(Almost all of these are brand new and available at your favourite local bookstore. That bookstore is Duthie Books. Please don't put me out of a job. Stupid Amazon.)
1. Lark and Termite - Jayne Anne Phillips
Gah. Gorgeous.
2. The Women - TC Boyle
Outrageous ladies in love with an eccentric architect.
3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
The original title of the translation of this french novel was Welcome to Awesometown.
4. Don't Cry - Mary Gaitskill
Dark stellar stories.
5. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry - Leanne Shapton
A fake auction novel. You read that right.
Books of All Time
1. Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen
Hilarious, sexy, startling, gritty, experimental Canadian fiction. Also, the author is super hot.
2. The Favourite Game - Leonard Cohen
What? I can't have two books by the same author on my list? Suck it jerks.
3. What's Not to Love? The Adventures of Mildly Perverted Young Writer - Jonathan Ames
Obvious. Next.
4. Drop City - TC Boyle
Hippies falling apart everywhere.
5. Pastoralia - George Saunders
Will break your heart and send beer flying out of your nostrils.
Special Bonus Title (with chocolate sauce):
Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
-Seriously, why have you all not read this? Don't talk back.
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