de-Sent Exupery - Citadelle Slavko Janevski - Miracle Plays of Terror PKD - UBIK and Electric Sheep Andrei Platonov - Chevengur Norman Mailer - Ancient Evenings
Søren Kierkegaard - The Sickness Unto Death Jorge Luis Borges - A Universal History of Iniquity Samuel Beckett - Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable) Cormac McCarthy - Suttree Emil Cioran - The Fall Into Time Great video as always!
The obscene bird of night! That one was bananas! Had been trying to remember that title as I no longer have to book. May need to reread it.@@ewafelcenloben4706
Your thoughts on Wiseblood got me to thinking about the time someone wrote Flannery O'Connor a letter complaining that "your book left a bad taste in my mouth." Flannery wrote back "you weren't supposed to eat it." Love the channel...All the best in 2024.
As a sci-fi / fantasy nerd, I’m glad to hear you liked Dune! My top 5: 1. The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa 2. Moby Dick - Melville 3. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller 4. Blood Meridian - McCarthy 5. Ice - Kavan
1 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 2 - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima 3 - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 4 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 5 - No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
I didn't really read a lot this year unfortunately, probably because I mostly didn't have the time to watch your videos to inspire me (your love for reading is infectuous). But my top 5 this year, in no particular order, were: - Hyperion by Dan Simmons - Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke - White Noise by Don DeLillo - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov Here's to hoping I read more than 10 books this year. Also a happy new year to everyone reading this, and may you have a great upcoming year!
Read 55 books last year, hard to choose a top 5 but here goes. 1. East of Eden (became my all time number 1) John Steinbeck 2. Lightbringer by pierce brown 3. Secret History by tartsy fartsy 4. War an peace by tolstoy 5. Ham On Rye Bukowski Honor ment. Less than zero by easton ellis
My Top 5 Reads for 2023: 1) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 2) The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 3) The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke 4) The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy 5) The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Sun also Rises made me get into wine. I loved the scene in the book where they are having a picnic and they place a bottle of wine in the river to make it cold.
My 5 favorite books in 2023: 5. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne 4. Hell House, by Richard Matheson 3. Mindhunter, by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker 2. The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma, by Lima Barreto 1. The Hobbit, by Tolkein
My list: Emil Cioran - The Trouble With Being Born Thomas Ligotti - The Conspiracy Against The Human Race Frank Herbert - Dune Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem Clive Barker - The Hellbound Heart
Great list, excellent rundown. I agree with you 100% on Flannery O'Connor. Also want to commend you for sticking with literature that truly moves you, rather than following trends and fads. Good job. Cioran and Doyle I have not yet read, but look forward to doing so.
Your channel has helped me find stuff that actually interesses and captivates me in reading which has been quite hard for me to do for most of my life up until this point(I'm only a 21 art student) so I'm very thankfull and the only book I've read completly this year was Story Of Eye and it left a very profound mark on me so thank you a lot for opening the doors to a world full of so much interesting and profound art that is reading!! Hopefully by next year I'll have a top five of books I've read because I've only managed short story's for now. Thank you for your content its really good and quite humanely profound!!
1. Stoner by John Williams 2. Monkey King by Wu Cheng'en (new translation) 3. Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan 4. The Passenger and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy 5. The Vorrh by B. Catling Monkey, Goulds Book of Fish and The Vorrh i'd classify as 'fun' books. crazy as it gets
Hoping to read Wise Blood this year, now that I’ve read all of her short stories. My top 5 of 2023: 1. Moby Dick 2. To The Lighthouse 3. Go Down Moses 4. Light in August (sort of tied with 3) 5. Disgrace
Another great list of year end as always. I want to get to Faulkner and O'Connor this year myself. My top five are as follows: 5. Time Out of Joint- Philip K Dick 4. Arabesques- Anton Shammas 3. The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas- Rick Harsch 2. In Transit- Brigid Brophy 1. Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
You’re not kidding about 2023, man. Wow. Wise Blood is one of my all-time favorites, and I discovered Nathaniel West and maybe Mishima thanks to your recommendation, so thank you. My top five from the past year, in no particular order: Les Mis, Hugo Paradise Lost, Milton Shadow & Claw, Wolfe (speaking of sci-fi for people who don’t read sci-fi) Far From the Madding Crowd, Hardy War & Peace, Tolstoy
5. Kristina Glaffey: Mom and Busser 4. Juni Ito: No Longer Human 3. Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children 2. Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 1. Johannes Jensen: The Fall of the King
west coast canuck here. I've been gravitating to southern lit as well. there's a magic about it that I can't get elsewhere. just read As I Lay Dying and it floored me.
O conners " a good man . . " Incredible mindfuck. I have always feared reading southern writers, (lol) now I know why. consider picking up the magazine of southern writing called "The Oxford American" they put out a music issue.
I’d just like to say I appreciate your channel immensely. It’s so incredibly nice to just hear someone actually speak (as opposed to reading reviews) about some of my favorite authors like Houllebecq, Cortazar, Jünger, Bolaño etc. with such enthusiasm and insight I used to live in Chicago but I can’t blame my present more rural location on a lack of literary conversation as the bike messenger crowd I was a part of werent necessarily eagerly wanting to dive into Mishima. Anyways, just thanks man. I know there’s plenty of people online, but to hear and see another person talking about these books is a quality I haven’t experienced since skipping class in HS to read Kafka and blast cigs at the downtown cafe (even then I’m pretty sure I was the only one actually reading the shit).
this video is my personal holiday year in year out!!! and my top read this year was probably ingeborg bachmann's malina (idk about the english but the polish translation overtakes lives - i've seen it happen, i've lived it)
Wise Blood and A Childhood are both incredibly powerful and superbly written. Thanks, Cliff. Happy reading in '24! My favorites were Solenoid and Germinal.
