May 28, 2005 11:47
This summer i plan to read fifty books - that is the challenge, which i don't really expect to meet. "Summer" is the period that extends from now to september fifth, when i tragically resume classes at Columbia
Please add suggestions to my current list:
1. This is Not a Pipe by Michel Foucault
2. Selected Essays by Roland Barthes
3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
4. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (finishing all of it)
5. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
6. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
7. London Fields by Martin Amis
8. Non Ti Muovere by Margaret Mazzantini
9. L'Isola di Arturo by Elsa Morante
10. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
11. Istanbul by Ohman Pamuk
12. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
13. Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee
14. Ritornano le Ombre by Paco Ignacio Taibo III
15. Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
16. To the Lighthouse (re-read) by Virginia Woolf