Random Favorite Reads of Freeque's From 2010

FAVORITE NOVELLA(s):

Travesty by John Hawkes
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West



FAVORITE SHORT STORY COLLECTION(s):

The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
The Stories of Breece D'J' Pancake by Breece D'J' Pancake
Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace

 

FAVORITE FIRST NOVEL:

Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter



FAVORITE MILITARY READ:

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien



FAVORITE CLASSIC:

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevski



FAVORITE LITERARY NOVEL(s):

Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson
Merciless Beauty by Sam Eisenstein 

 

FAVORITE MEMOIR(s):

Digging Deeper: A Memoir of the Seventies by Peter Weissman
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Cherry by Mary Karr

 

FAVORITE ESSAY COLLECTION(s)

Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell
Finding a Form: Essays by William H. Gass

   


FAVORITE POLITICAL READ:

Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June by Harrison E. Salisbury


 


FAVORITE MACABRE READ(s):


The Totem by David Morrell
The Descent by Jeff Long

 

FAVORITE DARK FANTASY:

Wraeththu by Storm Constantine



FAVORITE NOIR(s):

Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 

  

FAVORITE LITERARY THRILLER:


The Same River Twice by Ted Mooney



FAVORITE LITERARY CRITICISM:

Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace and Infinite Jest by Greg Carlisle 

 

FAVORITE BOOKS I RE-READ IN 2010:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
Last Vanities by Fleur Jaeggy



BOOKS I DIDN'T FINISH THAT FELT LIKE THEY WOULD BECOME FAVORITES ONCE I FINISHED THEM:

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
Dostoyevsky: A Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank 

 

MY ALL-AROUND FAVORITE READ OF THE YEAR:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 

 

It's even better the third time around