Sunday, September 9, 2007

book suggestions from somebody else

j.k huysmans, against nature
joan didion, play it as it lays
dennis cooper, period or god jr.
foul mouth, bruce hainley
raymond roussel, impressions of africa
jorge luis borges, ficciones
jun'ichiro tanizaki, in praise of shadows

5 comments:

kate said...

additions:

stranger in a strange land- heinlein
midnights children- salmon rushdie
special topics in calamity physics- marisha pessl

i guess that's all for now. but i trust you all and will read anything...

Emily said...

Ok, this is Peter's list, minus the ones I've read. And all of Kate's look good and are unread by me.


Kafka on the Shore -Murakami
Down and Out in Paris and London - Orwell
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities -Delmore Schwartz
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Cat's Grin - Francois Maspero
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Step Across this Line - Salman Rushdie
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters - JD Salinger
Everything is Miscellaneous - David Weinberger
Propaganda - Edward Bernays
Exterminator! - Burroughs
Time out of Joint - Phillip K. Dick
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City - Nick Flynn
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England - Brock Clarke
The Blue Octavo Notebooks - Kafka


Also it looks like both Peter and Kate want to read Midnight's Children.... so two votes for that one!

Emily said...

Siobhan's list!

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-four Stories, or Norwegian wood by murakami, evidence of things unseen by mirriam wiggins, The Sound and the Fury or Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

Emily said...

Ok, finally, my list, in addition to the first ones I posted:

Air Guitar by Dave Hickey
Hotel Theory by Wayne Koestenbaum
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
The Absence of Myth by Georges Bataille
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Trial by Franz Kafka



Let me know what you guys think!

kate said...

sadly ive read the trial by kafka but i would LOVE to read it again and everything else seems great! i'm happy to be reading

oh yeah