Beyond The Zero

J. M. Coetzee - Foe

Helen DeWitt - Last Samurai 

The Breaks of the Game - David Halberstam

Lorenzo in Taos - Mabel Dodge Luhan

Saul Bellow - Seize The Day

Billy Bud - Herman Melville 

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Gateway books

Pride and Prejudice 

Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey

Currently reading/looking forward to/recently enjoyed

Victim - Andrew Boryga out from Double Day books in March 2024.

Broken Bottles - Anthony Koranda 

God, Human, Animal, Machine - Meghan O’Gieblyn

Desert Island Books

Catch-22 - Heller

One-Hundred Years of Solitude - GGM

The Quiet American - Greene 

Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Flashman Series 

Sommerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage 

Brave New World - Huxley

Milan Kundera - The Joke

Ismael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo 

Thomas Bernhard - Extinction 

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Gateway books 

How and Why book series 

The Shadow, The Spider 

Groucho Marx books 

John Dos Passos - The Big Money 

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Black Spring 

Hedda Gabler - Ibsen 

William Gaddis - The Recognitions 

Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine and Memoirs 

Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle 

Mervyn Peake - Gormanghast Trilogy 

Wyndham Lewis - Apes of God 

Currently Reading/Looking forward 

Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake 

Colin Thubron books 

Spark - Timothy J. Jorgensen

Richard Lemm -  Imagined Truths 

Desert Island Books

My Struggle Book 1 - Karl Ove Knausgaard 

Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine/Dan Yack

The Recognitions/JR - William Gaddis 

Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Lee. D. Thomson - A Pastoral 

John Cooper Powys - A Glastonbury Romance  

Bahá'í prayer book. 

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Gateway books 

John Christopher - Tripod series 

The Baron In The Trees - Calvino

When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver 

Kafka - The Castle 

2666 - Bolaño 

Beckett - Trilogy 

60 Stories -  Donald Barthelme

Wittgenstein’s Mistress - David Markson 

Ice - Anna Kavan

Current reads /looking forward to 

Solenoid - Marcea Cartarescu 

To The Lighthouse - Woolf

The Beetle Leg - John Hawkes 

Jon Fosse - The New Name 

The Woman Who Lived Among the Cannibals - Robert Kloss 

The Illiterate - Agota Kristoff 

Begat who Begat who Begat - Marcus Pactor 

Desert Island Books 

Life A User’s Manual - Perec 

Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson 

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy 

Book - Ken Sparling 

Bob or a Man on Boats - Peter Markus 

In The Blind - Eugene Marten

Ava Carole Maso 

Selected stories - Walser 

Rose Mellie Rose  Marie Redonnet

Stories in Another Language - Yannick Murphy 

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Gateway books 

Edmund White - A Boys Own Story 

Current reads /looking forward to 

Jennifer Croft - The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024) 

Desert Island books 

Ridley Walker - Russel Hoban

In Search of Lost Time - Proust

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - João Guimarães Rosa

Ahmadou Kourouma - Sons of Independence 

The Iliad

Christopher Logue - War Music 

Tolkien - The Silmarillion

Nicola Barker - Darkmans 

Suspects - David Thomson 

Shakespeare - Collected works 

JR - Gaddis 

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Gateway books 

The Secret Garden 

The Little House on The Prairie 

Anne of Green Gables 

Caddie Woodlawn

Jean Craighead George

Watership Down 

Jane Gardam

Rodrigo Rey Rosa 

Rodrigo Fresan 

The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields 

Immortality - Kundera 

Sarah Waters 

Kate Atkinson 

Current reads

A Ghost in the Throat -  Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Desert Island books 

2666 - Bolaño

Watership Down -Richard Adams

Immortality - Kundera 

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Pip's Substack/podcast

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Gateway books

Jackie Collins books

S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders

Wuthering Heights

Frankenstein

Bae Suah - Nowhere to Be Found

Current Reads

Dawn Hounds - Sascha Stronach

Turncoat - Tīhema Baker

Corey Fah Does Social Mobility - Isabel Waidner

Lioness - Emily Perkins

Animal Joy - Nuar Alsadir

Desert Island Books

Frankenstein

Nowhere to be Found - Bae Suah

Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

Bad Behaviour - Mary Gatskill

Watchmen - Alan Moore

Love and Rockets - Hernandez Brothers

The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing

Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

End of Days - Jenny Erpenbeck

Cesar Aira - Ghosts

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Buy Summa Kaotica here

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Gateway books 

Homer 

Beowulf

The Seafarer 

The Wanderer 

The Ruin 

Dream of the Rood

Lord of the Rings 

One Hundred Years of Solitude 

Orwell - Homage to Catalonia 

Current Reads /Looking Forward to 

Dictionary of Symbols - 

Septology - Jon Fosse 

Desert Island books 

Seamus Heaney - Beowulf 

Orkneyinga saga

Homage to Catalonia - Orwell 

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Tractatus - Wittgenstein

The Thin Red Line -  James Jones

Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry 

The Wake - Paul Kingsnorth

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Gateway books / authors 

Toni Morrison 

Octavia Butler 

Peter Temple 

Current reads 

Paul Dalgarno - Country of Eternal Light 

Angela Slater - The Bone Lantern 

Desert Island books 

Toni Morrison 

Anthony Doer - All The Light We Cannot See / Cloud Cuckoo land 

Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero

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Buy Chotic Good here:

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Gateway Books

Peter Pan. Where the Wild Things Are. The Big Book of Jokes and Riddles
Black Stallion series. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. Gary Gygax (D&D) 

Judy Blume’s Forever
Narnia/LOTRs (competitively read)
Sherlock Holmes
The Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Count of Monte Cristo 

Gatsby, Prufrock, The Wasteland
Borges (in Spanish)
Crime and Punishment (2x)
Narcissus and Goldmund

Steppenwolf, Demian, Siddhartha, Journey to the East
Kafka stories
Kerouac (Subterraneans, Dharma Bums, Big Sur)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, The Doors of Perception, Island 
Another Roadside Attraction and Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Deadeye Dick)
The Crying of Lot 49
Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Stories by Terry Southern
The Beat Reader – Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg >> Blake 

Beloved
Light in August
See Under: Love (Grossman -> Bruno Schulz)
Maus (graphic novels, Raw vols 1 and 2, Richard McGuire, Here)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog/Adventures in the Skin Trade (Dylan Thomas)

The Tin Drum, A Personal Matter, The Box Man, Carver, Steinbeck short novels, Hamsun (Hunger), Cheever stories, Auster, Beckett, Kafka, Handke, Artaud, Barthelme, Maupassant, Chekhov, TC Boyle, Philip Roth, Sontag essays, Ulysses, Moby Dick

DFW essays, Mark Leyner, DeLillo, Moody, The Recognitions, George Saunders, Pnin, The Last Samurai, Bernhard, Sebald, Gogol stories, Salinger stories, Geoff Dyer, Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)

War and Peace, Proust, Musil, Mann, Hamsun

Bolano (Between Parentheses)

Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, Houellebecq, Enard, Gracq, Perec, Zweig, Grace Paley, Hrabal, Aira, The Waves

Currently reading

Ute Av Verden, Knausgaard (in Norsk)  Reader’s Block, Markson

Henri Cartier-Bresson interviews Ubik, Philip K. Dick Looking forward to Middlemarch, Trollope The Wolves of Eternity, KOK MJ Nicholls stories  Steinbeck (shorter novels)  The rest of Hrabal in English (four books) Cormac McCarthy (his first four books) BTZ-inspired purchases: Monument Maker (David Keenan), The Salt Line (Shimoni), The Logos (Mark de Silva), Traveler of the Century and How to Travel Without Seeing (Andreas Neuman), The Kindly Ones (Littel), Too Much Life (Lispecter), Kafka Diaries

