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:
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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