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If you had to choose just 12 or fewer books that mean the most to you, the ones you'd have on your "ideal bookshelf" – what would they be, and why?
What would I include in mine?
The Bible
Pippi Longstockings (Astrid Lindgren)
A big visual book (either Magritte, photography (Chema Madoz), impressionist painting)
El Cuento Infinito (Poldy Bird)
A compilation of American short stories
A compilation of poems
My compilation of recipes (it's a book after all)
A Henning Mankell that I haven't read yet
A Niccoló Ammaniti
Whatever book we're reading in our book club, of course
That's what I can think of off the top of my head. YOUR TURN!
Nice post, Diana!
ReplyDeleteHere goes my bookshelf:
- Dracula by Bram Stocker.
- The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter.
- The Complete Works of Sarah Kane.
- El Amor, las mujeres y la Vida by Mario Benedetti
- Any novel by Jane Austen
- Any short story (horror or detective) by Sherlock Holmes.
- Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henri Muller's Hamletmachine
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl ;-)
- La vie devant soi by Romain Gary
- Le passe muraille by Marcel Aymé
- Historias de Cronopios y de Famas by Cortázar.
I can't add more than 12, can I?
:-)
Now this is a post that most certainly deserves a comment:
ReplyDelete1. Perfume-Patrick Susking (you'll never stop sniffing stuff after this one).
2. Beat the Reaper-Josh Bazell (kind of like watching a Taratino film for the first time.)
3. Name of the Rose (great metaphor on knowledge and words)
4. The Brooklyn Follies-Paul Auster (I'm very partial to Auster, it could have been another but what a storyteller).
5. 100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel García Márquez-(Macondo opened up a world for me).
6. Love in the Time of Cholera (Márquez once again at his finest).
7. Tales of the Unexpected-Roald Dahl (I agree with the previous comment-twisted mind.)
8. Don Quixote-Miguel de Cervantes (now we can't forget about the first modern and most brilliant novel, can we?).
9. The Hobbit-J.R.R. Tolkein (This may not be Tolkein's finest work but it is for me the beginning of my reading journey.)
10. Do I have to choose? The Great Gatsby (The Jazz Age) or how about Catcher in the Rye?