a collection of books on my shelf that are up for borrowing, for friends in the greater boston area. please take care of them

customizable library card provided upon request. collection is less indicative of my tastes but rather its intersection with what can be found for free in the streets or for cheap in local second-hand bookstores (shoutout commonwealth, bryn mawr, harvard bookstore).

• LOST CITY RADIO by Daniel Alarcón, 2007
• HELENA by Machado de Assis, 1987
• DON CASMURRO by Machado de Assis, 1963
• PETITS POÈMES EN PROSE by Charles Baudelaire, 1869 [FR]
• IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER by Italo Calvino, 1979
• LA PESTE by Albert Camus, 1947
• SELECTED STORIES by Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904
• STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS by Ted Chiang, 2002
• THE PLEDGE by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1958
• FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM by Umberto Eco, 1988
• MY BRILLIANT FRIEND by Elena Ferrante
• THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS by Elena Ferrante, 2019
• TROTZDEM JA ZUM LEBEN SAGEN by Viktor Frankl, 1946 [DE]
• SOUMISSION by Michel Houellebecq, 2015 [FR]
• STEVE JOBS by Walter Isaacson, 2011
• HUMAN ACTS by Han Kang, 2014
• IMMORTALITY by Milan Kundera, 1990
• RISIBLES AMOURS by Milan Kundera, 1986 [FR]
• THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING by Milan Kundera, 1978
• WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantel, 2009
• EMBERS by Sándor Márai, 1942
• THE CHILDREN ACT by Ian McEwan, 2014
• DEAR LIFE by Alice Munro, 2012
• HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE by Alice Munro, 2001
• THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN by Alice Munro, 1998
• WHAT IF? by Randall Munroe, 2014
• OPEN WATER by Caleb Azumah Nelson, 2021
• AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES by Chigozie Obioma, 2019
• LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng, 2017
• THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2015
• SELECTED POEMS by Rainer Maria Rilke, 2011
• LEXICON OF MUSICAL INVECTIVE by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1953
• A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith, 1943
• WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith, 2000
• THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt, 2013
• FLIGHTS by Olga Tokarczuk, 2007
• THE VISUAL DISPLAY OF QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION by Edward Tufte, 1983
• VISUAL EXPLANATIONS by Edward Tufte, 1997
• TIME IS A MOTHER by Ocean Vuong, 2022
• FLEABAG: THE SCRIPTURES by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 2019

= faves
= temporary library loans (shoutout cpl, bpl, mit)
= signed out
[FR] = en français
[DE] = auf deutsch

email abrande[at]mit.edu to borrow a book!
disclaimer: i have not read all books here