Recently read All of Us Together in the End, Matthew Vollmer Bang Bang Crash, Nic Brown All Dag Solstad in English (Novel 11, Book 18) All Tomas Espedal in English (Love, Tramp) I Served the King of England, Hrabal  The Belan Deck, Matt Bucher

Annie Ernaux (Happening, A Man’s Place, I Remain in Darkness) Philip Roth (Zuckerman Unbound, Patrimony, The Facts, The Counterlife) The Magus, John Fowles

Desert Island Books

The Birds, Tarjei Vesaas (Archipelago)
Weight of the World, Handke 

A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Erich Maria Remarque 
Garden, Ashes, Danilo Kis 
A Balcony in the Forest, Julien Gracq
A Musical Offering, Luis Sagasti (Charco, Fionn Petch)
Atomik Aztex, Sesshu Foster (Grove Press)
Amazons, Cleo Birdwell (DeLillo)
A Time for Everything, KOK (Archipelago)
Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann (John E. Woods translation; Modern Library)

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Gateway books / Authors 

John Bellairs 

Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence 

Private Parts - Howard Stern 

Where I am Calling From - Raymond Carver 

Portnoy’s Complaint - Roth 

Henderson The Rain King - Bellow 

A Fan’s Notes - Frederick  Exley 

Current Reads/Looking forward to 

White Cat Black Dog - Kelly Link 

Foster - Claire Keegan 

Tender Is he Flesh - Augustina Bazterrica 

The Passenger /Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy 

Hernan Diaz- Trust 

Desert Island Books 

Ulysses - Joyce 

Underworld - Don DeLillo

Song Of Solomon - Toni Morrison 

Homeland - Sam Lipsyte 

Complete Garielle Lutz 

InnerTube - Hob Broun 

Joy Williams - Quick and the Dead 

Palefire - Nabokov 

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Currently reading/Looking forward to

Annie Ernaux 

Vigdis Hjorth

Stendhal

Country of Eternal Light - Paul Dalgarno 

Angela O’Keefe - The Sitter

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Spring Fever is out now through Valley Press 

https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/spring-fever

Gateway Books 

Sherlock Holmes 

Martin Amis - London Fields 

Annie Proulx - Shipping News 

Don DeLillo  

Cormac McCarthy 

Nabokov 

Edith Wharton 

Borges 

Current Reads/ recently enjoyed/ looking Forward to 

Burntcoat - Sarah Hall

Patricia Dunker- Sophie and the Civil 

Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick 

Colson Whitehead - Crook Manifesto

Alan Warner - Nothing Left to Fear From Hell 

Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers - The Tilt Torn Away From The Seasons 

