Sublty Free Summer Reading List

[Ignatzmonster]

Due to my taking only one class this summer (As opposed to five this last spring) I have some extra time on my hands. And rather than use that time to read edifying literature I thought instead I would check out novelists from the fourties, fifties, and sixties who specialize in tales of crime, corruption, and betrayal. I am also throwing in some playwrights from different periods who meet those specifications. More than a few of my discoveries I thought would be pleasing to tooth readers (I'll post about those later.)

I thought I would post my read list and to-be-read list and see if anyone had any recommendations.

Read:

-Jim Thompson: The Killer Inside Me and After Dark My Sweet

-Thomas Middleton: The Changeling

-Chester Himes: Real Cool Killers

-Eugene O'Neil:The Ice Man Cometh and The Emperor Jones

-Richard Condon: The Manchurian Candidate

To-Be-Read:

Budd Schulberg:The Harder They Fall or What makes Sammy Run

David Goodis:Shoot The Piano Player

Cornell Woolrich:Not Sure Yet

Ben Jonson: Volpone

Charles Willeford:Not Sure Yet

Malcom Lowry:Under The Volcano

Alan Sillitoe:Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Phillip Massinger:Not Sure Yet

[JamesC]

Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe novels are worth a read if you haven't already.

[Ignatzmonster]

Already read most of Chandler and Hammett, but almost no one else from their period and genre. Baffled myself as to why.