ms. j's recommends

  • (Bulgakov, Mikhail) The Master and Margarita
  • 1. (Walser, Robert) Jakob von Gunten
  • 2. (Kafka, Franz) Metamorphosis
  • 3. (Ajvaz, Michal) The Other City
  • (Calvino, Italo) Invisible Cities
  • (Wallace, David Foster)
  • (Matthew, Harry) My Life in the CIA
  • (McCarthy, Cormac)

classics

  • (Tolstoy, Leo) Anna Karenina
  • (Melville, Herman) Moby Dick
  • (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor) The Brothers Karamazov
  • (Fitzgerald, F. Scott) This Side of Paradise
  • (Fitzgerald, F. Scott) The Great Gatsby
  • (Ellison, Ralph) Invisible Man
  • (Austen, Jane) Pride and Prejudice
  • (Hugo, Victor) Les Misérables
  • (Nabokov, Vladimir) Lolita

novels

  • (Chabon, Michael) Telegraph Avenue * *
  • (Krauss, Nicole) The History of Love
  • (Foer, Jonathan Safran) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • (Mitchell, David) Cloud Atlas
  • (Mitchell, David) Black Swan Green
  • (Lewis, Sinclair) Babbitt
  • (Pynchon, Thomas) The Crying of Lot 49
  • (Morrison, Toni) Song of Solomon
  • (Marquez, Gabriel Garcia) Love in the Time of Cholera
  • (Suskind, Patrick) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

short stories

  • (Hemingway, Ernest) "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

non-fiction

  • (Capote, Truman) In Cold Blood

auto/biographies

  • (Redniss, Lauren) Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

letters

  • (Spanier, Sandra & Trogdon, Robert W.) The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922
  • (Neumeyer, Peter F.) Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
  • (Steinbeck, Elaine & Wallsten, Robert) Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
jan 17 2012 ∞
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