Oh My God ... — 2 years ago
Stole this list from Amy from Luton. Thank you. What a great list. Did Donald Barthelme give this out at some course he taught? Where did this come from? Here’s the list (green, I own; blue, I’ve read previously; red, I’ve read since starting):
1. At Swim Two Birds – Flann O�Brien
2. The Third Policeman – Flann O�Brien
3. Collected Short Stories – Isaac Babel
4. Labyrinths – Borges
5. Other Inquisitions – Borges
6. One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Garcia Marquez
7. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
8. Nog � Rudy Wurlitzer
9. Gimpel The Fool � Isaac B. Singer
10. The Assistant � Bernard Malamud
11. The Magic Barrel � Bernard Malamud
12. Invisible Man � Ralph Ellison
13. Under The Volcano � Malcom Lowry
14. Entire � Samuel Beckett
15. Hunger � Knut Hamsun
16. I�m Not Stiller � Max Frisch
17. Man In The Holocene � Max Frisch
18. Seven Gothic Tales � Dinesen
19. Gogol�s Wife � Tommaso Landolfi
20. V � Thomas Pynchon
21. The Lime Twig � John Hawkes
22. Blood Oranges � John Hawkes
23. Little Disturbances Of Man � Grace Paley
24. I, Etc., � Susan Sontag
25. Tell Me A Riddle � Tillie Olson
26. Hero With A Thousand Faces � Campbell
27. Henderson The Rain King � Bellow
28. The Coup � John Updike
29. Rabbit, Run � John Updike
30. The Paris Review Interviews � Various
31. How We Live � ed, Rust Hills
32. Superfiction � ed, Joe David Bellamy
33. Pushcart Prize Anthologies (no specific years given!)
The Pushcart Prize IX.
34. The Writer On Her Work � ed, Sternburg
35. Manifestos Of Surrealism � Andre Breton
36. Documents Of Modern Art � ed, Motherwell
37. Against Interpretation � Susan Sontag
38. A Homemade World � Hugh Kenner
39. Letters � Flaubert
40. Sexual Perversity In Chicago � Mamet
41. The Changeling � Joy Williams
42. The New Fiction � ed, Joe David Bellamy
43. Going After Cacciato � Tim O�Brien
44. The Palm-Wine Drunkard � Amos Tutola
45. Searching For Caleb � Ann Tyler
46. Thank You � Kenneth Koch
47. Collected Poems � Frank O�Hara
48. Rivers And Mountains � John Ashbery
49. Tragic Magic � Wesley Brown
50. Mythologies � Roland Barthes
51. The Pleasure Of The Text � Barthes
52. For A New Novel � Robbe-Grillet
53. Falling In Place � Ann Beattie
54. In The Heart Of The Heart Of The Country � William Gass
55. Fiction And The Figures Of Life – Gass
56. The World Within The Word – Gass
57. Advertisements For Myself � Mailer
58. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
59. Journey To The End Of The Night – Celine
60. The Box Man – Kobo Abe
61. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
62. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams – Peter Handke
63. Kaspar And Other Plays – Peter Handke
64. Nadja – Andre Breton
65. Chimera – John Barth
66. Lost In The Funhouse – John Barth
67. The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
68. Black Tickets – Jayne Anne Phillips
69. Collected Stories – Peter Taylorx%x
70. The Pure And The Impure – Colette
71. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please – Carver
72. Collected Stories – John Cheever
73. I Would Have Saved Them If I Could – Leonard Michaels
74. Collected Stories – Eudora Welty
75. The Oranging Of America – Max Apple
76. Collected Stories – Flannery O�Connor
77. Mumbo Jumbo – Ishmael Reed
78. Song Of Solomon – Toni Morrison
79. The Death Of Artemio Cruz – Carlos Fuentes
80. The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting – Milan Kundera
81. The Rhetoric Of Fiction – Wayne C. Booth
P.S. The lists must stop!
