Books I Read

Book Notes



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Currently Reading

Nova, William Burroughs
Poems, Protest and a Dream, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Erotica, by Anais Nin
Beerspit Night and Cursing, Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli

Recently Read


The Driftless Area, Tom Drury
Amulet, Roberto Bolano
Iphigenia (The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored), Teresa de la Parra
Tristram Shandy, Lawerence Sterne
Omensetter's Luck, William Gass
The Great Perhaps, Joe Meno
The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
The Stone Raft,
Jose Saramago
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,
Mark Haddon
A Short History of the Destruction of the Indies
, Bartolome de Las Casas
Benito Cereno, Herman Mellvile
Last Evenings on Earth, Roberto Bolano
Freedom, Jonathon Franzen
Point Omega, Don Delillo
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
Antwerp, Roberto Bolano
The Hacienda, Lisa St Aubin de Teran
The Man Without Qualities, Part I & II,  Robert Musil
One Drop, Bliss Broyard
The Guardian, Ana Castillo
Concrete, Thomas Bernhard
Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
The Tunnel, William Gass
In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
Zeno's Conscience, Italo Svevo
Blonde Faith, Walter Mosley
The Soft Machine, William Burroughs
The Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
The Loser, Thomas Bernhard
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Kafka was the rage, Anatole Broyard
2666, Roberto Bolano
Seeing, Jose Saramago

Waiting to be Read

Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
The Sonnets, Ted Berrigan
Fields of Castille, Campos de Castilla
Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz
A Man Without Qualities, Part III, Robert Musil
The Vagrants, Yiyum Li
Cartesian Sonata, William Gass