OUR SUMMER READING PILES

We desperately need more time to read, so this summer we are prioritising reading over pretty much all other activities. Here are a few books we feel are pulling us towards them.

STELLA:

Theory and Practice by Michelle de Kretser

The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat by Brannavan Gnanalingam

A Sunny Place for Shady People by Marianna Enriques (translated by Megan McDowell)

Tremor by Teju Cole

Ticknor by Sheila Heti

Take What You Need by Idra Novey

The Royal Free by Carl Shuker

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Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith (translated by Jennifer Russell)

 

THOMAS:

Tell by Jonathan Buckley

Diaries by Franz Kafka (translated by Ross Benjamin)

All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles

The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute (translated by Maria Jolas)

Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking by Han Smith

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams

Slender Volumes by Richard von Sturmer

I Don’t Care by Ágota Kristóf (translated by Chris Andrews)

The Plague by Jacqueline Rose

Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton

Not pictured but certainly on the pile:
The Calculation of Volume, Book I and Book II by Solvej Balle (translated by Barbara J. Haveland)

 

What books are on your summer reading pile? Lets us know — or let us help you build it!