Krakauer, Into the Wild (1996; 2015)

Jon Krakauer.
Into the Wild.
New York: Vintage Books (Penguin Random House), 2015.
First published: New York: Villard Books (Random House), 1996.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Jon Krakauer (b. 1954).
• Into the Wild (1996).
• Chris McCandless (1968 – 1992).
• Chris McCandless Reading List:
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862).
  • Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), War and Peace (1869).
  • Jack London (1876–1916).
  • Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), Doctor Zhivago (1957).
• Everett Ruess (1914–c.1934), another young man who enjoyed solo wilderness expeditions.

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O'Brien, The Things They Carried (1990)

Tim O'Brien.
The Things They Carried.
New York: Mariner Books (HarperCollins Publishers), 2009.
First published: New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Tim O'Brien (b. 1946).
• The Things They Carried (1990).
• American literature: Post-World War II fiction.
• American literature: Contemporary fiction.
• Vietnam War, 1955 – 1975.
• Quảng Ngãi province.

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Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2020)

Olga Tokarczuk.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House), 2019, 2020.
Originally published as: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2009.
First English language edition: London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962).
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, 2009, English translation first published 2018.
• Antonia Lloyd-Jones (b. 1962), translator.
• International Booker Prize: 2019; Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was on the Shortlist.
• 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to Olga Tokarczuk.
• Polish literature.
• William Blake (1757–1827).
  • Proverbs of Hell.
  • Auguries of Innocence.
  • The Mental Traveller.

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Miscellaneous Book Reviews :

• Sarah Perry, "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk – the entire cosmic catastrophe," The Guardian, 21 Sept 2018.
• Stephanie Sy-Quia, "Meat Is Murder: On Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead," Los Angeles Review of Books, 15 November 2019.

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Other Articles by and about Olga Tokarczuk :

• Olga Tokarczuk, "[Musings] How Translators Are Saving the World," Korean Literature Now, 29 June 2019.
• Ruth Franklin, "Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels Against Nationalism," The New Yorker, 29 July 2019.
• Olga Tokarczuk, "The Tender Narrator," Nobel Prize lecture, 7 December 2019.
• Jennifer Croft, "Fulfilling the Mission: A Conversation with Olga Tokarczuk’s Translators," Los Angeles Review of Books, 7 December 2020.
• Marek Makowski, "Reading “The Books of Jacob” with — and Against — the Riverhead Reader’s Guide: A Reader’s Guide," Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 March 2022.

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King, The Long Walk (2025)

Stephen King.
The Long Walk.
New York: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 2025.
(Originally published in 1979 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.)

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Stephen King (b. 1947).
• The Long Walk (1979), originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
• Richard Bachman, pseudonym of Stephen King.

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McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023)

James McBride.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House), 2023.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• James McBride (b. 1957).
• James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023).
• James McBride, The Good Lord Bird (2013) won the National Book Award for Fiction.
• James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1995).

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Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
Breakfast of Champions.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; GoodReads.com: Breakfast of Champions only; Amazon.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; Amazon.com: Breakfast of Champions only.

Novels & Stories 1963–1973 also contains three short stories:

• "Welcome to the Monkey House," 1968
• "Fortitude," 1968 [actually a play / screenplay]
• "The Big Space Fuck," 1972

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007).
• Breakfast of Champions (1973).
• "Welcome to the Monkey House" (1968).
• Fortitude (1968).
• Sidney Offit (b. 1928).

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Tokarczuk, Flights (2019)

Olga Tokarczuk.
Flights.
Translated by Jennifer Croft.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House), 2019.
Originally published as: Bieguni, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2007.
First English language edition: London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962).
• Flights, 2007, English translation first published 2017.
• From the Wikipedia article Flights : "The original Polish title [Bieguni] refers to runaways (runners, bieguni), a sect of Old Believers [Russian Orthodox Church], who believe that being in constant motion is a trick to avoid evil."
• Flights is described as a fragmentary novel; this article list several well known novels that are examples of that style.
  [Personally I think it's better described as a collection of short stories.]
• International Booker Prize: 2018 awarded to Flights.
• 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk.
• Jennifer Croft (b. 1981 or 1982), translator.

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Miscellaneous Book Reviews :

• anonymous, "Flights," Kirkus Reviews, 14 May 2018.
• Kapka Kassabova, "Flights by Olga Tokarczuk review – the ways of wanderers," The Guardian, 3 June 2017.
• James Wood, "'Flights,' a Novel That Never Settles Down, The New Yorker, 24 September 2018.
• Adam Mars-Jones, "Constellationality," London Review of Books, 5 October 2017.
• Eileen Battersby, "Complex Harmonies: On Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights," Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 April 2018.
• Shazia Hafiz Ramji, "A Soaring Novel in 116 'Flights', Chicago Review of Books, 31 August 2018.
• Anna Badkhen, "The View from 35,000 Feet," New York Review of Books, 4 December 2018.

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Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
Slaughterhouse-Five.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; GoodReads.com: Slaughterhouse-Five only; Amazon.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; Amazon.com: Slaughterhouse-Five only.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007).
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).
• Sidney Offit (b. 1928).

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Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; GoodReads.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; GoodReads.com: God Bless You ... only; Amazon.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; Amazon.com: God Bless You ... only.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007).
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965).
• Sidney Offit (b. 1928).

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Notable Quotes :

• "What in hell are people for?" (Chapter 2, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, page 204 in the Library of America edition.)
• "The problem is this: how to love people who have no use?" (Chapter 14, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, page 332 in the Library of America edition.)

Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
Cat’s Cradle.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; GoodReads.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; GoodReads.com: Cat’s Cradle only; Amazon.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; Amazon.com: Cat’s Cradle only.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007).
• Cat's Cradle (1963).
• Sidney Offit (b. 1928).

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