I’ve been playing around with book titles that sound good or offer enlightenment or even just promise idle entertainment and, as they say, it’s time to fish or cut bait. I have been cutting and shuffling a lot of literary bait the last couple of weeks and I’m going with the following list of books in my September reading pool. Note that I also have a couple of titles still hanging around in a partially read state: I will continue to list those but will keep them separate from the new reading pool.
There’s a few new titles on this list and I hope to enjoy several of them although September is a bad month usually for reading what with family events like birthdays and pool parties.
But despite the hurdles, here is the reading pool I expect to dive into this month:
Bold=Active, Red=Extended Reads, *=Digital Titles
- Mansfield Park — Jane Austen *
- Sunset Park — Paul Auster *
- The Spider’s House — Paul Bowles *
- The Place of Dead Roads — William S. Burroughs
- The Ox-Bow Incident — Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- The Woman In White — Wilkie Collins
- Nostromo — Joseph Conrad *
- The Big Money — John Dos Passos
- Boswell: A Modern Comedy — Stanley Elkin *
- Middle C — William H. Gass *
- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages — Tom Holt
- Skullcrack City — Jeremy Johnson *
- Martin Eden — Jack London *
- Epitaph For a Dead Beat — David Markson *
- Runaway Horses — Yukio Mishima *
- The Black Prince — Iris Murdoch *
- The Bathing Women — Tie Ning *
- Momento Mori — Muriel Spark
- The Ogre — Michel Tournier
- Meatspace — Nikesh Shukla *
- Venus on the Half-Shell — Kilgore Trout [Philip José Farmer] *
- Hocus Pocus — Kurt Vonnegut *
- Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace *
- This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It — David Wong *
- Villain: A Novel — Shuichi Yoshida *
The Ambassadors — Henry James *
