Ten More Hard Books I Want to Read (But It’s Fine If You Don’t)

Consider each of these a suggestion for The Big Book Summer Challenge 2024 created by ‪@SueJacksonDE‬.

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Chapters
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00:00 On Hard Books
01:37 Book 1 (Fiction)
03:45 Bonus Books that Distend Time
06:12 Final Thoughts on Book 1
06:52 Book 2 (Fiction)
10:38 Book 3 (History & Journalism)
14:24 Book 4 (Fiction)
16:31 Book 5 (Fiction)
21:09 Book 6 (Fiction)
23:38 Book 7 (Fiction)
26:01 Book 8 (Essays & Poetry)
27:58 Book 9 (Science History)
30:01 Book 10 (Philosophy)
33:32 Outro

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Books Featured (With Amazon Links)
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Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young: https://amzn.to/4cgF5Bb
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker: https://amzn.to/3VDo52J
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: https://amzn.to/3KFznNx
Anniversaries 1 & 2 by Uwe Johnson: https://amzn.to/3z0ysEY
Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec: https://amzn.to/3VCgilE
The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus: https://amzn.to/4eoMtfZ
Xorandor/Verbivore by Christine Brooke-Rose: https://amzn.to/4eidEZN
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West: https://amzn.to/3Xt47ZE
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu: https://amzn.to/45ptsWt
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann: https://amzn.to/4emZl6k
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein: https://amzn.to/4cfAoYv
Women as Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek: https://amzn.to/3KE6voW
The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek: https://amzn.to/3z3Drow
The Laura (Riding) Jackson Reader: https://amzn.to/45p5g6P
The Poems of Laura Riding: https://amzn.to/3KFLkCP
Objectivity by Lorraine Daston & Peter L. Galison: https://amzn.to/3xmUQru
Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: https://amzn.to/3Rm0m4D
Human Life, Action, and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe: https://amzn.to/3RrPlPj
Logic, Truth and Meaning by G.E.M. Anscombe: https://amzn.to/3RpFc5G
From Plato to Wittgenstein by G.E.M. Anscombe: https://amzn.to/3z7ZfPy
Faith in a Hard Ground by G.E.M. Anscombe: https://amzn.to/3xi11Nz

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