Archives for category: Reading List

reading-list-april-13
The Double by José Saramago
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky

reading-list-march-13
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzche
A Way Through Through The Woods by Bill Bryson

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I read like the flame reads the wood.
Alfred Döblin

reading-list-feb-13

Brodeck’s Report by Philippe Claudel
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography by Emily King

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself
a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

reading-list-jan-13
The Revenge Of The Lawn by Richard Brautigan
Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Journal Of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling

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A room without books is like a life without meaning.
Thomas Jefferson

reading-list-december-12
Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami
My Man Jeeves and Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz
by Denis Avey with Rob Broomby

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Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness,
darkness made me wallow in books.
Jackson Pearce


The Unbearable Lightness of being
by Milan Kundera

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.
Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

Groucho Marx


1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
(books 2 & 3)

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I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set,
I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx


If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
1Q84 (Book 1) by Haruki Murakami

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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it
John Witherspoon


The Sisters Brothers  by Patrick DeWitt
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
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