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 David Liss
is currently a doctoral candidate in the department of English at Columbia University, where he is completing his dissertation on how the mid-eighteenth-century novel reflects and shapes the emergence of the modern idea of personal finance. Visit his website at www.davidliss.com.
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David Liss's Summer Reading List
ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH
by Chinua Achebe
Ever since I subscribed to the Economist I've become a little bit obsessed with African politics; a friend of mine who specializes in the area suggests this as one of the best books on the subject.
EXPERIENCE
by Martin Amis
I've long loved his novels and have been looking forward to this memoir.
MIDDLEMARCH
by George Eliot
This is one of those books that is not officially on my list of shame because I have read it, but it has been so long that I remember almost nothing about it.
THE GATES OF THE ALAMO
by Stephen Harrigan
My wife and I are moving to San Antonio this summer, so it seemed like a good reason to read this well-reviewed novel.
THE JEWISH STATE: The Struggle for Israel's Soul
by Yoram Hazony
I'm fascinated by the current political situation in Israel, and I can't wait to dip into this
polemical book.
HOW TO BE GOOD
by Nick Hornby
I would read a laundry list by Hornby; I think he is one of the most engaging and talented wordsmiths around.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS: Witchcraft in Early Modern England
by James Sharpe
I'm beginning a new area of research - that is the contract between pre-modern superstition and modern scientific thought - and this seemed liked a good place
to start.
THE BROTHERS ASHKENAZI
by Israel Joshua Singer
I've never before read anything by I. B.'s less famous brother, but I tend to find these Eastern European Jewish family sagas very absorbing.
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
This has long been on the list of books that my wife teaches almost every semester, forcing me to recognize that I've never read this important American classic.
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