Monthly Reading List

We want your lists for suggested readings for a given month. Please send us 5 things you think people should be reading. It can be novels, drama, newsgroups, manifestos, whatever.... Please send all submissions to: penniless.press@gmail.com. Thanks.

March

1. James Joyce - Counterparts (From Dubliners)


2. The Biography of St. Patrick


3. Heinrich Boll - Irish Journal


4. William Butler Yeats - Where There is Nothing, There is God


5. Thomas Bulfinch - Cuchulain, Champion of Ireland

(Submitted by Murphy Harrington)

February

1. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon's masterpiece concerning the
   impossibility of communication


2. The Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald contemplates life without history


3. Forty Stories - Donald Barthelme makes the short story form live as
   dangerously as it can


4. The Mask of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem that slapped the
   establishment round the face


5. The Dead, from Dubliners - James Joyce, examining passion and our
   comfortable lives

(Submitted by Michael Spring)

January

1. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by M. Haddon


2. King Lear by W. Shakespeare


3. Letter from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother, Theo
   (http://www.vggallery.com/letters/751_V-T_597.pdf)


4. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by H. Murakami


5. The Yellow Wallpaper by C.P. Gilman
   (http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper.html)

(Submitted by Henry Olirin)