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Book Log

• Bulgakov, Master & Margarita
• Ferdydurke, by Witold Gombrowicz
• Frame Analysis
• Against Intellectual Monopoly
• http://diveintohtml5.org/
• Fire season by Philip Connors — Nation intern and copy editor
• Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins
• George Saunders
• Attempting Normal — essays by Marc Maron
• Taste by Roald Dahl
• Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, for the famous hangover scene
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, also for a famous hangover scene
• Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
• The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson (from Amis)
• The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks by David Embury (from Amis)
• Three Bottle Bar by Harney Isham Williams (from Amis)
• Why a Cocktail Party by Vernon Heaton (from Amis)
• Lamb by Christopher Moore
• The Non-Dairy Formulary: Vegan Cuisine for the Ethical Gourmet by Skye Michael Conroy
• String Theory Quartet — sounds crazy like PKD
• The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Lang
• Hello, the Roses by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
• writing by Millhauser — The Nation describes him as being inspired by Kafka and Mann

Nobel Prize project

Read at least one book by each of the Nobel Prize in Literature winners: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/index.html

• Mario Vargas Llosa
• Tomas Transtromer
• Mo Yan
• Alice Munro
• Doris Lessing
• Harold Pinter
• Elfriede Jelinek
• J. M. Coetzee
• Imre Kertész
• Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
• Gao Xingjian
• José Saramago
• Dario Fo
• Wislawa Szymborska
• Seamus Heaney
• Kenzaburo Oe
• Toni Morrison
• Derek Walcott
• Nadine Gordimer
• Octavio Paz
• Camilo José Cela
• Naguib Mahfouz
• Joseph Brodsky
• Wole Soyinka
• Claude Simon
• Jaroslav Seifert
• Elias Canetti
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Odysseus Elytis
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Vicente Aleixandre
• Saul Bellow
• Eugenio Montale
• Eyvind Johnson
• Harry Martinson
• Patrick White
• Heinrich Böll
• Pablo Neruda
• Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
• Yasunari Kawabata
• Miguel Angel Asturias
• Shmuel Yosef Agnon
• Nelly Sachs
• Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
• Giorgos Seferis
• Ivo Andric
• Saint-John Perse
• Salvatore Quasimodo
• Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
• Juan Ramón Jiménez
• Halldór Kiljan Laxness
• Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
• François Mauriac
• Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
• Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
• Thomas Stearns Eliot
• André Paul Guillaume Gide
• Gabriela Mistral
• Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
• Frans Eemil Sillanpää
• Pearl Buck
• Roger Martin du Gard
• Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
• Luigi Pirandello
• Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
• John Galsworthy
• Erik Axel Karlfeldt
• Sinclair Lewis
• Sigrid Undset
• Henri Bergson
• Grazia Deledda
• George Bernard Shaw
• Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
• Jacinto Benavente
• Anatole France
• Knut Pedersen Hamsun ("Growth of the Soil")
• Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler ("Olympian Spring")
• Karl Adolph Gjellerup
• Henrik Pontoppidan
• Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
• Romain Rolland
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
• Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
• Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
• Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
• Rudolf Christoph Eucken
• Giosuè Carducci
• Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Frédéric Mistral
• José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
• Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
• Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen ("A history of Rome")
• Sully Prudhomme

Done

• Orhan Pamuk
• Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
• Günter Grass
• William Golding
• Gabriel García Márquez
• Samuel Beckett
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• John Steinbeck
• Albert Camus
• Ernest Miller Hemingway
• William Faulkner
• Hermann Hesse
• Thomas Mann
• William Butler Yeats
• Rudyard Kipling
• Herta Muller