WLF Reading List 2024

sibkron

sibkron

Active member
January

01 🇵🇹 Bernardim Ribeiro, História de menina e moça+
02 🇺🇸 Djuna Barnes, Nightwood+
03 🇺🇸 Djuna Barnes, The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings+
04 🇪🇸 Jorge de Montemayor, Diana+
05 🇧🇴 Liliana Colanzi, Our Dead World+
06 🇪🇪 Andrei Ivanov, The Bathyscaphe+
07 🇳🇴 Jon Fosse, Trilogy+
08 🇺🇸 Djuna Barnes, Ladies Almanack+

February

09 🇫🇷 Jacques Derrida, Positions+
10 🇧🇴 Giovanna Rivero, Fresh Dirt from the Grave+
11 🇳🇴 Tor Ulven, Replacement+

March

12 🇪🇸 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote+
13 🇺🇸 Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
14 🇺🇸 Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
15 🇧🇴 Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark+
16 🇷🇺 Ekaterina Sherga, The Underground Ship
17 🇧🇴 Jaime Sáenz, Felipe Delgado
18 🇨🇭 Max Frisch, Leaves from the Bread Bag+
19 🇨🇭 Max Frisch, I'm Not Stiller+

April

20 🇦🇷 Juan Filloy, Op Oloop+
21 🇺🇸 George Salis, Sea Above, Sun Below+
22 🇸🇪 Aase Berg, Dark Matter+
23 🇨🇦 Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
24 🇨🇦 Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet+
25 🇫🇷 Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual+

May

26 🇷🇺 Igor Levshin. Petruscha and Mosquito+
27 🇷🇴 Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid+
28 🇺🇸 John Madera, Nervosities (plan)
29 🇲🇦 Driss Chraïbi, Mother Comes of Age (plan)
30 🇪🇸 Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui (plan)
31 🇷🇺 Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Daniel Stein, Interpreter (plan)
32 🇨🇭 Max Frisch, Selected works (plan)

June

33 🇦🇹 Clemens J. Setz, The Comfort of Round Things (plan)
34 🇷🇺 Andrei Platonov, Chevengur (plan)
35 🇷🇺 Andrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit (plan)
36 🇻🇳 Dương Thu Hương, Paradise of the Blind (plan)
37 🇪🇸 Ramon Llull, Blanquerna (plan)
38 🇪🇸 Miquel de Palol, The Garden of Seven Twilights (plan)

July

39 🇦🇷 Leopoldo Marechal, Adam Buenosayres (plan)
40 🇦🇷 Alberto Laiseca, Los Sorias (plan)
41 🇺🇸 Zalman Shneour, The Emperor and Rebbe (plan)
42 🇺🇸 Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (plan)

August

43 🇺🇸 Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner (plan)
44 🇺🇸 Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge (plan)
45 🇺🇸 Evan Dara, The Lost Scrapbook (plan)
46 🇨🇳 Can Xue, Love in the New Millennium (plan)
 
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Daniel del Real

Daniel del Real

Moderator
January

01 ???? Donald Keene, The Pleasures of Japanese Literature ****
02 ?? Kamo no Chōmei, Hōjōki: A Hermit's Hut as Metaphor ***+
03 ?? Yoshida Kenko, Tsurezuregusa: Essays in Idleness ***+
04 ?? Ihara Saikaku, The Life of an Amorous Woman ***
05 ?? Ueda Akinari, Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain ****+
06 ?? Dazai Osamu, The Flowers of Bufoonery ***+
07 ?? Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human *****
08 ?? Murata Sayaka, Convenience Store Woman ***+
09 ?? Oda Sakunosuke, The Sign of Times ****+
10 ?? Nakahara Chūya, The Poems ****+
11 ?? Mishima Yukio, Confessions of a Mask ***+

February

12 ?? Yosano Akiko, Fragments of Clouds ***+
13 ?? Ibuse Masuji, Black Rain ***+
14 ?? Tsuboi Sakae, Twenty-Four Eyes ***
15 ?? Kaneko Misuzu, Bitter Orange Flower ***
16 ?? Natsume Sōseki, Rooms and other brief writings ****
17 ?? Enchi Fumiko, Masks ****

March

18 ?? Nagai Kafū, Sumida River and other stories ****
19 ?? Natsume Sōseki, The Door ***
20 ?? Mandala, Japanese poetry from Shiki to our days ***+
21 ?? Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, The Love of a Fool ***+
22 ?? Kawabata Yasunari, First Snow on Fuji ****
23 ?? Abe Kōbō, The Face of Another **
24 ?? Murakami Haruki, The City and its Uncertain Walls ****+

April

25 ?? Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book ****+
 
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Stevie B

Stevie B

Current Member
Daniel del Real said:
January

01 ???? Donald Keene, The Pleasures of Japanese Literature ****
02 ?? Kamo no Chōmei, Hōjōki: A Hermit's Hut as Metaphor ***+
03 ?? Yoshida Kenko, Tsurezuregusa: Essays in Idleness ***+
04 ?? Ihara Saikaku, The Life of an Amorous Woman ***
05 ?? Ueda Akinari, Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain ****+
06 ?? Dazai Osamu, The Flowers of Bufoonery ***+
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The Donald Keene book seems to be an especially fitting one for you given your deep dive into Japanese literature these past few years.
 
