Book notes

Reading

These are the books I am actively reading.

• Catch 22, by Joseph Keller. This third or fourth attempt will be the time I finish.

Less actively reading

I’m always “reading” a dozen books, some of which I haven’t actually touched in months. These I’ve at least opened at some point in the last month or are collections that I’m working through slowly.

• Bright Magic, Alfred Döblin
• English Magic, Uschi Gatward
• Complete Short Stories, Graham Greene

Recently finished

• The Long Fall, Walter Mosley
• The Quiet American, Graham Greene
• The Last White Man, Mohsin Hamid

On deck

• After Sappho, by Selby Wynn Schwartz, another book via the Galley Beggar Press book club long-listed for the Booker.
• The Storyteller, by Dave Grohl, is still on the nightstand.

Added to the long list

These are the books I’ve run into over the last six weeks and added to some sort of “to one day read” list that is ever growing and will never shrink.

• All That Fall, Samuel Beckett
• Sojourn, Amit Chaudhuri
• Naples ’44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy, Norman Lewis
• Men at Arms, Evelyn Waugh
• Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton
• A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes