I'm just going to post my reading list for July, at least the first 7 books I've decided on. I should note, many of the novels listed below are rather controversial due to their contents being rather... grotesque or obscene are the only fitting words. (I made one edit, one novel was a bit too much for this list)
1. Les Particules élémentaires (The Elementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq published 1998
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov published 1955 (I can't really recommend we cover this book due to the nature of it's content, although it is arguably in the top 10 English novels of all time)
3. The End of Alice by A.M. Holmes published 1996 (this may be significantly more content heavy than the other novels on this list. Quoting a review "Homes manages — with language both lyrical and frighteningly direct — to usher the reader into the horrific landscape of a disturbed mind and, at the same time, of a funny, vulnerable, ultimately very sad human being.")
4. The U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos published 1938
5. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum published 1989
6. The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce published 1978(a seriously messed up piece written by a self proclaimed white supremacist, advocates racism and antisemitism to an extreme degree)
7. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo published 1938(one of the best anti-war novels of all time)
So why did I decide to copy and paste this list (and add light commentary) because I was bored, it's late, and I am going to have to write a paper soon on this form of literature, so unfortunately next month will be a slog through these wretched novel. That said, number four is an excellent trilogy according to the Officer buddy of mine who recommended it, though it is an extremely experimental novel with a format not often replicated.
