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Post your latest book purchases/Tell me what to read next.

>Other Voices, Other Rooms-Capote
>A Scanner Darkly-PKD
>Steppenwolf-Hesse
>Casino Royale-Fleming

I'm thinking of reading Casino Royale since I just finished the Kite Runner and that was heavy shit at points.

>> No.1497642

I recently received Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome and Fairy Tales by Terry Jones as a gift. The last book I bought was The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris.
The next book I'm going to read is Three Men in a Boat.

>> No.1497655

>Last bought:
Kawabata - Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories
Dazai - Return to Tsugaru
Tanizaki - Quicksand
Tanizaki - The Makioka Sisters (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

>Just got on the mail:
Kawabata - Beauty and Sadness
Kawabata - The Master of Go
Soseki - To The Spring Equinox And Beyond
Soseki - And Then = Sorekara: A Novel
Soseki - The Wayfarer

>On the way:
Soseki - The Miner

inb4 weaboo, I'm currently reading A Game of Thrones.

>> No.1497662

>>Last bought:
Nausea ~ J.P. Sartre
The Accursed Kings ~ Maurice Dreun (6 and 7. Had 1 to 5 since sep 2010)

I received Christine (Stephen King) as a christmas present. I started reading it yesterday and it seems nice.

>> No.1497899

>Recently received
Mandarins by Ryuunosuke Akutagawa
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Quilt and Other Stories by Katai Tayama
River Mist and Other Stories by Kunikuda Doppo
Crackling Mountain and Other Stories by Osamu Dazai
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Twenty-Four Eyes by Sakae Tsuboi

>In the mail, on the way
The Silver Spoon by Naka Kansuke
Japanese No Dramas
In Praise of Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa