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A book from Ryszard Kapuscinky, I think that the English title is "Encountering the Other: The Challenge for the Twenty-First Century", but I'm not sure. I bought it because I see a lot of intolerants and xenophobics around me, and I wanted to think about it.
Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth - by Naguib Mahfouz.... because I love Mahfouz .... and I was in Egypt, with my head full of the breath-taking monuments I was visiting & of the stories of pharoahs and their gods.
The Good Earth, mostly because I really liked it back when I read it the first time.
Wallace Stegner - Collected Stories
I started reading Stegner some years ago, first his Pulitzer-winning Angle of Repose, followed by Big Rock Candy Mountain and non-fiction. He is certainly an American master. I wanted to read more of his short fiction and have been rewarded by more interesting tales.
Red Cavalry ~ Isaac Babel
Collected Stories ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Case of Comrade Tulayev ~ Victor Serge
Serious Game ~ Hjalmar Söderberg
Soul ~ Andrey Platonov
The Song of the Red Ruby ~ Agnar Mykle
The Brothers Karamazov, and Notes from the Underground because Crime and Punishment was excellent.
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Luxe Series
Some manga.
Watership Down- Adams
A required read. :)
1. W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence
2. Heard good things about it here.
3. "I confess that when i first made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary."
4. 130/215
5. I love it so far, there are some really funny passages and some really poignant ones, great writing.
Paul Auster New York Trilogy, I gave it as a present so I don't have it :D
One of my favorites as a child. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by eyemaker
I got that as a present for christmas, haven't read it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by sofia82
Bought myself "The book of disquiet" by Pessoa yesterday, wanted to get it for some time now.
Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey
James Joys - Dubliners
E.M. Remarque - Black obelisk
A few days ago, I bought:
Jason Goodwin: The Janissary Tree.
Neil Gaiman: Stardust.
Inger Edelfeldt: Juliane och jag (Translation: Juliane and I)
Bought 3 books together recently: Eon, Eternity, and Legacy, all by Greg Bear.
When it comes to novels I like two kinds of books. First, anything with a complex and grand plot; second, anything particularly laden with scientific facts. Those 3 books fall into the latter category :)