Showing posts with label Coetzee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coetzee. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2010

books that demand to be read

We've all been asked countless times by friends and random somebodies what our favourite books might be. Every social networking site or blog inevitably includes 'favourite books' as a profile box to fill, and it's probably the only box I feel comfortable with filling. But for some reason, I can never seem to sum it up at that very moment when I need to be definitive. I always miss the most incredible books out of my pick, or get a heavy dose of brain fog when called upon to utter my favourite authors. So to that end, I thought I'd sit down and actually work out what books I really do care about. The books that, for me at least, demand to be read: