Roscoe Belesprit's Personal Library

As the resident retired English professor of the Café Confictura, Roscoe Belesprit can usually be found quoting literature over a coffee and scone, or running his writing salon out of the Riverview Room. Here are some of his favorite titles from his library. Mixed in, too, are his favorite pieces of writing from other forms of entertainment.

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Flivver King by Upton Sinclair
Tinkers by Paul Harding
DVD: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
DVD: Pan’s Labyrinth
Small Vices by Robert B. Parker
T Is For Trespass by Sue Grafton
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
DVD: Amadeus
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving
Young Goodman Browne by Nathanial Hawthorne
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Greatest Hits by Dave Barry
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Other Shulman by Alan Zweibel
’Night, Mother by Marsha Norman
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
DVD: Moonstruck
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll (Martin Gardner, and John Tenniel)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
DVD: Hannah and Her Sisters
DVD: His Girl Friday
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult by Alice Walker
DVD: Broadcast News
DVD: Groundhog Day
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Inspector Gamache Series, by Louise Penny
Elements of Writing Fiction by Nancy Kress
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
You Can Write A Novel by James V. Smith, Jr.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Shining by Stephen King
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434
The Pocket Muse by Monica Wood
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel by Hallie Ephron
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
"The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing by The New York Writers Workshop
The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie
Writing Television Sitcoms by Evan S. Smith


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