Creative Writing is my bachelor's degree, so, as expected, here's my list.
Current Reads
1. Three: Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
2. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
3. The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum
4. Bad Haircut by Tom Perrotta
Gay/Lesbian-themed Novels
1. Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran*
2. Three Junes by Julia Glass
3. The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst*
4. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
5. My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley*
6. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
7. Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen
8. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Humor
1. Lake Wobegon: Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor
2. The Taming of the Screw by Dave Barry
3. Bad Habits by Dave Barry*
Romance
1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2. Love Invents Us by Amy Bloom
3. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
4. They Whisper by Robert Olen Butler
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte*
6. Elegy for Iris by John Bailey
7. Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger*
8. We Think The World of You by JR Ackerley
9. M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang*
10. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers*
11. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
12. Cast in Doubt by Lynne Tillman
Coming-of-Age
1. Black Boy by Richard Wright
2. American Childhood by Annie Dillard*
3. China Boy by Gus Lee
Family Portraits
1. House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
2. Obasan by Joy Kogawa*
3. The Rehearsal by Sarah Willis
4. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez
5. We are still Married by Garrison Keillor
6. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx*
7. Goodbye to the Buttermilk Sky by Julia Oliver
8. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
8. Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid*
Adventures
1. West with the Night by Beryl Markham
2. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
3. In America by Susan Sontag
Creative Non-Fiction
1. My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid*
2. The Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson
3. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin*
4. Life Under the Leaky Roof by David Owen*
5. Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez*
Short Story Collections
1. Tiger in the Grass by Harriet Doerr*
2. Follies by Anne Beattie
3. The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien
4. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler*
5. Women Loving by Jhoanna Lynn Cruz*
6. Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan
7. Living Up the Street by Gary Soto*
8. Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
Poetry Collections
1. A Night Without Armor by Jewel
2. Black Wings & Blind Angels by Sapphire
3. Sunflower by Tita Lacambra-Ayala*
4. From the Skin In by Mary Connell
Other Writings
1. Women and Bisexuality by Sue George
2. Immortal Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown
3. The Practical Stylist by Sheridan Baker
4. Getting Real: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry by Gemino Abad*
5. Ladlad 2: An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing edited by J. Neil Garcia and Danton Remoto
6. Conversation with Truman Capote by Lawrence Grobel*
7. Sex, Art and American Culture by Camille Paglia*
8. Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure by Kate Borstein and Caitlin Sullivan
(*) favorite books
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