Best of the Backlist 2011!

Happy New Year! Here's a video about some books I really enjoyed reading in 2011. It's not exactly a "best of" list and not exactly a "2011" list. Well, just watch it - you'll see! The books included in the list are: 1. "The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini" 2. "Histoire amoureuse des gaules" by Bussy-Rabutin 3. "The Female Quixote" by Charlotte Lennox 4. "The Travels of Mungo Park" 5. "The Golovlovs" (aka "The Golovlyov Family") by M. Saltykov-Shchedrin 6. "New Poets of England and America" edited by Donald Hall, Robert Pack and Louis Simpson 7. "Les gommes" by Alain Robbe-Grillet 8. "Deserted Cities of the Heart" by Lewis Shiner 9. "Trujillo" by Lucius Shepard 10. "Aegypt" (aka "The Solitudes") and "Love and Sleep" by John Crowley.

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[ferdinandthecrow]

DCOTH (the book) came out in '88 so he must have borrowed it from them.

[rebeccaoppenheimer]

@ferdinandthecrow What, you did your *own* research? Isn't that what Telephone Reference is for?

[ferdinandthecrow]

Did Cream get their song title "Deserted Cities of the Heart" from Shiner or vice versa? The only one I've read is Cellini, & some of the poems o'course.

[rebeccaoppenheimer]

@ferdinandthecrow I bet you'd like Mungo Park. Not that you don't have enough on your to-read list . . .

[LastBankJob]

Wow, the first seven are right up my alley. More for my list for the book fairs this year. Thanks! NYRB is a great imprint. I have yet to read one of their books I didn't like.

[rebeccaoppenheimer]

@LastBankJob Excellent - I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Stop back and let me know! Yes, I love NYRB. I've discovered some great things through them, and occasionally felt validated when they've reprinted an old favorite. Love your user name, by the way :) .

[ferdinandthecrow]

@rebeccaoppenheimer Ah, TRS Roulette....I once heard someone up there tell a caller "Hubert Humphrey became Vice President the same day Lyndon Johnson became President!" Well, he was only off by about 14 months....I've also been told "We don't have that book" or "We don't have anything by that author" then found out we DOOOOOO....Some of those folks are as qualified for that job as I'd be to go to BWI & fly a plane, or to Mercy & do brain surgery.