Top Books First Read in 2020

[Peng]

1. Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon)
2. Confessions (Kanae Minato)
3. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
4. The Shining (Stephen King)
5. The Dusk of Buddhist Era and Memory of Black Rose Cat (Veeraporn Nitiprapha)
6. The Thief of Always (Clive Barker)
7. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
8. Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window (Tetsuko Kuroyanagi)
9. Bleeding Edge (Thomas Pynchon)
10. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

11. The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth (Veeraporn Nitiprapha)
12. The Bone Collector (Jeffery Deaver)
13. Once Upon a Celluloid Planet: Where Cinema Ruled (Sonthaya Subyen & Morimart Raden-Ahmad)
14. No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
15. Kien Bod Nung, Sud Kon Doo Hai Yuu Mud - Film Screenwriting (Thida Plitpholkarnpim)

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1.) Monstrumführer (Edward M. Erdilac)
2.) A Little Hatred (Joe Abercrombie)
3.) Thr Hypnotist (Lars Keplar)

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Novels:

• Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol, 1842/55)
• Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847-48)
• The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins, 1859-60)
• The Golden Bowl (Henry James, 1904)
• Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence, 1913)
• Underworld (Don DeLillo, 1997)

Poetry:

• The Iliad (Homer, c. 8th century BCE)

Non-Fiction:

• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (William James, 1902)
• Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies (V.F. Perkins, 1972)
• Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction (Meir Sternberg, 1978)
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism—Revised Edition (Benedict Anderson, 1983-2006)
• Narration in Light: Studies in Cinematic Point of View (George M. Wilson, 1986)
• The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson, 1985)
• Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies (edited by David Bordwell and Noël Carroll, 1996)
• The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan (Eric Cazdyn, 2002)
• The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945 (Peter B. High, 2003)
• Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 (Aaron Gerow, 2010)

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• The Poetics of Prose (Tzvetan Todorov, 1971)
• Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film (Seymour Chatman, 1978)
• Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema (David Desser, 1988)
• Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978 (Oshima Nagisa, 1992)
• Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Arjun Appardurai, 1996)
• The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast (Maureen Turim, 1998)
• History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life (Harry Harootunian, 2000)
• Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement (Joanne Bernardi, 2001)
• Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film After World War I (Kristin Thompson, 2005)
• Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and the Postwar Japanese Documentary (Abé Mark Nornes, 2007)
• The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity (Catherine Russell, 2008)
• Film Narratology (Peter Verstraten, 2009)
• Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s (Isolde Standish, 2011)

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[Peng]

Final 2020 list:

1. Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon)
2. Confessions (Kanae Minato)
3. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
4. The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
5. The Shining (Stephen King)
6. The Dusk of Buddhist Era and Memory of Black Rose Cat (Veeraporn Nitiprapha)
7. The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
8. The Thief of Always (Clive Barker)
9. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
10. Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window (Tetsuko Kuroyanagi)

11. Bleeding Edge (Thomas Pynchon)
12. Rage (Stephen King)
13. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
14. The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth (Veeraporn Nitiprapha)
15. The Bone Collector (Jeffery Deaver)
16. Once Upon a Celluloid Planet: Where Cinema Ruled (Sonthaya Subyen & Morimart Raden-Ahmad)
17. No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
18. Film Screenwriting (Thida Plitpholkarnpim)