|
I know we just did a non-fiction book for the past month but just to throw this out there, I've been interested in reading Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty since it's definitely polarizing but has received a lot of attention (noteworthy?) since it has been published. I thought it would be a lot easier to read as a group.
|
#
¿
Jun 21, 2014 04:18
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 15, 2024 17:06 |
|
|
Hieronymous Alloy posted:Any remaining suggestions? Poll setup got a little delayed by the Great Downtime. I may trawl through the most recent "real literature" thread for some more suggestions. Cheers! Thanks for the thread link, it's exactly what I was looking for. IIRC it's out for the kindle if people have that option. As for recent literature, I was looking through the Nobel Prize thread and a Scandinavian author on the list that had been mentioned by other users sounds like it would be worthwhile.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 26, 2014 20:29
|
|
|
Hieronymous Alloy posted:Do you mean Knut Hamsen? Hunger would probably be a decent pick but I'm a little worried about making it an Official Book Barn Pick due to the whole "author was literally a huge hitler fan" thing. In regards to the list, I haven't read any of the authors so I added them to my to-read collection; in regards to the Scandinavian discussion, there are two other female authors mentioned, Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter and Selma Lagerlöf's Gösta Berling's Saga though I'd like to read Pär Lagerkvist's The Dwarf because I think it would be easier since it's slightly more modern. I don't want to start another one of those cyclical debates that pop-up in the Sci-Fi thread about not reading authors' works because they're racist scumbags but he's Scandinavian and wrote something supposedly good so put it on a poll? I haven't gone through the official Book Barn Picks from before but while the authors may not have been on Knut's level, I don't believe that they were all saints either.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 26, 2014 21:36
|
|