The books that changed me the most
(a work in progress…)
- Barbara COMYNS – The Vet’s Daughter
- Julio CORTAZAR – Hopscotch
- Emily DICKINSON – The Complete Poems
- Fyodor DOSTOYEVSKY – Crime and Punishment
- Marguerite DURAS – The Lover
- William FAULKNER – The Wild Palms
- Janet FRAME – The Lagoon
- Arnon GRUNBERG – Tirza
- Franz KAFKA – The Zurau Aphorisms, The Diaries
- Clarice LISPECTOR – An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
- Thomas MANN – The Magic Mountain
- Carson MCCULLERS – The Member of the Wedding
- Alice MUNRO – Dear Life
- Vladimir NABOKOV – Lolita
- Jean RHYS – Wide Sargasso Sea
- Marilynne ROBINSON – Housekeeping
- Jean-Paul SARTRE – Nausea
- Magda SZABO – The Door
- Wislawa SZYMBORSKA – View with a Grain of Sand
- Virginia WOOLF – The Waves
Favourite authors
- Comyns, Barbara (England, 1907 – 1992)
- The Vet’s Daughter (1959)
- Jackson, Shirley (USA, 1916 – 1965)
- The Bird’s Nest (1954)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
- Krauss, Nicole (USA, 1974)
- Forest Dark (2017)
- Laurence, Margaret (Canada, 1926 – 1987)
- The Fire-Dwellers (1969)
- Levy, Deborah (South Africa/ England, 1959)
- Hot Milk (2016)
- Swimming Home (2011)
- Munro, Alice (Canada, 1931)
- Runaway (2004)
- Rhys, Jean (Dominica, 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979)
- Wide Sargasso Sea, (1966)
- Robinson, Marilynne (USA, 1943)
- Housekeeping (1980)
- Smith, Ali (Scotland, 1962)
- There But For The (2011)
- How to Be Both (2014)
- Public Library and Other Stories (2015)
- Autumn (2016)
- Szabo, Magda (Hungary, 1917 – 2007)
- The Door, tr. Len Rix, 2005 (Az ajtó, 1987)
- Woolf, Virginia (England, 1882 – 1941)
- Orlando (1928)
Favourite books reviewed on the blog
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