the book recommendation thread

[wysteria]

i need new stuff to read, as the semester is closing and i am super happy to be done with this womens lit class i took.

so recommend me stuff that hasnt been harped on about a million times over.
ie. no bell jar, no palahniuk, no wurtzel.
ive read them all.
no virginia woolf either please, my professor was in love with her. and i think id die if i ever have to read another of her works.

my recommendation for you is: sex, drugs and cocoa puffs by chuck klosterman.
essays on pop culture basically (he writes for spin, im not sure if he still does, i think so)

go.

[MarilynMonroe]

Flowers of Evil -Charles Baudelaire (great poetry)
Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood (or anything else by him!)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Stranger - Albert Camus

i have more...but I dont know what you've read and what's been "over-harped" besides what you've listed...except Valley of the Dolls...which I havent read myself...

[*k8*]

wysteria-wierd thing just happend, i didn't read you're whole post and was just like...sex drugs and cocoa puffs, everybody should read it. but...hehe. that was your recommendation. hmmm...so now all i can think of is she's come undone by wally lamb, but that's a played out book too.

have you read killing yourself to live by klosterman? it's only in hardcover at my local bookstore...but...i'm not sure if i want to spend 40 bucks on it.

[sunday green]

anything by paul auster - start with the new york trilogy

also craig clevenger - the contortionist's handbook

those are the two books i recommend religiously

recent stuff i've been recommended and loved are and the ass saw the angel by nick cave and hey nostradamus by douglas copeland

it appears i only read books written by men, hmm...

[gelflinggirl]

mister god htis is anna by fynn.
the sexual life of catherne m by catherine millet.
the secret life of bees.