Saturday, December 15, 2007

The List (Still Awaiting Steve's Picks...)

January is the Nineties (Steve's pick):
Generation X, Douglas Coupland

February is the Eighties (Monique's pick):
The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer.

March will be the Seventies:
Northern Lights, Tim O'Brien

April is the Sixties:
The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck

May is the perfect month for the Fifties:
Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl

June will be the Forties:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

July is the Thirties:
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

August is the Roaring Twenties, which of course requires reading:
The Portable Dorothy Parker

September brings us the 1910s:

October and the 1900's:
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

November is the 1890s:

Finally, December is the 1880s:
The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen

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