2016 Reading

[Anonymous No.7518721]

What's on your reading list for 2016, /lit/? Here's mine:

The sound and the fury
Mason & Dixon
The Ghostwriter
Phenomenology of the Spirit
Absalom, Absalom!
Being & Nothingness
Carpenter's Gothic
A Frolic of his own
Tropic of Cancer
The Book of Disquiet
Rabbit, Run
Faust
V
Libra
Zero K
Murphy
The Sailor who fell from grace with the Sea
Pale Fire
The Elementary Particles
Soumission
Sabbath's Theater
The Decay of the Angel
Revolutionary Road
A Naked Singularity
Behead All Satans

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.7519537]

I can wholeheartedly endorse 1-3, 5, 7-14, 18-21, and 22-23.

[Anonymous No.7519543]

Have you read The Recognitions? It might be hard to jump into Gaddis' later work if you haven't. Pretty good list though.

My to-read for 2016:
Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov
Pnin by Nabokov
Transylvanian Trilogy by Banffy
Apricot Jam by Solzhenitsyn
Ghost Town by Robert Coover
Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence
Demons by Dosto
Complete works of Hesiod
End of the Road by Barth
Little, Big by Crowley
Remains of the Day by Ishiguro
No Longer Human by Dazai
Night Soul and Other Stories by McElroy
The Greek Myths by Graves
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Waves and To the Lighthouse by Woolf
Austerlitz by Sebald
The Tunnel and Middle C by Gass
Dying Grass by Vollmann
Brief History of Seven Killings by James

[Anonymous No.7519547]

yes
yes
no
no
yes
very no
very yes
very yes
no
less mystical than you thing and very angsty, no
extremely yes buy the everyman library edition that collects the whole rabbit tetralogy
Goethe's, Marlowe's or Mann's?
sure
yes
yes
yes
yes
okish
no
no
yes
no
yes
meh
no

[Anonymous No.7519559]

Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volumes A-E
La Vie Mode d'Emploi
Mason & Dixon
The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable

And I'll probably reread House of Leaves and Day of the Locust.

[Anonymous No.7519563]

>>7519543
hold on through the first 100 pages of Ada, or Ardor. It's like GR in that its deliberately obscure

Pnin is gud
Transylvanian trilogy is gud
Solz is meh
Coover is pretty good
lawrence is manageable
End of the Road was before Barth got all meta so hold don't expect Giles Goat Boy out of it
Night Soul and Other Stories is great
Austerlitz is good
The Tunnel is great but only after you've read as much of Gass' other work as possible. Otherwise you'll appreciate the beautiful sentences but give up out of boredom early
Dying Grass is absolutely fucking beautiful and I wholly endorse reading all the other Seven Dreams books (DG being the 5th, but you don't necessarily have to read the others) if you have the patience. I'd say DG is the best by far (so far) though.