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Gateway Books:  

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer 

2.Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan 

3.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace  

Currently Reading: 

1. Anniversaries: A Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls 

2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky  

Anticipated Reads:  

1. William T Vollmann 

2. Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter 

 3. Blinding: The Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter 

4. A Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine translated by Ralph Manheim 

5. Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet  

6. Devil House by John Darnielle 

7. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 

8. Malina by Ingborg Bachman translated by Philip Boehm 

9. The Complete Works of Primo Levi compiled by Ann Goldstein  

Top 10:  

10. I’m Thinking of Endings Things by Iain Reid 

9. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 

8. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 

7.   Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes 

6.   The Burrow by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hofmann         

5.  In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan         

4.  Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter       

 3.  Story of the Eye by George Bataille, translated by Joachim Neugrochal  

(Correction (1:11:30) - Seth refers to the narrator's love interest as Marcelle where he meant to say Simone. Marcelle is a secondary character in the story.) 

 2.  The Recognitions by William Gaddis      

 1.  Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon