reading i enjoyed dec 2008-july 2009
Explore my favorite books from December 2008 to July 2009—a curated list of top reads I enjoyed during this period. Discover great titles for your next literary adventure!
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The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
“The Adventures of Augie March is the great American Novel. Search no further.” –Martin Amis A Penguin Classic As soon as it first appeared in …
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by Marilynne Robinson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gilead" pens a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations.
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Howards End
by E. M. Forster
A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life.
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The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard
"The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century." - The Paris Review Finalist for the National Book Award …
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Bouvard and Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard and Pécuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their …
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Mercier and Camier
by Samuel Beckett
"Two seedy stumblebums named Mercier and Camier, forerunners of Estragon and Vladimir of Waiting for Godot, set out on a mysterious journey through vaguely Irish …
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation …
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Petersburg
by Andrey Bely
Taking place over a short, turbulent period in 1905, Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital - a kaleidoscope of images and impressions, an …
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The Counterfeiters
by Andre Gide
A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.
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Stories
by Katherine Mansfield
Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different …
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Dance of the Happy Shades
by Alice Munro
A young girl gets an unexpected glimpse into her father's past. A married woman tries to release her homebound sister after the death of their …
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The Piano Teacher
by Elfriede Jelinek
38-year-old Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory, still lives with her domineering mother. Erika has a weakness for buying clothing that she …
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The Rhetoric of Fiction
by Wayne C. Booth
A standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts. Its concepts and …
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