Chandos MD

Chandos MD

Member
January
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro
• Gershom Scholem - Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
• Émile Zola - Germinal
• Anton Chekhov - Selected Plays [Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard]
• Natsume Sōseki - Botchan
• Rabindranath Tagore - The Home and the World
• Henrik Ibsen - Brand
• Henrik Ibsen - When We Dead Awaken
• Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
• Thomas Bernhard - Heldenplatz
• Norbert Elias - The Loneliness of the Dying
• Andrey Platonov - The Foundation Pit
• Naguib Mahfouz - Midaq Alley

February
• The Complete Plays of Sophocles [tr. Paul Roche]

March
• Homer - The Iliad [tr. Robert Fitzgerald]
• Raja Rao - Kanthapura
• Alasdair Gray - Poor Things
• The Epic of Gilgamesh [tr. N.K. Sandars]
• Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
• Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
• Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms [selected from Parerga and Paralipomena]
• Immanuel Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
• Banerjee & Duflo - Poor Economics
• Larry McMurtry - In a Narrow Grave
• Jim Shutze - The Accommodation
• Marguerite Duras - India Song
• Marguerite Duras - Destroy, She Said

April
• Amos Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard
• Amos Tutuola - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
• Vladimir Sorokin - Blue Lard
• Henry James - The Beast in the Jungle
• Patrick White - Voss

May
• Billy Lee Brammer - The Gay Place
• John Graves - Goodbye to a River
• Anton Chekhov - Selected Stories [Norton Critical Editions]
 
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K

kpjayan

Reader
Jan

1. ?? Ghassan Zaqtan - Strangers in Light Coats : Selected Poetry 2014-2020 ***
2. ?? Quinn Slobodian - CrackUp Capitalism ***
3. ?? T Ramanathan - Sannidhi Samvadam ***
4. ?? Martin Wikramasinghe - The Village ( Uprooted #1 ) ***
5. ?? Yannis Ristos - Selected Poems ****
6. ?? Charles Siefe - Zero:The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. ***
7. ?? Ivan Mandy - Postcard from London and Other Stories. ***
8. ?? ( Tamil ) Imayam - Vazhga Vazhga and Other Stories ***
9. ?? Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis. ****

Feb

10. ?? / ?? Emil Cioran - Short History of Decay *****
11. ?? TJS George - Askew :Short Biography of Bangalore ***
12. ?? Alfred Jarry. - Ubu Roi ***
13. ?? K Abhay - The Book of Bihari Literature ***
14. ?? Mariana Marin - Paper Children ***
15. ?? Salim Barakat - Come, Take a Gentle Stab ****
16. ?? Marie NDiaye - Ladivine ****
17. ?? Martin Wikramasinghe - Kaliyugaya ( Uprooted #2 ) ***
18. ?? Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera ***

Mar

19. ?? Mark De Silva - Point of Attack. ***
20. ?? Aubrey Menen - The Ramayana **
21. ?? ( Tamil ) Perumal Murugan - Fire Bird ***
22. ?? Peter Handke - The Great Fall ***
23. ?? Alan Paton - Cry the Beloved Country ****
24. ?? ( Kannada) H S Shivaprasad - I Keep Vigil of Rudra ****
25. ?? Martin Wikramasinghe - The Destiny ( Uprooted #3) ***
26. ?? ( Malayalam ) M Vinod+ - Natakam Vitachu Nadanna Oral ****

Apr

27. 🇮🇳 (Malayalam) Akhinathente Nidhi ( Kanthamala Charitham 1) - Vishnu M C **
28. 🇮🇳 (Malayalam) Arolakkadinte Rahasyam ( Kanthamala Charitham 2 ) - VishnuM C ***
29. 🇹🇭 Prabda Yoon - Moving Parts **
30. 🇮🇳 (Malayalam) Yudhakandam ( Kanthamala Charitham 3 ) - Vishnu M C ***
31. 🇵🇰 Kamran Gilani - Ana Al-Haq Reconsidered ***
32. 🇦🇹 Thomas Bernhard - Prose ****
33. 🇵🇹 Jose Saramago - The Year of the Death of Richardo Reis ****
34. 🇧🇷 Lima Barreto - The Decline and Fall of Policarpo. Quaresma ****
35. 🇮🇳 ( Kannada ) Masti Venkatesh Iyengar - Subbanna and Other Stories ***
36. 🇨🇦 Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces ****

