Reading 1001 discussion

The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas

The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk

Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian

Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
Mentioned in:
The Marriage plot

Bartleby and Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
Mentioned in:
2666 by Roberto Bolano

Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Xose Neira Vilas

Conversations in Sicily by Elio Vittorini

In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi

Candide by Voltaire
Mentioned in:
Flaubert's Parrot by Barnes
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
American Sphinx by Ellis
The Satanic Verses
The French Lieutenant's Woman

Life of a Good-for-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff

The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans von Grimmelshausen

Books by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Slaughterhouse Five
Mentioned in:
The Bone Clocks by Mitchell

Breakfast of Champions

1001shelf wrote: "Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Mentioned in:
Saturday by Ian McEwan

1001shelf wrote: "The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans von Grimmelshausen"

In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Le Carre, p. 19), Smiley brings a copy of the book to the pub.

1001shelf wrote: "Books by Jules Verne
Journey of the Centre of Earth

Around the World in Eighty Days
Mentioned in:
Professor Martens' Departure
All the Light We Cannot See by Doerr
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Lib..."

In House of Leaves (Danielewski, p. 135), Journey to the Centre of the Earth is mentioned in a list of literary hauntings.

1001shelf wrote: "Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Mentioned in:
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster"

In House of Leaves (Danielewski, p. 656), a quote was excerpted from Walden.

1001shelf wrote: "War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Mentioned in:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Never Let Me go - Ishiguro
The Lives of Girls and Women - Munro
Everyth..."

In A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Lewycka, p. 230), the narrator felt that her father and Dubov started to sound like characters from War and Peace, as they were using patronymics to call each other.

1001shelf wrote: "Books by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Slaughterhouse Five
Mentioned in:
The Bone Clocks by Mitchell

Breakfast of Champions"

Also, in There but for the (Smith, p. 173), Mark reminisces about being on a train to see Jonathan 27 years ago and surveying what people were reading on the train. One person was reading Slaughterhouse Five.