(I have a hard time not feeling like this is really lame, but at the same time I'm a little excited about it. OK.)
The list I have compiled looks like this:
Albert Camus:
The Fall
The Plague
Nikolai Gogol:
Dead Souls
The Collected Tales (Short Stories)
Haruki Murakami:
A Wild Sheep Chase
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Jean Genet:
Our Lady Of The Flowers
The Miracle of the Rose
Jorge Luis Borges:
Fictions
The Aleph
Henry Miller:
Tropic of Cancer
Black Spring
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov
William Gibson:
Virtual Light
Pattern Recognition
Vladimir Nabokov:
Pnin
Pale Fire
William Gaddis:
JR
A Frolic of His Own
John Updike:
The Centaur
The Complete Henry Bech
Philip Roth:
The Counterlife
I Married a Communist
Samuel Beckett:
Watt
Murphy
Knut Hamsun:
Hunger
Pan
James Ellroy:
Black Dahlia
American Tabloid
Dave Eggers:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
You Shall Know Our Velocity
Chuck Palahniuk:
Fight Club
Lullaby
Georges Bataille:
My Mother
The Story of the Eye
Naguib Mahfouz:
Children of Gebelawi
Palace Walk
Graham Swift:
Last Orders
Waterland
If you've no idea what I'm going on about, well: some members here have decided to start a book club. Shut up. If you'd like to join, PM me and suggest 3 authors. Do it quick. There are 14 members so far and we've come up with only 20 authors. I picked 5 of them (guess which 5!). Request more authors!
This thread is for bitching at me about the books I've chosen. I chose two for each author. I have reasons. We really need more authors. After we've added some more authors and straightened out which books belong on the list, I'll pick 5 or so books at random and we'll have a PM vote. Bitch away. And PM me with more authors!