May

37. ?? Thomas Mann - The Magic mountain
 
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Leseratte

Leseratte

Well-known member
Phil D said:
Keen to hear more about this one. High on my TBR
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I am a fan of Saramago, but I interrupted the reading after about one third of the book, @Phil D. Why? I was bored about the lack of action. To much going up and down the streets of Lisbon, which may be interesting to someone that had already visited the city, but I´ve never been there. I was also irritated at the so typical treatment of women in the book: the maid was good for the bed, the bourgeoise girl was the candidate for marriage. Not even Fernando Pessoa appearing as a sort of familiar ghost in the hotel room was a compensation.

That said I may have missed the most important part of the book.
 
tiganeasca

tiganeasca

Moderator
JANUARY
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives ⭐⭐⭐
Anatoly Rybakov, Children of the Arbat ⭐⭐⭐
Anatoly Rybakov, Fear ⭐⭐⭐
Duong Thu Huong, Novel Without A Name ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Theodor Storm, Carsten the Trustee and other stories ⭐⭐⭐+
Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit ⭐⭐⭐+
Lars Gustafsson, Stories of Happy People ⭐⭐+
Tidiane Dem, Masseni ⭐⭐+

FEBRUARY
Francis Bebey, King Albert ⭐⭐⭐
Cyprian Ekwensi, Burning Grass ⭐⭐⭐
Sinan Antoon, I'Jaam ⭐⭐
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Stories ⭐⭐⭐+
John Munonye, The Only Son ⭐⭐⭐
Jalâl âl-e Ahmad, The School Principal [not rated]
Lil Bahadur Chettri, Mountains Painted With Turmeric ⭐⭐⭐

MARCH
Cyprian Ekwensi, People of the City ⭐⭐
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Armijn Pane, Shackles ⭐⭐+
Thanassis Valtinos, Deep Blue Almost Black ⭐⭐⭐
Sembene Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Joseph Roth, The Legend of the Holy Drinker ⭐⭐⭐+
Maria Dermoût, Yesterday ⭐⭐⭐+
Sarat Chandra Chatterji, Devdas and other stories ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rene Maran, Batouala ⭐⭐⭐
Endo Shusaku, Stained Glass Elegies [Stories] ⭐⭐⭐
Taban lo Liyong, Fixions ⭐⭐+
Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar ⭐⭐+
Halldor Laxness, Under the Glacier [not rated]

APRIL
Xiaolu Guo, Village of Stone ⭐⭐⭐⭐+
Tanizaki Junichiro, Some Prefer Nettles ⭐⭐⭐
Randolph Stow, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence ⭐⭐+
Anjana Appachana, Incantations ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Duong Thu Huong, Memories of a Pure Spring ⭐⭐+
Mishima Yukio, The Sound of Waves ⭐⭐+
Elechi Amadi, The Concubine ⭐⭐⭐
Philippe Claudel, Dog Island ⭐⭐⭐⭐+
 
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alik-vit

alik-vit

Reader
Leseratte said:
I am a fan of Saramago, but I interrupted the reading after about one third of the book, @Phil D. Why? I was bored about the lack of action. To much going up and down the streets of Lisbon, which may be interesting to someone that had already visited the city, but I´ve never been there. I was also irritated at the so typical treatment of women in the book: the maid was good for the bed, the bourgeoise girl was the candidate for marriage. Not even Fernando Pessoa appearing as a sort of familiar ghost in the hotel room was a compensation.

That said I may have missed the most important part of the book.
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By the way, I had similar feelings. In 2005 or something I did read it first time. In 2018, after visiting Lisbon, I did read it again. And both times I was struck by its boredom. And usually I loved his novels! But it seems, female characters is his blind spot. And this recurring trop of affair between younger woman and older man...
 
Leseratte

Leseratte

Well-known member
alik-vit said:
By the way, I had similar feelings. In 2005 or something I did read it first time. In 2018, after visiting Lisbon, I did read it again. And both times I was struck by its boredom. And usually I loved his novels! But it seems, female characters is his blind spot. And this recurring trop of affair between younger woman and older man...
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I think this manner of seeing female characters is perhaps not unusual in Portuguese culture, but I am cautious about it, @alik.
 
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