This is a repost of my chat with Ross Benjamin

⁠https://www.rossmbenjamin.com⁠

Get The Kafka Diaries here

⁠https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612561/the-diaries-of-franz-kafka-by-franz-kafka/⁠

Gateway books / writers

Asimov - Foundation Trilogy

Kafka

Joseph Roth

Dostoyevsky

Chekov

Sontag

Ralph Ellison

Richard Wright

Cynthia Ozick

Current reads / recently enjoyed /Looking forward to

Daniel Deronda - George Eliot

Lydia Davis - Essays

David Means - Two Nurses Smoking

Fernando Pesoa - Book of Disquiet

Desert Island Books

Daniel Deronda - George Eliot

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Stoner - John Williams

Dune - Frank Herbert

James. M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice/Double indemnity/Mildred Pearce

Keats - Complete Poems

Celan - Die Niemandsrose

Complete Shakespeare

The Idiot - Dostoyevsky

Kafka - Letters to Milena

The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmithth Ross Benjamin