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Books to buy/read

GarfielfStuff
GarfielfStuff • 29 November 2024 • User blog:GarfielfStuff

A list of books that I need to buy/read.

To buy[]

  • Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
  • Christmas on a Rational Planet by Lawrence Miles - one of Miles' earlier works. Also set in a somewhat similar time period of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and sets up some of the more intriguing concepts of rationality v.s. irrationality.
  • The Two Jasons by Dave Stone
  • Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis
  • Of the City of the Saved... by Philip Purser-Hallard
  • This Town Will Never Let Us Go by Lawrence Miles
  • J R by William Gaddis
  • Rabbit Redux by John Updike
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Parasite by Jim Mortimore
  • Cloak of Deception by James Luceno
  • Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon - a collection of Pynchon's earlier works
  • The Infinity Doctors by Lance Parkin
  • Dead Romance by Lawrence Miles - extremely important to Miles' Faction Paradox series. Also extremely interested by the basic concept.
  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs - seems like the kind of thing I would enjoy. Surrealist spy thriller. Also obliquely referenced in Dave Stone's Oblivion.
  • The Algebra of Ice by Lloyd Rose
  • Underworld by Don DeLillo - never read anything by DeLillo. Should start.
  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon - described as "Pynchon lite"
  • Crash by J.G. Ballard - never read Ballard. Should start.
  • The Sirens of Time by Kurt Vonnegut - something of a prequel to Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne - should get the major "postmodernist" novels of the pre-modernist eras.
  • You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up by Richard Hallas - Los Angeles Book Review describes this book as reading "like James Cain filtered through Thomas Pynchon". Being a huge Pynchon fan, I will have to find a copy of this one.
  • Hyperion by Dan Simmons - already read two of Simmons' novels. Need to read his best-regarded work.
  • Illywhacker by Peter Carey - quite liked True History of the Kelly Gang
  • Plague City by Jonathan Morris - got this on a Kindle but need to get a physical copy
  • The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster - postmodernist mystery trilogy
  • The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester - Lanchester's debut novel, with some details of its production shown in Lanchester's memoir Family Romance.
  • V. by Thomas Pynchon - Pynchon's debut novel
  • Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
  • Touched by an Angel by Jonathan Morris - one of the better-regarded of the "Doctor Who New Series Adventures" novels (which are usually regarded as being "mid").
  • Paradise Lost by John Milton - one of the best-known works of the Early Modern era
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace - I mean I read all of Gravity's Rainbow in like a month or two
  • Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon - Pynchon's longest novel
  • Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
  • Empire of Death by David Bishop
  • American Meat by Stuart Moore - started getting into the Dark Future series. Also quite like the cover.
  • Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus and Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre - two of the most well-known works in Existentialism
  • Almost Perfect and Risk Assessment by James Goss - two Torchwood novels by James Goss
  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut - essentially a prequel to Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal - a novel about a transgender woman
  • Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien - a postmodernist thriller
  • Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - a novel similar to Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49.
  • Lincoln by Gore Vidal - the second novel in Vidal's Narratives of Empire series
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Star's Reach by John Michael Greer
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Twilight's Last Gleaming by John Michael Greer
  • Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy - need to read more McCarthy
  • The Pope's Rhinoceros by Lawrence Norfolk - read Norfolk's debut novel. Quite liked it.
  • A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
  • Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Baudolino by Umberto Eco - a novel somewhat similar to The Name of the Rose.
  • It by Stephen King
  • Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Northern Lights by Tim O'Brien
  • A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell - the first novel in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time
  • Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
  • Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut - Vonnegut's debut novel
  • Watchmen by Alan Moore
  • Demon Download by Kim Newman - a novel in the Dark Future series, which I've started getting into
  • Berserk by Kentaro Miura
  • The Shining by Stephen King
  • The Essential Ellison - a collection of Harlan Ellison's works
  • Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant - Maupassant's most well-known novel
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Suffer the Children by David Bishop - a tie-in with the Nightmare on Elm Street series
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt - a postmodern mystery novel
  • HHhH by Laurent Binet - a novel about World War II
  • Vernon God Little by DBC Pierce - Won the Booker Prize
  • G. by John Berger - a postmodern novel set in pre-World War I Europe. Won the Booker Prize
  • Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe - a collection of Poe's lesser-known works
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster - saw this one in a library bookstore but didn't get it.
  • Pierre by Herman Melville - a Gothic novel by the author of Moby-Dick
  • Mao II by Don DeLillo - a postmodernist novel on terrorism, image, and culture
  • 1984 by George Orwell - should buy the edition with Pynchon's introduction
  • The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie - already have a copy of Midnight's Children (unread). Need to get a copy of this infamous novel to see if it is good or bad.
  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino - never read Calvino. Need to start.
  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer - never read anything by Foer. Should start.
  • Jane Eyre by Emily Bronte
  • The Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence - an infamous spiritual novel set in Mexico. Already have three of Lawrence's novels (all unread).
  • Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht - already have a collection of Brecht's plays that doesn't include this
  • The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa - a collection of various works from Pessoa
