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Finished my first book for this game. Labyrinths was ok, though not as amazing as my much younger self expected it to be, back when I bought my copy of it. Maybe I am less of a nerd now than when I was an undergrad? Oh well.
February's book is The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. I am expecting this one to feel like homework reading, but I did come across mentions of this book several times last year in other books. Maybe it will be good.
February's book was better than I expected, but I had low expectations. March's book will be Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey.
April's book will be Summer, by Edith Wharton. Yay!
October's book will be The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
Last book of the year is The Tin Drum. So, my probable list for next year will be:
1. Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh
2. The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
3. Threepenny Novel, by Bertold Brecht
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
5. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
6. Dangerous Liaisons, by Pierre Chaderlos de Laclos
7. Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun
8. The Rise of Silas Lapham, by Dean Howell
9. The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
10. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
11. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
12. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
13. Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
14. Possession, by A.S. Byatt
15. Portnoy's Complaint, by Joseph Roth
16. The Good Soldier, by Ford Maddox Ford
17. Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
18. The Sound of Waves, by Yukio Mishima
19. The Untouchable, by John Banville
20. Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
21. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
22. Alberta & Jacob, by Cora Sandel
23. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
24. Fury, by Salman Rushdie
I may acquire more books by January 1, so some of these may swap out by then.
1. Cause for Alarm, by Eric Ambler2. Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges3. Threepenny Novel, by Bertold Brecht
4. War With the Newts, by Karel Capek
5. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
6. Dangerous Liaisons, by Pierre Chaderlos de Laclos
7. Underworld, by Don Delillo
8. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco9. Parade's End, by Ford Maddox Ford
10. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
11. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles12. The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass
13. Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun
14. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
15. Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey16. All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy17. Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
18. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein19. The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa20. Rabbit Redux, by John Updike21. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
22. Summer, by Edith Wharton23. Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
24. Native Son, by Richard Wright