ETA: I reviewed this list, and I diversity-failed. I only have one woman writer on there. So I opened up the floor to my twitter feed for suggestions, and have revised the list.
So I've done this challenge a couple of times before, just for myself, and I've never actually completed it.
And I was talking to the awesome Eva from http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/ who mentioned diversity, and that got me thinking.
I opened the floor up for suggestions, here and on twitter, and this list is the result (side note: if anyone feels like making up their own list and joining me, for a book a month, then please do! The more the merrier!)
#diversityclassics reading list: (new and improved ...)
September – Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
October – The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera
November – In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
December – The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
January – Maurice by E M Forster
February – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
March – Love and Rockets by Gilbert Hernandez
April – Maus by Art Speigelman
May – The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
June – Waiting by Ha Jin
July – The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
August – Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
That's better. #diversityclassics
September to December's books fit in with my book-buying ban, because I already own them.
Wish me luck! :D
4 comments:
This is a lovely idea, and I'm especially excited that you're reading Love and Rockets, which is brilliant :D Good luck!
Cool list. Oh and Maurice, so, so sad. As is Madam Bovary (sob, the coffin scene).
Wow, that's quite a list. I love it that you've put several graphic novels on there as well! Good luck with this. :)
ooooh very nice list!
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