If you're in search of great reads, here's a list to get you started. Gina Barreca joins Faith to talk about the books many of us have forgotten about.
Gina's List:
- Where's Poppa? by Robert Klane
- With Malice Towards Some and Bliss by Margaret Halsey
- Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
- The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
- A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
- The Dead by James Joyce
- Back Street by Fannie Hurst
- Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
- Lady Susan by Jane Austen
- The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or David Copperfield by Robert Benchley
- Three Men in a Boat, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, and The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
- Fludd by Hilary Mantel
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Faith's List:
- Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber
- The Custom of the Country, and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Fanfare for Tin Trumpets, Four Gardens, The Flowering Thorn, The Nutmeg Tree, Something Light and Martha in Paris by Margery Sharp
- Essays of E. B. White, by E. B. White
- Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
- Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther
- Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley
- Diary of a Pronvincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
- Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
- Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
GUEST:
- Gina Barreca is Professor of Literature at The University of Connecticut and author or editor of 26 books including It's Not That I'm Bitter...: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World.
