Finished Rabbit, Run today, on the long bus out to visit a friend in Duvall. It's one of the most beautifully written, insightful books I've ever read, but horribly depressing. In brief: published in 1960, it's about a guy in his late 20s with a pregnant wife and 2 year old son who feels trapped and spontaneously, without any premeditation abandons his family. Fun times.

About half way through, I was so taken with the language, I went ahead and bought the rest of the series, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Gets Rich and Rabbit At Rest, so book 2 is now on the list, along with Something Understood, which I forgot I had. Once again selecting the next book at random:

August 1914
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Blind Assassin
The Complete Plays (Synge)
Dr. Mutter's Marvels
A Frolic of His Own
Four Plays (Ionesco)
Ink
Invisible Cities
Largo Desolato
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The Myth of Mental Illness
Naked Masks
Notes from Underground
Out of Our Heads
The Path to the Spiders' Nest
Rabbit Redux
Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Something Understood
Timbuktu
A Wizard of Earthsea
Yon Ill Wind
Zorba the Greek

Via randomization, up next: Zorba the Greek, a book about which I know next to nothing. I just bought it a couple months ago because I had a vague sense of having heard of it and being under the impression it was supposed to be a "good book".