My top 5 of 2023: The Gospel Singer - Harry Crews Ninth Building - Zou Jingzhi Go down, Moses - William Faulkner Last exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr. Whale - Cheon Myeong-kwan
I love the film "Suddenly Last Summer" but have never read the play. I do love "A Streetcar Named Desire". Flannery O'Connor is one of my favorite short story writers. For some reason, I could not get into her novels but I should give them another try.
I highly recommend you giving Dune: Messiah a read. It's short, and more of an epilogue to Dune than a sequel that completes the arcs and deepens the themes of the first book.
Top five books I read this year: 1. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy 2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 3. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (thanks for the recommendation) 4. The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 5. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
My favourite of this year: - Story of eye - Fictions (especially first story, wooow) - A cool million - highly recommend it, wrote by Nathanael West, I know you like him Cliff, - Wait unitl the evening by Hal Bennett And my favourite - Waiting for Godot. Mindblowing for me.
Cool to see that some contemporary Spanish literature leaks out of our country. He's probably the best author that we've had in the last years. You should check out Delibes.
Thanks for getting me to read more. 1. The Immortal Game, David Shenk 2. Pessoa, Richard Zenith 3. The warmth of other suns, Wilkerson 4. The Peregrine(off your review)5. Death in the afternoon(perhaps your best review) My winter read suggestion: Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez. In NYC, Up in the old hotel by Joseph Mitchell. In the SouthWest, Dessert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. This summer, Summer 1927 Bill Bryson Thanks
My favorites: Mario and the magician, Thomas Mann Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy White noise, Don Delillo Heldenplatz, Thomas Bernhard Time of the magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger A girl is lost in her century looking for her father, Goncalo M. Tavares
I’m adding a lot of books to my TBR pile from your list as well as the comments, thank you! My favourites of 2023: Study for obedience- Sarah Bernstein Trust - Hernan Diaz The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe L’Autre Fille - Annie Ernaux Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie Kartonnen Dozen - Tom Lannoye
I read Dune and agree reading the first book is fine. I watched Suddenly, Last Summer, but haven't read the book. I have to make a note to read Tennessee Williams because I like him as a playwright. August Wilson is my favorite playwright, love his dialogue.
Your reviews are as tight and as tense as the authors you read. Spellbound I am after one of your videos and I have to look up the author and sneak up on the book because now I’m frightened of it. Wiseblood is what I’m referring here & Flannery OConner but they’re not the only ones. Anyway, thanks for being so good at what you do - your reviews drive me to sneak up on even more literature and then read it cold and raw. I’ve been terrified of Flannery OConner since High School but tonite she’s in my sights and I’ll take the plunge.
I have a good amount of books to read this year, some Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, and Flannery o'conner. very much enjoyed paradise lost, any recommendations that are similar to the authors and books mentioned. would much appreciate it. loved your channel this year, I only found it this year, and I was mostly reading non-fiction before, I just turned 19 and some of the books you have recommended really help me cope with my mental health, and there is some great writing. happy new year and sincerely, thank you
My top 5 for this year: 1. Cathedral, Raymond Carver 2. Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate), Samantha Schweblin 3. Heartburn, Nora Ephron 4. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut 5. Bad Girls (Las Malas), Camila Sosa Villada
My Fav: Los llanos by Federico Falco Nombre Falso by Ricardo Piglia El entenado by Juan Jose Saer Los accidententes by Camila Fabbri El rio de las congojas by Libertad demitropoulus
The Shards absolutely floored me, i grew up in LA and his depiction is spot on. Also has me to this moment wons=dering as to who the Trawler really is. Great video, man.
My top 5: 1. Orlando, Virginia Woolf 2. Flowers in the Attic, VC Andrews 3. Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov 4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Marcel Proust 5. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
My top 5 in no particular order: The Electric State - Simon Stalenhag The Beach - Alex Garland Lessons - Ian McEwan The Pit and the pendulum - Edgar Alen Poe The Labyrinth of the Faun - Cornelia Funke / Guillermo del Toro May you have a great (reading) year!!!
-Les particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq -Extension du domaine de la lutte by Michel Houellebecq -Seda by Alessandro Baricco -La possibilité d'une île by Michel Houellebecq I left unread lots of books this year, I hope to come across this comment next year and be mindblown by how much more I've read this year compared to 2023, and most importantly, the quality of my reading. I have big plans. Thanks Sarge for always reviving my love and compromise to reading.
Great to see Rob Doyle's work getting some love! I was at the launch for "Threshold" in Dublin when it came out, was fun to hear Doyle reading from his work! 😄
Great picks Clifford! Mann and Cioran are personal favorites. The Magic Mountain is my favorite novel and I'm sure you will enjoy it as much as I did. It does require some patience to get through its pages but it really rewards you for giving it the attention it needs. I'm eager to know your thoughts about it. Thank you for creating this great platform and happy new year to you and your loved ones!
Greetings from Australia! Loving the videos and recommendations. Nick and Rowland were the same reason I checked out Wise Blood - albeit the movie - but this has motivated me to pick up the novel. Thanks again!
This is my first video of yours and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you. Great job. Subscriber now and am looking forward to your opinion on other books
2023 started off as one of the worst years of my life, and ended being on of the most satisfying as I finally signed a publication deal for my first novel. Once it's out, I would be honoured if you'd be willing to read it sometime in the future.
My favourite books of 2023 : America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots, Jon Fosse Septology, Byung-Chul Han The BurnOut Society et al, Bernardo Kastrup’s books on philosophical idealism, RSS A Bended Circuity and Jung’s Black Books (7 volume journal that became Liber Novus or the Red Book)…..
