Dave Auerbach's Reading List

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Here is a list of books that I'm planning on reading, am in the progress or reading, or just read. Feel free to leave comments, suggestions, etc. If you want to add your own suggestions to the list, feel free to add to the suggestions list.

Also, I'm leaving brief blurbs about some of the books I read, mostly for my own record, so if you are interested in what I think, check out the just read section.

Suggestions

Please, reccomend books!

In light of your Hemmingway spree you'll be amazed at "The Garden of Eden", if you haven't already. -- ChrisRust

To Read

"The World According to Garp", "The Garden of Eden" and "Hotel New Hampshire" - John Irving

"Beautiful Losers"-Leonard Cohen

Something by Rudy Rucker

"Nude Men"-Amanda Filipachie

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe"

Jackson's E&M Text (Aieeeee, noooooooo)

"The Importance of Being Ernest"-Oscar Wilde

"My Name is Asher Lev", and "Davitas Harp" by Chaim Potok

Benamin Walter-"Illuminations"

Henry James-"Portrait of a Lady"

James Joyce-"Portrait of the artist as a young man"

Haruki Murakami-"Dance, Dance, Dance" and "Norwegian Wood"

Barbera Kingsolver-"Poisonwood Bible"

In Progress

"Godel, Escher, Back"-Yeah, you know who it is by

Just Read

"The book of lights" by Chaim Potok - Chalk another awesome recomendation up to my friend Abby Kluchin! A book full of beautiful imagery, both physical and spiritual. The book follows a young jewish man from New York City as he studies Kabbalah in a jewish seminary and then ends up as an army chaplain in Korea after the Korean war. It explores themes of fire, destruction, redemption, and family both within Judaism and in the aftermath of WWII.

"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" - Haruki Murakami - Amazing. I'm not sure what else to say, really... WELL worth reading.

"The Golden Compass" and "The Subtle Knife" - Philip Pullman - These are awesome kids/teen novels, vaguely in the spirit of Harry Potter, but a very different style and approach. Well worth reading. I'm looking forward to the third in the trillogy.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray"-Oscar Wilde

"A farewell to Arms"-Earnest Hemmingway

"The Sun Also Rises"-Hemmingway

"Of Human Bondage"-W. Sommerset Maugham