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - never read Franzen. Need to start.
  • The Iliad by Homer - Have two editions of The Odyssey and Aeneid but have none of the Iliad. Somehow.
  • Roughing It by Mark Twain
  • Struggles and Triumphs by P.T. Barnum
  • Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
  • The Major Works of Francis Bacon - might already have some, if not all, of these
  • The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours - a history of France during the early Medieval period
  • The Letters of the Younger Pliny - the letters of Pliny the Younger
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  • As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina - one of the earliest works in the Japanese literary canon
  • Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard - one of Ballard's less surreal novels
  • Confessio Amantis by John Gower - An "allegorical confession of sins against Love" written in the Medieval period (from around the same period as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose)
  • Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester - a novel set in Hong Kong which details the history of the island city
  • Mars by Ben Bova - bought the sequel to this novel (Return to Mars, unread)
  • Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
  • Redburn and White-Jacket by Herman Melville - two of Melville's earliest novels
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  • A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  • The Complete Odes and Epodes of Horace
  • The Eclogues and the Georgics by Virgil
  • Brief Lives by John Aubrey - an Early Modern collection of biographies
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt - introduces the concept of the "banality of evil"
  • Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - already have a few of Hawthorne's short stories in some anthologies
  • Chronicles of the Crusades by Jean de Joinville and Geoffrey of Villehardouin - two contemporary chronicles of the Crusades
  • Home at Grasmere by Dorothy and William Wordsworth
  • A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
  • Hindu Myths by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
  • Medea and Other Plays by Euripides - a collection of Euripides' tragedies
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - a collection of Whitman's poetry
  • Murder Trials by Cicero
  • Selected Short Fiction of Charles Dickens
  • A Nietzche Reader
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzche
  • The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo - a contemporary history of Spain's conquest of the Americas
  • Rasselas by Samuel Johnson - an Early Modern novel written by the somewhat famous Early Modern author
  • Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
  • A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne - a novel by the author of Tristram Shandy
  • The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella - a Utopian work
  • City of God by Augustine of Hippo - a work extremely influential to the psychology of the Medieval era
  • The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
  • Helbeck of Bannisdale by Mary Augusta Ward
  • The Kill by Émile Zola
  • The Golden Bough by James George Frazer - a work on mythology and religion
  • L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
  • Demosthenes and Aeschines - a collection of works by the titular authors
  • Selected Philosophical Writings of Thomas Aquinas
  • Rob Roy by Walter Scott
  • Political Writings of Thomas Paine
  • A Vindications of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • The Antiquary by Walter Scott
  • Selected Works of David Hume
  • Tirant lo Blanc - a work mentioned in Don Quixote
  • The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
  • Major Works of William Wordsworth
  • The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton - a book on fishing from the Early Modern era
  • Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Phaedra and Other Plays by Seneca - a collection of Seneca's plays
  • Selected Poetry of Alexander Pope
  • Caleb Williams by William Godwin
  • Mary and the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken - one of the main works of the Ancient Aliens conspiracy
  • Men in the Shadows by John Sawatsky - details a secretive group within the RCMP
  • The Three-Cornered Hat by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón - one of Spain's most well-known novels
  • Zadig and L'Ingénu by Voltaire - a collection of two of Voltaire (the author of Candide)'s tales about exotic lands
  • The Dhammapada - a major Buddhist text
  • The Dharmasutras - a major Buddhist text
  • Oxford's The Anglo-Saxon World
  • How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren - a book on critical reading
  • Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory - one of the major works of Arthurian mythos
  • Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • A History of Knowledge by Charles van Doren - written by one of the major figures within the "1950s gameshow scandal" and one of the co-authors of How to Read a Book
  • The Bodhicaryavatara by Shantideva - a somewhat major Buddhist text
  • Selected Writings of Thomas Carlyle
  • The Lion of Cordoba by Charles van Doren - a Medieval novel written by one of the major figures within the "1950s gameshow scandal" and one of the co-authors of How to Read a Book
  • Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost
  • The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - Dickens' first novel
  • Late Victorian Gothic Tales
  • Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
  • Selected Writings of John Ruskin
  • Major Works of John Clare
  • Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoesvky
  • Trilby by George du Maurier
  • Histories by Herodotus - one of the best-known ancient histories
  • Bibliotheca by "Pseudo-Apollodorus" - a contemporary work on Greek/Roman mythology
  • East Lynne by Ellen Wood
  • Oxford's Classical Literary Criticism
  • Five Plays by Ben Jonson
  • Major Works of Anselm of Canterbury
  • Major Works of John Donne
  • Therese Raquin by Émile Zola
  • Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator
  • The Juguruthine War and the Conspiracy of Catiline by Sallust - two contemporary Roman histories
  • Love by Stendhal - a study on love
  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu - one of the pinnacles of Chinese philosophy
  • The Cid, Cinna, and the Theatrical Illusion by Pierre Corneille - a collection of Corneille's theatrical works
  • The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie - a "sentimental novel" from Scotland
  • The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre de Beaumarchis - a collection of Beaumarchis' Figaro plays
  • Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
  • Travel Writing 1700-1830
  • Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac - one of the seminal novels in the Naturalist tradition

To read[]

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