/lit/ - Literature

http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/12078

Not very far at all, the challenge function in GR daily becomes a bigger icon in my periphery that I'm spending too much time lurking here.

The best book so far award goes to Steps (Kosinski), and the worst goes to The Rush for Second place (posthumous essay collection, Gaddis)

I'm going to go finish The Pale King now.

>>1387976
Diamonds are free. I'm going to get clubbed to death.

Clubs (Bricks)
Ace: Don DeLillo - Underworld
Two: Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March
Three: Joseph McElroy - Women and Men
Four: Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
Five: Vladimir Nabokov - Ada
Six: Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Seven: Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
Eight: Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Nine: Andrei Platonov - The Foundation Pit
Ten: Roberto Bolaño - 2666
Jack: William Gaddis - J R
Queen: James Joyce - Ulysses
King: David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

Hearts (Women)
Ace: Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart
Two: Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Three: Susan Minot - Evening
Four: Christina Steadman - The Man Who Loved Children
Five: Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
Six: Lorrie Moore - Birds of America
Seven: Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
Eight: Mary Gaitskill - Two Girls, Fat and Thin
Nine: Iris Murdoch - The Black Prince
Ten: Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
Jack: A.S. Byatt - Possession
Queen: Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
King: Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Spades (Non sequitur)
Ace: Halldor Laxness - Independent People
Two: Kobo Abe - The Ruined Map
Three: Paul Harding - Tinkers
Four: Henry James - Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
Five: Johnathan Franzen - The Twenty-Seventh City
Six: J.G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun
Seven: George Saunders - CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Eight: John Fowles - A Maggot
Nine: Alain Robbe-Grillet - The Voyeur
Ten: Martin Amis - London Fields
Jack: Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Queen: Gina Barriault - Women in Their Beds
King: Patrick White - Voss