~ 2007 Reading List
Creole Cat’s 2007 Reading List
Read:
1. Rising from the Rails: The Making of the Pullman Porters and the Black Middle Class Larry Tye
2. Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson Daniel Mark Epstein
3. The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis
4. Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe
5. The Women Clare Booth Luce
6. The Lilies of the Field William E. Barrett
7. Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg
8. The Worst Hard Times : The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan
9. The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America Jonathan Kozol
10. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
11. A Man Without a Country Kurt Vonnegut
12. Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems E.E. Cummings
13. Gentleman’s Agreement Laura Z. Hobson (1947 edition)
14. Burt Lancaster: A Biography Kate Buford
15. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Flannery O’Connor
16. The Lottery and Other Stories Shirley Jackson
17. We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
18. The Bedside Tales: An Anthology of the Finest Modern Writing (1945)
19. The Complete Stories of Truman Capote (re-read)
20. For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
21. Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
23. Beyond the Looking Glass: Extraordinary Works of Fairy Tale and Fantasy Jonathan Cott, ed.
24. Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday with William Dufty
25. Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965 Ruth Feldstein
26. To Be Young, Gifted and Black Lorraine Hansberry
27. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin
28. Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman
29. The Golem Gustav Meyrink
30. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady Anita Loos
31. Mariette in Ecstasy Ron Hansen
32. The Overcoat and Other Short Stories Nikolai Gogol
33. Lost Horizon James Hilton
34. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
35. Spurs Tod Robbins
36. Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis
37. Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose
38. Whites on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture Jan Nederveen Pieterse
39. Life Among the Savages Shirley Jackson
40. The Censorship Papers: Movie Censorship Letters from the Hays Office 1934 to 1968 Gerald Gardner
41. The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Writings Stephen Vincent Benet
42. Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City Nicholas Christopher
43. The Golem I.L. Peretz
44. Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith
45. The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures Donald Spoto
46. The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
47. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
48. Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters
49. Private Lives Noel Coward
50. Blithe Spirit Noel Coward
51. Burlesque and the New Bump-N-Grind Michelle Baldwin
52. Platinum Girl: The Life and Legends of Jean Harlow Eve Golden
53. Red-Headed Woman Katharine Brush
54. The Price of Salt Patricia Highsmith writing as Claire Morgan
55. Anita Loos: A Biography Gary Carey
56. Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway Farley Granger with Robert Calhoun
57. Stormy Weather: A Novel Paulette Jiles
58. The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
59. Full Woman, Fleshy Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
60. American Negro Poetry: An Anthology Arna Bontemps
61. Woman in the Dark Dashiell Hammett
62. Stevie Smith: A Biography Frances Spalding
63. Sweet Smell of Success (Screenplay) Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman
64. Are You There God? Its Me Margaret Judy Blume
65. The Human Comedy William Saroyan
66. The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux
67. The Invisible Man H.G.Wells
68. The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington
69. The Time is Ripe: The 1940 Journals of Clifford Odets
70. Little Infamies: Stories Panos Karnezis
71. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings Edgar Allan Poe
72. Look Back in Anger John Osborne
73. Singer in the Shadows: The Strange Story of Patience Worth Irving Litvag
74. Lust, Caution Eileen Chang
75. The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings Djuna Barnes
76. Paris Spleen Charles Baudelaire
77. Loving Frank Nancy Horan
78. Rain and Other South Sea Stories W. Somerset Maugham
79. The Making of The African Queen or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind Katharine Hepburn
80. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
81. At Home: Essays 1982-1988 Gore Vidal
82. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays Tennessee Williams