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
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!