Short list #1

Hi! I meant to get this up last week but did not have a chance.This is my first of about 3 or 4 shortlists. All these books are from one person. I have not looked deeply in to any of these books yet but have heard of quite a few of them. Expect the next short list next week and another shortly after. In December I will have a final list of books in an approximate order. I do want to try to theme the books, Horror in October, Poetry in April but I do not know how well it will work out well without further ado here is the list.

FICTION:

Johnathon Franzen - The Corrections

                                Freedom  

Caleb Carr:  The Alienist

                    The Angel of Darkness

Khaled Houssani:  The Kite Runner                                  

                            A Thousand Splendid Suns  

Alex Haley - Roots 

Alice Walker:  The Color Purple

Amy Tan:  Possessing of the Secret of Joy -

                  The Joy Luck Club

George Elliot - Silas Marner

Charles Dickens:  The Pickwick Papers

 Rohinten Mistry - A Fine Balance

Eli Wiesel - Night 

NON FICTION:

Heinrich Harrier - Seven Years In Tibet

Barbara W. Tuchman - The Guns of August  

David McCoulough -Anything He wrote 

Joseph Ellis - First Family

Edmund Morris - Theodore Rex

Howard Zinn - Peoples History of The United States

Dr. Jeffery Canada - Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun

                                 Reaching up for Manhood

Johnothan Kozol:  Rachel and Her Children

William Maddox and Stuart Lilie - BEYOND LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE

Frank McCourt - Teacher Man 

                           Angela's Ashes

Malachy McCourt - A Monk Swimming

Joan Dideon: The Year of Magical Thinking