Five books that I've already read, but for some reason are not on my shelf.
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In the Rye
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
- August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
Five books by or about Shakespeare that I really want
- King Lear
- Hamlet
- Henry V
- Mark Van Doren, Shakespeare
- Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Five books in translation I really want
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Albert Camus, The Plague
- Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience
And of course, the one book I really want
- Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, of course, came out this year, but somehow didn't make the NYT Book Review's list, which should call its credibility into question all by itself. Sure it's really neither "fiction" nor "nonfiction," but what's the point of a list if it leaves out the best stuff?
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