The Best Books We Read in 2013 Lyrics

Moods, Rachel B Glaser
Personae, Sergio de la Pava
Shoot!, Luigi Pirandello
Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary Ruefle
Speedboat, Renata Adler

@jeeho:

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

@CleverPseudonym:

Hamlet, William Shakespeare
The Inferno, Dante Alighieri
The Aeneid, Virgil
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

@afictional:

Anecdotal Theory, Jane Gallop
Rhythm Science, Paul D. Miller
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
if you don’t love the moon your an asshole, Steve Roggenbruck
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin
(Runner-up: Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon)

@superflyronald:

Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber
Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
White Girls, Hilton Als
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, Will Cuppy
The Chairs Are Where The People Go, Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti

@Shaz:

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Tartuffe, Molière
Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

@Mr_Varnell:

Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop, Adam Bradley
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang
Jay Z: The King of America, Mark Beaumont
The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, Rachel Maddow

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