Top Books First Read in 2022

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Novels:

• The Marble Faun, or: The Romance of Monte Beni (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1860)
• The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy, 1878)
• A Passage to India (E.M. Forster, 1924)
• Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner, 1936)
• Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf, 1941)
• Seize the Day (Saul Bellow, 1956)
• The Woman in the Dunes (Abe Kobo, trans. E. Dale Saunders, 1962)
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Tom Robbins, 1976)
• All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy, 1992)
• My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk, trans. Erdaǧ M. Göknar, 1998)

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• The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann, trans. John E. Woods, 1924)

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Short stories and novellas:

• The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories (Edgar Allan Poe, 1832-1849)
• The Aspern Papers and Other Tales (Henry James, 1884-96)

Plays:

• The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare, 1611)
• Life of Galileo (Bertolt Brecht, trans. John Willett, 1943-55)

Non-fiction:

• The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle, trans. W.D. Ross, c.335-323 BCE)
• Early African-American Classics (ed. Anthony Appiah, 1845-1912)
• The Hollywood Hallucination (Parker Tyler, 1944)
• The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (Peter Brooks, 1976/95)
• Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard (Robert Stam, 1985)
• Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (Silvija Jestrovic, 2006)
• Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Yuriko Furuhata, 2013)
• Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film (Stephen Broomer, 2017)
• The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood (Patrick Keating, 2019)
• Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema (William Carroll, 2022)

[baby doll]

Novels:

• The Marble Faun, or: The Romance of Monte Beni (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1860)
• The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy, 1878)
• A Passage to India (E.M. Forster, 1924)
• Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner, 1936)
• Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf, 1941)
• Seize the Day (Saul Bellow, 1956)
• The Woman in the Dunes (Abe Kobo, trans. E. Dale Saunders, 1962)
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Tom Robbins, 1976)
• All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy, 1992)
• My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk, trans. Erdaǧ M. Göknar, 1998)

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• The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann, trans. John E. Woods, 1924)

]

Short stories and novellas:

• The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories (Edgar Allan Poe, 1832-49)
• The Complete Short Stories (Mark Twain, 1865-1916)
• The Aspern Papers and Other Tales (Henry James, 1884-96)

Plays:

• The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare, 1611)
• Life of Galileo (Bertolt Brecht, trans. John Willett, 1943-55)

Non-fiction:

• The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle, trans. W.D. Ross, c.335-23 BCE)
• Early African-American Classics (ed. Anthony Appiah, 1845-1912)
• The Hollywood Hallucination (Parker Tyler, 1944)
• Theory of the Avant-Garde (Peter Bürger, trans. Michael Shaw, 1974-80)
• The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (Peter Brooks, 1976/95)
• Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (Silvija Jestrovic, 2006)
• Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Yuriko Furuhata, 2013)
• The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood (Patrick Keating, 2019)
• Movies on Our Minds: The Evolution of Cinematic Engagement (James E. Cutting, 2021)
• Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema (William Carroll, 2022)

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• Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard (Robert Stam, 1985)
• Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film (Stephen Broomer, 2017)

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[baby doll]

Novels:

• The Marble Faun, or: The Romance of Monte Beni (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1860)
• The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy, 1878)
• A Passage to India (E.M. Forster, 1924)
• Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner, 1936)
• Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf, 1941)
• Seize the Day (Saul Bellow, 1956)
• The Woman in the Dunes (Abe Kobo, trans. E. Dale Saunders, 1962)
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Tom Robbins, 1976)
• All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy, 1992)
• My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk, trans. Erdaǧ M. Göknar, 1998)

[

Show Spoiler

• The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann, trans. John E. Woods, 1924)

]

Short stories and novellas:

• The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories (Edgar Allan Poe, 1832-49)
• The Complete Short Stories (Mark Twain, 1865-1916)
• The Aspern Papers and Other Tales (Henry James, 1884-96)

Plays:

• The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare, 1611)
• Life of Galileo (Bertolt Brecht, trans. John Willett, 1943-55)

Non-fiction:

• The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle, trans. W.D. Ross, c.335-23 BCE)
• Early African-American Classics (ed. Anthony Appiah, 1845-1912)
• The Hollywood Hallucination (Parker Tyler, 1944)
• Theory of the Avant-Garde (Peter Bürger, trans. Michael Shaw, 1974-80)
• The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (Peter Brooks, 1976/95)
• Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema (David Bordwell, 1989)
• Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (Silvija Jestrovic, 2006)
• Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Yuriko Furuhata, 2013)
• The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood (Patrick Keating, 2019)
• Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema (William Carroll, 2022)

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• Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (Werner Heisenberg, 1958)
• Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard (Robert Stam, 1985)
• Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film (Stephen Broomer, 2017)
• Movies on Our Minds: The Evolution of Cinematic Engagement (James E. Cutting, 2021)

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In progress:

• German for Reading (Karl C. Sandberg/John R. Wendel, 1973)