Dystopia
Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut)
Player Piano Author: Kurt Vonnegut Project: dystopia – technology Year of publication: 1952 Pages: 341 Goodreads: Player Piano
1941-1960
War
The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
Author: Norman Mailer Project: War – Word War II Year of publication: 1948 Pages: 721 Goodreads: The Naked and the Dead
War
Men at Arms (Evelyn Waugh)
Author: Evelyn Waugh Project: War – Word War II Year of publication: 1952 Pages: 265 Goodreads: Men at Arms
War
The Hunters (James Salter)
Author: James Salter Project: War – Korean War Year of publication: 1956 Pages: 256 Goodreads: The Hunters
War
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
The Quiet American Author: Graham Greene List: Open Option Category: war Year of publication: 1955 Pages: 180 Goodreads: The Quiet American “Written before the escalation of the Vietnam war this novel explores the […]
Open Option
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
In a world threatened by darkness, a humble hobbit named Frodo embarks on a perilous quest to destroy a powerful ring before it falls into the hands of the malevolent Dark Lord Sauron. With a […]
Open Option
Butcher’s Crossing (John Williams)
Butcher’s Crossing follows Will Andrews, a Harvard student who seeks adventure and heads to the Kansas frontier in the 1870s. There, he joins a buffalo hunting expedition led by the enigmatic Miller. As they face […]
Open Option
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea Author: Ernest Hemingway List: Open Option Year of publication: 1952 Pages: 132 [½] Goodreads: The Old Man and the Sea
Dystopia
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm Author: George Orwell List: Open Option Project: dystopia – government / social injustice Year of publication: 1945 Pages: 144 [½] Goodreads: Animal Farm
Open Option
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita is a controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov that tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who becomes infatuated with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze, whom he nicknames Lolita. The book explores […]