The Low-Tech World: Exploring Mormon Literature: The End is Near! Read Modern Mormon Men!

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The End is Near! Read Modern Mormon Men!

My latest post is up on Modern Mormon Men. In it I use the upcoming Apocalypse to talk about a few Mormon books I'm interested in reading right now. I also shamelessly pitch the Mormon Lit Blitz.

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Low-Tech Reads 2013.

Diary of a Single Mormon Female--Aleesa Sutton
The Scarlet Plague--Jack London
The Ferry Woman--Gerald Grimmett
American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857--Sally Denton
The Age of Innocence--Edith Wharton
Red Water--Judith Freeman
Lightning Tree--Sarah Dunster
The Mountain Meadows Massacre--Juanita Brooks
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets--Stephen Crane
The God Who Weeps--Terryl and Fiona Givens
Dorian--Nephi Anderson
The Beast in the Jungle--Henry James
The Riders of the Purple Sage--Zane Grey
Byuck--Theric Jepson
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle--Kathleen Flake
John Stevens' Courtship: A Story of the Echo Canyon War--Susa Young Gates
What of the Night?--Stephen Carter
Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930--Thomas G. Alexander

Low-Tech Reads 2012.

A Short Stay in Hell--Steven L. Peck
A Christmas Carol--Charles Dickens
Magdalene--Moriah Jovan
Beowulf--Trans. Seamus Heaney
The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy--Terryl L. Givens
The Five Books of Jesus--James Goldberg
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction--Lyman Tower Sargent
Voices at the Crossroads--Helynne Holstein Hansen
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith--Matthew Bowman
Charly--Jack Weyland
The Boys of Springtown--Nephi Anderson
Romance of a Missionary--Nephi Anderson
A Daughter of the North--Nephi Anderson
The Story of Chester Lawrence--Nephi Anderson
Piney Ridge Cottage--Nephi Anderson
Millstone City--S. P. Bailey
The Castle Builder--Nephi Anderson
Marcus King, Mormon--Nephi Anderson
The Book of Mormon: A Biography--Paul C. Gutjahr
The Fading Flower & Swallow the Sun-- Mahonri Stewart
Moby-Dick--Herman Melville
The Wine-Dark Sea of Grass--Marilyn Brown
The Words of Joseph Smith
American Pastoral--Philip Roth
Typee--Herman Melville
Ceremony--Leslie Marmon Silko
The Crying of Lot 49--Thomas Pynchon
White Noise--Don DeLillo
Paradise--Toni Morrison
Wasatch: Mormon Stories and a Novella--Douglas Thayer
Lolita--Vladimir Nabokov
The Golden Apples--Eudora Welty
Henderson the Rain King--Saul Bellow
The Pleasures of Babel--Jay Clayton
The 42nd Parallel--John Dos Passos
Absalom, Absalom!--William Faulkner
Race, Modernity, Postmodernity--W. Lawrence Hogue
The Day of the Locust--Nathaniel West
Dancing Naked--Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner
My Antonia--Willa Cather
Wise Blood--Flannery O'Connor
Nightwood--Djuna Barnes
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims--Sarah Winnemucca
The Hunger Games--Suzanne Collins
People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture--Terryl L. Givens
Religion in America: A Very Short Introduction--Timothy Beal
Ida--Gertrude Stein
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit--John Rollins Ridge (Yellow Bird)
The Conjure Woman--Charles W. Chesnutt
Added Upon--Nephi Anderson
Novels, Readers, and Reviewers--Nina Baym
The Blithedale Romance--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Angels in America--Tony Kushner
Hope Leslie--Catherine Maria Sedgwick
The Incorporation of America--Alan Trachtenberg
Looking Backward--Edward Bellamy
Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir--ed. Robert S. Fogarty
The Conversion of Jeff Williams--Douglas Thayer
Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sideways to the Sun--Linda Sillitoe
The Fate of Madame La Tour--Cornelia Paddock
The Shaker Lovers--Daniel P. Thompson
The Future of an Illusion--Sigmund Freud
The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh--George Copway
A Son of the Forest--William Apess
On the Genealogy of Morals--Friedrich Nietzsche
The Fatal Environment--Richard Slotkin

Low-Tech Reads 2011.

