New Titles For the Last Month of 2016

This new reading list follows the scheme I developed a few months back. I notice that despite having several titles by the two or three selected authors, I tend to only read one or at best two and cover the majority of my reading with the unconnected titles. Perhaps this is a good plan since it allows me to have 15 or 16 new titles to chose from and also 9 or 10 titles focused on specific authors. Since I general only read about 8 books each month, the ratios seem valid.

I have been selecting titles that are mostly new. But this means there are numerous books being skipped over that I really want to read. I’m going to have to schedule a make-up month soon to catch up on some of the great reading I just didn’t have time for.

Here is this month’s reading pool: Twenty-five new titles; nine books selected from three authors; and a short list of reading that is being carried over from the previous month since it was in progress (actually, some books are being carried over month after month .. I have to address these before they get too far out of hand).

1. The Bridge on the Drina — Ivo Andric
2. Moonglow — Michael Chabon
3. Pilgrim At Tinker Creek — Annie Dillard
4. Là Bas — J-K Huysmans
5. Stealth — Sun’Allah Ibrahim
6. The Old Capital —Yasunari Kawabata
7. Naphtalene — Alia Mamdouh
8. Nutshell — Ian McEwan
9. Dendara — Yuya Sato
10. Clouds of Witness — Dorothy L. Sayers
11. Sohosha — Isaac Bashevis Singer
12. Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel — Sjón
13. The Informer — Akimitsu Takagi
14. The Magnificent Ambersons — Booth Tarkington
15. Memoirs of a Polar Bear — Yoko Tawada
16. Vampire In Love — Enrique Vila-Matas

T. C. Boyle

1. The Women — T. C. Boyle
2. A Friend of the Earth — T. C. Boyle
3. Riven Rock — T. C. Boyle

Philip K. Dick

1. Valis — Philip K. Dick
2. The Divine Invasion — Philip K. Dick
3. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer — Philip K. Dick

Stanley Elkin

1. The Magic Kingdom — Stanley Elkin
2. The Rabbi of Lud — Stanley Elkin
3. Van Gogh’s Room at Arles — Stanley Elkin

1. Now Wait For Last Year — Philip K. Dick
2. It Can’t Happen Here — Sinclair Lewis
3. Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
4. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections — Slavoj Zizek