Thursday, August 29, 2013

More Reading! (For My Fellow Bibliophiles)

And for those of you who consider yourselves to be readers already—God bless your noble, tender souls—it seems appropriate to also post a list of books I sincerely recommend to any friends out there who might be looking to challenge themselves with some of best and deepest shit I've ever read in my long reading life.

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov;
A Collection of Essays, by George Orwell;
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, by David Foster Wallace;
Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace;
Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace;
Girl With Curious Hair, by David Foster Wallace;
Lectures on Literature, by Vladimir Nabokov;
Lectures on Russian Literature, by Vladimir Nabokov;
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes;
Lectures on Don Quixote, by Vladimir Nabokov;
Tao Te Ching, by Lao-Tzu;
Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi;
Games People Play, by Eric Berne;
Sexus, by Henry Miller;
The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien;
The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham;
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo;
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo;
A Feast of Snakes, by Harry Crews;
Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works, by Arthur Rimbaud;
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, And Seymour: An Introduction, by J.D. Salinger;
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley;
The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions, by Huston Smith;
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig;
The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant;
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, By Jared Diamond;
The God of the Machine, by Isabel Paterson;
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov;
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, by Hunter S. Thompson;
Steps, by Jerzy Kosinski;
Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth;
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, by Jill Bolte Taylor;
Alaska, by James Michener; and
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, by Franz Kafka.

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