Hoodwitch - Faylita Hicks 

Headless John The Baptist Hitchhiking -  C. T. Salazar

Desert Island Books 

Middlemarch - George Elliot 

Jayne Eyre - Brontë

Collected Borges 

London Field/House of Meetings - Martin Amis 

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy 

Tristrom Shandy - Sterne 

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www.levernews.com

Gateway books 

Jonathan Harr - The Lost Painting 

Current reads / recently enjoyed or looking forward 

The Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris 

Killers of the Flower Moon - David Gran 

Desert Island Books 

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck 

The Adventures of Cavilier and Clay - Michael Chabon 

Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides 

Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem

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@priscillagilman

@priscilla.gilman Instagram 

Gateway books 

The Phantom Tollboth - Norton Juster

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Betsy- Tacy books

Paddington - Michael Bond 

Charlotte’s Web 

Song of Solomon 

Wuthering Heights  

Great Expectations 

Current reads/recently enjoyed/ looking forward to 

Lone Women - Victor LaValle 

Ann Beattie - new collection - Onlookers 

Andrew Porter - The Disappeared 

The Netanyahu’s - Josh Cohen 

Desert Island Books 

Norton Anthology of poetry 

Collected Poetry - Wordsworth 

Omnibus Jane Austen 

To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf 

Great Expectations - Dickens 

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Riverside Shakespeare 

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Buy Gone to The Wolves here

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Gateway books 

Lord of the Rings

Alice in Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass

Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg - Ohio

William S Burroughs 

Current reads /looking forward to 

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris 

I’m With The Band - Pamela Des Barres

La Capital - The Biography of Mexico City - Jonathan Kandell

Biography of X - Catherine Lacy 

Trust - Hernan Diaz 

Desert Island books 

Alice and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright

Collected Short Stories of Anton Chekov 

The Palm Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola

Ross MacDonald - Collection 

Lincoln in The Bardo - George Saunders 

Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus 

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce

I Am Ozzy - Ozzie Osbourne 

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Buy his book here

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Gateway books 

Gore Vidal 

Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf

Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas 

James Baldwin - Another Country 

To The Light House - Virginia Woolf

Danilo Kiš - Garden Ashes

Current reads 

• Adam Ehrlich Sachs - Organs of Sense
• Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon
• Faces in The Crowd - Valeria Luiselli 
• Mr Samler’s Planet - Bellow 
• Three Days Before the Shooting - Ellison 

Desert island books 

Kafka - The Castle 

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Seymour an Introduction - J.D Salinger 

Waiting for The Barbarians - Coetzee 

The Mediterranean - Fernand Braudel 

The Bible - God (tbc) 

Buy Rx here https://atmospherepress.com/books/rx-by-garin-cycholl/

Gateway books 

Maximus Poems -  Charles Olsen 

Barry Hannah - Ray and Airships 

Laird Hunt - Indiana Indiana, Zorrie 

Ben Metcalf - Against The Country

Mike Davis - City of Quartz

Current reads 

Percival Everett - The Trees 

Hanif Abdurraqib - A Little Devil in America 

Solenoid - Cartarescu 

Alexander Hammond - The World and All That it Holds 

Dan Egan - The History of Phosphorus 

Colson Whitehead - Crook Manifesto 

Desert island Books 

Poe Stories 

Brothers K - Dostoyevsky 

The Recognitions - Gaddis 

Inherent Vice - Pynchon 

Suttree - McCarthy 

Cecilia Vicuña - poems 

The Plains - Murnane 

Woolf - The Waves 

M.F.K Fisher - The Gastronomical Me

Ed Roberson - To See the Earth Before The End of The World 

Mickle Maher - The Stangerer 

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Buy House of Apollo here 

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Outlook English program links 

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Gateway Books 

• Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast 
• Walter M. Miller JR -  A Canticle for Leibowitz

Current reads 

• The Iliad 

Desert Island Books 

• Poetry Han Shan 
• The Iliad 
• Diary of Samuel Pepys

New Translation of Loin de Rueil by Raymond Queneau by Chris Clarke NYRB 

Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise - Anthony Madrid 

Desert Island books 

Shahnameh - The Book of Kings  

In Search of Lost Time - Proust 

Raymond Queneau - Odile 

Manuel Puig - An Eternal Curse on The Reader of These Pages 

The Means of Escape - Penelope Fitzgerald

Collected Poems - Gwen Harwood 

Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane

Crow Cottage - Emma Lew

Borges - Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Upcoming projects and publications 

Upcoming 2023 - New Sorokin short stories, Blue Laird. 

Schattenfroh -  Michael Lenz (Sample) 

See

https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/schattenfroh-by-michael-lentz/

Songs of Chaos - Antonio Moresco (sample)

See

https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/tag/songs-of-chaos/

Oğuz Atay - Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected)

