Books: How Reading Changed My Life
April 26, 2010 | Books
I just finished reading How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen. It’s only 84 pages, but every word on every page spoke to me. Have you ever read her? If you haven’t, you should. She writes like a reader. A very well-read reader. I only disagree with her on Anna Karenina, which made her list of books she would save from a fire.
I thought about taking one of her lists and setting a goal to read everything on it. Each list has 10 books, and I’ve read a few on each list, so I’d have a head start. But I’m more tempted to make my own Anna Quindlen list, picking from each of her lists.
Here goes.
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
A reader’s dozen.
What should I read first?
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