The Next 26 Books I Read
I've been having a great deal of trouble deciding what next to read. Things keep being added to my book 'queue' and I haven't been able to pick where to start. So, I've fallen back on the oldest organisational system known to the Phoenicians: alphabetizing. Picking one book for each letter by author, here are the next twenty-six books I intend to read.
Or rather, the next twenty-two - I've been having difficulty coming up with anything appealing for U, X, Y, and Z. Any suggestions? Otherwise I'll be plowing through the autobiographies of Xeno and Brian Urlacher.
- The Music Of Chance, Paul Auster
- Paradise, Donald Barthelme*
- Tell No One, Harlan Coben
- Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
- Strange Killings, Warren Ellis
- The Hippopotamus, Stephen Fry
- Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
- The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
- The Transfiguration Of Benno Blimpie, Albert Innaurato
- No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
- 4.48 Psychosis, Sarah Kane
- Moneyball, Michael Lewis
- Lamb, Christopher Moore
- Ada, Vladimir Nabokov
- Days Of Awe, Achy Obejas
- V., Thomas Pynchon
- Fortress Besieged, Zhongshu Qian
- The Wu-Tang Manual: Enter The 36 Chambers, Vol. 1, The RZA
- Soft Power, Matt Segur
- Ashtrays, Lukas Tomin
- ?
- Rising Up, Rising Down, William T. Vollman
- The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson
- ?
- ?
- ?
*
bizarrely, 'B' was probably the most difficult letter upon which to make a decision. Contenders included Storm Front by Jim Butcher, The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano, Playing Shakespeare by John Barton, The Empty Space by Peter Brook, The Collected Ambrose Bierce, Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett, The Dispossessed by John Berryman, What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson, Mother Courage And Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, and Post Office by Charles Bukowski. 'S' also put up a good fight: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, The Coast Of Utopia Trilogy by Tom Stoppard, Pericles by William Shakespeare, Buried Child by Sam Shepard, and Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman. And hey, I can't guarantee I won't stray from the path here and there. Maybe I'll get to a few letters and linger. I'm not known for my regimentality anyway.
2 comments:
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It influenced Orwell and 1984. I recommeded it.
I have not read him but Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize in 2000. Soul Mountain sounds interesting and is on my list.
Let us know what you think of Sarah Kane (which is how I found your site).
Iain
When you get to them, you are welcome to my copy of Nabokov (in hardback), and Zamyatin, if you like.
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