I love a good book browse and I am always competing with myself to see how many of the books I have read from a list.

In these posts, I challenge myself to read from:

• Rory Gilmore’s Reading List
• Man Booker winners
• Pulitzer Prize winners

On a recent bookstore visit, I saw a table laid out with some popular, some obscure novels, and to my shock and horror, I hadn’t read any of the books displayed there.

Click to watch the video where I show the books

Below is a full list of the books mentioned. Have you read any of them? Would you recommend one to me?

• HhhH /Laurent Binet
• My Education /Susan Choi
• I refuse /Per Petterson
• The Slave /Isaac Bashevi Singer
• Glyph /Percival Everett
• Honeydew /Edith Pearlman
• Sudddenly A Knock on the Door /Etgar Keret
• Girl On The Fridge /Etgar Keret
• Mom’s Cancer/ Brian Fies
• The Defiant Muse Vietnames Feminist Poems
• The Journey To The East /Herman Hesse – I love his novel Siddharta
• The Early Stories of Truman Capote
• Every Third Thought /John Barth
• The Dead Father /Donald Barthelme
• The Odd Woman And The City /Vivian Gornick
• I Am Not Sidney Poitier /Percival Everett
• Quesadillas /Juan Pablo Villalobos
• Motherless Brooklyn /Jonathan Lethem
• From The Mouth of the Whale /Sjon
• The Blue Fox /Sjon
• The Doll and other Stories/Daphne Du Maurier
• The Lives of Others /Neel Mukherjee
• What I Don’t Know About Animals /Jenny Diski
• Cleaning Up New York /Bob Rosenthal
• Cassandra /Crista Wolf
• An Unnecssary Woman /Rabih Alameddine
• Atmospheric Disturbances /Rivka Galchen
• The Seventh Function of Language /Laurent Binet
• Let Me tell You /Shirley Jackson
• 642 Tiny Things to Write About
• Spectacle /Susan Steinberg
• The Good lord Bird /James McBride
• Lions and Shadows /Christopher John Wood
• Menagerie Manor /Gerald Durrell
• Great House /Nicole Krauss
• The Company They Kept – Writers On Unforgettable Friendships
• At The Bottom Of The River /Jamaica Kincaid
• Enormous Changes At The Last Minute /Grace Paley
• You don’t Have to Live Like This /Benjamin Markovits
• Trristana /Benito Perez Galdos
• The Love Children /Marilyn French
• Wolf In White Van /John Darnielle
• Down The Rabbit Hole /Juan Pablo Villalobos

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