60 by 60
I intend to read at the minimum sixty books from this list of authors over the course of the next five years: by the time I reach age 60. Some authors I'll be reading for the first time (noted with an *); others I'll be continuing to read in greater depth. List contains more than 60 authors to give myself some much needed flexibility along with the book by the author I'm most likely to read first. I'll add date read and any additional books read as time goes on. I also reserve the right to add all NYRB or Persephone Books completed over the next five years to this list; I was too lazy to list them all but would certainly like to make considerable headway in these collections.
A.L. Barker
A Heavy Feather
*Sybille Bedford
A Favorite of the Gods
*Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories
T.C. Boyle
Tortilla Curtain
*Robert A. Caro
The Passage of Power
Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop
One of Ours (2019)
*Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries
Anton Chekhov
Collected Stories
Barbara Comyns
Birds in Tiny Cages (2015)
The Juniper Tree (2015)
Mr. Fox (2015)
The Skin Chairs (2015)
The Vet's Daughter (2015)
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (2015)
Lettice Cooper
The New House (2018)
Richmal Crompton
Frost at Morning
Merlin Bay (2019)
Stefan Green (2015)
*Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth
*Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
George Eliot
Felix Holt: The Radical
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Golden Child (2015)
The Bookshop (2016)
Offshore (2016)
Human Voices (2016)
At Freddie's (2016)
Innocence. (2016)
The Beginning of Spring (2016)
The Gate of Angels (2016)
Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard and Pecuchet
*Julia Franck
The Blind Side of the Heart
William Gaddis
The Recognitions
Elizabeth Gaskell
Lois the Witch (2020)
North and South (2019)
*Amitar Ghosh
Sea of Poppies
George Gissing
Workers in the Dawn
*Ellen Glasgow
Barren Ground (2015)
The Sheltered Life (2017)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
*Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov
Caroline Gordon
Penhally
The Strange Children (2015)
*Stephen Greenblatt
The Swerve
*Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
Cicely Hamilton
William - An Englishman (2018)
Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (2019)
L.P. Hartley
The Go-Between (2015)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance (2019)
Philip Hensher
King of the Badgers
*Janet Hobhouse
The Furies
Walter Kempowski
All For Nothing (2018)
Halldor Laxness
The Atom Station (2019)
Independent People (2018)
Under the Glacier (2018)
Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook
David Lodge
A Man of Parts
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
*Peter Matthiessen
Snow Country
*David McCullough
John Adams (2015)
*Louis Menand
The Metaphysical Club
*Kathleen Morehouse
Rain on the Just
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
*Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful Monsters
*Harry Mulisch
Discovery of Heaven
Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (2019)
Iris Murdoch
The Flight of the Enchanter (2015)
The Italian Girl (2016)
The Philosopher's Pupil (2019)
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire
Irene Nemirovsky
Suite Francaise
*Lawrence Norfolk
The Pope's Rhinoceros
Ovid
The Metamorphoses
*Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
Eleanor Perenyi
More was Lost (2018)
*Benito Perez Galdoz
Fortunata and Jacinta
Anthony Powell
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (2015)
The Kindly Ones (2015)
The Valley of Bones (2015)
The Soldier's Art (2015)
The Military Philosophers (2015)
Books Do Furnish a Room (2015)
Temporary Kings (2015)
Hearing Secret Harmonies (2015)
Richard Powers
Generosity (2019)
Gold Bug Variations
The Overstory (2018)
David Quammen
Monster of God
Philip Roth
I Married a Communist
The Plot Against America (2016)
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Georges Simenon
The Train
Ali Smith
Autumn (2019)
How to be Both
Spring (2019)
The Whole Story and Other Stories (2019)
Winter (2019)
Jean Stafford
The Catherine Wheel
Christina Stead
Letty Fox: Her Luck
Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma
Noel Streatfeild
Saplings (2018)
William Styron
The Confessions of Nat Turner (2015)
Elizabeth Taylor
Blaming (2018)
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2018)
Palladian (2019)
The View of the Harbour
The Wedding Group (2019)
*Harry Thompson
This Thing of Darkness
Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers (2019)
Phineas Finn (2018)
David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Rebecca West
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Richard Yates
Disturbing the Peace (2016)
