35 Books
Hospital Journal: 35 Books During and After Chemotherapy
These are the books I read during and after chemotherapy: Reading does save lives.
Thomas Mann by Herbert Lehnert
Blood Splatters Quickly: Selected Stories by Ed Wood, Jr.
David Bowie and The Search of Life, Death, and God by Peter Omerod
One No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
The Telephone Booth Indian by A.J. Liebling
The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carré
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The World of Yesterday by Stephan Zweig
The Big Con by David W. Mauer
A Murder of Quality by John Le Carré
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carré
Voices by Frederic Prokosch
Little Castles of Bohemia by Gérad de Nerval
Travel in the Americas by Albert Camus
The Looking Glass War by John Le Carré
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
Transcription by Ben Lerner
Leaving The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
The Ribbon At Olympia’s Throat by Michel Leiris
Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life by Mason Currey
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Scorpions by Yumiko Kurahashi
Drifting by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Return of the Maltese Falcon by Max Allan Collins
The Siren’s Lament: Essential Stories by Junichro Tanizaki
No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and The Women Who Shaped The Scene by Adele Bertei
10:04 by Ben Lerner
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Georges Braque & Others by Trevor Winkfield
Experience by Martin Amis
My Heart & I Agree by Lucy Sante
A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson
Justice With A Smile by Osamu Dazai
Thanks, Tosh! I read the Bowie book, it was something we always wondered about; driving like a demon from station to station right enough. I've read histories and biographies for so long and now I'm drawn back to fiction. I've read books you've recommended on several occasions, so I'm checking out this list. You have been in a particular frame of mind though - reading also saves lives...
Lots of John le Carré, Huysmans, and Ben Lerner — but best of all, Moomins! ♥️