books to bury me with
faulkner | absalom, absalom
sebald | austerlitz
hazzard | the transit of venus
roth | the ghost writer
morrison | song of solomon
erdrich | love medicine
nothing else like them
bulgakov | master & margarita
burns | milkman
dewitt | the seventh samurai
classics for a reason
faulkner | the sound and the fury
melville | moby dick
tolstoy | anna karenina
ellison | invisible man
mann | doctor faustus
bellow | herzog
hipster picks by big names
delillo | libra
dostoevsky | demons
fitzgerald, f.s. | tender is the night
garcia marquez | chronicle of a death foretold
pynchon | vineland
ward | men we reaped
woolf | the waves
woefully underrated
cercas | the anatomy of a moment
kawabata | snow country
mizamura | a true novel
ulitskaya | the kukotsky enigma
vásquez | the shape of the ruins
great novel sequences
proust | in search of lost time
powell | a dance to the music of time
mahfouz | the cairo trilogy
mishima | sea of fertility (esp. runaway horses)
books I suggest to people
beatty | the sellout
chabon | the yiddish policemen’s union
lem | solaris
mailer | the executioner’s song
mcmurtry | lonesome dove
roth | the human stain
winterson | the passion
depressive europeans
grossman | life & fate
kertesz | kaddish for an unborn child
krasznahorkai | satantango
saramago | the year of the death of ricardo reis
szabo | the door
joyful europeans
fitzgerald, p. | the blue flower
saramago | death with interruptions
wodehouse | the code of the woosters
wodehouse | joy in the morning
formative reading experiences
arendt | eichmann in jerusalem
baldwin | go tell it on the mountain
calvino | invisible cities
didion | slouching towards bethlehem
morrison | the bluest eye