Monday, September 17, 2007

Compiled List!

Ok, so we have a very long list... let's talk about how we are going to choose the books we read, and especially our first book. Let's make it a fun one? OK! Let's do it!



stranger in a strange land- heinlein
midnights children- salmon rushdie
special topics in calamity physics- marisha pessl
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
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
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-four Stories
Norwegian wood by murakami
evidence of things unseen by mirriam wiggins
The Sound and the Fury
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
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
The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
the diaries of adam and eve, mark twain
invisible cities, italo calvino
if on a winters night a traveler, italo calvino
franny and zooey, j.d. salinger
murakami, either kafka on the shore or wild sheep chase
jitterbug perfume or
skinny legs and all by tom robbins
lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
heartbreaking work of staggering genius, dave eggers
it can't happen here, sinclair lewis
neuromancer, william gibson
go now, richard hell
the woman chaser, charles willeford
watt, samuel beckett...or malloy, malone dies, the unnamable (a trilogy by beckett)
the metamorphosis, franz kafka
wrong side of paris, balzac
in cold blood, truman capote
brothers karamazov, dostoyevzky
do androids dream of electric sheep, phillip k dick
tropic of capricorn, henry miller
slapstick, vonnegut (or at least some vonnegut)
low life, luc sante
leaf storm: and other stories, gabriel garcia marquez (short stories)
coming through slaughter, michael ondaatje (possibly, could be lame)

1 comment:

Siobhan Book Byrum said...

I think this should be our queue!!!! It's a really good list.