Books That I Like
Explore my curated list of favorite books across genres—discover must-read novels, insightful non-fiction, and hidden literary gems for your next great read.
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Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed, he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
A novel about writing a novel is the subject of this complex classic which has been described as the greatest shaggy dog story in the English language. This edition uses the Florida University Press text.
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Simulacra and Simulation
by Jean Baudrillard
Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
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