Ryan Alexander
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Vollmannia podcast @vollmannia coming in 2022
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
10. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy
9. The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
8. How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie by Borislav Pekić; translated by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakić
7. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell; translated by Charlotte Mandell
6. Beloved by Toni Morrison
5. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
4. Ice by Anna Kavan
3. Rising Up and Rising Down, Vol I: Three Meditations on Death, The Days of the Niblungs, Definitions for Lonely Atoms by William T. Vollmann
2. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
1. Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville
