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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

I've read more than i thought i had in the last 4 1/2 years. Anyway, i mentioned in yesterday's post that i might post my book list. I attempted to write it out chronologically, but i'm probably way off on some of them:

Gravity's Rainbow (2x)
Thomas Pynchon

Beautiful Crescent (A History of New Orleans)
Joan B. Garvey, Mary Lou Widmer

The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace

Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain

Catch 22 (2 or 3x)
Joseph Heller

Swann's Way
Marcel Proust

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

A Confederacy of Dunces (2 or 3x)
John Kennedy Toole

Walden
Henry David Thoreau

The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace

The Stranger
Albert Camus

Within a Budding Grove
Marcel Proust

100 Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life of Pi
Yan Martel

Of Love and Other Demons
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

A Prayer For Owen Meany
John Irving

Moby Dick
Herman Melville

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

and just about everything by Kurt Vonnegut.


Leave me some recommendations.

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