I guess I had a decent year. My top book of the year was The Power Broker by Robert Caro. I’ve spent most of my free time engaging in hardcore proselytism of that book. Also recommend: This Storm, James Ellroy Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut Shogun, James Clavel The Ghosts of Belfast, Stewart Neville Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson Abbadon’s Gate, James SA Corey Elantris, Brandon Sanderson
5 Miss Lonely Hearts- West 4 Blood of the Virgin-Harkham 3 Submission- Houellebecq 2 Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway 1 Notes From the Underground- Dostoevsky
I read 103 books last year. My faves are Witch Hunt by Syd Moore, Take Your Turn, Teddy by Haley Newlin, Silver Nitrate by Silvia Monreo-Garcia, Holly by Stephen King and Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. You should check some of these out, if you want some dark books.
My top five (not all fiction) 1. Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein 2. Cursed Bunny - Nora Chung 3. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4. Still Born - Guadeloupe Nettel 5. Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore
2023 not a great year for my reading. Think my fav thing read was “The Memory Police,” Yoko Ogawa. Good thing about having such a crappy year is gives you the fuel and fire for the next, or this, one…
I had a great year! New baby boy, and read some good books. Thanks for the recommendations! My favorite 5 books from 2023 were... Blindsight by Peter Watts The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis The Devils Delusion by David Berlinski
First time here and TG!! I have 3 other book channels I watch because they get to the POINT!! I can’t tell how many videos I think might be interesting and all they do is yammer on about themselves for 10 minutes and just throw out book names - pretty sure they don’t actually read them. You are up there with Ben McAvoy, Tristan and (Mark&) Elvis. Thank you. I’ve not read or heard of some of these. 🙏🏻💙✌🏼
I against my better judgment just opened up about my mental health and thank you for reminding me that I'm not alone, we wouldn't have done it if I hadn't slept properly for a week and I just realized you're selling a f****** product!
I had a really good start of a year, but last 2/3 were a mess. My favorite book of the year is tough, cause it was a good year. Between 100 Years of Solitude, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Screwtape Letters, Notes From the Underground, it could have been any and it would be a good year.
Since we're sharing with total strangers and all acting like we care, my 2023 reads: Great: 1. Invitation to a Beheading (V. Nabokov) 2. The Thing In The Snow (S. Adams) 3. Campfires of the Dead and the Living (P. Christopher) 4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (J. Le Carré) 5. Consider This (C. Palahniuk) Good: 6. Fugitives and Refugees (C. Palahniuk) 8. The Shards (B.E. Ellis) 9. Not Forever, But For Now (C. Palahniuk) 10. The Decay of the Angel (Y. Mishima) 11. Zodiac (R. Graysmith) 12. Notes On The Cinematograph (R. Bresson) 13. Make Something Up (C. Palahniuk) 14. Faceless Killers (H. Mankell) 15. Snuff (C. Palahniuk) 16. Rant (C. Palahniuk) 17. Red Lights (G. Simenon) Fine: 18. Touching From a Distance (D. Curtis) 19. The Day of the Locust (N. West) Mid: Ecce Homo (F. Nietzsche) The Fire Next Time (J. Baldwin) Bad: The ABC Murders (A. Christie)
Wise Blood is a book I've owned for almost 20 years, but keep packing in after the first few chapters year in year out. The Magic Mountain is a very rewarding book.
All fantasy books! The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie The Daughter of the Empire: Feist & Janny Wurts Hunger of the Gods by John Gwynne The Blacktongue Thief: Christopher Buehlman Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott Justice of Kings by Richard Swan Guards! Guards! By Terry Prachett
Confederacy of Dunces by Toole is an interesting novel if you like southern literature. Check it out! Walker Percy actually helped publish it (could be wrong)
Hullo the best dark book I've ever read is jerminal by Emile Zola. PS as as tv show the original dark shadows is a long series you might like. If so stick with it you need to full in love with the characters before the vampire barnabis comes in. Happy new year.
My top 5 includes two by Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. I would add Tess of the D’Ubervilles, by Thomas Hardy, and Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov in the Norton Critical Edition. These are all acknowledged classics so perhaps no surprise but in the little known classics department I would add The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesar Pavese in the NYRB classics series. I also read some nice Shakespeare in The War of the Roses series: Henry IV Part 2 and Henry VI Part 2 and saw both of these in live performances so that was great. Tartuffe by Moliere was fantastic as was Major Barbara by Shaw. I include these plays as kind of a second category because it’s hard to compare with the others. Overall it was kind of a disappointing reading year as I didn’t read nearly as much as I had hoped, but better luck this year I suppose.
Great list! 2023, despite being brutal, was my most productive in terms of reading so that has to count for something. My favorites would be: 2666 by Bolano Stella Maris by McCarthy No Country for Old Men by McCarthy Lord of Dark Places by Bennett The Complete HP Lovecraft Wise Blood by O'Conner The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon Paradais by Melchor
@@dbag57agreed! I read it over the summer and it completely knocked the wind out of me. Not a day goes by where I don’t think of it. Easily my favorite of the year, if not, my favorite I’ve ever read.
I also read The Sun Also Rises in 2023 and thoroughly enjoyed it! If I might make a suggestion, please read and review A Time to Love and a Time to Die. It’s by the same author that wrote All Quiet on the Western Front and it was probably my favorite book of 2023. I enjoyed it so much that I listened to the Audiobook after reading it and then came to your page to see if you’ve reviewed it.
