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I don't think I can make a list of books I read this year. In fact... it would take a long time and some space too... I love books, I buy tons of them! I also try to be very careful when I choose a book in a bookstore, because I don't like getting certain "types" of books (like books too much aimed to the "trendy" reader who never opens a book and only reads stuff that is written to please his ignorance).
Recently, these are some of the books I read:
Le Feu Follet by Drieu Rochelle
Dangerous Journey by Tove Jansson
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Una Vita by Italo Svevo
Utsukushii Hoshi by Yukio Mishima
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
Le Buveur de Temps by Philippe Delerm
Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati by Italo Calvino
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
The Blue Flowers by Raymond Queneau
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Narayama Bushiko by Shichirô Fukazawa
Most of them are books I would recommend for a reason or another, with few exceptions.
Right now I am reading Ivanhoe by Walter Scott... a really entertaining book, I must say! This is the sort of book they make you read at school, but thanks god at that time my teacher decided studying exclusively poetry was more interesting, so I can read it now without the nauseating feeling you often get when you read for your own pleasure a book you remember from when you were a student.
I don't know what I'll read next...
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