The Death of a Disco Dancer--David Clark
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1--Ed. Harriet E. Smith
Blood Meridian--Cormac McCarthy
The Portrait of a Lady--Henry James
Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction 1790-1860--Jane Tompkins
The Waterworks--E. L. Doctorow
Sister Carrie--Theodore Dreiser
Manifesto of the Communist Party--Karl Marx
The Signifying Monkey--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Cloudsplitter--Russell Banks
"Transcendental Wild Oats"--Louisa May Alcott
Walden--Henry David Thoreau
Nightwoods--Charles Frazier
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton--Jane Smiley
Beneath the American Renaissance--David S. Reynolds
Mumbo Jumbo--Ishmael Reed
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano--Olaudah Equiano
Flunking Sainthood--Jana Riess
Kindred--Octavia E. Butler
The Souls of Black Folk--W.E.B. Du Bois
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave--Frederick Douglass
Cane--Jean Toomer
The Curse of Caste, or The Slave Bride--Julia C. Collins
Our Nig--Harriet E. Wilson
Up From Slavery--Booker T. Washington
Their Eyes Were Watching God--Zora Neale Hurston
To Tell a Free Story--William L. Andrews
Invisible Man--Ralph Ellison
Ragtime--E. L. Doctorow
Symzonia; A Voyage of Discovery--Captain Adam Seaborn
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym--Edgar Allan Poe
Parrot and Olivier in America--Peter Carey
The Bondwoman's Narrative--Hannah Crafts
The Scarlet Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Awakening--Kate Chopin
Beloved--Toni Morrison
Summer Fire--Douglas H. Thayer
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl--Harriet Jacobs
Mr. Popper's Penguins--Richard and Florence Atwater
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Mark Twain
The Coming of Elijah--Arianne Cope
Wise Blood--Flannery O'Connor
The Sun Also Rises--Ernest Hemingway
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer--Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life in the Iron Mills--Rebecca Harding Davis
No Going Back--Jonathan Langford
Erasable Walls: Poems--Lance Larsen
Corianton--B. H. Roberts
Lone Star: A Screenplay--John Sayles
Ammon--H. B. Moore
To the Lighthouse--Virginia Woolf
Three Guineas--Virginia Woolf
Civil War--Mark Millar
Dorian--Nephi Anderson
The Castle--Franz Kafka
Regarding the Pain of Others--Susan Sontag
The Dew Breaker--Edwidge Danticat
Saints in the Latter Days--A. Allworth
Women in Love--D. H. Lawrence
Anil's Ghost--Michael Ondaatje
A Mercy--Toni Morrison
Madame Bovary--Gustave Flaubert
Matched--Ally Condie
My Year of Meats--Ruth L. Ozeki
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life--Friedrich Nietzsche
Tropic of Orange--Karen Tei Yamashita
A Sense of Order and Other Stories--Jack Harrell
The Lonely Polygamist--Brady Udall
Camera Lucida--Roland Barthes
The Known World--Edward P. Jones
The Open Curtain--Brian Evenson
The Evening and the Morning--Virginia Sorensen
Rift--Todd Robert Petersen
Nox--Anne Carson
Bound on Earth--Angela Hallstrom
Vernal Promises--Jack Harrell
The Tree House--Douglas Thayer
The Backslider--Levi Peterson

Low-Tech Reads 2010.

Evolution:The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory--Edward J. Larson
The Taming of the Shrew--William Shakespeare
Rabbit, Run--John Updike
The Dead Father--Donald Barthelme
Unaccustomed Earth--Jhumpa Lahiri
Hamlet--William Shakespeare
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao--Junot Diaz
The Alchemist--Ben Jonson
The Hours--Michael Cunningham
A Gate at the Stairs--Lorrie Moore
Child 44--Tom Rob Smith
Erasure--Percival Everett
Measure for Measure--William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men--John Steinbeck
Song of Solomon--Toni Morrison
The Road--Cormac McCarthy
Interview with the Vampire--Anne Rice
The Guinea Pig Diaries--A. J. Jacobs
The Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, Vol. 1, 1832-1839
Breaking Dawn--Stephenie Meyer
Slaves of Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom--Susanna Rowson
Slaughterhouse Five--Kurt Vonnegut
The Wind Done Gone--Alice Randall
The Linwoods, or, "Sixty Years Since" in America--Catherine Maria Sedgwick
The Future of an Illusion--Sigmund Freud
All the Pretty Horses--Cormac McCarthy
Uncle Tom's Cabin--Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Primitive Edge of Experience--Thomas H. Ogden
Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis--Jessica Benjamin
Cold Mountain--Charles Frazier
The Hidden Hand--E.D.E.N. Southworth
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique--Bruce Fink
Iola LeRoy--Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A Short History of Nearly Everything--Bill Bryson
House of Games: A Screenplay--David Mamet
March--Geraldine Brooks
Saturday--Ian McEwan
Ethan Frome--Edith Wharton
The Amalgamation Polka--Stephen Wright
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter--Seth Grahame-Smith
Blue Latitudes: Tony Horwitz
Confederates in the Attic--Tony Horwitz
The Dubliners--James Joyce
The Odyssey--Homer
Howards End--E. M. Forster
Mrs. Dalloway--Virginia Woolf
Tinkers--Paul Harding
Quartet--Jean Rhys
You're Gonna Make It--John Bytheway
A Handful of Dust--Evelyn Waugh
Between the Acts--Virginia Woolf
On the Road to Heaven--Coke Newell
Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood--Douglas Thayer
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader--C. S. Lewis
Long After Dark--Todd Robert Petersen

Low-Tech Reads 2009.

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation--Joseph J. Ellis
The Crossing--Cormac McCarthy
Death of a Salesman--Arthur Miller
The Smallest Part--Neal A. Maxwell
New Moon--Stephenie Meyer
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times--H. W. Brands
Massacre at Mountain Meadows--Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard
Thirteen Moons--Charles Frazier
Gotham by Gaslight--Brian Augustyn
A Mercy--Toni Morrison
Batman: Year One--Frank Miller
Red Prophet--Orson Scott Card
The Deerslayer--James Fenimore Cooper
The Plague of Doves--Louise Erdrich
Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
In Cold Blood--Truman Capote
The Unvanquished--William Faulkner
Jack Maggs--Peter Carey
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle--David Wroblewski
The Book of Mormon
Cities of the Plain--Cormac McCarthy
Eclipse--Stephenie Meyer
The Amalgamation Polka--Stephen Wright
A Year of Living Biblically--A. J. Jacobs
Tropic of Orange--Karen Tei Yamashita
Inferno--Dante Alighieri
The Bridge of the Golden Horn--Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
The 19th Wife--David Ebershoff
The Brief History of the Dead--Kevin Brockmeier
Some Dream for Fools--Faiza Guene
Benito Cereno--Herman Melville
The City in Which I Love You--Li-Young Lee
In the Heart of the Sea--Nathaniel Philbrick
The Highest in Us--Truman G. Madsen

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The End is Near! Read Modern Mormon Men!

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