A triumph of the bizarre
VanderMeer’s Recommended Reading List 1. – Pale Fire , Vladimir Nabokov 2. – The Gormenghast Trilogy , Mervyn Peake 3. – Lanark , Alasdair Gray 4. – Jerusalem Poker , Edward Whittemore 5. – The Chess Garden , Brooks Hansen 6. – The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman , Angela Carter 7. – Alice in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll 8. – Ficciones , Jorge Luis Borges 9. – Nights at the Circus , Angela Carter 10. – Observatory Mansions , Edward Carey 11. – Possession , A.S. Byatt 12. – In Viriconium , M. John Harrison 13. – Arc d’X , Steve Erickson 14. – V , Thomas Pynchon 15. – Sinai Tapestry , Edward Whittemore 16. – Quin’s Shanghai Circus , Edward Whittemore 17. – If Upon a Winter’s Night a Traveler , Italo Calvino 18. – Collected Stories , Franz Kafka 19. – The Master & Margarita , Mikhail Bulgakov 20. – The Collected Stories , J.G. Ballard 21. – The New York Trilogy , Paul Auster 22. – Blood Meridian , Cormac McCarthy 23. – The Birth...