Since we're all here to be self indulgent, and in the spirit of the new year. to make it brief. 1) Dark Back of Time- Javier Marias: Still the best, or at least my favorite writer. RIP (1951-2022) Not so much a novel at all, This one's is really more... a meditation? An essay? An inquiry into both the past and the might-have-been? Or perhaps its merely a reaction to an earlier novel and all the people both saw and didn't see themselves in it? Or it about a stray bullet in Mexico and a maybe murder-mystery? Or is it about the dangers of weaving facts thru fiction? Or is it about the great king of a micronation called Redonda? OR!!! Is it just a fun romp and connection to the nature of writing itself, and more importantly the fallout/consequences/endless ripples that ensue when we try and often succeed (Or not) in waxing a good sentence or two through our complex minds. Then again I don't claim to know anything, one way or the other. Just read the book if you can. But read "All Souls" first. 2)The Thousand Autumn's of Jacob De Zoet- David Mitchell: Another one that was long on my list. But OH MY what a novel! I had High expectations given the Authors other works, and I think this one might be my pick for not only his best, but my personal favorite. Put's you right back into another time and place, this one happening to be Late 18th century early 19th century Japan, as well it's European immigrants and exiles. Both a juggernaut in wordsmithing, it manages to juggle bot historically accurate brilliance as well as both suspense and unexpected romance, and glorious personnel and political stakes and violent intrigue. And that's just at the surface level. I cannot recommend this one more. 3) The Fortunate Pilgrim- Mario Puzo: Been meaning to read this one for years, and it did not disappoint. started it around charismas and just finished it before New Years, making it one the fastest' read I've had in years. The story is rather cliche by American literary standards, being about an Italian immigrant family living in New York at the turn of the last century, despite it's architypes is simply one of the engaging literary and yet approachable works of so-called "literary" fiction I've coma across. of all the ones on the list, this is defiantly the most approachable to anyone. 4) The Rum Dairy- Hunter S. Thompson: Consumed the whole thing in a couple of days while on vacation over the summer and due to seeing the movie adaptation years ago, came to be pleasantly surprised by how tonally the same yet plot-wise and prose-wise it is different and yet all simply Hunter S. Thompson. Would make the perfect re-read on another sunny vacation. 5) The Furies- Janet Hobhouse: Sad yet brilliant. Introspective and illuminating. Devastating yet inspiring. This one is really thinly veiled autobiography, and sadly was never completed due the authors premature death from cancer (giving the whole thing a weighty mournful sense throughout) BUT goodness what great prose. What great perspective. Read it when you can. Just be prepared for little plot, and a lot of oh so soothing depression. Runners up: All Souls- Javier Marias Tough Guys Don't Dance- Norman Mailer Killers of the Flower Moon- David Grann Empire- Gore Vidal Sorry to go on. Hope we all read just as many good pages in the coming year!
5 favorites for 2023 The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad The Spider’s House by Paul Bowles Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy A Land So Strange by Andres Resendez Every Man For Himself And God Against All by Werner Herzog
That's a great list. Check out Paul Bowles' "The Sheltering Sky" if you haven't already read it. Bowles is a very underrated and under-appreciated writer.
my top 5 were notes from underground - dostoevsky rebecca - daphne du maurier carrie - stephen king being lolita - alisson wood unlikeable female characters - anna bogutskaya :)
I've read Wise Blood a couple Of times, seen the film twice and watched the Yale lecturer discuss the book. O'Connor is one of my favorite authors. You read her and almost wonder if she's pulling your leg. If I remember correctly, she even wrote a short story where one of the characters stole another character's artificial leg after they had sex in a barn. I could be mistaken but that's how I remember it.
What were the best books you read in 2023? I’d love to know, please comment below!
de-Sent Exupery - Citadelle
Slavko Janevski - Miracle Plays of Terror
PKD - UBIK and Electric Sheep
Andrei Platonov - Chevengur
Norman Mailer - Ancient Evenings
Jose Donoso - The Obscene Bird of The Night; Sheng Keyi - 錦灰 (Polish translation); and works by Adam Bodor, J.L. Borges.
Søren Kierkegaard - The Sickness Unto Death
Jorge Luis Borges - A Universal History of Iniquity
Samuel Beckett - Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable)
Cormac McCarthy - Suttree
Emil Cioran - The Fall Into Time
Great video as always!
The obscene bird of night! That one was bananas! Had been trying to remember that title as I no longer have to book. May need to reread it.@@ewafelcenloben4706
The Emigrants by WG Sebald
Paradise and Beloved both by Toni Morrison
Your thoughts on Wiseblood got me to thinking about the time someone wrote Flannery O'Connor a letter complaining that "your book left a bad taste in my mouth." Flannery wrote back "you weren't supposed to eat it." Love the channel...All the best in 2024.
As a sci-fi / fantasy nerd, I’m glad to hear you liked Dune! My top 5:
1. The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa
2. Moby Dick - Melville
3. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller
4. Blood Meridian - McCarthy
5. Ice - Kavan
The book of disquiet is an amazing book. And real look into a unique and artistic mind. Also one that must have suffered much existentially
That's a strong 5 (though I need to read Pessoa--I am familiar with his reputation).
The Book of Disquiet is my most favourite book. Nice to see it on top.
I also read Blood Meridian this year. Changed my life.
I read Moby Dick last year too and tried to finish Pessoa but I didn't have the mood to do so. Let's try this year!
1 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2 - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
3 - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
4 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
5 - No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
I didn't really read a lot this year unfortunately, probably because I mostly didn't have the time to watch your videos to inspire me (your love for reading is infectuous). But my top 5 this year, in no particular order, were:
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
Here's to hoping I read more than 10 books this year. Also a happy new year to everyone reading this, and may you have a great upcoming year!
Hyperion By Dan Simmons. Wow, excellent choice. It’s literally in my hands as I read it whilst typing.
Excellent taste.
Read 55 books last year, hard to choose a top 5 but here goes.
1. East of Eden (became my all time number 1) John Steinbeck
2. Lightbringer by pierce brown
3. Secret History by tartsy fartsy
4. War an peace by tolstoy
5. Ham On Rye Bukowski
Honor ment. Less than zero by easton ellis
My Top 5 Reads for 2023:
1) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
2) The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
3) The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
4) The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
5) The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Sun also Rises made me get into wine. I loved the scene in the book where they are having a picnic and they place a bottle of wine in the river to make it cold.
