Reading List From My Guardian Masters Novel Writing Class
Somewhere in the vicinity of 290 of my blog fans (actually, only one), asked me for the reading list from my Guardian Masters Novel Writing Class.So... here are some that we studied; others were mentioned by teachers or students:
The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Tom Jones - Fielding
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Measure for Measure - Shakespeare
The Wings Of The Dove - Henry James
Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Hemingway
The Haystack In The Floods - William Morris
Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
David Copperfield - Dickens
A Misremembered Lyric (poem) - Denise Riley
Ulysses 'Calypso' - James Joyce
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fitte 3
Cold Calls - Christopher Logue
The Capital Of The World - Hemingway
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell
Richard Gary Brautigan
Oxygen - Andrew Miller
God's Own Country - Ross Raisin
How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
Secret Country - John Pilger
Flowers In The Attic - Virginia Andrews
Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
Sum: 40 Tales From The Afterlife - David Eagleman
Light Years - James Salter
The Turning - Tim Winton
The Art Of Fiction (essay) - Henry James
"Dog" (poem) - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Translations (play) - Brian Friel
