Winter Reading, Big Books
A short but interesting reading list based on the notion than what is better on a February day, particularly a February day like today, than curling up with a long book, a substantial read, an edifice of words. This list is admittedly somewhat random, but tries to include different genres, novels and short stories, and hopefully will inspire some reader to a new book (or a mid-winter rereading) by the fire.
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Collected Stories by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: a Definitive Text by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy by James Purdy
- Barney’s Version: A Novel by Mordecai Richler
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Royall Tyler
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Collected Early Stories by John Updike
- The Virginian: a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister