Recommended books!
I see many recommendations during my blog-reading, which, I want to check out from the library; however, when I am about to go to the library, I just cannot remember any of the titles/authors. In the event, I end up just browsing through the racks and bringing whatever I fancy at the moment. Not that I have anything against such browsing (I love it), but, in order not to miss out on the recommended books, I am going to keep a list in this page.
- Marisa de los Santos — Love Walked in (via)
- Naomi Novik — Temeraire (via)
- Jo Walton — Farthing; Fatherland; The plot against America; The Yiddish Policemen’s union (My impressions of the book are here); Derek Raymond — A state of Denmark; The lively dead; The Thief; The queen of Attolia (via)
- Holly Black — Ironside; Mathew Polly — American Shaolin (via): My responses to American Shaolin are here and here.
- Chris Frith — Making up the mind (via)
- The scandal of the season — Sophie Gee (via)
- Samuel R Delany — About writing (via)
- Ezra Pound — ABC of reading; Confucius to Cummings (via)
- Colum McCann — Zoli (via)
- Natalie Angiers — The Canon (via); Pharyngula
- Richard Powers — The Echo Maker (via) Here are my impressions of the novel.
- Jo Walton — Via
- Self storage — Gayle Brandeis (via)
- Remainder — Tom McCarthy (via)
- House of Rain — Craig Childs (via)
- The emigrants — W G Sebald (via)
- The first word — Christine Kenneally (via)
- A Farewell to Alms: a brief economic history of the world (via)
- Neal Stephenson — Snow Crash (through American Shaolin)
- Carson McCullers — The member of the wedding (via)
- Brazzaville beach–William Boyd (via)
- 99 novels: the best in English since 1939 — Anthony Burgess (via)
- The garden of the Finzi-Continis — Giorgio Bassani (via)
- Four seasons in Rome – Anthony Doerr (via)
- What was lost — Catherine O’Flynn (via)
- The Virginian — Owen Wister
- Roger Deakin — Waterlog (Strongly recommended)
- The Accidental Mind: how brain evolution has given us love, memory, dreams and God — David Linden (via Tyler Cowen)
- Nada (via)
- Arthur Phillips (via)
- Sy Montgomery (via)
- Open city (via)
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February 26, 2009 at 1:22 am |
What are your favorites among these, Guru?
February 26, 2009 at 1:16 pm |
Dear Coolnik,
As you can see these are the books that were recommended by different bloggers and blogs; of these, I have read only three so far (the ones which are struck off from the list); if you search my blog, you probably will find the reviews I wrote for all of them. To give a short answer, Echo maker did not live up to my expectations at the point at which I read; Yiddish Policemen’s union and American Shaolin are both great in their own way.
Guru