Same here! Love the whole sequence of crossing the Pyrenees and fishing before they get to Pamplona.
Cliff, you are without a doubt my favourite RUclipsr. Love every video and I only wish they were longer, just thought I'd share that with you
My 5 favorite books in 2023:
5. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne
4. Hell House, by Richard Matheson
3. Mindhunter, by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
2. The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma, by Lima Barreto
1. The Hobbit, by Tolkein
Pelos nome e os livros já percebi que era brasileiro, ou no mínimo fala português. Segue o canal do professor Guilherme Freire?
@@mateusribeiro5871 Sou brasileiro sim. E sim, sigo o canal dele. Comecei a segui-lo por causa das análises de Tolkein.
My list:
Emil Cioran - The Trouble With Being Born
Thomas Ligotti - The Conspiracy Against The Human Race
Frank Herbert - Dune
Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
Clive Barker - The Hellbound Heart
I recommend Buddenbrooks as well as The Magic Mountain
Great list, excellent rundown. I agree with you 100% on Flannery O'Connor. Also want to commend you for sticking with literature that truly moves you, rather than following trends and fads. Good job. Cioran and Doyle I have not yet read, but look forward to doing so.
Your channel has helped me find stuff that actually interesses and captivates me in reading which has been quite hard for me to do for most of my life up until this point(I'm only a 21 art student) so I'm very thankfull and the only book I've read completly this year was Story Of Eye and it left a very profound mark on me so thank you a lot for opening the doors to a world full of so much interesting and profound art that is reading!! Hopefully by next year I'll have a top five of books I've read because I've only managed short story's for now. Thank you for your content its really good and quite humanely profound!!
1. Stoner by John Williams
2. Monkey King by Wu Cheng'en (new translation)
3. Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
4. The Passenger and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
5. The Vorrh by B. Catling
Monkey, Goulds Book of Fish and The Vorrh i'd classify as 'fun' books. crazy as it gets
Hoping to read Wise Blood this year, now that I’ve read all of her short stories.
My top 5 of 2023:
1. Moby Dick
2. To The Lighthouse
3. Go Down Moses
4. Light in August (sort of tied with 3)
5. Disgrace
Another great list of year end as always. I want to get to Faulkner and O'Connor this year myself. My top five are as follows:
5. Time Out of Joint- Philip K Dick
4. Arabesques- Anton Shammas
3. The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas- Rick Harsch
2. In Transit- Brigid Brophy
1. Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
thanks for all the great recommendations this year
You’re not kidding about 2023, man. Wow.
Wise Blood is one of my all-time favorites, and I discovered Nathaniel West and maybe Mishima thanks to your recommendation, so thank you.
My top five from the past year, in no particular order:
Les Mis, Hugo
Paradise Lost, Milton
Shadow & Claw, Wolfe (speaking of sci-fi for people who don’t read sci-fi)
Far From the Madding Crowd, Hardy
War & Peace, Tolstoy
Les Miserables is sooo good ❤️ I read it in 2022 and I still think about the characters and the story
I always look forward to your yearly reviews!! Also, 2023 was not much of a good year for me. But your recommendations were pretty comforting!❤️
5. Kristina Glaffey: Mom and Busser
4. Juni Ito: No Longer Human
3. Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
2. Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
1. Johannes Jensen: The Fall of the King
west coast canuck here. I've been gravitating to southern lit as well. there's a magic about it that I can't get elsewhere. just read As I Lay Dying and it floored me.
Great book. Faulkner.
O conners " a good man . . " Incredible mindfuck. I have always feared reading southern writers, (lol) now I know why. consider picking up the magazine of southern writing called "The Oxford American" they put out a music issue.
I’d just like to say I appreciate your channel immensely. It’s so incredibly nice to just hear someone actually speak (as opposed to reading reviews) about some of my favorite authors like Houllebecq, Cortazar, Jünger, Bolaño etc. with such enthusiasm and insight
I used to live in Chicago but I can’t blame my present more rural location on a lack of literary conversation as the bike messenger crowd I was a part of werent necessarily eagerly wanting to dive into Mishima.
Anyways, just thanks man. I know there’s plenty of people online, but to hear and see another person talking about these books is a quality I haven’t experienced since skipping class in HS to read Kafka and blast cigs at the downtown cafe (even then I’m pretty sure I was the only one actually reading the shit).
this video is my personal holiday year in year out!!! and my top read this year was probably ingeborg bachmann's malina (idk about the english but the polish translation overtakes lives - i've seen it happen, i've lived it)
In no particular order:
- Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
- Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)
- The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
- Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
- Fruits Basket (Natsuki Takaya)
- Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
- Zorro (Isabel Allende)
We both read Death in Venice this year. Fantastic novella
Wise Blood and A Childhood are both incredibly powerful and superbly written. Thanks, Cliff. Happy reading in '24! My favorites were Solenoid and Germinal.
Dune 1 & 2 ,
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Notes from the Underground - Dostoevsky
A Life Without End - Frederick Beigbeder
I had a great year, and have thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos with my wife. Thanks for the laughs. Happy New Year.
My top 5 of 2023:
The Gospel Singer - Harry Crews
Ninth Building - Zou Jingzhi
Go down, Moses - William Faulkner
Last exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr.
Whale - Cheon Myeong-kwan
New to the channel but absolutely in love with the short and crisp reviews.
I love the film "Suddenly Last Summer" but have never read the play. I do love "A Streetcar Named Desire". Flannery O'Connor is one of my favorite short story writers. For some reason, I could not get into her novels but I should give them another try.
A Good Man is Hard to Find! 😮
I highly recommend you giving Dune: Messiah a read. It's short, and more of an epilogue to Dune than a sequel that completes the arcs and deepens the themes of the first book.
Top five books I read this year:
1. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
3. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (thanks for the recommendation)
4. The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
5. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Suttree is McCarthy's best.
