Ryan Alexander

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Gateway Books

  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

  • Hamlet

  • Goosebumps

  • Salem's Lot

  • Arguably - Christopher Hitchens

TBR

· The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Jennifer L. Croft

· The Plains, Inland, A Million Windows, Border Districts by Gerald Murnane

· Doppelgänger, Leica Format, Trieste, Belladonna, EEG by Daša Drndić; translated by S.D. Curtis, Celia Hawkesworth, and Ellen Elias-Bursać

· Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald; translated by Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell

· Mr. Theodore Mundstock, The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks; translated by Iris Urwin and Eva M. Kandler

· Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by Tadeusz Borowicki; translated by Madeline G. Levine

· Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai; translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet

· Like a Tear in the Ocean, Vols. I-III by Manès Sperber; translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon

· The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo by Aleksandar Tišma; translated by Michael Henry Heim, Bernard Johnson, and Richard Williams

· A Dreambook for Our Time, A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki; translated by David Welsh and Richard Lourie

· Nostalgia, Blinding, Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu; translated by Julian Semilian and Sean Cotter

· Kin by Miljenko Jergović; translated by Russell Scott Valentino

- Frost by Thomas Bernhard; translated by Michael Hofmann

· The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz; translated by Celina Wieniewska

· Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

· Lookout Cartridge, A Smuggler’s Bible, Hind’s Kidnap by Joseph McElroy

Top 10

  1. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy

  2. The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova

  3. How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie by Borislav Pekić; translated by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakić

  4. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell; translated by Charlotte Mandell

  5. Beloved by Toni Morrison

  6. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

  7. Ice by Anna Kavan

  8. Rising Up and Rising Down, Vol I: Three Meditations on Death, The Days of the Niblungs, Definitions for Lonely Atoms by William T. Vollmann

  9. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

  10. Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville

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