brian's book corner

[brian d]

copied over from our last house:

some favorite (and recommended) novels:

the book of chameleons (josé eduardo agualusa)
mulata (miguel ángel asturias)
malina (ingeborg bachmann)
return to región (juan benet)
night without day (marie billetdoux)
two serious ladies (jane bowles)
the sheltering sky (paul bowles)
the death of virgil (hermann broch)
the century of lights/explosion in a cathedral (alejo carpentier)
balún canán/the nine guardians (rosario castellanos)
senselessness (horacio castellanos moya)
l’amant anglaise (marguerite duras)
far from the madding crowd (thomas hardy)
the blithedale romance (nathaniel hawthorne)
jr (william gaddis)
omensetter’s luck (william h. gass)
signs of identity (juan goytisolo)
the tiger (flavio herrera)
a high wind in jamaica (richard hughes)
broken april (ismael kadare)
kassandra and the wolf (margarita karapanou)
near to the wild heart (clarice lispector)
doctor faustus (thomas mann)
gold in the mud (szigmond móricz)
ada or ardor (vladimir nabokov)
aurelia (gèrard de nerval)
finisterra (carlos de oliveira)
the novels of urbano and simona (ramón pérez de ayala)
gargantua and pantagruel (françois rabelais)
season of migration to the north (tayeb salih)
memories of the convent/balthasar and blimunda (josé saramago)
the planetarium (nathalie sarraute)
the red and the black (stendhal)
tristram shandy (laurence sterne)
gemini (michel tournier)
jakob von gunten (robert walser)
brideshead revisited (evelyn waugh)
the serf (josef winkler)
the waves (virginia woolf)
the trumpets of jericho (unica zürn)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2013:

paris peasant (louis aragon)
ciudad real [city of kings] (rosario castellanos)
dilemma and other stories (vijayadan detha)
l'amant anglaise (marguerite duras)
the paper guest (benjamín jarnés)
broken april (ismail kadare)
a river called titash (adwaita mallabarman)
finisterra (carlos de oliveira)
the planetarium (nathalie sarraute)
gemini (michel tournier)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2014:

let us now praise famous men (william agee)
the assemblywomen (aristophanes)
intruder in the dust (william faulkner)
the legs of izolda morgan (bruno jasieński)
the novels of urbana and simona (ramón pérez de ayala)
the red and the black (stendhal)
tristram shandy (laurence sterne)
the assistant (robert walser)
when the time comes (josef winkler)
orlando (virginia woolf)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2015:

malina (ingeborg bachmann)
the death of virgil (hermann broch)
the poems of alberto caeiro (alberto caeiro/fernando pessoa)
field of flowers (joão de deus)
a high wind in jamaica (richard hughes)
kassandra and the wolf (margarita karapanou)
gold in the mud (zsigmond móricz)
john the valiant (sándor petöfi)
the waves (virginia woolf)
native son (richard wright)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2016:

the poet assassinated (guillaume apollinaire)
two serious ladies (jane bowles)
king cophetua (julien gracq)
the city and the mountains (eça de queirós)
the thief of talant (pierre reverdy)
memorial of the convent [balthasar and blimunda] (josé saramago)
pericles (william shakespeare)
marketa lazarova (vladizlav vančura)
brideshead revisited (evelyn waugh)
the serf (josef winkler)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2017:

our mutual friend (charles dickens)
the mill on the floss (george eliot)
sanctuary (william faulkner)
a laodicean (thomas hardy)
passing (nella larsen)
near to the wild heart (clarice lispector)
the bell (iris murdoch)
gormenghast (mervyn peake)
good morning midnight (jean rhys)
the vortex (josé eustacio rivera)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2018:

the penelopiad (margaret atwood)
the tartar steppe (dino buzzati)
the radiance of the king (camara laye)
the french lieutenant's woman (john fowles)
caught (henry green)
the chandelier (clarice lispector)
the south (adelaida garcía morales)
one, no one, and one hundred thousand (luigi pirandello)
shadows of sleep (miguel de unamuno)
flower of sanctity (ramón del valle-inclán)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2019:

the trail of the serpent (mary elizabeth braddon)
sartor resartus (thomas carlyle)
beuvard and pécuchet (gustave flaubert)
state of siege (juan goytisolo)
the criticón (baltasar gracián)
hangsaman (shirley jackson)
the besieged city (clarice lispector)
the nine cloud dream (kim man-jung)
pierre, or the ambiguities (herman melville)
lolly willowes (sylvia townsend warner)

[rischka]

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[brian d]

all of them?

[rischka]

lol no only 2. i'll need to buy another bookcase soon

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2020:

the sot-weed factor (john barth)
the four zoas (william blake)
black thunder (arna bontemps)
the anatomy of melancholy (robert burton)
the bird's nest (shirley jackson)
a cabinetmaker's notebook (james krenov)
the apple in the dark (clarice lispector)
outlines of pyrrhonism (sextus empiricus)
the little demon (fyodor sologub)
new science (giambattista vico)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2021:

a journal of the plague year (daniel defoe)
the souls of black folk (w.e.b. dubois)
don't look now [and other stories, nyrb edition] (daphne du maurier)
the man within (graham greene)
apprenticeship, or the book of pleasures (clarice lispector)
the anarchist's workbench (christopher schwarz)
the girls of slender means (muriel spark)
the man who lived underground (richard wright)
cyropaedia (xenophon)
on the silver globe (jerzy zuławski)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2022:

troubles (jg farrell)
renaissance polyphony (fabrice fitch)
a gun for sale (graham greene)
the word for world is forest (ursula k le guin)
sultana's dream (rokeya sakhawat hossain)
the narrative of arthur gordon pym of nantucket (edgar allan poe)
what is property? (pierre-joseph proudhon)
the third book of pantagruel (françois rabelais)
the comic romance (paul scarron)
against physicists (sextus empiricus)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2023:

the conference of the birds (attar of nishapur)
caleb williams (william godwin)
mutual aid (peter kropotkin)
the dispossessed (ursula k le guin)
his master's voice (stanisław lem)
las catilinarias (juan montalvo)
lapvona (otessa moshfegh)
the color line (igiaba scego)
the bridge in the jungle (b traven)
the outsider (richard wright)

[brian d]

the ten best books i read in 2024 (will update as the year goes on):

ghost town (robert coover)
an enquiry concerning political justice (william godwin)