The first list can be found in this post.

A continuation of Isaak's bookshelves. I am currently limiting myself to books I own that suit Isaak, as I have my impossibly-lame fandom-owns-my-soul Isaak bookcase (yes, it is two shelves now). I am always open to suggestions, as more books to read = good. And somehow it gives me an excuse to buy them if I can pretend they are "research" for my fanfiction. While the first shelf was created by accident, this second one was built from books I've dug up as I've been cleaning out my library. If I wasn't so lazy, I would link all these to an Amazon page with summaries, but you can do that yourself if you really care I suppose.

Most of the books in this second list involve Isaak's convoluted image of himself (the dashing and ever-changing Scaramouche, the angst-of-the-world-bearing self-absorbed characters of West, the brilliant, scheming agents of The Company, the inhabitants of the political-prisoner camps of the Gulag, etc etc etc...)

This is a shorter list, but considering five of these are upwards of 800 pages (Bacon, Solzhenitsyn, Dumas, Littell, Palliser) it almost evens out.

Non-fiction and Philosophy

The Great Instauration - Frances Bacon
The Book of Absinthe - Phil Baker
From Death Camp to Existentialism - Viktor E. Frankl
The Word Museum - Jeffrey Kacirk**
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction

The Master and Margarita - Mikhael Bulgakov
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald**
The Company - Robert Littell
The Quincunx - Charles Palliser**
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West


Pretty sure these are all still in print? I've bought them all within the last decade.
* = relationship with Dietrich (there are none in this list)
** = relationship with William

Frankl is admittedly an attempt to understand Cain. And while he read it and enjoyed it, he can't comprehend it. Dietrich, on the other hand, understood perfectly well, not that he'd ever admit or explain it to Isaak.

The Word Museum is likely something he carried around and read from just to annoy William when they were students together, by the way. It is a dictionary of obscure, often stupid, words.

Miss Lonelyhearts I could not resist adding. I must admit that this was the book my AP English teacher chose for me when I graduated as the book that best suited me. BUT IT IS SO ISAAK TOO. Hrm, yea, anyway.

If I owe you a fic, I'm sorry for the lateness. I've been trying to write too many at once lately and therefore nothing happens.

In an entirely un-premeditated motion, I started placing a collection of VERY random books together in the case at the foot of my bed. Turns out that most of them hold particular interest to my fanonized Isaak and the big Isaak-fic that will never be published.

Fiction, poetry, and non-fiction behind the cut. A basic list so far, 28 books. I will probably end up working on it on and off as I work on the fic, as it is fun/amusing. I can easily explain why MOST of these are relevant, though I admit some of the WxI-related ones are definitely just angsty-murdering-homoerotic-university-boys.


( The Isaak Fernand von Kampfer Shelf (why Aerin is the biggest loser ever) )

Now we can all ignore the fact that I actively research anime characters.