Books Read 11.15.09 - 11.15.10

Submitted by Slothrop33 on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 10:48
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  1. Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts- Donald Barthelme
  2. Mayflower- Nathaniel Philbrick (terrific book!)
  3. The Shipwrecked Men- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1530, spanish exploration of southeast usa)
  4. America As Seen By Its Explorers- John Bakeless
  5. Distant Star- Roberto Bolaño (Chilean, amazing, my first by him)
  6. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada (German, quite good, a bit Kafkaesque in its economically controlled humor)
  7. Borges and the Eternal Orangutans- Luis Fernando Verissimo (Argentine)
  8. What We Were and Where We Were Going- Damion Searls
  9. The Country Where No One Ever Dies- Ornela Vorpsi (Albanian)
  10. School For Love- Olivia Manning
  11. An Episdoe in the Life of a Landscape Painter- Cesar Aira (Argentine)
  12. Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique- Gert Jonke (austrian, if you love obsessive writerslike calvino or nicholson baker then you will love jonke)
  13. My Little War- Louis Paul Boon (Belgian)
  14. Possessed: Adventures in Russian Books and the People Who Read Them- Elif Batuman
  15. Beauty Salon- Mario Bellatin (mexican)
  16. The Halfway House- Guillermo Rosales (cuban)
  17. Siamese- Stig Sæterbakken (Norway, dark, amazing!)
  18. The Armies- Evelio Rosero (Colombian)
  19. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
  20. Open Veins of Latin America- Eduardo Galeano
  21. Our Lady of the Assassins- Fernando Vallejo (Colombian)
  22. The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia- Nicholas Coghlan
  23. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Jules Verne
  24. The Savage Detectives- Roberto Bolano (Chile)
  25. The Duchess of Padua- Oscar Wilde
  26. The Crossing- Cormac McCarthy
  27. Riding Toward Everywhere- William Vollmann
  28. Sanctuary- William Faulkner
  29. Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy- Colin MacCabe
  30. The Long Voyage- Jorge Semprun (french/spanish)
  31. The Future Lasts Forever- Louis Althusser
  32. Lord Jim- Joseph Conrad
  33. Literature and Cinematography- Viktor Shklovsky (Russian Formalist)
  34. The Anniversary- Anton Chekhov
  35. The Road- Vasily Grossman (Russian)
  36. Historical Miniatures- August Strindberg
  37. The Death of the Adversary- Hans Keilson (Dutch)
Faustess02/13/2010

I really liked Mayflower also. :D