Books I Plan to Read (under constant construction)
Submitted by Ennui on Sun, 08/19/2007 - 05:51
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- Agatha Christie - Death on the Nile
- Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
- Albert Camus - The Fall
- Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
- Albert Camus - The Plague
- Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception; Heaven and Hell
- Aldous Huxley - Island
- Allen Ginsberg - Selected Poems 1947-1995
- Ambrose Bierce - The Devil’s Dictionary
- Amélie Nothomb - The Character of Rain
- Anaïs Nin - Delta of Venus
- Anaïs Nin - Henry and June
- André Gide - The Counterfeiters
- André Gide - Journals 1889-1949
- Andy Warhol - The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
- Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
- Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Anthony Trollope - The Way We Live Now
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince, Letter to a Hostage
- Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
- Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
- Bram Stoker - Dracula
- Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
- Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye
- Charles Dickens - Bleak House
- Charles Dickens - Christmas Books
- Charles Dickens - Hard Times
- Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
- Charlotte Brontë - Villette
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
- D.H. Lawrence - Complete Poems
- D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
- D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
- D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love
- Daphne du Maurier - Castle Dor
- Daphne du Maurier - The Flight of the Falcon
- Daphne du Maurier - The House on the Strand
- Daphne du Maurier - Mary Anne
- Daphne du Maurier - The Scapegoat
- David Drew - The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings
- David Lodge - Changing Places
- David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
- David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
- David Mitchell - Number9dream
- David Simon - Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
- Don DeLillo - Falling Man
- Don Delillo - The Names
- Don DeLillo - Underworld
- Don DeLillo - White Noise
- Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
- Dylan Thomas - Collected Poems 1934-1953
- E.M. Forster - Maurice
- Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
- Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome
- Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
- Elias Canetti - Auto-da-Fe
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Aurora Leigh
- Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
- Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters
- Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems
- Evelyn Waugh - The Complete Short Stories
- Evelyn Waugh - Black Mischief
- Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One
- Evelyn Waugh - The Sword of Honour Trilogy
- Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast
- Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands
- Ezra Pound - Personae
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Last Tycoon
- Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
- Friedrich Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols
- Franz Kafka - Complete Short Stories
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- George Eliot - Adam Bede
- George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
- George Eliot - Middlemarch
- George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
- Gertrude Stein - The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas
- Günter Grass - Too Far Afield
- Gustave Flaubert - Sentimental Education
- Guy de Maupassant - The Best Short Stories
- H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds
- H. Rider Haggard - She
- Henrik Ibsen - An Enemy of the People
- Henrik Ibsen - Rosmersholm
- Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck
- Henry James - The Ambassadors
- Henry James - The American
- Henry James - The Bostonians
- Henry James - Daisy Miller And Other Stories
- Henry James - Ghost Stories of Henry James
- Henry James - The Golden Bowl
- Henry James - The Lesson of the Master
- Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
- Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
- Hermann Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund
- Hermann Hesse - Steppenfwolf
- Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf
- Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
- Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
- Hunter S. Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt
- Hunter S. Thompson - Hell’s Angels
- Hunter S. Thompson - Kingdom of Fear
- Hunter S. Thompson - The Rum Diary
- Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
- Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
- Ian McEwan - The Child in Time
- Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
- Ian McEwan - Saturday
- Iris Murdoch - The Sea, the Sea
- Iris Murdoch - Under the Net
- Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
- J.G. Ballard - Crash
- J.G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun
- J.G. Ballard - Kingdom Come
- J.G. Ballard - Rushing to Paradise
- J.G. Ballard - The Voices of Time
- Jack London - Martin Eden
- Jean Cocteau - Les Enfants Terribles
- James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room
- James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
- Jane Austen - Emma
- Jann Wenner & Corey Seymour - Gonzo
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Iron in the Soul
- Jean-Paul Sartre - Words
- Jeanette Winterson - The Stone Gods
- Jeanette Winterson - Written on the Body
- Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
- Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel
- Jessica Mitford - Hons and Rebels
- Joanne Harris - Five Quarters of the Orange
- John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- John Fowles - The Collector
- John Fowles - The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- John Lloyd & John Mitchinson - The Book of General Ignorance
- John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
- John Steinbeck - East of Eden
- John Worthen - T. S. Eliot: A Short Biography
- Jose Saramago - Blindness
- Joseph Conrad - Nostromo
- Joseph Conrad - Selected Short Stories
- Joseph Conrad - The Shadow-Line
- Joseph Conrad - Victory
- Joseph Heller - Closing Time
- Joseph Heller - Something Happened
- Jules Verne - 20,000 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Julian Barnes - Flaubert’s Parrot
- Katherine Mansfield - The Collected Stories
- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled
- Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
- Ken Kesey - Demon Box
- Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion
- Kevin Brockmeier - The Brief History of the Dead
- Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
- Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
- Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Craddle
- Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
- Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
- Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past I
- Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past II
- Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
- Margaret Atwood - Dancing Girls
- Margaret Atwood - The Door
- Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
- Margaret Atwood - Life Before Man
- Margaret Atwood - Moral Disorder
- Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
- Margaret Atwood - Payback
- Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
- Margaret Atwood - Surfacing
- Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian
- Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley’s Secret
- Michael Ondaatje - The Cinnamon Peeler
- Michael Ondaatje - The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
- Muriel Spark - The Comforters
- Nancy Mitford - The Blessing
- Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
- Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
- Nicole Krauss - Man Walks into a Room
- Nikolay Gogol - The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories
- O. Henry - 100 Selected Stories
- Paul Auster - The Brooklyn Follies
- Paul Auster - In the Country of Last Things
- Paul Auster - Mr Vertigo
- Paul Auster - Oracle Night
- Paul Auster - Timbuktu
- Paul Auster - Travels in Scriptorium
- Paul Verlaine - Selected Poems
- Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Pierre Boulle - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
- Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Salman Rushdie - Fury
- Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
- Samuel Beckett - Molloy
- Samuel Beckett - Malone Dies
- Samuel Beckett - The Unnamable
- Stendhal - The Red and the Black
- Stephen Fry - The Liar
- Stephen Fry - Making History
- Stephen Hawking - Black Holes and Baby Universes
- Stéphane Mallarmé - Collected Poems and Other Verse
- T. S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
- Tennessee Williams - Collected Stories
- Ted Hughes - Poetry in the Making
- Ted Hughes - Birthday Letters
- Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
- Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
- Thomas Keneally - Schindler’s Ark
- Thomas Mann - Death in Venice and Other Stories
- Thomas Pynchon - Against the Day
- Thomas Pynchon - Gravity’s Rainbow
- Thomas Pynchon - Slow learner
- Thomas Pynchon - V.
- Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- Toni Morrison - Beloved
- Truman Capote - The Complete Stories
- Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
- Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
- Virginia Woolf - Between the Acts
- Virginia Woolf - Carlyle's House and Other Sketches
- Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction
- Virginia Woolf - Three Guineas
- Virginia Woolf - The Years
- Vladimir Nabokov - Ada or Ardor
- Vladimir Nabokov - Collected Stories
- Vladimir Nabokov - The Enchanter
- Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
- Vladimir Nabokov - The Gift
- Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory
- W. H. Auden - Collected Poems
- W. Somerset Maugham - Cakes and Ale
- W. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Magician
- W. Somerset Maugham - Razor’s Edge
- Will Self - How the Dead Live
- William Beckford - Vathek
- William S. Burroughs - The Burroughs File
- William S. Burroughs - Interzone
- William S. Burroughs - Last Words
- William S. Burroughs - Letters 1945-59
- William S. Burroughs - Nova Express
- William S. Burroughs - The Place of Dead Roads
- William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac - And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
- William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
- William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
- William Faulkner - Light in August
- William Golding - Fire Down Bellow
- William Golding - The Inheritors
- William Golding - The Rites of Passage
- William Styron - Darkness Visible
- Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Author Comments:
The list consists only of the books I actually own...
The Catcher in the Rye is just as great as everyone says it is.
I agree - I actually finished reading it some 5-6 days ago. I have to admit that I was awfully skeptical at first - I was actually quite convinced it was overrated, but having read it, I most definitely agree.
My ratings:
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca = 5*
Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd = 5*
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure = 5*
All are favourites of mine and highly recommended.
My ratings:
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis = 2.5
Short Stories, Franz Kafka = 4.5 (Favs: A Hunger Artist, The Great Wall of China, In the Penal Colony, The City Coat of Arms, The Burrow)
Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant = 4 (Favs: Ball of Fat, The Necklace, The Horla (1887 version), Doctor Heraclius Gloss)
I rather agree with your rating of Kafka's short stories, though I've read only a few so far... he has such unique ideas and the way of expressing them.
I have to say I've been kind of skeptical about starting to read American Psycho... what did you particularly dislike/like about it?
I read it in high school. I didn't like the blabla about fashion and other stuffs. Very (too much?) detailed. I guess this is for showing that the main character is superficial, but I find it boring. What I liked is the action, the suspence. I don't remember how much it was gory, but I remember that I took a break because it was too much visual. One particular scene, with a rat and cheese, is still in my mind after those years.
ooh I love Aldous Huxley. Start there!
I adore Huxley too :). I'm currently trying to read as many of his works as possible - so far, I've only read six books. Which one is your favourite?
Brave New World.
Six is an impressive number! They're sort of hard to find; other than BNW, there isn't much choice in the library. Which do you suggest I start with?
My two cents about the list:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is better if you don’t know the ending, if you don’t know, than never read reviews before go through it.
I “like” The Fall by Camus, but it’s not my style of book in overall, too pessimist.
I don’t agree with everything in The Devil’s Dictionary, but some parts worth the read.
The Character of Rain is really not the best Amélie Nothomb novel if you didn’t read anything else, her earlier works are the better ones. I suggest Fear and Trembling (very Kafka style) and The Stranger Next Door.
I found Maurice ok, but it doesn’t make me feel anything...
She by Haggard was totally my style.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was interesting, but it would have been better if it was a true story like I was thinking it was.
I didn’t like Little Women, too much "mommy is right"...
I love Gogol, even more than the little Dostoievsky I’ve read, but it’s probably just me.
The Bonfire of the Vanities was fun, even is the book is huge, I read it very fastly.
Everybody I know prefer The Hunchback of Notre-Dame over Les Misérables...
I’ve read a lot of Vladimir Nabokov short stories, but only really like one, La Veneziana. It’s about someone that try to enter in a painting, very special.