Living from one Blursday to the next these past several months, summer snuck up on me this year.
I am grateful to a childhood friend for tagging me in a Facebook Favorite Books Challenge to spur me to action and listify my Summer Reading List 2020.
Similar to the FB Challenge, I present these titles without comment or reviews with the hope that curiosity will lead you to explore more.
First, a belated warm thank you to Sue Houchins, Professor of Africana at Bates College, who led my Freshman Seminar at Scripps College. I signed up for a course called Mythology, thinking it would be all Edith Hamilton – familiar and easy. Instead Professor Houchins opened my eyes and heart (and kinda blew my mind) with a course built upon Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and a reading list that included books I still have on my shelf:
Meridian – Alice Walker
The Song of Soloman – Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
It’s my wish that every student has a Sue Houchins in their life.
Facebook Favorite Books Challenge (a quirky selection of books I love)
100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amar Towles
Creative Visualization – Skakti Gawain
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
Fire From the Mountain – Omar Cabezas
Franny B. Kranny There’s a Bird in Your Hair – Harriet Lerner
Girl in Translation – Jean Kwok
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Jerusalem – A Cookbook – Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi
Just Kids – Patti Smith
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking – Anya von Bremzen
Currently Reading, About to Read or Just Finished Reading
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living – Dale Carnegie
The Challenge – Rha Goddess
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k – Mark Manson
Acid for the Children – Flea
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt – Anonymous
The Automobile Club of Egypt – Alaa al Aswany
Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
Hello ! My neighbor and friend Nicca Ray just released her book about her father famed film director,Nick Ray … entitled “Ray by Ray”
also Duff Mc Cagens (guitarist Guns and Roses) books are always fun as well as his wife’s “The Velvet Rose ” for girls
and John Strasberg ‘s Accidentally on purpose
because people are moving out the city and leaving there books behind I’m excited to delve into several new titles and authors! Thank you for the blog and information
These sound great, Cathie! Thanks for recommending x