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Day: June 29, 2017

Pamuk, ranked

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Josh Nudell

My ranking of Orhan Pamuk’s novels:

  1. My Name is Red
  2. Snow
  3. The Black Book
  4. Museum of Innocence
  5. A Strangeness in My Mind
  6. Silent House
  7. The New Life
  8. The White Castle

There is a tier after the first three, and another after the next two. Tell me why I am wrong.

Previously: Orwell, Hemingway.

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I can’t help but feel like my summer is already over, so I’m indulging in books this weekend. Yesterday I finished Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful, a supernatural (meh), queer (ok), retelling (excellent) of The Great Gatsby—with a title I can only assume inspired by another Fitzgerald novel, The Beautiful and the Damned. Then I plowed through Harvey Levenstein’s The Paradox of Plenty, a social history of eating in the US from 1930 to the early 1990s (The edition I read came out in 1993), and now I’m reading Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa Imperial, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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