A To-Read List

Sheenae surprised me yesterday with an Alice Munro book Runaway. Despite what I said about the practice of lending and borrowing books, I really appreciated her lugging around the hardcover book all day long so she can lend it to me. I have heard lots about but never read her. And I started thinking about some of the people I want to read but haven't:

• Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekov (The Russians)
• Italo Calvino
• John Cheever
• Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
• Proust
• Flannery O'Connor
• Gertrude Stein
• Joyce Carol Oates
  

After Alice Munro though, who shall I read next? The prospect of discovery excites me.