rye, though I did so when I was a lot older than most people are when they read it. But I also own a couple of his other books ("Nine Stories" and "Franny and Zooey"); I must have bought all three of them together, at a used book store on the street where I lived in Bangor, probably in 2010. I expect I'll get around to them eventually.

John Steinbeck

On the Road, by Jack Kerouac (pub. 1957)

Ulysses, by James Joyce (pub. 1922)

Virginia Woolf


literary realism index
About books I want to read

anthologies * children * classics * comedy/satire * crime * dystopia/apocalypse * fantasy * horror * lit. realism * magical realism * nonfiction * philosophy/religion * sci-fi
(I'm making my best guesses about where I'll put reviews. If and when I read these books, I may change my mind.)
See also books I've read before and reading nostalgia