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Naked Lunch (William Burroughs)
Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
The Old Devils (Kingsley Amis)
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
The Living and the Dead (Patrick White)
The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding
Scarlet and Black (Stendhal)
Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Hangover Square (Patrick Hamilton)
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Currently reading: Exercices de Style (Raymond Queneau)
Hideous Kinky (Esther Freud)
La Faim (Knut Hamsun)
Le Royaume de ce Monde (Alejo Carpentier)
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Currently reading: La Pianiste (Elfriede Jelinek)
The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays, because it contains two essays on Blake and I'm currently assembling a collection of books on him.
The Theodore Roosevelt Treasury, leatherbound, published by Easton Press. On a trip across country I stopped off at the beautiful National Park in his name. He seems like someone I would like to know more about. I also am interested in reading his own thoughts and opinions on things. The book, being a collection of his correspondence, seems like an ideal way to do that.
Infinite Jest - a friend recommended it.
Vegan slow cooker recipes - I just bought a slow cooker and needed something to make in it
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. I liked Wolf Hall and was curious about how she would develop the story further.
William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books because I only have a smaller edition of the illuminated Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and I am hungry for more of this beautiful coupling of words and images.
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The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Bought on the recommendation of a fellow litnet user...Also as a reward to myself for getting straight A's last quarter. Can't buy any books for a long while now, though.
Summer (Edith Wharton)
Family Matters (Rohinton Mistry)
On Beauty (Zadie Smith)
What I Loved (Siri Hustvedt)
Dead Air (Iain Banks)
Wild Swans (Jung Chang)
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Currently reading: The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
The Penny Falls by Mark Bastable
Why: The title and cover art intigues me.
Secondly; to support Forum member and Bloke.
Just illuminated the screen (cracked it open). Plan to delve into it with conviction this weekend.
Cheannaich mi s an seachdainn seo chaidh mar a leanas: The Vivisector, Cloud Atlas, Wonder, Land of Decoration, Wild Coast, The Collected Poems of Philip Larkin and ASJ Tessimond. And a copy of The Songs of DR Maclachlan of Rathuaidhe. Ah but when will I read them? Well into Tessimond already.
The Wealth of Nations-Adam Smith, 1937 Modern Library, cannan edition full of annotations and footnotes.
Why: I have a nearly complete, 1952 set of Great Books of the Western World, which while being awesome for tracing ideas between great minds through generations, has generally small print and is in their original forms without annotation and such. Plus, besides enjoying leatherbound books, I like crusty old books that are in decent shape because it makes me feel connected to the past by having a piece of it in the present, sort of.
The Tale of Heike, as translated by Royall Tyler, because I loved his 'Genji' so much.
Me and my boyfriend ordered some books yesterday. He really wanted to read the A Song of Ice and Fire series, so we got all published books so far. As for myself, I noticed that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had released a new book, Americanah, so I got that (I've been waiting for it for years!) - as well as The Fault in Our Stars by John Green that I have been recommended to read by several people now.
Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
The Virgin in the Garden (A.S. Byatt)
Auto da Fé (Elias Canetti)
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)