2:12 - can confirm, I powered through second and third books but that was it for me.
Highly recommend Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass to you I think it's just your cup of tea!
My favourite of this year:
- Story of eye
- Fictions (especially first story, wooow)
- A cool million - highly recommend it, wrote by Nathanael West, I know you like him Cliff,
- Wait unitl the evening by Hal Bennett
And my favourite - Waiting for Godot. Mindblowing for me.
My top 3:
- A Heart So White by Javier Marías
- Age of Iron by JM Coetzee
- His Name Was Death by Rafael Bernal
Cool to see that some contemporary Spanish literature leaks out of our country. He's probably the best author that we've had in the last years. You should check out Delibes.
Thanks for getting me to read more. 1. The Immortal Game, David Shenk 2. Pessoa, Richard Zenith 3. The warmth of other suns, Wilkerson 4. The Peregrine(off your review)5. Death in the afternoon(perhaps your best review)
My winter read suggestion: Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez. In NYC, Up in the old hotel by Joseph Mitchell. In the SouthWest, Dessert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. This summer, Summer 1927 Bill Bryson Thanks
Happy New Year! Thank for the video and the inspiration to read great books.
My favorites:
Mario and the magician, Thomas Mann
Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy
White noise, Don Delillo
Heldenplatz, Thomas Bernhard
Time of the magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger
A girl is lost in her century looking for her father, Goncalo M. Tavares
Interesting, I've seen a lot of hatred and love for Freud lately. I also really need to read Wise Blood! Weyes Blood is great too!
I’m adding a lot of books to my TBR pile from your list as well as the comments, thank you!
My favourites of 2023:
Study for obedience- Sarah Bernstein
Trust - Hernan Diaz
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
L’Autre Fille - Annie Ernaux
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Kartonnen Dozen - Tom Lannoye
I read Dune and agree reading the first book is fine. I watched Suddenly, Last Summer, but haven't read the book. I have to make a note to read Tennessee Williams because I like him as a playwright. August Wilson is my favorite playwright, love his dialogue.
Your reviews are as tight and as tense as the authors you read. Spellbound I am after one of your videos and I have to look up the author and sneak up on the book because now I’m frightened of it. Wiseblood is what I’m referring here & Flannery OConner but they’re not the only ones. Anyway, thanks for being so good at what you do - your reviews drive me to sneak up on even more literature and then read it cold and raw. I’ve been terrified of Flannery OConner since High School but tonite she’s in my sights and I’ll take the plunge.
I have a good amount of books to read this year, some Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, and Flannery o'conner.
very much enjoyed paradise lost, any recommendations that are similar to the authors and books mentioned.
would much appreciate it.
loved your channel this year, I only found it this year, and I was mostly reading non-fiction before, I just turned 19 and some of the books you have recommended really help me cope with my mental health, and there is some great writing.
happy new year and sincerely, thank you
Happy New Year, Cliff. May all of your 2024 reads be riveting ones.
My top 5 for this year:
1. Cathedral, Raymond Carver
2. Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate), Samantha Schweblin
3. Heartburn, Nora Ephron
4. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
5. Bad Girls (Las Malas), Camila Sosa Villada
My Fav:
Los llanos by Federico Falco
Nombre Falso by Ricardo Piglia
El entenado by Juan Jose Saer
Los accidententes by Camila Fabbri
El rio de las congojas by Libertad demitropoulus
The Shards absolutely floored me, i grew up in LA and his depiction is spot on. Also has me to this moment wons=dering as to who the Trawler really is. Great video, man.
My top 5:
1. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
2. Flowers in the Attic, VC Andrews
3. Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Marcel Proust
5. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Feminist list.
My top 5 in no particular order:
The Electric State - Simon Stalenhag
The Beach - Alex Garland
Lessons - Ian McEwan
The Pit and the pendulum - Edgar Alen Poe
The Labyrinth of the Faun - Cornelia Funke / Guillermo del Toro
May you have a great (reading) year!!!
-Les particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq
-Extension du domaine de la lutte by Michel Houellebecq
-Seda by Alessandro Baricco
-La possibilité d'une île by Michel Houellebecq
I left unread lots of books this year, I hope to come across this comment next year and be mindblown by how much more I've read this year compared to 2023, and most importantly, the quality of my reading. I have big plans. Thanks Sarge for always reviving my love and compromise to reading.
Fantastic wrap-up video. This is the first of yours that I have watched. Looking forward to digging into your channel.
Great to see Rob Doyle's work getting some love! I was at the launch for "Threshold" in Dublin when it came out, was fun to hear Doyle reading from his work! 😄
Great picks Clifford!
Mann and Cioran are personal favorites.
The Magic Mountain is my favorite novel and I'm sure you will enjoy it as much as I did. It does require some patience to get through its pages but it really rewards you for giving it the attention it needs.
I'm eager to know your thoughts about it.
Thank you for creating this great platform and happy new year to you and your loved ones!
Greetings from Australia! Loving the videos and recommendations. Nick and Rowland were the same reason I checked out Wise Blood - albeit the movie - but this has motivated me to pick up the novel. Thanks again!
1. Michael Kohlhaas by Henrich von Heist
2. Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott
3. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
4. Civilization and It's Discontents by Freud
5. World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
This is my first video of yours and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you. Great job. Subscriber now and am looking forward to your opinion on other books
Welcome aboard! Thank you very much.
2023 started off as one of the worst years of my life, and ended being on of the most satisfying as I finally signed a publication deal for my first novel. Once it's out, I would be honoured if you'd be willing to read it sometime in the future.
Thanks for the many great recs Cliff. Looking forward to more great books in 2024. 🎉
My favourite books of 2023 : America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots, Jon Fosse Septology, Byung-Chul Han The BurnOut Society et al, Bernardo Kastrup’s books on philosophical idealism, RSS A Bended Circuity and Jung’s Black Books (7 volume journal that became Liber Novus or the Red Book)…..
