Blues Fanatic

I need an opinion about if these books or plays are good or not. You don’t have to do all of them.?

Novels
1. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
2. Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
3. Beloved by Toni Morrison
4. Black Boy by Richard Wright
5. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
6. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
8. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
9. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
10. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
12. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
13. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston

Plays
1. The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill
2. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
3. The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
5. The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
6. No Exit by John Paul Sartre

Also, If you have read another good classic, please list them.

Novels

8. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – It’s pretty good, although I think you would enjoy it far more if you read it as a teenager rather than an adult.

10. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad – I tried, I REALLY tried. It is the hardest book in the world. i managed 20 pages,but had no idea what was going on!

Plays

4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee – AMAZING! It is one of the best things I have ever read and I am counting down the days until i am old enough to play Martha!
5. The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare – I love Shakespeare and I am actually rehearsing for this at the moment. But I hate this play. Probably a symptom of the times, butit is the most horrifically racist thing I have read. (I haven’t read Mein Kampf though!)
6. No Exit by John Paul Sartre – I’ve not read it but I have seen it. It was pretty good.

Selected Classics I have read (I’ve read a lot!)

Shakespeare: (Well all of them, but I most enjoyed):

Othello
King Lear
Twelfth Night
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Titus Andronicus

Other plays

The Bacchae – Euripides
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Ubu Roi – Alfred Jarry
The Revenger’s Tragedy – Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster
The Beaux Stratagem – George Farquhar

Books:

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
1984 – George Orwell
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolfe

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