Well Read


Pride and Prejudice
1984
The Great Gatsby
Anna Karenina
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch-22
Crime and Punishment
Great Expectations
Wuthering Heights
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
A Tale of Two Cities
The Grapes of Wrath
Alexandra Monir
History is my strong suit." She had long ago taken it upon herself to read every book in the palace library, after discovering just how flimsy her education was. While the sons and daughters of palace courtiers came home from school each day brimming with new knowledge, Jasmine was kept at home with a tutor--- and her private lessons in etiquette and art weren't exactly the foundation that kings were built on. Sometimes Jasmine had the sneaking suspicion that Taminah never expected her to end up ...more
Alexandra Monir, Realm of Wonders

Alice Walker
For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut O'Connor out, feeling almost ashamed that she had reached me first. And yet, even when I no longer read her, I missed her, and realized that though the rest of America might not mind, having endured it so long, I would never be satisfied with a segregated literature. I would have to read Zora Hurston and Flannery O'Connor, Nella Larsen and Carson McCullers, Jean Toomer and William Faulkner, befor ...more
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

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Chuck Jones Essential Reading List Chuck Jones compiled a partial list of books he believed essential for every well-read person t …more
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The Well-Read Woman Book Club *WRWBC is currently on hold and dormant until further notice due to low group participation. The…more
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