reading i enjoyed august 2009-april 2010

Explore my curated list of books I enjoyed reading from August 2009 to April 2010. Discover top picks and hidden gems from 2009-2010 for your next great read!

2009 2010 april august books enjoyed reading
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Inherent Vice

by Thomas Pynchon

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, and all Pynchon, "Inherent Vice" spotlights private eye Doc Sportello who occasionally comes out of a marijuana haze to watch …
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The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. “An important book, valuable …
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Frolic of His Own

by William Gaddis

A satirically jaundiced view of modern law and justice chronicles the fortunes of Oscar Crease, a middle-aged college instructor and playwright, as he sues a …
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

Edited by Joan New and Melvyn New.
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The Spectacle of the Body

by Noy Holland

A debut in fiction by a writer from Alabama. In Winter Bodies, a man shaves off the body hair of his ailing wife, The Change …
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The Easter parade

 

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Discipline and Punish

by Michel Foucault

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition …
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The Lime Twig

by John Hawkes

But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves …
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The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

Winner of the Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's …
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Shah of Shahs

by Ryszard Kapuscinski

"Insightful and important.... A readable, timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of the revolutionary forces at work in Iran.... The reader almost becomes a …
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The Making of Americans

by Gertrude Stein

"Essential for all literature collections . . . Several of Stein's titles returned to print in 1995, but none more important than The Making of …
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 2

by Robert Musil

"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New …
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Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, …
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

by Danilo Kiš

"Kis is one of the handful of incontestably major writers of the second half of the century . . . Danilo Kis preserves the honor …
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