The 10 books are: Claire Messud: The Emperor‘s Children. John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor. Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World. Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Bill Bryson: The Lost Continent. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway. Zadie Smith: White Teeth. Julian Barnes: Arthur & George. Colm Toibin: The Master. Philip Roth: The Plot against America.

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Why did I pick these books (6 of 10)?

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is the only play on this list of ten. There would not be any on my list if I had not read Arthur Miller's splendid autobiography Timebends sometime last year. It never stopped keeping me interested in his enviable, though sometimes difficult, life. I vowed that I would read one play a month from then on. But in the end, as sudden and intense as my enthusiam was, as short-lived was my promise. At least I succeeded in reading two of Arthur Miller's plays:

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