Krista Wrote back:

I’m not sure if all of these are “fun” books, in the sense that they’re not necessarily uplifting. But they’re definitely very, very well-written and thought-provoking.

I’ll be curious to see your list. I’ve gone through a dry spell, too. Never before have I picked up so many books, read 50 or 100 pages, and put them down unfinished as I did last year. I don’t know what’s going on.

The Bone People - Keri Hulme
Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee (also The Life and Times of Michael K.)
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemmingway
Sassafrass, Cypress, & Indigo - Ntozake Shange
1984 - George Orwell
Steps - Jerzy Kosinski

Then the movie books (I haven’t seen these movies, but the books are fantastic)
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (steer clear of Blood Meridian)
The Hours - Michael Cunningham (but you should read Mrs. Dalloway by V. Woolf and a short story called “Room 19″ by ? first)

Krista

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