{"id":2962,"date":"2016-01-16T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2016-01-16T02:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T02:49:01","slug":"10-books-i-want-to-read-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2016\/01\/16\/10-books-i-want-to-read-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Books I Want to Read in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">These are the top ten books I want\u00a0to read in 2016, ranked based on priority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Cloud Atlas<\/em>, David Mitchell<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">I need to break into the David Mitchell bubble, and why not start with his most well-known work? Besides, I already have this book on my shelf, and it\u2019s been waiting to be read for some time now.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>The Vorhh<\/em>, Brian Catling<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another book I already own (I didn\u2019t get around to it this break). I\u2019m fascinated by the premise of this novel, which, as I understand it, follows a cast of characters as they converge and diverge in a mystical forest that may or may not contain the Garden of Eden. Exciting, fantastical stuff.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>The Royal Family<\/em>, William T. Vollman<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Based on the intensity with which a few recommenders recommended this book to me, I\u2019ll read <em>The Royal Family<\/em>\u00a0as the inaugural book this summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Fear and Trembling<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">This one comes recommended by a friend, who read it over winter break. An early modern interpretation of Christianity and the nature of faith by the father of existentialism.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>The Book of Night Women<\/em>, Marlon James<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recommended to me by a professor. Marlon James also won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for <em>A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/em>, which is, of course, a sure, if not certain, stamp of approval.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Infinite Jest<\/em>, David Foster Wallace<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Infinite Jest<\/em> has been on my radar for some time now, and having recently watched <em>The End of the Tour<\/em>, I\u2019ve decided I can\u2019t ignore it for much longer. I\u2019ll aim to read this over summer, which I think is the best time to read such a capacious novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Fifth Business<\/em>, Robertson Davies<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another book recommended by a friend, I\u2019m actually being forced into reading this one. I\u2019ve read positive reviews of it, however, which is promising.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Underworld<\/em>, Don DeLillo<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">A professor recommended <em>Underworld<\/em> to me based on my predilection for Roberto Bola\u00f1o. I\u2019ve dipped my toes into DeLillo waters with <em>Falling Man<\/em> and <em>Point Omega<\/em>, though these are post-<em>Underworld<\/em> DeLillo works, which I\u2019m told are not the same. It\u2019ll be thrilling to read three massive tomes by Vollman, Wallace, and DeLillo over summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Blood Meridian<\/em>, Cormac McCarthy<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019ve been told so many things about this book\u2014that it\u2019s violent, unnerving, and comparable to Herman Melville&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Moby-Dick<\/em> and Dante Alighieri&#8217;s <em>Inferno<\/em>\u2014that I can\u2019t put it off for another year.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>The People in the Trees<\/em>, Hanya Yanagihara<\/span>\n<ul class=\"ol2\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yanagihara\u2019s first novel. Though I don\u2019t expect <em>The People in the Trees<\/em> to equal <em>A Little Life<\/em>, I do hope to be moved the same by Yanagihara\u2019s storytelling and characterization in a more condensed form. It would also be nice to get a grasp on Yanagihara\u2019s oeuvre before it gets larger.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the top ten books I want\u00a0to read in 2016, ranked based on priority.\u00a0 Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell I need to break into the David Mitchell bubble, and why not start with his most well-known work? Besides, I already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2016\/01\/16\/10-books-i-want-to-read-in-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[541,118,117],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-10-books-i-want-to-read-in-2016","tag-chun","tag-cody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}