Lee Klein
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Gateway Books
Peter Pan. Where the Wild Things Are. The Big Book of Jokes and Riddles
Black Stallion series. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. Gary Gygax (D&D)
Judy Blume’s Forever
Narnia/LOTRs (competitively read)
Sherlock Holmes
The Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Count of Monte Cristo
Gatsby, Prufrock, The Wasteland
Borges (in Spanish)
Crime and Punishment (2x)
Narcissus and Goldmund
Steppenwolf, Demian, Siddhartha, Journey to the East
Kafka stories
Kerouac (Subterraneans, Dharma Bums, Big Sur)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, The Doors of Perception, Island
Another Roadside Attraction and Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Deadeye Dick)
The Crying of Lot 49
Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Stories by Terry Southern
The Beat Reader – Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg >> Blake
Beloved
Light in August
See Under: Love (Grossman -> Bruno Schulz)
Maus (graphic novels, Raw vols 1 and 2, Richard McGuire, Here)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog/Adventures in the Skin Trade (Dylan Thomas)
The Tin Drum, A Personal Matter, The Box Man, Carver, Steinbeck short novels, Hamsun (Hunger), Cheever stories, Auster, Beckett, Kafka, Handke, Artaud, Barthelme, Maupassant, Chekhov, TC Boyle, Philip Roth, Sontag essays, Ulysses, Moby Dick
DFW essays, Mark Leyner, DeLillo, Moody, The Recognitions, George Saunders, Pnin, The Last Samurai, Bernhard, Sebald, Gogol stories, Salinger stories, Geoff Dyer, Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)
War and Peace, Proust, Musil, Mann, Hamsun
Bolano (Between Parentheses)
Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, Houellebecq, Enard, Gracq, Perec, Zweig, Grace Paley, Hrabal, Aira, The Waves
Currently reading
Ute Av Verden, Knausgaard (in Norsk) Reader’s Block, Markson
Henri Cartier-Bresson interviews Ubik, Philip K. Dick Looking forward to Middlemarch, Trollope The Wolves of Eternity, KOK MJ Nicholls stories Steinbeck (shorter novels) The rest of Hrabal in English (four books) Cormac McCarthy (his first four books) BTZ-inspired purchases: Monument Maker (David Keenan), The Salt Line (Shimoni), The Logos (Mark de Silva), Traveler of the Century and How to Travel Without Seeing (Andreas Neuman), The Kindly Ones (Littel), Too Much Life (Lispecter), Kafka Diaries
Recently read All of Us Together in the End, Matthew Vollmer Bang Bang Crash, Nic Brown All Dag Solstad in English (Novel 11, Book 18) All Tomas Espedal in English (Love, Tramp) I Served the King of England, Hrabal The Belan Deck, Matt Bucher
Annie Ernaux (Happening, A Man’s Place, I Remain in Darkness) Philip Roth (Zuckerman Unbound, Patrimony, The Facts, The Counterlife) The Magus, John Fowles
Desert Island Books
The Birds, Tarjei Vesaas (Archipelago)
Weight of the World, Handke
A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Erich Maria Remarque
Garden, Ashes, Danilo Kis
A Balcony in the Forest, Julien Gracq
A Musical Offering, Luis Sagasti (Charco, Fionn Petch)
Atomik Aztex, Sesshu Foster (Grove Press)
Amazons, Cleo Birdwell (DeLillo)
A Time for Everything, KOK (Archipelago)
Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann (John E. Woods translation; Modern Library)