Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Bookshelf : best of, 2005-2009

10/10
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The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger) 2005
Eastern Approaches (Fitzroy MacLean) 2007
Ripley's Game (Patricia Highsmith) 2009

9/10
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Blue Highways (William Least Heat-Moon) 2005
Cities of the Red Night (William S Burroughs) 2006
Deliverance (James Dickey) 2008
The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson) 2005
A Fan's Notes (Frederick Exley) 2007
5 on the Outside (Vern) 2006
The Great Port (Jan Morris) 2005
Hollywood (Charles Bukowski) 2007
Junky (William S Burroughs) 2007
A Kiss Before Dying (Ira Levin) 2005 and 2007
The Lathe of Heaven (Ursula K Leguin) 2005
North Dallas Forty (Pete Gent) 2005
Roadside Picnic (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky) 2007
The Road to Oxiana (Robert Byron) 2008
The Shadow of the Sun (Ryszard Kapuscinski) 2007
Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald) 2006
This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own (Jonathan Rendall) 2007
Ubik (Philip K Dick) 2008

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pre-2005

American Psycho (Brett Easton Ellis) 10/10
AWopBopaLooBopALopBamBoom (Nik Cohn) 9/10
The Bogey Man (George Plimpton) 9/10
The Boys on the Bus (Timothy Crouse) 9/10
The Chain of Chance (Stanislaw Lem) 9/10
Child of God (Cormac McCarthy) 9/10
The Cry of the Owl (Patricia Highsmith) 9/10
Deep Water (Patricia Highsmith) 9/10
The Demon (Hubert Selby Jr) 9/10
Dispatches (Michael Herr) 9/10
Factotum (Charles Bukowski) 9/10
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 (Hunter S Thompson) 10/10
Fiasco (Stanislaw Lem) 9/10
The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald) 9/10
The Great Shark Hunt (Hunter S Thompson) 9/10
Guide for the Film Fanatic (Danny Peary) 10/10
The Informers (Brett Easton Ellis) 9/10
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) 9/10
Lights Out for the Territory (Iain Sinclair) 9/10
The Press (A J Liebling) 9/10
Shadow Box (George Plimpton) 9/10
Time Out of Joint (Philip K Dick) 9/10
The Weight of the World (Peter Handke) 10/10
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) 10/10
Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor) 9/10