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# Favourite Books
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/about/favourite-books/
- Published: 2018-12-15T20:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-31T13:42:56.000Z
- Description: My favourite books
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
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These are the books that I loved when I first read them, that influenced my thinking in one way or another and that continue to linger in the back of my mind.   
  
Georges Perec: La vie. Mode d'emploi  
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest  
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire  
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Tristes Tropiques  
James Joyce: Ulysses  
Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland  
Roberto Calasso: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony  
Don DeLillo: Underworld  
Djuna Barnes: Nightwood  
Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu  
 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophische Untersuchungen  
Fernando Pessoa: Selected Poems  
Uwe Johnson: Jahrestage  
 Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths/Fictions/The Aleph  
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby  
Vasily Grossman: Life and Fate  
Thomas Bernhard: Alte Meister  
Thomas Bernhard: Das Kalkwerk  
Italo Calvino: If On a Winter's Night a Traveller  
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves  
Olivier Rolin: L'Invention du monde  
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway  
J.G. Ballard: The Atrocity Exhibition  
Ali Smith: How To Be Both  
David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas  
 Tom McCarthy: Remainder  
 Nicholson Baker: The Mezzanine  
 Michel Houellebecq: Les Particules Elémentaires  
John Fante: Ask the Dust  
Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano  
Cees Nooteboom: Rituelen  
W.F. Hermans: Nooit meer slapen  
W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz  
 Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao  
 Helen Macdonald: H Is for Hawk  
Mikhail Shiskin: The Light and the Dark  
Joe Brainard: I Remember  
Spinoza: Ethics  
 Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others  
Ted Chiang: Exhalation 

[Almost Every Book I Have Ever Read](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/almost-every-book-i-have-ever-read)