Top Books First Read in 2023

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Novels:

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne, 1759-67)
• Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Joseph Conrad, 1904)
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Mishima Yukio, trans. Ivan Morris, 1956)
• Zero K (Don DeLillo, 2016)

Non-fiction:

• Naïve and Sentimental Poetry, and On the Sublime: Two Essays (Friedrich von Schiller, trans. Julias A. Elias, 1795-1801)
• Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts (Jan Mukařovský, trans. Mark E. Suino, 1936)
• Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Michel Foucault, trans. Alan Sheridan, 1975)
• Aesthetics and Politics (ed. Ronald Taylor, trans. Anya Bostock et al., 1977)
• The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism (Miklós Haraszti, trans. Katalin and Stephen Landesmann and Steve Wasserman, 1983)
• Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars (ed. Jane Gaines, 1992)
• Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding American Avant-Garde Cinema (James Peterson, 1994)
• Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion (eds. Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith, 1999)
• Britton on Film: The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton (ed. Barry Keith Grant, 2009)
• Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Caroline Levine, 2015)

Deutsch als Fremdsprache:

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

*Started August 2022.

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Novels:

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne, 1759-67)
• The Bostonians (Henry James, 1885-86)
• Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Joseph Conrad, 1904)
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Mishima Yukio, trans. Ivan Morris, 1956)
• Zero K (Don DeLillo, 2016)

Non-fiction:

• Na?ve and Sentimental Poetry, and On the Sublime: Two Essays (Friedrich von Schiller, trans. Julias A. Elias, 1795-1801)
• In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (Bertrand Russell, 1935)
• Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts (Jan Mukařovsk?, trans. Mark E. Suino, 1936)
• Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Michel Foucault, trans. Alan Sheridan, 1975)
• Aesthetics and Politics (ed. Ronald Taylor, trans. Anya Bostock et al., 1977)
• Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars (ed. Jane Gaines, 1992)
• Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding American Avant-Garde Cinema (James Peterson, 1994)
• Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion (eds. Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith, 1999)
• Britton on Film: The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton (ed. Barry Keith Grant, 2009)
• Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Caroline Levine, 2015)

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• The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism (Mikl?s Haraszti, trans. Katalin and Stephen Landesmann and Steve Wasserman, 1983)

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Deutsch als Fremdsprache:

• German for Reading (Karl C. Sandberg/John R. Wendel, 1973)*
• Short Stories in German for Beginners (Olly Richards/Alex Rawlings, 2018)

*Started August 2022.