What wonderful new novel should be my first Nook purchase?

[Goblinmonger]

Looking for something literary. If I were to toss out my favorites at this point in time: Middlesex, William Faulkner, William S. Burroughs, James Joyce, Blindness. Maybe others if I thought for a bit (I'm a high school English teacher so I have a broad range). Looking for something new and snooty.

[onehandle]

1. Anything by Terry Pratchett.

Looks like there are dozens of titles available on the Nook.

[haikugal]

2. Spider Robinson...

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is a favorite place of mine to visit. I don't know anything about Nook...care to share?

[sarge43]

3. Nook's The Works of Henry James - impressive collection.

Doesn't get much more snooty than James.

[MineralMan]

4. Look here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

[Goblinmonger]

7. Love that site

Very excited to be getting a reader that can use the ePub versions on there. Already have some downloaded to sync up to the Nook (my family asked me if I wanted the Nook or Kindle but won't let me open it until the 25th). I link to the online versions of a lot of texts we read on there for kids that don't want/need the paper version of the book.

[MineralMan]

11. I got my wife a Kindle for Christmas...only because Gutenberg

now supports that format. I have a queue of downloads all ready to load on it for times when she's not reading.

[FSogol]

5. "APEX Hides the Hurt" by Colson Whitehead.

Or
Anything by Sherman Alexie
Saul Bellow "Henderson the Rain King"
Joshua Ferris, "The Unnamed" and "Then We Came to the End"
Michael Chabon, "The Yiddish Policeman's Union"
Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

[Goblinmonger]

6. Love, love, love Alexie

We added his Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to our American Lit Curriculum last year. Kids love it, too.

Also love Chabon. Thought the Policeman's Union was good but not as good as Cavalier and Klay.

Haven't read Ravelstein by Bellow, have you? I've read his other major stuff.

[FSogol]

8. Haven't read "Ravelstien" but I'll add it to my list.

I liked Policeman's Union better than Cavalier.

[Goblinmonger]

9. I'm a comic book geek, so that's probably the reason. n/t

[FSogol]

10. I'm a comic book geek also but still prefered Policeman's Union.

Don't know why. :shrug:

[dmallind]

12. search BN,com for Golgotha Press

A lot of classics 99c to 2.99 including complete works better formatted than the free ones usually.

Congrats on the nook - I still enjoy mine and grabbed one for my wife too - she likes the free samples.