Well, my first semester is a few days from being officially over. So, here's what I read this semester. Here's what I'm looking forward to reading "for fun" over my winter break. And, here's what I'm tentatively reading next semester.
*sorry, this list isn't in MLA format, I didn't feel like italicizing the titles...
"I fucking love reading." -the Mushing Mortician
1st Semester
Palm-of-the-Hand stories by Yasunari Kawabata
Enormous Changes At The Last Minute by Grace Paley
The Things They Carried by Tim O’ Brian
The Toughest Indian In The World by Sherman Alexie
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
A Good Day to Die by Jim Harrison
Once There Was A War by John Steinbeck
Dispatches by Michael Herr
And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat
Thin Red Line by James Jones
Back in the World: Stories by Tobias Wolff
Drown by Junot Diaz
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (8th Edition) by Janet Burroway
The Loneliest Road in America by Roy Parvin
Reading like a writer by Francine Prose
Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer by L. Rust Hills
A Rumor of War by Neil Caputo
Someone To Watch Over Me:Stories by Richard Bausch
Winter Break
Storm Riders by Craig Lesley
Goat Mountain by David Vann
Leaving Las Vegas by John O' Brien
Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy
The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
Red Moon by Ben Percy
2nd Semester
1. The Yellow Birds by Kevin
Powers
2. 11 Days by Lea Carpenter
3. Sparta by Roxanna Robinson
4. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
5. Paco’s Story by Larry Heineman
6. Northern Lights by Tim O’Brien
7. Going After Cacciato by Tim O’ Brien
8. In Pharaoh’s Army by Tobias Wolff
9. Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell
10. Rock Springs by Richard Ford
11. Welding With Children: Stories by Tim Gautreux
12. All Other Nights by Dara Horn
13. Caribou Island by David Vann
14. The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
15. Collected Stories by John Cheever
16. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
17. Jesus Son by Denis Johnson
18. Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
19. Going To Meet the Man by James Baldwin
20. The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell
2. 11 Days by Lea Carpenter
3. Sparta by Roxanna Robinson
4. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
5. Paco’s Story by Larry Heineman
6. Northern Lights by Tim O’Brien
7. Going After Cacciato by Tim O’ Brien
8. In Pharaoh’s Army by Tobias Wolff
9. Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell
10. Rock Springs by Richard Ford
11. Welding With Children: Stories by Tim Gautreux
12. All Other Nights by Dara Horn
13. Caribou Island by David Vann
14. The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
15. Collected Stories by John Cheever
16. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
17. Jesus Son by Denis Johnson
18. Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
19. Going To Meet the Man by James Baldwin
20. The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell
