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

·  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