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 |
1 comment:
And we have our first substitution of the Cannonball. Seriously, have you ever seen the unabridged version of Don Quixote? It's massive. It's going to have to come off the list. In its place is Terry Brooks' Armageddon's Children.
If you're wondering about Tigana, it's still on the list, but I'm waiting for it to come through on an Interlibrary Loan. Until then, we move forward.
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