~ 2008 Reading List

Creole Cat’s 2008 Reading List

Read:

  1.  Riders of the Purple Sage  (1912) Zane Grey

  2. The African American West: A Century of Short Stories  (2000) Bruce A. Glasrud and Laurie Champion, editors

  3. Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories  (1995) James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElheny, editors

  4. Ghost in the Machine: A Play  (1996) David Gilman

  5. His Eye is on the Sparrow: An Autobiography  (1951) Ethel Waters with Charles Samuels

  6. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961) Edward Albee

  7. Some Faces in the Crowd: Short Stories   (1953) Budd Schulberg

  8. The Apartment (screenplay) (1960) Billy Wilder and I.A.L Diamond

  9. The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Media (2000)  Carolyn Kitch

  10. God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927) James Weldon Johnson

  11. Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work and Fiction in the American 1930s (1995) Laura Hapke

  12. Of Mice and Men (1937) John Steinbeck re-read

  13. When Ladies Meet (1932) Rachel Crothers (from The Best Plays of 1932-33)

  14. Design for Living (1932) Noel Coward (from The Best Plays of 1932-33)

  15. Born Yesterday (1946) Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon (from The Best Plays of 1945-46)

  16. Valley of the Dolls (1966) Jacqueline Susann

  17. The Last Picture Show (1966) Larry McMurtry

  18. Guys and Dolls : The Stories of Damon Runyon (1992)

  19. The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2000)

  20. Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems by Raymond Carver (1986) 

  21. A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anais Nin (1975) Evelyn J. Hinz, editor

  22. Flannery O’ Connor and the Christ-Haunted South (2004) Ralph C. Wood

  23. Flannery O’Connor’s South (1980) Robert Coles

  24. Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus (2004) Nathaniel Knaebel

  25. A Taste of Honey (1959) Shelagh Delaney

  26. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) Alice Walker

  27. Selected Stories of Eudora Welty (1992 Edition)

  28. Cane (1923) Jean Toomer

  29. Seven Guitars (1996) August Wilson

  30. Lie Down in Darkness (1951)   William Styron

  31. Against Interpretation (1966) Susan Sontag

  32. In Someone’s Shadow (1969) Rod McKuen

  33. Imitation of Life  Fannie Hurst (1933)

  34. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test  Tom Wolfe (1968)

  35. The Prophet  Kahil Gibran (1923)

  36. Lost Stories   Dashiell Hammett (2005)

  37. The Day of the Locust  Nathanael West (1939)

  38. Main Street  Sinclair Lewis (1922)

  39. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism  Angela Y. Davis (1998)

  40. In Quest of Our Past: 1900 - 1999  Mission Trail Questers (2000)

  41. Splendor in the Grass (screenplay) William Inge (1961)

  42. Memories of Splendor: The Midwestern World of William Inge  State Historical Society (1989)

 

 Currently reading: American Eve  Paula Uruburu