Books Read 11.15.07 - 11.15.08

Submitted by Slothrop33 on Sun, 12/16/2007 - 12:48
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  1. Modernism: The Lure of Heresy- Peter Gay
  2. War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
  3. On the Natural History of Destruction- W.G. Sebald
  4. Rogue Male- Geoffrey Household (overlooked gem from 1939, gotta love the NYRB)
  5. No Country for Old Men- Cormac McCarthy
  6. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72- Hunter S. Thompson
  7. Cinema Stories- Alexander Kluge (German writer and director)
  8. The Last King of Scotland- Giles Foden (amazing novel, much better than movie)
  9. Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising- Jerzy Andrzejewski (Polish novelist)
  10. The Drowned and the Saved- Primo Levi (Italian novelist)
  11. At the Mind's Limits- Jean Amery (german writer, philosophical musings on his time in the camps)
  12. The Information- Martin Amis
  13. The Deserted House- Lydia Chukovskaya (Russian novels about Stalinist purges)
  14. Empire of the Sun- JG Ballard
  15. Human Smoke- Nicholson Baker
  16. Life & Times of Michael K- J.M.Coetzee
  17. Carte Blanche- Carlo Lucarelli (Italian)
  18. Total Chaos- Jean-Claude Izzo (French)
  19. The Second Plane: September 11 Terror and Boredom- Martin Amis
  20. The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner
  21. The Music of Chance- Paul Auster
  22. A Way in the World- V.S. Naipaul
  23. Discourse on Colonialism- Aime Cesaire
  24. Out of Place- Edward Said
  25. Imperium- Ryszard Kapuscinski
  26. Revolution: The Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties- Peter Cowie
  27. On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy- Eric Hobsbawm
  28. The Mezzanine- Nicholson Baker (absolutely incredible and groundbreaking)
  29. The Road to San Giovanni- Italo Calvino
  30. The Path to the Nest of Spiders- Italo Calvino
  31. U and I- Nicholson Baker
  32. Rabbit, Run- John Updike
  33. The Baron in the Trees- Italo Calvino
  34. The Cherries of Freedom- Alfred Andersch (german writer)
  35. Under the Jaguar Sun- Italo Calvino
  36. Daydream Believers- Fred Kaplan (excellent book about Bush's failed policies)
  37. Customer Service- Benoit Duteurtre (French novel, amazing!)
  38. The Forever War- Dexter Filkins
  39. The Return of History and the End of Dreams- Robert Kagan
Nance03/11/2008

War and Peace... this is why we didn't see you lastly at the book section. :P

So, do you arrived at the same point of Woody Allen about War and Peace?
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

Slothrop3303/11/2008

Aww glad I was missed! I was waiting for this translation, Pevear, and took my time with it. It was pretty amazing! I could do without the last 100 pages though...