Current read and recommendations 

Out of The World / Wolves from The Forest of Eternity - Knausgaard

The Shards - BEE

Hakan Günday - books

Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger/Stella Maris 

Available through https://www.crowsnestbooks.com/product/saltline/

Philip Hollander 

https://nes.princeton.edu/people/philip-hollander

Gateway books /authors 

Yoseph Chaim Brenner 

Currently reading 

The Salt Line and The Room by Youval Shimoni 

Looking forward to - Through the Transparent Floor - Youval Shimoni 

Desert island books 

• Even-Shoshan Dictionary
• Shai Agnon - Only Yesteryear and Simple Story 
• ימי צקלג, - S. Yizhar (Days of Ziklag)
• Yaakov Shabtai - זכרון דברים - (Past Continuous)
• William Falkner - Light in August 

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@saintsoftness

Buy We The Parasites here:

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Gateway books /authors 

• Susan Sontag 
• Ursula Le Guin 
• The Iliad

Current Reads 

• Esther Kinsky - Rombo - Trans - Caroline Schmidt 
• Marco Polo’s Travels - Trans - Nigel Cliff

Desert Island/ Windowless data centre books 

• Leob Classical Library editions 

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Buy Man-Eating Typewriter here:

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Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3aJgqfOTyIeA491ag7NhAr?si=058bc75e876941fe

Gateway books / writers

Alan Warner - Morvern Callar

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Richard Brautigan

Kerouac

Hunter. S. Thomson - Naked Lunch

Nadia - André Breton

Nabokov

Pynchon

Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward

Charles Bukowski - Post Office

New American Poetry - 1945-1960

Ali Millar - The Last Days

Interviews with Francis Bacon - David Sylvester

Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History - Derek Sayer

Alex Danchev - Magritte - A Life

Desert Island Books

Lolita and Pale Fire - Nabokov

The Essential Ginsburg

Gravity’s Rainbow

Monument Maker - David Keenan

Mark Polizzotti - The Life of André Breton

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 - Georges Bataille

Patrick DeWitt- The Sisters Brothers

The Giro Playboy - Michael Smith

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@christbollen instagram

@christobollen twitter

Gateway books/authors

Agatha Christie

Kurt Vonnegut

Sylvia Plath

Joan Didion

Current reads/ recently enjoyed/ looking forward to

Hernán Díaz - Trust

Fruiting Bodies: Stories - Kathryn Harlan

If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery

Desert Island Books

Graeme Green - The Quite American, The Comedians, Ministry of Fear

The Executioners Song - Norman Mailer

The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

Allan Hollinghurst - The Folding Star

Agatha Christie - Then There Where None, Death on the Nile, A Murder is Announced

Joan Didion - After Henry

https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/andres-neuman

Currently reading / recently enjoyed /looking

The Care Manifesto 

Las malas -Camila Sosa Villada

Armonía Somers

Mariana Enriquez - Alguien camina sobre tu tumba

Delphine Horvilleur - Living With Our Dead Ones

Partes de guerra - Jorge Volpi

Elena Garro - Los recuerdos del porvenir / Recollections of Things to Come

Yuri Herrera - Ten Planets

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/train-lord-9780241525074

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Gateway books

Henry Sugar - Roald Dahl

Tintin - Hergé.

Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward to

A Fan’s Notes - Frederick Exley

Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles

Willa Cather - My Ántonia

Robbie Arnott - Limberlost

Constance Debré - Play Boy

Cold Enough For Snow - Jessica Au

Mariana Enriquez - Our Share of Night

Desert Island Books

Alejandro Zambra - Bonsai

Train Dreams / Angels - Denis Johnson

Tove Jansson - The Summer Book

Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky

Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen

Battles in the Desert - José Emilio Pacheco

The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien

https://natashawimmer.com/

Buy Voyager by Nona Fernández here

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/voyager

Currently working on:

