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Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke translated by Cindy Carter
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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My Hollywood by Mona Simpson - recommended by Ron Charles (totally hip book reviewer)
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte. Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free. "Villette is an amazing book," observed novelist Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. "Written before psychoanalysis came into being, Villette is nevertheless a psychoanalytic work—a psycho-sexual study of its heroine, Lucy Snowe. Written before the philosophy of existentialism was formulated, the novel's view of the world can only be described as existential. Today it is read and discussed more intensely than Charlotte Brontë's other novels, and many critics now believe it to be a true master-piece, a work of genius that more than fulfilled the promise of Jane Eyre." Indeed, Virginia Woolf judged Villette to be Brontë's "finest novel."
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Selected Poems by W.H. Auden. Zadie Smith quoted "the Novelist" from memory at an event and I need to read it first hand!
Collected Stories by John Cheever - recommended by basically every modern writer I like
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (rec Book Twin)
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I love a good reading list. Here writers pick their favourite short stories. A good place for some reading inspiration.
Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love by Andrew Shaffer
Nell Freudenberger, referenced in Salon as too young, too pretty, too successful. Enjoyed her reading at the 92Y Tribeca as part of the release for the 20 under 40 book.
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Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen. She had a great story in the New Yorker as part of the 20 under 40 series. I want to read more!
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Rebecca's first novel, The Borrower, will be published in the summer of 2011 by Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin
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