My "To-Read List"
>> 27 November 2009
I always have a lot of books that I want to read, but recently I have started keeping an actual list. Unfortunately, it takes me many hours to read a book, and only a few seconds to add a new one to the list. So, I've decided to put this list on the old e-blog to see if you, dear internet, have any advice or recommendations about these books. Here they are, in no particular order:
- Little Children, by Tom Perrotta
- American Pastoral, by Phillip Roth
- The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
- Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon
- Soccernomics, by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
- Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving
- To the White Sea, by James Dickey
- Stoner, by John Williams
- Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
- The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
- Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
- The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
- City of Thieves, by David Benioff
- The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolano
- His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Phillip Pullman
Questions for Discussion:
- Have you read any of these books? If so, can you recommend one?
- If you were going to pick by title alone, which book would you choose for me to read next?
- Any suggestions that aren't on this list?
5 comments:
Now you have me interested. I haven't even heard of most of these books. I too have a to-read list and it is miles and miles longer then this one.
The only thing I have read on your list is His Dark Materials Trilogy and I loved it. Probably one of my favorite series.
If I were to pick a book off the list by title only I would have to go with The Magicians.
And there isn't enough space in this little comment box for all the book suggestions I could give you but I will give one. The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini- only three of the four books are out so far but wow they are amazing and if you get a chance to listen to them on CD the reader is FANTASTIC!
My only helpful comment is that some of yours are also on my to-read list. So that's actually not helpful at all. A suggestion: one on my list is The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
I liked the His Dark Materials series as well - pretty amazing story telling. Some of it is kind of reminiscent of the Time Machine.
This series has received a lot of criticism for the blatant challenge to Christianity, but I found it very interesting as a debate between a science-focused perspective on life and the religious "pretenses" of church. I listened to the audio-tapes which were amazingly recorded by a full theatrical cast.
If you're in the mood for non-fiction, sports-related reading, Bill Simmon's new release "the book of basketball" is fantastic and extremely long.
I read the His Dark Materials books a long time ago, and I love them.
Absalom, Absalom! is on my list, too. I read As I Lay Dying and loved it, and ever since then I've been meaning to read more Faulkner but haven't.
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