Samuel Beckett Book Recommendations: More Books for Your Personal Library

Samuel Beckett Book Recommendations: More Books for Your Personal Library

This blog post was inspired by Open Culture’s, “The Books Samuel Beckett Read and Really Liked (1941-1956).” Samuel Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot (Eng rev): A Tragicomedy in Two Acts and Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, which is on my list of books to read this year. Beckett became somewhat of a recluse and the list below are the books he read with his notes (Please see Open Culture’s post). He really enjoyed JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, a book I found quite depressing. The one thing I would like to say is to give yourself permission not to like books on a must-read list because tastes vary.

The reason why I included the books from the Open Culture website here is to offer you diverse books that you can add to your personal library. Additionally, there are some books on the list that I have never heard of before, and they sound like they would be worth reading. You still have time to start the Reading Challenge by reading a book a week for 52 weeks.

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1. Andromaque by Jean Racine
2. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
3. The Castle by Franz Kafka
4. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5. Crooked House by Agatha Christie
6. Effi Briest (Penguin Classics) by Theodor Fontane
7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo
8. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
9. Lautréamont and Sade (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Maurice Blanchot
10. Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) by Andre Malraux
11. Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
12. The Stranger by Albert Camus
13. The Temptation to Exist by Emil Cioran
14. La 628-E8 (Sketches of a Journey: Travels in an Early Motorcar: From Octave Mirbeau's Journal “La 628-E8” with Illustrations) by Octave Mirbeau

How many of the 14 books have you read? I have read only two books (Catcher in the Rye and Around the World in 80 Days) and two (Journey to the End of the Night and The Stranger) are on my list of books to read this year. I love Jules Verne and I enjoyed reading Around the World in 80 Days. If you take my suggestion to read globally this year, these books will take you closer to realizing that goal.

Samuel Beckett Interview

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Get Started Here – I want to help you get started on your learning journey. Read The Invisible Mentor 2015 Reading Challenge, then Join the Facebook Group for the Reading Challenge today, connecting the ideas from the books you read!

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