Falsa Guerra — Carlos Manuel Álvarez

Álvaro Enrigue - You Dreamed of Empires

Gateway books

Nada - Carmen Laforet

Claudine novels - Colette

Norman Rush - Mating

Willa Cather - Song of the Lark

V.S. Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas

Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station

Current reads /recently enjoyed

Enrique Krauze - Spinoza en el Parque México

Recollections of things to come - Elena Garro

Brenda Lozano - Loop

Catherine Lacey - Pew

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez

Chilean Poet - Alejandro Zambra

The Body Where I Was Born - Guadalupe Nettel

Tomb Song: A Novel - Julián Herbert

Desert Island Books

To The Light House - Virginia Woolf

In Search of Lost Time - Proust

The Complete Stories of Deborah Eisenberg

Henry James - The Golden Bowl

Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain

Javier Mariás - Your Face Tomorrow series

https://www.brucewagner.la

Gateway books /authors

Jean Genet

Raymond Radiguet

Henry Miller

Hubert Selby Jr- The Room

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

Dickens

Current reads /recently enjoyed

Lincoln in the Bardo

Cause Unknown - The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths - Ed Dowd

Desert Island book

The Conference of the Birds

http://www.dbcpierre.com

Buy Big Snake Little Snake here :

https://www.cheeriopublishing.com

Gateway books

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

On The Road - Kerouac

Gore Vidal - Duluth

Current reads/recently enjoyed/looking forward to

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Transylvania Trilogy - Miklós Bánffy

Grey Seas Under - Farley Mowat

Desert Island Books

Papillon - Henri Charrière

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay

Lila- Robert. M. Pirsig

The Complete Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova - Translated by Arthur Machen

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-bookshelf

Gateway books

Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Michale Ondaatje - The English Patient / In the Skin of a Lion

Kerry Hume - The Bone People

Current Reads / recently enjoyed /looking forward to

Audrey Magee - The Colony

Age of Vice - Deepdi Kapoor

A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon

Sebastian Barry - Old God’s Time

Salman Rushdie - Victory City

Laura McPhee Brown - Little Plum

Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy

Melissa Lucahshenko’ - Edenglassie

Margaret Atwood - Old Babes in the Wood.

Mai Phan Que Nguyen - Dustchild

River Sing Me Home - Eleanor Shearer

Kevin Jared Hosein - Hungry Ghosts

Arinze Ifeakandu - God's Children Are Little Broken Things

Becky Manawatu - Auē

Desert Island books

In the Skin of A Lion - Michale Ondaatje

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Pat Barker - Regeneration Trilogy

Peter Carey - Illywacker

Fiona McFarlane - A Son Looked down

A.S. Byatt - Possession

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Lousie Erdich - LaRose

Mick Herron - Slow Horses Series

Robbie Arnot - The Rain Heron

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Gateway books / writers

Asimov - Foundation Trilogy

Kafka

Joseph Roth

Dostoyevsky

Chekov

Sontag

Ralph Ellison

Richard Wright

Cynthia Ozick

Current reads / recently enjoyed /Looking forward to

Daniel Deronda - George Eliot

Lydia Davis - Essays

David Means - Two Nurses Smoking

Fernando Pesoa - Book of Disquiet

Desert Island Books

Daniel Deronda - George Eliot

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Stoner - John Williams

Dune - Frank Herbert

James. M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double indemnity/Mildred Pearce

Keats - Complete Poems

Celan - Die Niemandsrose

Complete Shakespeare

The Idiot - Dostoyevsky

Kafka - Letters to Milena

The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

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Gateway books -

War and Peace

Grace Paley - Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

I Stand Here Ironing - Tillie Olsen

Flannery O’Connor

North American Review

The Quarterly

Current reads /Looking forward to

The Lighted Burrow: A Sanatorium Journal - Max Blecher

The Radezkey March - Joseph Roth

Moby Dick

The Jazz Palace - Mary Morris

The Kirschbaum Lectures - Seth Rogoff

Desert Island books

War and Peace

Metamorphosis - Ovid

A River Runs Through it - Norman Maclean

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Gateway books

Matilda - Roald Dahl

If On A Winters Night A Traveller - Calvino

A Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

Portrait of a Lady

Current reads /Looking forward to

Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto

Quaderno proibito (The Forbidden Notebook) - Alba de Céspedes - Translated by Ann Goldstein

