I love books, literature. This is what I’ve read lately:
2013
The Annotated Lolita–Nabokov/Appel Jr.
A Farewell to Arms–Ernest Hemingway
As I lay Dying–William Faulkner
Arabian Night–Richard Burton/Jack Zipes translation
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight–Vladimir Nabokov
War and Peace–Leo Tolstoy
Some Great Idea–Edward Keenan
The Giode–R.K. Narayan
2012
Adventures of Augie March (Saul bellow)
Henderson the Rain King (Saul bellow)
Anna Karenin (Leo Tolstoy)
Death of Ivan Ilyich/Happily Ever After (Leo Tolstoy)
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
The Overcoat/The Nose/The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol)
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Hunting Sketches (Ivan Turgenev)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses as a Comic Novel (Zach Bowen)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
How Fiction Works (James Woods)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Dead Babies (Martin Amis)
The Moronic Inferno (Martin Amis)
The Gift (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Guide to the Gift (Yuri Leving)
Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada (Vladimir Nabokov)
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lectures on Russian Literature (Vladimir Nabokov)
Marathon Man (William Goldman)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
A Hero of our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
The Misanthrope (Moliere)
Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)
Slaughter House Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Orwell and the Left (Alex Zwerdling)
Why I write (George Orwell)
Paris Review Interviews Volume II
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Love, Poverty, War (Christopher Hitchens)
The Inferno (Dante)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Selected works of Cicero
Essays (Montaigne)
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
Essays (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Loved Ones (Evelyn Waugh)
Swann’s Way (Marcel Proust)
Joshua Then and Now (Mordecai Richler)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
No Logo (Naomi Klein)
Strong Opinions (Vladimir Nabokov)
Go Tell it on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
Gargantua (Francois Rabelais)
2011
Sophie’s Choice (William Styron)
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Herzog (Saul Bellow)
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov (Martin Amis)
The Critical Muse (Henry James)
Exiled in Paris (James Campbell)
Broadsides (Mordecai Richler)
Belling the Cat (Mordecai Richler)
Shovelling Trouble (Mordecai Richler)
Story (Robert Mckee)
Which Lie Did I Tell? (William Goldman)
Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
Fanny and Zooey (JD Salinger [the other JD])
Barney’s Version (Mordecai Richler)
Mordecai (Charles Foran)
On Writing (Stephen King)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
