s/o The best books you read in college/grad school

[Anonymous]

The Trial

[Anonymous]

Another vote for the The Spirit Catches You and Then You Fall Down. I reread it recently and still enjoyed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

That is my favorite book, assigned for senior seminar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another vote for the The Spirit Catches You and Then You Fall Down. I reread it recently and still enjoyed it.

Third vote but I didn't read it in school. It's one of my absolute favorite books.

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Anonymous wrote:O Pioneers and My Antonia by Willa Cather
Testament of Youth by Vera Britten
The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz
Poetry -- Willliam Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens were standout

Just some stuff that immediately comes to mind.

Thank you! Just ordered The Way We Never Were - exactly the kind of reading I'm looking for.

If you like her writing you might want to look up books by Karal Ann Marling.

[Anonymous]

PP here. You might also like Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound. One of the first books I read in grad school and I drew on it all the way through--even for the book I eventually wrote.

[Anonymous]

Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do by Gabriel Thompson.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, PPs, those sound great too!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another vote for the The Spirit Catches You and Then You Fall Down. I reread it recently and still enjoyed it.

Third vote but I didn't read it in school. It's one of my absolute favorite books.

Agree. Also Raymond carver

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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Cockpit by Jerzy Kosiniski
Jill by Philip Larkin
In America by Susan Sontag

[Anonymous]

Yellow wallpaper
Brothers Karamzov
Desert solitaire
Communist Manifesto

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Savage Inequalities-Jonathan Kozol

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The Monkey Wrench - Primo Levi
Geek Love (don't remember the author)
Girl With Curious Hair - David Foster Wallace
Aucun de nous ne reviendra - Charlotte Delbo
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Amos Tutuola
Une si longue lettre - Mariama Ba
A Confederacy of Dunces - JK Toole
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson