Posted by Steven
on 19/10/2009, 13:21:22, in reply to "Nominations for 2010"
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
100th anniversary, and it sounds like a book that would generate discussion
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
From Bloom's Western Canon a science fiction novel by an author who writes outside the genre as well
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
one of many acclaimed novels by an author I haven't read yet
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
interested me the most of the works by the Chilean authors we haven't read
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot
intruguing description, elements of both Don Quixote and Tristam Shandy
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
another author I've been wanting to read; this book is on many "best" lists
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
a psychological study with an unreliable narrator should make for interesting discussion
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
Classics for Pleasure raved about this author; this particular title is said to be full of literary references that should be fun to discuss
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25th anniversary and a major author we've never read together
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
because it's a World Cup year, of course
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