the sexy library. by gradspot.
I like to ponder the human condition and finish the unfinishables. At least that’s what GradSpot reckons. The new life-after-college website wants to help you build a sexier library. “25 Books That Look Good and Read Even Better” is presented in a five-set: revisiting the reading list, intellectualism, dwelling on the human condition, NYT best sellers and the unfinishables.
Re-visitations are a given. I’ve read more Twain than any woman has a right to and Hemingway is, well, Hemingway. I’ve pretty much covered ‘pondering’ – I’ll touch on my Stephen Hawking obsession later – but clearly I aint smart because excluding Aldous I’ve only read Nabokov. I’m also not up on my bestsellers. At all. None read. I have no idea what the unfinishables list is all about because who doesn’t finish Faulkner? ??
If I’ve managed to lose you, have a look below and all will be made right. Books to build your library. Whether you read them or not. Apparently.
The best “Time To Revisit It Now That It’s Off the Reading List book”:
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Sun Also Rises, Earnest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The best “Yes, I am an intellectual. What tipped you off?” book:
Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
White Noise, Don DeLillo
The Magus, John Fowles
The best “In My Spare Time I Like to Ponder the Human Condition” book:
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
How the Mind Works, Stephen Pinker
The Moral Animal, Robert Wright
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen J. Gould
The “Why Yes, I Do Follow The New York Times Bestseller List” book:
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright
Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The best “Has Anyone Ever Really Finished This?” book:
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
A Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Ulysses, James Joyce
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
