Luxury

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My next course will be 'Contemporary Writing', and I have the luxury of having the reading list now instead of two weeks into the course, as I did last time, so hopefully I'll be able to have a life in between essays next term.

The books I will be reading in a leisurely way over the summer are:

• White Teeth (which I've read before, enjoyed, and was meaning to re-read since seeing the TV adaptation, which I thought was very good)
• Austerlitz
• Trumpet
• Shopping and Fucking (which Amazon, rather sweetly, calls 'Shopping and F***ing')
• Paul Muldoon's Poems 1968-1998
• Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003

Amazon must love me ;-)

If anyone knows any of these authors/books, I'd be interested to hear what you think. Apart from Zadie Smith, and a vague recollection of outrage at S&F, they're all an unknown quantity to me.