Sunday, December 28, 2014

Preppiest Books

Lisa Birnback:
The Official Preppy Handbook
True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World

F. Scott Fitzgerald: (All of his work but these in particular)
The Great Gatsby
This Side of Paradise 
The Beautiful and Damned

J.D. Salinger:
The Catcher in the Rye

Jane Austen:
Sense and Sensibility 
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park

John Knowles:
A Separate Peace 

Dominick Dunne:
A Season in Purgatory 

Edith Wharton:
The Age of Innocence

William F. Buckley Jr.:
God and Man at Yale

Nelson W. Aldrich:
Old Money: The Mythology of America's Upper Class

Dave Eggers:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Charles Dickens
Great Expectations

Wendy Wasserstein:
Elements of Style: A Novel

Oscar Wilde:
The Importance of Being Earnest

Tobias Wolff:
Old School

Richard Yates:
A Good School
Revolutionary Road

Paul Fussell:
Class

Thomas Shomo:
To Manner Born, To Manners Bred