Mikaela says:
So now that the m's are graduating, the time for serious summer reading is finally here.
To start the list, NY Times just published its list (picked by some panel of mostly men, obviously) of the best American fiction of the last 25 years. Thankfully, Beloved by Toni Morrison won top honors.
Other than that amazing novel, there is only one other by a woman. The rest are boys. Multiples of the same boys, even [Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, and John Updike]. And they're good books, don't get me wrong. But where have all the women gone? Hasn't Oprah done enough to open the door to women writers?
So I'm asking you, dear readers. What should m-pyre have on its list of things to read?
My personal top 10 (ladies first but otherwise not in order):
- Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker
- The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
- Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
- Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, Fannie Flag
- In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
- Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
- Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
- Prayer for Own Meany, John Irving
- Nobody's Fool, Richard Russo
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
- A Shadow in Summer, Daniel Abraham
- 28 Days, Gabrielle Lichterman and Scott Haltzman
- A Brief History of the Mind, William Calvin
- killing rage, bell hooks
- Autobiography of Malcolm X, ed. Alex Haley
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