/lit/ - Literature

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my birthday is coming up so i'm building up a book list.

here's what i have so far:

Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon
The Emigrants - W. G. Sebald
Conversation in the Cathedral - Mario Vargas Llosa
Diary - Witold Gombrowicz
The Language of Passion: Selected Commentary - Mario Vargas Llosa
The War of the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
Vertigo - W. G. Sebald
War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
Saul Bellow: Letters - Saul Bellow
Death in the Andes: A Novel - Mario Vargas Llosa
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa - Fernando Pessoa
The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel - Carlos Fuentes
Satantango - László Krasznahorkai

what you think? any more suggestions? this is $160+. parents are giving me $300 to spend.

here is my goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5644865?shelf=read

i'm looking for nonfiction too. trying to develop my criticism. i prefer nonfiction by fiction authors because they usually avoid interpretation. mostly focus on style, keep their thoughts short, and don't "add" to the work in the way that other critics do.