#lit list

The BBC released a list of 100 titles and estimates people read about 6 of these classical books. Since I’m on mobile I made a list of the titles I’ve personally read.

Out of all these, my favorites are:

1. “Watership Down” by Richard Adams

2. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker

3. “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

4. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger

In April 2022, the MENAWA Reading Group (based at Lancaster University but open to everyone) hosted a virtual conversation with award-winning translator Leri Price about Samar Yazbek’s novel Planet of Clay and “the practice and philosophy of literary translation.” You can watch the whole discussion on their YouTube channel and follow @menawapoco for updates on their next reads:

A Fall Book List with a little bit of everything from self improvement thrillers and romantic novels mom will love to fun education and artsy books for kids

I hope you are having an amazing year so far! Today on the MCB I am going to switch things up a bit with this Fall Book List. As much as I have loved to do monthly booklists, it is getting to be a bit too much for me, to keep up with it.

However, I still love to read and I love to share great books with my fellow book lovers. So, instead of doing it monthly I am going to do seasonal book…

There is just something about books. When you have had a long day just feeling like the world is not a great place. Pick up a book to get inspired, pick up a book to escape to another land and it just eases your mind and renews you!

There is just something about books. When you have had a long day just feeling like the world is not a great place. Pick up a book to get inspired, pick up a book to escape to another land and it just eases your mind and renews you!

Mom Books The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins

Okay I know I am a bit behind on my reading since they already made this book into a motion…

Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys- Francesca Lea Block

Beautiful Creatures- Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Gone With The Wind- Margaret Mitchell

Tithe- Holly Black

the Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman

The Night I Disappeared- Julie Reece Deaver

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents- Julia Alvarez

The Awakening- Kate Chopin

Jane Eyer- Charlotte Bronte

Once in a while, a poem comes along that changes everything.  It grabs you, shakes you awake, gets in your veins, and quickly becomes your theme.  The Journey by Mary Oliver did exactly that for me. 

THE JOURNEYOne day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice --though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles."Mend my life!"each voice cried.But you didn't stop.You knew what you had to do,though the wind priedwith its stiff fingersat the very foundations,though their melancholywas terrible.It was already lateenough, and a wild night,and the road full of fallenbranches and stones.But little by little,as you left their voices behind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do --determined to savethe only life you could save. 

MARY OLIVER 

Other favorites by Mary Oliver:  

“Instructions for living a life:

A friend advised me to keep a list of the literature I've read.

With the help of tumblr, I shall make this happen.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee

Night, Wiesel

Macbeth, Shakespeare

Beowulf

The Glass Menagerie, Williams

The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer

The Crucible, Miller

Harry Potter, Rowling

All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque

Equus, Shaffer

I Love You, Beth Cooper, Doyle

The Kite Runner, Hosseini

Peter Pan, Barrie

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson

The Magician's Nephew, Lewis

Castle Rackrent, Edgeworth

The School for Scandal, Sheridan

The Norse Myths, [retold by] Holland

A Modest Proposal, Swift

Freedom Writers Diary, Gruwell

Dear John, Sparks

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn

Lord of the Flies, Golding

I Heart You, You Haunt Me, Schroeder

The Hobbit, Tolkein

Frankenstein, Shelley

Twilight, Meyer

Medea, Euripides

Paradise Lost, Milton

Madam Bovary, Flaubert

The Rape of the Lock, Pope

An Essay on Man, Pope

The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare

Farenheit 451, Bradbury

Twelfth Night, Shakespeare

Hamlet, Shakespeare

Brave New World, Huxley

The Odyssey, Homer

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare

Inferno, Dante

Don Quixote (Part I), Cervantes

Slaughterhouse 5, Vonnegut

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare

Candide, Voltaire

Metamorphosis, Kafka

The Nose, Gogol

The Overcoat, Gogol

Diary of a Madman, Gogol

Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare

Rossum's Universal Robots, Capek

The Sixteenth Satire, Juvenal

Sappho's Lyrics

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Eragon & Eldest, Paolini

R ashomon & In a Bamboo Grove, Akutagawa

The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger

The History of Love, Krauss

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky

Looking for Alaska, Green

The Road, McCarthy

The Good Earth, Buck

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Twain

The Poisonwood Bible, Kinsolver

Where I'm Calling From & Other Stories, Carver

Captivating, Eldredge

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Highsmith

The Hunger Games Series, Collins

Dracula, Stoker

Water for Elephants, Gruen

Phoenix, Chad Michael Murray

Animal Farm, Orwell

Song of Myself, Whitman

Othello, Shakespeare

The Book Thief, Zusak

A Doll House, Ibsen

Treasure Island, Stevenson

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Twain

A Year Down Yonder & A Season of Gifts, Peck

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Larsson        (To begin 2012)

Estrella's Quinceañera, Alegria

Catharine and Other Writings, Austen

Northanger Abbey, Austen

The Hunger Games, Collins (Again)

The Water Seeker, Holt

This Girl is Different, Johnson

Sense and Sensibility, Austen

Hattie Big Sky, Larson

Pride and Prejudice, Austen

Chew on This, Schlosser and Wilson

Mansfield Park, Austen

Flygirl, Smith

So B. It, Weeks

Violence 101, Wright

Emma, Austen

Persuasion, Austen

Sanditon, Austen

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, Zevin

The Fault in our Stars, Green

An Abundance of Katherines, Green

Wildwood, Meloy

The Girl Who Played With Fire, Larsson

1984, Orwell

Wuthering Heights, Bronte

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy