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Andre Aciman's Reading List

The novelist and Proust scholar, whose new book is “Find Me,” calls “Mrs. Dalloway” an “overrated novel that I don’t find particularly gripping or interesting. I’m not even sure it’s well written.”

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By the Book: Andre Aciman (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-10-31).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa · Buy on Amazon
"Pessoa is a genius and is there with Proust, Joyce, Montaigne and my all-time favorite, Thucydides."
Olivia
Dorothy Strachey · Buy on Amazon
"It's the story of a schoolgirl in France who falls in love with her headmistress. Nothing happens, but it's an anatomy of human psychology and burning, unspoken desire."
La Princesse de Cleves
Madame de Lafayette · Buy on Amazon
"La Princesse de Cleves, by LaFayette, which very, very few have read."
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · Buy on Amazon
"Ethan Frome, which most readers recall from distant school days. I could never have written Call Me by Your Name without these three."
Cover of The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell · Buy on Amazon
"The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell. Darley, the narrator, returns to Alexandria, the capital of memory, where he'd known and loved Justine and Clea."
A Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne · Buy on Amazon
"It is funny, human, highly learned and literary, sexy, and filled with psychological nuances that remain unrivaled at the hands of any other psychological writer."
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes · Buy on Amazon
"Nightwood is a bold, exceptionally well-written modernist prose poem, and remains the closest thing to James Joyce."

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