I've completed the final list of selections for the Cannonball Read 4. I feel good about it. It's fairly balanced, covers a breadth of genres and authors, includes works both classic and modern, includes fiction and nonfiction, and each of the books appeals to me in some way.
Title | Author |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
Tigana | Guy Gavriel Kay |
Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
State of Wonder | Ann Patchett |
Lolita | Vladimir Nabakov |
Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card |
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | John Le Carre |
A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. LeGuin |
Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin |
Season of Life: A Football Star, A Boy, A Journey to Manhood | Jeffry Marx |
Volt | Alan Heathcock |
Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke |
The Neverending Story | Michael Ende |
The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco |
Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
The Art of War | Sun Tzu |
The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern |
The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
Neuromancer | William Gibson |
Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
Heroes Die | Matthew Woodring Stover |
Rumpole of the Bailey | John Mortimer |
Someday This Will Be Funny | Lynne Tillman |
Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
The Way of the Superior Man | David Deida |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Restand |
Eye of the Needle | Ken Follet |
The Anubis Gates | Tim Powers |
On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
Starship Troopers | Robert Heinlein |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Phillip K. Dick |
In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust |
To The Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers |
There but for the | Ali Smith |
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Susanna Clarke |
The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy |
Elantris | Brandon Sanderson |
The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides |
The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey |
Fletch | Gregory Mcdonald |
The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
Ringworld | Larry Niven |
The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth |
Talion: Revenant | Michael Stackpole |
For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |