Anonymous
Post 09/08/2015 22:26     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
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
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2015 05:43     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
Savage Inequalities-Jonathan Kozol
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2015 03:13     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
Yellow wallpaper
Brothers Karamzov
Desert solitaire
Communist Manifesto
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2015 02:18     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
Cockpit by Jerzy Kosiniski
Jill by Philip Larkin
In America by Susan Sontag
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2015 19:21     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2015 18:16     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
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
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2015 23:44     Subject: Re:s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
Thanks, PPs, those sound great too!
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2015 22:16     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do by Gabriel Thompson.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2015 21:53     Subject: Re:s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
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
Post 09/06/2015 21:51     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
Anonymous wrote:
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
Post 09/06/2015 21:43     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
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.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2015 22:02     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
Anonymous wrote:Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner


That is my favorite book, assigned for senior seminar.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2015 21:58     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
Another vote for the The Spirit Catches You and Then You Fall Down. I reread it recently and still enjoyed it.

Anonymous
Post 09/05/2015 21:37     Subject: s/o The best books you read in college/grad school
The Trial