Have only read short stories by Ms. O’Connor, but I have long admired her writing. Will definitely check out Wise Blood asap.
I guess I had a decent year. My top book of the year was The Power Broker by Robert Caro. I’ve spent most of my free time engaging in hardcore proselytism of that book.
Also recommend:
This Storm, James Ellroy
Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
Shogun, James Clavel
The Ghosts of Belfast, Stewart Neville
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
Abbadon’s Gate, James SA Corey
Elantris, Brandon Sanderson
5 Miss Lonely Hearts- West
4 Blood of the Virgin-Harkham
3 Submission- Houellebecq
2 Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway
1 Notes From the
Underground- Dostoevsky
That’s a fine list indeed.
Submission is _outstanding_
I will definitely check out Wiseblood, thanks.
Is that 'O Lost' by Thomas Wolfe on your shelf, Cliff?
I read 103 books last year. My faves are Witch Hunt by Syd Moore, Take Your Turn, Teddy by Haley Newlin, Silver Nitrate by Silvia Monreo-Garcia, Holly by Stephen King and Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. You should check some of these out, if you want some dark books.
Check out Charles Willeford.
My top five (not all fiction)
1. Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein
2. Cursed Bunny - Nora Chung
3. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. Still Born - Guadeloupe Nettel
5. Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Bless you for still makin these. Love lists 🤘🏽👿
2023 not a great year for my reading. Think my fav thing read was “The Memory Police,” Yoko Ogawa. Good thing about having such a crappy year is gives you the fuel and fire for the next, or this, one…
Highly recommend mountainhead by new juche and call me burroughs by barry miles to everyone here.
I had a great year! New baby boy, and read some good books. Thanks for the recommendations! My favorite 5 books from 2023 were...
Blindsight by Peter Watts
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
The Devils Delusion by David Berlinski
Sweet! I actually was just gifted a copy of Wise Blood for Christmas. Here's hoping I love it too! :D
Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like Hazel Motes.
First time here and TG!! I have 3 other book channels I watch because they get to the POINT!! I can’t tell how many videos I think might be interesting and all they do is yammer on about themselves for 10 minutes and just throw out book names - pretty sure they don’t actually read them.
You are up there with Ben McAvoy, Tristan and (Mark&) Elvis.
Thank you. I’ve not read or heard of some of these. 🙏🏻💙✌🏼
My top 5 this year:
Mating, Norman Rush
Desperate characters, Paula Fox
Biography of X, Catherine Lacey
Light years, James Salter
Ice, Anna Kavan
I against my better judgment just opened up about my mental health and thank you for reminding me that I'm not alone, we wouldn't have done it if I hadn't slept properly for a week and I just realized you're selling a f****** product!
I had a really good start of a year, but last 2/3 were a mess. My favorite book of the year is tough, cause it was a good year. Between 100 Years of Solitude, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Screwtape Letters, Notes From the Underground, it could have been any and it would be a good year.
That's quite a five books to try to choose best from!
Since we're sharing with total strangers and all acting like we care, my 2023 reads:
Great:
1. Invitation to a Beheading (V. Nabokov)
2. The Thing In The Snow (S. Adams)
3. Campfires of the Dead and the Living (P. Christopher)
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (J. Le Carré)
5. Consider This (C. Palahniuk)
Good:
6. Fugitives and Refugees (C. Palahniuk)
8. The Shards (B.E. Ellis)
9. Not Forever, But For Now (C. Palahniuk)
10. The Decay of the Angel (Y. Mishima)
11. Zodiac (R. Graysmith)
12. Notes On The Cinematograph (R. Bresson)
13. Make Something Up (C. Palahniuk)
14. Faceless Killers (H. Mankell)
15. Snuff (C. Palahniuk)
16. Rant (C. Palahniuk)
17. Red Lights (G. Simenon)
Fine:
18. Touching From a Distance (D. Curtis)
19. The Day of the Locust (N. West)
Mid:
Ecce Homo (F. Nietzsche)
The Fire Next Time (J. Baldwin)
Bad:
The ABC Murders (A. Christie)
Wise Blood is a book I've owned for almost 20 years, but keep packing in after the first few chapters year in year out.
The Magic Mountain is a very rewarding book.
That's wild. I blazed through it pretty quickly. I preferred her last novel more though, "The Violent Bear It Away".
Now seems like a good time to finally read OConnor. She has been on my list for so long but just haven’t read her yet. Thanks for the review Cliff.
My top read was Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
All fantasy books!
The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie
The Daughter of the Empire: Feist & Janny Wurts
Hunger of the Gods by John Gwynne
The Blacktongue Thief: Christopher Buehlman
Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott
Justice of Kings by Richard Swan
Guards! Guards! By Terry Prachett
Confederacy of Dunces by Toole is an interesting novel if you like southern literature. Check it out! Walker Percy actually helped publish it (could be wrong)
Woahhh! Been following you for a bit on Instagram. I live in Tampa too! Happy new year and thank you for the review 🎉
Hullo the best dark book I've ever read is jerminal by Emile Zola. PS as as tv show the original dark shadows is a long series you might like. If so stick with it you need to full in love with the characters before the vampire barnabis comes in. Happy new year.
Happy New Year ❤thank you for the review
Getting really interested in Threshold by Rob Doyle
Love your channel! You should definitely read and review new Houelbeque book "Annihilate"
My top 5 includes two by Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. I would add Tess of the D’Ubervilles, by Thomas Hardy, and Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov in the Norton Critical Edition. These are all acknowledged classics so perhaps no surprise but in the little known classics department I would add The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesar Pavese in the NYRB classics series. I also read some nice Shakespeare in The War of the Roses series: Henry IV Part 2 and Henry VI Part
2 and saw both of these in live performances so that was great. Tartuffe by Moliere was fantastic as was Major Barbara by Shaw. I include these plays as kind of a second category because it’s hard to compare with the others. Overall it was kind of a disappointing reading year as I didn’t read nearly as much as I had hoped, but better luck this year I suppose.
