Jimmy's List

[Jimmy]

I like reading lists. But actually MAKING a list is hard. I am still quite poorly-read. But I'll give it my best shot. Recommendations welcome!

The Essential Tales of Chekhov
Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
Death Tractates - Brenda Hillman
Alphabet - Inger Christensen
Poems of Wallace Stevens
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Men: A Lyric Book - Lisa Robertson
Ring of Fire - Lisa Jarnot
Elizabeth Bishop's Complete Poems, 1927-1979
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Nature of Things - Francis Ponge
Nota - Martin Corless-Smith
American Spikenard - Sarah Vap
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
Jakob von Gunten - Robert Walser
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter - Cesar Aira
Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles

More additions as of May, 2010:
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Stoner - John Williams
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rilke
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
The Romance of Happy Workers - Anne Boyer
Recollections of Things to Come - Elena Garro
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
The Confusions of Young Törless - Robert Musil
The Assistant - Robert Walser
Pan - Knut Hamsun

Added as of October 30, 2011:
Sun City - Tove Jansson
The Emigrants - WG Sebald
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
I Love Dick - Chris Kraus
The Principles of Uncertainty - Maira Kalman
Visitation - Jenny Erpenbeck
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
g-point almanac: passyunk lost - Kevin Varrone
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
My Friends - Emmanuel Bove

As of 4/25/2012:
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Mount Analogue - Rene Daumal

As of 12/21/2013:
Midwinter Day - Bernadette Mayer
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page - GB Edwards
The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang - Helene Cixous
Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann
Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
Moment of Freedom: The Heiligenberg Manuscript - Jens Bjørneboe

As of 9/1/2015:
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing - Helene Cixous
The Iguana - Anna Maria Ortese
School of the Sun - Ana Maria Matute

Non-fiction
Kabloona - Gontran de Poncins
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius - Ray Monk
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell - Gitta Sereny
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Story of Mary Maclane - Mary MacLane
The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar - Mark C. Baker
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes - Tamim Ansary
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa - Antjie Krog

Short Stories List
(in no order, and not repeating authors)

"The Dead" by James Joyce
"Enemies" by Anton Chekhov (though there are probably 30 other Chekhov stories just as good)
"You Must Know Everything" by Isaac Babel
"The Country Doctor" by Ivan Turgenev
"Axolotl" by Julio Cortazar
"The Marquise of O..." by Heinrich Von Kleist
"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz
"Kleist in Thun" by Robert Walser
"Nevsky Prospect" by Nikolai Gogol
"Three Versions of Judas" by Jorge Luis Borges
"Sailing Before a Light Breeze" by Hermann Broch
"Blackbird" by Robert Musil
"Stray Horse" by Felisberto Hernandez
"Mistaken Hands" by Felisberto Hernandez

[David S. T.]

I didn't realize you liked "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" that much.

[Jimmy]

Oh yeah, I love that book. It's probably tier 2 though.