11 Books I Wish I Could Read for the First Time Again

I'm jealous of anyone who hasn't read these yet. (I realize I kept saying "reread again for the first time" rather than "read again for the first time." Ignore that.)

0:00 Intro
0:55 Beowulf
2:43 The Sagas of the Icelanders
3:54 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
5:27 Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
6:40 Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds
7:54 Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle
9:17 Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
10:54 Agota Kristóf, The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie
12:18 Anne Carson, Nox
14:22 Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
15:34 Mathias Énard, Zone


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Zone: https://amzn.to/3Uoj3Ds

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