Good list. I read a lot.
the best was "Cachorro velho" from a Cuban writer.. amazing.
Great list! 2023, despite being brutal, was my most productive in terms of reading so that has to count for something. My favorites would be:
2666 by Bolano
Stella Maris by McCarthy
No Country for Old Men by McCarthy
Lord of Dark Places by Bennett
The Complete HP Lovecraft
Wise Blood by O'Conner
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon
Paradais by Melchor
2666 just blew me away..I'm still thinking about it 2 months on..just unlike anything else I have ever read
@@dbag57agreed! I read it over the summer and it completely knocked the wind out of me. Not a day goes by where I don’t think of it. Easily my favorite of the year, if not, my favorite I’ve ever read.
I also read The Sun Also Rises in 2023 and thoroughly enjoyed it! If I might make a suggestion, please read and review A Time to Love and a Time to Die. It’s by the same author that wrote All Quiet on the Western Front and it was probably my favorite book of 2023. I enjoyed it so much that I listened to the Audiobook after reading it and then came to your page to see if you’ve reviewed it.
Try Hemingway's short stories. Kilimanjaro! Macomber!
Since we're all here to be self indulgent, and in the spirit of the new year. to make it brief.
1) Dark Back of Time- Javier Marias: Still the best, or at least my favorite writer. RIP (1951-2022) Not so much a novel at all, This one's is really more... a meditation? An essay? An inquiry into both the past and the might-have-been? Or perhaps its merely a reaction to an earlier novel and all the people both saw and didn't see themselves in it? Or it about a stray bullet in Mexico and a maybe murder-mystery? Or is it about the dangers of weaving facts thru fiction? Or is it about the great king of a micronation called Redonda? OR!!! Is it just a fun romp and connection to the nature of writing itself, and more importantly the fallout/consequences/endless ripples that ensue when we try and often succeed (Or not) in waxing a good sentence or two through our complex minds. Then again I don't claim to know anything, one way or the other. Just read the book if you can. But read "All Souls" first.
2)The Thousand Autumn's of Jacob De Zoet- David Mitchell: Another one that was long on my list. But OH MY what a novel! I had High expectations given the Authors other works, and I think this one might be my pick for not only his best, but my personal favorite. Put's you right back into another time and place, this one happening to be Late 18th century early 19th century Japan, as well it's European immigrants and exiles. Both a juggernaut in wordsmithing, it manages to juggle bot historically accurate brilliance as well as both suspense and unexpected romance, and glorious personnel and political stakes and violent intrigue. And that's just at the surface level. I cannot recommend this one more.
3) The Fortunate Pilgrim- Mario Puzo: Been meaning to read this one for years, and it did not disappoint. started it around charismas and just finished it before New Years, making it one the fastest' read I've had in years. The story is rather cliche by American literary standards, being about an Italian immigrant family living in New York at the turn of the last century, despite it's architypes is simply one of the engaging literary and yet approachable works of so-called "literary" fiction I've coma across. of all the ones on the list, this is defiantly the most approachable to anyone.
4) The Rum Dairy- Hunter S. Thompson: Consumed the whole thing in a couple of days while on vacation over the summer and due to seeing the movie adaptation years ago, came to be pleasantly surprised by how tonally the same yet plot-wise and prose-wise it is different and yet all simply Hunter S. Thompson. Would make the perfect re-read on another sunny vacation.
5) The Furies- Janet Hobhouse: Sad yet brilliant. Introspective and illuminating. Devastating yet inspiring. This one is really thinly veiled autobiography, and sadly was never completed due the authors premature death from cancer (giving the whole thing a weighty mournful sense throughout) BUT goodness what great prose. What great perspective. Read it when you can. Just be prepared for little plot, and a lot of oh so soothing depression.
Runners up:
All Souls- Javier Marias
Tough Guys Don't Dance- Norman Mailer
Killers of the Flower Moon- David Grann
Empire- Gore Vidal
Sorry to go on. Hope we all read just as many good pages in the coming year!
I was waiting for this! 🎉
5 favorites for 2023
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Spider’s House by Paul Bowles
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
A Land So Strange by Andres Resendez
Every Man For Himself And God Against All by Werner Herzog
That's a great list. Check out Paul Bowles' "The Sheltering Sky" if you haven't already read it. Bowles is a very underrated and under-appreciated writer.
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I have read The Sheltering Sky and Let It Come Down. Mr. Bowles is definitely underrated.
I read all Dune novels by Frank Herbert and I liked them all but one can also consider Dune as a single novel separate from its continuation
The Magic Mountain is well worth the hours, a masterpiece.
Awesome I’m reading it now, about a hundred pages in. I’m enjoying it right now but am wondering if it will be worth it. So far it’s very funny
I read it last summer after avoiding it for years, but I loved it too. Like the other commenter, I was surprised how funny it was.
Absolutely, one of the ten greatest novels I've ever read.@@aggonzalez8096
my top 5 were
notes from underground - dostoevsky
rebecca - daphne du maurier
carrie - stephen king
being lolita - alisson wood
unlikeable female characters - anna bogutskaya
:)
For # 6 check out Morvern Callar by Alan Warner.
@@experiongallup sounds like exactly my kind of thing lol thanks! i'll definitely read it
I've read Wise Blood a couple Of times, seen the film twice and watched the Yale lecturer discuss the book. O'Connor is one of my favorite authors. You read her and almost wonder if she's pulling your leg. If I remember correctly, she even wrote a short story where one of the characters stole another character's artificial leg after they had sex in a barn. I could be mistaken but that's how I remember it.
It’s in ‘a good man is hard to find’
@@lcee4251 No, it's a novel.