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).
- The Bridge on the Drina — Ivo Andric
- Moonglow — Michael Chabon
- Pilgrim At Tinker Creek — Annie Dillard
- Là Bas — J-K Huysmans
- Stealth — Sun’Allah Ibrahim
- The Old Capital —Yasunari Kawabata
- Naphtalene — Alia Mamdouh
- Nutshell — Ian McEwan
- Dendara — Yuya Sato
- Clouds of Witness — Dorothy L. Sayers
- Sohosha — Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel — Sjón
- The Informer — Akimitsu Takagi
- The Magnificent Ambersons — Booth Tarkington
- Memoirs of a Polar Bear — Yoko Tawada
- Vampire In Love — Enrique Vila-Matas
T. C. Boyle
- The Women — T. C. Boyle
- A Friend of the Earth — T. C. Boyle
- Riven Rock — T. C. Boyle
Philip K. Dick
- Valis — Philip K. Dick
- The Divine Invasion — Philip K. Dick
- The Transmigration of Timothy Archer — Philip K. Dick
Stanley Elkin
- The Magic Kingdom — Stanley Elkin
- The Rabbi of Lud — Stanley Elkin
- Van Gogh’s Room at Arles — Stanley Elkin
- Now Wait For Last Year — Philip K. Dick
- It Can’t Happen Here — Sinclair Lewis
- Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
- Violence: Six Sideways Reflections — Slavoj Zizek