Books I read 11.15.04 - 11.15.05
Submitted by Slothrop33 on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 03:13
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- 1. Antiquity by Norman Cantor
- 2. Fragments by Heraclitus
- 3. Odes by Pindar
- 4. Kristallnacht by Anthony Read
- 5. Augie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster
- 6. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- 7. Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker
- 8. Fixed Ideas: America Since9.11 by Joan Didion
- 9. Auschwitz by Miklos Nyiszli
- 10. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- 11. Phoenix: Memoir of the Bobotes by Joyce Cary
- 12. Music of a Life : A Novel by Andrei Makine
- 13. Chain of Command by Seymour Hersh
- 14. Death in Danzig by Stefan Chwin
- 15. The Year Is '42 : A Novel by Nella Bielski
- 16. Whore by Nelly Arcan
- 17. The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick
- 18. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- 19. Regime Change Begins at Home by Charles Derber
- 20. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- 21. Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
- 22. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- 23. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- 24. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
- 25. Selected Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekhov
- 26. A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics) by Daniel Defoe
- 27. Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
- 28. Europeana: A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century by Patrik Ourednik
- 29. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
- 30. The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Adams
- 31. Resurrecting Empire : Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi
- 32. The Book of Evidence (Vintage International) by John Banville
- 33. Rob Roy (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott
- 34. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- 35. Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Saul Bellow
- 36. The Quiet American (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene
- 37. To Live : A Novel by Yu Hua
- 38. The Comfort of Strangers (Vintage International) by Ian Mcewan
- 39. Flights of Love : Stories (Vintage International) by Bernhard Schlink
- 40. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
- 41. Cosmopolis: A Novel by Don DeLillo
- 42. Sayonara, Gangsters by Genichiro Takahashi
- 43. Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
- 44. The Silent Angel by Heinrich Boll
- 45. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men : Stories by David Foster Wallace
- 46. In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
- 47. Fat Man in History (Vintage International) by Peter Carey
- 48. Vulcan's Hammer : A Novel (Vintage) by Philip K. Dick
- 49. Dangling Man (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
- 50. Kepler : A novel (Vintage International) by John Banville
- 51. The Handmaid's Tale : A Novel by Margaret Atwood
- 52. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- 53. In My Brother's Shadow : A Life and Death in the SS by Uwe Timm
- 54. Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader by William T. Vollmann
- 55. Sophie's Choice (Vintage International) by William Styron
- 56. As I Lay Dying (Vintage International) by William Faulkner
- 57. To Asmara by Thomas Keneally
- 58. Scribbling the Cat : Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller
- 59. Hiroshima (Vintage) by John Hersey
- 60. Into the Valley: Marines at Guadalcanal by John Hersey
- 61. Imperial Grunts : The American Military on the Ground by Robert D. Kaplan
- 62. Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World by Robert Neuwirth
- 63. In Pharaoh's Army : Memories of the Lost War (Vintage) by Tobias Wolff
- 64. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
- 65. The Facts : A Novelist's Autobiography (Vintage International) by Philip Roth
- 66. Time Gifts (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Zoran Zivkovic
- 67. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
- 68. The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow
- 69. The Foundation Pit (European Classics) by Andrey Platonov
- 70. Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
- 71. The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
What'd you think of Dangling Man by Saul Bellow? Was recommended it for a specific reason by an author I've taken a couple classes from (essentially tightness of narrative while maintaining depth). I picked it up the other other day and it's on my reading list...
As you see read a few years ago. I thought it was a great narrative, stronger than Seize the Day. I need to read more Bellow!