Leo Tolstoy - anna karenina John updike - rabbit tetralogy William Faulkner - the sound and the fury Elsa Morante - the history Franz Kafka - the trial Thomas Bernhard - correction Italo Svevo - Zeno's consciousness Gustav Flaubert - madame bovary Gabriel Garcia Marquez - love in the time of cholera Yaakov Shabtai - past continuous
― Zeno, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.toptenbooks.net/totalarchive.cgi
― Zeno, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)
Your top ten books are all novels?
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)
John updike - rabbit tetralogy
cheating
― max, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)
yes,no poetry, no non-fiction. xpost
about rabbit - sort of cheating, though "modern library" did put together the whole four books i one volume.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)
denis johnson - jesus' son maggie dubris - weep not, my wanton fitzgerald - the great gatsby jordan hurder - quarter life (chapbook of poetry) elizabeth knox - vintner's luck salinger - catcher in the rye harper lee - to kill a mockingbird raymond carver - cathedral eliot pearlman - seven types of ambiguity
i'm reserving 10th place for this book i'm currently reading called "the raw shark texts".
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)
Since the whole idea of a top-ten list of books makes no sense to me, I'll just list some books I've read often and always enjoyed - in no particular order.
Anabasis, Xenophon (W.D. Rouse translation) Roughing It, Mark Twain Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell The Hard Life, Flann O'Brien Hamlet & King Lear & The Tempest & The Sonnets & stuff, Will Shakespeare Life of Alexander, Arrian Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter Thompson The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman Hunger, Knut Hamsun The Conquest of New Spain, Bernal Diaz
― Aimless, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 02:12 (nineteen years ago)
I saw an excellent play based on that Parkman book, Aimless, although I still haven't gotten around to reading the book itself. The Bernal Diaz neither.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 02:14 (nineteen years ago)
For sure ... Negative Space, Manny Farber The White Album, Joan Didion Staggerford, Jon Hassler Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre Goodbye To Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
The other five, hmm ...
― Eric H., Wednesday, 10 October 2007 02:50 (nineteen years ago)