Ernest Hemingway
Potential anniversary-themed reads for 2010
A few months ago I got the idea to create a reading queue based on anniversary. There were quite a few great books celebrating more or less significant birthdays in 2009.
Continuing the idea, here's a list of possibilities to choose from for 2010, with the ordinal in parentheses. The list is skewed to 20th Century lit since I didn't go farther back in my searching except for certain authors -- there will be scads of additional selections available if you feel like looking around. Feel free to offer any other suggestions in the comments.
I'll strike out those I get around to reading during the year.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (30th) - Douglas AdamsI, Robot (60th) - Isaac Asimov- The Handmaid’s Tale (25th) - Margaret Atwood
Martian Chronicles (60th) - Ray BradburyEnder’s Game (25th) - Orson Scott Card- The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (10th) - Michael Chabon
Farewell, My Lovely (70th) - Raymond Chandler- The Brothers Karamazov (130th) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Sign of Four (120th) - Arthur Conan DoyleBaudolino (10th) - Umberto Eco- The Name of the Rose (30th) - Umberto Eco
- LA Confidential (20th) - James Ellroy
As I Lay Dying (80th) - William Faulkner- Good Omens (20th) - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Love in the Time of Cholera (25th) - Gabriel García MárquezThe Difference Engine (20th) - William Gibson and Bruce SterlingThe Marble Faun (150th) - Nathaniel HawthorneFor Whom the Bell Tolls (70th) - Ernest Hemingway- Rhinoceros (50th) - Eugene Ionesco
- The Cider House Rules (25th) - John Irving
- The Town and the City (60th) - Jack Kerouac
Tristessa (50th) - Jack Kerouac- Immortality (20th) - Milan Kundera
To Kill a Mockingbird (50th) - Harper LeeA Canticle for Leibowitz (50th) - Walter M. Miller- Devil in a Blue Dress (20th) - Walter Mosley
Ringworld (40th) - Larry NivenThe Violent Bear It Away (50th) - Flannery O’ConnorHemingway's Chair (15th) - Michael Palin- Skinny Legs and All (20th) - Tom Robbins
Still Life with Woodpecker (30th) - Tom Robbins- Contact (25th) - Carl Sagan
Green Eggs and Ham (50th) - Dr. SeussOne Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (50th) - Dr. Seuss- The Bachelors (50th) - Muriel Spark
- The Ballad of Peckham Road (50th) - Muriel Spark
- Cryptonomicon (10th) - Neal Stephenson
- Zeitgeist (10th) - Bruce Sterling
- The Artificial Kid (30th) - Bruce Sterling
- The Snake’s Pass (120th) - Bram Stoker
A Confederacy of Dunces (30th) - John Kennedy TooleThe Accidental Tourist (25th) - Anne TylerHocus Pocus (20th) - Kurt Vonnegut- The Sleeper Awakes (100th) - H.G. Wells
The Age of Innocence (90th) - Edith Wharton- Jeeves in the Offing (50th) - P.G. Wodehouse
Mrs. Dalloway (85th) - Virginia Woolf- Le Bête Humaine (120th) - Emile Zola
- Nana (130th) - Emile Zola
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Bram Stoker
- Bruce Sterling
- Carl Sagan
- Douglas Adams
- Edith Wharton
- Emile Zola
- Ernest Hemingway
- Flannery O'Connor
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Harper Lee
- HG Wells
- Jack Kerouac
- James Ellroy
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Michael Palin
- Milan Kundera
- Muriel Spark
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Neal Stephenson
- Neil Gaiman
- PG Wodehouse
- Ray Bradbury
- Raymond Chandler
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- Set:Reading
- Umberto Eco
- Virginia Woolf
- William Faulkner
- William Gibson
Top 25 Favorite Writers
Much like for my favorite movies, here is a list of my Top 25 favorite writers.
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Ray Bradbury
- JRR Tolkien
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Douglas Adams
- Mark Twain
The rest in alphabetical order by last name:
- Robert Benchley
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Albert Camus
- Raymond Chandler
- Umberto Eco
- William Gibson
- Spalding Gray
- Franz Kafka
- Milan Kundera
- Ursula K Le Guin
- George Orwell
- Dorothy Parker
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Muriel Spark
- Bram Stoker
- Jules Verne
- Edith Wharton
- HG Wells
Honorable Mentions
- Jane Austen
- Jorge Luis Borges
- George Carlin
- Philip K Dick
- James Ellroy
- Ernest Hemingway
- James Joyce
- Jack Kerouac
- Stephen King
- Herman Melville
- Flannery O'Connor
- William Shakespeare
- Mary Shelley
- Neal Stephenson
- John Steinbeck
- Hunter S Thompson
- Virginia Woolf
- Oscar Wilde
- PG Wodehouse
- Emile Zola
- Albert Camus
- Bram Stoker
- Charlotte Bronte
- Dorothy Parker
- Douglas Adams
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edith Wharton
- Emile Zola
- Emily Bronte
- Ernest Hemingway
- Flannery O'Connor
- Franz Kafka
- George Carlin
- George Orwell
- Herman Melville
- HG Wells
- Hunter S Thompson
- Jack Kerouac
- James Ellroy
- James Joyce
- Jane Austen
- John Steinbeck
- Jorge Luis Borges
- JRR Tolkien
- Jules Verne
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Mark Twain
- Mary Shelley
- Milan Kundera
- Muriel Spark
- Neal Stephenson
- Oscar Wilde
- PG Wodehouse
- Philip K Dick
- Ray Bradbury
- Raymond Chandler
- reading
- Robert Benchley
- Shakespeare
- Spalding Gray
- Stephen King
- Umberto Eco
- Ursula K Le Guin
- Virginia Woolf
- Vladimir Nabokov
- William Gibson
- writers
Ernest Hemingway in Gaza today?
Hemingway on the bicycle
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
-- Ernest Hemingway
