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Ubik by Philip K. Dick
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In Praise of Confusion: a Discussion with Quentin
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A Month of Sundays by John Updike
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Ballads & Lyrics of Francois Villon 🇫🇷
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Some Trees by John Ashbery
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A Litmus Test to DNF: Value Above Replacement Reading
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Hear the Wind Sing by Murakami Haruki 🇯🇵
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Saga of the Greenlanders 🇮🇸 🇬🇱 Sagalong 2025
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James by Percival Everett (2024 National Book Award)
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The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
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The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
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Sagalong 2025 Announcement: the Vinland Sagas
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Library Memories: a Book that Cast a Long Shadow in College
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Favorite Nonfiction Reading from 2024!
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Favorite Fiction & Poetry Read in 2024
22:39
Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger
13:30
Memory of Fire: Century of the Wind by Eduardo Galeano 🇺🇾
17:21
The Books That Came in From the Cold: a Classified TBR of Spy Fiction
38:30
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
16:19
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo 🇲🇽 Haunting Surrealism
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Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö 🇸🇪(Martin Beck 1), Best Police Procedural Series?
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Burning Grass by Cyprian Ekwensi 🇳🇬
28:56
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 📯📬
16:31
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Why Do We Value This Work?)
19:03
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin (Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper)
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The New Roman Empire: a History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis
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Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark Haber
15:37
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin 🇹🇼 🐊
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July Marginalia (Stories, Essays, Poems, Books)
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Reflections on Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books
25:04
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace, Failures of Language (and Excess)
27:39
The Last Time The NY Times Told Me What Books to Read!
20:51
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Impressionism & Woolf’s Artistic Statement)
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Library Memories: My First Disappointing Read (Age 8)
25:34
Norwegian Wood by Murakami Haruki 🇯🇵
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Patrimony by Philip Roth
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Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert
21:38
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber (Bernhardesque Satire)
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Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (Space Opera & Syntax)
30:53
Confessions of St. Augustine of Hippo (Memory, Time, and Perception)
22:10
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (an Epitaph for the Jazz Age)
36:53
25 More Contenders for the “Great American Novel”
18:51
Master & Commander by Patrick O’Brian
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The Blue Octavo Notebooks by Franz Kafka 🇨🇿 Aphorisms, Parables, Microfiction, and Fragments
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Larva ♾️ Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julián Ríos 🇪🇸 Joyce’s Successor: Coherent Excess and Chaos
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Favorite Fiction Reading in 2023!
09:55
The Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar 🇹🇲
22:31
My Desert Cave of Books Lost to Time
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Dark Academia and Greek Philosophy)
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Śatakatraya by Bhartrihari 🇮🇳 (Sanskrit Poetry on Wisdom & Love)
17:40
Erasure by Percival Everett (adapted as American Fiction)
16:31
The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton (Borges, Heisenberg, Kant: the Ultimate Nature of Reality)
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Sweet Undoings by Yanick Lahens 🇭🇹 (Polyphonic Portrait of Haiti)
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We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets 🇳🇱 (Kafkaesque Social Media)
19:43
The Other Name by Jon Fosse 🇳🇴 Septology I-II
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Sardonicus by Ray Russell (Gothic Horror)
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The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein (cosmic horror)
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The Melancholy of Resistance by Krasznahorkai László 🇭🇺 (Exploration of Chaos)
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Mexico Set by Len Deighton 🇬🇧 🔪 🍏 🐝