Top Books First Read in 2021

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Novels:

• Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens, 1855-57)
• Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1899-1900)
• Enemies, a Love Story (Isaac Bashevis Singer, trans. Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub, 1966)

Poetry:

• Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies (Hesiod and Theognis, trans. Dorothea Wender, c.700-490 BCE)

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens, 1855-57)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, trans. Ann Dunnigan, 1865-69/73)
• Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1899-1900)
• Enemies, a Love Story (Isaac Bashevis Singer, trans. Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub, 1966)
• Purity (Jonathan Franzen, 2015)

Poetry:

• Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies (Hesiod and Theognis, trans. Dorothea Wender, c.700-490 BCE)

Non-fiction:

• Jerry Lewis (Chris Fujiwara, 2009)

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Novels:

• Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens, 1855-57)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, trans. Ann Dunnigan, 1865-69/73)
• Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1899-1900)
• Enemies, a Love Story (Isaac Bashevis Singer, trans. Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub, 1966)
• Purity (Jonathan Franzen, 2015)

Poetry:

• Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies (Hesiod and Theognis, trans. Dorothea Wender, c.700-490 BCE)

Non-fiction:

• Jerry Lewis (Chris Fujiwara, 2009)

What did you think of War and Peace? I am re-reading Anna Karenina and it's tempting to do the same with War and Peace (especially after watching Bondarchuck's adaptation), but that seems too daunting.

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens, 1855-57)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, trans. Ann Dunnigan, 1865-69/73)
• Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1899-1900)
• Rabbit, Run (John Updike, 1960)
• Enemies, a Love Story (Isaac Bashevis Singer, trans. Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub, 1966)
• Purity (Jonathan Franzen, 2015)

Short stories:

• Italian Renaissance Tales (trans. Anthony Mortimer, c.1351-1636)

Poetry:

• Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies (Hesiod and Theognis, trans. Dorothea Wender, c.700-490 BCE)
• John Dryden (ed. Keith Walker, 1681-1717)

Non-fiction:

• Jerry Lewis (Chris Fujiwara, 2009)

[baby doll]

Novels:

• Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens, 1855-57)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, trans. Ann Dunnigan, 1865-69/73)
• The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins, 1868)
• Tristana (Benito Pérez Galdós, trans. Margaret Jull Costa, 1892)
• Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1899-1900)
• Rabbit, Run (John Updike, 1960)
• Enemies, a Love Story (Isaac Bashevis Singer, trans. Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub, 1966)
• 2666 (Roberto Bolaño, trans. Natasha Wimmer, 2004)
• Purity (Jonathan Franzen, 2015)

Short stories:

• Italian Renaissance Tales (trans. Anthony Mortimer, c.1351-1636)

Poetry:

• Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies (Hesiod and Theognis, trans. Dorothea Wender, c.700-490 BCE)
• John Dryden (ed. Keith Walker, 1681-1717)

Non-fiction:

• Jerry Lewis (Chris Fujiwara, 2009)

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Novels:

• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë, 1848)
• Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens, 1855-57)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, trans. Ann Dunnigan, 1865-69/73)
• The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins, 1868)
• Tristana (Benito Pérez Galdós, trans. Margaret Jull Costa, 1892)
• Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1899-1900)
• Rabbit, Run (John Updike, 1960)
• Enemies, a Love Story (Isaac Bashevis Singer, trans. Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub, 1966)
• 2666 (Roberto Bolaño, trans. Natasha Wimmer, 2004)
• Purity (Jonathan Franzen, 2015)

Short stories:

• Italian Renaissance Tales (trans. Anthony Mortimer, c.1351-1636)

Poetry:

• Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies (Hesiod and Theognis, trans. Dorothea Wender, c.700-490 BCE)
• John Dryden (ed. Keith Walker, 1681-1717)

Non-fiction:

• Jerry Lewis (Chris Fujiwara, 2009)
• The Forms of the Affects (Eugenie Brinkema, 2014)
• Cinema's Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating (Scott C. Richmond, 2016)

[baby doll]

Novels:

• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë, 1848)
• Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens, 1855-57)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, trans. Ann Dunnigan, 1865-69/73)
• The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins, 1868)
• Tristana (Benito Pérez Galdós, trans. Margaret Jull Costa, 1892)
• Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1899-1900)
• Rabbit, Run (John Updike, 1960)
• Enemies, a Love Story (Isaac Bashevis Singer, trans. Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shrub, 1966)
• 2666 (Roberto Bolaño, trans. Natasha Wimmer, 2004)
• Purity (Jonathan Franzen, 2015)

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• Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)

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Short stories:

• Italian Renaissance Tales (trans. Anthony Mortimer, c.1351-1636)
• Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories (F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920-1941)

Poetry:

• Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies (Hesiod and Theognis, trans. Dorothea Wender, c.700-490 BCE)
• John Dryden (ed. Keith Walker, 1681-1717)

Non-fiction:

• Discourse on Method and the Meditations (René Descartes, trans. F.E. Sutcliffe, 1637-47)
• Jerry Lewis (Chris Fujiwara, 2009)
• The Forms of the Affects (Eugenie Brinkema, 2014)
• Cinema's Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating (Scott C. Richmond, 2016)