An Alphanumerically Ordered List Of Recommended Summer Reading, With Some Cheating, And Starting With A Novel That Has Yet To Be Released

19Q4 /// Haruki Murakami

2666 /// Roberto Bolaño

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland /// Lewis Carroll

Bend Sinister /// Vladimir Nabokov

Cosmopolis /// Don DeLillo

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency /// Douglas Adams

East Of Eden /// John Steinbeck

Forty Stories /// Donald Barthelme

Grendel /// John Gardner

Hell’s Angels /// Hunter S. Thompson

Infinite Jest /// David Foster Wallace

Jesus’ Son /// Denis Johnson

The Knife Thrower /// Steven Millhauser

The Last Novel /// David Markson

The Misanthrope /// Molière

Nine Stories /// J.D. Salinger

Outer Dark /// Cormac McCarthy

Pastoralia /// George Saunders

Latin Quips At Your Fingertips /// Various Romans

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead /// Tom Stoppard

The Screwtape Letters /// C.S. Lewis

Time’s Arrow /// Martin Amis

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. /// Robert Coover

The Virgin Suicides /// Jeffery Eugenides

Waiting For The Barbarians /// J.M. Coetzee

Project X /// Jim Shepard

Batman: Year One /// Frank Miller

Less Than Zero /// Bret Easton Ellis

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   This list is fabulous! adding more to my list as I type (marychrist)

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