Tuesday, September 8, 2009

summer read….the end ?

booksmeat:

  • Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
  • Jack Karouac & William S. Burroughs - And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tank
  • Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (so it goes)
  • Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus
  • James Joyce - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
  • Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle
  • Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man And The Sea
  • Cormac McCarthy - The Road
  • David Foster Wallace - Oblivion
  • Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye
  • Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detective
  • William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
  • Roberto Bolaño - 2666
  • Vladamir Nabokov - Lolita
  • Stewart O’Nan - Snow Angels
  • Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard
  • Albert Camus - The Outsider
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night
  • Aleksandar Hemon - The Lazarus Project
  • JD Salinger - Franny And Zooey
  • Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses

next up: D.H. Lawrence - Sons And Lovers

its been a pretty great summer as far as reading goes. 26 books. a whole lot of classics. made a lot of new authorly friends. picked up some great party conversation. we all know how much people love to talk about books these days. a very rewarding summer it’s been.

Oh wow. I am very impressed!

Notes

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