20 books
Sunday, December 08, 2024
Over the past few weeks, I have taken part in a, what do you call them, not memes I don't think ... on Bluesky:
"Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order."
Here are my 20 books:
Albert Camus, The Plague
Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Philip K. Dick, Now Wait for Last Year
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only
Greil Marcus, Mystery Train
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Baseball Team from Mars
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Bill James, The 1982 Baseball Abstract
Annalee Newitz, Stories Are Weapons
Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Ariel Schrag, Awkward and Definition
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