Backtracking
I started on my reading project awhile before this blog & I read quite a few books from 1946 and 1947 that I didn’t write any quick reviews for. At this point I just want to call attention to some of my favorites that weren’t covered.
My favorite U.S. books of 1946
Eugene O’Neill- The Iceman Cometh
Kenneth Fearing- The Big Clock
Ann Petry- The Street
Robert Penn Warren- All the King’s Men
Gore Vidal- Williwaw
Eudora Welty- Delta Wedding
John Hersey- Hiroshima
Elizabeth Bishop- North & South
Robert Lowell- Lord Weary’s Castle
William Carlos Williams- Paterson Book 1
William Lindsey Gresham- Nightmare Alley
Chester Himes- If He Hollers Let Him Go
And of 1947
Saul Bellow- The Victim
Vance Bourjaily- The End of My Life
AB Guthrie- The Big Sky
Chester Himes- The Lonely Crusade
Willard Motley- Knock on any Door
Vladimir Nabokov- Bend Sinister
Budd Schulberg- The Harder They Fall
Jean Stafford- The Mountain Lion
Lionel Trilling- The Middle of the Journey
Howard Nemerov- The Image & the Law
Richard Wilbur- The Beautiful Changes & Other Poems
Some favorites from 1948 not covered here:
Truman Capote- Other Voices, Other Rooms
Tennessee Williams- Summer & Smoke
William Faulkner- Intruder in the Dust
Shirley Jackson- The Road Through the Wall
Charles Jackson- The Outer Edge
Horace McCoy- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Ross Lockridge- Raintree County
Delmore Schwartz- The World is a Wedding
William Gardner Smith- The Last of the Conquerors
Peter Taylor- A Long Fourth & Other Stories
Gore Vidal- The City & the Pillar
Thomas Merton- Seven Storey Mountain
WH Auden- The Age of Anxiety
John Berryman- The Dispossessed
Ezra Pound- Pisan Cantos
Theodore Roethke- The Lost Son
Muriel Rukeyser- The Green Wave
And from 1949:
Paul Bowles- The Sheltering Sky
George R. Stewart- Earth Abides
John Gunther- Death Be Not Proud
Louis Simpson- The Arrivistes, Poems 1940-1949