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The non-western books that every student should read. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon I teach it to my first years and return to the book through their degree.

The non-western books that every student should read

It is the perfect introduction to complex ideas: oppressive socio-economic political structures, forms of resistance and defiance, and the point at which violence becomes justifiable. Students always find the book challenging, disturbing and thought provoking. And that is exactly what university syllabi ought to be!

Sunny Singh, lecturer at London Metropolitan University and author of Hotel Arcadia Malgudi Omnibus by R K Narayan Every literature student should have space on her shelf for the complete works of R K Narayan. 15 Books You Should Have Read in 2010 - Culture - GOOD - StumbleUpon. Image by Jane Mount, Courtesy 20x200 Yes, we read Freedom this year and yes, it was good.

15 Books You Should Have Read in 2010 - Culture - GOOD - StumbleUpon

As Esquire put it, it “was one great slab of a book, at a time when most books have given up on greatness.” But there were other books in 2010, books that had to compete for our ever more challenged attention spans and won. So we asked a few members of the GOOD team & some of our good colleagues which book made their best list this past year. (And since discovering something you might have missed is one of the great pleasures of reading, no selections were disqualified for having been published prior to 2010). 1.

Author: Stephen King. 2 Wissen: Islands junge Literaten - SWR2. Die Geschichtenerzähler vom Polarkreis Sendung vom Donnerstag, 13.10.2011 | 8.30 Uhr | SWR2. Most-Targeted-Books-Infographic.jpg (2001×1200) Read and Rate New Writers Online. Short Works & First Pages. Contemporary Writers in the UK - Contemporary Writers. Die Berliner Literaturkritik - Rezensionen, Literaturkalender, Leseproben, Buchladen. Longlist announced for Man Booker Prize 2010: Man Booker Prize news. A Chiefest Pleasure: Discovering The Sot-Weed Factor on its 50th Birthday. Some of the chiefest pleasures in a lifetime of reading fiction are those moments when you stumble upon a gem of a book you somehow missed.

A Chiefest Pleasure: Discovering The Sot-Weed Factor on its 50th Birthday

This happens more often than we might care to admit because reading fiction is a lot like its distant cousin, the acquisition of knowledge: the more you do it, the less of it you seem to have done. There’s no shame in this. Lacunae are inevitable for even the most voracious and catholic of readers. The consolation is that the deeper you go into your life and your reading, the more precious the long-overlooked gems become once you finally unearth them. All this came to mind recently when I picked up a novel I’d been meaning to read for many years, John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor. The Modern Library. ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin.

The Modern Library

Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Initially banned in the United States but overturned by a legal challenge by Random House’s Bennett Cerf, Ulysses was called “a memorable catastrophe” (Virginia Woolf), “a book to which we are all indebted” (T.

Books that everyone should read at least once. The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time - Features - Wo. The Book Bench: The Trouble With Recommending Books : The New Yo. As a child—an easily bored, semi-feral child without a TV—I spent a lot of time in the local bookstore.

The Book Bench: The Trouble With Recommending Books : The New Yo

The store had a large children’s section, with rows and rows of chapter books that led out to a small café, but by the time I was eight or nine, I would peruse the stacks and come away with the distinct impression that I had read everything there. Book Recommendations (USA) Top 20 geek novels. Wired for Books. Great Book List. Home. The Return of the Biblioracle by John Warner. Still more questions for, and answers from, the Biblioracle: That first installment of the Biblioracle was quite something, wasn’t it? Boy howdy!

Better than 400 in three hours by my reckoning. It was simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting. Were you surprised by the outpouring of requests for book recommendations? Come on! How do you mean, virtual reality? Compare this to the experience of reading a book, where one’s brain is actually engaged. 50 Years of To Kill A Mockingbird. Scout, Dill, Atticus and Boo – those names can only mean one thing. It's over 50 years since Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the ultimate literary one-hit wonder, was published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. So much has been written about this novel that it is hard to provide facts that further illustrate Lee and her famous story of childhood in the American South. A bright girl from Monroeville, Alabama, works as an airline reservations clerk in New York and then quits to finish her novel, which becomes an immediate bestseller, wins the Pulitzer Prize, is adapted into a wonderful movie starring Gregory Peck, is translated into more than 40 languages and sells over 30 million copies.

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