Top 10 Books First Read During 2013

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester, 1956)
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Terrific start to the new year.

[Grouchy]

I'm just gonna use this thread to list everything I'm reading.

1. A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)

[D_Davis]

01. The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester, 1956)

Man - it's all gonna be downhill from there.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Man - it's all gonna be downhill from there.

I'm excited to see if something can beat it. The gauntlet has been thrown down.

[D_Davis]

I'm excited to see if something can beat it. The gauntlet has been thrown down.

Have you read any of Bester's short stories?

[Dead & Messed Up]

Have you read any of Bester's short stories?

Not yet, no.

[D_Davis]

If you get a chance this year, check out Virtual Unrealities.

Just make sure you stay far, far away from his post-The Stars novels.

[TGM]

1. Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Laini Taylor

Now reading Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester, 1956)
02. The Essential Kabbalah (Daniel C. Matt, 1995)
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[TGM]

1. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
2. Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Laini Taylor

Now reading: Days of Blood & Starlight - Laini Taylor

[ContinentalOp]

1. Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale- 8

[Hugh_Grant]

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
2. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
3. Two Solitudes -Hugh MacLennan

[elixir]

1. Raise the Roof Beam High Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, J.D. Salinger
2. Dubliners, James Joyce
3. Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
4. Summer Blonde, Adrian Tomine
5. The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
7. Skippy Dies, Paul Murray
8. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
9. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
10. The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus

[ContinentalOp]

1. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy- 8.5
2. Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale- 8
3. Cell by Stephen King- 7

[ContinentalOp]

1. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy- 8.5
2. Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale- 8
3. The Mourner by Richard Stark- 8
4. Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale- 7
5. Cell by Stephen King- 7

[ContinentalOp]

1. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy- 8.5
2. Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale- 8
3. The Mourner by Richard Stark- 8
4. Dead Aim by Joe R. Lansdale- 7.5
5. Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale- 7
6. The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman- 7
7. Cell by Stephen King- 7
8. The Time Machine Did It by John Swartzwelder- 6

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester, 1956)
2. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway, 1929)
3. The Essential Kabbalah (Daniel C. Matt, 1995)

[ledfloyd]

1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
2. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
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[Benny Profane]

1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
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Favorite essay?

[ledfloyd]

Favorite essay?

It's so difficult to choose. "E Unibus Pluram" is engaging and insightful; it also makes me wonder what DFW thought of TV post-Sopranos. "David Lynch Keeps His Head" is a brilliant profile of one of my favorite artists by one of my favorite artists. And "Getting Away from Pretty Much Already Being Away from It All" and "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" are both uproariously funny and slightly despairing in that typically Wallacian way. I had read the first two before in their edited forms, but finally going through this was exhilirating and just as revelatory as when I first read Consider the Lobster. His non-fiction just embodies everything I aspire to and am incapable of attaining as a writer.

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester, 1956)
2. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway, 1929)
3. The Tao Te Ching (tr. Sam Hamill, 2005)
4. Writing Movies For Fun and Profit (Thomas Lennon & Ben Garant, 2011)
5. The Essential Kabbalah (Daniel C. Matt, 1995)

[megladon8]

1.) The Crimson Petal and the White (Michel Faber, 2002)
2.) A Whale for the Killing (Farley Mowat, 1972)
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[Melville]

1. Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1798) - 7
2. Ice (Anna Kavan, 1967) - 7
3. The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien, written 1940/published 1967) - 7

[Lucky]

1. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
2. Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
3. The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
4. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
5. The Reason I Jump (Naoki Higoshida)
6. Sweet Tooth (Ian McEwan)
7. The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)
8. The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
9. Angels (Denis Johnson)
10. Magic for Beginners (Kelly Link)

[ThePlashyBubbler]

1. Wittgenstein's Mistress (David Markson)
2. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (Breece D'J Pancake)
3. A Naked Singularity (Sergio De La Pava)
4. Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
5. Stoner (John Williams)
6. The Age of Wire and String (Ben Marcus)