The Easter Parade
Howard Zinn
A People's History of the United States
A.L. Barker
A Heavy Feather
*Sybille Bedford
A Favorite of the Gods
*Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories
T.C. Boyle
Tortilla Curtain
*Robert A. Caro
The Passage of Power
Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop
One of Ours (2019)
*Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries
Anton Chekhov
Collected Stories
Barbara Comyns
Birds in Tiny Cages (2015)
The Juniper Tree (2015)
Mr. Fox (2015)
The Skin Chairs (2015)
The Vet's Daughter (2015)
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (2015)
Lettice Cooper
The New House (2018)
Richmal Crompton
Frost at Morning
Merlin Bay (2019)
Stefan Green (2015)
*Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth
*Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
George Eliot
Felix Holt: The Radical
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Golden Child (2015)
The Bookshop (2016)
Offshore (2016)
Human Voices (2016)
At Freddie's (2016)
Innocence. (2016)
The Beginning of Spring (2016)
The Gate of Angels (2016)
Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard and Pecuchet
*Julia Franck
The Blind Side of the Heart
William Gaddis
The Recognitions
Elizabeth Gaskell
Lois the Witch (2020)
North and South (2019)
*Amitar Ghosh
Sea of Poppies
George Gissing
Workers in the Dawn
*Ellen Glasgow
Barren Ground (2015)
The Sheltered Life (2017)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
*Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov
Caroline Gordon
Penhally
The Strange Children (2015)
*Stephen Greenblatt
The Swerve
*Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
Cicely Hamilton
William - An Englishman (2018)
Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (2019)
L.P. Hartley
The Go-Between (2015)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance (2019)
Philip Hensher
King of the Badgers
*Janet Hobhouse
The Furies
Walter Kempowski
All For Nothing (2018)
Halldor Laxness
The Atom Station (2019)
Independent People (2018)
Under the Glacier (2018)
Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook
David Lodge
A Man of Parts
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
*Peter Matthiessen
Snow Country
*David McCullough
John Adams (2015)
*Louis Menand
The Metaphysical Club
*Kathleen Morehouse
Rain on the Just
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
*Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful Monsters
*Harry Mulisch
Discovery of Heaven
Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (2019)
Iris Murdoch
The Flight of the Enchanter (2015)
The Italian Girl (2016)
The Philosopher's Pupil (2019)
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire
Irene Nemirovsky
Suite Francaise
*Lawrence Norfolk
The Pope's Rhinoceros
Ovid
The Metamorphoses
*Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
Eleanor Perenyi
More was Lost (2018)
*Benito Perez Galdoz
Fortunata and Jacinta
Anthony Powell
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (2015)
The Kindly Ones (2015)
The Valley of Bones (2015)
The Soldier's Art (2015)
The Military Philosophers (2015)
Books Do Furnish a Room (2015)
Temporary Kings (2015)
Hearing Secret Harmonies (2015)
Richard Powers
Generosity (2019)
Gold Bug Variations
The Overstory (2018)
David Quammen
Monster of God
Philip Roth
I Married a Communist
The Plot Against America (2016)
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Georges Simenon
The Train
Ali Smith
Autumn (2019)
How to be Both
Spring (2019)
The Whole Story and Other Stories (2019)
Winter (2019)
Jean Stafford
The Catherine Wheel
Christina Stead
Letty Fox: Her Luck
Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma
Noel Streatfeild
Saplings (2018)
William Styron
The Confessions of Nat Turner (2015)
Elizabeth Taylor
Blaming (2018)
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2018)
Palladian (2019)
The View of the Harbour
The Wedding Group (2019)
*Harry Thompson
This Thing of Darkness
Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers (2019)
Phineas Finn (2018)
David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Rebecca West
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Richard Yates
Disturbing the Peace (2016)
The Easter Parade
Howard Zinn
A People's History of the United States
posted by SFP | 6:57 AM
2 Comments:
How did you choose your 60+ authors?
Despite Ducks, Nbport, I still regard Black Lamb and Grey Falcon with trepidation because I am sure its prose needs to be swam through rather than glided along.
Guilt? I own books by most, if not all, these authors and felt I needed to attend to some of them instead of being distracted by newer, buzzier works all the time. I love Rebecca West, but I still haven't gotten up my nerve to attempt Black Lamb.
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