Catherine Lacey - The Biography of X

White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin - Michael W. Clune

Desert Island books

Don Quixote - Cervantes

Clarissa - Samuel Richardson

Middlemarch - George Elliot

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - Erich Auerbach

Ulysses - Joyce

Collected Works of Beckett

Collected Diaries of Virginia Woolf

Translations by Anne Carson (With Greek)

The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt

Septology - Jon Fosse

The Annotated Arabian Nights - New translation by Yasmine Seale

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Gateway books

Middlemarch

Moby Dick

Current reads

Nixon agonistes - Garry Wills

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy - Elizabeth Popp Berman

Alec Guinness - Memoirs

We Have Never Been Modern - Bruno Latour

The Greeks and the irrational - E. R. Dodds

The Evening Hero - Marie Myong-Ok Lee

The Logic of Practice - Pierre Bourdieu

Iris Murdoch

Desert Island Books

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Capital and Ideology - Thomas Piketty

Jane Austen - Complete works

Moby Dick

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Gateway books

George Bataille - Story of the Eye

Marguerite Duras - The Malady of Death

Denis Cooper

Lawerence Braithwaite - Wigger, Ratz are Nice

Yukio Mashima - Confessions of a Mask

Current Reads/recently enjoyed

Isabelle Nicou - Stricture

Audrey Szasz - Zealous Immaculate

Lindsay Lerman - What Are You

Nate Lippens - My Dead Book

Denis Cooper - I Wished

Looking forward to The Shards - Brett Easton Ellis

New stuff Phillip Best and Audrey Szasz

Desert Island Books

Denis Cooper - Period

Joan Didion - Play it as it Lays

Kevin Killian - Spread Eagle

Wigger - Lawrence Braithwaite

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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Gateway Books

Ovid

D.H. Lawerence

Aldus Huxley

Lauren Eisley

Peter Matthiessen

Michael Ondaatje

John McPhee

Gary Synder

Robinson Jeffers

Current Reads

London Fields - Martin Amis

Iain Sinclair - Down River

The Five - Hallie Rubenhold

Gary Snyder - The Great Clod

NeuroTribes - Steve Silberman

Literary Translations and the Making of Originals - Karen Emmerich

Desert Island Books

Collected Shakespeare

The Metamorphoses - Ovid

Moby Dick

Gary Snyders- Mountains and Rivers Without End

Collected Yates

Collected Borges

Cities of The Red Night - Burroughs

Absolom Absolom -

Dickens - Our Mutual Friend.

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Gateway books

Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan

First Love Last Rites - Ian McEwan

The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy

Last Day of Summer - Ian McEwan

Current reads

Clive James - Sentenced to Life

Desert Island Books

The Bible - God ?

Ulysses - Joyce

High Windows - Larkin

Clive James - Sentenced to Life

Shakespeare - Shakespeare ?

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Gateway books

Jane Eyre

Great Expectations

Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe

Little Women

Hopscotch - Cortazar

The Wide Saragasso - Sea Jean Rhys

Bolano - 2666

The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa

Current reads

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Jawbone - Mónica Ojeda

Desert Island Books

The Neapolitan Novels - Ferrante

Bolano - 2666

Hopscotch - Cortazar

The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa

Necropolis - Santiago Gamboa

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez

Chilean Poet - Zambra

Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin

Beloved - Morrison

Louis Paul Boon - Chapel Road

What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell

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Gateway books

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Sound and the Fury - Faulkner

Invisible Man - Ellison

Ulysses - Joyce

Current reads - Javier Cercas - Anatomy of a Moment

Lydia Davis - (translation) Madame Bovary

Isaac B Singer - Stories

Desert Island Books

Edna O’Brian

James Wright

Eudora Welty

Absolom, Absolom - Faulkner

Isaac Babal

John McGahern

Mavis Gallant

Wright Morris

Chekov

Ellison - Essays

Giovanni’s Room - Baldwin