Classics on The Point with Mindy Todd

We don’t know if it was because everyone was snowed in or because you all really love classics, but we had more calls and e-mails today than we have ever had for any other book show that we’ve done! Thanks for your many, many suggestions! If you missed the show you can listen to the rebroadcast tonight at 7:00 PM on WCAI 90.1 FM, or listen online at capeandislands.org. Here are my picks, Janet Gardner‘s picks, and your picks!  We continue our rotating guests on the book show, and it was lots of fun to talk books today with Janet. Here also is a link to the 100 Week Project that The Guardian is doing. Here is an e-mail from a listener that didn’t make it to the air, but sounds like a great combo of books. “One summer long ago I read Herman Hesse’ Steppenwolf followed by Dostoyevski The Idiot followed by Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and it seemed they were meant to be read as a trilogy as I believed they were all 3 about the same struggle humans have with their thinking side vs. feeling sides and their animal vs civilized sides.  I think everyone should read the 3 together!!!!”   Jill’s Picks Genrefied Classics: a guide to reading interests in classic literature by Tina Froulund Lost Classics edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, and Linda Spalding To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Penguin Books, General Editor, Christopher Prendergast Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 By Colm Tóibín and Carmen Callil Ulysses by James Joyce The Graphic Canon edited by Russ Kick Library of America editions of Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder And if you’d like to read Katherine A. Powers article about the Little House LOA books it’s called ”Darkness on the Prairie.” .   Janet’s Picks Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne The Tempest by William Shakespeare Books she brought but didn’t get to: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Walden by Thoreau The Collected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe   Listener Picks Jane Austen Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Lad: a dog by Albert Payson Terhune (and his other dog stories) East of Eden by John Steinbeck Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (particularly the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 11/22/63 by Stephen King Dead Zone by Stephen King The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton This House of Sky: landscapes of a western mind by Ivan Doig Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Me Before You by Jo Jo Moyes W. H. Auden poem as recited in Four Weddings and a Funeral Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis The Shining Tide by Win Brooks Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war by Nathaniel Philbrick Natty Bumpo series by James Fenimore Cooper Outermost House by Henry Beston Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston A Separate Peace by John Knowles Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham The Divine Comedy by Dante