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| A stack of books that I bought all of August last year |
Anyone who adores books will most probably love every aspect of it, from actually reading them, then writing about them, and eventually collecting stacks of them. If I made the right assumption about you then can I also extend the assumption that you have an ever growing wishlist of books that you want to read and buy next? My list isn’t in just one form, it’s on my phone notes app, the continuation is scribbled on some journal entry, and the rest can be found (when they are found, because they’re mostly just lost now) on bits of paper slipped into random notebooks that were meant to act as bookmarks.
While I welcome chaos under the misguided notion that it helps me to be creative, I feel like there should be an attempt to tidy this little corner of my mind. Here is my attempt to re-home those said lists into one master wishlist:
1. Passing by Nella Larsen - I love the NYRB editions of books and I saw that this has one
2. Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader by Jose Canuday - I would love to learn more about the history of and culture of Mindanao. I’ve always found it to be unique compared to the rest of the Philippines.
(These two are recent additions to my list because I saw them in a bookstore last month, now we move on to books I’ve noted down in the last few years.)
3. The Patterns of Ordinary Existence - Virginia Woolf
4. Terror of the Unforseen
5. Phantestes
6. The Blackwater Lightship
7. All About Love by Bell Hooks
8. The White Album by Joan Didion
9. Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
10. A Certain Hunger by Chelsea Summers
11. People Are Crazy Here by Rex Reed
12. In the Name of Civil Society: From Free Election Movements to People Power in the Philippines
13. The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen
14. Alive Together by Liesl Mueller
15. The Little Vineyard in Provence
16. Slaughterhouse Five
17. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
18. Art by Clive Bell
19. Ways of Seeing
20. Freakonomics
21. Far From the Madding Crowd
22. The Godfather
23. Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
24. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
25. Life is Elsewhere
26. Groupies by Sarah Priscus
27. Valley of the Dolls
28. Giovanni’s Room
29. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
30. Life Swap by Jane Green
31. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
32. Sanditon by Jane Austen
33. Summer by Edith Wharton
34. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
35. Ghost Rider by Neil Peart
36. Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
37. Doveglion by Jose Garcia Villa
38. *look for a book by W.B. Yeats
39. Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
40. Black Swan by Eve Babitz
41. Slow Days, Fast Company
42. A Question of Heroes by Nick Joaquin
43. But for The Lovers by Wilfredo Nolledo
44. Pagsibol by Onofre Pagsanghan
45. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
46. Violet Bent Over Backwards (the physical book is a feast for the eyes)
47. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
48. Lord Byron Selected Poems by Penguin
49. Madonna in a Fur Coat
50. The Book of Disquiet
51. Alice Munro - Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship and Marriage
52. The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
53. Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
54. Hotbed by Joanna Scutts
55. Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas
I will continue to edit this post whenever I have something new to add or on a happier note, whenever I have read something from this list. I would be more than happy to receive any comments about the books on this list, whether they excited you or wanted to tear your hair out. Happy reading!