This thread is by no means an exhaustive list of books that I hope to read some day. It is merely a place where, on occasion, I add names of books I run into and think might be interesting to read some day.
FICTION
FICTION
The Private Lives of Trees - Alejandro Zambra
Love Begins in Winter - Short stories by Simon Van Booy
Close Range - Wyoming Stories - Annie Proulx
Tranquility - Attila Bartis
Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin
Kafka's curse by Achmat Dangor
Funny in Farsi - Firoozeh Dumas
A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin
Kafka's curse by Achmat Dangor
Funny in Farsi - Firoozeh Dumas
Short Stories:
- The Art of the Short Story - Dana Gioia
- Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather - Gao Xingjian (short stories)
- The Collected Stories of Richard Yates - Richard Yates
- Brain Work - Michael Guista (short stories)
- Rear View - Peter Duval (short stories)
- One More Year - Sana Krasikov (short stories)
- The Three Button Trick and Other Stories - Nicola Barker (short stories)
- Some Fun - Antonya Nelson (short stories)
- One Thousand and One-Second Stories - Inagaki Taruho
- A Whistler in the Nightworld (Short Fiction from the Latin Americas) - Ed: Thomas Colchie
- Short Stories by Latin American Women - Ed: Celia Correas Zapata
- The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction - Ed: Denys Johnson-Davies
- Words Without Borders - Ed: Alane Salierno Mason
- The Pushcart Book of Short Stories - Ed: Bill Henderson (The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize)
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is the winner of the The First Annual TMN Tournament of Books. (I tried to start reading this book but gave up - thrown off by the very difficult to read style the book starts in.)
Saturday by Ian McEwan, author of Booker Prize winning Amsterdam (1998) and the much-acclaimed Atonement
Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Maps For Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Novels by Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle / Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World / A Wild Sheep Chase / Norwegian Wood / South of the Border, West of the Sun.
In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
Our Kind - A Novel in Stories by Kate Walbert
Memories of My Melancholy Whores - A new novel by García Márquez. (Review by Updike in the New Yorker & NYT Review)
The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth (Excellent opening line.."Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear." Read the NY Times review)
Doctor Brodie's report by Borges (translated by Norman Giovanni, in collaboration with the author)
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ishiguro, of course is the author of the much acclaimed The Remains of the Day (Winner of the Booker Prize, 1989), An Artist of the Floating World (Shortlisted for Booker Prize, 1986. Winner of 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year, which took "an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions."), A Pale View of Hills (in which he narrates "the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a story where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II."), The Unconsoled, and the Booker nominated When We Were Orphans. Have not read ANY of them; though i have seen the movie based on the book - The Remains of the Day.
Novels by Naguib Mahfouz:
The only Naguib Mahfouz book I have read is the languidly moving Adrift on the Nile, which I quite enjoyed although I could not quite associate with the effects of hemp gurgling in through the water-pipe of a hookah. :) The spiritual emptiness and hypnotic trance were conveyed very well and ever since I put that very short book I have wanted to go back and read some of his more famous books like the Cairo trilogy, as well as many other less well-known novels.
Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Singer
Started this in August 2007 but did not have time to really get beyond the first few pages as I (unfortunately) put all my reading time into Vikram Chandra's magnum opus, Sacred Games! Need to get back to this sooner rather than later....though I really need to stop confusing myself between Singer & Below!
For a Night of Love by Emile Zola
Also started in August 2007 & need to get back to this too soon. Is a really short novel and Emile Zola is not known as an amazing writer for nothing!
