Jul 11, 2010 08:16
disregarding textbooks, because those are no fun.
fyodor dostoevsky - crime and punishment
voltaire - candide
zora neale hurston - their eyes were watching god
flannery o'connor - the complete stories
virginia woolf - mrs. dalloway
fyodor dostoevsky - the double
djuna barnes - nightwood
samuel beckett - watt
thomas pynchon - the crying of lot 49
knut hamsun - hunger
joris-karl huysmans - against nature
william faulkner - as i lay dying
aleksander solzhenitsyn - one day in the life of ivan denisovich (lotta unpronounceable names goin on here)
mikhail bulgakov - the master and margarita
john milton - paradise lost
jean genet - the balcony
vladimir nabokov - invitation to a beheading
william faulkner - the sound and the fury
andre breton - nadja
nikolai gogol - dead souls
jean-paul sartre - nausea
fyodor dostoevsky - notes from the underground
and then i read crime and punishment again. that should count. yeah, it counts.
karolina pavlova - a double life
rebecca west - the fountain overflows
nikolai gogol - petersburg tales
jorge luis borges - on writing
michelle huneven - blame
samantha peale - the american painter emma dial (ughhhh)
penelope fitzgerald - offshore
elizabeth bowen - to the north
leo tolstoy - anna karenina (finally!)
leo tolstoy - the death of ivan ilych
jorge luis borges - ficciones
penelope fitzgerald - human voices
jorge luis borges - on argentina
fyodor dostoevsky - the devils
gustave flaubert - madame bovary
emile zola - nana
ann pratchett - bel canto
natalia nagrodskaia - wrath of dionysus
mikhail kuzmin - wings
flannery o'connor - wise blood
in progress:
celine - journey to the end of the night
things i will read (for class, and else):
franz kafka - the trial