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The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane The Open Boat by Stephen Crane Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Dubliners by James Joyce The Red and the Black by Stendhal Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann Hail and Farewell by George Moore The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Oxford Book of English Verse The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson The American by Henry James

A reading list by Ernest Hemingway, to a young manErnest Hemingway’s reading list for a young writer, 1934 | Dangerous Minds

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A great list of 100 Horror Novels, courtesy of Worlds Without End and Nightmare Magazine

(via Nightmare Magazine's Top 100 Horror Books | Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Book Lists | WWEnd)

Books are not there to sweeten life's bitter pill. In his advice on writing, Kurt Vonnegut said: "Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them – in order that the reader may see what they are made of." I wouldn't for a moment suggest that doctors recommend nasty novels or misery for its own sake. And some of us don't crave effervescent finales from literature. If I want a happy ending, I put on my tape of the 1999 Champions League final.

Depressing books could be just what the doctor ordered - Telegraph

Last week, The Daily Telegraph published a feature entitled Depressing Books Could Be Just What The Doctor Ordered, where the paper’s online Culture Editor, Martin Chilton, considered the appeal of some truly bleak books. At the end of it Chilton compiled a list of 20 depressing novels only two of which were written by female authors. This ostensible disproportion got me thinking about all the intelligent and insightful gloomy novels penned by women. There are many, far too many to include in a single list so I have whittled them down to 10, which is something Chilton should have done to balance out the inequality. Marguerite Duras once said that “men like women who write, even though they don’t say so,” but I think all of us wish that they did say so and not just in lists but also in life.

Yet Another Top 10 List – Bleak Books « Book Me…

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The 10 Best Books of 2012 from The New York Times Book Review, including our own Andrew Solomon’s powerful, groundbreaking FAR FROM THE TREE: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. Congratulations, Andrew!

Read an excerpt of Far from the Tree or watch the trailer here.

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I have a thing for book porn - yeah, I’m one of those sick bastards who likes to read books about reading books - and the best of the season is My Ideal Bookshelf by Jane Mount and Thessaly La Forge. The book is full of brief interviews with writers, musicians, cooks, architects, and various other creatives about what reading has meant to them; each interview is accompanied by one of Ms. Mount’s absurdly appealing and simple paintings, depicting what would be on each person’s perfect bookshelf.

I couldn’t help myself. Here’s mine. From left to right: The Riverside Shakespeare, The Dead Zone, The Fixer, The Complete Stories (Bernard Malamud), The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, True Grit, The House With A Clock In Its Walls, Lonesome Dove, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol. 1, and Batman: Year One. Also shown is Moby Dick, which I haven’t read yet, but will start on the first of next year… because I think any ideal shelf would have to include at least one book I haven’t read, but which I’m really looking forward to.

Not pictured: a notebook, a pen, a mug, and some Weeping Angel tea from @52teas. Because these things go with my perfect bookshelf.

All this is by way of saying that I think My Ideal Bookshelf is a great little read, and The Ideal Christmas present for the bookworm in your life.

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Not really a Book List as such, but this is a good book recommendation from Joe Hill, and his own bookshelf is beautiful and interesting. I'm particularly envious of the beautiful edition of Thousand Autumns on that shelf....

#book list #joe hill

The 10 best American essays since 1950

An interesting list in Publishers Weekly of the ten finest American essays since 1950, selected by Robert Atwan, the founder of the Best American Essays series. There are links on the full article to readable versions of several of the essays:

James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son"

Normal Mailer, "The White Negro"

Susan Sontag, "Notes on 'Camp'"

John McPhee, "The Search for Marvin Gardens"

Joan Didion, "The White Album"

Annie Dillard, "Total Eclipse"

Philip Lopgate, "Against Joie de Vivre"

Edward Hoagland, "Heaven and Nature"

Jo Ann Beard, "The Fourth State of Matter"

David Foster Wallace, "Consider The Lobster"

#essays #best essays #robert atwan #james baldwin #david foster wallace

Five books about the CIA

In honour - though that's not quite the right word - of General Petraeus's recent adventures in marital indiscretion, here's five books about the CIA, courtesy of the Washington Post:

Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents, by David C. Martin

The Man Who Kept the Secrets, by Richard Helms

The CIA, by Thomas Powers

Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Dino A. Brugioni

The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA, by John Ranelagh

For the full article, and links to more books, read the whole post.

#books #book lists #top CIA books #CIA

The best books on politics? Esquire's list

It's US election day, so what are the best books on politics? It's the classic Book List problem. Lists based on popular votes tend to flag up the demotic or hagiographic. Lists from politicians tend to be skewed. So where to go?

Well, I found one, from Charles P Pierce at Esquire, but it's skewed to US politics. His top 10 books are:

Lyndon Johnson, by Robert Caro

Wallace, by Marshall Frady

The Rascal King, by Jack Beatty

Boss, by Mike Royko

Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams

The Twilight of the Presidency, by George Reedy

The Rise of The Counter-Establishment, by Sidney Blumenthal

The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky

The Selling of The President, 1968, by Joe McGinniss

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#books #best books #us politics #politics

An unashamedly French-inflected list generated by a 1999 poll from French books giant Fnac and newspaper Le Monde. A provisional list of 200 books was generated by booksellers and journalists, on which 17,000 French voted on the question Quels livres sont restés dans votre mémoire?

The top five books were:

The Stranger by Albert Camus

In Search of Lost TIme by Marcel Proust

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Man's Fate by André Malraux

The top English-language book? The Grapes of Wrath.

#books #book lists #le monde #fnac #camus

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In honour of Sandy's sadly favoured state, here's a great piece from Bill Morris about the finest New Jersey novels. The ones he lists are:

Jermigan by David Gates

After Moondog by Jane Shapiro

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Díaz

Richard Ford's trilogy The Sportswriter, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Garden State by Rick Moody

Clockers by Richard Price

Eddie and the Cruisers by P.F.Kluge

The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta

This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff

Read the article to see what Morris chooses as the best New Jersey novel of all of these.

#books #best books #new jersey #novels

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Jay McInerney's Best New York novels

Jay McInerney's Essential New York Novels

It's been a tough, tough week in New York and New Jersey, so here's a kind of homage: Jay McInerney's top five New York novels. Read as to why, but they are:

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger

The Wicked Pavilion by Dawn Powell

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

#new york #best books #books #novels

The 10 most influential popular science books, according to New Scientist and its readers.

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Double Helix by James Watson

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

Chaos by James Gleick

Gaia by James Lovelock

An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus

The Asent of Man by Jacob Bronowski

#books #book lists #science books #popular science

The World Library is a list of the 100 best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four different countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Norwegian Book Club. This list endeavours to reflect world literature, with books from all countries, cultures, and time periods. Eleven of the books included on the list are written by women, eighty-five are written by men and four have no known author. Each writer had to select his or her own list of ten books. The books selected by this process and listed here are not ranked or categorized in any way; the organizers have stated that "they are all on an equal footing," with the exception of Don Quixote which was given the distinction "best literary work ever written."

The 100 Best Books of All Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The books on Marilyn Monroe's shelves, 261 of them, including a surprising (though perhaps not that surprising) amount of Greek tragedy.

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Characteristically interesting list of SF from Mr Gibson, which will delight and surprise you. Includes the delicious quote:

It won’t work unless you can allow it to become your head for a few weeks; it helps if you’re rather young. Closest thing I know to a great “sixties” novel.

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Pulitzer Prize winners for Novels (up to 1947)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)

1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)

1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)

1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)

1941 (No Award)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)

1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

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