Lists of books

October 29, 2009
Tags: books

Just in case you're curious, I keep meaning to read:

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss
• Siberius Nuncius by Galileo
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
• The Secret Histories by Donna Tartt finished 11/1/09, absolutely loved it, great Halloween weekend read
• Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
• McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #32

And in general, anything by these authors, whose work I've never read:

• Don DeLillo
• Thomas Pynchon
• Ian McEwan
• Joan Didion
• Denis Johnson
• Paul Auster
• Toni Morrison read Sula 11/8/09, what marvelous prose, now I want to read Beloved
• P.G. Wodehouse

And I'm currently in the middle of reading:

• The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon
• Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain finished 11/5/09, kind of weird, lots to talk about in my Mark Twain class
• Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger (might never finish it, not that invested in it)
• L'origine de la violence by Fabrice Humbert
• Crazy Love by Francis Chun (for Spiritual Book Club)

And I've just finished reading:

• The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
• The Life of Benjamin Franklin (his autobiography)
• Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
• Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Whew!!