jump to navigation

(Eventually) Reading List

An unfortunately ambitious “to-be-read” list

  • Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey
  • Roberto Bolaño – 2666
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Collected Fictions
  • Anthony Bourdain – The Nasty Bits
  • Charles Brockden Brown – Wieland (or, the Transformation)
  • Tim Cahill – Pass the Butterworms
  • Tim Cahill – Hold the Enlightenment
  • Tim Cahill – Buried Dreams
  • Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus
  • Willa Cather – The Song of the Lark
  • Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep
  • Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
  • Johnathan Coe – What a Carve Up!
  • Kenneth C. Davis – America’s Hidden History
  • Junot Díaz – The Brief, Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
  • Phillip K. Dick – The Man in the High Castle
  • José Donoso – El obsceno pájaro de la noche
  • Umberto Eco – Foucault’s Pendulum
  • Steven Erickson – Malazan Book of the Fallen Series (7+ books)
  • David Farland – The Wyrmling Horde
  • Ian Fleming – You Only Live Twice
  • William Gibson – The Different Engine
  • William Gibson – Spook Country
  • Kenn Harper – Give Me My Father’s Body
  • Henry James – The Golden Bowl
  • Henry James – The Princess Casimassima
  • Henry James – The Sacred Fount
  • James Joyce – Finnegan’s Wake
  • James Joyce – Ulysses
  • Galway Kinnell – Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
  • Mercedes Lackey – Foundation
  • C.S. Lewis – The Magician’s Nephew
  • C.S. Lewis – The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • C.S. Lewis – The Horse and His Boy
  • C.S. Lewis – Prince Caspian
  • C.S. Lewis – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  • C.S. Lewis – The Silver Chair
  • C.S. Lewis – The Last Battle
  • Yann Martel – Life of Pi
  • Flann O’Brien – At-Swim-Two-Birds
  • Pliny the Elder – Natural History
  • Marcel Proust – Swann’s Way
  • Marcel Proust – In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
  • Marcel Proust – The Guermantes Way
  • Marcel Proust – Sodom and Gomorrah
  • Marcel Proust – The Prisoner
  • Marcel Proust – The Fugitive
  • Marcel Proust – Time Regained
  • Thomas Pynchon – Against the Day
  • Thomas Pynchon – Mason & Dixon
  • Thomas Pynchon – V.
  • Murakami Ryu – Coin Locker Babies
  • Duncan Sprott – Daughter of the Crocodile
  • Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Junichiro Tanizaki – Naomi
  • Junichiro Tanizaki – Quicksand
  • Adam Thirwell – The Delighted States
  • Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • Banana Yoshimoto – Kitchen
  • Banana Yoshimoto – Asleep
  • Dean Young – Elegy on Toy Piano
  • Dean Young – Embryoyo
  • Florian Zeller – Julien Parme